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Ambient heat and early childhood development: a cross‐national analysis

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, EarlyView.
Background Increasing evidence suggests that climate change, along with its cascading impacts on ecosystems, societies, and communities, has significant effects on both physical and mental health. However, less is known about how exposure to excessive heat early in life may influence the development of foundational skills that shape lifelong ...
Jorge Cuartas, Lenin H. Balza, Andrés Camacho, Nicolás Gómez‐Parra   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Twitter Data to Monitor Natural Disaster Social Dynamics: A Recurrent Neural Network Approach with Word Embeddings and Kernel Density Estimation

Sensors, 2019
In recent years, Online Social Networks (OSNs) have received a great deal of attention for their potential use in the spatial and temporal modeling of events owing to the information that can be extracted from these platforms. Within this context, one of
Aldo Hernandez-Suarez, Gabriel Sanchez-Perez, Karina Toscano-Medina, Hector Perez-Meana, Jose Portillo-Portillo, Victor Sanchez, Luis Javier García Villalba   +6 more
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Design of the Subpopulations and Intermediate Outcome Measures in COPD (SPIROMICS) AIR Study. [PDF]

, 2017
IntroductionPopulation-based epidemiological evidence suggests that exposure to ambient air pollutants increases hospitalisations and mortality from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but less is known about the impact of exposure to air ...
Alexis, Neil, Barr, R Graham, Bleecker, Eugene, Bowler, Russell, Breysse, Patrick J, Comellas, Alejandro P, Cooper, Christopher B, Dransfield, Mark, Fan, Vincent S, Gassett, Amanda J, Han, MeiLan K, Hansel, Nadia N, Kaufman, Joel D, Kim, Victor, Krishnan, Jerry A, Martinez, Fernando, Paulin, Laura M, Peng, Roger D, Pirozzi, Cheryl, Woodruff, Prescott G   +19 more
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Geographic Distribution of LGBT Affirming Christian Churches and Same‐Sex Households by US County

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this study, we examine where lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) affirming Christian churches are geographically located across the United States. Notably, many LGBT people practice religion and proximity to affirming churches may provide access to religious capital which supports well‐being.
Daniel M. Nguyễn, Michael C. Lotspeich‐Yadao, Nathan R. Todd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Automated Archiving of Archaeological Aerial Images

Remote Sensing, 2016
The main purpose of any aerial photo archive is to allow quick access to images based on content and location. Therefore, next to a description of technical parameters and depicted content, georeferencing of every image is of vital importance.
Michael Doneus, Martin Wieser, Geert Verhoeven, Wilfried Karel, Martin Fera, Norbert Pfeifer   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Crime Prevention Through Private Actors: Evidence From a Policy Change at a Large UK Supermarket Chain

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper investigates the effectiveness of private actors in contributing to crime prevention. We leverage well‐publicised increases in security measures, including additional security guards and tagging of goods, by Tesco, a large UK supermarket chain.
Nils Braakmann, Wednesday Croft
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of the precision of data collected about the traffic accidents with property damage only in claim handling process by insurance companies

Transport, 2017
The number of serious road traffic accidents is decreasing in all European countries. Based on the trends and directions in the past it may be predicted that in longer perspective the number of serious road traffic accidents will decrease remarkably ...
Erik Ernits, Dago Antov, Anton Kott
doaj   +1 more source

Multi-digit Number Recognition from Street View Imagery using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks [PDF]

, 2014
Recognizing arbitrary multi-character text in unconstrained natural photographs is a hard problem. In this paper, we address an equally hard sub-problem in this domain viz. recognizing arbitrary multi-digit numbers from Street View imagery.
Arnoud, Sacha, Bulatov, Yaroslav, Goodfellow, Ian J., Ibarz, Julian, Shet, Vinay   +4 more
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Community‐Oriented or Self‐Interested? Citizen Motivations for Engaging in Digital Coproduction

Public Administration, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Public organizations increasingly use digitally enabled platforms such as 311 (a nonemergency service in the United States) to facilitate coproduction and improve service delivery. While prior research has examined coproducers' motivations, we know little about motivations for digital coproduction.
Vishal Trehan, Gregory Porumbescu, Suzanne Piotrowski   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

An HPC-Ready, Wikidata-Based Workflow for Exploratory Geocoding of Unstructured Textual Corpora

Journal of Open Humanities Data
Geocoding, the task of linking place names in text to geographic coordinates, is a cornerstone of spatial humanities research, yet many existing tools assume structured data, contemporary toponyms, or commercial geocoding services that limit reuse ...
Annie K. Lamar
doaj   +1 more source