Perspectives on Applied Spatial Analysis to Animal Health

Perspectives on applied spatial analysis to animal health: a case of rodents in Thailand.

Geographic information systems (GIS) and remote sensing have been increasingly used in ecology and epidemiology, providing a spatial approach for animal health issues. Recent development of earth environmental satellites--i.e., their growing number, improving sensor resolutions and capabilities--has offered new opportunities to delineate possible habitats and understand animals and associated p...

Perspectives on Applied Ethics

Ethology applied to animal ethics

According to modern animal welfare legislation, animals should be protected from suffering and lasting harm not for the benefit of us humans as in earlier anthropocentric conceptions, but in their own interest. The driving force behind animal protection is our empathy with animals which triggers feelings of compassion. Empathy with animals most likely is a psychological side-effect of adaptive ...

A spatial analysis of variance applied to soil-water infiltration

A spatial analysis of variance uses the spatial dependence among the observations to modify the usual interference procedures associated with a statistical linear model. When spatial correlation is present, the usual tests for presence of treatment effects may no longer be valid, and erroneous conclusions may result from assuming that the usual F ratios are F distributed. This is demonstrated u...

Quantitative geography: perspectives on spatial data analysis by A

The authors of this text are at the vanguard of progress in quantitative human geography. Their work provides a welcome and refreshing insight into current research. The authors, and their publishers, are to be congratulated on the high quality of this publication: both in terms of textual layout, and the quality of the figures. The book is organised into 10 chapters, of which the first and las...