— Evidence in industrialized countries shows that universities can supply the crucial underpinnings of dynamic industrial clusters within metropolitan regions. A key component of China’s recent reforms in the national innovation system is the promotion of university-based research and technology transfer. The primary purpose of this paper is to examine the interactions between two elite univers...

This article examines sprawl without growth in former East Germany at a number of different metropolitan scales using a dataset from the Bundesamt für Bauwesen und Raumordnung (Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning). Specific political, social, and economic circumstances in eastern Germany following reunification distinguish it not only from other declining regions, but also from so...

Federal agencies and other users of Federal survey data commonly publish/present estimates that are stratified across Census Regions as well as for Metropolitan/non-Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA/non-MSA). Comparisons across these broadly defined geographic areas may veil important distinguishing characteristics between diverse rural and urban settings that may affect the delivery and qual...

OBJECTIVE To present the methodological approach used to define the profile of health services utilization by the population enrolled in the Family Health Program. METHODS Three patterns of services utilization accessed by the population were considered: residual, partial and full. These patterns were identified based on the range of actions of the Family Health Program that are accessed by t...

Nowadays, emergency departments in many countries still rely on human operators to allocate rescue resources to emergency events. However, with the fast growth of population in metropolitan regions, the frequency of occurrence of emergency events has risen significantly, which imposes tremendous pressure over emergency event operators. Agent and multi-agent systems (MASs) provide potential solu...

OBJECTIVE Due to their toxicity, diesel emissions have been submitted to progressively more restrictive regulations in developed countries. However, in Brazil, the implementation of the Cleaner Diesel Technologies policy (Euro IV standards for vehicles produced in 2009 and low-sulfur diesel with 50 ppm of sulfur) was postponed until 2012 without a comprehensive analysis of the effect of this de...

The rescue operations for emergency events usually require multiple emergency departments to cooperate with each other to provide effective and efficient resource allocation plans within a short time limit and dynamically adjust the plans as necessary. In the paper, an agent-based resource allocation approach is proposed to automatically allocate rescue resources to concurrent emergency events ...

It has been argued that the effects of the desegregation of public schools from the late 1960s onward were limited and short-lived, in part because of white flight from desegregating districts and in part because legal decisions in the 1990s released many districts from court orders. Data presented here for 1970-2000 show that small increases in segregation between districts were outweighed by ...