Nonfarm activities play an important role in the determination of rural household income, consumption expenditure, and household food security. However, much less studies have been devoted to the factors that influence nonfarm income diversification by farm household in developing countries. Using cross-sectional data and a probit model, this study attempts to determine the factors influencing ...

Pedestrian and bicyclist fatalities account for approximately 21% and 8% of all road fatalities in the EU, respectively. The objective was to describe the characteristics of fatal crashes with pedestrians and bicyclists on Swedish rural roads and to investigate the potential of different infrastructure and vehicle interventions to prevent them. The Swedish Transport Administration (STA) in-dept...

Road extraction from high resolution remote sensing imagery is very important for many applications such as GIS data updating, transportation management and city planning. In this paper we propose a semi-automatic multi-stage method to extract roads from high resolution remote sensing imagery based on multi-features. The proposed method contains two main steps, i.e. segmenting original image wi...

As known, to finish this book, you may not need to get it at once in a day. Doing the activities along the day may make you feel so bored. If you try to force reading, you may prefer to do other entertaining activities. But, one of concepts we want you to have this book is that it will not make you feel bored. Feeling bored when reading will be only unless you don't like the book. the rural hos...

Destructive fires in Amazonia have occurred in the past decade, leading to forest degradation, carbon emissions, impaired air quality, and property damage. Here, we couple climate, geospatial, and province-level census data, with farmer surveys to examine the climatic, demographic, and land use factors associated with fire frequency in the Peruvian Amazon from 2000 to 2010. Although our results...

Abstract Rural roads are the backbone to any country and is always a key for sustainable development. often considered as an entry point poverty alleviation employment generation. Connectivity achieved in different levels of hierarchy through traditional hierarchical structure – National Highways, State Major District Roads, Other Village achieving long term objective adequate road communicatio...

The scope of problems concerning head injuries was investigated among rural patients, compared to urban population, from the aspect of their incidence in both populations, as well as an attempt to perform a multi-variable analysis of socio-demographic and geographical risk factors for each of the analysed traits concerning the injury. The study group were patients treated in the Multi-Organ Inj...

The verification of existing data is an important task in order to ensure a high level of data quality in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Today this work is carried out mostly manually by an operator, who compares vector data from databases with remotely sensed imagery. In this paper we present a system for automated road data verification using digital image processing for the extraction...

BACKGROUND Many studies indicate rural location as a separate risk for dying from injuries. For decades, Finnmark, the northernmost and most rural county in Norway, has topped the injury mortality statistics in Norway. The present study is an exploration of the impact of rurality, using a point-by-point comparison to another Norwegian county. METHODS We identified all fatalities following inj...