Urban stream assessment procedure: An integrative framework for assessing stream condition in the urban environment

2020 ◽  
pp. 2119-2127
Author(s):  
B.M. Murphy ◽  
P.A. Nelson
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Stream ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Stream Assessment ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Stream Condition

scholarly journals Urban stream assessment system (UsAs): An integrative tool to assess biodiversity, ecosystem functions and services

2021 ◽  
Vol 121 ◽  
pp. 106980
Author(s):  
Elina Ranta ◽  
Maria Rosario Vidal-Abarca ◽  
Ana Raquel Calapez ◽  
Maria João Feio
Keyword(s):  
Assessment System ◽  
Urban Stream ◽  
Ecosystem Functions ◽  
Stream Assessment

scholarly journals Hygienic aspects of evaluating the process of creating a comfortable urban environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 99 (6) ◽  
pp. 551-556
Author(s):  
Olga L. Kopytenkova ◽  
A. V. Levanchuk ◽  
V. V. Ryabets
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Adult Population ◽  
Level Structure ◽  
Living Conditions ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Transport Infrastructure ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Healthy Children ◽  
Urban Living

Introduction. The national programs focus on solving social and economic problems. At the same time, the hygienic characteristics of the urban environment that determine living conditions are not fully included in the documents regulating the formation of the urban environment. Materials and methods. The paper provides a content analysis of the current normative and methodological literature recommended for use in assessing the “formation of a comfortable urban environment” in Russian localities.Results. Currently, existing methods for assessing the “comfort of the urban environment” (methodology for forming the urban environment quality index dated March 23, 2019, No. 510-R) and “quality of the urban living environment” (methodology for assessing the quality of the urban living environment dated September 9, 2013, 371) are not suitable for determining the development strategy of the country’s territories because the assessment procedure does not include key hygienic indices of the comfort of the natural environment and living conditions of the population, which allow citizens to meet housing needs and ensure a high quality of life in General, including the birth of healthy children, maintaining the health of the adult population and preventing premature mortality.Conclusion. The urban environment integrates a variety of inter-level relations of various types (economic, social, cultural, etc.). It is intended to study it as a multi-level structure, for this purpose, it is necessary to use a hierarchical approach. To implement this approach, it is recommended to take into account the indices of various groups that affect the comfort of the urban environment and are directly related to the hygienic characteristics of the territory: A-climatogeographic; B-demographic; C-social; D-economic; E - urban planning; F - indices of transport infrastructure; G-environmental quality indices.

scholarly journals Fish migration and reproduction in urban environment — restoration of the Lososinka River as habitat for the Onega Lake salmon, Petrozavodsk

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Environment ◽  
Urban Stream ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Fish Migration ◽  
2D Modeling ◽  
Salmon River ◽  
Onega Lake ◽  
Big Rivers ◽  
The City

To enable natural spawning, new projects to construct fish passes are going on in most big rivers in Finland. In the Interreg project «Restoring salmon runs into Oulu and Lososinka Rivers» fish pass options were examined for rivers in Finland and in Russia. Oulujoki River, once a famous salmon river is totally constructed and only few reproduction sites are left in the main channels and in some tributaries. To create new reproduction area, the principle of spawning channels which are commonly constructed in Canada, was integrated in the planning of nature-like fish passes. To optimize the area and quality of reproduction habitats, flow and habitat 2D modeling was used. The Lososinka River in Petrozavodsk, capital of Karelian Republic is a small urban stream 25 km long. It is blocked by dams, but there is still existing an original stock of landlock Onega Lake salmon. In the project measures for enabling migration through three dams in the city centre area were proposed. There are excellent reproduction habitats above the dams. Because of the value of the river as a key element in the urban environment, the landscape values had to be considered.

Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorder Symptoms

2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Leonard Burns ◽  
James A. Walsh ◽  
David R. Patterson ◽  
Carol S. Holte ◽  
Rita Sommers-Flanagan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Attention Deficit ◽  
Rating Scales ◽  
Behavior Disorder ◽  
Disruptive Behavior Disorder ◽  
Subjective Rating ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Frequency Count ◽  
Hyperactivity Disorder ◽  
Oppositional Defiant

Summary: Rating scales are commonly used to measure the symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder (ODD), and conduct disorder (CD). While these scales have positive psychometric properties, the scales share a potential weakness - the use of vague or subjective rating procedures to measure symptom occurrence (e. g., never, occasionally, often, and very often). Rating procedures based on frequency counts for a specific time interval (e. g., never, once, twice, once per month, once per week, once per day, more than once per day) are less subjective and provide a conceptually better assessment procedure for these symptoms. Such a frequency count procedure was used to obtain parent ratings on the ADHD, ODD, and CD symptoms in a normative (nonclinical) sample of 3,500 children and adolescents. Although the current study does not provide a direct comparison of the two types of rating procedures, the results suggest that the frequency count procedure provides a potentially more useful way to measure these symptoms. The implications of the results are noted for the construction of rating scales to measure the ADHD, ODD, and CD symptoms.

Prospective Memory Development Across the Lifespan

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 162-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sascha Zuber ◽  
Matthias Kliegel
Keyword(s):  
Prospective Memory ◽  
Healthy Aging ◽  
Present Model ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Cognitive Factors ◽  
Everyday Functioning ◽  
Integrative Framework

Abstract. Prospective Memory (PM; i.e., the ability to remember to perform planned tasks) represents a key proxy of healthy aging, as it relates to older adults’ everyday functioning, autonomy, and personal well-being. The current review illustrates how PM performance develops across the lifespan and how multiple cognitive and non-cognitive factors influence this trajectory. Further, a new, integrative framework is presented, detailing how those processes interplay in retrieving and executing delayed intentions. Specifically, while most previous models have focused on memory processes, the present model focuses on the role of executive functioning in PM and its development across the lifespan. Finally, a practical outlook is presented, suggesting how the current knowledge can be applied in geriatrics and geropsychology to promote healthy aging by maintaining prospective abilities in the elderly.

Youth Development in Europe

2009 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 372-375 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katariina Salmela-Aro ◽  
Ingrid Schoon
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Youth Development ◽  
Social Relationships ◽  
Transition To Adulthood ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Reciprocal Interactions ◽  
The Family ◽  
Key Players

A series of six papers on “Youth Development in Europe: Transitions and Identities” has now been published in the European Psychologist throughout 2008 and 2009. The papers aim to make a conceptual contribution to the increasingly important area of productive youth development by focusing on variations and changes in the transition to adulthood and emerging identities. The papers address different aspects of an integrative framework for the study of reciprocal multiple person-environment interactions shaping the pathways to adulthood in the contexts of the family, the school, and social relationships with peers and significant others. Interactions between these key players are shaped by their embeddedness in varied neighborhoods and communities, institutional regulations, and social policies, which in turn are influenced by the wider sociohistorical and cultural context. Young people are active agents, and their development is shaped through reciprocal interactions with these contexts; thus, the developing individual both influences and is influenced by those contexts. Relationship quality and engagement in interactions appears to be a fruitful avenue for a better understanding of how young people adjust to and tackle development to productive adulthood.

Assessing Implicit Racism With the Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia M. Power ◽  
Dermot Barnes-Holmes ◽  
Yvonne Barnes-Holmes ◽  
Ian T. Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Implicit Relational Assessment Procedure ◽  
Assessment Procedure ◽  
Implicit Racism
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