Abstract Functional Urban Areas (FUAs) leads to a better knowledge of urban spatial organisation, which may play significant role in regional policy making and be helpful understanding the connection between urbanisation demographic development. An explanation population change regions can associated second transition comprising fertility decline below replacement level postponement births. The...

Abstract Background Fragmentation and deforestation are one of the greatest threats to forests, these processes even more concern in tropics, where seasonal dry forest is possibly most threatened ecosystems with least remaining surface area. Methods The fragmentation patterns that had occurred Ecuadorian forests between 1990 2018 were verified, while geographic information systems land cover sh...

Abstract Background Fifty-three percent of all cases malaria in the Americas 2019 came from Venezuela, where epidemic is heavily focused south Orinoco river, and most country’s Amerindian groups live. Although disease known to represent a significant public health problem among these populations, little epidemiological data exists on subject. This study aims provide information incidence, geosp...

The spatial configuration of vegetation patches in the landscape has implications for provision ecosystem services, human adaptation to climate change, enhancement, or mitigation urban heat island. Until recently, effect enhance mitigate island received little consideration thermal assessments. This study examines impact on warming and cooling Harare metropolitan city, Zimbabwe. used Advanced S...

This study was focused on the metropolitan area of Florence in Tuscany (Italy) with aim mapping and evaluating thermal summer diurnal hot- cool-spots relation to features greening, urban surfaces, city morphology. The work driven by Landsat 8 land surface temperature (LST) data related 2015–2019 daytime periods. Hot-spot analysis performed adopting Getis-Ord Gi* spatial statistics applied mean ...

Burn severity classifications derived from multitemporal Landsat Thematic Mapper images and the Normalised Burn Ratio (NBR) are commonly used to assess the post-fire ecological effects of wildfires. Ongoing efforts to retrospectively map historical burn severity require defensible, objectivemethods of classifying continuous differenced Normalised Burn Ratio (dNBR) data where field data are ofte...

BACKGROUND Unequal distribution of emergency care services is a critical barrier to be overcome to assure access to emergency and surgical care. Considering this context it was objective of the present work analyze geographic access barriers to emergency care services in Brazil. A secondary aim of the study is to define possible roles to be assumed by small hospitals in the Brazilian healthcare...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The presence of efficient malaria vectors namely Anopeles culicifacies, An. fluviatilis and An. annularis (Diptera: Culicidae), rapid industrialization causing large influx of population and poor health infrastructure are some of the factors that make malaria an important public health problem in Ranchi, the capital of Jharkhand State, India. A geographical information s...

Abstract Activated carbon can be manufactured from waste coffee grounds via physical and/or chemical activation processes. However, challenges remain to quantify the differences in surface morphology between activated granules and grounds. This paper presents a novel quantitative method determine quality of processes performed presence intensity inhomogeneity identify characteristics The spatia...