Endogenous development strategies should not be interpreted as inwardlooking. Small scale economies need to be open in order to perform. The latter has been especially put forward in the case of small state islands (Read and Staines, 2004...). Yet, we deem that the same is true for other types of territories with geographic specificities. It has already been shown that, in many instances, spars...

BACKGROUND Geocoding methods vary among spatial epidemiology studies. Errors in the geocoding process and differential match rates may reduce study validity. We compared two geocoding methods using 8,157 Washington State addresses. The multi-stage geocoding method implemented by the state health department used a sequence of local and national reference files. The single-stage method used a sin...

Introduction In many countries, people face problems regarding access to care, 24/7 support and evidence-based support. Digital interventions services, such as chatbots, can be one option tackle these challenges. There is a lack knowledge how mental health chatbots are developed ensure that there collaboration between digital technology experts users. Objectives This presentation describes the ...

We propose a method of improving the reconstruction of edges and corners in surface meshes of sparsely populated point clouds by exploiting the presence of planes in the scene, the calculated geometry of the cameras and the images themselves. By robustly identifying co-planar points in the point cloud, isolating suitable plane-pairs for intersection, identifying the regions-of-interest along th...

The balance between protein folding and misfolding is a crucial determinant of amyloid assembly. Transient intermediates that are sparsely populated during protein folding have been identified as key players in amyloid aggregation. However, due to their ephemeral nature, structural characterization of these species remains challenging. Here, using the power of nonuniformly sampled NMR methods w...

The diagnostic needs for FMD control will vary. In some cases virus detection will be required, in other cases antibody detection. It is, however, essential to be prepared. Quantitative knowledge about the samples size, sensitivity and specificity of the test is therefore important. For the FMD contingency plan in the Netherlands we developed a stochastic FMD transmission model to evaluate cont...