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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"urban safety"”.
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Implementation Of A Medication Adherence Protocol In A Large Urban Safety Net Hospital
… and improving health literacy in a large, urban, safety net hospital. Utilizing a multi-prong approach, patients were provided with a visual aid – a pill card, in conjunction with the teach-back method, to improve systolic blood pressure (SBP), diastolic blood pressure (DPB) and Hemoglobin …
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The Safer [D]urban Core: An exploration of urban safety and the use of situational crime prevention in the inner-city of Durban, South Africa
This thesis explores the notions of safety and the usage of Crime Prevention through Environmental Design methods for creating safer spaces within cities. The project examines the inner city of Durban specifically, grappling with the issues of crime and grime and the perceptions of the city as a …
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The CNL as Information Manager
… setting for this improvement project was for an urban, safety net public hospital dedicated to ongoing medical and nursing education. The role of the clinical nurse leader was introduced to the comprehensive breast center radiology staff and physicians to support a new quality initiative to …
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Unreinforced Masonry Precincts in New Zealand: History, Heritage, and Seismic Retrofit
… Arising from the need to address public urban safety in conjunction with privileging historic building fabric, this thesis employs architectural heritage conservation as a framework for examining New Zealand’s history, heritage, and seismic retrofit of URM precincts. Heritage conservation …
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BODIES, SELVES AND SPACESGENDERED EXPERIENCES OF MILANESE URBAN SETTINGS
Research consistently demonstrates that urban environments are neither neutral nor equally accessible to everyone, as they originate in uneven power relations and so are structured around exclusionary practices that disproportionately affect women’s sense of safety, mobility, and belonging (Kern, …
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Characterization of COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy among Essential Workforce Members of a Large Urban Hospital in Los Angeles, CA
… vaccination. Among employees of a large urban safety net hospitable, COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy was associated with demographic factors and Influenza vaccination history but was not associated with the psychological based constructs of perceived susceptibility, threat, and self-efficacy. …
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Spatiotemporal Event Forecasting and Analysis with Ubiquitous Urban Sensors
… extraction and knowledge exploration in the urban environment is gaining popularity. Ubiquitous sensors and a plethora of statistical reports provide an immense amount of heterogeneous urban data, such as traffic data, crime activity statistics, social media messages, and street imagery. The …
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Associations among Health Literacy Levels and Health Outcomes in Pregnant Women with Pregestational and Gestational Diabetes in an Urban Setting
… of<strong> </strong>32 pregnant women in an urban, safety-net clinic in the South we measured health literacy using the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Medicine (REALM), the Literacy Assessment for Diabetes (LAD), and the Rapid Estimate of Adult Literacy in Genetics (REAL-G) and …
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Machine learning for social event analysis : public perceptions during COVID-19 and collective violence in South Africa
… as an early indicator of public health and urban safety crises, and computational analysis complements sociological frameworks. The machine learning models provided in the study, when interpreted within sociological frameworks, can provide monitoring of compliance, adjustment, and diffusion. …
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Advancing Digital Health Equity in a Safety-Net Health System: Identifying Barriers, Evaluating Training, and Assessing Impact on Diabetes Outcomes
… individuals at San Francisco Health Network, an urban safety-net health system. Across three papers, I employ novel qualitative and quantitative methods to address critical questions about marginalized populations and digital health technology use, thereby filling gaps in the literature and …
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Los Delivreros: Labor, Platforms, and Transnational Flows of lnformation in Latin American Gig Workers
… older indigenous practices to a context of urban cities and technology. I argue that migration moves ideas, memories, knowledge, stories, and forms of organization. I finish by thinking about migration as a medium and the way the social forms of organization that I observed in NYC are …
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Person of interest rapid identification and tracking (POIRIT) assistance system
… of terror and street crime, thereby compromising urban safety. To counter this, the government established a specialized street crime patrol unit known as "Dolphins," equipped with modern surveillance technology, including video feedback systems. Additionally, the "Punjab Safe Cities" initiative …
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Pedestrian safety at urban mid-block crossings
… is a common behaviour among people walking in urban areas. Where demand for crossing is high, it can result in increased crash risk. Most of these crashes are likely to result in pedestrian severe injuries or fatalities, especially when crash impact speeds are high. Despite …
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Modelo predictivo para mejorar la seguridad urbana en la ciudad de Bogotá, D.C
… " Modelo Predictivo para Mejorar La Seguridad Urbana en la Ciudad de Bogotá, D.C" aborda la problemática de la inseguridad en Bogotá mediante el desarrollo de un modelo predictivo basado en técnicas de machine learning e inteligencia artificial. El objetivo principal es diseñar un prototipo que …
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IMPACTS OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT PATTERN ON RUNOFF PEAK FLOWS AND STREAMFLOW FLASHINESS OF PERI-URBAN CATCHMENTS: ASSESSING THE PERFORMANCE OF PHYSICAL AND DATA-DRIVEN MODELS FOR REAL-TIME ENSEMBLE FLOOD FORECASTING
<p>Urban growth is a global phenomenon, and the associated impacts on hydrology from land development are expected to increase, especially in peri-urban catchments, which are newly developing catchments in proximity of growing cities. In northern climates, hydrologic response of peri-urban …
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Predictive models for accidents on urban links - A focus on vulnerable road users
… accidents has been focused on rural traffic or urban intersections. This work has aimed at identifying and investigating possible improvements to predictive models for accidents on urban links. A special focus has been on the accidents of vulnerable road users. The possible improvements …