background: road traffic accident is a worldwide public health issue that has its highest impact on low and middle income countries including malaysia. many previous studies concerned on the causality of the actual accidents and little attention were given to near miss incidents. hence, the current study was designed to determine the prevalence and associated factors for near miss incident amon...

INTRODUCTION Access to radiation therapy (RT) underlies optimal care for prostate and breast cancer patients. This study investigates the impact of opening a new RT clinic on distance and road travel time to RT, and overall utilisation for prostate and breast cancer patients over a 3-year period in North Queensland (NQ), Australia. METHODS The study used retrospective audit of two radiotherap...

Most commonly, case-based reasoning is applied in domains where attribute value representations of cases are su cient to represent the features relevant to support classi cation, diagnosis or design tasks. Distance functions like the Hamming-distance or their transformation into similarity functions are applied to retrieve past cases to be used to generate the solution of an actual problem. Oft...

This study aims to assess landslide susceptibility in Pahne Kola watershed located in the south of Sari, based on bivariate logistic regression. For this purpose, the distribution map of the area’s landslides was firstly prepared in ArcGIS software. Eight effective factors on landslide event including elevation, slope, slope aspect, rainfall, land use, distance from the road, soil and geology w...

Traffic load and transported quantity due to forest management were analysed on the forest roads in the forest district Dragatu{, SE Slovenia. On the basis of timber gravitating to particular sections, the traffic load and transported quantity were calculated for each of seven forest road sections. The cumulative traffic load is the highest on the section connected to the public road and the lo...

BACKGROUND Pedestrian injuries among older people tend to occur near their residence. However, knowledge regarding whether distance travelled from home to the injury site or road environmental/socioeconomic factors affect injury severity remains limited. METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed using injury registry data from the Kurume City Fire Department, Japan. Distance travelled fro...

Greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) are in decline across western North America. Identifi cation of management strategies to enhance populations, such as predator management, may be needed to reduce further declines, but unintentional eff ects associated with increased human activity should also be considered. We evaluated the eff ect of 3 levels of predator management eff ort on gr...