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A Model for Selecting Viticultural Sites in the Piedmont Triad Region of North Carolina
The North Carolina wine industry is growing at a fast pace. Many new vineyards are being planted with European varieties. Vitis vinifera varieties in general are the most challenging species of grape grown, requiring...
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Seismic Evaluation of a Profile of Volcanic Ash From the South American Andes
Although soils derived from volcanic ash are only a small portion of the soils that cover the world's surface, cities have developed on some of these soils. This makes their study interesting, especially since soils derived from...
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A Simplified Approach of Design Pile Foundation on Liquefiable Soil in India
In India, piles are designed as per IS 2911:2010 (Part 1) for different soil conditions considering all the load criteria. But there is no such provision in Indian Standard Codes for designing piles in potentially liquefiable...
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Comparison of the External Load in Training Sessions and Official Matches in Female Football
Aratz Olaizola, Ibai Errekagorri, Karmele Lopez-de-Ipina, Pilar María Calvo, Julen Castellano
Jan 10, 2023
The objective of this study was to compare the external load of training sessions using as a reference an official competition match in women's football in order to find if the training sessions replicate the competition...
A Road-Based 3D Navigation System in GIS
Vijay Bansal
Jan 01, 2023
A user-controlled navigation system is one of the important aspects of human-computer interaction. Finding best path from one location to another and navigating through that path has been a great concern in the geo-virtual...
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Geographic Analysis of Domestic Violence Incident Locations and Neighborhood Level Influences
Domestic violence is an important public health issue, and there is limited research to date that examines community-level influences on this serious form of violence. This article investigates the neighborhood characteristics...
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A Practical and Effective Solution to Earthquake (EQ) Catastrophe
About 50-year direct observation indicated that any civil structure founded in/on rock does not get damage from earthquakes without tsunami effect. The main reason behind this is that the modulus of elasticity of saturated rocks...
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A Visual Insight Into Tweeting Activity Before and During Natural Disasters
Big data provided by social media has been increasingly used in various fields of research including disaster studies and emergency management. Effective data visualization plays a central role in generating meaningful insight...
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A Geospatial Analysis of Contributors to Flood Health Behaviors Among Midwest Residents
Kevin Boes, Danielle Hotalling, Jack Taylor, Timothy Guetterman, Dhitinut (DT) Ratnapradipa (e303ad63-919d-40c8-bfb0-76de4db29e7a
Jan 01, 2024
Inland flooding poses significant acute and longer-term health risks, but many individuals living in or near floodplains may be unaware of their danger. Major flooding occurred in the Midwest USA during 2019. Our objective was...
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Perceived and Objectively Measured Environmental Correlates of Domain-Specific Physical Activity in Older English Adults.
Yu-Tzu Wu, Natalia R Jones, Esther Mf van Sluijs, Simon J Griffin, Nicholas J Wareham, Andrew P Jones
Mar 23, 2016
A Geospatial Expose of Flood-Risk and Vulnerable Areas in Nigeria
Flooding is recurrent in Nigeria, occurring yearly at different scales. This geared the need for a study to reveal local government areas (LGAs) that are at risk and vulnerable to flooding. The multi-criteria approach was...
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Neighbourhoods for Active Kids
Melody Oliver, Julia McPhee, Penelope Carroll, Erika Ikeda, Suzanne Mavoa, Lisa Mackay, Robin A Kearns, Marketta Kyttä, Lanuola Asiasiga, Nicholas Garrett, Judy Lin, Roger Mackett, Caryn Zinn, Helen Moewaka Barnes, Victoria Egli, Kate Prendergast, Karen Witten
Dec 18, 2019
INTRODUCTION: New Zealand children's physical activity, including independent mobility and active travel, has declined markedly over recent decades. The Neighbourhoods for Active Kids (NfAK) study examines how neighbourhood...
Accelerometry Built environment Child-centred methods obesity Participatory GIS Accelerometry Body Height Body Size Body Weight Child Cities Cross-Sectional Studies Diet Exercise Family Female Geographic Information Systems Health Behavior Humans Male Multilevel Analysis New Zealand Residence Characteristics Schools Social Environment Socioeconomic Factors Travel Waist Circumference Walking
Identifying Surface Mine Extent Across Central Appalachia Using Time Series Analysis, 1984-2015
The Appalachians, and Central Appalachia in particular, have a long history of resource extraction including coal mining. In the past half century, the region experienced a shift from underground to surface mining, which leaves...
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Modelling and mapping eye-level greenness visibility exposure using multi-source data at high spatial resolutions.
The visibility of natural greenness is associated with several health benefits along multiple pathways, including stress recovery and attention restoration mechanisms. However, existing methodologies are inadequate for capturing...
Numerical Modeling of Near Fault Seismic Ground Motion for Denali Fault
An effective earthquake (Mw 7.9) struck Alaska on 3 November 2002. This earthquake ruptured 340 km along Susitna Glacier, Denali, and Totschunda faults in Central Alaska. The peak ground acceleration (PGA) was recorded about...
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Estimating multiple greenspace exposure types and their associations with neighbourhood premature mortality
BACKGROUND: Greenspace exposures are often measured using single exposure metrics, which can lead to conflicting results. Existing methodologies are limited in their ability to estimate greenspace exposure comprehensively. We...
Higher-Order Finite Element Vibration Analysis of Circular Raft on Winkler Foundation
On a Winkler foundation, solid circular plate vibration is examined using a higher-order finite element in polar co-ordinate system. The present formulation has developed a Mat-lab code to handle any boundary conditions....
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A Significance Test for Inferring Affiliation Networks from Spatio-Temporal Data.
Scientists have long been interested in studying social structures within groups of gregarious animals. However, obtaining evidence about interactions between members of a group is difficult. Recent technologies, such as Global...
Does exposure to the food environment differ by socioeconomic position? Comparing area-based and person-centred metrics in the Fenland Study, UK
Geoinformation Technologies in Land Use Monitoring of Fast-Growing Cities for Sustainable Urban Development
Cristina Henriques
Apr 09, 2021
To understand the territory of fast-growing cities, where there are multiple stakeholders involved, the observation of such dynamics seems indispensable to formulate and implement policies and actions based on a better...
Urban & Regional Development Geographic Information Systems Physical Sciences and Engineering Computer Science and Information Technology
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Attenuation study of a province is considered as a basic quantity for seismic hazard assessment. It has already been established that the study of two physical processes, namely the seismic sources and propagation of the waves...
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Utilizing Volunteered Information for Infectious Disease Surveillance
With the advent of Web 2.0, the public is becoming increasingly interested in spatial data exploration. The potential for Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) to be adopted for passive disease surveillance and mediated...
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Liquefaction Behavior of Typical River Channel Deposit in Kolkata City
Liquefaction susceptibility of river channel deposit in Kolkata city is studied using laboratory cyclic triaxial tests. River channel deposit, which supports a large part of rapidly growing urbanization of Kolkata city, mainly...
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Estimating the Population of a Middle Eastern City Based on a Normalized Difference Built-Up Index and Urban Morphology
The aim of this study is to introduce a method for estimating the population of a Middle Eastern city, the city of Hillah, in the absence of a census which was last conducted in 1997. The method incorporates the normalized...
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Perspectives on Applications of Geospatial Technology and Landscape Ecology for Conservation Planning in the Global South
Henry Bulley, Oludunsin Arodudu, Esther Obonyo, Aniko Polo-Akpisso, Esther Ibrahim, Yazidhi Bamutaze
Jan 01, 2023
Rapidly changing landscapes and disturbance regimes in the Global South impact the viability of conservation planning. Although conservation planning processes benefit from reliable multi-scale and multi-temporal data on...
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