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Assessing Utilization and Effectiveness in Public Participative and Volunteered Geographic Information Systems for Environmental Data

Moreno, April; Osailan, Sarah - In: International Journal of Healthcare Information Systems … 12 (2017) 4, pp. 1-12

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) can serve as a planning tool to promote community health at many levels, such as …

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GIS Approach for Collaborative Monitoring and Prediction of Environmental Noise in Urban areas

Torres-Ruiz, Miguel J.; Juarez, Juan H.; Moreno, Marco A. - In: International Journal of Knowledge Society Research (IJKSR) 7 (2016) 1, pp. 1-25

Environmental noise, as well as being a form of environmental pollution that affects mainly urban areas, it is a problem that involves people's quality of life. This paper presents a methodology that takes advantage of the Volunteered Geographic Information (VGI) in obtaining georeferenced...

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Transmission Line Routing Using Open Source Software Q-GIS

Chakravorty, Sandeep; Ray, Amitava; Uddin, Shabbir; … - In: International Journal of Open Source Software and … 8 (2017) 4, pp. 71-82

System (GIS)-based electricity transmission system planning strategies are proposed in this article to determine an optimum … routing of feeders. Existing and proposed layouts have been drawn using a GIS-based software, Quantum Geographic Information … System (Q-GIS). The developed system is based on the routing of transmission lines from Barh thermal power plant situated in …

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Mobile Application for Patients' Waiting Time Control and Management of Diagnostic Imaging Examinations

Zarakovitis, Dimitrios; Tsoromokos, Dimitrios; … - In: International Journal of Reliable and Quality … 7 (2018) 4, pp. 20-33

Geographic information systems (GIS) are useful informative systems for reducing the waiting time of diagnostic imaging … and through GPS capabilities, the patients' exact coordinates are determined. GIS applications are used to create digital …

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System Dynamics Modelling to Study the Effects of Investment in Information Technology on Logistics Performance: A Case Study from India

Jhawar, Amrita; Garg, S.K. - In: International Journal of System Dynamics Applications … 5 (2016) 2, pp. 19-40

company on the logistics performance. Technologies like RFID, EDI, GPS/GIS and ERP are chosen for improving processes like …

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On Transforming a Road Network Database to a Graph for Localization Purpose

Meng, Xiangli; Rebreyend, Pascal - In: International Journal of Web Services Research (IJWSR) 13 (2016) 2, pp. 46-55

The problems of finding best facility locations require complete and accurate road networks with the corresponding population data in a specific area. However the data obtained from road network databases usually do not fit in this usage. In this paper the authors propose a procedure of...

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Ask your doctor or pharmacist!: On the effect of self-dispensing physicians on pharmaceutical coverage

Bannert, Matthias; Iselin, David - 2015

In most developed countries drugs are dispensed to patients through physicians and pharmacists. This paper studies the effects of allowing doctors to directly dispense drugs to patients (self-dispensation) on pharmaceutical coverage. We use a Swiss dataset in our empirical analysis because...

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How to incorporate the spatial dimension within destination choice models? The case of Antwerpen

Thomas, Isabelle; Verhetsel, Ann; Witlox, Frank; … - 2004

individual mobility patterns. Keywords Discrete choice model, activity-based approach, GIS, land use, urban mobility, Antwerpen …

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Cultural landscapes and heritage values: A spatial hedonic approach

Nilsson, Pia - 2010

Cultural Landscape Characteristics and Heritage Values A Spatially Explicit Hedonic Approach This paper uses the hedonic approach to analyze the relation between cultural landscape characteristics and property values. The empirical model uses geographic information systems to create a model that...

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The impact of crime on apartment prices: evidence of Stockholm, Sweden

Ceccato, Vania; Wilhemson, Mats - 2010

property having as a function crime together with other house and area attributes. GIS is used to combine apartment sales by co … research is threefold. First, it explores a set of land use attributes created by spatial techniques in GIS in combination with …

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