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Bridging Indigenous and science-based knowledge in coastal-marine research, monitoring, and management in Canada: a systematic map protocol

Steven M. Alexander, Jennifer F. Provencher, Dominique A. Henri, Jessica J. Taylor et al. • Environmental Evidence (2019)

Abstract Background The incorporation of multiple types of knowledge (e.g., science, Indigenous knowledge, traditional ecological knowledge) is an important undertaking, which can strengthen the evidence-base for policy advice, decision mak...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s13750-019-0159-1

The Architecture of an Automatic eHealth Platform With Mobile Client for Cerebrovascular Disease Detection

Wang, Xingce, Bie, Rongfang, Sun, Yunchuan, Wu, Zhongke et al. • JMIR mHealth and uHealth (2013)

BackgroundIn recent years, cerebrovascular disease has been the leading cause of death and adult disability in the world. This study describes an efficient approach to detect cerebrovascular disease. ObjectiveIn order to improve...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.2196/mhealth.2550

Statistics, Not Experts

WILLIAM L. MEADOW, Cass Robert Sunstein • Duke Law Journal (2001)

The legal system should rely much more than it now does on statistical evidence. It should be cautious about the judgments of experts, who make predictable cognitive errors. Like everyone else, experts have a tendency to blunder about risk,...

OPENALEX Open Access DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1373203

Theoretical Statistics

D. R. Cox, DAVID V. HINKLEY • Chapman & Hall/CRC eBooks (1979)

A text that stresses the general concepts of the theory of statistics Theoretical Statistics provides a systematic statement of the theory of statistics, emphasizing general concepts rather than mathematical rigor. Chapters 1 through 3 prov...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1201/b14832

Prevalence and risk factors of acute kidney injury in polytrauma patients at Muhimbili Orthopedic Institute, Tanzania

Mohamed S. Muhamedhussein, Mohamed Manji, Kitugi S. Nungu, Paschal Ruggajo et al. • African Journal of Emergency Medicine (2021)

Background: Polytrauma can lead to multi-organ dysfunction in addition to the local injuries. Acute kidney injury (AKI) is one of the most common causes and contributors to the high morbidity and mortality. Prevalence of acute kidney injury...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.afjem.2020.08.004

Patient and Attendant Satisfaction With Services at Medical College Hospital in Bangladesh: A Cross-Sectional Survey

Amit Bhowmick, Sumaiya Tohfa Afindi, Suchandana Rani • Health Services Insights (2026)

Background Patient satisfaction is a key indicator of healthcare quality, particularly in resource-constrained public health systems. Despite growing evidence on healthcare service quality in Bangladesh, comprehensive assessments incorporat...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/11786329261477455

An Investigation of Potential Health Risks from Zoonotic Bacterial Pathogens Associated with Farm Rats

Lorina Badger-Emeka, Yasmeen Al-Mulhim, Fatimah Al-Muyidi, Maram Busuhail et al. • Environmental Health Insights (2020)

Background: The 21st century has seen a wide range of diseases resulting from zoonotic infections, of which bacterial infections have led to outbreaks of food-borne diseases. Aim: The study looks at bacterial pathogen carriage by farm rats ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1177/1178630220942240

AN INVESTIGATION OF LOCAL EFFECTS ON SURFACE WARMING WITH GEOGRAPHICALLY WEIGHTED REGRESSION (GWR)

Y. Xue, T. Fung, J. Tsou • The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (2012)

Urban warming is sensitive to the nature (thermal properties, including albedo, water content, heat capacity and thermal conductivity) and the placement (surface geometry or urban topography) of urban surface. In the literature the spatial ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B8-131-2012

Geographical information science

Michael Frank Goodchild • International Journal of Geographical Information Systems (1992)

. Research papers at conferences such as EGIS and the International Symposia on Spatial Data Handling address a set of intellectual and scientific questions which go well beyond the limited technical capabilities of current technology in ge...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/02693799208901893

The Geography of Transport Systems

Jean‐Paul Rodrigue • Routledge eBooks (2013)

Mobility is fundamental to economic and social activities such as commuting, manufacturing, or supplying energy. Each movement has an origin, a potential set of intermediate locations, a destination, and a nature which is linked with geogra...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203371183

Entangled Geographies

• The MIT Press eBooks (2011)

Investigations into how technologies became peculiar forms of politics in an expanded geography of the Cold War. The Cold War was not simply a duel of superpowers. It took place not just in Washington and Moscow but also in the social and p...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/9780262515788.001.0001

The Geography of Transport Systems

Jean‐Paul Rodrigue, Claude Comtois, Brian Slack • Routledge eBooks (2016)

This expanded and revised fourth edition of The Geography of Transport Systems provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field with a broad overview of its concepts, methods and areas of application. Aimed mainly at an und...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315618159

Decolonizing posthumanist geographies

Juanita Sundberg • Cultural Geographies (2013)

This paper engages my struggles to craft geo-graphs or earth writings that also further broaden political goals of decolonizing the discipline of geography. To this end, I address a body of literature roughly termed ‘posthumanism’ because i...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474013486067

The Geography of Transport Systems

Jean‐Paul Rodrigue • Routledge eBooks (2020)

This expanded and revised fifth edition of The Geography of Transport Systems provides a comprehensive and accessible introduction to the field with a broad overview of its concepts, methods and areas of application. Aimed mainly at an unde...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429346323

Geographic Information Systems

• Advances in public policy and administration (APPA) book series (2020)

The chapter presents the geographic information systems. A geographic information system (GIS) is a computer system that allows various sources to gather and organize, manage, analyze and combine, develop, and present geographically located...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-1916-5.ch008

HUMANISTIC GEOGRAPHY

Yi‐Fu Tuan • Annals of the Association of American Geographers (1976)

The focus of humanistic geography is on people and their condition. Humanistic geography is thus not primarily an earth science, yet it is a branch of geography because it reflects upon kinds of evidence that interest other branches of the ...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8306.1976.tb01089.x

The Geographical Cycle

William Morris Davis • Geographical Journal (1899)

GEOGRAPHICAL CYCLE.continental coast, whichever it proves to be, along the Pacific to the meridian of Peter island.Magnetic observations, deep-sea soundings, and dredgings would be taken throughout the three seasons; but, looking to the unc...

OPENALEX DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/1774538