Dunrie Greiling

Scientific Ink

Online dispute resolution (ODR) has been used in US courts for several case types. We highlight outcomes from select ODR programmes for domestic relations cases (child support compliance) in Michigan, for small claims and city tax cases in Ohio, for traffic cases in Michigan and Texas. ODR delivers key benefits to courts such as fewer hearings, fas...

Real-world systems are dynamic, complex and geographic, yet many mathematical modeling tools do n ot evaluate sensitivity of results to underlying assumptions, and GIS do not adequately represent time. This presentation describes two new approaches: Space-Time Information Systems (STIS), and Model Transition Sensitivity Analysis (MTSA). Current GIS...

This article describes the Cancer Atlas Viewer: free, downloadable software for the exploration of United States cancer mortality data. We demonstrate the software by exploring spatio-temporal patterns in colon cancer mortality rates for African-American and white females and males in the southeastern United States over the period 1970-1995. We com...

Modeling chronic and infectious diseases entails tracking and describing individuals and their attributes (such as disease status, date of diagnosis, risk factors and so on) as they move and change through space and time. Using Geographic Information Systems, researchers can model, visualize and query spatial data, but their ability to address time...

This paper presents a geostatistical methodology which accounts for spatially varying population size in the processing of cancer mortality data. The approach proceeds in two steps: (1) spatial patterns are first described and modeled using population-weighted semivariogram estimators, (2) spatial components corresponding to nested structures ident...

Background: Analyses of spatial disease patterns usually employ a univariate approach that uses one technique to identify disease clusters. Because different methods are sensitive to different aspects of spatial pattern, an approach employing a battery of techniques is expected to describe geographic variation in human health more fully. This two-p...

Background This two-part study employs several statistical techniques to evaluate the geographic distribution of breast cancer in females and colorectal and lung cancers in males and females in Nassau, Queens, and Suffolk counties, New York, USA. In this second paper, we compare patterns in standardized morbidity ratios (SMR values), calculated fro...

Background Analyses of spatial disease patterns usually employ a univariate approach that uses one technique to identify disease clusters. Because different methods are sensitive to different aspects of spatial pattern, an approach employing a battery of techniques is expected to describe geographic variation in human health more fully. This two-pa...

The controls of seedling emergence and survival determine the potential distribution of adult plants and, thereby, plant community structure. Seed availability, competition from established neighbors, and seedling predation may all limit seedling recruitment. In this field experiment, we followed the emergence and survival of seedlings of three per...

This special issue reports the findings of a specialist workshop held in the summer of 2000, in Ann Arbor, Michigan. This introduction provides background information on HSRH imagery, briefly describes the major ways in which remote sensing data have been used previously for exposure assessment, presents the salient findings of the workshop, and pl...

Insect herbivores can affect plants directly, through removal of biomass, and indirectly, through altering competition with other plants. I examined both direct and indirect effects of herbivory in field and greenhouse studies, and I experimentally separated such factors as competition, levels of herbivory, and plant compensation in response to dam...

Spatial pattern analysis/pattern recognition can be classified into value, change, and association questions. Value questions have to do with the values of the variables surveyed, and how they are arranged in geographic space. Change questions have to do with higher order properties of spatial response surfaces, such as gradients (how values change...

Dissertation (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan