Published in BMC Public Health
BackgroundIn China, Guangdong and Yunnan are the two most dengue-affected provinces. This study aimed to compare the epidemiological characteristics of dengue fever in Guangdong and Yunnan during 2004–2018.MethodsDescriptive analyses were used to explore the temporal, spatial, and demographic distribution of dengue fever.ResultsOf the 73,761 dengue...
Published in Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine
BackgroundIn Ethiopia, despite the considerable improvement in immunization coverage, the burden of defaulting from immunization among children is still high with marked variation among regions. However, the geographical variation and contextual factors of defaulting from immunization were poorly understood. Hence, this study aimed to identify the ...
Published in Arabian Journal of Geosciences
The present study has been attempted to examine the trend and pattern of rainfall extremes over the Sahibi basin in the Rajasthan state of India for a period of 57 years (1961–2017). The daily rainfall data for nine stations located over the Sahibi basin have been obtained from the Department of Water Resources, Rajasthan. A total of ten indices wh...
Published in Air Quality, Atmosphere, & Health
Air pollution control has become the top priority of China’s “green development” concept since 2013. The Chinese government has enacted a range of policies and statutes to control contaminant emissions and improve air quality. On the basis of the national air quality ground observation database, the spatial and temporal distribution of air quality ...
Published in Environmental Health
BackgroundAt a regional or continental scale, the characterization of environmental health inequities (EHI) expresses the idea that populations are not equal in the face of pollution. It implies an analysis be conducted in order to identify and manage the areas at risk of overexposure where an increasing risk to human health is suspected. The devel...
Published in Acta tropica
Heterophyidiasis is a fish-borne zoonotic disease that is considered to be an emerging public health problem in the Philippines. This study was carried out to determine the spatial distribution and risk factors of heterophyidiasis in five selected villages in New Corella, Davao del Norte in Southern Mindanao. Of the 1,101 individuals examined, 26 (...
Published in SN Social Sciences
This study's main goal was to develop a comprehensive Quality of Life (QoL) Index based on 31 demographic variables for the 3108 counties in the contiguous USA. Counties were ranked worst in QoL to best, and spatial cluster analysis is used to identify counties with significant low/high QoL clusters. GIS-based mapping was used to create informative...
Published in Artificial Intelligence Review
Spatiotemporal data mining (STDM) discovers useful patterns from the dynamic interplay between space and time. Several available surveys capture STDM advances and report a wealth of important progress in this field. However, STDM challenges and problems are not thoroughly discussed and presented in articles of their own. We attempt to fill this gap...
Published in Annals of Forest Science
Key messageSimulated spruce budworm (SBW; Choristoneura fumiferana (Clem.)) defoliation generally becomes ubiquitous in 3 years after its initiation in agreement with historical observations despite varying environmental and stand conditions over large ranges. Current-year defoliation has almost no correlation with defoliation more than 1 year ago ...
Published in The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics
Automated valuation models (AVMs) are widely used by financial institutions to estimate the property value for a residential mortgage. The distribution of pricing errors obtained from AVMs generally show fat tails (Pender 2016 ; Demiroglu and James Management Science, 64 (4), 1747–1760 2018 ). The extreme events on the tails are usually known as “b...
