BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE An outbreak of symptomatic viral hepatitis in children less than 10 yr of age in Vellore, south India, was investigated and the disease pattern studied using serological and epidemiological methods, supplemented by geographic information systems (GIS) mapping. METHODS Three cases of hepatitis A were identified during routine surveillance in a birth cohort House-to-house...

BACKGROUND Diarrhea is a major public health problem in Thailand. The Ministry of Public Health, Thailand, has been trying to monitor and control this disease for many years. The methodology and the results from this study could be useful for public health officers to develop a system to monitor and prevent diarrhea outbreaks. METHODS The objective of this study was to analyse the epidemic ou...

We present a novel GIS, Real Space GIS, which is a 2D & 3D integration GIS. Real Space GIS is based on Real Space which is 3D geographical space and 2D map space which is based on geographical sphere or ellipsoid comparing to Paper Space GIS which is based on traditional Paper Space based on paper map coordinates. Real Space GIS mainly integrates data structure, data model, data storage, data v...

Typical food and geographical indicaTions Over the past decades, traditional food systems have evolved from poorly coordinated networks to globalized complexes of regulated trade, and the geographical indications (GIs) agro-food market size is approximately $50 billion. Belonging to the intellectual property law as collective property rights, the “GI is a sign used on goods that have a specific...

Herrera, Victoria L. M., Aristides Tsikoudakis, Lorenz R. B. Ponce, Yuichi Matsubara, and Nelson Ruiz-Opazo. Sex-specific QTLs and interacting loci underlie salt-sensitive hypertension and target organ complications in Dahl S/jr hypertensive rats. Physiol Genomics 26: 172–179, 2006. First published May 23, 2006; doi:10.1152/physiolgenomics.00285.2005.—Sex-specific differences in polygenic (esse...

Land use change detection is often conducted to critically discern trends, causes, and their impacts on the landscape enhance decision-making for conservation of biodiversity ecological functions. The objectives study were evaluate Use cover changes in Tubah Sub-Division, Cameroon, from 1986 2017, determine plant diversity abundance areas with different land uses. Field surveys carried out this...

Hydroinformatics is a new and rapidly developing field that integrates knowledge and understanding of water resources with the latest developments in information technology to improve decision-making in many critical applications. It encompasses methods for data capture, storage, processing, analysis and visualization, and the use of advanced modeling, simulation, optimization and knowledge-bas...

Metadata are an extant mechanism for conveying ontological information about semantic data. Metadata have the advantage of being institutionally and structurally ensconced in GIS. At present, however, they lack fields to express information beyond the technical and geometric domain. This paper describes a framework for the creation of extended metadata for non-spatial attributes, with the goal ...

Millions of Canadians residing in Canada's northern, isolated, rural, and remote communities do not have broadband Internet access. This situation has led to a national “broadband divide.” That is, the deployment of wireline broadband is very limited in Canada's northern, isolated, rural, and remote areas because of the significant expense of installation and maintenance of the wired infrastruc...

Two new species of the genus Anoplocheylus Berlese, 1910 (Acari: Trombidiformes: Pseudocheylidae), A. sinai Bagheri sp. nov. and A. kazemii Bagheri sp. nov., are described and figured. An updated key to all known species of Anoplocheylus is also provided.