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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Spatial access"”.
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Potential spatial access to supermarkets: Does the measure matter?
Potential spatial access to supermarkets: Does the measure matter?
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Spatial Healthcare Access: Measurement, Health-Related Outcomes, and Healthcare Utilization
Healthcare delivery and access to health services are vital determinants of population health. Thus, a core goal of healthcare systems is to ensure access, i.e., that those in need of care are able to use health services. Access to care should be equal for the whole population, irrespective of …
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Disparities in breast cancer subtype, staging, and access to mammography services in the Lower Mississippi Delta Region
… more advanced stage at diagnosis, and less access to screening mammography may play a role in these high mortality rates. Studies have shown that black women have higher rates of the most aggressive breast cancer subtype-- triple-negative--than white women and are often diagnosed at a more …
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Efficient Concurrent Operations in Spatial Databases
… ecology analysis, and space research, efficient spatial data access methods have attracted much research. Especially, moving object management and continuous spatial queries are becoming highlighted in the spatial database area. However, most of the existing spatial query processing approaches …
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MOVING BODIES, FEELING HEALTH: EXAMINING THE EMBODIED POLITICS OF HEALTH-PROMOTING INFRASTRUCTURE IN SINGAPORE
… of Singapore that seeks to secure population access to physical activity by mobilising an infrastructural configuration in its health governance efforts. Drawing upon in-depth interviews with 17 fitness programmes producers and diary and diary-interviews with 22 participants, this thesis …
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Food insecurity in Cape Town: how inadequate access affects human health and livelihoods
… insecurity, little has explicitly focused on spatial food access and malnutrition and under-nutrition amongst the urban poor in South Africa. Therefore, using a quantitative household data survey completed by the African Food Security Urban Network in 2008, this study examines the relationship …
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Institutional relationships and organizational change : lessons from a prominent African NGO in Dakar, Senegal
… (i.e. informal street vendors and urban spatial access). In its thirty years of operation, Enda has made significant contributions to urban development in Dakar and in cities throughout the global south. These contributions include extending access to basic services and improving housing …
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Evaluating access to care and utilization for chronic pediatric conditions
… distances, we identify which states have better access to specialist care, and identify areas in which there is no access to care. For two states, we use this measure of access to care as a predictor in logistic regression models to determine the statistical significance of geographic access to …
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Understanding Technology Diffusion and Spatial Accessibility in the Home Healthcare Industry
… understanding home healthcare utilization and access are the essential steps to develop strategies ensuring effective and sustainable services to patients.</p> <p>This research aims to study two main issues in the US home healthcare system: diffusion and long-term impacts of home telehealth and …
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A mach 1.95 free-jet facility for experimental investigation of injectant flow patterns
… many advantages, including greater optical and spatial access, longer available test durations, and less time needed between tests for the storage tanks to be refilled. As a part of the project, several diagnostic techniques were evaluated in the facility. Normal, sonic injection of helium …
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Spatial and Thematic Ontology in Cultural Heritage Information Systems
… of a knowledge-based system for thematic and spatial access to information about archaeological artefacts. The project explored the use of an integrated spatial and thematic ontology to address many problems related to the search and retrieval of archaeological information. One common problem …
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Projective Space: Structuring a Beholder’s Imaginative Response
… reception. It proposes a distinctive position on spatiality and the virtual. The thesis is submitted in two parts: a written thesis (Part One), and a documentation of my own art practice (Part Two). The artwork that comprises the practice component is not that of a painter, and yet the sculptural …
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Food deserts and household food insecurity in the informal settlements of Windhoek, Namibia
… households and to explore their strategies to access food and build resilience to food insecurity. Firstly, the thesis demonstrates that female-centred households in the informal settlements are poorer and more food insecure than all other types of household. Secondly, these households source …
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Socio-spatial inequalities in late-stage cancer diagnosis in Illinois: spatiotemporal trends and methodological challenges
… dissertation examines the effects of social and spatial inequalities on late-stage diagnosis of colorectal and breast cancer, and it addresses several methodological challenges surrounding the use of ZIP codes as a study unit in analyzing late-stage cancer at diagnosis. Given that my dissertation …
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Spatial Reading System for Individuals with Blindness
… Visual Impairment (IBSVI) to have equivalent spatial reading experience to their<br />sighted counterparts, in terms of being able to engage in different reading strategies e.g.<br />scanning, skimming, and active reading. IBSVI are enabled to read in a self-paced manner<br />with spatial …
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Developing GIS analysis techniques for the measurement of safe drinking water access
… useful methods that are widely used to measure spatial access to services and to inform the planning of public facilities and infrastructures. The development of innovative GIS tools has informed approaches for researching demographic and socioeconomic problems. Nevertheless, GIS methods have …