OBJECTIVES To explore patterns of non-communicable diseases (NCDs) in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT).To ascertain the effect of the neighbourhood built environmental features and especially walkability on health outcomes, specifically for hospital admissions from NCDs. DESIGN A cross-sectional analysis of public hospital episode data (2007-2013). SETTING Hospitalisations from the AC...

STUDY OBJECTIVE To examine the association between neighbourhood income inequality and depression, both overall and among those with different levels of income, in the post-disaster context. DESIGN A representative cross sectional random digit dial telephone survey was conducted. SETTING New York City (NYC) six months after September 11, 2001. PARTICIPANTS 1570 respondents were interviewe...

BACKGROUND It is known that stress is associated with various negative health outcomes, and higher levels are found among people with low socio-economic status (SES) compared with those better-off. Evidence of the characteristics of deprived neighbourhoods with negative impact on health and stress is accumulating while little is known about the stress variation by the socio-demographic characte...

We consider different aspects of the problem of cosmological singularity such as the BKL oscillatory approach to singularity, the new features of the cosmological dynamics in the neighbourhood of the singularity in multidimensional and superstring cosmological models and their connections with such a modern branch of mathematics as infinite-dimensional Lie algebras. Besides, we consider some ne...

Alternative non-parametric classification schemes, which come from the use of different definitions of neighbourhood, are introduced. In particular, the Nearest Centroid Neighbourhood along with the neighbourhood relation derived from the Ž . Gabriel Graph and the RelatiÕe Neighbourhood Graph are used to define the corresponding kNearest Neighbour-like classifiers. Experimental results are repo...

This paper presents and examines the behaviour of a system whereby the rules governing local search within a Memetic Algorithm are co-evolved alongside the problem representation. We describe the rationale for such a system, and then describe the implementation of a simple version in which the evolving rules are encoded as (condition:action) patterns applied to the problem representation. We in...

Leveraging available annotated data is an essential component of many modern methods for medical image analysis. In particular, approaches making use of the "neighbourhood" structure between images for this purpose have shown significant potential. Such techniques achieve high accuracy in analysing an image by propagating information from its immediate "neighbours" within an annotated database....

OBJECTIVE Fast-food restaurants (FFR) are prevalent. Binge eating is common among overweight and obese women. For women prone to binge eating, neighbourhood FFR availability (i.e. the neighbourhood around one's home) may promote poor diet and overweight/obesity. The present study tested the effects of binge eating and neighbourhood FFR availability on diet (fat and total energy intake) and BMI ...

Job Search Channels, Neighborhood Effects and Wages Inequality in Developing Countries: The Colombian Case This paper analyses the relationship between social networks and the job search behaviour of individuals. Networking is not only based on friends and relatives but also on neighbourhood. The geographic closeness is associated to social interactions. Individuals who are in physical and soci...

We present two methods to perform colour image segmentation using a generative threedimensional model that is based on the assumption that an image can be generated through an overlapped placement of a few primitive, exemplar image patches, i.e. texems. Multiscale analysis is used in order to capture sufficient image features and pixel neighbourhood interactions at relatively lower computationa...