Urban population scaling of resource use, creativity metrics, and human behaviors has been widely studied. These studies have not looked in detail at the full range of human environments which represent a continuum from the most rural to heavily urban. We examined monthly police crime reports and property transaction values across all 573 Parliamentary Constituencies in England and Wales, findi...

Urban population scaling of resource use, creativity metrics, and human behaviors has been widely studied. These studies have not looked in detail at the full range of human environments which represent a continuum from the most rural to heavily urban. We examined monthly police crime reports and property transaction values across all 573 Parliamentary Constituencies in England and Wales, findi...

This is a study of modeling urban environments from TM satellite images. Urban environments are so heterogeneous. It is necessary to simplify them as combinations of basic land cover materials in order to enable quantitative studies. The V-I-S model proposed by Ridd in 1995 is a conceptual model to simplify urban environments as combination of three basic ground components: vegetation, impervio...

The proportion of global population using urban aquifers as drinking water sources increases every year and indeed the groundwater quality is not monitored adequately. Although norovirus has been identified first cause groundwater-related outbreaks, surveillance waterborne viruses rather neglected. From ageing or disrupted sewer systems, occasional discharges (e.g. combined overflows, storm run...

The US Environmental Protection Agency is currently assessing the need for a National Ambient Air Quality Standard for the coarse fraction of particulate material (PMCF), specifically, the fraction of particulate matter between 2.5 and 10 μm in aerodynamic equivalent diameter. EPA is primarily relying on epidemiological studies that examine the possible health effects of PMCF to reach a decisio...

Current literature on restorative environments generally shows the importance of urban natural landscapes in increasing perceived restorativeness of urban environments. However, little is known about the positive role of visual characteristics of urban natural landscapes in increasing Perceived Restorative Potential (PRP) of urban environments. This study aimed to understand the role of four pr...

Asthma continues to disproportionately affect minority and low-income groups, with African American and Latino children who live in low-socioeconomic-status urban environments experiencing higher asthma morbidity and mortality than white children. This uneven burden in asthma morbidity has been ever increasing despite medical advancement. Many factors have contributed to these disparities in th...

This paper investigates the affect of pathloss and mobility in an urban environment on MANETs. Specifically, this investigation employs mobility and pathloss that resembles the mobility of pedestrians and pathloss in urban environments. We study the behavior of MANETs on a university campus and in the Paddington area of London England. The model utilizes ray tracing to provide realistic radio w...