Centralizing environmental datasets to support (inter)national chronic disease research

International Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Research

The effects of osmotic and matric water potential on mycelial growth, production and germination of conidia, and production and maturation of pseudothecia of Pyrenophora triticirepentis (PTR), the cause of tan spot of wheat, were examined on clarified V8 juice agar amended with KCl or polyethylene glycol 8000 (PEG8000). Patterns of the growth responses of three isolates to decreasing osmotic an...

International Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Research

A total of 44 mature chickens (about 50 weeks old) males and females inbred naked necked and Frizzle Feathered chickens were crossed to generate a total of 180 day-old(97 Na x Na and 83 F x F chicks) realized from main and reciprocal crossbreeding were used in the study. Mean dayold weights of the Inbreds( Main crossbreds) were 22.17g, 23.87g, 25.50g for (Na x Na), (F x F) and (Na x F) respecti...

Using Telephone Support to Manage Chronic Disease

Applying Support Vector Machines to Imbalanced Datasets

Support Vector Machines (SVM) have been extensively studied and have shown remarkable success in many applications. However the success of SVM is very limited when it is applied to the problem of learning from imbalanced datasets in which negative instances heavily outnumber the positive instances (e.g. in gene profiling and detecting credit card fraud). This paper discusses the factors behind ...

Evidence-based selection of environmental factors and datasets for measuring multiple environmental deprivation in epidemiological research

This Environment and Human Health project aims to develop a health-based summary measure of multiple physical environmental deprivation for the UK, akin to the measures of multiple socioeconomic deprivation that are widely used in epidemiology. Here we describe the first stage of the project, in which we aimed to identify health-relevant dimensions of physical environmental deprivation and acqu...