How Urban Residents Use Block Parks? : Report of Observation Surveys in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture
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Abstract
This paper aims to clarify the roles and significance of urban parks for residents who use them in their daily life.Generally, urban parks are planned to provide people open space with natural atmosphere and greens in urbanized areas.Among urban parks managed by municipal governments, block parks are the smallest type and placed most abundantly.In this study, observation surveys in daytime in Sabae City, Fukui Prefecture, were conducted to know why people come to or what people do in block parks from September to December of 1998.The selected three block parks are located in residential, commercial, and industrial zones.The collected data make clear the following evidence : (1) the numbers of daytime users depend on the location of block parks.Many people cross the block parks in commercial zones, while a few people come to the block parks in industrial zones and spend time there.(2) Many female users appear in block parks at weekdays, while more male do at weekends.(3) Purposes of usage changes with time from early morning to evening.The frequency of usage purpose depends on users' generation and gender, weekdays or weekends, location of block parks, and extents of block parks.For example, "adult women cross block parks in daytime of weekdays," "infant and small children play with their parent or grandparent at weekday mornings," "pupils play after school," "aged persons gather to take exercise at a relatively big block park in early morning of weekends," and so on.However, young people like to stay away of block parks.(4) The majority of users stay in block parks only in three minutes or less, whereas the others stay there for a while but mostly shorter than thirty minutes.(5) Many users play, enjoy strolling, or walk with their dogs, family members, or friends in block parks.On the other hand, individual users without companions take rest or walk there.Residents enjoy block parks in various ways in different occasions irrespectively of their generations.Block parks are one of familiar open space for urban residents.However, block parks will be required to be improved for disabled persons to easily access and to stay.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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