Sentence examples for segregation measures from inspiring English sources
However, it is still logical to employ GIS technology to compute spatial segregation measures.
Mixing the population from "good" and "bad" neighborhoods would indeed decrease the segregation measures and negative neighborhood effects.
This paper describes a recent effort to implement a set of spatial segregation measures in a GIS environment.
Algorithms designed to implement spatial segregation measures consist of the general procedures to extract spatial information from feature data and to combine spatial information with attribute (population) data to derive the indices.
Future research should continue to optimize neighborhood boundary definitions, while assessing the sensitivity of segregation measures to changes in scale, to improve our understanding of segregation impacts on racial disparities in low birth weight.
However, notwithstanding the considerable limits represented by the study designs, which were mainly retrospective, the observational studies reviewed seem to support the implementation of isolation (or segregation) measures to reduce the risk of transmission of BCC and PA in CF patients.
Nationally, there has been a slight drop in black-white segregation, measured by indexes sociologists use.
At the national level, segregation measured by the dissimilarity index slightly decreased from 0.41 to 0.37 between 2001 and 2008.
The effects of solute drag were modeled within the inverse Kirkendall framework, but were unable to account for either the crossover from Cr enrichment to Cr depletion or the magnitudes of segregation measured in experiments.
