Lifestyle Of Citizens Research Articles

Exploring the role of the Internet of Things in green buildings

AbstractThe global energy crisis has been one of the significant challenges for decades, threatening the global economy, and the health of our environment. The government's efforts to enhance the welfare and lifestyle of citizens have been partially undermined by a significant rise in energy intensity, resulting in increased energy consumption. Over the years, researchers have utilized historical energy consumption data to enhance energy efficiency through various technologies. Innovative smart technologies drive energy efficiency, reducing energy usage throughout all areas of the energy industry, from production and supply to consumption. This creates a balance in all sectors and indicates a decrease in energy demand in all areas of building infrastructure. Green buildings that utilize Internet of Things (IoT) technology employ sensors and software to collect data, optimizing, and enhancing building performance. This includes reducing energy and electricity consumption, improving air quality, and optimizing lighting throughout the day. These buildings can contribute to reaching zero‐energy building targets. It becomes challenging to manage green buildings without using centralized control. Therefore, managing and integrating these buildings with intelligent technologies is vital in achieving environmentally friendly management. This study offers a broad overview of the green building concept and explores the use of the green IoT in enhancing services and conserving energy within green buildings. The article aims to deliver an extensive review of green buildings and their advantages, analyze the technology behind the IoT and its integration with solar panels to lower energy consumption, and ultimately identify the challenges present in this area of research.

МЕРЫ ПОДДЕРЖКИ СЕМЕЙ И ЗДОРОВЬЕСБЕРЕЖЕНИЯ НАСЕЛЕНИЯ КАК ОСНОВА РАЗВИТИЯ ДЕМОГРАФИЧЕСКОЙ ПОЛИТИКИ РЕГИОНА

The development of health-saving technologies, along with tools to stimulate the birth rate and other measures to support families, today are the most important components of the demographic policy of the country and regions of Russia. Demographic problems associated with the deterioration of natural growth rates and the level of population health due to the influence of viral and other threats of increased morbidity in the population today have a negative impact on ensuring socio-economic security. Demographic and other social threats are intensifying under the negative influence of external geopolitical and environmental factors and the lifestyle of citizens. The search for effective measures to support young families, directions for the development of health-saving technologies for citizens of various categories determines the relevance of the research within the framework of this article. Statistical data on the development of the demographic situation and the spread of morbidity in Russia, the Volga Federal District and the Kirov Region are presented. Guidelines for the development of measures of state support for families and technologies for protecting the health of the population have been identified, which can serve as elements of a strategy for socio-economic development and increasing the demographic potential of Russian regions.

Transformation of the system of value preferences in the conditions of the urban environment

The article deals with the topical issue of the influence of the metropolis and its socio-cultural space on the outlook, values and lifestyle of citizens, analyzes the transformation of value preferences of society throughout the history of the urban process. The authors analyze the cultural processes associated with the development of the urban environment, which contributed to the change of value preferences and the cultural appearance of the city, and the reverse influence of new cultural and moral aspirations on the development of the urban environment. Carrying out the idea of the mutual influence of the urban environment and the value system, the authors emphasize that the result of these interrelated processes is a special socio-cultural space with intellectual, linguistic, moral, ethical, communicative and other characteristics. It shows the aggravation of contradictions in the development of cities, the insolubility of some problems in a particular historical period. The authors describe in terms of “cultural proportionality” and “cultural centrality” the realities of the emerging type of society and the urban environment, which are characterized by changes in the degree of mutual influence and the system of moral priorities. In the article, the negative consequences of the development of the metropolis are also determined along with the positive side of the development of the urban environment. The authors focus on socio-cultural transformations in the conditions of a megalopolis that affect the manifestation of the crisis of spiritual culture, and emphasize the need to harmonize traditional values and modern moral innovations in order to prevent the deformation of the spiritual potential of the population of cities and megacities.

Development of Public Spaces: the Impact of Metro Stations Construction on the Formation of the Structure of the Adjacent Territory

The article aims to study the development potential of local urban centers around the rapid transit system with due regard to the historical traditions of urban development and modern urban planning principles. To attain this end, the authors use a set of methods, including site analysis, data collection, classification, and project proposal development. The paper presents the tradition of forming a peripheral public space within the historical boundaries of the city. It is demonstrated that the current development of local public spaces based on peripheral rapid transit stations can be considered a continuation of this tradition at a new historical and technological stage. The authors select metro stations suitable for the formation of local urban centers. To determine the possibility of placing a public space in the vicinity of metro stations, calculations are made for territories included in forty-three metro zones of the peripheral part of the city and thirteen zones of the middle part of the city. Based on a group of indicators for the selected stations, the authors conduct an analysis and compile a table that characterizes the territories near each rapid transit station. As a result, the density and floor space index, passenger traffic per day, and the balance of the adjacent territory for each station were determined. There are draft projects for the development of territories, layouts, and visualizations of the proposed options for building open public spaces. The authors consider scenarios for the placement and transformation of public centers near metro stations. The study reveals how the construction of each metro station affects the adjacent territory. It is worth mentioning that new stations affect not only the lifestyle of citizens, with improved transport accessibility, the status of the territory increases, new centers of social activity, and new public spaces emerge.

COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on the mental health among the Tunisian general population: Associated factors mining via machine learning

The emergence of COVID-19 pandemic has caused a brutal change in the lifestyle of citizens all around the world and greatly affected the mental health of individuals. In Tunisia, many psychological problems have been triggered during the first peak of the pandemic like anxiety, depression, sleep disturbances, and suicide risk. To overcome such disorders, it is crucial to identify the main factors leading to the mental disorders and then develop preventive strategies if a novel form of pandemic or a traumatic event appears. This paper proposes a novel association rules-based approach to characterize the profiles of citizens highly vulnerable to psychological disorders when confronted to traumatic events. The aim of this work is to use machine learning techniques in order to identify the major factors as well as the clusters of features leading to several psychiatric disorders during the COVID-19 pandemic in Tunisia. Many stressors were found to be associated with some psychiatric disorders. The stronger associations were found between doctor consultation and anxiety, COVID test and depression, quarantine and insomnia, and direct contact with a suspected case and peritraumatic distress and dissociation. In addition, it has been found that some factors, like female gender and regular worker, are not leading to mental disorders when they are treated alone, however, they present a high influence on the mental health when they are associated with other factors. For instance, this work discovered that women who have psychiatric history and who always drink coffee are exposed to depression during the pandemic. Other profile of citizens who are highly vulnerable to peritraumatic dissociation concerns students who are confined and who have recent symptoms. The characterization of such vulnerable profiles can provide considerable decision support for medical staff.

Трансформация системы ценностных предпочтений в условиях городской среды (мегаполиса)

The article deals with the topical issue of the influence of the metropolis and its socio-cultural space on the outlook, values and lifestyle of citizens. The article is devoted to the analysis of the transformation of value preferences of society throughout the history of the urban process. Cultural processes related to the development of the urban environment, which contributed to the change of value preferences and the cultural appearance of the city, and the reverse influence of new cultural and moral aspirations on the development of the urban environment are considered. The article emphasizes the idea of the mutual influence of the urban environment and the value system, and a special socio-cultural space with intellectual, linguistic, moral, ethical, communicative and other characteristics is considered as a result of these interrelated processes. It shows the aggravation of contradictions in the development of cities, in particular the city and the polis in the ancient world, the insolubility of some problems in a particular historical period. The authors describe in terms of “cultural proportionality” and “cultural centrality” the realities of the emerging type of society, the urban environment, characterized by changes in the degree of mutual influence of the city and culture, the system of moral priorities. In the article, along with the positive side of the development of the urban environment, the negative consequences of the development of the metropolis are also determined. The authors focus on socio-cultural transformations in the conditions of a megalopolis that affect the manifestation of the crisis of spiritual culture, and emphasize the need to harmonize traditional values and modern moral innovations in order to prevent the deformation of the spiritual potential of the population of cities and megacities.

Developing Strategies to Improve the Urban Environmental Structure Resiliency During and After Corona Pandemic: A Literature Review

Purpose of ReviewThe objective of this study is to review the literature on the role of urban environmental structures and to develop proper strategies to strengthen their resilience so that the management performance of the Corona disease can be enhanced.Recent FindingsCities have been severely affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. Changes in the lifestyle of citizens during the pandemic have led urban planners to the realization that the current structure and function of cities do not meet the needs of citizens. Hence, the structure of urban landscape must be transformed so that cities become livable ecosystems for citizens and the urban environment becomes resilient to all kinds of crises. As a result, considering the new standards of life during the pandemic, the question of what changes to the urban planning and design are required to make cities viable and resilient systems arises. Since the year 2020, much research has been published on the impact of Coronavirus on the lifestyle of citizens and the urban environment. These impacts have positively or negatively affected the structure and function of cities in a direct or indirect manner. Similar to all the related studies, the necessity of making changes to the planning and design of urban landscapes has been emphasized here.SummaryThe present study reviews the literature on the effect of the structure of the urban environment on the corona pandemic management. The objective is to develop proper strategies for planning and designing resilient urban landscapes. It is emphasized that in order to realize the dream of resilient cities during and after the pandemic, the need to develop an interconnected network of green and open urban patches, green transportation system, green neighborhoods, and green residential buildings should be met so that urban resilience and livability can be achieved at a higher level.

Waste management model for COVID-19: recommendations for future threats.

The change in habits and lifestyle of citizens during health crisis like COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented increase in the struggles for solid waste management across the globe. Not only underdeveloped and developing economies are struggling with the challenges posed by mounting piles of infectious waste but even developed countries are adversely affected in similar manner. The routine waste management strategies followed by various countries are overturned due extremely altered trends in the amount and type of waste generated by households and medical facilities. The aim of this paper is to study and list the best available waste management policies adopted by some developing, developed and underdeveloped economies. The listed case studies were selected due to some unique steps undertaken for solid waste disposal during pandemic. The findings revealed that the guidelines issued by WHO for waste management of corona virus infected waste were followed by these nations and certain additional preventive steps were taken. Due to unavailability of single framework as prescribed by international authorities, various sustainable steps taken by individual countries to curb the pandemic menace can be useful in the present context. Few of these measures can be permanently adopted at global level by other nations for handling the pandemic like situations efficiently in pandemic situations.

The Centre and Periphery: The Role of City Embankments and Youth Practices

The article focuses on city embankments as social and spatial developments, which are an essential attribute of the city and an integral element in the lifestyle of citizens. As a contact point between the city and the water, embankments act as public spaces that exercise a wide range of functions. They also become points of attraction for various social groups, including young people. In the study conducted in autumn of 2021, we focused on the embankments of a large industrial city (Yekaterinburg, Russia). The “centre-periphery” vector was used as the basis for the typology of embankments, and the value young people attach to embankments has been determined. Using the methods of observation and interviews (n = 16), it was found that the leading functions of the central embankments in the views of city youth are communicative, aesthetic, integrative, leisure, including flânerie, cognitive, transit, self-awareness, security, and identity assertion. Peripheral embankments structure the city space, develop neighbourhood identity and support the function of spending free time. At the same time, undeveloped areas of the periphery are being marginalised and become dangerous. The article argues for the need to develop peripheral embankments through well-maintained footpaths, access to water, leisure and recreational infrastructure, creating comfortable living conditions for the “appropriation” of embankments and their social production through the actions and interactions of different groups of citizens, including young people.

The Genesis of Corruption—the Dominant Features of Contemporary Societies of the Colonial Past Inheritance

One of the most significant characteristics of the contemporary society is the continuous and an intense social change. This continuous social change initiates a special subject of research into social practice, which envisages in social innovations, influencing to change the life style of citizens of a society. Social innovations are encouraged through the interaction of the institutional networks and individuals and changes can be visible in practice, processes, business models, and organizational forms, all in order to respond to a social problem. In addition to historical and political conditions, social innovations are also determined through cultural patterns, in a manner that not every social innovation will aim to develop potential and seek to answers to social problems. In contemporary societies of the 21st century with a colonial past (inheritance), the inherited cultural and historical patterns are just the crucial components which creating social problems, by developing organizational models of corruption, as a parallel form of functioning of the rule of law. The institutional practice within the Serbian institutions through a direct research in the form of this paper, considering period from 2009 to 2021, serves to analyze the genesis of the emergence and development of corruption, i.e., an illegal use of the system of positions (status) for the purpose of gaining one's own benefit and collapsing the rule of law. Simultaneously, the paper provides with a hypothetical answer to explain how corruption, as the primary form of a social innovation in the countries of “colonial democracy inheritance”, can potentially suppress.

On the healthy lifestyle of citizens in the context of the use of sugar supplements and their impact on human health

The article examines some aspects of the use of sugar substitutes in food in the context of their impact on the health of citizens. Given that food additives, and especially sugar substitutes, have become an integral part of most foods, the question arises as to their impact on the health of consumers of these foods. Literature data and interviews of specialists in the field of production and use of food additives were studied.
 Classifications of food additives provided by the legislation of Ukraine in the context of their influence on physicochemical, organoleptic properties, shelf life and other qualitative characteristics of food products are carried out. Particular attention is paid to the possible harmful effects of sugar supplements on human health. Of these series, dyes that should be avoided for use by children are singled out.
 The conclusion and recommendations on the adequate use of food additives-sugar substitutes in food in order to prevent their harmful effects on the health of citizens of Ukraine.

What lessons can Africa learn from the social determinants of COVID-19 spread, to better prepare for the current and future pandemics in the continent?

This paper examines the determinants of the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) in Africa, based on the framework of social determinants of health. Applying Poisson Pseudo Maximum Likelihood (PPML) and quantile regressions to panel data and country‐specific socioeconomic background data from 53 African countries, the study finds that enhancing capacity for early testing helps for timeous uncovering of cases, early isolation and contact tracing for effective control of the spread. Other factors such as managing of international movements through reduction of international exposure and ensuring better sanitation and hygiene were found to be relevant in diminishing COVID‐19 spread, whereas alcohol consumption and population density heighten the spread. The work also highlights that stringent measures will be counter‐productive unless they are coupled with measures to create and preserve livelihoods, together with humanitarian relief assistance to the poorest segments of the population. The results are robust to alternative techniques. As policy recommendations, we implore African governments to the promotion of sustainable livelihoods and social safety nets as measures to accompany stringent lockdowns; and good sanitation programmes to become a lifestyle of citizens. Careful attention should be paid to the socioeconomic trade‐off in respect of international travel restrictions given the high dependence of most African economies on tourism.

The Impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on climate change and air quality: four country case studies

Non-technical summaryTo decrease the negative impacts of the coronavirus outbreak on human health, governments have implemented wide-ranging control measures. Moreover, they were urged to tackle a new challenge in energy policies to supply a new form of demand derived from new lifestyles of citizens and different energy consumption patterns. This article investigates the impacts of these changes on climate change and human health (due to air pollution) as a challenge for both citizens and governments in four countries: Colombia, France, the Netherlands, and Portugal.Technical summaryThe emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has been associated with global challenges in both energy supply and demand. Numerous articles have discussed the potential benefits of COVID-19 for our planet to mitigate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and air pollutants. By bringing the emissions from the energy production together with the air quality indicators, this article studies the impact on climate change and human health due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and the consequent changes in energy policies of governments as well as lifestyles in different societies. This study shows that in spite of having a reduction, the GHG emissions might go back to previous or higher levels if governments do not see this pandemic as an opportunity to promote the use of renewable energies, which are becoming cheaper than non-renewables. Additionally, lower energy demand and less anthropogenic activities do not necessarily result in lower GHG emissions from energy production. Our results highlight the need for revising the policies and decisions of both governments and citizens, as temporary reductions in the levels of energy demand and air pollutants can easily be counterbalanced by adverse effects, known as the ‘rebound effect.’Social media summaryHow did the changes in energy consumption and production due to COVID-19 affect climate change and human health in different countries?

Design a solar power air conditioning system for the engineering building at Mutah University

Jordan like the other non-oil countries, spend significant amount of its budget on importing foreign energy. Also, the power demand increases due to, the population growth, in addition to hosting high number of refugees, from neighboring countries, and the enhancement of the citizen life style. The objective of this study, is to define the cooling load requirement, for the engineering building, at Mutah University, in order to analyze suitable cooling system, to cater the required cooling load. Energy analysis carried out, using the climate variables tabulated data, and Cooling Load Temperature Difference (CLTD), and Cooling Load Factor (CLF). The required power, to drive the cooling system was defined. Climate data shows that the average temperature was 33.2 °C, 32 °C and 33.3 °C in 2015, 2016 and 2017, respectively. The maximum temperatures was 38 °C registered in 2015. In this study the implementation of renewable energy, was considered by analyzing the viability of using, photovoltaic system, to provide power for the cooling system. Two options, to provide power for the system analyzed, the first option is supply the power from the grid, and the second option is, to supply the required power using photovoltaic power plant. The results show that, the cooling load of the building is 560 kW, and the required electrical power, to operate the cooling system is 224 kW electrical power. In addition, the results show that, the cost of power from PV system is, 40 % less than the cost of power from grid for the first 10 years. In addition, the payback period for the designed system is 5 years.

The trend of urban environment quality as an importaut factorof migration processes

Improving the quality of the urban environment allows the government to influence on large number of citizens, including changing their migration preferences. Urban development can offer a large amount of patriotism. The successes of socio-economic development of cities are confirmed by practice when the planned activities are fully implemented. At the same time, the goals are to consolidate the indigenous population of cities, to attract high-quality specialists from other cities with favorable living conditions. Such internal migration processes can be both permanent and temporary-all of them are aimed at creating socially necessary products. If such trends are supplemented by high wages in high-tech industries that implement advanced technologies, the influx of the required number of highly qualified specialists becomes very likely. Improvement of the quality of the urban environment and its ecological condition on high level is now a state-supported priority. It meets the criteria of social justice, focuses on a more active lifestyle of citizens, which has a positive impact on the health of the population. In addition, the health-improving effect of favorable living conditions is felt on a subconscious level, positively charging people with new energy, improving their mood and maintains their tone on a high emotional level. Improving the comfort of the living environment in addition to improved housing conditions provides for the improvement of infrastructure, a significant transformation of the surrounding landscaped areas, as well as socially significant public urban spaces that harmoniously complement the natural resource potential of settlements. All this in a complex influences on the positive public mood of society and helps to increase the competitive advantages of specific cities in the fight for human capital, affecting also the migration preferences of modern people.

Nature-inspired algorithm-based secure data dissemination framework for smart city networks

Unceasing population growth and urbanization have intensified the traditional systems to deal with citizen lifestyle, environment, economic issues and good governess. New communication technologies have played a vital role in changes traditional urbanization into a smarter and comfort zone for the citizen. Due to various systems and integration of several new standards and systems, the smart cities have suffered from various open challenges related to technologies, system controlling and management, scalability and security concerns. The new concepts of nature-inspired solutions have implemented to deal with smart cities’ challenges by more optimization and performance-oriented methods. Therefore, this paper aims to handle at least three areas of smart cities including smart mobility, smart living and security provision by developing three nature-inspired solutions. The three proposed solutions are dragon clustering mobility in IoV, moth flame electric management for smart living and ant colony-based intrusion detection system for security provision. These solutions are based on a dragonfly, moth flame and ant colony optimization techniques. The proposed solutions are evaluated in a simulation to check the performance. These solutions will help new researchers to explore the nature-inspired solutions to tackle the new and complex systems of smart cities.

Measuring Well-Being in Italian (Eco)regions

The scientific community has been studying for some time a measure capable of quantifying and monitoring the well-being of the population in the territories; this measure cannot be represented exclusively by economic components but also by dimensions that represent different domains of a mainly demographic-social nature. This paper aims to consider well-being from a multidimensional point of view and measure it for the 7983 Italian municipalities in order to highlight differences and similarities. To go down to such a fine territorial detail, it was necessary to use indicators implemented by administrative sources collected in a recently published portal. The application of composite indices allows a one-dimensional measurement that makes a complex phenomenon such as well-being more readable. From a territorial point of view, moreover, the work aims to overcome the administrative division already criticized in literature because it does not allow a reading corresponding to the real behaviors and lifestyles of citizens, embracing a classification more appropriate to the objective of the study. Since the elementary indicators taken into consideration are in some way influenced by reasons of proximity and/or territorial conformation, it was decided to use the classification in Ecoregions of Italy to assess whether the well-being, within the same municipality, “moves” in relation to the municipalities ecologically homogeneous. The results of the analyses present numerous aspects of originality in which the Ecoregions draw an interesting geography of the country.

Clothing, Food and Dwelling – Western Views of Korean Life in the Early Nineteenth Century

Despite Chosŏn Korea having been nicknamed the ‘Hermit Kingdom’ by the American William Elliot Griffis in 1882, Englishmen had already been there in the early half of the nineteenth century. This paper considers three journeys by westerners to the Korean peninsula in 1816, 1832 and 1845, utilizing these explorers’ travel diaries to analyze lifestyles in Chosŏn, including clothing, food, and dwelling style. The paper considers westerners’ lively views on the lifestyles of citizens of Chosŏn. Although these narratives from westerners on Chosŏn are tinged with orientalism or racist bias, they still have a great deal of value for historians today who seek to understand everyday life and the social structure of nineteenth-century Chosŏn. This paper sheds light on these useful historical perspectives for the observation of Chosŏn lifestyles in contrast to the high politics of the court, or great power rivalries in East Asia.

Program of integrated development of transport infrastructure of Tyumen

The article discusses the feasibility of the development of urban transport and technological systems through the development of Programs for the integrated development of transport infrastructure (PIDTI). PIDTI, being one of the many regulatory documents for urban development, is intended to create some kind of a planned basis for this development. The problem is that during the development and subsequent practical implementation of this strategic document, trends in changes in the lifestyle of citizens, potential ways of their livelihoods, financial and economic support, and just the stylistic features of public and private life are not taken into account. PIDTI developers often assume that in 20 years, the life of the city will be exactly the same as today, only all of its characteristics will increase quantitatively by 20-150% (depending on the strategy option). The works of such serious researchers as S.B. Pereslegin refutes this opinion. The experience of automobilization of Russian cities also speaks about this. Today, PIDTI performs the function of the ITS General Plans of cities of the Soviet period. In this regard, the issue of the ability of PIDTI to solve the problems of the functioning of a city as a living social and technological organism in future periods becomes very serious. The article discusses this issue at the intersection of the opinions of professionals and city residents.

Відображення єврейських хронотопів: роман А. Аппельфельда «Могутні води» і робота А. Д. Гордона «Людина і Природа»

The paper "Reflection of Jewish Chronotops: the Novel by A. Appelfeld "Mighty Waters" versus the work "The Man and the Nature" by A.D. Gordon" compares between the novel and the philosophic work. In "The Man and the Nature", the popular ideological leader of Zionist movement Aharon David Gordon (1863–1922) developed his mystical concept of "natural man" and tried to inspire the Zionist pioneers in the Land of Israel to devote their lives and work to farming as a way to connect with nature and to communicate with God through intuition and silence. The novel "Mighty Waters" was published in 2011 by the well-known Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld (1932–2018) three decades after Israeli literature switched to postzionism. This article argues that the main character of the novel, a Jewish farmer who lives near the Carpathian Mountains, is a personification of Gordon's ideal and views Appelfeld's novel as a parable that proclaims the traditional Jewish modus vivendi and the importance of Zionism in the 21th century.Both texts are common in ideas and word definitions. Gordon tells about the Juwish loner while the novel shows to readers that such untypical for Juwish mentality existence beyond society is doomed. The researcher proves, that the author of the "Mighty Water' wants the Juwes to be turned back to modus vivendi that have been developed during the Juwish exile. The Juwes for hundred years have been the nation of intellectuals and merchants and still remain them, that have shaped their life style of citizens. So the idea to recalibrate it in separated from the Book and book culture peasant leaving is stillborn.The paper is supplied by the author’s translation of the first paragraph A. Gordon’s work "The Man and the Nature''. Thus, the national chronotop is an important instrument of literary studies, that is able to connect texts of different types and times in order to build a single holistic ideal.