Favorite Place Research Articles

Causal analysis of illegal parking in urban roads: The case of Greece

Either a result of inadequate supply or perceived high costs, illegal parking is an often-encountered phenomenon in urban areas worldwide and affects the performance and safety conditions of streets. In Greek cities in particular, illegal parking seems to be mostly observed when legal parking supply is limited, while at the same time, there is available space for such a practice. This paper investigates causes leading to illegal parking, with a focus on space availability, road geometry and the balance between parking demand and supply. In this context, Google Street View (GSV) images are used as the main data source and multiple linear regression models are developed for investigating factors explaining illegal parking density. Results show that illegal parking is higher in cases where on-street parking is prohibited; intersection and breaking points of median islands are the next favorite places for illegal parking phenomena to occur. Furthermore, major differences in illegal parking behavior are found between two-wheeler and cars or heavy vehicles drivers. Based on findings, a framework consisting of different measures, namely: parking regulations, road design and public awareness, is proposed for mitigating illegal parking in Greek cities.

Landsenses ecology approach for comprehensive assessment of cultural ecosystem services: preferences of students at Ankara University of Turkey

ABSTRACT This study aimed to evaluate and spatially represent university students’ perception of cultural ecosystem services in the urban public space of Ankara, Turkey in relation to the ‘landsenses ecology’ framework. A questionnaire survey was administered to randomly selected students studying landscape architecture at Ankara University via the Google Forms electronic survey. For mapping, the Urban Atlas Project 2018 data were used to show the connection between CES and the land-use types. A hot-spot map was created for spatial assessment of CES using Kernel density estimation. Within the study area, the students marked 87 favourite places. The city centre (Kızılay) was marked as the most significant place to visit by the students. Yet, the majority (63%) of the participants marked an urban green space as their favourite place. Spending time with family and friends was the most selected activity in the rankings with a mean score of 4.90 (SD = 4.10). The hot-spot map indicated that grey infrastructure areas generate CES values as well. Within the perspective of landsenses ecology – where psychological and cultural perception is emphasized – understanding and identifying these values and their specific localizations can be useful in urban landscape management, especially to encourage young people’s involvement in daily urban space.

Group travel behavior in metro system and its relationship with house price

Modeling travel behavior inter-relationship is important to traffic planning and management as well as spread modeling of infectious disease and information. Our ability to understand inter-traveler behavior has remained unsatisfactorily limited due to the lack of empirical travel-together data. Taking advantage of access to a large-scale smart-card dataset from the Beijing metro network, we investigate a KS test-based method to identify group travel and study the spatial–temporal distribution of group travel as well as their interaction with socio-economic attributes. Origin and destination stations, departure time, and travel dates are separately classified into several types according to the passenger flow adopting a tensor factorization technique. The results suggest that temporally passengers tend to travel in groups in the afternoon and on the weekend; spatially areas with moderate house prices are the least source for group demands, while areas with a relatively low house price are the most favorite place for group trips. This novel discovery can help to understand the impact of socio-economic attributes on intra-urban group/passenger flow movement.

Quality of Favorite Places in Community Residents in The Islamic Village of Kepaon, Pemogan, Denpasar

The existence of a favorite place is a public space that has an important role in the development of villages in urban areas. In the city of Denpasar there are many kampung-kampung (kampung-kampung: a community) that have many favorite places, where the existence of favorite places itself has quality with various facilities. This study aims to determine the quality of people's favorite places in the neighborhood. This study aims to determine the quality of people's favorite places in their neighborhood. The focus of the problem raised is places that are considered favorite by the people in their neighborhood and how the quality of physical object facilities, non-physical object facilities and infrastructure facilities at the favorite places. The research method used is a qualitative method, with a case study approach, the technique for collecting research data is through interview techniques, where the speakers come from people who live in Kepaon Islamic Kampung, Pemogan, Denpasar, asked to write on a piece of paper the places that people consider favorite according to their feelings, this writing technique aims to avoid the occurrence of the expression of feelings towards a favorite place between one resource person with another resource person. This research shows that there are many favorite places in the area of Kampung Islam, Kepaon, Pemogan, Denpasar, but favorite places that have quality with good facilities that are chosen by many people in their neighborhoods such as; Al-Muhajirin Kepaon Mosque, Sungai Taman Pancing Tukad Badung, Kertha Boga Market. The role of the community as well as the government is able to care for and maintain the quality of these favorite places, so that the community is guyub (guyub: close-knit interaction) to live in the area.
 Index Terms— favorite places, community, neighborhood

PRZEPŁYWY MIESZKAŃCÓW POZNANIA ZWIĄZANE Z AKTYWNOŚCIĄ FIZYCZNĄ


 
 
 The aim of this paper is to present the significance of the recreational space in Poznań for the physical activity of the city’s residents. The factors considered in the study were the following: the range of possibilities for engagement in paid-for and free-of-charge physical activities, the perceived availability of green areas, the favourite places for physical activity and the role of the neighbourhood and flows in this aspect. The paper presents the results of a survey conducted among 1,244 inhabitants of Poznań in 2017. The respondents positively assessed the possibilities of undertaking physical activity in the context of the city/ space offer. The access to various sports was rated positive, among it the paid activities offered were rated higher than free-of-charge ones. The availability of green areas near the place of residence was assessed as good. Two locations, Cytadela Park and Lake Malta with the surrounding green areas, were the most popular for pursuing physical activity.
 
 

Assessing the popularity of urban beaches using metadata from social media images as a rapid tool for coastal management

Coastal natural areas, such as beaches in cities, are valued by locals and visitors for their recreational and aesthetic value. For coastal and beach managers, it is important to know who visits beaches, when and where they go and what they value. However, as beaches are long linear structures often with multiple access points, collecting this data can be challenging. Using data from the image sharing platform Flickr, we compared temporal and spatial patterns of use between locals, Australian and international tourists along 31 km of beaches in the sixth largest city in Australia, the Gold Coast. Beaches are popular with 9.8% of all images of the Gold Coast on Flickr taken from a beach. Out of the nearly 7,000 images posted by 908 people on, or near, Gold Coast beaches, 2,388 were posted by 124 locals, 964 by other Australians, and 1,444 by 234 international visitors, mainly from the USA, United Kingdom and New Zealand. Australians, including locals, were more likely than international visitors to take images early in the day and on weekends. There were images from almost every section of the beaches along the coast, with locals using more of the beaches, and each group having their own favourite places. Locals used more words to describe the images, and the most common used words were related to geographic location, natural features, time of the day and activities or events. Despite important limitations, including who uses social media platforms such as Flickr and why, data from geolocated social media images can be a low cost, quick and effective way for managers and others to monitor spatiotemporal patterns of use of open spaces in coastal cities, complementing traditional data.

Spatial Modelling of Psychosocial Benefits of Favourite Places in Denmark: A Tale of Two Cities

Spatial Modelling of Psychosocial Benefits of Favourite Places in Denmark: A Tale of Two Cities

Places of Summer Vacations of Academician Evfimiy Karskiy: Crimea and Beyond (for the 160th Anniversary of His Birth)

The article reconstructs the places of the summer vacancy of the academician-Slavist Evfimiy Fyodorovich Karskiy (1860—1931) during the entire time of his scientific and educational activity (since his graduation from the Nizhyn Historical and Philological Institute) on the basis of several groups of sources: reports (published and archival) on Karskiy's summer trips, his scientific publications, official documents (stored in the St. Petersburg Branch of the Archive of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Central State Historical Archive of St. Petersburg, the Polish State Archive), published minutes of the Council of the Imperial Warsaw University, correspondence of the scientist from the archives of St. Petersburg, Moscow and Prague, memoirs of members of the academician's family. The favorite places of repeated summer stay of the academician's family are: Grodnenskaya province (Migovo and Ponemun estates), Crimea and the village Luga in the Leningradskaya region. The first trip to the resort — to Alushta — was taken by E. F. Karskiy, as the rector of the Warsaw University, just before his retirement, at the age of 49. E. F. Karskiy's second trip to the Crimea took place in the summer of 1914. The study managed to identify one of the photographs from the family archive of A. A. Karskyj as image of a dacha of the late 19th — early 20th century, owned by the hydrogeologist I. M. Peddakas, whose appearance was unknown for Alushta historians and museum workers.

RECREATION AND TOURIST RESOURCES AS AN ADDITIONAL SOURCE FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS OF THE WESTERN REGION OF UKRAINE

The article reviews the functional structure of agricultural lands of the Western region. The agricultural lands are comprehensively analyzed by the following types: agricultural lands, including arable land, hayfields, pastures and fruit and berry plantations. More 42,7 million hectares of agricultural land are concentrated in rural areas, which is 68,8% of the total area of Ukraine. Rural areas ofUkraineare characterized by a high concentration of land resources. Among the regions of the Western region ofUkraine, the provision of land resources is the highest in Lviv, Volyn and Ternopil regions. Ivano-Frankivsk, Chernivtsi and Zakarpattia regions are marked by the poorest land resources inUkrainein general. The share of areas of territories and objects of separate categories in the nature reserve fund of the Western region is analyzed. The objects of the nature reserve fund of national importance include reserves, natural monuments, botanical gardens, zoological parks, deontological parks and parks-monuments of landscape art. The peculiarities and priorities of development of recreational and tourist resources as an additional source for development, use and development of rural territories are revealed. The main share of recreational lands in the region falls on nature conservation lands – 9,26 % of the area of the Western region. Ivano-Frankivsk (17,6 %) and Zakarpattia (11,4 %) regions are the leaders in terms of the share of recreational lands in the total area. By area, the largest share of nature reserves is accounted for by national nature reserves (11,19 %) and reserves (9,45 %) and regional landscape parks (6,91 %). The analysis of collective accommodation establishments of the region in 2000-2020 by types showed that hotels make up the predominant share (on average 66 % and 34 % are specialized accommodation establishments). It is proved that among domestic tourists today the favorite places are the countryside. It is analyzed that the TOP 3 regions of the Western region for the greatest achievements of income through the tourist tax, which came to local budgets in 2020 were: Lviv region; Ivano-Frankivsk and Zakarpattia regions. These suggestions facilitate the search for ways to revitalizes its development. Key words: assessment, rural area, agricultural land, recreational and tourism resources, rural estates, region.

Возрождение и развитие протестантизма и католицизма на Дальнем Востоке России в 1990-е годы

Несмотря на проявление определенного интереса к религии в перестроечные годы российский Дальний Восток к началу 1990-х годов продолжал оставаться самым секулярным регионом страны, значительная часть его населения не имела опыта «жизни в Боге». Принятие ФЗ «О свободе вероисповеданий» (1990) и подписание Президентом РСФСР Б.Н. Ельциным 20 сентября 1991 Указа № 123 «Об открытии г. Владивостока для посещения иностранными гражданами» привели к тому, что российский Дальний Восток в 1990-е годы становится одним из излюбленных мест работы иностранных миссионеров, прибывающих в регион из США, Республики Корея, Японии, Австралии, Новой Зеландии, Канады, КНР и других стран. Значительная часть миссионеров, работающих на Дальнем Востоке России, были представителями протестантских и католических религиозных организаций. Материальная и моральная помощь иностранных миссионеров и миссионерских организаций местным протестантским общинам (баптистов, евангельских христиан, христиан веры евангельской (пятидесятников) и адвентистов седьмого дня) способствовала тому, что дальневосточные протестанты смогли в 1990-е годы не только начать массовую евангелизацию населения Дальнего Востока, но и добиться в этом значительных успехов, обогнав по количеству религиозных общин Русскую православную церковь. Миссионерское служение на территории российского Дальнего Востока представителей различных христианских конфессий из сопредельных стран способствовало, с одной стороны, росту протестантских и католических общин и групп, помогало дальневосточным верующим в организации благотворительной и милосердной деятельности; с другой – иногда приводило к конфликтным ситуациям. Позиции баптизма, евангельского христианства, пятидесятничества и адвентизма на Дальнем Востоке России были прочны и в советское время, в постсоветской России они должны восприниматься как традиционные религии, в дополнение к более традиционным, исторически признанным.

Using a Photo Projective Method to Listen to Children’s Perspectives About Improving Kindergarten Environments

Children’s authentic participation is increasingly recognized in early childhood education as a basis for improving children’s engagement and learning outcomes. This study explored the implementation of the Photo Projective Method in a kindergarten in Japan. Participants were two teachers and 35 children, aged 5 years, enrolled in one kindergarten classroom. The teacher asked children to identify their preferred places on the kindergarten campus and to take photos. In the action research framework, data sources included teachers’ predictions of where each child would take photographs of their favorite places; interviews by the teachers with children about their photos; teachers’ narratives within planning and reflection meetings; as well as observations of children’s play. Teachers were able to predict approximately 25% of children’s expected preferences for their favorite places. Findings infer that the Photo Projective Method can provide teachers with opportunities to hear children’s individual voices in class groups. It provides an effective means for teachers to gain greater insight into individual perspectives.

Composing print essays versus composing across modes: students' multimodal choices and overall preferences

AbstractThe current study presents results from students' engagement of composing print essays and composing across modes on the same topic. It builds on the premise that print‐based reading and writing should complement and coexist with multimodal pedagogy. A group of Taiwanese adolescent students were invited to complete one print essay and one multimodal product on the same topic of “My favorite place in the world”. For their multimodal product, students were required to use at least two modes (e.g. words and image, sounds and words) in any medium (e.g. video, collage, scrapbook or website) of their choice. It was found that the most frequently used medium for students' multimodal projects was video which incorporated words, sounds and visuals. Most students felt that for the topic of “My favorite place in the world”, their multimodal products helped them to convey their ideas better because they provided the audience with more sensory information. To conclude the paper, a few future research directions are outlined to help move the research of multimodal composing forward.

Traditional Business Opportunities Of Selling Cakes With Small Capital In Remboken Traditional Markets

Traditional markets are the center of attention of many consumers when searching for products they need. The market is also a favorite place for many people to look for goods and food at cheap prices, Because in traditional markets there are lots of traders. Traditional markets are never empty of consumers. So the traditional market is a very strategic location to start a business. Selling wet and dry cakes is one of the businesses that will be appointed because after the writer saw that in the traditional market of Remboken there were those who sold wet and dry cakes but were not serious because sometimes it's available but sometimes it's also not there so many buyers are sometimes disappointed because they always fail to get these sales. This research is limited to Traditional Markets in the village of Talikuran, Remboken District. By considering the research objectives that have been set, then this research tends to use the "the out-side in" or "opportunity recognition" approach, which is an approach that emphasizes the idea of responding to market needs as the key to success. Based on the "in-side out" approach, a prospective entrepreneur must have business competence.

Personalized Geographical Influence Modeling for POI Recommendation

Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation has great significance in helping users find favorite places from a large number of candidate venues. One challenging in POI recommendation is to effectively exploit geographical information since users usually care about the physical distance to the recommended POIs. Though spatial relevance has been widely considered in recent recommendation methods, it is modeled only from the POI perspective, failing to capture user personalized preference to spatial distance. Moreover, these methods suffer from a diversity-deficiency problem since they are often based on collaborative filtering which always favors popular POIs. To overcome these problems, we propose in this article a personalized geographical influence modeling method called PGIM, which jointly learns users’ geographical preference and diversity preference for POI recommendation. Specifically, we model geographical preference from three aspects: user global tolerance, user local tolerance, and spatial distance. We also extract user diversity preference from interactions among users for diversity-promoting recommendation. Experimental results on three real-world datasets demonstrate the superiority of PGIM.

„ЕДИН ДЕН В МОЯ КВАРТАЛ“ – ИНОВАТИВЕН МУЛТИДИСЦИПЛИНАРЕН УРОК С КОМУНИКАТИВНА НАСОЧЕНОСТ ПО АНГЛИЙСКИ ЕЗИК, БЪЛГАРСКИ ЕЗИК И ЛИТЕРАТУРА И ИНФОРМАЦИОННИ ТЕХНОЛОГИИ В ПЕТИ КЛАС

This article aims to present good practice in a summary multidisciplinary lesson оn English, Bulgarian language and literature and IT conducted with students from class V„б“ at „Prof. Ivan Batakliev“ Lower Secondary School. I will focus on the English language part of this multi-layered lesson with an mphasis on the development of students’ communication skills in English entitled „One day in my neighbourhood“. The preparation for the lesson aims to motivate students and stimulate their interest in learning the vocabulary related to daily activities, public buildings and types of shops. The preliminary tasks are the following: for the English part, students take pictures of their favourite places in their neighbourhood and the activities they like to do there, for the Bulgarian language and literature part – the view from their window, for the IT part – dangerous intersections in the neighbourhood. The work is realized in two school lessons, based on the idea of removing the boundaries between the subjects, as well as to note that learning is much more lasting and in-depth when one and the same topic is covered by several subjects at the same time. The main accents set in the conducted experimental work are: the formation of practical skills and habits in students to use the language they are studying as a means of communication, students to be active participants in the learning process and to build up skills to work in a team.

Characteristic of popular culinary place in Kelurahan Tamalanrea Indah based on Universitas Hassanudin student’s Mental Maps

Mental maps concept emerged in discussions among experts since the 1960s where the concept was combined using participatory in exploring the visualization of the city and spatial preferences. This study discusses the characteristics of popular eating places based on an evaluation of spatial products in the discussion of space. For comparison purposes, it takes participants who need to fill in the required form about the characteristics of the eating place based on their favorite places to eat and analyze the printed map and mental map. Universitas Hassanudin students are selected as research participants. They chose to map three of their favorite eating places in Tamalanrea Indah Village as a basis to determine their popular eating places while revealing their mental maps. In total, there are 10 participants which produced 18 names of favorite eating places. Ten respondents who were willing to fill in the map, and evaluate the mental maps, is compared. From the data obtained, the three most popular places to eat in Tamalanrea Indah Village that were successfully validated were Bokatana, Waroeng Dian and Warung Alhamdulillah. In general, the mental map produced is based on the variable length of stay and length of study at the Universitas Hassanudin which affects the accuracy of the mental maps, while for popular eating places students are selected based on the distance from the faculty to compare the distance of the residence.

A machine learning‐based memory forensics methodology for TOR browser artifacts

SummaryAt present, 96% of the resources available into the World‐Wide‐Web belongs to the Deep Web, which is composed of contents that are not indexed by search engines. The Dark Web is a subset of the Deep Web, which is currently the favorite place for hiding illegal markets and contents. The most important tool that can be used to access the Dark Web is the Tor Browser. In this article, we propose a bottom‐up formal investigation methodology for the Tor Browser's memory forensics. Based on a bottom‐up logical approach, our methodology enables us to obtain information according to a level of abstraction that is gradually higher, to characterize semantically relevant actions carried out by the Tor browser. Again, we show how the proposed three‐layer methodology can be realized through open‐source tools. Also, we show how the extracted information can be used as input to a novel Artificial Intelligence‐based architecture for mining effective signatures capable of representing malicious activities in the Tor network. Finally, to assess the effectiveness of the proposed methodology, we defined three test cases that simulate widespread real‐life scenarios and discuss the obtained results. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that deals with the forensic analysis of the Tor Browser in a live system, in a formal and structured way.

EXPLORE EXERCISE LEVEL AND PREFERENCES IN PANCREATIC CANCER PATIENTS

A large percentage of pancreatic cancer (PC) patients can suffer from cachexia, a syndrome characterized by an ongoing loss of skeletal muscle mass, with or without fat mass. This condition leads to reduced muscle strength, which further worsen functional capacity. Exercise (EX) could be a potential measure to counteract the loss of functional capacity, nevertheless most of cancer patients are insufficiently active. PURPOSE: Investigate the EX level, interest and preferences in PC patients. METHODS: An anonymously survey was performed on a representative sample of PC patients at the Oncology Unit of Verona Hospital. The questionnaire assessed demographic, clinical characteristics and EX behavior, using the Leisure Score Index (LSI) from Godin’s Leisure Time Exercise Questionnaire. The items regarding EX preferences and interest were drawn from previous researches. A descriptive analysis, presented as mean/medians for continuous variables and frequencies/percentages for categorical variables, was used. RESULTS: 173 questionnaires were completed (58% response rate). The median age of subjects was 60 years old, 54% was male, 41% had completed high school. Medical information indicated that 52% had a metastatic disease and 86% were on active treatment. Only 11% of patients resulted sufficiently active (LSI ≥24), but among 82% were willing to start a specific EX program. Patients prefer receive EX information by oncologist (54%), followed by kinesiologist (23%), with a face to face approach (66%). PC patients chose to EX with “other cancer patients” (25%) or alone (17%). Subjects picked outdoors (28%) and at home (23%) as favourite places to perform EX. PC patients prefer to train two (31%) or three (36%) times/week, at light (45%) or moderate (40%) intensity. 31% of patients indicated to prefer an individual program to perform at home, 29% a training group with a kinesiologist, while 25% chose an individual program with a personal trainer. CONCLUSION: We found a small portion of PC patients active, a large interest to EX and a heterogeneity regarding the EX preferences. This underline the urgency to promote EX in this population and suggest that different EX program options should be considered to optimize compliance and adherence. This study is the first step to planning a specific EX program designed for PC patients.

L' Indice d'inclusion financière à l'heure du mobile money

For some years mobile money has been a favorite place for financial populations, especially people in developing countries. In this context, the financial inclusion index, which provides information on the level of financial inclusion of the different regions of the world, must also be included in this aspect. The objective of this study is to introduce mobile money in the calculation of the financial inclusion index. Applied the calculation of this multidimensional index of financial inclusion between 0 and 1 in some African countries, it does have a significant effect on the indication of financial inclusion. However, data on some indicators of financial inclusion are missing, which limits the calculation of this index.

Environmental Print Model Based on Family Stimulation Solutions Ability Reading Initial Children in the Era of Pandemic Virus Dangerous

The turbulence of Coronaviruses sometime this past raises fear and anxiety for everyone. Moreover, the spread of this virus has penetrated all over the country so it is expressed as a pandemic condition. One of the solutions highly recommended by the WHO and supported by health experts and government policy is to keep social distance physically. These conditions include the impact on the application of the program at home only. In the educational world, social distancing policies also impact child education, which leads to the role of education in returning to the family. For the stimulation of children's education is not stopped, parents need to use creative models to stimulate children's abilities. One model that can be used in stimulating the ability of children, especially the ability to read early children is to use a family-based environmental Print model. This model is one of the simulation models by engineered the environment around the house by expanding the patch of the writings by observing the children's favorite places and favorites.Keywords: Environmental Print, Family, Solutions, Stimulation, Early Reading, Pandemic Era