Obesity indices as a risk factor of skin diseases: A Case-control study conducted in Cairo, Egypt

Alazab, Raed; Almohsen, Abdel Raouf M

doi:10.3329/seajph.v5i2.28309

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“…Although with varying magnitude, the planned neighborhoods also suffer from this urban deterioration (Sutton & Fahmi, 2001). For instance, local news reported urban deterioration in high-and middle-income neighborhoods such as Zamalek and Heliopolis (Alazab, 2014;Fayed, 2019;Harby, 2018). These urban problems started initially from the rapid population growth in the city.…”

Section: Urban and Environmental Degradationmentioning

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Local Activism in Urban Neighborhood Governance

Elwageeh

2023

Architecture and the Built Environment

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This study investigates local activism in politically challenging contexts, focusing on Cairo. In such contexts, active resident groups strive for urban improvement, while governance arrangements often disregard citizen involvement in urban and public affairs. Cairo presents an exemplary case of local activism in a politically challenging and under-researched context. The study explores the characteristics, roles, and interrelations of active resident groups with local governance arrangements and their deviations from existing literature. It employs a qualitative methodology with observations and semi-structured interviews with local officials and active residents from nine different districts. The study uses Facebook to select, observe, and analyze the activities of multiple active resident groups and contributes to theoretical frameworks for analyzing local activism in complex contexts. It reveals the dominant and absent roles and the governance dimensions (un)attainable by active residents. It also traces the sources of limited local activism in the existing governance arrangements in Cairo, highlighting the importance and difficulty of changing governance arrangements in Egypt. The study broadens our understanding of local activism in the Global South beyond dominant forms of activism.

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Section: Urban and Environmental Degradationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Local Activism in Urban Neighborhood Governance

Elwageeh

2023

Architecture and the Built Environment

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“…The authors in Reference 5 stated that it is the fourth leading risk factor for people. Also, blood pressure and obesity are quietly closed to physical inactivity 6 . The authors showed that physical fitness can decrease mental disorder, cancer, diabetes, muscle issues, weight issues, emotional issues, and depression as well.…”

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PARCIV: Recognizing physical activities having complex interclass variations using semantic data of smartphone

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Summary Smartphones are equipped with precise hardware sensors including accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer. These devices provide real‐time semantic data that can be used to recognize daily life physical activities for personalized smart health assessment. Existing studies focus on the recognition of simple physical activities but they lacked in providing accurate recognition of physical activities having complex interclass variations. Therefore, this research focuses on the accurate recognition of physical activities having complex interclass variations. We propose a two‐layered approach called PARCIVthat first clusters similar activities based on semantic data and then recognize them using a machine learning classifier. Our two‐layered approach first bounds the highly indistinguishable activities in clusters to avoid misclassification with other distinguishable activities and thereafter recognize them on a fine‐grained level within each cluster. To evaluate our approach, we make an android application that collects labeled data by using smartphone sensors from 10 participants, while performing activities. PARCIV recognizes distinguishable as well as indistinguishable activities with high accuracy of 99% on the self‐collected dataset. Furthermore, PARCIV achieve 95% accuracy on the publicly available dataset used by state‐of‐the‐art studies. PARCIVoutperforms various state‐of‐the‐art studies by 8%‐17% for simple activities as well as complex activities.

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International Journal of Dermatology and Clinical Research

Awad¹

2017

Int J Dermatol Clin Res

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Obesity indices as a risk factor of skin diseases: A Case-control study conducted in Cairo, Egypt

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Local Activism in Urban Neighborhood Governance

Local Activism in Urban Neighborhood Governance

PARCIV: Recognizing physical activities having complex interclass variations using semantic data of smartphone

International Journal of Dermatology and Clinical Research

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