OBJECTIVES To determine whether, and to what extent, a relation exists between neighbourhood design and children's physical activity and sedentary behaviours in Saskatoon. METHODS Three neighbourhood designs were assessed: 1) core neighbourhoods developed before 1930 that follow a grid pattern, 2) fractured-grid pattern neighbourhoods that were developed between the 1930s and mid-1960s, and 3...

Background and aims: The aim of this study was the modeling of the incidence rates of Colorectal, breast and prostate cancers using a shared component model in order to explore the spatial pattern of their shared risk factors (i.e., obesity and low physical activity) affecting on cancer incidence, and also to estimate the relative weight of these shared components. Methods: In this study,...

background breast cancer is still considered as one of the most common female cancers worldwide regardless of the countries’ level of development. this study determines the incidence of breast cancer in fars province, southern iran. methods this study used patients' records from shiraz university of medical sciences cancer registry centre, which is a hospital-based registry of nemazee hosp...

The texture descriptors derived from 1-D DFT (Discrete Fourier Transform) of the pixel values of a local neighbourhood have been shown to perform better than the methods based on wavelets for image retrieval and recognition. These DFT-based texture descriptors were extracted from rectangular or circular neighbourhoods. This paper compares the texture descriptors extracted from rectangular and t...

In this paper, we address the classification of airborne laser scanning data. We present a novel methodology relying on the use of complementary types of geometric features extracted from multiple local neighbourhoods of different scale and type. To demonstrate the performance of our methodology, we present results of a detailed evaluation on a standard benchmark dataset and we show that the co...

This paper considers estimation of disease prevalence for small areas (neighbourhoods) when the available observations on prevalence are for an alternative partition of a region, such as service areas. Interpolation to neighbourhoods uses a kernel method extended to take account of two types of collateral information. The first is morbidity and service use data, such as hospital admissions, obs...

abstract introduction: bladder cancer is the most common tumor of the urinary tract and the ninth cancer in terms of incidence in both sexes in the world. bladder cancer is the second most common cancer in men in iran. this study aimed to investigate the trend of death from bladder cancer in iran.materials and methods: this study was conducted by the use of data on mortality in iran during 2006...

background: considering the importance of updating information about incidence and mortality of common or fatal cancers and the need for studying the effectiveness   of   changes   in   the   iranian   cancer   registration   system   from pathological based to population based since 2007, the aim of this study was to provide updated population based information on incidence and mortality rates...