The international standard questionnaire produced for every survey cycle enables the collection of common data across all participating countries and thus enables the quantification of patterns of key health behaviors, health indicators and contextual variables.
The identification and quantification of patterns of disease occurrence provide the first steps toward increased understanding and possible control of disease (3).
Quantification of patterns of viral shedding and virus-induced host mortality are necessary for a rigorous understanding of the epidemiology of a disease, not least to identify increases in virulence.
In general, these studies have focused on the standardization and quantification of pulse patterns and associations between pulse patterns and diseases [ 2, 3, 11– 11].
In this way, they most closely mimicked the natural tendency of WS to skew a bit to the right when grown vertically in unit gravity, as opposed to on inclined plates, and this characteristic can be seen visually and in the quantification of the patterns shown in Figure 5.
Therefore, many TCM and TKM studies have sought to standardize the pulse-taking approach [ 2, 11, 12], the quantification of pulse patterns [ 2, 11, 13], and the association between pulse patterns and organs or particular diseases [ 2, 3, 11, 14], as well as to develop pulse wave detection devices [ 7, 15].
Understanding the relationship between landscape pattern and environmental processes requires quantification of landscape pattern at multiple scales.
The proposed methodology can be used for quantification of spangle patterns and to develop an online system for spangle classification.
In contrast, quantification of spatial patterns has been widely applied to characterise structural features of terrestrial landscapes and has been demonstrated to be of great use in landscape ecology and spatial planning.
