Combination Of Statistical Data Research Articles

A STUDY ON METHOD OF EVALUATING FIRE SAFETY PERFORMANCE OF BUILDINGS

The authors had previously proposed a method of evaluating fire safety in office buildings, based on a combination of statistical data and survey data obtained from questionnaires. The fire safety performance of the building and the characteristic value for "Fire damage area and Fire damage area rate" as the damaged quantities, was analyzed to develop an overall simplified index for the relationship. In this paper, the approach is applied to office buildings, factories and hospital to try and confirm the possibility of expanding the proposed method from the viewpoint of fire damage area rate as the damaged quantities to these building occupancies. Fire damage area rate was calculated by using fire preventing zone area or total floor area and fire damage area by "Fire report". With analyzing the properties of fire damage area rate, it was tried to examine the relation between the hard factor and the soft factor that was important factor and the influence of the regulations system to the fire damage area rate.

A STUDY ON METHOD OF EVALUATING FIRE SAFETY IN FACTORY AND HOSPITAL/NURSING HOME

The authors had previously proposed a method of evaluating fire safety in office buildings, based on a combination of statistical data and survey data obtained from questionnaires. The fire safety performance of the building and the characteristic value for “Fire damage area and Fire damage area rate” as the damaged quantities, was analyzed to develop an overall simplified index for the relationship. In this paper, the approach is applied to factories and hospital/nursing homes to try and confirm the possibility of expanding the proposed method to these building occupancies.

Strategic Engineered Migration as a Weapon of War

In recent years, it has been widely argued that a new and different armament – i.e., the refugee as weapon – has entered the world's arsenals. But just how new and different is this weapon? Can it only be used in wartime? And just how successful has been its exploitation? Using a combination of statistical data and case study analysis, this article tackles these questions and provides a detailed examination of the instrumental manipulation of population movements as political and military weapons of war. In addition to ‘mapping the terrain’ of the issue by providing a comprehensive typology of the most common means by – and desired ends for – which displaced persons have been used as political and military weapons since the end of the Cold War, the author also provides a portrait of the identities of the kinds of actors most likely to engage in this kind of exploitation. She also proposes an explanation for what motivates them to resort – and apparently increasingly so – to the use of this unconventional policy tool, despite the reputational and potential retributive costs of doing so.

An overview of illegal opioid use and health services utilization in Canada

Systematic research on health and treatment services availability for and utilization by illegal opioid users in Canada are very limited. Comparative data across provinces and territories is almost entirely absent. This study was designed to provide an overview of illegal opioid use and health services utilization among illegal opioid users across Canada. A combination of statistical data and key informant data was used. Surveys were sent to key informants in all provinces and territories of Canada. Survey questions covered the number of illegal opioid users in each province, the number of opioid users receiving methadone maintenance treatment (MMT), the number of physicians authorized to prescribe methadone, and the number of opioid users receiving other outpatient and inpatient treatment. In addition, relevant data were collected from several statistical sources, both provincial and federal. The number of substance-use-related overdose deaths was obtained from the provincial coroners' offices. It is estimated that there were more than 80,000 regular illegal opioid users in Canada in 2003. The most prevalent treatment utilized was MMT; about one-quarter (26%) of the estimated opioid users received this type of treatment in 2003. Other forms of outpatient and inpatient treatment were of only minor importance compared with MMT. The number of illegal drug-related overdose deaths in Canada was 958 in 2002. Rates of drug use, health services utilization and overdose deaths showed considerable variation by province. Although the opioid use treatment system in Canada has expanded in recent years, especially with respect to the availability of MMT, the treatment utilization rates are still lower than in most countries in Western Europe. Rates of current treatment utilization as well as the relatively high number of overdose deaths suggest that there is still room for improvement in the Canadian health and social care system with respect to opioid use.

Land use in the Manawatu

Land use is described by a combination of statistical data, MAF monitoring (using a representative model to characterise the farm) and historical case studies. The ways in which the region's farmers have adapted to the changing environment, both economic and biophysical, is described. Science and education are essential infrastructural elements of this region. Keywords: case studies, farm monitoring, statistics