This article explores city intersections as intelligence nodes using high-bandwidth, low-latency services for providing privacy-preserving smart applications. COSMOS testbed experiments edge-computing-based artificial-intelligence techniques are reported, monitoring of pedestrians, cloud-connected vehicles, and traffic management.

The scope of this study was to correlate suicide mortality with health indicators and work in six Brazilian metropolises: Porto Alegre, Recife, Salvador, Belo Horizonte, Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo. It was an ecological study, the outcome of which is the death rate from suicide in the historical series from 2002 to 2010, and the independent variables are the indicators of occupational activity...

The lead trade associations of the bio-pharma and semiconductor industries have differed systematically in their roles facilitating development innovation networks between Shanghai Shenzhen, two prominent high-tech metropolises China. Divergent associational stem from variations regional state policy regime that has exerted differential shaping influence on structure social cleavages strength r...

educational centers are of those types of organizations to which almost everyone refer during the life to use the services. accordingly, the suitability of safety situation in these organizations is of high importance. the present study aims at investigation of effective factors on safety management in educational-training organizations of metropolises. this study is an applied descriptive rese...

the contemporary globalization which is based on post-fordist economy, was formed on the basis of informational capitalism, and has been differentiated from other concepts due to some characteristics like information economy, global economy, and network economic activities.     the characteristics of post-fordist economy create a situation where capitals and productions are changed from place-...

Cittaslows are introduced as safe shelters that will save individuals from capitalist social conditions and alienation daily life under the dominance of consumer culture in metropolises, emancipate them to build their own lives by making realize real needs. As today, there 264 worldwide 18 Turkey. The district Seferihisar province Izmir is first Cittaslow Turkey, having received title 2009. dis...

This article analyzes the development of primary care (PHC) within the Unified Health System (SUS) in large Brazilian cities. The decision to adopt a policy of PHC represented an incremental reform of the health system through the Family Health Strategy (FHS). The methodological approach of the article uses cross-sectional data grouped around two years (2008 and 2012) to evaluate the developmen...