Rapid Visual Screening for Seismic Assessment of Hospital Buildings: A Case Study of Kabul City by Abdul Ali Raoufy, Ali Kheyroddin, Hosein Naderpour

“…In the current applied research, the seismic vulnerability of 26 hospitals that had 79 existing buildings were assessed with the Rapid Visual Screening (RVS) technique of FEMA P-154 method in two levels for the first time, and their location was determined by Geographic Information System (GIS). The existing hospital buildings evaluated at level 1 and level 2 were estimated to be seismically vulnerable in the event of a possible destructive earthquake; the seismic vulnerability of these buildings was obtained to be different. …”
Get full text

Understanding exposure risk using soil testing and GIS around an abandoned asbestos mine by Abhijeet V. Jadhav, Nilesh Gawde, Ramesh Veerappan, Yeyong Choi, Arthur L. Frank

“…Objectives: The aim of this study is to examine the presence of asbestos in the residential areas of villages surrounding an abandoned asbestos mine and to understand the spread of visible asbestos dust using geographic information system map analysis. Methods: This study examined the presence of asbestos in soil samples from four villages surrounding an abandoned asbestos mine using the scanning electron microscopy technique. …”
Get full text

Barriers and enablers towards integrated care for survivors of sexual violence in humanitarian settings: A real-time qualitative Delphi study by Engy Sawah, Karina Kielmann, Joris Michielsen

“…Effective networking, community engagement, capacity building, co-locating services, participatory management, promoting employees’ sense of ownership, establishing a digital information system, and a unified joint patient file were key identified enablers. …”
Get full text

Adjacency Matrix Implementation for Evaluation of Land Use City Consistency to Fuzzy AHP (Case: Didactic Lands School Gorgan City) by Alireza Khajehshahkoohi, Husayn Karimzadeh, Mojtaba Hoosin nejad

“…On the other hand, collective nature of city activities and organic non deterministic extant in priorities and opinions of planners and necessity to use of various priorities and opinions of planners in this process have necessitated to use simultaneously collective make decision method and various tools for supporting to decision as Geographic Information System(GIS). Thus in present research has presented Fuzzy AHP Model and has evaluated city educational uses adjustment as for all effective factors in land use adjustments on basis of synthetic viewpoint Multi – Criteria Decision Models (AHP) and theory of Fuzzy. …”
Get full text

Suitable site Selection for Maize Cultivation Based on the crop of Temperature Supply Needs in Northwestern Iran by zeinab ebrahimighalelani, javad khoshhal dastjerdi, hojatolah yazdanpanah

“…To carry out this research, thermal requirements in each of the 5 main phases of phenology have been determined at the Moghan station, then using the regression equation between the 15-day average of temperature and altitude, a temperature-temperature history map for seed cultivation in all stations from the first half of the year was drawn using Geographic Information System software. Also, the length of scientific periods and the degree of growth day were calculated and the relevant maps were drawn using the Kriging method. …”
Get full text

Cost Management at Higher Education Institutions – Cases of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and Slovenia by Martina Dragija Kostić, Tatjana Jovanović, Jelena Jurić

“…The precondition for successful reform processes is certainly a comprehensive and high-quality accounting information system that meets not only the requirements of external reporting but also the requirements of internal users, especially the management of HEIs. …”
Get full text

Canine Fecal Contamination in a Metropolitan Area (Milan, North-Western Italy): Prevalence of Intestinal Parasites and Evaluation of Health Risks by Sergio Aurelio Zanzani, Anna Rita Di Cerbo, Alessia Libera Gazzonis, Marco Genchi, Laura Rinaldi, Vincenzo Musella, Giuseppe Cringoli, Maria Teresa Manfredi

“…Differences in parasites prevalence distribution were explored by a geographical information system- (GIS-) based approach, and risk factors (human density, sizes of green parks, and dog areas) were considered. …”
Get full text

Groundwater potential assessment in Pino region, South Bengkulu, Indonesia using geo-investigation, remote sensing, and GIS approaches by Ashar Muda Lubis, Hera Wahyu Fauzi, Arya J. Akbar

“…Therefore, this study aims to investigate the distribution of groundwater potential in Pino region by using Geo-investigation Electrical Resistivity Tomography (2D ERT), Remote Sensing (RS), and Geographical Information System (GIS) methods. Various parameters related to groundwater potential were weighted with the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to generate a groundwater potential distribution map. …”
Get full text

Information contracting tools in a cancer specialist unit:the role of Healthcare Resource Groups (HRGs) by Carol Marlow, Hugh Preston

“…The data were drawn from the patient information system within a major cancer unit. The focus of the investigation is encapsulated in the following questions: a) Do HRGs really work as a grouping and costing methodology? …”
Get full text

A Hybrid Short-Term Traffic Flow Multistep Prediction Method Based on Variational Mode Decomposition and Long Short-Term Memory Model by Qichun Bing, Fuxin Shen, Xiufeng Chen, Weijian Zhang, Yanran Hu, Dayi Qu

“…Timely and accurate traffic prediction information is essential for advanced traffic management system (ATMS) and advanced traveler information system (ATIS). Because of the characteristics of nonlinearity, nonstationarity, and randomness, short-term traffic flow prediction could be still a challenging task. …”
Get full text

Organization of live animal transportation process in the Russian Federation by M. A. Shibayev, I. M. Klinovitskaya, A. V. Belchikhina, A. K. Karaulov

“…The legal framework, regulating the organization of live animal transportation using different vehicles, as well as quantitative data on live animal movements, taken from state veterinary information system “VetIS” (“Mercury” and “Cerberus” components) were analyzed. …”
Get full text

Two-Phase Model of Multistep Forecasting of Traffic State Reliability by Jufen Yang, Zhigang Liu, Guiyan Jiang, Lin Zhu

“…Multistep prediction of traffic state is a key technology for advanced transportation information system. The research results based on the principle of multistep prediction can provide more information about the traffic operating quality in advance. …”
Get full text

Improving preparedness for time critical prehospital care: a descriptive study of the first responder system in Central Norway by Andreas Lindeman, Lars Eide Næss, Lars Vesterhus, Ann-Britt Maude Bakken, Andreas Krüger, Helge Haugland

“…Methods We described incidents with dispatch of first responders in the catchment area of the Emergency Medical Communication Center of Sør-Trøndelag in Central Norway, using retrospective data recorded in the Norwegian Emergency Medical Information System between 2019 and 2023. Results First responders were dispatched to 460 incidents during the period. …”
Get full text

Production Thematic Maps of Bearing Capacity of Shallow Foundation for Al-Basrah Soil Using Standard Penetration Data and GIS by Majeed Sabaa, Alaa Salman, Ammar Dakhil, Saba Jawad, Mahdi Karkush, Ahmed Athab

“…The Geographic Information System (GIS) is one of the modern database software which is used to collect, analyze, display, processing and produce geographic information maps for a specific objective. …”
Get full text

Optimal locating of Urban Waste Recycling Facility (Case Study: Kelardasht, Iran) by Maryam Ilanloo, Hosein Bicgarian, Mohsen Yahya Soltani, Mohammad Mehdi Bahramian

“…Moreover, the analytical hierarchy process (AHP) and geographic information system (GIS) were exploited to determine the and use weights in raster maps and generation of the zoning map. …”
Get full text

Histopathological assessment of AIDS-defining malignancies in the gastrointestinal tract presenting with acute abdomen: Improving diagnostic timeliness and patient care by M C Khaba, N E Mothata, M O Keetse, T Sumbana

“…Clinicopathological characteristics were retrieved from the laboratory information system. Archived haematoxylin and eosin-stained sections and immunohistochemical stains were reap- praised. …”
Get full text

Clinical Holistic Medicine: Chronic Infections and Autoimmune Diseases by Søren Ventegodt, Joav Merrick

“…For this they are totally dependent on the body information system, which the holistic treatment aims to recover. …”
Get full text

The Relationship between Training and Mental Health among Caregivers of Individuals with Polytrauma by Lillian Flores Stevens, Treven C. Pickett, Kathryn P. Wilder Schaaf, Brent C. Taylor, Amy Gravely, Courtney Harold Van Houtven, Greta Friedemann-Sánchez, Joan M. Griffin

“…Embedded in the survey were measures of caregiver mental health, including the National Institutes of Health’s Patient Reported Outcome Measurement Information System (PROMIS) Anxiety and Depression Short Forms, the Rosenberg Self-Esteem scale, and the Zarit Burden Short Form. …”
Get full text

Data mining and socio-spatial patterns of COVID-19: geo-prevention keys for tackling the pandemic by Olga De Cos Guerra, Valentín Castillo Salcines, David Cantarero Prieto

“…The main source is the daily records of micro-data on COVID-19 cases and the methodology is based on ESRI geo-technologies, and more specifically on a tool called SITAR (a Spanish acronym which stands for Fast-Action Territorial Information System). The main goal is to analyse and contribute to knowledge of the spatial patterns of COVID-19 at neighbourhood level from a space-time perspective. …”
Get full text

Evolution of access to prenatal care in Pernambuco: maternal schooling as a marker of health inequities by Daniella Oliveira Albuquerque Lins, Maria Tatiane Alves da Silva, Lívia Teixeira de Souza Maia

“…Data were obtained from the Live Birth Information System. Temporal trend analysis was performed using the joinpoint regression method, and patterns of inequality were assessed through absolute measures (difference, ratio), relative measures (concentration index - CIX), and Equiplot-type graphs. …”
Get full text