Essays about: "urban penalty"

Found 5 essays containing the words urban penalty.

  1. 1. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR VERTICAL FARMING – CONTROLLING THE FOOD PRODUCTION

    University essay from Mälardalens högskola/Akademin för innovation, design och teknik

    Author : Rami Abukhader; Samer Kakoore; [2021]
    Keywords : Job-Shop Scheduling; Artificial Intelligence; Genetic Algorithms; Vertical Farming;

    Abstract : The Covid-19 crisis has highlighted the vulnerability of access to food and the need for local and circular food supply chains in urban environments. Nowadays, Indoor Vertical Farming has been increased in large cities and started deploying Artificial Intelligence to control vegetations remotely. READ MORE

  3. 2. Petty Debt: A Comprehensive Examination of Michigan’s Deferred Presentment Industry and Its Growth between 2000-2018

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Kevin Ryan Richardson; [2019]
    Keywords : payday lending; payday lender; deferred presentment; Michigan; economic history; Detroit; recession; fringe banking; overdraft; poverty penalty; working poor; urban; financial services; inequality; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The payday lending industry in Michigan grew rapidly in the first decade of the 2000s, providing high-cost loans to borrowers with a damaged credit history and few other financial options. The typical clientele of payday lenders represents a specific socioeconomic demographic, wherein they are most often the ‘working poor’. READ MORE

  4. 3. Clean water technologies and urban mortality in Sweden 1885-1925

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Martin Önnerfors; [2015]
    Keywords : epidemiology; urban penalty; Sweden; waterborne disease; clean water technology; mortality decline; mortality; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Using a newly digitised historical dataset on clean water technologies in Swedish cities, this study tries to find the causal effect (and the magnitude of this effect) of the introduction of clean water technology on mortality in urban areas. Using urban mortality data on a county level, and clean water access data on city level, both OLS, fixed effects, and difference-in-differences models are tried in order to isolate an effect. READ MORE

  5. 4. The Urban Penalty

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Angeliki Managou; [2014]
    Keywords : Urban mortality; investments; mortality decline; Business and Economics; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The stimulus for this essay was given by the fact that life expectancy in certain countries started to increase long before the development of modern medicine. Having as a principal axis the so called „urban penalty‟, the analysis was limited in two port cities; Glasgow and Malmö. READ MORE

  6. 5. UMTS Positioning Methods and Accuracy in Urban Environments

    University essay from Kommunikations- och transportsystem; Tekniska högskolan

    Author : Yasir Ali Baloch; [2011]
    Keywords : UMTS network; Mobile Positoining; Database Correlation Method; Location Accuracy;

    Abstract : During the 2nd generation Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) mobile communication, the focus of the mobile positioning was mostly on call setup and messaging. But the evolution of the 3rd generation Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA) has changed the focus of mobile positioning. READ MORE