building expert systems with and without gis for impact assessment

... of oral impacts between adolescents with and without normative need for orthodontic treatment only for CS-OIDP attributed to malocclusion (p = 0.032 and 0.049 respectively), but not for OHIP-14 ... adjusting for covariates (sex, age, ethnicity and orthodontic treatment status), the prevalence of oral impacts was also compared between adolescents with and without normative need for orthodontic ... between adolescents with and without normative need for orthodontic treatment, better results were found for CS-OIDP attributed to malocclusion than for OHIP-14 Effect size for CSOIDP attributed...

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... 75 persons without diabetes in both the UK and in Canada to represent the general population and 50 persons with diabetes in Canada to represent the patients' perspectives Respondents without diabetes ... Station, Texas) was used for all analyses Results The final sample consisted of 50 respondents with diabetes in Canada, 79 respondents without diabetes in Canada, and 75 respondents without diabetes ... respondents in Canada and non-diabetic respondents in Canada and the United Kingdom Health state Canadians with diabetes (N = 51) Canadians without diabetes (N = 78) UK respondents without diabetes...

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... Rolland F, Bolla M, et al.: Postoperative irradiation with or without concomitant chemotherapy for locally advanced head and neck cancer N Engl J Med 2004, 350:1945-1952 Cooper JS, Pajak TF, Forastiere ... failures, and distant metastases Five patients showed local and regional failures, showed regional and distant failures, and one patient showed local and distant failures Of those patient with initial ... factors related to OS and DSF rates Therefore, aggressive treatments should be considered for patients with these risk factors Although the combination of chemotherapy with surgery and RT has improved...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 08:23

... support 27 GIS and impact assessment 52 GIS and environmental management 81 GIS and expert systems for impact assessment 116 PART II Building expert systems (with and without GIS) for impact assessment ... Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson Contents Acknowledgements vi PART I GIS and expert systems for impact assessment The potential of expert systems and GIS for impact assessment Expert systems and decision ... resources; land use and planning impacts; traffic impacts; noise impacts; air pollution impacts; impacts on soil and land; impacts on geology and hydrogeology; impacts on ecology (terrestrial and aquatic)...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... that expert systems may have claimed for themselves: © 2004 Agustin Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson 42 GIS and expert systems for IA • • • Interactive software started to proliferate, with ... Sasson, R (1986) Expert Systems 1986, Vol 1, USA and Canada, Ovum Ltd © 2004 Agustin Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson 50 GIS and expert systems for IA Hewett, J., Timms, S and D’Aumale, G ... programmers, the former is the domain of experts, and it was essential for the development of expert systems to find ways of obtaining that knowledge from the experts Techniques for acquiring and encoding...

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... Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson 66 GIS and expert systems for IA • • • • For soil pollution-risk analysis, Pires and Santos (1996) use IDRISI with satellite and other data to construct a risk model for ... Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson 74 GIS and expert systems for IA Conference/Workshop on Integrating GIS and Environmental Modelling, National Centre for Geographic Information and Analysis, Santa ... using GIS map algebra, and Young and Jarvis (2001) use a similar approach to predict risks for urban habitats © 2004 Agustin Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson GIS and impact assessment 65 Andrews...

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... Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson 84 GIS and expert systems for IA use remote sensing to map fallow land, and Allanson and Moxey (1996) map agricultural land-use changes in England and Wales; Pratt ... Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson 108 GIS and expert systems for IA Lyon, J.G and Adkins, K.F (1995) Use of a GIS for Wetland Identification, the St Clair Flats, Michigan, in Lyon, J.G and McCarthy, ... Rodriguez-Bachiller, A (2000) Geographical Information Systems and Expert Systems for Impact Assessment Part I: GIS, Journal of Environmental Assessment Policy and Management, Vol 2, No (September),...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 20:20

... GIS and expert systems for IA 117 the potential of ES appearing in the environmental literature, and prototypes starting to be developed and used 5.2.1 Expert systems without GIS for impact assessment ... Planning, Oxford Brookes University Rodriguez-Bachiller, A (2000) Geographical Information Systems and Expert Systems for Impact Assessment Part II: Expert Systems and Decision Support Systems, ... Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson 136 GIS and expert systems for IA For impact mitigation, Kusse and Wentholt (1992) discuss the RIM system which combines an ES and a GIS to simulate emission...

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... expanded considerably for the GIS- linked system For example, comparing the knowledge bases used by the SCREEN– SCOPE suite in its two versions (with and without GIS) , the impact of adding GIS ... amount of expertise and/ or programming This suggests that GIS also can benefit from being linked to other systems (like expert systems) that “manage” their performance GIS can be used by such systems ... heritage impacts; location in wetlands suggests the need to investigate land-ecology impacts, soil and hydrogeology issues; © 2004 Agustin Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson 174 Building expert systems...

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... likely to also reduce vibration and re-radiated noise 7.4 CONCLUSIONS: EXPERT SYSTEMS FOR AIR-POLLUTION AND NOISE IMPACT ASSESSMENT Expert systems to help with impact prediction are most likely ... Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson 192 Building expert systems for IA Figure 7.2 Information about project characteristics and location with informed bodies of opinion must be used On the one hand, there ... Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson 230 Building expert systems for IA stages adopt different shapes and take different degrees of prominence for different impact types For instance, in air-pollution...

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... Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson 258 Building expert systems for IA Figure 8.12 Study area definition for landscape impact assessment In this stage we also identify the main receptors (individuals and groups) ... of Morris and Therivel, 2001): A – Woodland and scrub B – Grassland and marsh C – Tall herb and fern D – Heathland E – Mires F – Swamp, marginal and inundation G – Open water H – Coastlands I – ... of landscape impact assessment Figure 8.11 Project characteristics for landscape impact assessment • • “extension” and width on various sides, as this will determine much of their visual impact; ...

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... Langdon helped with the compilation and structuring of the material for this part © 2004 Agustin Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson Building expert systems for IA 274 9.2.1 Understanding the project ... information to assess the significance of those impacts Figure 9.3 Baseline study for socio-economic impact assessment © 2004 Agustin Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson 278 Building expert systems ... Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson 302 Building expert systems for IA Figure 9.11 Project information for traffic impact assessment (i) removing earth and rubble when clearing the site; (ii)...

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... 318 Building expert systems for IA Figure 10.1 The interlinked logic of hydrogeology, water, and water-ecology impacts • • • of water as a resource; in impact assessment, these impacts are ... Environmental Impact Assessment for Waste Treatment and Disposal Facilities, John Wiley & Sons, Chichester (Ch 10) Petts, J and Eduljee, G (1994b) “Geology and soils”, in Environmental Impact Assessment for ... reservoir) and its banks However, apart from this peculiarity, the logic of freshwater © 2004 Agustin Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson 342 Building expert systems for IA ecology impact assessment...

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... CONCLUSION: THE LIMITS OF EXPERT SYSTEMS AND GIS The potential “on paper” of new technologies such as expert systems and GIS for a fast-expanding field of professional work like impact assessment seemed ... of real-time control systems © 2004 Agustin Rodriguez-Bachiller with John Glasson 390 Building expert systems for IA Figure 12.5 Chains of expert systems, models, GIS and expertise inputs “think ... associated with Expert systems should be just seen as interactive62 computer systems that encapsulate the problem-solving procedures of experts for the use of non-experts, without identifying them with...

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... conjunction with other reflexes influenced by visual and vestibular systems to stabilise the head, the eyes and posture [19] Vestibular and proprioceptive input is linearly combined for computing ... compensate for dysfunctional afferent systems Postural control exercises and functional retraining are applied for movement behaviour and fitness The four mechanisms canvas a rationale for the inclusion ... of (a) manual therapy with vestibular rehabilitation for cervicogenic dizziness with (b) manual therapy without vestibular rehabilitation for cervicogenic dizziness Methods This systematic review...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 15:21

... Differences in group means were analyzed with the two tailed unpaired t-test For comparison of the individually observed and predicted time values and for comparison of within-group changes a repeated ... ventricular pump performance (14,15) However, systemic vascular resistance decrease during exercise and the degree of left ventricular enlargement was similar in IDCM patients with and without LBBB ... pairwise comparison was performed with a paired t-test Correlation was performed by linear regression analysis Analyses were performed using the software package “SPSS for Windows 12.0.1“ 335 quantify...

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... Between and 12 a.m., blood was collected for HIV testing and for CD4 cell quantifying HIV status was determined using “Capillus HIV-1/HIV-2” (Trinity Biotech Plc., Wicklow, Ireland) and “Determine ... circulating CD4 lymphocytes induced by TB has occurred before the diagnosis is made The pattern was the same for both TB patients with and without HIV co-infection HIV uninfected PTB patients had ... the inclusion of randomly selected non-TB controls at baseline, and the large number of TB patients and high follow-up rates, i.e 90 and 80% at and months, respectively Therefore, we were able...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 04:20

... Alberts, Garstka, and Stein (1999) and Alberts and Garstka (2001) NCO Case Study: Air-to-Air Combat With and Without Link 16 • “A robustly networked force improves information sharing • “Information ... that provides air track and other information to fighter aircraft, other weapons platforms, and command and control (C2) nodes equipped with JTIDS and Multifunctional Information Distribution ... Case Study: Air-to-Air Combat With and Without Link 16 findings of this report with four other pilots who have had experience with Link 16–equipped aircraft and with the new tactics Link 16 enables...

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... muscle cells and co-cultures were trypsinized by standard procedures, washed with PBS 1× and centrifuged for minutes at 1,400 rpm CD34+ cells were washed and centrifuged with PBS 1× for minutes ... TJ and MZ conceived the study and wrote the manuscript TJ designed and performed tissue culture, Western Blotting and Immunofluorescence MS, NMV and EZ helped with flow cytometric evaluation and ... and amphotericin B (Cultilab, São Paulo, Brazil), and kept in an incubator at 37°C and 5% CO2 In a ratio 3:1 (3 fold CD34+ stem cells: fold DMD/DMB muscle cells), co-cultures were performed with...

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... The SF-36 scores for subjects with and without chronic musculoskeletal pain in 1995 and 2003 The SF-36 scores for subjects with and without chronic musculoskeletal pain in 1995 and 2003 Comparison ... VT, SF, RE, and MH for subjects without chronic pain, and in BP, VT, SF, RE, and MH for subjects with chronic pain For subjects without chronic musculoskeletal pain at baseline, and regarding ... outcome in GH, SF, and RE for subjects without chronic pain, and in RE and MH for subjects with chronic pain For subjects without chronic musculoskeletal pain at baseline, and regarding alcohol...

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