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Integrated spatial analysis of volunteered geographic information [PDF]

, 2014
Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) is becoming a pervasive form of data within geographic academic research. VGI offers a relatively new form of data, one with both potential as a sensitive way to collect information about the world, and challenges
Lawrence, Haydn
core   +2 more sources

The efficacy and usability of motivational interviewing just‐in‐time trainings for youth mentors

American Journal of Community Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract Using youth mentors to deliver evidence‐based psychosocial services has been proposed to increase the reach of treatments, in part given the affordability and ubiquity of mentors in youth settings. Further, tests of mentor‐delivered motivational interviewing (MI) have shown increases in youth mentees' academic performance and wellbeing.
Mackenzie J. Hart, Samuel D. McQuillin, Aidyn Iachini, Daniel K. Cooper, Mark D. Weist   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Completeness and Spatial Error of Features in Volunteered Geographic Information

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2013
The assessment of the quality and accuracy of Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) contributions, and by extension the ultimate utility of VGI data has fostered much debate within the geographic community.
Anthony Stefanidis, Arie Croitoru, Andrew Crooks, Peggy Agouris, William Mullen, Steven P. Jackson   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Novel Pathogenic Variant in CRB1 as the Cause of Non‐Syndromic Retinitis Pigmentosa in a Geographical Isolate in Northern Italy

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Non‐syndromic Retinitis Pigmentosa (NsRP) was well known as one of the causes of visual impairment already in the 19th century. Giuseppe Albertotti, Professor of Ophthalmology at the University of Modena (Italy) in 1893, described a high prevalence of NsRP in a geographic isolate, the small village of Colloro, in northwestern Italy.
Andrea Guala, Fabio Sirchia, Claudia Scotti, Elena Rossi, Roberta Falcioni, Silvano Ragozza, Antonella Casella, Enza Maria Valente, Cesare Danesino   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maps, volunteered geographic information (VGI) and the spatio-discursive construction of nature

Digital Geography and Society, 2022
This paper interrogates the role that spatial media such as maps and Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) play in the construction and mobilisation of representations of nature.
Juan Astaburuaga, Michael E. Martin, Agnieszka Leszczynski, JC Gaillard   +3 more
doaj  

A study of the tourism web coverage in Switzerland [PDF]

, 2010
This paper discusses experiments that were performed to understand the geographic and linguistic coverage of web resources focusing on tourism-related themes in Switzerland.
Venkateswaran, R
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The Role of SLC39A8.p.(Ala391Thr) in Schizophrenia Symptom Severity and Cognitive Ability: Cross‐Sectional Studies of Schizophrenia and the General UK Population

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part B: Neuropsychiatric Genetics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The missense SNP NC_000004.12:g.102267552C>T (also known as SLC39A8.p.(Ala391Thr), rs13107325) in SLC39A8 encodes a zinc transporter. This SNP has been linked to schizophrenia and is the likely causal variant for one of the genome‐wide association loci associated with the disorder. Using regression analyses, we tested whether the schizophrenia‐
Sophie E. Smart, Sophie E. Legge, Eilidh Fenner, Antonio F. Pardiñas, Grace Woolway, Amy J. Lynham, Valentina Escott‐Price, Jeremy Hall, Lawrence Wilkinson, Peter Holmans, Michael C. O'Donovan, Michael J. Owen, James T.R. Walters   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Study of Volunteered Geographic Information and Social Media [PDF]

, 2013
The Web 2.0 has changed the way that people communicate with each other. Web 2.0 platforms allow the creation and the exchange of user-generated contents (UGCs) on the Internet. The UGCs contain explicit and implicit geographic information. The quantity of geographic information continuously increases as number of Internet users expands.
openaire   +2 more sources

“That grey area where no one can help”: The experience of younger people avoiding or leaving residential aged care who are not NDIS participants

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
Abstract Living in residential aged care (RAC) can have deleterious effects on the health, well‐being and social participation of younger people (<65 years of age). This research examined the barriers and enablers to leaving or avoiding RAC for Australian younger people who are not National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) participants. It reports on
Barrie Shannon, Caroline Hart, Stella Koritsas, Keith McVilly   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Volunteered Geographic Information Framework to Enable Bottom-Up Disaster Management Platforms

ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 2015
Recent disasters, such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, have drawn attention to the potential role of citizens as active information producers. By using location-aware devices such as smartphones to collect geographic information in the form of geo-tagged ...
Mohammad Ebrahim Poorazizi, Andrew J.S. Hunter, Stefan Steiniger   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source