scholarly journals Group Spatial Preferences of Residential Locations—Simplified Method Based on Crowdsourced Spatial Data and MCDA

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 4690
Author(s):  
Joanna Jaroszewicz ◽  
Anna Majewska
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Simplified Approach ◽  
Residential Preferences ◽  
Public Transport System ◽  
Partial Ranking ◽  
Residential Locations ◽  
Crowdsourced Data ◽  
The Face ◽  
Two Phases

Residential location preferences illustrate how the attractiveness of particular neighbourhoods is perceived and indicate what improves or lowers the comfort of life in a city according to its residents. This research analyses the residential preferences of students who were asked to indicate their most preferred residential locations and to define their selection criteria. The study was conducted in two phases: in 2019, before the outbreak of the pandemic, and in 2020 during the second wave of the COVID-19 outbreak. The methodology of spatial multi-criteria analyses and the developed simplified approach to determining collective preferences from crowdsourced data FCPR (first criteria partial ranking) were used to analyse the preferences. The following research questions were asked: (1) whether the developed simplified FCPR methodology would provide results similar to the methods currently used to determine group weightings of criteria; (2) what spatial aspects were important for the students when choosing where to live, and (3) whether these aspects change in the face of the pandemic. The results obtained confirmed the effectiveness of the simplified approach. They indicated a significant relationship between an efficient public transport system and residence preferences, even with prolonged distance learning. They also showed the increased importance of location close to family or friends in the face of the pandemic. Only a combined analysis of the preferences expressed both in the form of a ranking of criteria and directly indicated locations provides complete information.

scholarly journals Generational Portrait of Spanish Society in the Face of Climate Change. A Question to Consider for the Green Economy under the Well-Being Approach

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 807
Author(s):  
María-José Foncubierta-Rodríguez ◽  
Rafael Ravina-Ripoll ◽  
José Antonio López-Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Human Action ◽  
European Social Survey ◽  
Green Economy ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Spanish Society ◽  
The Face ◽  
Two Phases

Climate change is emerging as an issue of progressive attention, and therefore awareness, in societies. In this work, the problem is addressed from a generational perspective in Spanish society and is carried out from the approaches of awareness, human action, and self-responsibility. All this from the search of the subjective well-being and the citizens’ happiness, as one of the bases of sustainable development initiatives. With data from the European Social Survey R8, from EUROSTAT, we work in two phases: (1) descriptive and inferential on possible associations of the items with the variable Age, and (2) calculation of probabilities between groups through logistic regression. The results confirm a general awareness, but with apparent statistical differences between age groups. In general, the youngest are the most aware, blame human activity most intensely, are the most concerned, and are the most willing to act. And it is the older people who are less aware of all these issues. Based on this finding, and from the approach mentioned above, it is recommended that leaders, both in the macroeconomic and microeconomic sectors, develop initiatives that sensitize and encourage older age groups.

The flood resilience dashboard: community resilience

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian McCallum ◽  
Stefan Velev ◽  
Finn Laurien ◽  
Reinhard Mechler ◽  
Adriana Keating ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Community Resilience ◽  
Mobile Technologies ◽  
Capacity Assessment ◽  
Night Time ◽  
Web Mapping ◽  
Crowdsourced Data ◽  
The World

<p>Communities around the world in flood-prone regions are increasingly aware of the benefits of using spatial data to better understand their predicament. With the advent of web mapping, free and open satellite data and the proliferation of mobile technologies, the possibilities for both understanding and improving community resilience are on the rise.</p><p>Here we present the “Flood Resilience Dashboard”, which is designed to put geo-spatial flood resilience data into the hands of practitioners. The objective is to provide a platform for practitioners in the Zurich Flood Resilience Alliance which gives access to both community resilience data and freely available, peer reviewed flood risk data, which can be used for decision support at scale. This data will include among others the Zurich Flood Resilience Measurement for Communities (FRMC) data, Vulnerability Capacity Assessment (VCA) maps, remote sensing derived information on flooding and other biophysical datasets (e.g. forest cover, water extent), modelled risk information, satellite imagery (e.g. night-time lights), crowdsourced data and more. Using two case studies, we illustrate how the above-mentioned datasets help to better understand community resilience. When co-developed with communities, these examples could potentially be scaled up and applied to similar regions around the world.</p>

scholarly journals Cultural adaptation and internal consistency analysis of the MISSCARE Survey for use in Brazil

2013 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 610-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lillian Dias Castilho Siqueira ◽  
Maria Helena Larcher Caliri ◽  
Beatrice Kalisch ◽  
Rosana Aparecida Spadoti Dantas
Keyword(s):  
Internal Consistency ◽  
Cultural Adaptation ◽  
Content Validity ◽  
Ethics Committee ◽  
Face Validity ◽  
Methodological Research ◽  
Nursing Team ◽  
The Face ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Missed Nursing Care

OBJECTIVE: The aims of this methodological research were to culturally adapt the MISSCARE Survey instrument to Brazil and analyze the internal consistency of the adapted version. METHOD: The instrument consists of 41 items, presented in two parts. Part A contains 24 items listing elements of missed nursing care. Part B is comprised of 17 items, related to the reasons for not delivering care. The research received ethics committee approval and was undertaken in two phases. The first was the cultural adaptation process, in which a committee of five experts verified the face and content validity, in compliance with the steps recommended in the literature. The second was aimed at analyzing the internal consistency of the instrument, involving 60 nursing team professionals at a public teaching hospital. RESULTS: According to the experts, the instrument demonstrated face and content validity. Cronbach's alpha coefficients for parts A and B surpassed 0.70 and were considered appropriate. CONCLUSION: The adapted version of the MISSCARE Survey demonstrated satisfactory face validity and internal consistency for the study sample.

Strategi pemasaran jasa transportasi taksi konvensional menghadapi persaingan jasa transportasi berbasis aplikasi online di Surabaya

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dwi Karya Yuris Prabawati ◽  
Soni Harsono
Keyword(s):  
Marketing Strategy ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Phenomenological Approach ◽  
Online Application ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Physical Evidence ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
The Face ◽  
Promotional Strategies ◽  
Qualitative Phenomenological

This research analyzes and explains the application of conventional taxi marketing strategy of Blue Bird in face of online application based transportation competition in Surabaya Indonesia. This research uses qualitative phenomenological approach. Data were collected from the operational and marketing managers of Blue Bird taxi (1 person), the driver (10 persons), and customer (10 people). To obtain complete information has been done observation, documentation, and interviews with open questions. The results show that Blue Bird's taxi marketing strategy consists of services, prices, distribution, promotion, people, physical evidence and processes that can impact on the company's performance is still not running well in the face of competition of online application-based transportation services. In terms of distribution strategies, people, physical evidence, and processes have been excellent but in product strategy, service, pricing, and promotional strategies are still in a weak condition. The implication of this research is that Blue Bird companies can improve their service innovation primarily on technology aspects, and then lower tariffs for consumers, and lastly use the internet medium to improve efficiency and cheaper than others so as to compete with online-based applications transportation services in Surabaya.

scholarly journals Visualização Volumétrica Aplicada às Geociências

2008 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 71
Author(s):  
ANDREA LOPES IESCHECK ◽  
CLAUDIA ROBBI SLUTER ◽  
RENATO ANTÔNIO DEDECEK
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Data ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Chemical Properties ◽  
Volume Visualization ◽  
Complete Information ◽  
Continuous Body ◽  
Volumetric Objects ◽  
Third Dimension ◽  
Physical And Chemical

This paper is on volume visualization of spatial data. It aims at showing new possibilities to visualize three-dimensional phenomena such as geology, soils, geophysics, seismic and the like. The use of volumes in the evaluation processes allows one to visualize and to explore the phenomenon as a continuous body in space, thus incorporating the third dimension in cartography. The volumetric visualization is a branch of scientific visualization that has shown a fast growth and its goal is to comprehend the internal structure and the behavior of three-dimensional volumetric objects. Volumetric visualization depends on the interaction. We must, therefore, interact with the volume trough rotations, cuts and other forms of graphic manipulation, seeking the complete information. The methodology of this research entails the acquisition of three-dimensional data, three-dimensional interpolation, as well as volume formation and visualization by means of three-dimensional Geographic Information System and volumetric visualization software. Soil’s data were interpolated in order to be continuously represented in three-dimensional space. The outcome of volume representations of physical and chemical properties is a new way to visualize the soil and a new source of knowledge to the study of this phenomenon.

scholarly journals Development and assessment of the psychometric properties of a compassionate care questionnaire for nurses

BMC Nursing ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Banafsheh Tehranineshat ◽  
Mahnaz Rakhshan ◽  
Camellia Torabizadeh ◽  
Mohammad Fararouei ◽  
Mark Gillespie
Keyword(s):  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Convergent Validity ◽  
Factor Loading ◽  
Care Quality ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Compassionate Care ◽  
Caring Behaviors ◽  
The Face ◽  
Two Phases

Abstract Background Compassionate care is emphasized within professional ethics codes for nursing and is a key indicator of care quality. The purpose of the present study is to develop and assess the psychometric properties of a compassionate care instrument for nurses. Methods This methodological study was carried out in two phases -qualitative and quantitative-from February 2016 to October 2018. In the qualitative stage of the study, a content analysis approach was used to establish the concept of compassionate care through interviews with nurses, patients, and family caregivers. The initial draft of the questionnaire was developed based on the qualitative findings and a subsequent review of the literature. In the second phase, the psychometric properties of the questionnaire were assessed for validity and reliability. Data analysis was performed using descriptive and inferential statistics in SPSS v.16. Results From the results of the qualitative phase and review of literature, 80 items were extracted. In the quantitative phase, after evaluation of the face and content validity, 40 items were kept. After measurement of the construct validity, 28 items whose factor loading was above 0.4 were retained. Measurement of convergent validity showed a moderate correlation between the questionnaire and the nurses’ caring behaviors scale (r = 0.67, P = 0.01). The reliability of the 28-item questionnaire was tested by measuring its Cronbach’s alpha coefficient and intra-class correlation coefficient which were found to be 0.91 and 0.94 for the whole questionnaire, respectively. Conclusion The questionnaire has enough validity and reliability to be used for measuring the nurses’ compassionate care. Therefore, the instrument can be used to measure and record the quality of nursing care.

Implementation of Smart Attendance Monitoring Using Open-CV and Python

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 3290-3295 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Anto Praveena ◽  
Mohana Krishna Eriki ◽  
Dharma Teja Enjam
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Face Recognition ◽  
Face Detection ◽  
Facial Recognition ◽  
Important Task ◽  
The Face ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Facial Contours ◽  
Feature Extraction And Matching

Uniqueness or individuality of a person is his face. In this paper, face of an individual is used for the purpose of attendance taking automatically. Maintaining attendance of a student is very important task in all the institutes to check the performance of students. Every institute has its own way for taking attendance. Some of the institutes use paper or file based approach, and some are using methods of automatic attendance taking using biometrics methods which is very time consuming process. There are many methods available for this purpose. Facial recognition may be a unambiguously distinctive or corroboratory an individual by comparison and analysing the patterns supported person’s facial contours. Facial recognition is mostly used for security purposes at so many places. This process can be divided into two phases, processing before recognition where face detection takes place, and afterwards face recognition takes place through feature extraction and matching steps. This system uses the face recognition for taking automatic attendance of students in the classroom without student’s intervention. This attendance is recorded by using a camera that captures images of students and detect the faces after which it compares and faces are detected with the database and mark the attendance for the students. Attendance sheet will be generated and message will be sent to the parents.

Functional properties of single neurons in the primate face primary somatosensory cortex. III. Modulation of responses to peripheral stimuli during trained orofacial motor behaviors

1994 ◽  
Vol 71 (6) ◽  
pp. 2401-2413 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. D. Lin ◽  
B. J. Sessle
Keyword(s):  
Somatosensory Cortex ◽  
Neuronal Activity ◽  
Lingual Nerve ◽  
Primary Somatosensory Cortex ◽  
Single Neurons ◽  
Tongue Protrusion ◽  
Task Period ◽  
The Face ◽  
Evoked Activity ◽  
Two Phases

1. In previous papers we have demonstrated that most single neurons in the face primary somatosensory cortex (SI) alter their firing rate during a trained tongue-protrusion task and some also during a trained biting task. Although the data suggest that some of the task-related activity in face SI might conceivably come from reafferent inputs from moving orofacial structures, it is possible that orofacial inputs are modulated during the trained orofacial movements. This study was initiated to investigate the possible modulation of evoked orofacial somatosensory responses of face SI neurons during trained tongue-protrusion and biting tasks. 2. Two monkeys were trained to perform a tongue-protrusion and a biting task and to accept stimulation applied to the facial skin or the lingual nerve during the tasks. For SI neurons with a tongue mechanoreceptive field (RF), electrical stimulation was applied to the lingual nerve to elicit neuronal activity; for SI neurons with a RF at the other locations, electrical or mechanical stimulation was applied to the RF to elicit neuronal activity. Modulation of neuronal activity evoked by low-threshold stimulation of the RF was tested, during the tongue-protrusion and/or biting tasks, in 44 face SI neurons and an additional 3 forelimb SI neurons with a palm RF (palm RF neurons). The 44 face SI neurons included 13 with a tongue RF (tongue RF neurons), 29 with a lip RF (lip RF neurons), and 2 with a lateral face RF (face RF neurons). 3. For face SI neurons tested during both force dynamic and holding phases of the task period, the evoked activity (i.e., the number of evoked spikes in 50 ms after the onset of stimulation) was decreased in at least one of the two phases for the majority (90%) of 31 neurons studied during the tongue-protrusion task and 61% of 23 studied during the biting task. The proportion of neurons modulated during the tongue-protrusion task was significantly higher than that during the biting task. For the 18 face SI tested during both tasks, a decrease in evoked activity occurred in 10 lip RF neurons for both tasks and in the remaining 5 lip RF and 3 tongue RF neurons for the tongue-protrusion task only. No neurons tested showed a clear facilitation of evoked activity during the task period of either task.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)

The Faces of Deceased Persons as Emotion-Expressive Behaviors: Implications for Mourning Trajectories

2002 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-167 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Eyetsemitan ◽  
Tami Eggleston
Keyword(s):  
Negative Emotion ◽  
The United States ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Small Community ◽  
Loved One ◽  
Funeral Directors ◽  
The Face ◽  
Two Phases ◽  
Age Range ◽  
Age And Sex

Emotion discrete terms (e.g., sad, happy, and angry) are not only used to describe the faces of living people but could also be used to describe those of dead people. This study was carried out in two phases among college and non-college participants drawn from a small community in the mid-west region of the United States. Study one was made up of 108 participants (age range 17–81), with a mean of 38, and study two was made up of 211 participants (age range 17–52), with a mean of 19. The results showed that both positive and negative emotion discrete terms were used to describe a deceased person's face. But contextual and demographic variables such as the type of death, age, and sex of the deceased, as well as the age and sex of the viewer were influential. It is suggested that the emotion discrete term that the viewer attributes to the face of a deceased loved one would affect his or her mourning trajectory. This study has implications for counselors who work with bereaved individuals, for funeral directors who prepare deceased persons for viewing, and for researchers interested in the relation between emotions and grieving.

scholarly journals Predicting the Coping Skills of Older Drivers in the Face of Unexpected Situation

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (6) ◽  
pp. 2099
Author(s):  
Yusuke Kajiwara ◽  
Haruhiko Kimura
Keyword(s):  
Angular Velocity ◽  
Tilt Angle ◽  
Traffic Accidents ◽  
Driving Simulator ◽  
Coping Skills ◽  
Older Drivers ◽  
Coping Skill ◽  
Older Driver ◽  
The Face ◽  
Two Phases

In recent years, when an older driver who cannot immediately recognize, judge, and operate properly faces an unexpected situation, they often panic, which may cause a traffic accident. However, there has not yet been enough discussion about the coping skills of older drivers in the face of this unexpected situation. Therefore, this study discusses the coping skills of older drivers in the face of unexpected situations. Moreover, we propose a coping skills prediction system (CP system). The CP system predicts coping skills from the tilt angle and angular velocity of the left foot when an older driver is driving or preparing to start a car. The experiment carried out two phases, a phase of driving a car and a phase of preparing to start the car. In the driving phase, the young and older driver drive the car in a driving simulator. The average age of the young driver group was ± standard deviation = 20.6 ± 0.7 years, and the age of the older driver group was 78.5 ± 5.1 years. The driving route included 15 cases in which collision accidents are likely to occur. We analyzed the experimental results of the driving phase and clarified the predictors of coping skills. Moreover, we analyzed the correlation between the left foot movement in driving and the left foot movement during preparing to start the car. As a result of the experiment, there was a 0.84 correlation between the tilt angle of the left foot of the older driver in driving and the tilt angle of the left foot of the older driver in preparing to start the car. The result shows that the coping skills can be predicted from the tilt angle of the left foot of the older driver during preparing to start the car. We showed that the coping skill can be predicted with an accuracy of 92% or 94% on average from the tilt angle and the angular velocity of the left foot while driving or preparing to start the car. Moreover, we clarified that the tilt angle of the left foot of a driver without coping skills is perpendicular to the ground compared to a driver with coping skills. This study is expected to contribute to the prevention of traffic accidents that occur in the face of an unexpected situation.

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