Sustainable development requires the resolution of many spatial decision problems in regard to managing the rights, restrictions and responsibilities between people and land. Most spatial decision problems are multicriteria in nature, involving economic, social, environmental and political dimensions and competing values. However, the process of multicriteria decision-making is not well establi...

STUDY OBJECTIVE The aim was to assess the relationship between survival, tumour stage, and the interval from first symptom to diagnosis (SDI, or duration of symptoms). DESIGN This was a retrospective follow up study of a cohort of patients registered in the tumour registry of the Hospital del Mar (Barcelona). SETTING Hospital based tumour registry, with patients derived mainly from the City...

The Sleep Disorders Inventory (SDI) is an expanded version of one item of the Neuropsychiatric Inventory (NPI). It describes the frequency, severity, and caregiver burden of sleep-disturbed behaviors during a period prior to its administration. We carried out post hoc analyses on baseline responses to the SDI in 104 persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and live-in caregivers who had been recru...

Understanding the role of Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) is important to acceptance of the concept and its alignment with spatial industry objectives. Much has been done to describe and understand the components and interactions of different aspects of SDIs and their integration into the transactions of the spatial data community. However, what fails to be received through these perceptions,...

The spatial information vision for most countries is to create a virtual state where any spatial information is available to any user, any time and any place. This is a simplistic vision that presents many challenges, with the major challenge being the creation of a spatial data infrastructure (SDI) to support the vision. Importantly unless we can agree on a spatial information vision for each ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the inter-study reproducibility of left ventricular (LV) mechanical dyssynchrony measures based on standard cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) cine images. DESIGN Steady-state free precession (SSFP) LV short-axis stacks and three long-axes were acquired on the same day at three time points. Circumferential strain systolic dyssynchrony indexes (SDI), area-SDI as we...

BACKGROUND Dengue viral infection is an acute infection that has the potential to have severe complications as its major sequela. Currently, there is no routine laboratory biomarker with which to predict the severity of dengue infection or monitor the effectiveness of standard management. Hence, this meta-analysis compared biomarker levels between dengue fever (DF) and severe dengue infections ...

Background: The aim of this study was to determine the sperm deformity index (SDI) of proven fertile males and compare this with that of infertile males. Methods: The study was carried out at Islamic International Medical College Rawalpindi and Islamabad Clinic Serving Infertile Couples, Islamabad, from July 2005 to July 2006. It was a cross-sectional comparative study. Fifty healthy fertile ma...