Introduction Most efforts to engage urban residents with technology have addressed these populations as monolithic entities. Programs targeted at "low-income" and "inner-city" communities reflect this. Not surprisingly, "lowincome" and "inner-city" communities constitute an extremely diverse setting that can include African-Americans, Hispanics, Whites, and others, whereas each individual posse...

AUTHOR Clark, Deborah; Marcon, Rebecca A. TITLE Coping Strategies of Inner-City Adolescents: Response to Recent Personal Conflicts. PUB DATE Apr 97 NOTE 10p.; Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Psychological Association (Atlanta, GA, April 3-6, 1997). PUB TYPE Reports Research (143) -Speeches/Meeting Papers (150) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *Adolescents...

Intravenous drug use has been a serious problem for Dublin's deprived inner city areas since the late 1970's. In 1985, a cohort of all known intravenous drug users (IVDUs) was identified in one inner city electoral cohort and has been followed since then. The cohort was identified before the introduction of HIV testing. The prevalence of HIV infection and its consequences have continued to rise...

Asthma in the inner city contributes to high morbidity and mortality, and, in school children, reduced school attendance and alteration in academic performance. There is a need to improve asthma care in the inner city by reducing asthma exacerbations. Methods are currently available to predict and prevent seasonal exacerbations of asthma. In addition, new medications are being developed that wi...

This paper presents a pilot project using an educational robotics curriculum that was developed to enhance teaching of standard physics and math topics to middle and early high school students in inner-city schools in New York City. The lessons are centered around the LEGO Mindstorms robotics kit and the RoboLab graphical programming environment. The pilot project, testing the curriculum in two...

0.1 This is a preliminary announcement of a new identification of a frequent ‘opening’ sign in the Indus texts. The sign, depicting a ‘crescent moon’, is identified, through rebus, as representing the ‘outer (city)’ and the ‘others’. I have also added, with some new evidence, two other complementary identifications earlier proposed by me, namely, the ‘(planned) city’ and the ‘inner (city)’ or ‘...

OBJECTIVE To obtain the exposure-response relationship for temperature and mortality, and assess the risk of heat-related premature death. METHODS A statistical model was developed using a Poisson generalized linear regression model with Beijing mortality and temperature data from October 1st, 2006 to September 30th, 2008. We calculated the exposure-response relationship for temperature and m...

This commentary constructs a social history of Hillbrow, an inner-city suburb in Johannesburg, South Africa, based on a review of relevant published historical, anthropological and sociological texts. We highlight the significant continuities in the social structure of the suburb, despite the radical transformations that have occurred over the last 120 years.Originally envisaged as a healthy re...