Encouraging active and sustainable modes of transport has been an important goalfor all transport authorities in developed countries. In many cities, cycling as an active transportmode is only directly investigated within the limited scope of separate road developmentprojects. Efficient moves towards urban transport networks that favour sustainable modes canonly be possible by a...

Objectives: To describe and estimate the prevalence of dog walking using a nationwide sample. Methods: 2009 National Household Travel Survey data (N = 5100) were analyzed for: duration of dog walks, number of dog walks/day, total dog walking minutes/day. Results: In a one-day period, 67% of dog walkers took at least one walk ≥10 minutes, 20% walked a dog for at least 30 minutes, and 28% took mo...

A tangle of health, quality-of-life, environmental, and economic concerns has prompted Seattle and other major US cities to pursue strategies that encourage more trips by foot, bike, and transit. Yet increasing bicycling rates remains a distinct challenge, as evidenced by the extremely low share of Americans—especially women—who choose the two-wheeled mode for their everyday journeys. Even in S...

In-hospital stroke (IHS), which represents between 2.2% and 17% of all strokes, differs from community-onset stroke (COS) in etiology, treatment approaches and outcome. Patients hospitalized for cardiac disease are especially vulnerable to predominantly cardioembolic IHS. Stroke severity, functional outcome and mortality compare unfavorably to COS. Difficulties in symptom recognition, intra-hos...

This paper describes the system for rating the degree of semantic equivalence between two text snippets developed by IHS-RD-Belarus for the SemEval 2016 STS shared task (Task 1). To predict the human ratings of text similarity we use a support vector regression model with multiple features representing similarity and difference scores calculated for each

IHS ESDU recently published its latest ‘User Guide’ to fouling in heat exchange systems, for systems with fresh water as the coolant. ESDU 07006 [1] is the third in a group, following the development of the Crude Oil Fouling User Guide [2] issued in 2000 and the Seawater Fouling User Guide [3] issued in 2004. ESDU 07006 was developed by IHS ESDU over a period of five years under the guidance of...

[1] Isotopic hydrograph separation (IHS) to define sources of event and preevent water during hydrological episodes has greatly improved the understanding of water, solute, and contaminant transport to streams during recent decades. However, the large variation in snowmelt isotopic composition, caused by fractionation during melting, has impeded an accurate separation of streamflow during sprin...

BACKGROUND Pakistan has a high burden of maternal and newborn mortality, which would be largely preventable through appropriate antenatal and delivery care. While the influence of socio-economic status on institutional delivery is well established in the literature, relatively little is known about the relationship between the quality of antenatal care and institutional delivery. METHODS A ho...

This paper describes clinical disorder recognition and encoding system submitted by IHS R&D Belarus team at the SemEval-2015 shared task related to analysis of clinical texts. Our system is based on IHS Goldfire Linguistic Processor and uses a rich set of lexical, syntactic and semantic features. The proposed system consists of two components: a CRF-based approach to recognize disorder entities...