Their second aim constitutes an excellent example of how the availability of Google Maps allows criminologists to re-assess common research practices.
The study by Caplan et al. ([2011]) is an interesting example of how the availability of online mapping technologies allows criminologists to reassess established research practices.
For example, because of the availability heuristic, people overestimate the relative likelihood of dying in a plane crash as compared to say succumbing to stomach cancer (plane crash information is more readily available in memory because of its vividness).
Examples of the latter may include, for example, reducing the availability of larger portion, package and tableware sizes; placement of larger portion sizes further away from purchasers; or demarcation of single portion sizes in packaging through wrapping or a visual cue.
They include such mainstays of microbiological risk analysis as the severity of the disease that the organism can cause, infectiousness (the number of organisms needed to cause illness), the mode of transmission (through the air, via ingestion or by injection, for example) and the availability of drug therapy in case of illness.
The caregiving data, with hindsight, might have benefited from the collection of additional information – for example, about the availability of services; however, this was not possible given time and resource constraints.
For example, without the availability of informal care at discharge, length of stay may have increased, or patients may have been discharged with additional formal community-based health services.
For example, increasing the availability of pandemic vaccines without increasing the use of vaccines for seasonal influenza is difficult.
In most cases regulation is more complex, for example if the availability of a reaction is being determined by the interaction of a set of proteins.
A given example illustrates the availability of the proposed design method.
