Spatiotemporal Interpolation Methods for the Application of Estimating Population Exposure to Fine Particulate Matter in the Contiguous U.S. and a Real-Time Web Application

Appropriate spatiotemporal interpolation is critical to the assessment of relationships between environmental exposures and health outcomes. A powerful assessment of human exposure to environmental agents would incorporate spatial and temporal dimensions simultaneously. This paper compares shape function (SF)-based and inverse distance weighting (IDW)-based spatiotemporal interpolation methods on a data set of PM2.5 data in the contiguous U.S. Particle pollution, also known as particulate matter (PM), is composed of microscopic solids or liquid droplets that are so small that they can get deep into the lungs and cause serious health problems. PM2.5 refers to particles with a mean aerodynamic diameter less than or equal to 2.5 micrometers. Based on the error statistics results of k-fold cross validation, the SF-based method performed better overall than the IDW-based method. The interpolation results generated by the SF-based method are combined with population data to estimate the population exposure to PM2.5 in the contiguous U.S. We investigated the seasonal variations, identified areas where annual and daily PM2.5 were above the standards, and calculated the population size in these areas. Finally, a web application is developed to interpolate and visualize in real time the spatiotemporal variation of ambient air pollution across the contiguous U.S. using air pollution data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)\u27s AirNow program

Pelaksanaan Pemberi Bantuan Hukum Dikaitkan dengan Undang-undang No. 16 Tahun 2011 Tentang Bantuan Hukum

Legal aid is present to provide protection against any person or group of people can not afford, poor and blind law fairly, therefore, the Legal Aid Recipients must understand their legal rights to support the provision of legal aid. Indonesia has been working to provide protection against any person or group of poor people who lodged a lawsuit with the promulgation of the Legal Act Number 16 of 2011 regarding Legal Aid but do not go according to the rules. This manuscript discusses more about the rule of legal aid, Legal Aid legal position in the implementation of Law No. 16 Year 2011 on Legal Aid, and the factors that affect the implementation of the Legal Ai

Perlindungan Hak Atas Tanah Ulayat Masyarakat Adat Gayo Di Kabupaten Bener Meriah

The existence of ulayat rights (communal right of disposal or customary associative right) in Indonesia is recognized and respected as it is stipulated in the 1945 Constitution; this recognition is confirmed in Law No. 5/1960 on the Agrarian Basic Regulation. Ulayat rights actually still exists and is not contrary to the national interest and to any higher legal provisions. The Regulation of the Agrarian Minister No. 5/1999 on the Guidance for Settling the Problems of ulayat rights in the Adat Community orders the establishment of Regional Regulation on the recognition and protection for ulayat rights in each area in which it still exists. In reality, not all areas in Indonesia, including ulayat rights in the Gayo community in Bener Meriah District, has Regional Regulation for it. The result of the research showed that the existence of ulayat rights in the Gayo community still exists; it is indicated by the existence of the subject of ulayat rights, that is, ulayat rights object and the legal relationship between the subject and the object of ulayat rights. On the other hand, there are also some obstacles from its legal substance, legal structure, and legal culture in recognizing and protecting ulayat rights. Bener Meriah District Administration has established Majelis Adat (Adat Council) through Bener Meriah District Qanun No.4/2010 on Organizational Structure and Work Structure of the Secretariat of the Extraordinary Committee in Bener Meriah District and has published Bener Meriah Qanun No. 5/2011 on the Appointment of Animal Breeding Locations (Peruweren) of Uber-Uber and Blang Paku in Bener Meriah

Gonococcal Acute Septic Arthritis in Immunocompetent Patients

The objective of this study is to estimate the clinical evolution and the biological values and of three cases suffering from Gonococcal acute septic arthritis (GASA).Our study is based in a thoroughfully screening of 18 patients hospitalized in our service during the period of time of March 2011 – July 2016. Among those 18 cases, 12 of them (66.7%) were diagnosed with Acute Septic Arthritis (ASA) due to Staphylococcus aureus, 3 cases (16.65%) were diagnosed with ASA due to Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and 3 other cases (16.65%) were diagnosed with ASA due to Streptococcus pneumoniae, Escherichia coli and Echinella corrodens. Two sexually active women at the seventh and tenth day of an untreated suppurative cervico-vaginitis and one man at the eighth day of an untreated suppurative urethritis were consulted at the Service of Infectious Diseases of University Hospital Center “Mother Theresa”, because of: severe pains in left wrist, in the left elbow and in the right knee, swollen of those articulation, difficulties in their movements, shivering and a high fever of   38-39.2ºC. Neisseria gonorrhea was insolated in three cases in blood cultures and cervical/urethral samples and they were sensitive towards Cyclines, Cephalosporins and Fluoroquinolones. All three patients were immunocompetent. Keywords: Neisseria gonorrhea, Acute Septic Arthritis, Biological values

TEMPORALITIES IN ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK: DEALING WITH PAST AND FUTURE IN THE EUROPEAN CRISIS

The panel addresses the theme of the “familiar/strange” from the spatial and temporal perspectives as it emerges in crisisridden Europe. Many people in Europe had incorporated the expectations of economic growth and welfare as the political expression of a postWorld War II expansion of citizenship entitlements superseding violent confrontation between nations and classes. The aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis and the intensification of structural adjustment policies have resulted in an ambivalent understanding of the present experience. While some perceive it as a breakdown of political, social and economic promises and expectations, stressing the “strangeness” of the new situation, others perceive it as the continuation of past relationships that have never disappeared, stressing their “familiarity.” The latter may refer to the memories of past job loss, national humiliation, repression, corruption, etc. This panel focuses on the temporalities of the crisis. Presenters explore the modes in which the past and the future are interpreted and used in order to make sense of continuity and change, and as discursive weapons by European social actors in the wake of the crisis. Particular practices of resilience or accommodation are often justified in terms of remembrance of “familiar” past events and actions. Conversely, some forms of mobilization and social creativity stress their total rupture with past political practices and present themselves as exclusively oriented toward a future, willfully different. Often we observe this happening simultaneously. How can we understand these tensions? What structural and lived incoherencies are they pointing at? This panel also seeks to address ethnographic encounters as they select to stress one or the other of these realities. It poses reflexivity at the center of the understanding of crisis in Europe. Why do we choose to focus on the “familiar” or the “strange” aspects of people’s practices and discourses? Why do our informants and collaborators choose to underscore breakdown or continuity? Is it a matter of methodological choice on our part or of ideological positioning on theirs? Or is it, rather, the inescapable presence of historical facts? As we penetrate the spaces of crisis through the concrete ethnographic experience we are driven to embrace the logics and reasons of the people we share our lives with, for the time being. How do we need to negotiate them as we pause to analyze and explain?https://scholarworks.umass.edu/chess_panels/1001/thumbnail.jp