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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

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

Cannabis dispensary exposure and smoked, vaped and edible cannabis use among young adults: Comparison of web‐scraped and government‐maintained registries

Addiction, EarlyView.
Abstract Background and aims The impact of exposure to cannabis dispensaries on young adult cannabis use may depend on how exposures and outcomes are defined. We estimated associations of dispensary exposure with young adult cannabis use across: (a) a government‐maintained licensed dispensaries registry versus a web‐scraped list of licensed and ...
Alyssa F. Harlow, Michael P. Williams, Rosalie Liccardo Pacula, Adam M. Leventhal, Eric R. Pedersen, Myles G. Cockburn, Laura K. Thompson, Junhan Cho, Jessica L. Barrington‐Trimis, Danielle F. Haley   +9 more
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 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

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

AIDS in men in the city of São Paulo, 1980–2012: spatial and space-time analysis

Revista de Saúde Pública, 2020
OBJECTIVES: To identify spatial and space-time clusters with high incidence rates of AIDS in men living in the city of São Paulo since the first case of the disease in 1980.
Alessandra Cristina Guedes Pellini, Francisco Chiaravalloti-Neto, Dirce Maria Trevisan Zanetta   +2 more
doaj   +2 more sources

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

The economic foundations of powersharing: Evidence from Africa

American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.
Abstract How—and with whom—do rulers share power? Existing research focuses on the strategic logic of powersharing. In this paper, we analyze its economic foundations. Powersharing is modeled as a subnational fiscal contract, in which rulers allocate political representation based on constituencies’ revenue potential. Empirically, we combine historical
Yannick I. Pengl, Philip Roessler
wiley   +1 more source

Processing and visualizing the data in tweets [PDF]

, 2011
Microblogs such as Twitter provide a valuable stream of diverse user-generated data. While the data extracted from Twitter is generally timely and accurate, the process by which developers extract structured data from the tweet stream is ad-hoc and ...
Badar, Osama, Bernstein, Michael S., Karger, David R., Madden, Samuel R., Marcus, Adam, Miller, Robert C.   +5 more
core   +2 more sources