High spatial resolution (1 km or finer) precipitation data fields are crucial for understanding the Earth’s water and energy cycles at regional scale applications. The of Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission (IMERG) satellite products is 0.1° (latitude) × (longitude), which too coarse regional-scale analysis. This study combined Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR) Multifractal Ra...

The percentage of undernourished toddlers on Java Island averages 8.5 %. This number is relatively high compared to the average incidence undernutrition in Sumatra, 3.3%. study uses OLS, GWR, and GWANN explore data Island. We use cross-validation determine optimum bandwidth GWR methods. a single hidden layer with several neurons where selected based RMSE. indicators RMSE, MAE, MAPE best method ...

BACKGROUND This paper analyses the relationship between public perceptions of access to general practitioners (GPs) surgeries and hospitals against health status, car ownership and geographic distance. In so doing it explores the different dimensions associated with facility access and accessibility. METHODS Data on difficulties experienced in accessing health services, respondent health stat...

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes a high disease burden among the elderly worldwide. In Taiwan, the long-term temporal trend of COPD mortality is declining, but the geographical disparity of the disease is not yet known. Nationwide COPD age-adjusted mortality at the township level during 1999-2007 is used for elucidating the geographical distribution of the disease. With an or...

BACKGROUND Numerous studies have found adverse health effects of acute and chronic exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5). Air pollution epidemiological studies relying on ground measurements provided by monitoring networks are often limited by sparse and unbalanced spatial distribution of the monitors. Studies have found correlations between satellite aerosol optical depth (AOD) and PM2.5...

OBJECTIVE Evaluate disparities in a Brazilian state by conducting an analysis to determine whether socioeconomic status was associated with the reported intimate partner sexual violence (IPSV) rates against women. DESIGN A retrospective, ecological study. SETTINGS Data retrieved from the Notifiable Diseases Information System database of the Ministry of Health of Brazil. PARTICIPANTS All ...

Bike-sharing holds promise for available and healthy mobility services during COVID-19 where bike sharing users can make trips with lower health concerns due to social distancing compared the restricted transportation modes such as public transit ridesharing services. Leveraging trip data of Divvy bike-sharing system in Chicago, this study exploresspatially heterogeneous effects built environme...

Habitat suitability index (HSI) models provide spatially explicit information on the capacity of a given habitat to support a species of interest, and their prevalence has increased dramatically in recent years. Despite caution that the reliability of HSIs must be validated using independent, quantitative data, most HSIs intended to inform terrestrial and marine species management remain unvali...