BACKGROUND Health care accessibility is known to differ geographically. With this study we focused on analysing accessibility of general and specialized obstetric units in England and Germany with regard to urbanity, area deprivation and neonatal outcome using routine data. METHODS We used a floating catchment area method to measure obstetric care accessibility, the degree of urbanization (DE...

Accessibility typically has been applied to urban or transportation problems two dimensionally. However, in large complex buildings as shopping centers or hospitals, inter-spatial accessibility among compartments has to be taken into account such as in building layouts or evacuation planning. This study expands space syntax theory, one of accessibility-related methodologies used for computing c...

In this paper, we present a statistical modelling approach in order to explain the presence and development of built-up areas by means of a set of distinct accessibility indicators, so as to use these results in local planning studies, to test urban sustainability measures, and to eventually forecast the impact of accessibility to transport systems on urban development. On the basis of encourag...

the increasing of emigration from villages to cities and decreasing of services to villagers to afford of daily needs causes that they recourse to the cities especial in central business districts. it needs to spend much time and causes to increase the villagers’ costs. so in this article it have been tried to compare between the services centers for villagers in zabol city and it have been tri...

This paper introduces a new measure to approach the accessibility of places in the frame of the digital economy. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the Internet are not equally spread around places and this heterogeneity affects spatial configuration. Despite the wide societal changes due to ICTs and the extensive interest in accessibility studies, these two themes have not y...

The problem of destination accessibility is a vital concern in the sustainable tourism development in the emerging regions due to the increasing numbers of tourism business growth in the recent times. Tourism is one of the potential foreign exchange earning sectors, which place sustainability as one of the main success metrics for benchmarking the industry’s overall development. On the other ha...

Abstract: Research in examining the equity of service accessibility has emerged as economic and social equity advocates recognized that where people live influences their opportunities for economic development, access to quality healthcare, and political participation. In this research paper, service accessibility equity is concerned with where and when services have been and are accessed by di...

If a person knows that Fred ate a pizza, then they can answer the following questions: Who ate a pizza?, What did Fred eat?, What did Fred do to the pizza? and even Who ate what? This and related properties we are terming accessibility properties for the relational fact that Fred ate a pizza. Accessibility in this sense is a significant property of human cognitive performance. Among neural netw...

MOTIVATION A recently developed DNaseI assay has given us our first genome-wide view of chromatin structure. In addition to cataloging DNaseI hypersensitive sites, these data allows us to more completely characterize overall features of chromatin accessibility. We employed a Bayesian hierarchical change-point model (CPM), a generalization of a hidden Markov Model (HMM), to characterize tiled mi...