BACKGROUND Identifying neighborhood environment attributes related to childhood obesity can inform environmental changes for obesity prevention. PURPOSE To evaluate child and parent weight status across neighborhoods in King County (Seattle metropolitan area) and San Diego County differing in GIS-defined physical activity environment (PAE) and nutrition environment (NE) characteristics. MET...

Fiedler's contingency model suggests that task-oriented leaders are more effective where the leadership situation is either very favorable or very unfavorable and that relations-oriented leaders are more effective in situations of intermediate favorability. This model was tested among supervisors in both interacting and coacting groups in two organizations Results in the hypothesized direction ...

BACKGROUND Neighborhood-level characteristics such as economic hardship and the retail food environment are assumed to be correlated and to influence consumers' dietary behavior and health status, but few studies have investigated these different relationships comprehensively in a single study. This work aims to investigate the association between neighborhood-level economic hardship, the retai...

In the article, authors suggest that public interest in environmental issues depends mostly on how favorable or unfavorable current situation city is perceived. this regard, emphasize studying attitude of Muscovites to situation, its change and development prospects. order form a more detailed presentation, data were considered dynamics. The article analyzes results surveys conducted 2013, 2017...

A metaheuristic approach based on Variable Neighborhood Search to tackle the enroute aircraft conflict resolution problem is presented. The three maneuvers (velocity, heading angle and altitude level variations) are allowed to be performed. Based on geometric rules, we can determine if a conflict situation occurs between each pair of aircraft under consideration. As three different maneuvers co...