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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Density of tobacco retailers near schools: effects on tobacco use among students.

30 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVES: We examined the relationship between students' tobacco use and the density and proximity of tobacco retailers near their schools. METHODS: We used data from the 2003-2004 California Student Tobacco Survey and California retail licensing ... Read more...

Hurricane Ike rapid needs assessment - Houston, Texas, September 2008.

30 Sep 2009 On the morning of September 13, 2008, Hurricane Ike made landfall on the upper Texas Gulf coast at Galveston Island as a category 2 storm, with hurricane force winds extending 125 miles from its center. As the storm continued through nearby Houston ... Read more...

Impact of drainage networks on cholera outbreaks in Lusaka, Zambia.

15 Sep 2009 OBJECTIVES: We investigated the association between precipitation patterns and cholera outbreaks and the preventative roles of drainage networks against outbreaks in Lusaka, Zambia. METHODS: We collected data on 6542 registered cholera patients in ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Geographic Information Systems'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Density of tobacco retailers near schools: effects on tobacco use among students. 30 Oct 2009
• Hurricane Ike rapid needs assessment - Houston, Texas, September 2008. 30 Sep 2009
• Impact of drainage networks on cholera outbreaks in Lusaka, Zambia. 15 Sep 2009
• Methods for assessing movement path recursion with application to African buffalo in South Africa. 30 Aug 2009
• Assessing fuel treatment effectiveness using satellite imagery and spatial statistics. 30 Aug 2009
• The use of Geographic Information System (GIS) and non-GIS methods to assess the external validity of samples postcollection. 30 Aug 2009
• Using hospitalization for ambulatory care sensitive conditions to measure access to primary health care: an application of spatial structural equation modeling. 26 Aug 2009
• Cutaneous leishmaniasis in North-Western Yemen: a clinicoepidemiologic study and Leishmania species identification by polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. 17 Aug 2009
• An agent-based approach for modeling dynamics of contagious disease spread. 3 Aug 2009
• Double burden of deprivation and high concentrations of ambient air pollution at the neighbourhood scale in Montreal, Canada. 3 Aug 2009
• AAAS: use science to boost human rights. 3 Aug 2009
• Regionalized life cycle assessment: computational methodology and application to inventory databases. 30 Jul 2009
• Combining Google Earth and GIS mapping technologies in a dengue surveillance system for developing countries. 21 Jul 2009
• An empirical evaluation of private landowner participation in voluntary forest conservation programs. 21 Jul 2009
• Pedestrian injury and the built environment: an environmental scan of hotspots. 12 Jul 2009
• Long-term effects of changing land use practices on surface water quality in a coastal river and lagoonal estuary. 12 Jul 2009
• The relative importance of road density and physical watershed features in determining coastal marsh water quality in Georgian Bay. 12 Jul 2009
• Analysis of settled dust with X-ray Fluorescence for exposure assessment of metals in the province of Brescia, Italy. 9 Jul 2009
• Geographical patterns in blood lead in relation to industrial emissions and traffic in Swedish children, 1978-2007. 8 Jul 2009
• Shrub encroachment impacts the potential for multiple use conflicts on public land. 7 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Geographic Information Systems'

Definition: Computer systems capable of assembling, storing, manipulating, and displaying geographically referenced information, i.e. data identified according to their locations.

Descriptor UI: D040362

Alternative terms: Geographic Information Systems; Geographic Information System; Information System, Geographic; Information Systems, Geographic; Global Positioning Systems; Global Positioning System; Positioning System, Global; Positioning Systems, Global; System, Global Positioning; Systems, Global Positioning;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; organization & administration; standards; supply & distribution; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: L01.470.750.750.462; L01.700.508.300.314;

History Note: 2003