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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"home location"”.
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Residential Satisfaction with Home Location: Examination of the Relationship Between Location-Embedded Benefits and Risk Perception
Residents' satisfaction with their home location is believed to be directly related to the length of time when one lives in the place, to one's familiarity with the surrounding environment, and to one's willingness to invest in improving the environment. This study examines floodplain residents' …
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Inferring user location from time series of social media activity
Combining social media posts with known user locations can lead to unique insights with applications ranging from tracking diffusion of sentiment to earthquake detection. One approach used to determine a user's home location is to examine the timing of their posts, but the precision of existing …
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Traffic pollution and chronic respiratory disease. Epidemiological studies in children and adults in southern Sweden.
… adults was associated with dense traffic at the home location but not traffic at the work location, daily time spent outdoor in traffic or a combined exposure estimate. Paper 4 found that growing up close to dense traffic was not associated with higher incidence of asthma medication, asthma …
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The myth of the single mode man : how the mobility pass better meets actual travel demand
… or have a completely car-oriented work or home location. However, a significant portion of the population -- 30%+ at MIT -- is multimodal; they take different modes to work depending on the day.
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Perspectives from above: The role of altitude in bumblebee spatial orientation and navigation
… dimensional world to find food, shelter or their home location. Flying insects like bumblebees master these task despite their relatively small brain size. They acquire visual memories of their nest location, well hidden from predators, to return home after their forag- ing trips. With this thesis …
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Leveraging Geospatial Data to Understand Social Mixing in Cities
… in mobility patterns using sparse, anonymized geolocation data. We identify homophily in the way that Stockholm residents travel through cities without performing privacy-invasive and data-intensive home location detection. Study 2 calculates this metric with geolocated Twitter data to analyze the …
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Duration, cultural programming and sensemaking
… to one community of people who live in multiple locations and was produced in locations where this community lives and works;<br/>-the heritage/home location (the parish of Filignano and town of Venafro in the region of Molise, Italy) and <br/>-the diaspora/other locations, in cities in Italy, …
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Labor Migration in China
… upper tail of the income distribution in their home location. Consistent with a theoretical model of migration choice, we show that the size of the selection effect on wage depends on the wage differences between the prefectures of origin and destination as well as migration cost. The selection …
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Pedestrian Accessibility and Individual’s Subjective Happiness
… happiness and the built environment around one’s home or workplace has been understudied and remains poorly understood. While location quality — particularly pedestrian accessibility to commercial, recreational, institutional, educational, and transportation facilities — is known to affect home …
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Factors influencing equitable access to improved water supply in uMlalazi Local Municipality
… study, a descriptive design was used. One sub-location was randomly selected from each of the two wards with a sample of 274 respondents composed of 193 females and 81 males. Data was collected using questionnaires. Data analysis was done using descriptive statistics and presented using charts …
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Dietary quality of school-aged children and teenagers in Ireland by demographic characteristics and eating location
… teenagers. It has also been shown that eating location can influence dietary quality, with some locations such as ‘home’ and ‘school’ being associated with better dietary quality than other locations, such as ‘restaurants’, ‘takeaways’ and ‘shops’. Objectives: The overall aim of this thesis was …