Geospatial analytics gathers geographic information system (GIS) data from multiple types of technology to help you understand environmental, demographic, and topographic trends. But you may be surprised to learn that you use GIS technology in your daily life. Let's...
Vesta: Visualization and Exploratory Space-Time data Analysis software This project is pursuing the development and release of new software, Vesta, funded by SBIR grants from NIEHS and NCI to Pierre Goovaerts at BioMedware. Future blog updates will cover some of the...
Two proposal tips We write a fair number of research proposals, with most of them going to the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control and surveillance. We also submit proposals to the National Science Foundation and NASA. For those...
There is a certain amount of false information regarding how infectious the Ebola virus is, see, for example, some of the statements by certain Congressman. Mathematical epidemiologists use something called "R naught", the basic reproductive number, to quantify how...
A business venue being explored by Amazon and smaller companies as well is delivery via drones. Interesting to see that the technology for skyjacking drones is already being pursued. If you consider drone piracy to be a business model (and I guess it should be...
Download a Free 14-day evaluation of SpaceStat SpaceStat 4.0 represents a major reworking of the underlying architecture of the application. Multithreading has been introduced improving the performance of many methods. A LePace-Sage estimator for spatial-error...
by Geoffrey M. Jacquez1,2 and Robert Rommel2 1. Department of Geography, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY 2. BioMedware, Ann Arbor MI Introduction: Perhaps one of the greatest challenges and limitations in environmental health and epidemiology is...
Recently, I coined the term “Behavome” as the totality of an individual’s behaviors that mediate exposures (the exposome) and gene expression (the genome). This construct matters because it largely defines the determinants of human health. Figure 1 This schematic...
This week I am attending the meetings of the North American Association of Central Cancer Registries that is being held in Austin, Texas. The topic of this year’s conference is “Thinking big, the future of cancer surveillance”, and I’m involved in two activities. The...
Funding into international joint innovation and research projects for 10 years was the focus of a Global Spatial Network Round Table Meeting in Sweden. Future Position X (FPX) will submit the funding proposal to the Swedish government in May. The Round Table meeting...
