Experimental results are described to evaluate the diffuse pollution profile according to land use in the catchments and street sweeping as a best management practice (BMP). We studied the variation of pollutant concentrations in outfalls discharging runoff from residential, commercial and high-traffic areas and in street sweeping. Pollution profiles varied with the land use in the catchments a...

Prostitution is most commonly defined as the exchange of sexual services for some form of payment (usually money or drugs). This can take place on the street or in massage parlours or saunas, through escort agencies or at private addresses. It is difficult to be precise about the scale and prevalence of prostitution in the UK, however we know that it exists in most towns and cities, sometimes o...

The Panglima Batur Commercial Area is a shopping area which the center of commercial activity in Samarinda City. Around Jalan there are several centers such as Pasar Pagi, Mesra Indah Mall, shops along and Citra Niaga "Landmark" obstacle faced congestion on roads, especially from morning to evening. influence street parking problem area. Based results an analysis conditions road, City, traffic ...

BACKGROUND Neighbourhood quality has been connected with an array of health issues, but neighbourhood research has been limited by the lack of methods to characterise large geographical areas. This study uses innovative computer vision methods and a new big data source of street view images to automatically characterise neighbourhood built environments. METHODS A total of 430 000 images were ...

This paper examines the relationship between street centrality and densities of commercial and service activities in the city of Bologna, northern Italy. Street centrality is calibrated in a multiple centrality assessment model composed of multiple measures such as closeness, betweenness, and straightness. Kernel density estimation is used to transform datasets of centrality and activities to o...

Corresponding author: Nicole Riem, M.D., Department of Anesthesia, St Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5B 1W8, Canada. Tel: 1-416-864-5071, Fax: 1-416-864-6014, E-mail: [email protected] This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), ...

Several countries are pursuing the regulation of commercial sex work in order to decrease the spread of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and reduce the probability of a generalized HIV/AIDS epidemic. In poor countries in particular, the commercial sex market is characterized by two sectors, brothel and street, where the latter is marked by riskier behavior (e.g., lower rates of condom use...

Vol. 30, No. 1, 2018 107 Received November 1, 2016, Revised December 29, 2016, Accepted for publication January 26, 2017 Corresponding author: Yan Wu, Department of Dermatology, No. 1 Hospital of China Medical University, 155 North Nanjing Street, Shenyang 110001, China. Tel: 86-24-83282116, Fax: 86-24-83282633, E-mail: [email protected] Xinghua Gao, Department of Dermatology, No. 1 Hospital of C...