The availability of relatively inexpensive, user-friendly geographical information systems, with a steadily extending range of analytic and other facilities, provides a powerful tool for the analysis and display of the increasing number of health-related data sets, and for their greater accessibility. Relationships between several sets of variables can become immediately apparent from a map in ...

The paper illustrates the results of a correlation study focusing on linguistic variation in an Italian region, Tuscany. By exploiting a multi-level representation scheme of dialectal data, the study analyses attested patterns of phonetic and morpho-lexical variation with the aim of testing the degree of correlation between a) phonetic and morpho-lexical variation, and b) linguistic variation a...

Abstract. Access to homecare is paramount for the older population wishing not move retirement homes. In Zurich, organization “Spitex Zürich” public provider, allowing experience high-quality life at home through regular visits. A major factor ensuring self-determined living consists of a detailed understanding spatial accessibility Spitex locations. Therefore, this paper concerned with applyin...