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A micro-epidemiological analysis of febrile malaria in Coastal Kenya showing hotspots within hotspots [PDF]
Malaria transmission is spatially heterogeneous. This reduces the efficacy of control strategies, but focusing control strategies on clusters or ‘hotspots’ of transmission may be highly effective. Among 1500 homesteads in coastal Kenya we calculated (a) the fraction of febrile children with positive malaria smears per homestead, and (b) the mean age of
Bejon, P. +15 more
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Insulation materials decrease the final energy consumption of buildings. In Germany, fossil and mineral insulations dominate the market despite numerous life cycle assessments (LCAs) showing that bio‐based insulations can offer environmental benefits ...
Maximilian Schulte +3 more
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Natural Disaster Hotspots [PDF]
Earthquakes, floods, drought, and other natural hazards cause tens of thousands of deaths, hundreds of thousands of injuries, and billions of dollars in economic losses each year around the world. As the recognition grows that natural disaster risk must be addressed as a development issue rather than one strictly of humanitarian assistance, so must our
Dilley, Maxx +4 more
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A Study of Land Ecological Environment Evaluation Based on an Ideal Point Model
The paper took Guang’an City in Sichuan Province of China as a research region, and it built an evaluation index system based on 14 evaluation indices according to four criteria, namely, ecological background, ecological structure, ecological benefits ...
Zhen Chen, Lianwu Shi
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The importance of a standard based interoperability framework is now widely recognized. In order to understand the challenges, feasibility and impact of outcomes of such architectures for public health improvement, it is important to implement and ...
Fatima Khalique +2 more
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Kenya has experienced cholera outbreaks since 1971, with the most recent wave beginning in late 2014. Between 2015–2020, 32 of 47 counties reported 30,431 suspected cholera cases.
Patrick Amoth (13267631) +9 more
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Socio-technical Security Analysis of Wireless Hotspots [PDF]
We present a socio-technical analysis of security of Hotspot and Hotspot 2.0. The analysis focuses is user-centric, and aim at understanding which user action can compromise security in presence of a attacker. We identify research questions about possible factors that may affect user's security decisions, and propose experiments to answer them.
Ana Ferreira 0001 +3 more
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Deforestasi hutan bervariasi secara spasial dan temporal yang dapat menghambat kemampuan kawasan konservasi yang ada untuk membendung hilangnya tutupan hutan.
Ferzha, Putra Utama +2 more
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Conventionally, identifying urban focal points is primarily based on subjective and intuitive evaluations. This paper aims to establish an objective method for identifying urban focal points by applying Multiple Centrality Assessment (MCA), a spatial ...
Ngoc Hong Nguyen, Trung Xuan Nguyen
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With the rapid urbanization process, the construction of lighting facilities is increasing, whereas artificial light at nighttime (ALAN) negatively affects organisms in protected areas and threatens ecosystems.
Fangming Jiang +8 more
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