This study examines the correlations between urban environmental satisfaction, neighborhood relations, and livability. Previous studies on livability have insufficiently dealt with environments relations failed to conduct an integrated analysis that considers causal relationships these factors. To fill knowledge gaps, this includes satisfaction as factors affecting Moreover, verified mediating ...

The health of patients with chronic diseases is affected not only by factors such as eating and living habits, but also the neighborhood built environment, travel conditions. Using 18 blocks in main urban area Changshu, China, we performed structural equation modelling, to explore relationships between commuting patterns diseases, patient health. We first divided into four categories—walking/bi...

This study examines environmental and cultural factors related to successful functioning in a stratified random sample of 401 American Indian youths. The success index included seven indicators: good mental health, being alcohol- and drug-free, absence of serious misbehavior, clean police record, good grades, positive psychosocial functioning, and positive behavior and emotions. Family satisfac...

The Grey-White Decision Network (GWDN) is presented as an analog constraint satisfaction neural network that segments magnetic resonance brain images. Constraints on signal intensity, neighborhood interactions and edge in uences are combined to assign labels of grey matter, white matter or \other" to each pixel. An improved version of this novel segmentation network that is provably stable is d...

We present algorithms that perform the extraction of partial assignments from binary Constraint Satisfaction Problems without introducing new constraints. They are based on a new perspective on domain values: we view a value not as a single, indivisible unit, but as a combination of value fragments. Applications include removing nogoods while maintaining constraint arity, learning nogoods in th...