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Application of Remote Sensing and Geographical Information Systems in Flood Management: A Review
, 2013 Floods are one of the most widely distributed hazards around the world and their management is an important issue of concern among all the stakeholders.
E. Opolot
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Geographical Information Systems and Health: Current State and Future Directions
Healthcare Informatics Research, 2012 This paper provides an introduction to Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and how they can be used. It reviews the current state of GIS use in health care before identifying the barriers to more pervasive use of GIS in health.
N. Shaw
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A Spark-Based High Performance Computational Approach for Simulating Typhoon Wind Fields
IEEE Access, 2018 The impacts of typhoons on coastal areas around the globe necessitate the risk assessments of typhoon events to analyze their paths, intensity, and impacts on the environment for disaster prevention and reduction as well as for the scientific assessments
Shaofu Lin +4 more
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Early Impact of Childhood Opportunity on Neurocognitive Outcomes in Sickle Cell Disease
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Introduction Neurocognitive impairment is a well‐recognized complication of sickle cell disease (SCD) that begins early in childhood and persists across development. While cerebrovascular injury contributes substantially to risk, neurocognitive deficits are also observed in children without overt or silent cerebral infarctions, suggesting ...
Julia E. LaMotte +5 more
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Perceiving Beijing’s “City Image” Across Different Groups Based on Geotagged Social Media Data
IEEE Access, 2020 City image in general refers to the perception, the feeling, and the opinion of a city, which contributes great importance to urban management, urban planning, urban cultural perceptions, and tourism resource development.
Xia Peng, Yi Bao, Zhou Huang
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International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 2018 Great strides have been made in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) research over the past half-century. However, this progress has created both opportunities and challenges.
Guonian Lü +5 more
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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY WITH GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Časopis Socìalʹno-Ekonomìčnoï Geografìï. Часопис соціально-економічної географії, 2015 The purpose of this paper is to represent that a GIS in human geography is not only a straightforward tool for generating and spatially analysing maps and graphics, but also is intended to identify certain spatial samples and to form new spatial ...
Sergiy Kostrikov, Kateryna Segida
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background An earlier study on children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) at Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital (MTRH) in Kenya reported a low event‐free survival (EFS), excess treatment abandonment, and high induction mortality.
Gilbert Olbara +7 more
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Downscaling spatial interaction with socioeconomic attributes
EPJ Data ScienceA variety of complex socioeconomic phenomena, for example, migration, commuting, and trade can be abstracted by spatial interaction networks, where nodes represent geographic locations and weighted edges convey the interaction and its strength.
Chengling Tang +6 more
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Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Sciences, 2018 Empirically based lumped hydrologic models have an extensive track record of use for various watershed managements and flood related studies. This study focuses on the impacts of land use land cover change for a 10 year period (2000–2010) on the stream ...
Syed Muhammad Zubair Younis, Ahmad Ammar
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