This paper analyses the determinants of newly built dwelling prices in Serbia in a panel of 24 cities over the period 2011-2014. Results suggest that dwelling prices primarily tend to rise with population growth and real total net wages as a proxy of household incomes, while declines in effective interest rate on housing loans are associated with higher dwelling prices. Additional explanatory v...

OBJECTIVE Evaluating the effects of Tai Chi exercise on physical fitness, blood pressure, and perceived health in community-dwelling elderly. DESIGN A randomized controlled trial. SETTING Community-dwelling elderly in Vinh city, Vietnam. PARTICIPANTS Ninety-six community-dwelling participants aged 60 to 79 years (68.9 ± 5.1 years) were recruited. INTERVENTION SUBJECTS WERE DIVIDED RANDO...

The objective of this paper is to present the characteristics and methodological procedures used in the study SABE (Health, Well-Being, and Aging). This is a longitudinal study with multiple cohorts, carried out in the city of São Paulo, Brazil, since 2000. Follow-ups are conducted every five years when the new cohort is initiated. The SABE study employed a stratified, multistage sampling desig...

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Urbanization is a worldwide phenomenon associated with tremendous modifications of natural habitats. Understanding how city dwelling species are affected by those changes becoming pressing issue. We presently lack fine scale spatio-temporal studies investigating the impact urbanization across different life stages and along gradients. Based on 8 years monitoring urban forest great tits (Parus m...

Kabul, the capital and largest city in Afghanistan has been experiencing a massive population expansion and fast economic development in last decade, in which urban land has increasingly expanded and formed a high informal development territory in the city. This paper investigates the urban land development direction based on the integrated urbanization trends in Kabul city since the last and t...

in this research, we will investigate and determinate the role of main causes and significance of these factors in the formation of poor dwelling areas in isfahan beginning in 1960s (during which fast and inharmonious urbanization was started) to 2009. for this target, the research applied a survey method, (collecting data from selected families and interviewing with a real estate agency in dif...

abstract urban neighborhoods are as the smallest unit of spatial organization in the city to urban stability. neighborhoods development will be considered one of the main goals of planning the urban stability development and, it is key action to achieve stable development. stable community development perspective, will strengthen the new approach, that the solving of the urban problems is perce...