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Implementation of a sample design for a survey of program participants using time-location sampling. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2023
To assess the feeding practices and behaviors of women and young children participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), USDA currently funds the longitudinal WIC Infant and Toddler Feeding Practices ...
Yumiko Siegfried, Jill M DeMatteis, Bibi Gollapudi   +2 more
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Assessing malaria risk at night-time venues in a low-transmission setting: a time-location sampling study in Zambezi, Namibia [PDF]

Malaria Journal, 2019
Background Identifying efficient and effective strategies to reach and monitor populations at greatest risk of malaria in low-transmission settings is a key challenge for malaria elimination.
Jerry O. Jacobson, Jennifer L. Smith, Carmen Cueto, Mukosha Chisenga, Kathryn Roberts, Michelle Hsiang, Roly Gosling, Davis Mumbengegwi, Adam Bennett   +8 more
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Mosquito microbiota cluster by host sampling location [PDF]

Parasites & Vectors, 2018
Background Microbial communities that inhabit the mosquito body play an import role in host biology and may have potential for mosquito control. However, the forces that shape these microbial communities are poorly understood.
Ephantus J. Muturi, Doris Lagos-Kutz, Christopher Dunlap, Jose L. Ramirez, Alejandro P. Rooney, Glen L. Hartman, Christopher J. Fields, Gloria Rendon, Chang-Hyun Kim   +8 more
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Location-Scale Matching for Approximate Quasi-Order Sampling [PDF]

Frontiers in Psychology, 2019
Quasi-orders are reflexive and transitive binary relations and have many applications. Examples are the dependencies of mastery among the problems of a psychological test, or methods such as item tree or Boolean analysis that mine for quasi-orders in ...
Ali Ünlü, Martin Schrepp
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Biobehavioral survey using time location sampling among female sex workers living in Ghana in 2020 [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
BackgroundThe HIV epidemic in Ghana is characterized as a mix of a low-level generalized epidemic with significant contributions from transmission among female sex workers (FSW) and their clients.
Samuel Dery, Chris Guure, Seth Afagbedzi, Augustine Ankomah, William Ampofo, Kyeremeh Atuahene, Comfort Asamoah-Adu, Ernest Kenu, Sharon Stucker Weir, Waimar Tun, Daniel Arhinful, Kwasi Torpey   +11 more
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Optimizing recruitment in rare disease research: a cross-sectional online study evaluating sampling strategies for hard-to-reach populations [PDF]

Orphanet Journal of Rare Diseases
Background Researchers in the field of rare diseases are often confronted with difficulties in achieving sufficiently large sample sizes, given the small case numbers and geographical dispersion of patients.
Shalice Baffour, Bernd Löwe, Annika Braun, Natalie Uhlenbusch   +3 more
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Location-based Work Sampling

Lean Construction Journal, 2022
Question: Which opportunities can merging geographic location data with Work Sampling (WS) data bring for construction management? Purpose: To identify which opportunities adding geographic information to the random observations made (named in this study as geo-located observations) can bring. Research Method: The authors presented the implementation
Perez, Cristina Toca, Salling, Stephanie Therkelsen, Wandahl, Søren   +2 more
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DuctiLoc: Energy-Efficient Location Sampling With Configurable Accuracy

IEEE Access, 2023
Mobile device tracking technologies based on various positioning systems have made location data collection ubiquitous. The frequency at which location samples are recorded varies across applications, yet it is usually pre-defined and fixed, resulting in
Panagiota Katsikouli, Diego Madariaga, Aline Carneiro Viana, Alberto Tarable, Marco Fiore   +4 more
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Location, Location, Location [PDF]

Shock, 2014
Considerable breakthroughs in the field of sepsis have been made using animal models. Sepsis exhibits a wide array of derangements that may be evaluated in the blood, including the release of proinflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines. The Shock journal adheres to the ARRIVE guidelines regarding reporting in vivo results to allow reproducibility ...
Juan Rodolfo, Mella, Evan L, Chiswick, Elizabeth, King, Daniel G, Remick   +3 more
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An Efficient and Accurate Convolution-Based Similarity Measure for Uncertain Trajectories

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2023
With the rapid development of localization techniques and the prevalence of mobile devices, massive amounts of trajectory data have been generated, playing essential roles in areas of user analytics, smart transportation, and public safety.
Guanyao Li, Xingdong Deng, Jianmin Xu, Yang Liu, Ji Zhang, Simin Xiong, Feng Gao   +6 more
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