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Community-based public health: an Online Decision Support Systems : for Logan city, Australia

Gudes, Ori; Kendall, Elizabeth; Yigitcanlar, Tan; … - 2009

Introduction Among the many requirements of establishing community health, a healthy urban environment stands out as significant one. A healthy urban environment constantly changes and improves community well-being and expands community resources. The promotion efforts for such an environment,...

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Harnessing ICT-based tool for improving the collaborative health planning debate : the case of Logan-Beaudesert, Australia

Gudes, Ori; Kendall, Elizabeth; Yigitcanlar, Tan; … - 2010

information communication technology (ICT) tools including geographic information systems (GIS) that provide the mechanisms to … that has been adopted to develop an online GIS-based DSS for health planners. The literature states that the overall aim of … minimizing judgmental biases. For this reason, the paper examines the effectiveness and impact of an innovative online GIS …

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Identifying rural disadvantage using a multiday travel diary

Kamruzzaman, Md.; Hine, Julian - 2010

relative performance in terms of these different indices and identify the nature of transport disadvantage. GIS was used to …

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Building a Framework for a Spatial Decision Support System for Co-locating Public Facilities

Minde, Julie M. - 2008

Co-location involves the intentional siting together of public facilities. Co-locationof public facilities is becoming an increasingly common practice, particularly forits perceived benefits of resource savings, increased efficiency and synergy of services,and enhanced sense of community. Such...

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Optimization Models for Selecting Bus Stops for Accessibility Improvements for People with Disabilities

Wu, Wanyang - 2009

.Geographic Information System (GIS) techniques were used extensively to both prepare the model input and examine the model output. An …

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Modeling the Dynamics of Desakota Regions: Global - Local Nexus in the Taipei Metropolitan Area

Sui, Daniel (contributor) - 2009

, this study develops a GIS-based CA framework based on the desakota model to not only simulate the unique urbanization …

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Enabling Sustainability: Hierarchical Need-Based Framework for Promoting Sustainable Data Infrastructure in Developing Countries

Yawson, David O.; Armah, Frederick A.; Pappoe, Alex N.M. - 2009

"The paper presents thoughts on Sustainable Data Infrastructure (SDI)development, and its user requirements bases. It brings Maslow's motivational theory to the fore, and proposes it as a rationalization mechanism for entities (mostly governmental) that aim at realizing SDI. Maslow's theory,...

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Incorporating Geographic Information Systems into the Development of Diabetes Programs in Ohio

Box, Klara - 2009

care providers to identify where intervention programs are needed. Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is a mapping tool … GIS in order to identify where in Ohio DM intervention programs would be most effective. Sample: All Ohio counties (n=88 …). Procedure: Demographic and health data from the Ohio Department of Health was geocoded using GIS software. Measures include DM …

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Implementation of a prototype toolbox for communicating spatial data quality and uncertainty using a wildfire risk example

Reinke, K; Jones, S; Hunter, G - 2006

Current GIS are often described as rich in functionality but poor in knowledge content and transfer. This paper …

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PROTECTED HORTICULTURE AND ENVIRONMENT. AN INTEGRAL DECISION MODEL FOR GREENHOUSE WASTE MANAGEMENT IN SOUTHEASTERN SPAIN

Gomez, Salvador Parra - 2008

recyclingprocess, to the tune of 4082777 € and 4794566 €, respectively. Likewise, a Geographical InformationSystem (GIS) has been used …

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