Village Project as the Implementation of the Program of Freedom to Learn-Independent Campus (Merdeka Belajar-Kampus Merdeka) in Geography Education Program

ABSTRACT: The village project is one part of the Thematic Community Service Program of Freedom to Learn-Independent Campus program or in Bahasa Indonesia called as Merdeka Belajar – Kampus Merdeka (MBKM) which is a form of education by providing students with experience to live in a society in outside the university, by which with the community can identify potentials of the problems and solve it together. With this activity, students are expected to be able to develop the potential of the village/district and provide solutions to the problems that exist in the that area. This type of research is qualitative research, with data collection methods with observation and documentation. This research was conducted in three villages in West Sumatra, namely Nagari Mandeh, Nagari Manggopoh and Nagari Sungai Pua. In this program, there are seven stages of activities carried out, namely student socialization, technical focus group discussion (FGD), student debriefing, socialization in the village, Geographic Information System (GIS) training, and Web GIS training in Nagari Mandeh, Nagari Manggopoh, and Nagari Sungai Pua. The activity focused on two important programs, namely GIS training and village website training. The results of this program are village maps and websites, there are thirteen (13) physical maps of the area and twelve (12) regional social maps and digital data collection, the results of which are then converted into the equivalent of 10 courses converted for a total of 20 credits

Mapping of Landslide Hazard Distribution in Alo Watershed Gorontalo Regency

Landslide occurrence can be influenced by physical factors and human activities. Thus, research related to the provision of information about landslide distribution in Alo watershed is needed as a basis in enhancing community preparedness in dealing with disasters. The method used in this study is the scoring method based on the Minister of Public Works Regulation No.22 / PRT / M / 2017 which is processed through a geographical information system through the overlay of all physical parameters. The result shows that the Alo watershed area is divided into three vulnerability categories. "Low" category covers 7171.8 ha, "medium" category covers 12008.7 ha, and "high" category covers 5039.5 ha out of 24.221 ha the total area of Alo watershed. Information provided in this research is expected to be able to help the local government in making policies in managing the Alo watershed area and enhancing the understanding of the local community in Alo watershed in dealing with disasters

Interactions between neighborhood social environment and walkability to explain Belgian older adults' physical activity and sedentary time

This study examined associations between neighborhood social factors and physical activity (PA) and sedentary behavior (SB) in older adults. Furthermore, possible moderating effects of neighborhood walkability were explored. Data from 431 community-dwelling Belgian older adults (>= 65 years) were analyzed. Neighborhood social factors included measures of neighboring, social trust and cohesion and social diversity. Neighborhood walkability was measured objectively. Outcome measures were self-reported weekly minutes of domain-specific walking and TV viewing, and accelerometer-assessed weekly minutes of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and overall SB. A higher frequency of talking to neighbors was associated with higher levels of self-reported walking for transport and for recreation. Moderation analyses showed that only in highly-walkable neighborhoods, higher social diversity of the neighborhood environment was associated with more transport walking; and talking to neighbors and social interactions among neighbors were negatively associated with overall SB and television viewing, respectively. Findings suggest that a combination of a favorable neighborhood social and physical environment are important to promote older adults' PA and limit SB

Searching for the Best Neighborhood: Mobility and Social Interactions

The paper seeks to contribute to the social interactions literature by exploiting data on individual's self- selection into neighborhoods. We study a model in which households search for the best location in the presence of neighborhood effects in the formation of children's human capital and in the process of cultural transmission. We use micro data from the PSID which we have merged, using geocodes, with contextual information at the leves of census tracts and of counties from the 2000 US Census. We control for numerous individual characteristics and neighborhood attributes and find, consistently with neighborhood effects models, that households with children, but not those without, are more likely to move out of neighborhoods whose attributes are not favorable to the productin of human capital and the transmission of parents' cultural traits, and to move into neighborhoods which instead exhibit desireable such attributes.

Searching for the Best Neighborhood: Mobility and Social Interactions

The paper seeks to contribute to the social interactions literature by exploiting data on individuals’ self-selection into neighborhoods. We study a model in which households search for the best location in the presence of neighborhood effects in the formation of children’s human capital and in the process of cultural transmission. We use micro data from the PSID which we have merged, using geocodes, with contextual information at the levels of census tracts and of counties from the 2000 US Census. We control for numerous individual characteristics and neighborhood attributes and find, consistently with neighbourhood effects models, that households with children, but not those without, are more likely to move out of neighborhoods whose attributes are not favorable to the production of human capital and the transmission of parents’ cultural traits, and to move into neighborhoods which instead exhibit desirable such attributes.

A cross-cultural study of suicide in twenty-three pre-literate societies

Thesis (M.S.)--Boston Universit

Modeling Location Choice of Secondary Activities with a Social Network of Cooperative Agents

Activity-based models in transportation science focus on the description of human trips and activities. Modeling the spatial decision for so-called secondary activities is addressed in this paper. Given both home and work locations, where do individuals perform activities such as shopping and leisure? Simulation of these decisions using random utility models requires a full enumeration of possible outcomes. For large data sets, it becomes computationally unfeasible because of the combinatorial complexity. To overcome that limitation, a model is proposed in which agents have limited, accurate information about a small subset of the overall spatial environment. Agents are interconnected by a social network through which they can exchange information. This approach has several advantages compared with the explicit simulation of a standard random utility model: (a) it computes plausible choice sets in reasonable computing times, (b) it can be extended easily to integrate further empirical evidence about travel behavior, and (c) it provides a useful framework to study the propagation of any newly available information. This paper emphasizes the computational efficiency of the approach for real-world examples