For the purpose of activity-based travel demand forecasting, the representativeness of the base year synthetic population is critical to the accuracy of subsequent simulation outcomes. To date, the conventional approach for synthesizing the base year population is based on the methodology first developed by Beckman et al. (1996). In this paper, we discuss two issues associated with this convent...

Blogs, regularly updated online journals, allow people to quickly and easily create and share online content. Most bloggers write about their everyday lives and generally have a small audience of regular readers. Readers interact with bloggers by contributing comments in response to specific blog posts. Moreover, readers of blogs are often bloggers themselves and acknowledge their favorite blog...

1 City of Hope Medical Center, Duarte, CA, 2 BC Cancer Agency, Vancouver, BC, 3 Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA, 4 Medical College of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, 5 Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, 6 Univ.of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, TX, 7 Singapore National Cancer Center, 8 Univ. of New Mexico Cancer Ctr, Albuquerque, NM, 9 Dana Farber Cancer Center, Boston, MA, 10 Sidney Kimmel...

1Department of Chemical and Material Engineering, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology, 123 University Road, Section 3, Douliou, Yunlin 64002, Taiwan 2Department of Pharmacology and Neuroscience, University of North Texas Health Science Center, Fort Worth, TX 76107, USA 3Department of Medical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, KaohsiungMedical University, 100 Shi-Chuan 1st Road,...

BACKGROUND Primary care research has recently garnered greater attention at the national level. Yet, primary care (i.e., family medicine, internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics and gynecology) departments within academic institutions struggle to develop and sustain strong research frameworks. METHODS This paper discusses a successful model that was developed in the department of family...

A city and its transportation network are both complicated systems. Fractal geometry provides an effective way to describe the complex property of geographical features. This paper uses a modified box-counting method to describe the fractal property of urban transportation networks. Assuming that human settlements of different sizes are all operated by the same growth procedure, this paper inve...

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