Change in Geographic Regions of Interest: Las Vegas

Detection of Structural Change in Geographic Regions of Interest by Self Organized Mapping: Las Vegas City and Lake Mead across the Years

Time-series of satellite images may reveal important data about changes in environmental conditions and natural or urban landscape structures that are of potential interest to citizens, historians, or policymakers. We applied a fast method of image analysis using Self Organized Maps (SOM) and, more specifically, the quantization error (QE), for the visualization of critical changes in satellite...

Analysis of Urban Land Use Change in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area Using Multi-temporal Satellite Imagery

Urban development has expanded rapidly in Las Vegas, Nevada, over the last fifty years. To assess urban land use change in the area, a sub-pixel change detection approach has been used to map urban extent and its temporal changes by determining sub-pixel level impervious surface areas from Landsat satellite remote sensing data in conjunction with digital orthophotography. Sub-pixel percentages ...

Exploring geographic proximity to fast-food restaurants and convenience stores with dental caries in patients at the University of Nevada Las Vegas School of Dental Medicine

Spielend Sortieren mit Las Vegas Cardsort

Las Vegas Cardsort ist ein einfaches Lernspiel, in dem die Spieler Karten sortieren. Las Vegas Cardsort wird von Schülern nicht als ein Lernprogramm, sondern als ein Minispiel wahrgenommen, dementsprechend hoch ist die Motivation und die Bereitschaft, mit Las Vegas Cardsort zu arbeiten. Es ergeben sich vielfältige Einsatzmöglichkeiten für den Unterricht. Las Vegas Cardsort kann auch ohne Progra...

Leaving Las Vegas: Exposure to Las Vegas and risk of suicide.

Residents of Las Vegas, Nevada have much higher suicide rates than residents of other metropolitan counties in the USA. Whether the risk of suicide among visitors to Las Vegas is also significantly elevated has been difficult to assess because person-time denominator information is not available. We used a case-control design to examine the association between exposure to Las Vegas and risk of ...