Rural and urban areas: comparing lives using rural/urban classifications

Comparing urban and rural physicians.

Road Extraction in Rural and Urban Areas

An approach for automatic road extraction from digital aerial imagery is presented. The extraction is based on a semantic model for roads. The images are divided into different so-called “global contexts”: rural, forest, and urban. Different parts of the road model and different strategies are used in the different global contexts. In rural areas, a multi-scale approach is employed to find init...

Childhood Asthma in Rural-Urban Areas

Electricity Consumption in Rural vs . Urban Areas

Average Winter electricity consumption for rural residents in Utah is significantly greater than for those living in urban areas. Based on data from a 1980 survey of Utah residents, this rural-urban consumption differential was investigated using multiple regression analysis. It was determined that the stock of electricity-using devices, climate, and demographic characteristics were the most im...

Distribution of Typhoid fever in different rural and urban areas

Typhoid, a common worldwide bacterial disease which is spread through contaminated food and water that causes septicemia, a causes liver inflammation. Typhoid fever is an infection that causes clinical symptoms of fever, abdominal pain, body rashes, terry stool, weakness, poor appetite, headaches, generalized aches and pains, and lethargy etc [1].It is caused by Salmonellae typhi, Enterobacteri...