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Supervised Classification of Built-Up Areas in Sub-Saharan African Cities Using Landsat Imagery and OpenStreetMap

Remote Sensing, 2018
The Landsat archives have been made freely available in 2008, allowing the production of high resolution built-up maps at the regional or global scale.
Yann Forget, Catherine Linard, Marius Gilbert   +2 more
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Integrating the landscape epidemiology and genetics of RNA viruses: rabies in domestic dogs as a model [PDF]

, 2012
Landscape epidemiology and landscape genetics combine advances in molecular techniques, spatial analyses and epidemiological models to generate a more real-world understanding of infectious disease dynamics and provide powerful new tools for the study of
Biek, R., Brunker, K, Horton, D.L., Brunker, K., Biek, R, Hampson, K., Hampson, K, Horton, DL   +7 more
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Exploring Fuzzy Local Spatial Information Algorithms for Remote Sensing Image Classification

Remote Sensing, 2021
Fuzzy c-means (FCM) and possibilistic c-means (PCM) are two commonly used fuzzy clustering algorithms for extracting land use land cover (LULC) information from satellite images.
Anjali Madhu, Anil Kumar, Peng Jia
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A Spatial Analysis Framework to Monitor and Accelerate Progress towards SDG 3 to End TB in Bangladesh

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2018
Global efforts to end the tuberculosis (TB) epidemic by 2030 (SDG3.3) through improved TB case detection and treatment have not been effective to significantly reduce the global burden of the TB epidemic.
Ente Rood, Ahmadul Hasan Khan, Pronab Kumar Modak, Christina Mergenthaler, Margo van Gurp, Lucie Blok, Mirjam Bakker   +6 more
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Spatial and genetic epidemiology of hookworm in a rural community in Uganda. [PDF]

, 2010
There are remarkably few contemporary, population-based studies of intestinal nematode infection for sub-Saharan Africa. This paper presents a comprehensive epidemiological analysis of hookworm infection intensity in a rural Ugandan community ...
Pullan, Rachel L, Pullan, RL, Quinnell, Rupert J, Brooker Simon, Brooker, Simon, Quinnell, RJ, Narcis B Kabatereine, Rupert J Quinnell, Brooker, S, Quinnell Rupert J., Rupert J. Quinnell, Simon Brooker, Pullan Rachel L., Kabatereine Narcis B., Kabatereine, NB, Kabatereine, Narcis B, Rachel L. Pullan, Narcis B. Kabatereine, Rachel L Pullan   +18 more
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Living la Vida T-LoCoH: site fidelity of Florida ranched and wild white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) during the epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) transmission period

Movement Ecology, 2020
Background Epizootic hemorrhagic disease virus (EHDV) is a pathogen vectored by Culicoides midges that causes significant economic loss in the cervid farming industry and affects wild deer as well. Despite this, its ecology is poorly understood. Studying
Emily T. N. Dinh, Allison Cauvin, Jeremy P. Orange, Rebecca M. Shuman, Samantha M. Wisely, Jason K. Blackburn   +5 more
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Measurement error caused by spatial misalignment in environmental epidemiology [PDF]

, 2008
Copyright @ 2009 Gryparis et al - Published by Oxford University Press.In many environmental epidemiology studies, the locations and/or times of exposure measurements and health assessments do not match.
Gryparis, Alexandros, Schwartz, Joel, Paciorek, CJ, Schwartz, J, Zeka, A, Coull, BA, Paciorek, Christopher J., Zeka, Ariana, Coull, Brent A, Gryparis, A   +9 more
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Global temperature constraints on Aedes aegypti and Ae. albopictus persistence and competence for dengue virus transmission

Parasites & Vectors, 2014
Background Dengue is a disease that has undergone significant expansion over the past hundred years. Understanding what factors limit the distribution of transmission can be used to predict current and future limits to further dengue expansion. While not
Oliver J Brady, Nick Golding, David M Pigott, Moritz U G Kraemer, Jane P Messina, Robert C Reiner Jr, Thomas W Scott, David L Smith, Peter W Gething, Simon I Hay   +9 more
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Genomic and Phylogenetic Analysis of Bacillus cereus Biovar anthracis Isolated from Archival Bone Samples Reveals Earlier Natural History of the Pathogen

Pathogens, 2023
(1) Background: Bacillus cereus biovar anthracis (Bcbva) was the causative agent of an anthrax-like fatal disease among wild chimpanzees in 2001 in Côte d’Ivoire.
Michael H. Norris, Diansy Zincke, David J. Daegling, John Krigbaum, W. Scott McGraw, Alexander Kirpich, Ted L. Hadfield, Jason K. Blackburn   +7 more
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Spatial and temporal epidemiology of sporadic human cases of Escherichia coli O157 in Scotland, 1996-1999 [PDF]

, 2005
In Scotland, between 1995 and 2000 there were between 4 and 10 cases of illness per 100000 population per year identified as being caused by Escherichia coli O157, whereas in England and Wales there were between 1 and 2 cases per 100000 population per ...
Reilly, WJ, Reid, S W J, Wellcome Trust-funded IPRAVE Cons, Mellor, D J, Reilly, W J, Locking, M E, Steele, W B, Shaw, DJ, Reid, SWJ, Taylor, D J, Gunn, GJ, Smallwood, J, Michel, P, Taylor, DJ, Shaw, D J; id_orcid, Ternent, H E, Woolhouse, MEJ, Gunn, G J, Mellor, DJ, Innocent, G T, Ternent, HE, Woolhouse, M E J; id_orcid, ?, ?, Wellcome Trust-funded IPRAVE Cons,, Innocent, GT, McEwen, SA, Steele, WB, Locking, ME, McEwen, S A   +28 more
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