This study explores the potential effectiveness of metropolitan land cover change as a climate change adaptation strategy for managing rising temperatures in a large and rapidly warming metropolitan region of the United States. Through the integration of a mesoscale meteorological model with estimated land cover data for the Atlanta, Georgia region in 2010, this study quantifies the influence o...

Shinji Higuchi1, Masaki Takagi1, 2, Satoshi Shimomura3, Gen Nishimura4, and Yukihiro Hasegawa1, 2 1Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Tokyo Metropolitan Children’s Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan 2Department of Pediatrics, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan 3Department of Orthopedics, Tokyo Metropolitan Children’s Medical Center, Tokyo, Japan 4Department of Radiology, Tokyo ...

INTRODUCTION: Healthcare needs among homeless populations are difficult to meet within the scope of a standard healthcare model. A street medicine model addresses the specific needs of those experiencing homelessness; healthcare professionals seek to build trust and rapport with people who are living unsheltered by taking their clinical practice to the streets. The street medicine program evalu...

The standard method of identifying subcenters is due to Giuliano and Small. While simple, robust and easy to apply, because it uses absolute employment density and employment cutoffs, it identifies “too few” subcenters at the metropolitan periphery. This paper presents a straightforward modification to this method aimed at remedying this weakness. The modification entails using cutoffs that dec...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Delayed presentation of symptomatic cancer is associated with poorer survival. Aboriginal patients with cancer have higher rates of distant metastases at diagnosis compared with non-Aboriginal Australians. This paper examined factors contributing to delayed diagnosis of cancer among Aboriginal Australians from patient and service providers' perspectives. METHODS In-depth...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present an empirical investigation of the critical determinants for the adoption of e-market in Australian small-and-medium sized enterprises (SMEs) within the technology-organization-environment (TOE) framework. Design/methodology/approach – A conceptual model is proposed for better understanding the adoption of e-market in Australian SMEs. Structural ...

introduction: universities and their faculty members are responsible for educating students for social responsibilities. if the faculty members are to contribute to the attainment of university and societal goals, they should trust their dean, colleagues, and students. this will facilitate the collective efficacy of faculty members. if faculty members believe in their collective abilities, the ...

The Practice of Metropolitan Discipline supports the construction Landscape structure with an organizational, technical expertise, proposing big project urbanity based on physical (Net-City) and virtual (Metacity) network between new city shape, interfaces among built capital natural capital, forms conviviality within settlement patterns. approach metropolitan metabolism nourishes territory thr...

social system based on mutual trust among members continues to exist. social trust in modem era is more important than earlier periods. subject of current report is focused on the trust of iranian students in different aspects. main question in this investigation is about social-political trust of these students (based on trust in islamic republic of iran) at the past and present. this matter e...