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Owen J Furuseth - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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impacts of a sanitary landfill spatial and non spatial effects on the Surrounding Community
Journal of Environmental Management, 1990Co-Authors: Owen J FurusethAbstract:The growing public concern over LULUs (locally unwanted land uses) and the resulting opposition to the location of sanitary landfills has become the most significant deterrent to siting new facilities. This paper examines Community response to an existing, sanitary landfill located in Charlotte, North Carolina U.S.A. The focus of the research is an examination of the salience of individual landfill impacts and the spatial character of these effects. The notion of a spatial externality field Surrounding the landfill is tested through a survey of neighborhood residents regarding 11 specific landfill impacts. The respondents' proximity to the landfill and location along a roadway are used to organize and analyse the survey findings. Statistical analysis of the data revealed that proximity does influence Community response to some landfill impacts, especialy in situ and sensory-related effects. Therefore there is a recognizable spatial dimension to landfull externalities. However, a larger number of impacts and those which are perceived as most serious were non-spatial. The location along a roadway leading to the study area was a more valuable predictor of Community concern. The potential policy related implications of these findings are briefly discussed.
Jeffrey S Lowe - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a participatory planning approach to enhancing a historically black university Community partnership the case of the e city initiative
Planning Practice and Research, 2008Co-Authors: Jeffrey S LoweAbstract:Abstract Little is known about the involvement of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in university–Community partnerships. This article describes the planning process in a partnership, named the e-City Initiative, between Jackson State University and its Surrounding Community. The article highlights the role of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning faculty in facilitating greater participation and decision-making of e-City inhabitants in the planning process. It provides the voice of residents, business owners and other stakeholders living, learning and working in e-City neighborhoods. The article concludes with observations about HBCU university–Community partnerships involved in revitalization that engender citizen participation and social justice, and offers suggestions for increasing HBCU public scholarship in the planning and service learning literatures.
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A Participatory Planning Approach to Enhancing a Historically Black University–Community Partnership: The Case of the e-City Initiative
Planning Practice and Research, 2008Co-Authors: Jeffrey S LoweAbstract:Abstract Little is known about the involvement of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in university–Community partnerships. This article describes the planning process in a partnership, named the e-City Initiative, between Jackson State University and its Surrounding Community. The article highlights the role of the Department of Urban and Regional Planning faculty in facilitating greater participation and decision-making of e-City inhabitants in the planning process. It provides the voice of residents, business owners and other stakeholders living, learning and working in e-City neighborhoods. The article concludes with observations about HBCU university–Community partnerships involved in revitalization that engender citizen participation and social justice, and offers suggestions for increasing HBCU public scholarship in the planning and service learning literatures.
Jan K Carney - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus in a high school wrestling team and the Surrounding Community
JAMA Internal Medicine, 1998Co-Authors: J M Lindenmayer, Susan Schoenfeld, Robert Ogrady, Jan K CarneyAbstract:Objectives To describe a Community outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and to investigate risk factors for MRSA transmission and infection in a wrestling team. Design Case series and retrospective cohort study. Setting A high school wrestling team and the Surrounding Community in southern Vermont, 1993 to 1994. Patients or Other Participants The case series included persons whose MRSA-positive infections were identified at a hospital laboratory from January 1, 1993, through February 28, 1994, and a health maintenance organization laboratory from July 1, 1993, through February 28, 1994. A wrestling team case-patient was a 1993-1994 team member with an MRSA-positive culture during the period from January 1, 1993, through February 28, 1994. Interventions Visual inspection of wrestlers before matches was instituted. Affected wrestlers were excluded from wrestling and advised to seek appropriate medical care. Heightened attention was given to personal and environmental hygiene. Main Outcome Measures Colonization or infection with MRSA. Results Seven of 32 team members were MRSA positive (6 infected, 1 colonized). All lesion-positive wrestlers were tested by pulsed field gel electrophoresis and found to be infected with the same MRSA strain, as were 6 nonwrestlers. No risk factors for MRSA infection were identified. Conclusions The MRSA was transmitted among members of a wrestling team. Infection with MRSA should be suspected in outbreaks of boils that are nonresponsive to standard antibiotic therapy among healthy participants of contact sports and their close contacts.
Ian M Gould - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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temporal relationship between prevalence of meticillin resistant staphylococcus aureus mrsa in one hospital and prevalence of mrsa in the Surrounding Community a time series analysis
Journal of Hospital Infection, 2007Co-Authors: Fiona M Mackenzie, Josemaria Lopezlozano, Dominique L Monnet, D Stuart, Arielle Beyaert, R Wilson, Ian M GouldAbstract:Summary We studied the relationship between meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) prevalence in the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and in the Surrounding Community (Grampian region: 500 000 inhabitants). We calculated the monthly %MRSA for both hospital and Community from January 1996 to February 2002. A dynamic regression model was adjusted to measure any relationship between both series. The monthly %MRSA in the Community was strongly related to the monthly %MRSA observed one month before in the hospital ( R 2 =90.8%). We found no relationship with antimicrobial Community use, although we have previously reported a strong correlation between prior use of antibiotics and incidence of MRSA in the hospital. By using time-series analysis techniques, we demonstrated that variations in MRSA prevalence in the hospital are quickly followed by similar variations in MRSA prevalence in the Surrounding Community. These results suggest that the reason for the increase in MRSA prevalence in the Community was a hospital MRSA outbreak. Screening at patient discharge should be evaluated as a new measure to control spread of MRSA in the Community.
George E Tita - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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homicide in and around public housing is public housing a hotbed a magnet or a generator of violence for the Surrounding Community
Social Problems, 2009Co-Authors: Elizabeth Griffiths, George E TitaAbstract:One of the unintended consequences of decades-long public housing policy has been to concentrate the poor within communities that are at the extreme end of economic disadvantage. More than in other types of disadvantaged communities, living in public housing can sharply circumscribe the social world of its residents and isolate them from people and social institutions in Surrounding areas. This study draws on the concepts of social isolation from urban sociology and offending "awareness space" from environmental criminology to explain why violence rates are dramatically higher in public housing compared to otherwise disadvantaged nonpublic housing neighborhoods and, moreover, whether residents or outsiders are responsible for the violence. Using homicide data for the Southeast Policing Area of Los Angeles (1980 through 1999), and relating the location of homicides within and outside of public housing to the places of residence of both victims and offenders, our research reveals that public housing developments are hotbeds of violence involving predominantly local residents. There is no evidence that public housing serves as either a magnet for violence by drawing in nonlocal offenders, or a generator of violence in Surrounding neighborhoods. We conclude that this social isolation from the larger Community can both escalate violence between residents inside public housing, but also limit their offending awareness space, such that the violence is contained from spreading beyond the development.
