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Although proponents have emphasized new urbanism’s ability to reduce automobile dependence, increase walking, and improve the health of its residents, there is a paucity of research to support these claims. The authors surveyed residents of 34 neighborhoods in 12 U.S. states to examine whether the travel behavior and physical activity of new urbanist neighborhood residents differed from their conventional suburban counterparts. They used a matched-pair design in which each new urbanist neighborhood was matched with a conventional suburban neighborhood in the same municipality....

To record the methods for environmental measurement used in the Twin Cities Walking Study so that the research team can replicate its own findings at a later date and different measurement staff share common definitions and processes. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are so multifaceted that seemingly simple decisions made at one time have ramifications for future work. Without a formal communications mechanism that makes such decisions explicit and organizes them, errors can be left unrecognized, thereby compounding measurement problems.

We would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the Second International Workshop on Realizing Artificial Intelligence Synergies in Software Engineering (RAISE 2013). We aim to hold an interdisciplinary workshop in which the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Software Engineering is explored and extended. This year we are holding a two-day workshop, with both state of the art and over the horizon submissions.

Problem‐based learning emphasizes the role of problem solving as the main driver of instruction, thus critically relying on the quality of problem collections, which should exercise especially those aspects students find difficult to master. In areas in which extensive and tested problem collections are not available, it is useful to analyze the mistakes of students in previous year’s assignments as a source of evidence for the design of new problems or tutorial resources. This paper reports preliminary results of that approach as applied to heuristic usability evaluation in the context of...