scholarly journals Small-scale spatial analysis shows the specular distribution of excess mortality between the first and second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy

Public Health ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Davide Golinelli ◽  
Jacopo Lenzi ◽  
Kadjo Yves Cedric Adja ◽  
Chiara Reno ◽  
Francesco Sanmarchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Second Wave

Tools of Transformation: Appropriate Technology in U.S. Countercultural Literature

2012 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-93
Author(s):  
Peter Mortensen
Keyword(s):  
Low Cost ◽  
Appropriate Technology ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Environmental Transformation ◽  
Buckminster Fuller ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Environmentally Sound ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Second Wave

This essay takes its cue from second-wave ecocriticism and from recent scholarly interest in the “appropriate technology” movement that evolved during the 1960s and 1970s in California and elsewhere. “Appropriate technology” (or AT) refers to a loosely-knit group of writers, engineers and designers active in the years around 1970, and more generally to the counterculture’s promotion, development and application of technologies that were small-scale, low-cost, user-friendly, human-empowering and environmentally sound. Focusing on two roughly contemporary but now largely forgotten American texts Sidney Goldfarb’s lyric poem “Solar-Heated-Rhombic-Dodecahedron” (1969) and Gurney Norman’s novel Divine Right’s Trip (1971)—I consider how “hip” literary writers contributed to eco-technological discourse and argue for the 1960s counterculture’s relevance to present-day ecological concerns. Goldfarb’s and Norman’s texts interest me because they conceptualize iconic 1960s technologies—especially the Buckminster Fuller-inspired geodesic dome and the Volkswagen van—not as inherently alienating machines but as tools of profound individual, social and environmental transformation. Synthesizing antimodernist back-to-nature desires with modernist enthusiasm for (certain kinds of) machinery, these texts adumbrate a humanity- and modernity-centered post-wilderness model of environmentalism that resonates with the dilemmas that we face in our increasingly resource-impoverished, rapidly warming and densely populated world.

scholarly journals Small-scale spatial distribution of COVID-19-related excess mortality

MethodsX ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 101257
Author(s):  
Dino Gibertoni ◽  
Francesco Sanmarchi ◽  
Kadjo Yves Cedric Adja ◽  
Davide Golinelli ◽  
Chiara Reno ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Distribution ◽  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Small Scale

Are tenants willing to pay for energy efficiency? Evidence from a small-scale spatial analysis in Germany

Energy Policy ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 161 ◽  
pp. 112753
Author(s):  
Steven März ◽  
Ines Stelk ◽  
Franziska Stelzer
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Small Scale

A small-scale spatial analysis system for maritime Australia

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 163-195 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neil T.M. Hamilton ◽  
K.D. Cocks
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Analysis System

scholarly journals Exploring the relationship between urban sprawl and the urban system. Evidence from Thessaloniki, 1991-2011.

Spatium ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Georgia Gemenetzi
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Urban Sprawl ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Urban System ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Urban Structure ◽  
Methodological Framework ◽  
Influence Area ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Spatial Area

The article explores the relationship between urban sprawl and the urban system. Urban sprawl is not considered to be a static, unsustainable urban form, but rather a dynamic process of urban deconcentration through which the urban structure evolves. After identifying the main characteristics of urban sprawl, this article investigates the connection between urban sprawl and the urban system through the concept of polycentricity. Finally, the two-way relationship between urban sprawl and the urban system is highlighted. Based on the above, an integrated theoretical, conceptual and methodological framework is formulated. A key finding was the emergence of ?small-scale? polycentricity, which implies increasing monocentricity over a wider spatial area. This raises questions over the distinction between the negative phenomenon of urban sprawl and sustainable polycentric forms, and points out a need to review the explanatory devices and theories used in spatial analysis and planning. Empirical evidence was extracted from Thessaloniki?s Influence Area.

scholarly journals Data Driven High Resolution Modeling and Spatial Analyses of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lennart Schüler ◽  
Justin M. Calabrese ◽  
Sabine Attinger
Keyword(s):  
Cost Benefit ◽  
Compartment Model ◽  
Incidence Rates ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Geostatistical Methods ◽  
Contact Rates ◽  
Cost Benefit Ratio ◽  
The Cost ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Great Burden

AbstractThe SARS-CoV-2 virus has spread around the world with over 90 million infections to date, and currently many countries are fighting the second wave of infections. With neither sufficient vaccination capacity nor effective medication, non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) remain the measure of choice. However, NPIs place a great burden on society, the mental health of individuals, and economics. Therefore the cost/benefit ratio must be carefully balanced and a target-oriented small-scale implementation of these NPIs could help achieve this balance. To this end, we introduce a modified SEIR-class compartment model and parametrize it locally for all 412 districts of Germany. The NPIs are modeled at district level by time varying contact rates. This high spatial resolution makes it possible to apply geostatistical methods to analyse the spatial patterns of the pandemic in Germany and to compare the results of different spatial resolutions. We find that the modified SEIR model can successfully be fitted to the COVID-19 cases in German districts, states, and also nationwide. We propose the correlation length as a further measure, besides the weekly incidence rates, to describe the current situation of the epidemic.

scholarly journals Real-time monitoring shows substantial excess all-cause mortality during second wave of COVID-19 in Europe, October to December 2020

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah K. Nørgaard ◽  
Lasse S. Vestergaard ◽  
Jens Nielsen ◽  
Lukas Richter ◽  
Daniela Schmid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Excess Mortality ◽  
European Countries ◽  
Real Time Monitoring ◽  
Public Health Action ◽  
All Cause Mortality ◽  
Health Action ◽  
Second Wave

The European monitoring of excess mortality for public health action (EuroMOMO) network monitors weekly excess all-cause mortality in 27 European countries or subnational areas. During the first wave of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic in Europe in spring 2020, several countries experienced extraordinarily high levels of excess mortality. Europe is currently seeing another upsurge in COVID-19 cases, and EuroMOMO is again witnessing a substantial excess all-cause mortality attributable to COVID-19.

scholarly journals La gripe española y crisis de mortalidad en Salta, Argentina. A principios del siglo XX

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (10) ◽  
pp. 269-300
Author(s):  
Adrián Carbonetti ◽  
Néstor Javier Gómez ◽  
Víctor Eduardo Torres
Keyword(s):  
Excess Mortality ◽  
Social Inequalities ◽  
Mortality Rates ◽  
Endemic Diseases ◽  
Spanish Flu ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Siglo Xx ◽  
Second Wave ◽  
Epidemic Diseases ◽  
Overall Mortality

La sociedad salteña, a principios del siglo XX, se caracterizaba por importantes desigualdades de tipo social, que a su vez cristalizaban en problemas en el ámbito de la salud y la educación. Con tasas de mortalidad general e infantil muy altas, ocasionadas por el impacto de dolencias endémicas y epidémicas, la población debía lidiar con graves problemas de salud. No obstante, en 1919 esa situación se agravó, a las epidemias y endemias se sumó la segunda oleada de la pandemia de “gripe española” generando una crisis de mortalidad. En este artículo se pretende analizar el papel  que habría tenido  la segunda oleada de gripe española en la provincia y en los Departamentos de la misma que habría generado esta crisis. Para ello se realiza un análisis de carácter cuantitativo con base a datos provistos por la Dirección de Estadísticas de la Provincia de Salta (Argentina), con los cuales se generarán tasas de mortalidad y sobremortalidad que se relacionarán con datos provistos por el censo de población de 1914 proyectados, este análisis será relacionado con datos cualitativos que provee el único  periódico de la época encontrado.Palabras claves: salud, pandemia, gripe española, Salta.Spanish Flu and Mortality Crisis  in Salta, Argentina.  In Early Twentieth CenturyAbstract In the early twentieth century, Salta’s society was characterized by significant social inequalities that were also expressed in the field of health and education. With high overall mortality and infant mortality rates due to the impact of endemic and epidemic diseases, the population had to deal with serious health problems.  In 1919, the situation worsened: in addition to epidemics and endemic diseases, the second wave of the “Spanish flu” appeared, resulting in a mortality crisis. The article aims to analyze the role that the second wave of the Spanish flu could have played in Salta and its departments’ crisis.  In order to do this, an analysis based on quantitative data provided by the Bureau of Statistics of the Province of Salta will carry out. The statistical data will be used to generate mortality rates and excess mortality that will be related with projected data based on the 1914 Census. This data will also be related with the qualitative information obtained from the only newspaper found from that historical period.Keywords: health, pandemic, spanish flu, Salta.

An Early Mesolithic Seasonal Hunting Site in the Kennet Valley, Southern England

2003 ◽  
Vol 69 ◽  
pp. 107-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. J. Ellis ◽  
Michael J. Allen ◽  
Julie Gardiner ◽  
Phil Harding ◽  
Claire Ingrem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Analysis ◽  
Food Waste ◽  
Dairy Farm ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Restricted Range ◽  
Radiocarbon Dates ◽  
Animal Bones ◽  
Considerable Length ◽  
Wild Pig ◽  
Activity Areas

A small-scale excavation, undertaken in advance of building works at Faraday Road, Newbury, Berkshire, encountered an apparently intact Early Mesolithic layer containing abundant worked flint directly associated with animal bones. The site lay on the floodplain of the River Kennet in an area already well-known for Mesolithic remains and certainly represents an extension of the site found at nearby Greenham Dairy Farm in 1963. The flint assemblage was dominated by obliquely-blunted microlithic forms accompanied by a restricted range of other items. The animal bones were, unusually, dominated by wild pig with clear evidence of both primary butchery and food waste. Spatial analysis of the bone and flint assemblages indicated discrete activity areas, possibly associated with hearths. Both pollen and molluscan data were recovered which, together with the results of soil micromorphological examination, confirmed an Early Holocene date for the formation of the Mesolithic layer. Radiocarbon dates place the site in the late 10th–early 9th millennium BP. The paper re-examines the nature of known Early Mesolithic activity in this part of the Kennet valley, with particular reference to the specific environmental conditions that seem to have prevailed. It is concluded that the Faraday Road site represents one part of a continuum of Early Mesolithic occupation that stretches along a considerable length of the floodplain, with each focus of activity witnessing repeated, but intermittent, occupation spanning a period of more than a millennium.

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