Background: No safe level of lead in blood has been identified. Blood lead testing is
required for children on Medicaid, but it is at the discretion of providers and parents for …

Residents of industrialized countries place increasingly more value on outdoor recreation.
For many alpine and remote municipalities, revenues from tourism and recreation belong to …

Human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) and human babesiosis are tick-borne diseases
spread by the blacklegged tick (Ixodes scapularis Say, Acari: Ixodidae) and are the result of …

Zero-inflated count data are frequently encountered in public health and epidemiology
research. Two-parts model is often used to model the excessive zeros, which are a mixture …

Four regression techniques, including two global models (ie, Poisson and negative
binominal) and two geographically weighted regression (GWR) models (ie, geographically …

Predictive modeling has been widely used for insurance rate making. In this paper, we focus
on insurance claim count data and address their common issues with more flexible …

This study used the bus incident data in Victoria, Australia to establish the relationship
between operational characteristics and the safety performance of bus operators. A series of …

Objective: The purpose of this study was to explore the full distribution of children's lead
poisoning and identify “high risk” locations or areas in the neighborhood of the inner city of …

ОС–окружающая среда ПК–пассивное курение район Б.–Буденновский район г.
Донецка район В.–Ворошиловский район г. Донецка район Ка.–Калининский район г …

Ignoring environmental variability can lead to imprecise and inaccurate estimates of
abundance and their spatial distribution of organisms. Fully embracing environmental …