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Redesigning Police Beat Zone Placement to Improve 911 Response Time: A Data Driven Approach

Description: Research suggests that using data driven solutions in policing strategies improves the quality of service provided by the police department. Unfortunately, many police departments, including the Denton Police Department, do not use their spatial data to inform beat zone placement. Analysis of the current beat zone configuration found that there are disparities in the workload, as measured by number of calls for service, between beat zones. Further, there was also a statistically significant di… more
Date: August 2018
Creator: Jones, Brince Robert
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A Computational Methodology for Addressing Differentiated Access of Vulnerable Populations During Biological Emergencies

Description: Mitigation response plans must be created to protect affected populations during biological emergencies resulting from the release of harmful biochemical substances. Medical countermeasures have been stockpiled by the federal government for such emergencies. However, it is the responsibility of local governments to maintain solid, functional plans to apply these countermeasures to the entire target population within short, mandated time frames. Further, vulnerabilities in the population may ser… more
Date: August 2014
Creator: O'Neill, Martin Joseph, II
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Sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior as risk factors for human papillomavirus infection in Saudi Arabia

Description: This article seeks to determine the prevalence and the sociodemographic characteristics and sexual behavior risk factors for human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in a hospital-based cohort of women in Saudi Arabia.
Date: April 3, 2016
Creator: Alhamlan, F. S.; Khayat, H. H.; Ramisetty-Mikler, Suhasini; Al-Muammar, T. A.; Tulbah, A. M.; Al-Badawi, I. A. et al.
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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Quantifying Access Disparities in Response Plans

Description: This article develops and explores data driven methods to quantify vulnerabilities in the context of response plans, addressing limitations on the availability, granularity, and currency of data to identify vulnerable populations.
Date: January 15, 2016
Creator: Indrakanti, Saratchandra; Mikler, Armin R.; O'Neil II, Martin & Tiwari, Chetan
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Partner: UNT College of Engineering
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A Comparison of Least Squares Regression and Geographically Weighted Regression Modeling of West Nile Virus Risk Based on Environmental Parameters

Description: This article discusses the effectiveness of utilizing local spatial variations in environmental data to uncover the statistical relationships between West Nile Virus (WNV) risk and environmental factors.
Date: March 28, 2017
Creator: Kala, Abhishek K.; Tiwari, Chetan; Mikler, Armin R. & Atkinson, Samuel F.
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Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences
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University of North Texas President's Annual Report, 2008

Description: Annual report for the University of North Texas (UNT) includes an overview of research, programs of study, and accomplishments of university departments as well as statistical breakdowns of enrollment, fiscal expenditures, and other operational information.
Date: 2009
Creator: University of North Texas. Division of University Relations, Communications and Marketing.
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Computational Methods for Vulnerability Analysis and Resource Allocation in Public Health Emergencies

Description: POD (Point of Dispensing)-based emergency response plans involving mass prophylaxis may seem feasible when considering the choice of dispensing points within a region, overall population density, and estimated traffic demands. However, the plan may fail to serve particular vulnerable sub-populations, resulting in access disparities during emergency response. Federal authorities emphasize on the need to identify sub-populations that cannot avail regular services during an emergency due to their … more
Date: August 2015
Creator: Indrakanti, Saratchandra
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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UNT Research, Volume 27, 2018

Description: UNT Research magazine includes articles and notes about research at University of North Texas in various academic fields.
Date: December 2018
Creator: University of North Texas. Division of University Relations, Communications and Marketing.
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Partner: University Relations, Communications & Marketing department for UNT
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Towards a Unilateral Sensing System for Detecting Person-to-Person Contacts

Description: The contact patterns among individuals can significantly affect the progress of an infectious outbreak within a population. Gathering data about these interaction and mixing patterns is essential to assess computational modeling of infectious diseases. Various self-report approaches have been designed in different studies to collect data about contact rates and patterns. Recent advances in sensing technology provide researchers with a bilateral automated data collection devices to facilitate co… more
Date: December 2018
Creator: Amara, Pavan Kumar
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Computational Methods to Optimize High-Consequence Variants of the Vehicle Routing Problem for Relief Networks in Humanitarian Logistics

Description: Optimization of relief networks in humanitarian logistics often exemplifies the need for solutions that are feasible given a hard constraint on time. For instance, the distribution of medical countermeasures immediately following a biological disaster event must be completed within a short time-frame. When these supplies are not distributed within the maximum time allowed, the severity of the disaster is quickly exacerbated. Therefore emergency response plans that fail to facilitate the transpo… more
Date: August 2018
Creator: Urbanovsky, Joshua C.
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Spatially Explicit Modeling of West Nile Virus Risk Using Environmental Data

Description: West Nile virus (WNV) is an emerging infectious disease that has widespread implications for public health practitioners across the world. Within a few years of its arrival in the United States the virus had spread across the North American continent. This research focuses on the development of a spatially explicit GIS-based predictive epidemiological model based on suitable environmental factors. We examined eleven commonly mapped environmental factors using both ordinary least squares regress… more
Date: December 2015
Creator: Kala, Abhishek K.
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An Efficient Approach for Dengue Mitigation: A Computational Framework

Description: Dengue mitigation is a major research area among scientist who are working towards an effective management of the dengue epidemic. An effective dengue mitigation requires several other important components. These components include an accurate epidemic modeling, an efficient epidemic prediction, and an efficient resource allocation for controlling of the spread of the dengue disease. Past studies assumed homogeneous response pattern of the dengue epidemic to climate conditions throughout the r… more
Date: May 2019
Creator: Dinayadura, Nirosha
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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