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Towards Healthy Communities: An approach through built environment interventions, a case of Bhopal
No full textRegular physical activity reduces the rate of diabetes and other chronic diseases like blood pressure, cardiovascular disease etc. Despite this few people involve themselves in daily physical activity. The Healthy Community Movement is a growing global effort for the improvement of health and well-being of individuals and families, primarily through policies that sustain positive and lasting changes to local, state, and national systems and environments. The health of the community is not just a medical issue but rather affected by built, social, natural and economic environments. From various research studies, it was seen that if people have adequate paths to walk on, have destinations to walk to and people to stop and chat with and feel safe they are much more likely to engage in physical activity and walk instead of driving. In India, the approach of National Health Policy is just limited to development and improvement of health care systems. The policy does not have specify any role of built environment in shaping the health of an individual. Therefore, this research aims to develop a framework for promoting healthy communities by identifying parameters and its indicators related to built environment. The objectives of the research are to study and identify relationship between built environment and healthy communities;
to study various approaches and identify parameters and indicators that contributes for making healthy communities; to assess the health environment of communities through developed framework for study areas in Bhopal and finally prepare strategies and spatial plans for interventions to promote healthy communities. For assessment of health conditions two wards of Bhopal were selected, one located at core (ward 18) while another at periphery (ward 63) and assessed using HIART matrix inspired from HEART Urban matrix. The study involved an analysis of built environment conditions to find out what
discourages people from using Non-motorized transport through primary survey of the study areas. The results showed that lack of non-motorized transport infrastructure, high vehicle usage, unsafe streets, improper solid waste management, poor water quality, lack of open spaces and its maintenance leads to increase in diseases like diabetes, cardio vascular diseases, blood pressure, arthritis, cholera/ malaria/ gastric diseases etc. Planning interventions in shaping built environment to promote physical activity can act as an approach towards the healthy communities. Hence the study proposes detail planning
interventions which would be helpful in improving the health conditions of the communities. Also it proposes a framework to assess the health condition of the community thereby making it less prone to diseases. The further scope of the research would be to develop a model for healthy communities in terms of density, land use mix, housing and transportation which would promote healthy living among the communities
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Land cover change and urban heat island trends in Varanasi, India from 1991-2021 using geoinformatics
Get PDFThis study examines the land cover changes and urban heat island trends in the Varanasi, 8 India using geoinformatics from 1991 to 2021. Landsat datasets from the United State Geological 9 Survey (USGS) were used for this study and zonal spatial statistical analysis was performed to get 10 the variation of Land Surface Temperature (LST) with change in land cover. A significant rise in 11 impervious area from 23.24 Km2 in 1991 to 117.49 km2 in 2021 has occurred. The temperature fluc-12 tuated between 17.44°C - 29.98°C in 1991 to 23.75°C- 44.13°C in 2021. The trend of Normalized Dif-13 ference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and LST indicated that a reduction in natural land cover raised 14 LST. Such pattern of urban growth might exhibit increased warming in the future.The authors thank the conference organizers, editors, and reviewers for the op-portunity to publish the research and for valuable feedback. They also acknowledge IIT(BHU) Va-ranasi and SPA Delhi for providing necessary infrastructure during the research
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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