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Investigating the environmental, behavioural, and sociodemographic determinants of attendance at a city-wide public heal...

Published in Preventive medicine

Understanding the determinants of attendance at public health interventions is critical for effective policy development. Most research focuses on individual-level determinants of attendance, while less is known about environmental-level determinants. Data were obtained from the Leeds Let's Get Active public health intervention in Leeds, England. L...

The effect of gender and attractiveness of motion on proximity in virtual reality

In human interaction, people will keep different distances from each other depending on their gender. For example, males will stand further away from males and closer to females. Previous studies in virtual reality (VR), where people were interacting with virtual humans, showed a similar result. However, many other variables influence proximity, su...

Territorialization of care and proximities in a community-based primary care system: What are the results on access to c...

Published in Health & place

The aim of this contribution is to evaluate the results of proximity and territorialization as organizational principles for community-based primary health care, on the declared access to care and satisfaction of local residents. Two community health care facilities of the city of São Paulo, Brazil, were compared using a qualitative approach. It ap...

Social spatial cognition: social distance dynamics as an identifier of social interactions.

Published in Animal cognition

We suggest that socio-spatial behavior, which is an interaction between social and spatial cognition, can be viewed as a set of excursions that originate and end in close proximity to another individual(s). We present an extension of earlier studies that perceived spatial behavior in individual animals as a series of excursions originating from a p...

Pour une perspective sociale de l'écologie industrielle et territoriale (EIT) : mécanismes d'action collective, processu...

S’appuyant sur une perception humano-centrée de l’écologie industrielle et territoriale (ÉIT), qui suppose le dépassement d’un déterminisme technologique ou d’une vision techno-centrée, cette thèse propose une mise en relation entre les facteurs techniques, humains et socio-organisationnels qui fondent les processus de mise en œuvre et de pérennisa...

A passive monitoring tool using hospital administrative data enables earlier specific detection of healthcare-acquired i...

Published in The Journal of Hospital Infection

Background Healthcare-associated infections impose a significant burden on the healthcare system. Current methods for detecting these infections are constrained by combinations of high cost, long processing times and imperfect accuracy, reducing their effectiveness. Methods This study examined whether the amount of time a patient spends on a ward w...

The role of dwelling type when estimating the effect of magnetic fields on childhood leukemia in the California Power Li...

PURPOSE:The type of dwelling where a child lives is an important factor when considering residential exposure to environmental agents. In this paper, we explore its role when estimating the potential effects of magnetic fields (MF) on leukemia using data from the California Power Line Study (CAPS). In this context, dwelling type could be a risk fac...

Nonlocal Laplace Operator in a Space with the Fuzzy Partition

Published in Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems

Differential operators play an important role in the mathematical modeling of dynamic processes and the analysis of various structures. However, there are certain limitations in their use. To remove them, nonlocal differential operators have been proposed. In this work, we focus on nonlocal Laplace operator, which has become increasingly useful in ...