The combination of the computer and the Internet has resulted in the emergence of cybergenre, a new class of genre. Cybergenre can be characterized by the triple, , where functionality refers to the capabilities afforded by this new medium. When an existing genre initially migrates to this new medium, it is usually as a faithful reproduction of the existing genre i...

The Universal Dependencies (UD) project aims to create the unified annotation schemes across languages. With its own annotation principles and abstract inventory for parts of speech, morphosyntactic features and dependency relations, UD aims to facilitate multilingual parser development, crosslingual learning, and parsing research from a language typology perspective. This paper provides the de...

INTRODUCTION Although cardiovascular disease (CVD) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) prevention programmes have been effective in urban residents, their effectiveness in non-urban settings, where cardio-metabolic risk is typically elevated, is unknown. We systematically reviewed the effectiveness of primary prevention programmes aimed at reducing risk factors for CVD/T2DM, including blood pre...

BACKGROUND Geographical and environmental features such as urbanization and altitude may influence individual's lipid profiles because of the diversity of human-environment interactions including lifestyles. OBJECTIVE To characterize the association between altitude and urbanization and lipid profile among Peruvian adults aged ≥35 years. METHODS Cross-sectional analysis of the CRONICAS Coho...

In this research, a constrained cellular automata (CA) model based on Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is developed to simulate and forecast urban growth. As we know, many factors impact urban growth, and relationships among them are complex and non-linear. In geographic CA research, models with different rules and symbology have been developed to simulate those relationships. Yet, in previous d...

Urban development is a complex process influenced by a number of driving forces, including spatial planning, topography and urban economics. Identifying these drivers is crucial for the regulation of urban development and the calibration of predictive models. Existing land-use models generally consider urban development as a binary process, through the identification of built versus non-built a...

Urban land use spatial layout model research has been suffered from static model to dynamical model. The traditional model and theory like static, macroscopic or determinate model sometimes made the urbanize land use change immoderate simplify. The non-linear effect of microcosmic and macroscopical urban agent were embodied in the decision-making process of urban land use planning. In this pape...

A reference model of usability design, KESSU UD model, is proposed. Its original purpose is to be as a reference of usability design – “what exactly designing usability is” in the assessement the user-centredness of development projects. It can be – and also has been used for other purposes, such as planning of usability activities for new projects. A unique feature of the model is that it is m...

Spatial differences in urban environmental conditions contribute to health inequalities within cities. The purpose of the paper is to map environmental inequalities relevant for health in the City of Dortmund, Germany, in order to identify needs for planning interventions. We develop suitable indicators for mapping socioeconomically-driven environmental inequalities at the neighborhood level ba...