The estimation of spatial intensity and relative risk are important inference problems in spatial epidemiologic studies. A standard component of data assimilation in these studies is the assignment of a geocode, i.e. point-level spatial coordinates, to the address of each subject in the study population. Unfortunately, when geocoding is performed by the pervasive method of street-segment matchi...

INTRODUCTION Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in many countries and a particular burden to rural communities. Hypertension and diabetes are risk factors for cardiovascular disease, but screening for them is suboptimal, particularly in rural settings. Thus screening programs targeting rural dwellers may be important. This article reports the findings of a blood pressure (BP) ...

the rapid change of land use and land cover in the metropolitan area of tehran has influenced the distribution pattern of land surface temperature (lst). in this study, a spatial autocorrelation analysis is adopted to process the spatial-temporal changes of lst and normalized difference vegetation index (ndvi) in tehran during the period of 1987 to 2010. global spatial autocorrelation analysis ...

We list two kinds of gradation of openness and we study in the sense of the followings: (i) We give the definition of IVGO of fuzzy sets and obtain some basic results. (ii) We give the definition of interval-valued gradation of clopeness and obtain some properties. (iii) We give the definition of a subspace of an interval-valued smooth topological space and obtain some properties. (iv) We inves...

This study examines the experiences of students from rural backgrounds in higher education South Africa order to foster more equitable access and participation. Edward Soja’s notion spatial justice provides a platform for thinking about rurality its impact on success HE. trialectical account means understanding historically, spatially, socially, enables exploration inequalities based interplay ...