Search results
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Title
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Accounting for residential propagule pressure improves prediction of urban plant invasion
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Davis, Amy J. S., Singh, Kunwar K., Meentemeyer, Ross K.
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Subjects--Topical
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Invasive plants, Urban forestry
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Description
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Plant invasions substantially impact the ecosystem services provided by forests in urbanizing regions. Knowing where invasion risk is greatest helps target early detection and eradication efforts, but developing an accurate predictive model of inv...
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COVID-19 pandemic severity, lockdown regimes, and people’s mobility : early evidence from 88 countries
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Paul, Kamal Chandra
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Subjects--Topical
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Public health, COVID-19 (Disease), Social distancing (Public health)
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Description
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This study empirically investigates the complex interplay between the severity of the coronavirus pandemic, mobility changes in retail and recreation, transit stations, workplaces, and residential areas, and lockdown measures in 88 countries aroun...
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Densification without growth management? Evidence from local land development and housing trends in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Delmelle, Elizabeth, Zhou, Yuhong
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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North Carolina--Charlotte, City planning
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Description
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In urban America, land development and residential real estate have passed through a number of different phases during the post-WWII era. In contemporary discourse on urban sustainability, attention is often expressed in terms of intensity of land...
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Title
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Exploring feasibility of multivariate deep learning models in predicting COVID-19 epidemic
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi, Paul, Rajib
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Deep learning (Machine learning), COVID-19 (Disease)
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Description
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Background: Mathematical models are powerful tools to study COVID-19. However, one fundamental challenge in current modeling approaches is the lack of accurate and comprehensive data. Complex epidemiological systems such as COVID-19 are especially...
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Title
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Heterogeneous crowd-sourced data analytics
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Data mining, Statistics
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Description
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Advances in computing, communication, storage, and sensing technologies have reshaped the lives of people by changing the way they live, work, interact with their environments, and even socialize. Modern information systems collect valuable inform...
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Title
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Machine learning of spatial data
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Nikparvar, Behnam
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Machine learning, Geospatial data
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Description
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Properties of spatially explicit data are often ignored or inadequately handled in machine learning for spatial domains of application. At the same time, resources that would identify these properties and investigate their influence and methods to...
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Title
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Machine learning on the COVID-19 pandemic, human mobility and air quality : a review
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Paul, Kamal Chandra
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Machine learning, COVID-19 (Disease)
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Description
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The ongoing COVID-19 global pandemic is touching every facet of human lives (e.g., public health, education, economy, transportation, and the environment). This novel pandemic and non-pharmaceutical interventions of lockdown and confinement implem...
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Title
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Non-linear associations between the urban built environment and commuting modal split : a random forest approach and SHAP evaluation
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Hatami, Faizeh, Rahman, Md. Mokhlesur, Nikparvar, Behnam
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Date Created
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2023
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Subjects--Topical
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Commuting, Statistics
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Description
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The study of commuting mode choice is crucial since driving, with all its associated environmental and economic consequences, is the United States' most popular mode of transportation due to urban sprawl, priority to road construction and America'...
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Predicting the upcoming services of vacant taxis near fixed locations using taxi trajectories
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Hu, Chunchun
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Taxicab industry, Taxicabs
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Description
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Emerging on-line reservation services and special car services have greatly affected the development of the taxi industry. Surprisingly, taking a taxi is still a significant problem in many large cities. In this paper, we present an effective solu...
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Projected resurgence of COVID-19 in the United States in July-December 2021 resulting from the increased transmissibility of the Delta variant and faltering vaccination
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Janies, Daniel, Chen, Shi
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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COVID-19 (Disease), Vaccination
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Description
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In Spring 2021, the highly transmissible SARS-CoV-2 Delta variant began to cause increases in cases, hospitalizations, and deaths in parts of the United States. At the time, with slowed vaccination uptake, this novel variant was expected to increa...
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Spatial analytics based on confidential data for strategic planning in urban health departments
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Yonto, Daniel, Issel, L. Michele
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Public health, Data protection
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Description
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Spatial data analytics can detect patterns of clustering of events in small geographies across an urban region. This study presents and demonstrates a robust research design to study the longitudinal stability of spatial clustering with small case...
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Spatiotemporal evaluation of the built environment's impact on commuting duration
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Author
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Thill, Jean-Claude, Hatami, Faizeh
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Date Created
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2022
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Subjects--Topical
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Commuting, Residential mobility
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Description
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Upward trends in commuting duration and distance due to urban sprawl in the United States have raised concerns about the ensuing environmental, social and economic problems. Various urban planning approaches have been developed, hypothesizing that...