SCHS Studies NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES A Special Report Series by the State Center for Health Statistics 1908 Mail Service Center, Raleigh, N.C. 27699-1908 www.schs.state.nc.us/SCHS/ North Carolina Public Health Objectives: This study uses recent North Carolina data to demonstrate that multiple factors influence preterm birth risk, and particularly to show the effec...

This paper describes the definition and testing of a new type of median filter for images. The topological median filter implements some existing ideas and some new ideas on fuzzy connectedness to improve, over a conventional median filter, the extraction of edges in noise. The concept of alpha-connectivity is defined and used to create an algorithm for computing the degree of connectedness of ...

This presentation represents the first effort by the Center for Urban Studies (CENTER), University at Buffalo to reconceptualize community development and neighborhood revitalization. This essay grows directly out of the applied research and neighborhood planning activities of the CENTER, and our efforts to understand more deeply the issues we confronted. Professor Sam Cole, a Senior Research A...

development, a concept that is called often to process of moving from point to another that covers various aspects such as economic growth, structural change, industrialization, self-actualization and cultural, religious, national and individual self-reliance. a sustainable development is a new concept of economic growth. a growth that is as justice and opportunity for all people that living in...

Studies have shown that natural environments can enhance health and here we build upon that work by examining the associations between comprehensive greenspace metrics and health. We focused on a large urban population center (Toronto, Canada) and related the two domains by combining high-resolution satellite imagery and individual tree data from Toronto with questionnaire-based self-reports of...