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Elaine Mullan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Do you think that your local area is a good place for young people to grow up? The effects of traffic and car parking on young people's views.
Health & place, 2003Co-Authors: Elaine MullanAbstract:The damaging effects on well-being of the increasing number of motor vehicles on the roads, accidents and emissions aside, are often overlooked. Among 11-16 year olds in Wales, those who reported living with busy traffic and car parking were found to be less likely to have positive perceptions of the safety, friendliness, appearance, play facilities and helpfulness of the people in their local area. This was independent of the effect of socio-Economic Circumstance. Results are discussed in terms of the potential negative effect on sense of community identity, health and well-being, and the need for good environmental design and development of more pedestrian-friendly living areas.
Richard Rothstein - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Racial Achievement Gap, Segregated Schools, and Segregated Neighborhoods: A Constitutional Insult
Race and Social Problems, 2015Co-Authors: Richard RothsteinAbstract:Social and Economic disadvantage—not only poverty, but a host of associated conditions—depresses student performance. Concentrating students with these disadvantages in racially and Economically homogenous schools depresses it further. Schools that the most disadvantaged black children attend are segregated because they are located in segregated high-poverty neighborhoods, far distant from truly middle-class neighborhoods. Living in such high-poverty neighborhoods for multiple generations adds an additional barrier to achievement, and multigenerational segregated poverty characterizes many African American children today. Education policy is constrained by housing policy: it is not possible to desegregate schools without desegregating both low-income and affluent neighborhoods. However, the policy motivation to desegregate neighborhoods is hobbled by a growing ignorance of the nation’s racial history. It has become conventional for policymakers to assert that the residential isolation of low-income black children is now “ de facto ,” the accident of Economic Circumstance, demographic trends, personal preference, and private discrimination. But the historical record demonstrates that residential segregation is “ de jure ,” resulting from racially motivated and explicit public policy whose effects endure to the present. Without awareness of the history of state-sponsored residential segregation, policymakers are unlikely to take meaningful steps to understand or fulfill the constitutional mandate to remedy the racial isolation of neighborhoods, or the school segregation that flows from it.
Ama Degraft Aikins - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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living with diabetes in rural and urban ghana a critical social psychological examination of illness action and scope for intervention
Journal of Health Psychology, 2003Co-Authors: Ama Degraft AikinsAbstract:Current chronic illness research in Africa neglects the social psychological dimensions of illness experiences that present more appropriate frameworks for intervention. Informed by social representations theory, links between social knowledge of diabetes, illness experience and illness action were examined through semistructured individual interviews with rural and urban Ghanaians with diabetes. All respondents drew interchangeably from commonsense, scientized, and religious knowledge modalities in defining health, illness and diabetes. Diabetes caused disruption to: body-self, social identity, family/social relationships, Economic Circumstance and nutrition. Commonsense and scientized notions of health, illness and diabetes framed illness action goals that merged with biomedical goals, specifically drug and diet management. These goals were compromised by the nature, severity and duration of disruption(s) and emotional responses evoked. The paper dicusses implications of the findings and outlines recomm...
Wu Dun-cha - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Thinking on Tea Industry Development under New Economic Circumstance
2015Co-Authors: Wu Dun-chaAbstract:Under the blooming of internet, it appeared many innovations in each consumption industry. The consumption concept changes and consumption choice shift which inspired the thinking of the work force of each relative industries.
Huy-doo Jin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Smart City and Business Model with a Focus on Platform and Circular Economy
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Green and Human Information Technology, 2019Co-Authors: Junghee Han, Huy-doo JinAbstract:City development is related with the evolution of social, Economic, technological process. City itself has been paid attention to job creations since emerging the Smart cities. Smart city seems to be the convergent point for all process. Business model must be adaptive over times in response to changing the markets, technologies, environmental, and Economic Circumstance. For companies, being increasingly scarce in resources business model is becoming business constraints. Under the circular economy the principles of a new approach to business modelling is necessary. Limited exploitation of the resource in earth planet forces firms to change their business model. The aim of this paper is to suggest pertinent business model in circular economy. To fulfill it, a qualitative methodology is used. Cost and convenience for both firms and consumers are the key critical factors to be channeled in the new business model for innovation to achieve the greening and efficiency objectives.
