Men who have sex with men (MSM) accounted for 61% of new HIV diagnoses in the United States in 2010. Recent analyses indicate that socio-structural factors are important correlates of HIV infection. NYCM2M was a cross-sectional study designed to identify neighborhood-level characteristics within the urban environment that influence sexual risk behaviors, substance use and depression among MSM l...

This study revisits the debate surrounding definition of neighborhood boundaries by addressing disconnect between city’s Administrative Neighborhoods and its functional organization. A method is proposed for dividing city into more meaningful units through spatial distribution urban activities retrieving data from Google Places. The dataset was pre-processed spatially divided Functional Cluster...

The capital of Angkor remained the powerbase Khmer polity for more than 600 years, indicating its resilience. Recent work at investigates evolution this massive agro-urban center, but most that research has focused on large-scale landscape developments rather occupational sequences urban localities. Our paper blends remotely-sensed ground survey, excavation, art historic, and epigraphic data in...

Urban neighborhoods are a unique form of geography in that their boundaries rely on a social definition rather than a well-defined physical or administrative boundary. Currently, geographic gazetteers capture little more than then the centroid of a neighborhood, limiting potential applications of the data. In this paper, we present μ-shapes, an algorithm that employs fuzzy-set theory to model n...

Bu makalede, normalize edilmiş Miller-Ross yardımıyla tanımlanan negatif katsayılı açık U birim diskinde analitik fonksiyonların yeni bir alt sınıfını tanıtacağız. makalenin amacı, tanıtılan bu sınıfa ait fonksiyonu için katsayı eşitsizliklerini, indirgeme bağıntılarını ve komşuluk özelliklerini belirlemektir.

According to several researches sustainable development is based on three different dimensions of sustainability social and economical dimensions and ecological or environmental sustainability. These dimensions are recognized as basic elements of sustainable development. This research tries to evaluate social sustainability at some neighborhoods in Karaj. Considering the fact that urban neighbo...

The phenomenon of cold urban expansion is considered a natural cities. After the beginning movement and new cities, cities developed in an environment that was not their own Urban or human factor prevents city. Angawa has gone through several morphological stages. At formation township, it only small village consisting thirty neighborhoods, but after rise administrative rank from became distric...