BACKGROUND Residing remotely from health care resources appears to impact quality of care delivery. It remains unclear if there are differences in vascular access based on distance of one's residence to dialysis centre at time of dialysis initiation, and whether region or duration of pre-dialysis care are important effect modifiers. METHODS We studied the association of distance from a patien...

Bu çalışma, pandemi sürecinde gerçekleştirilen uzaktan eğitim faaliyetlerine ilişkin karşılaşılan engelleri analiz ederek tek bir çatı altında toplamayı amaçlamıştır. Çalışmada ortaya çıkan sonuçlar, yapılacak faaliyetlerinde dikkat edilmesi gereken noktaları ön plana çıkarması açısından önem arz etmektedir. Araştırmanın yöntemi meta-sentez olarak belirlenmiştir. kapsamda, Covid-19 pandemisi dö...

We investigate the geographical effect on the synchronization of small-world oscillator networks. We construct small-world geographical networks by randomly adding links to one- and two-dimensional regular lattices, and we find that the synchronizability is a nonmonotonic function of both the coupling strength and the geographical distance of randomly added shortcuts. Our findings demonstrate t...

The existing relationship between human populations is a function of their migratory and genetic exchange, which will be inversely proportional to the distance separating them. The effect of geographic distance on population structure may be estimated by means of isonymic methods that use information on the surnames present in a territory as an approximation to the distribution of allele freque...

Community phylogenetic structure and diversity analysis are useful complements to species-centric approaches in biodiversity studies by providing new insights into the processes that drive community assembly. In this study, we aimed understand differences relative importance of abiotic filtering, biotic interactions, dispersal limitation on assembly trees at different vegetation growth stages. ...

Geographic routing is becoming the protocol of choice for many sensor network applications. The current state of the art is unsatisfactory: some algorithms are very efficient, however they require a preliminary planarization of the communication graph. Planarization induces overhead and is not realistic in many scenarios. On the other hand, georouting algorithms which do not rely on planarizati...

Geographic routing is becoming the protocol of choice for many sensor network applications. The current state of the art is unsatisfactory: some algorithms are very efficient, however they require a preliminary planarization of the communication graph. Planarization induces overhead and is thus not realistic for some scenarios such as the case of highly dynamic network topologies. On the other ...

Eight years after DNA barcoding was formally proposed on a large scale, CO1 sequences are rapidly accumulating from around the world. While studies to date have mostly targeted local or regional species assemblages, the recent launch of the global iBOL project (International Barcode of Life), highlights the need to understand the effects of geographical scale on Barcoding's goals. Sampling has ...

BACKGROUND Tracking timber is necessary in order to prevent illegal logging and protect local timber production, but there is as yet no suitable analytical traceability method. Stable isotope ratios in plants are known to reflect geographical variations. In this study we analysed four stable isotope ratios in order to develop a model able to identify the geographic origin of Norway spruce in th...