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Matching participant address with public records database in a US national longitudinal cohort study

SSM: Population Health, 2021
Background: Epidemiological studies utilize residential histories to assess environmental exposure risk. The validity from using commercially-sourced residential histories within national longitudinal studies remains unclear.
Marquita S. Brooks, Aleena Bennett, Gina S. Lovasi, Philip M. Hurvitz, Natalie Colabianchi, Virginia J. Howard, Jennifer Manly, Suzanne E. Judd   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

BigO: A public health decision support system for measuring obesogenic behaviors of children in relation to their local environment

, 2020
Obesity is a complex disease and its prevalence depends on multiple factors related to the local socioeconomic, cultural and urban context of individuals.
Alagialoglou, Leonidas, Browne, Sarah, Charmandari, Evangelia, Delopoulos, Anastasios, Diou, Christos, Donnell, Shane O', Doyle, Gerardine, Ferri, Daniel, Filis, Konstantinos, Filos, Dimitrios, Hassapidou, Maria, Heimeier, Rachel, Ioakimidis, Ioannis, Karavidopoulou, Youla, Kassari, Penio, Kechadi, Tahar, Kilintzis, Vasileios, Koukoula, Evangelia, Lekka, Irini, Maglaveras, Nikos, Malley, Grace O', Maramis, Christos, Mars, Monica, Nguyen, Thien-An Ngoc, Pagkalos, Ioannis, Papapanagiotou, Vasileios, Pérez, Isabel, Riviou, Katerina, Sarafis, Ioannis, Stefanopoulos, Leandros, Tragomalou, Athanasia   +30 more
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Explainable spatial machine learning for hedonic real estate modeling

Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.
Abstract Accurately modeling rents and prices is a key challenge in real estate analysis. Traditional linear models may fail to capture complex non‐linear relationships, and spatial dependencies are often ignored in existing machine‐learning approaches.
Tim Gyger, Simona Hauri, Simon Bühlmann, Manuel Lehner, Jaron Schlesinger, Fabio Sigrist   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The political consequences of Africa's mobile revolution

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract What are the political consequences of rising domestic connectivity? I study this question in Sub‐Saharan Africa, asking how mobile technology shapes public opinion in geographically isolated communities. For remote rural populations, mobile devices increase contact with physically distant social networks, through regular phone calls with ...
Alex Yeandle
wiley   +1 more source

Risk of congenital anomalies around a municipal solid waste incinerator: a GIS-based case-control study

International Journal of Health Geographics, 2009
Background Waste incineration releases into the environment toxic substances having a teratogenic potential, but little epidemiologic evidence is available on this topic.
Garavelli Livia, Rodolfi Rossella, Teggi Sergio, Fabbi Sara, Malagoli Carlotta, Vinceti Marco, Astolfi Gianni, Rivieri Francesca   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

The policy adjacent: How affordable housing generates policy feedback among neighboring residents

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract While scholars have documented feedback effects among a policy's direct winners and losers, less is known about whether such effects can occur among the indirectly affected—“the policy adjacent.” Using 458 geocoded housing developments built between two nearly identical statewide ballot propositions funding affordable housing in California, we
Michael Hankinson, Asya Magazinnik, Melissa Sands   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia

The Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious affiliation. The lack of knowledge about determinants of religious affiliation seems particularly striking in the case of Southeastern Europe ...
Leonard Kukić, Yasin Arslantas
wiley   +1 more source

Racial and ethnic disparities in workers' compensation claims rates.

PLoS ONE, 2023
BackgroundWorkers of color experience a disproportionate share of work-related injuries and illnesses (WRII), however, most workers' compensation systems do not collect race and ethnicity information, making it difficult to monitor trends over time, or ...
Caroline K Smith, Sara Wuellner, Jennifer Marcum   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Idiosyncratic Political Risk and Bad News Hoarding

Financial Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Managers may respond to greater political risk by suppressing unfavorable news from outsiders to manage investors’ perceptions about firm risk and protect their careers. However, they may also avoid engaging in bad news hoarding activities because exposure to political risk increases firm visibility and attracts greater scrutiny. Using a novel
Gonul Colak, Georgios Loukopoulos, Panagiotis Loukopoulos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advanced Techniques for Geospatial Referencing in Online Media Repositories

Future Internet
In the digital transformation era, video media libraries’ untapped potential is immense, restricted primarily by their non-machine-readable nature and basic search functionalities limited to standard metadata.
Dominik Warch, Patrick Stellbauer, Pascal Neis   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source