An interactive geographic information system to inform optimal locations for healthcare services. [PDF]
PLOS Digital Health, 2023 Large health datasets can provide evidence for the equitable allocation of healthcare resources and access to care. Geographic information systems (GIS) can help to present this data in a useful way, aiding in health service delivery.
Calum Nicholson +2 more
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An Investigation of the Parameters Affecting Affordable Housing Location Choice
Engineering Proceedings, 2023 The provision of affordable housing has become a major concern for policymakers and urban planners, especially in developing nations of the world. One of the key challenges in this domain is the identification of suitable locations for the development of
Nishat Afshan, Rajan Chandra Sinha
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A MILP Model for Water Level Sensor Placement with Multi-Sensor and Multi-Disaster Areas
Jurnal Teknik Industri, 2021 A water level sensor is critical to measure water levels at strategic points in the river. The sensor location directly impacts the quality of the collected data sent to the flood early warning system. To prevent and minimize the risk of flooding, it is
Prudensy F Opit +2 more
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Predicting Optimal Facility Location without Customer Locations [PDF]
Proceedings of the 23rd ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, 2017 Deriving meaningful insights from location data helps businesses make better decisions. One critical decision made by a business is choosing a location for its new facility. Optimal location queries ask for a location to build a new facility that optimizes an objective function.
Yilmaz, Emre +2 more
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Optimum Planning and Locating the Urban Tourism Facilities and Infrastructures by Using GIS, Case study: Semnan city [PDF]
جغرافیا و توسعه, 2014 This paper has studied and reviewed the spatial-location distribution of urban tourism accommodation-reception centers with an emphasis on historical cities and how to select its optimum based upon Ashworth, Tunbridgeand Getz models. The findings of this
Issa Ebrahimzadeh +2 more
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Globally Optimal Facility Locations for Continuous-Space Facility Location Problems
Applied Sciences, 2021 The continuous-space single- and multi-facility location problem has attracted much attention in previous studies. This study focuses on determining the globally optimal facility locations for two- and higher-dimensional continuous-space facility ...
Xuehong Gao +5 more
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Optimal UAV Hangar Locations for Emergency Services Considering Restricted Areas
Drones, 2023 With unmanned aerial vehicle(s) (UAV), swift responses to urgent needs (such as search and rescue missions or medical deliveries) can be realized. Simultaneously, legislators are establishing so-called geographical zones, which restrict UAV operations to
Hannes Braßel +3 more
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Evaluation of surgical skill using machine learning with optimal wearable sensor locations.
PLoS ONE, 2022 Evaluation of surgical skills during minimally invasive surgeries is needed when recruiting new surgeons. Although surgeons' differentiation by skill level is highly complex, performance in specific clinical tasks such as pegboard transfer and knot tying
Rahul Soangra +4 more
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Japan Architectural Review, 2020 The purpose of this study is to analyze the optimum location of fire departments. The idea of this research is to minimize the response time by confirming emergency services dispatched and absence situations.
Tatsuya Suzuki, Eiji Satoh
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Optimal locations of sea-level indicators in glacial isostatic adjustment investigations [PDF]
Solid Earth, 2014 Fréchet (sensitivity) kernels are an important tool in glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA) investigations to understand lithospheric thickness, mantle viscosity and ice-load model variations.
H. Steffen, P. Wu, H. Wang
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