BACKGROUND The possible contribution of health service accessibility to asthma mortality has not previously been studied in the UK. METHODS Using regression analysis, the relationship between geographical isolation from large acute hospital services and mortality from asthma for 401 local authority districts in England and Wales was examined for the period 1988-92. RESULTS Asthma mortality ...

BACKGROUND Like other countries, Canada's population is aging, and the implications of this demographic change need to be better understood from the perspective of blood supply. Analysis of donor data will help to identify systematic patterns of donation and its correlates. DATA Geo-coded blood donor and donor clinic data are provided by Canadian Blood Services. Blood donor data is provided f...

BACKGROUND It is often suggested that neighbourhood access to food retailers affects the dietary patterns of local residents, but this hypothesis has not been adequately researched. We examine the association between neighbourhood accessibility to supermarkets and convenience stores and individuals' consumption of fruit and vegetables in New Zealand. METHODS Using geographical information sys...

This study focuses on establishing adequate public healthcare centers to reduce disease spread and untimely death of human lives in Adama City, Ethiopia. There is considerable evidence, owing poor geographical accessibility, the primary facility not reaching majority population developing nations. case has been carried out identify prioritize suitable areas develop using a Geographic Informatio...

INTRODUCTION Plasmepsin V (PM-V) have functionally conserved orthologues across the Plasmodium genus who's binding and antigenic processing at the PEXEL motifs for export about 200-300 essential proteins is important for the virulence and viability of the causative Plasmodium species. This study was undertaken to determine P. vivax plasmepsin V Ind (PvPM-V-Ind) PEXEL motif export pathway for pa...

In this paper, we use night light imagery data at two scales – the city and within the city. Since many of the urban characteristics of cities including traffic and paved area are correlated with each other we derive components for our sample of 286 cities in China. We then correlate these measures for average DN values from night light imagery at the center and periphery of the city (using buf...

This paper focuses on private sources of knowledge specifically customers and competitors as sources of innovative activity. Our main argument is that the two sources are correlated even after controlling for several factors at the level of technology, individual and organization. What is more, we show that the geographical distance of these sources modifies the intensity of this correlation, i...

This empirical study focuses on the impact of an information technology (IT), specifically electronic mail (e-mail), on three basic organization components: structure, people, and tasks. An Organizational Interaction Diamond (OID) model is developed illustrating how each component enables changes in other components interacting with the organization’s internal and external environments. The org...

Globally distributed software development is facing challenges brought by geographic distance, temporal separation, and cultural diversity. Yet research regarding the impact of temporal separation and cultural differences is limited. This paper draws on an interpretive case study to examine the influence of culture on temporal separation and coordination of globally distributed software develop...