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location

Etymology: L, locus, place, atus, process

a specific place in the memory of a computer where a unit of information is stored.

location

As used in UK healthcare, any site where events pertinent to the NHS occur.

Examples
Hospitals, health centres, GP surgeries, clinics, NHS board offices, nursing homes and schools. Each location has a 5-character “institution code”.

disaster

Public health Any unanticipated event that requires urgent response, bringing people and/or property out of harm's way in order to minimize loss of life or destruction of property; disasters are described by certain parameters Vox populi A cataclysmic event in which there is a loss of multiple lives and/or major property damage. See Climatologic disaster, Geological disaster, Man-made disaster, Natural disaster, Tsunami.

Disaster classifications

Nature, ie either

1. Natural, geophysical–eg earthquakes, volcanoes or weather-related–eg floods, hurricanes.

2. Man-made–transportation-related, structural collapse, war, hazardous materials, explosions, fires

Location Single site–eg explosion or multiple sites–eg hurricanes

Predictability Regular–eg hurricane season or sporadic–eg toxic spill

Onset Gradual–eg armed conflict or abrupt–eg accident

Duration Brief–eg natural disaster or extended–eg armed conflict

Frequency Often–eg flood, or rare–eg fire

location

a characteristic of data, for example those indicating central tendency, such as median, mean, mode.

Patient discussion about location

Q. I located a lump on the surface of my right underarm. I think I am showing some signs of breast cancer. I am 27 years old working lady. I think I am showing some signs of breast cancer. I located a lump on the surface of my right underarm. This lump is of a cherry size and does not pain at all. But I do have pain in my breast. I had my mammogram done which showed no lump and my doctor says that there is nothing to worry and she has given me some medicines. I want to know that if everything is normal then how come these lumps came.

A. there are ways to diagnose if lumps are breast cancer or not. a lump under the forearm can be a sign of an advanced stage of cancer, but it can also mean some kind of viral infection that caused a lymph node to swell up. so if a doctor told you it's fine- he probably checked it out, and it's fine. if you still anxious - go get a second opinion.

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The utility of intercepting real-time flows of personal locational data is not simply that it allows for the tracking of known persons/persons of interest, but it is furthermore central to target development.

Spatial big data and anxieties of control

Vegetation effects on locational error and fix success

Developing spatially-explicit weighting factors to account for bias associated with missed GPS fixes in resource selection studies

From these private allocations, externalities can be anticipated which create localized stress and locational conflict.

Conflict resolution in project location decision-making: the case of old Ibadan Airport commercialisation project

Specifically, we show that tax-motivated corporate locational decisions can lead to an efficiency cost to the extent that corporations are steered into suboptimal legal regimes from a corporate law standpoint.

Corporate taxation and international charter competition

In spontaneous speech almost 50% of all utterances contain deictic spatial information in the form of a directional verb or a locational enclitic or verb, but in the elicitation of descriptions using the visual stimuli this information was often omitted.

Grounding objects in space and place: locative constructions in Tidore (1)

A person can use a GPS data collection unit to collect both locational and attribute data.

Chapter 5 Data structure

It is significant, however, that those general texts on retail management/marketing which deal with location do tend to confine their treatment of it to syntheses of the techniques of locational analysis developed by geographers, summaries of locational trends, and outlines of public planning policies which impact on retail development (for example, Johnson, 1987; McGoldrick, 1990).

Towards a contemporary perspective of retail location

To illustrate the role locational rent plays in locational choice, consider an example where there are two periods of time.

A theoretical and empirical analysis of family migration and household production: U.S. 1980-1985

The primary hypothesis of this paper suggests locational attributes will cause shifts in the landowner's derived demand for dwelling attributes because they implicitly reflect each parcel's marginal product.

Dwelling attribute forecasts based on land residual maximization

The propensity of a firm to engage in foreign production is influenced by the combination of ownership specific advantages, internalisation opportunities and locational advantages of the target market (Dunning, 1981).

The effects of the single market on the pattern of Japanese investment

Credit Suisse's most recent locational quality analysis shows that Cantons Zug and Zurich continue to lead the rankings.

Switzerland : Locational Quality: Basis for Regional Economic Success

The ratings, on the other hand, draw strength from the company's established track record, the growth in its operations in financial years 2009 to 2011 and the locational advantage of its production unit with its proximity to raw material sources.