This project seeks to understand the relationship between neighborhood quality and birth weight in Central Durham, NC. Previous studies have shown that neighborhood context influences birth outcomes, even after adjusting for individual maternal characteristics and behaviors. Yet the traditional measures of neighborhood quality rely primarily on US Census socioeconomic demographic data that only...

Title of Document: NEIGHBORHOOD LEVEL DISADVANTAGE,RACE/ETHNICITY AND INFANT MORTALITY IN WASHINGTON DC Ndidiamaka Nneoma Amutah Doctor of Philosophy, 2010 Directed By: Dr. Sandra L. Hofferth Professor & Dr. Elaine A. Anderson, Professor, Co-Chairs Department of Family Science This study examines the effects of neighborhood level disadvantage and individual level characteristics such as race/et...

Following the idea of $L$-fuzzy neighborhood system as introduced byFu-Gui Shi, and its generalization to $(L,M)$-fuzzy neighborhood system, the relationship between  $(L,M)$-fuzzy topology and $(L,M)$-fuzzy neighborhood system will be further studied. As an application of the obtained results, we will describe the initial structures of $(L,M)$-fuzzy neighborhood subspaces and $(L,M)$-fuzzy top...

15. Supplementary Notes (a) No cost extension approved for this project due to time lost by PI due to medical leave (Summer 2009). (b) Project focus needed to be substantially redirected to include a thorough investigation of housing market foreclosure dynamics following the housing market crisis. 16. Abstract Light Rail Transit (LRT) has become an increasingly popular centerpiece of smart grow...

Abstract Little is known about where hotspots of gentrification emerge within a city, and the role that some types businesses play in process. We develop method to detect sectors whose presence heralds process neighborhood. show these sectors, mostly found cultural creative industries, help anticipate neighborhood change their predictive power complements traditional determinants. also examine ...

BACKGROUND Residents of many cities lack affordable, quality housing. Economically disadvantaged neighborhoods often have high rates of poverty and crime, few institutions that enhance the quality of its residents' lives, and unsafe environments for walking and other physical activity. Deteriorating housing contributes to asthma-related illness. We describe the redevelopment of High Point, a We...

We study change–point estimation using a two–stage (generalizable to multi–stage) sampling design in a regression setting Y = f(X) + 2. For the talk, the underlying regression function is assumed to be parametrically specified, with a single unknown jump discontinuity of interest. The experimenter is given a budget of n points to make inference on the change–point. The two–stage procedure works...

INTRODUCTION Despite a proposed connection between neighborhood environment and obesity, few longitudinal studies have examined the relationship between change in neighborhood socioeconomic deprivation, as defined by moving between neighborhoods, and change in body weight. The purpose of this study is to examine the longitudinal relationship between moving to more socioeconomically deprived nei...