Our results demonstrate that the PM I/O ratios for a wind-induced natural ventilated airspace depend strongly on the ambient particle distributions, building openings design (e.g. height-to-length ratio of openings and roof slope), wind speed, wind angle of incidence, and outdoor PM metrics.
Unlike incidence-based beta diversity metrics that are biased towards identifying the contribution of rare species to turnover, zeta diversity provides information on the full spectrum of rare to intermediate and common species as they contribute to driving compositional turnover.
Based on burden metrics including incidences, mortalities, economic costs, and Years of Life Lost (YLL) we identified inequities in cancer research funding relative to burden.
Following this procedure, we constructed two regression models, one that explained 2002 human WNV incidence by 1998 avian community metrics, and a separate model that explained 2002 human WNV by 2002 avian community metrics.
The results revealed that design characteristics do influence the brain deformation metrics associated with incidence of concussion.
Associations between air pollutants and traffic metrics and asthma incidence.
Infectious diseases surveillance systems have been developed using internet search metrics to estimate incidence of influenza (Google Flu Trends) [ 8] and dengue (Google Dengue Trends) [ 9].
There could be several other possibilities, such as differences in study design, population differences in incidence of breast cancer, exposure metrics and the fact that breast cancer is known to be a genetically heterogeneous disease.
In addition, minimizing PDDIs is becoming more important for PBMs and health plans in the US because Medicare is now using quality metrics that include the incidence of PDDIs.
Our results can be used to inform quality metrics designed to measure the incidence of readmission to the ICU and the incidence of hospital mortality after patient discharge from the ICU.
