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METRIC: Software to Measure Cancer Health Environment Funding Announced
by Susan Hinton | Sep 9, 2014 | BioMedware News
BioMedware announces the award of a contract from the National Cancer Institute titled "METRIC Software to Measure Cancer Health Environment". This is an SBIR Phase 1 contract with a 9 month performance period beginning September 12, 2014. The Principal Investigator...
Drones, skyjacks, and business ecosystems
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Aug 27, 2014 | Learn with BioMedware
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...
CRCSI Lecture & Lunch Session with Dr. Geoffrey Jacquez
by Susan Hinton | Aug 21, 2014 | BioMedware News
Friday 22nd August 2014 12:30pm - 2:00pm (Perth, Australia) The CRCSI invite you to attend a short presentation from Geoffrey followed by discussion and networking with colleagues in the Health Program. Geoffrey Jacquez has been the Science Director of the CRCSI...
Announcing the Release of SpaceStat 4: software for the visualization, analysis, modeling and interactive exploration of spatiotemporal data
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | May 3, 2014 | BioMedware News
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...
Dr. Jacquez recently participated in the Swedish Collaboration on Health Roundtable
by Susan Hinton | Apr 12, 2014 | BioMedware News
Source: CRCSI Newsletter Representatives from the CRCSI were invited by Future Position X to attend the GeoLife Research Program Roundtable in Gavle, Sweden. The group participated in an intense series of discussions and meetings over four days to advance the...
The quantified self and crowd sourcing of the genome+, exposome and behavome: Perspective and call for action
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Jan 28, 2014 | Learn with BioMedware
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...
Our Changing World: Soil Mapping (Podcast – Radio New Zealand)
by Susan Hinton | Dec 10, 2013 | BioMedware News
Landcare Research scientists are using mobile spectroscopy to analyse soil, allowing geostatisticians to create better soil maps.From Our Changing World, 9:20 pm on 21 November 2013 Dr. Pierre Goovaerts, from BioMedware, explained how the complex...
Geostatistics short course – Perth, Western Australia
by Susan Hinton | Oct 25, 2013 | BioMedware News
In conjunction with CRCSI and WALIS Forum 2013, Dr. Goovaerts will conduct a short course November 6th and 7th. The course will increase your understanding of geostatistics and its application to several disciplines. After completion of this course you will be well...
A commentary on the Behavome and Genetic GIS
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Sep 5, 2013 | Learn with BioMedware
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...
Thoughts from Austin: NAACCR Annual Meeting
by Geoffrey Jacquez, Ph.D. | Jun 12, 2013 | Article
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...