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Three-Quarters of Smartphone Owners Use Location-Based Services [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Presents survey findings about the use of real-time location-based information and geosocial services such as Foursquare by gender, age, race/ethnicity, income, education, and type of phone.
Kathryn Zickuhr
core  

Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

4% of Online Americans Use Location-Based Services [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Presents survey findings on the use of "geosocial," or location-based, services that allow users to share their location with friends, find others nearby, and leave comments by gender, race/ethnicity, age, wireless use, Internet activities, and ...
Aaron Smith, Kathryn Zickuhr
core  

Venous Thromboembolism in Pediatric Bone Sarcoma Patients: A 10‐Year, Single‐Institution Experience Encompassing the COVID‐19 Pandemic

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Osteosarcoma (OS) and Ewing sarcoma (EWS) are the most common primary bone cancers in children, but acute thrombosis is poorly characterized in this population. Our study evaluated the rates of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and associated risk factors in pediatric patients with bone sarcomas treated over a 10‐year period encompassing
Sarah Kappa   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Cognitive Functioning in Children With Brain Tumors: Interaction of Neighborhood Social Determinants of Health and Neurological Risk

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background This study investigated how neighborhood‐level social determinants of health (SDOH), including redlining and neurological risk, interact to influence cognitive outcomes in children treated for brain tumors (CTBT). Methods A retrospective chart review of 161 CTBT aged 5–17 was conducted.
Alannah R. Srsich   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

28% of American Adults Use Mobile and Social Location-Based Services [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Presents survey findings about uses of mobile or social location-based services to get directions or recommendations, check in to geosocial services, or use location-tagging on posts, by type of phone, gender, age, race/ethnicity, income, and ...
Aaron Smith, Kathryn Zickuhr
core  

Privacy and Protection for Location Based Services [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
An LBS (location based service) provides services such as finding the nearest location, favourite entertainment areas etc, to the users based on either their residing area or based on the input the give.
Lalitha, M. M. (Mrs), Sneha, G. (G)
core   +1 more source

Time Toxicity in Wilms Tumor: Quantifying the Burden of Healthcare Interaction in the First Year After Diagnosis

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Novel Location Privacy-Preserving Approach Based on Blockchain

open access: yesSensors, 2020
Location-based services (LBS) bring convenience to people’s lives but are also accompanied with privacy leakages. To protect the privacy of LBS users, many location privacy protection algorithms were proposed.
Ying Qiu, Yi Liu, Xuan Li, Jiahui Chen
doaj   +1 more source

Enabling Location-Based Services in Data Centers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
In this article, we explore services and capabilities that can be enabled by the localization of various assets in a data center or IT environment.
Kant, Krishna   +2 more
core   +2 more sources

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