Domestic violence is an important public health issue, and there limited research to date that examines community-level influences on this serious form of violence. This article investigates the neighborhood characteristics domestic incidents in city Greensboro, North Carolina. US Census block group boundaries corresponding tables were used as proxies for neighborhoods. The addresses gap by com...

Geographic routing protocols are well suited to wireless sensor networks because of their modest resource requirements. A major limiting factor in their implementation is the requirement of location information. The virtual localization algorithm provides the functionality of geographic routing without any knowledge of node locations by constructing a virtual coordinate system. It differs from ...

This thesis describes an interactive image analysis algorithm for the correct placement of trees within a virtual reality wildfire visualization system. The wildfire visualization system is VFIRE (Virtual Fire in Realistic Environments), which uses fire simulation results produced by software programs such as FARSITE to place the user into an immersive, artificial environment where he or she ca...

The collection and dissemination of geographic information has long been the prerogative of national mapping agencies. Nowadays, location-aware mobile devices could potentially turn everyone into a mapmaker. Collaborative mapping is an initiative to collectively produce models of real-world locations online that people can then access and use to virtually annotate locations in space. This chapt...

A qualitative location (QL) refers to the reference of a spatial location using linguistic terms such as qualitative descriptions and qualitative spatial relations with other geo-referenced features. Qualitative locations will be increasingly more popular in the future, driven by theoretical, technological, and database developments. Multiplicity and uncertainty are two innate characteristics o...

OBJECTIVE Little is known about the epidemiology of Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) among children, particularly children ≤3 years of age in whom colonization is common but pathogenicity uncertain. We sought to describe pediatric CDI incidence, clinical presentation, and outcomes across age groups. METHODS Data from an active population- and laboratory-based CDI surveillance in 10 US ge...

  Actinnomycetoma is a relatively rare chronic pustular infection. Thirty four cases have been reported from various geographic locations in  Iran. In this case report, a fifty year old male patient with Actinomycotic mycetoma lesions in his right foot was studied. Studies of the direct smear and culturing of the specimens ( both pus and & exudate, collected from the lesions), revealed that No...

Every day people interact with the environment by passing or visiting geographic locations. Information about such entity-location interactions can be used in a number of applications and its value has been recognized by companies and public institutions. However, although the necessary tracking technologies such as GPS, GSM or RFID have long found their way into everyday life, the practical us...

BACKGROUND Most clinical studies assume that the subgingival microbiota is similar from one geographic location to another. The purpose of the present investigation was to examine the composition of the subgingival microbiota in chronic periodontitis subjects from four countries. METHOD Subjects with chronic periodontitis (N, Sweden=101; USA=115; Brazil=58; Chile=26) were recruited. Subjects ...