Northampton Community College

About: Northampton Community College is a education organization based out in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poison control. The organization has 3410 authors who have published 4582 publications receiving 130398 citations. The organization is also known as: Northampton County Area Community College.

The Sociology of Risk and Gambling Reader

Abstract: This reader contributes to the sociology of gambling, and offers a variety of sociological approaches, ranging from classical sociological analyses of gambling to contemporary sociological approaches to risk.

Establishing health state valuations for disease specific states: an example from heart disease.

Abstract: This study considers the feasibility of defining a QALY from disease-specific data using the New York Heart Association (NYHA) classification of heart failure. The study derives health state values for the four different NYHA classifications of disease progression using the time trade-off (TTO) instrument associated with the five dimensional (EQ-5D) health state valuation method. Consistent mappings between the disease classification and the chosen QALY instrument are found. With this being the case, the assumption of constant proportionality, which is necessary to define the QALY as an acceptable measure of health related preferences, is considered. It is found that constant proportionality does not hold across the more severe health states, thus questioning the use of QALYs as representing cardinal preference structures. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Relationship between maternal nutrient intakes in early and late pregnancy and infants weight and proportions at birth: prospective cohort study.

Abstract: Experimental studies indicate that fetal undernutrition programmes life-long physiology and disease risk. The objective of this study was to investigate relationships between maternal nutrient intakes in early and late pregnancy with birth weights, placental weights, and infant proportions at birth. A prospective cohort study set in a district general hospital in the east midlands of England considered the diets of 300 pregnant women recruited from an antenatal ultrasound dating scan clinic. Estimation of nutrient intakes utilised five-day food diaries in the first and third trimesters of pregnancy. Two hundred and four diaries were returned and analysed for trimester one and 176 for trimester three. Birth weight and infant head circumference at birth were unrelated to nutrient intakes in the first or third trimester of pregnancy. Placenatal weight was not related to any maternal nutrient intakes. Thinness at birth was associated with low contributions of carbohydrate to dietary energy (p = 0.036). The present study shows that maternal nutrition in well-nourished populations does not exert a strong influence upon fetal growth. These data suggest that reported associations between low weight, thinness or greater head circumference at birth and disease in later life are not attributable to the effects of maternal undernutrition.

Making Useful and Useable Geovisualization: Design and Evaluation Issues.

Abstract: This chapter provides an introduction of methods and research questions associated with user-centered geovisualization tool design, bridging the gap between developers and users. To stimulate the development of geovisualization theory, issues from Computer Science, Information Visualization, Geoinformation Science, Geography, and Cartography are discussed. Influenced by recent developments within the Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) community developers of geovisualization environments are becoming increasingly concerned with the usability of their tools. Currently, most geovisualization is based on accumulated experience codified in procedures, written design rules, and unwritten individual and group knowledge. Geovisualization theory can be divided into two broad categories: that comes from other disciplines such as Perceptual Science, Cognitive Science, or applied disciplines such as Human-Computer Interaction. There is also theory developed specifically in the context of geovisualization. Although theory may originate from some other disciplines, the role of geovisualization researchers will be to extend it in ways that are specific to geovisualization. Nowadays geovisualization tools are applied in and developed for a broader geosoftware market with the goal of providing useful and usable geovisualization.