T H Grubesic
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5813 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | T H Grubesic |
| NOMBRES | T H |
| APELLIDO | Grubesic |
| FIRMA | GRUBESIC T H |
| AFILIACIONES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4517-586X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 124 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2000 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Models and modeling in human geography I
Human geographers are constantly endeavoring to deepen our understanding of patterns and processes. As a result, we have no shortage of models to simplify, visualize, explain, and predict human activity on Earth. However, recent advances in geographic modeling approaches are rapidly changing how we address contemporary geographic problems. In this first progress report, I provide an overview and typology of uncertainty in human geography models, …
Spatial inequalities in breastfeeding initiation in the United States
Deepening our understanding of geographic variations in breastfeeding initiation (BFI) remains an important element in developing a comprehensive snapshot of maternal and infant health. Identifying spatial variations in socioeconomic, demographic, cultural, and environmental barriers to breastfeeding can advance intervention efforts to educate and encourage breastfeeding within a community. The purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive …
Geoforensic Palynology Search Models and Human-Mediated Secondary Pollen Deposition
Forensic palynology involves using pollen on a person or object of interest or found at a crime scene to reconstruct history. Advances in genetic pollen identification techniques have spurred further research efforts in developing the geodatabases and models required to link those identified pollens to specific places or times. Many of these use plant species distribution models as a proxy for pollen presence in a landscape, an assumption that ho…
Understanding the role of the built and social environments in outcomes of stops by police in San Diego, California
A data-driven framework for agent-based modeling of vehicular travel using publicly available data
Exploring spatiotemporal dynamics, seasonality, and time-of-day trends of PM2.5 pollution with a low-cost sensor network
Fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) is a major health and environmental concern, with significant spatiotemporal dynamics in urban areas. Low-cost air quality sensor (LCS) networks offer a paradigm-changing opportunity to acquire high spatiotemporal resolution data, revealing the urban pollution landscape with sufficient detail for effective policymaking and health assessment. This study advances geospatial air quality research by using classic and…
Spatial data uncertainty for location modeling
Census blocks are administrative units that serve as statistical areas for the decennial Census in the United States. Visible and nonvisible features bound blocks, including roads, railroads, streams, property lines, and city boundaries. The Census Bureau builds blocks using the Master Address File (MAF), which includes field-verified geographic information about the location of housing unit addresses. Unfortunately, there are substantial errors …
A deep dive into the collaborative networks of Yacht Rock
This paper explores the collaborative networks of Yacht Rock, a genre of music that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s and is currently experiencing a resurgence of popularity in the United States and beyond. In addition to using formal social network analysis to explore the development and transformation of Yacht Rock's collaborative musical network through time, we identify its most influential artists and musicians and highlight the mos…
A two-step process to increase successful geocoding in publicly available police stop data
Many police departments are meeting calls for transparency by releasing publicly accessible data. High-quality address locations are critical for successful and accurate geocoding, though the content and quality of that data can drastically vary across datasets. In this study, we showcase a two-step geocoding process that helps convert low-quality address locations into geo-locatable addresses using traditional geocoding and Jaro-Winkler edit dis…
Examining the relationship between contested edges and intergroup crime dynamics
Geoforensics with Pollen Quantification
Geoforensic science investigates the location and time of criminal occurrences by integrating multiple fields, including geography, criminology, ecology, biology, and geology. The ubiquity, durability, and spatial-temporal predictability make pollen a frequently used biomarker in geoforensic investigations to help determine the provenance of hard-to-trace items, including computers, counterfeit products, digging equipment, clothing, and undetonat…
Estimating potential oil spill trajectories and coastal impacts from near-shore storage facilities
California’s digital divide and the specter of data uncertainty for evaluating broadband coverage
A longitudinal analysis of broadband provision in tribal areas
A Probabilistic Approach to Address Data Uncertainty in Regionalization
Spatial data regularly suffer from error and uncertainty, ranging from poorly georeferenced coordinate pairs to sampling error associated with American Community Survey data. Geographic information systems can amplify and propagate error and uncertainty through the abstraction and representation of spatial data, as can the manipulation, processing, and analysis of spatial data using exploratory and confirmatory statistical techniques. The purpose…
Breastfeeding, Community Vulnerability, Resilience, and Disasters
Climate change-induced disasters are increasing in intensity and frequency in the United States. Infant feeding in the aftermath of an extreme event is particularly challenging, especially given large variations in community vulnerability and resilience. The aim of this study was to identify the physical, social, and spatial vulnerabilities of communities along the Gulf Coast and highlight locations where high (or low) breastfeeding initiation ra…
A study of Sars-COV-2 outbreaks in US federal prisons
We found significant evidence of community/staff/incarcerated population inter-linkage of SARS-COV-2 transmission. Further study is warranted to determine which control measures aimed at the incarcerated population and/or staff are most efficacious at preventing or controlling outbreaks
Prostitution Arrest Spatial Forecasting in an Era of Increasing Decriminalization
There is ongoing debate regarding the merits of decriminalization or outright legalization of commercial sex work in the United States. A few municipalities have officially legalized both the selling and purchasing of sex, while others unofficially criminalize purchasing sex but have decriminalized its sale. In addition, there are many other locales with no official guidance on the subject but have unofficially decriminalized sex work by designat…
Social infrastructure as a proxy for social capital
Measurement of community social capital most often relies on the self-reports of individuals aggregated to the community level. This reliance on validated survey-based methods for operationalizing social capital data collection is not always feasible. As a consequence, recent studies exploring data obtainable from open sources have utilized features of the built environment as a proxy. Although gaining in popularity, this approach is controversia…
The 2020 Coronavirus Pandemic and Its Corresponding Data Boon
Public organizations, including institutions in the U.S. criminal justice (CJ) system, have been rapidly releasing information pertaining to COVID-19. Even CJ institutions typically reticent to share information, like private prisons, have released vital COVID-19 information. The boon of available pandemic-related data, however, is not without problems. Unclear conceptualizations, stakeholders’ influence on data collection and release, and a lack…
Identifying the spatial footprint of pollen distributions using the Geoforensic Interdiction (Gofind) model
Spatiotemporal patterns of alcohol outlets and violence
Alcohol-related violence remains a serious social and public health problem in the United States. A large corpus of work suggests a positive statistical relationship between alcohol outlet density and violence. However, questions remain as to how neighborhood violence evolves in response to varying access to alcohol outlets. This paper introduces an approach for analyzing the spatial and temporal dynamics of violence and its association with alco…
Is There a Temporal Relationship between Covid-19 Infections among Prison Staff, Incarcerated Persons and the Larger Community in the United States
The relationship between COVID-19 infections among staff and incarcerated persons shows that staff is vital to infection control, and correctional administrators should also focus infection containment efforts on staff, in addition to incarcerated persons
The U.S. Essential Air Service Program and Sars C0V-2, 2019–2020
Unravel the impact of Covid-19 on the spatio-temporal mobility patterns of microtransit
Spatio-temporal fluctuations in the global airport hierarchies
A ticket to ride
Global airline networks and nodal regions
Constructing the divide
Community organization moderates the effect of alcohol outlet density on violence
There is growing evidence from multiple disciplines that alcohol outlet density is associated with community levels of assault. Based on the theoretical and empirical literatures on social organization and crime, we tested the hypothesis that the association between alcohol outlet density and neighbourhood violence rates is moderated by social organization. Using geocoded police data on assaults, geocoded data on the location of alcohol outlets, …
A spatial analysis of air transport access and the essential air service program in the United States
Geographic Exclusion
In the state of Ohio, House Bill 180, Senate Bill 175 and Senate Bill 5 collectively form Megan's Law. This law requires individuals convicted of a sexually oriented offense to register with the local sheriff 's office at least twenty days prior to the move-in date of the offender. Beginning July 31, 2003, Megan's Law prohibited an offender of a sexually oriented offense from establishing or occupying a residence within 1,000 feet of any school-r…
Vital Nodes, Interconnected Infrastructures, and the Geographies of Network Survivability
With an increased level of interconnection between critical network infrastructures, the potential for cascading actions that trigger both primary and secondary network failures are of great concern. Recent events, including the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, the blackout of 14 August 2003, and the Galaxy IV satellite failure in 1998, have reinforced the need for a more thorough understanding of vulnerabilities relative to system perform…
Spatial Clustering Overview and Comparison
Cluster analysis continues to be an important exploratory technique in scientific inquiry. It is used widely in geography, public health, criminology, ecology, and many other fields. Spatial cluster detection is driven by geographic information corresponding to the location of activities, requiring appropriate and meaningful treatment of space and spatial relationships combined with observed attributes of location and events. To date, this has me…
A Spatial Exploration of the Halo Effect in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
The outcome of the 2016 presidential election in the United States was partly influenced by factors such as social marginalization and anti-immigrant sentiment, both of which have been associated with the global rise in far-right voting (FRV) outcomes. Sociological hypotheses such as group threat and group contact have been suggested as potential contextual factors in the relationship between immigrant share and far-right support; more recently, …
Unravel the impact of Covid-19 on the spatio-temporal mobility patterns of microtransit
Sex offenders, housing and spatial restriction zones
Constructing the divide
Comparative modeling approaches for understanding urban violence
Driving donation
Broadband Provision and Firm Location in Ohio
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are often cited as an important factor in firm location decisions. This is especially true for firms engaged in information intensive activities and those that have a strong need for advanced services such as broadband. Despite the suggested importance of these technologies, quantitative work evaluating the link between firm location and broadband provision is sparse and existing knowledge remains…
A deep dive into the collaborative networks of Yacht Rock
This paper explores the collaborative networks of Yacht Rock, a genre of music that emerged in the late 1970s and early 1980s and is currently experiencing a resurgence of popularity in the United States and beyond. In addition to using formal social network analysis to explore the development and transformation of Yacht Rock's collaborative musical network through time, we identify its most influential artists and musicians and highlight the mos…
Social infrastructure as a proxy for social capital
Measurement of community social capital most often relies on the self-reports of individuals aggregated to the community level. This reliance on validated survey-based methods for operationalizing social capital data collection is not always feasible. As a consequence, recent studies exploring data obtainable from open sources have utilized features of the built environment as a proxy. Although gaining in popularity, this approach is controversia…
Data deluge or data trickle? Difficulties in acquiring public data for telecommunications policy analysis
There is a paucity of granular, high-resolution broadband data in the United States, which limits the prospects of informed telecommunications policy debates. In the absence of regulation requiring telecommunication providers to accurately report service footprints, pricing, and service quality data, providers refuse to disclose this information, routinely citing competition as the primary reason for keeping network and pricing data obfuscated. I…
Predicting geographic transience in homeless young adults across three U.S. cities
Prior research reveals high rates of geographic mobility (i.e., transience) among homeless young adults (HYAs). Yet to date, little is known about predictors of different aspects of their transience as well as characteristics of the most highly transient HYAs. This study thus used the risk/resilience framework to identify predictors of three measures of HYAs’ transience (i.e., number of intercity moves, total distance traveled, and average distan…
Neighborhood Social Capital and Achieved Mobility of Older Adults
Social capital may not contribute as much as other neighborhood characteristics to mobility. Interactions between neighborhood and individual-level characteristics should be considered in research on mobility
Essential Air Service
A typological framework for categorizing infrastructure vulnerability
Sex Offenders and Residential Location
Despite the growing body of research examining the collateral consequences of legislation governing sex offenders, a complete understanding of their residential choices post release remains elusive. This paper develops a predictive-analytical framework that helps determine which demographic and socioeconomic factors best forecast the residential choices of convicted sex offenders. Specifically, a derived index of social disorganization (ISDOR) is…
Driving donation
Constructing the divide
Constructing the divide
"Where" matters
(2004). 'Where' matters: Location and Wi-Fi access. Journal of Urban Technology: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 1-28
Sustaining Urban Networks
this is more of a request than a critique, in a world where convergence and network interdependencies are a reality, it is extremely important that no stone is left unturned.In all, I found this book to be a helpful contribution to a growing field.Although the quality of the contributed essays is somewhat mixed, I encourage readers interested in the areas of critical infrastructure, urban systems and technological hazards to explore this volume f…
Vital Nodes, Interconnected Infrastructures, and the Geographies of Network Survivability
With an increased level of interconnection between critical network infrastructures, the potential for cascading actions that trigger both primary and secondary network failures are of great concern. Recent events, including the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, the blackout of 14 August 2003, and the Galaxy IV satellite failure in 1998, have reinforced the need for a more thorough understanding of vulnerabilities relative to system perform…
A ticket to ride
Geographic Exclusion
In the state of Ohio, House Bill 180, Senate Bill 175 and Senate Bill 5 collectively form Megan's Law. This law requires individuals convicted of a sexually oriented offense to register with the local sheriff 's office at least twenty days prior to the move-in date of the offender. Beginning July 31, 2003, Megan's Law prohibited an offender of a sexually oriented offense from establishing or occupying a residence within 1,000 feet of any school-r…
Cities and Complexity
Sex offenders, housing and spatial restriction zones
Global airline networks and nodal regions
Spatio-temporal fluctuations in the global airport hierarchies
Spatial variations in broadband and air passenger service provision in the United States
Broadband Provision and Firm Location in Ohio
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are often cited as an important factor in firm location decisions. This is especially true for firms engaged in information intensive activities and those that have a strong need for advanced services such as broadband. Despite the suggested importance of these technologies, quantitative work evaluating the link between firm location and broadband provision is sparse and existing knowledge remains…
Methods to support policy evaluation of sex offender laws
A spatial analysis of air transport access and the essential air service program in the United States
Sex Offenders and Residential Location
Despite the growing body of research examining the collateral consequences of legislation governing sex offenders, a complete understanding of their residential choices post release remains elusive. This paper develops a predictive-analytical framework that helps determine which demographic and socioeconomic factors best forecast the residential choices of convicted sex offenders. Specifically, a derived index of social disorganization (ISDOR) is…
Approximating the Geographical Characteristics of Internet Activity
Capturing the flow of information between cities is a challenging task. Historically, flow analyses have focused on goods, capital, and people, all of which can serve as proxies for estimating the volume of spatial interaction between places. However, with the advent of the Internet and its ability to both facilitate and accelerate the exchange of information, it is somewhat surprising that so few studies have examined the geographical characteri…
A typological framework for categorizing infrastructure vulnerability
Geographic perspectives on vulnerability analysis
Alcohol beverage control, privatization and the geographic distribution of alcohol outlets
The study reveals that spatial analytical approaches can function as an excellent tool for contingency-based "what-if" analysis, providing an objective snapshot of potential policy outcomes prior to implementation. In this case, the likely outcome is a tremendous increase in alcohol outlets in Philadelphia, with concomitant negative health, crime and quality of life outcomes that accompany such an increase
The wireless abyss
Community organization moderates the effect of alcohol outlet density on violence
There is growing evidence from multiple disciplines that alcohol outlet density is associated with community levels of assault. Based on the theoretical and empirical literatures on social organization and crime, we tested the hypothesis that the association between alcohol outlet density and neighbourhood violence rates is moderated by social organization. Using geocoded police data on assaults, geocoded data on the location of alcohol outlets, …
Comparative modeling approaches for understanding urban violence
Essential Air Service
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