Learning on Harare’s streets under COVID-19 lockdown: making a story map with street youth

The effect of COVID-19 lockdown on the air environment in India

COVID-19 is a huge tragedy for the world community. Everything in the world is affected due to this pandemic right from economy to resources where the economy of major countries of the world are facing recession and resources are surplus with no takers at all. The measures to contain COVID-19 pandemic include lockdown, social distancing, isolation, and home quarantine. Lockdown adopted by the d...

Lockdown of an Orthopedic Department During COVID-19 Epidemics, Our Experience in a General Hospital

The COVID-19 disease is rapidly spreading around the world, affecting many countries and their healthcare systems.Like many other countries, Iran is struggling with the current situation. In this article, we aim to share our perspectiveson confronting obstacles mentioned above using appropriate hospital protocols during the COVID-19 crisis.We investigated and compared the numb...

A Prototype for Adaptive Association of Street Names with Streets on Maps

We present work in progress on the development of a partially-automated system for interpretation of map images. The principal aim of our project is to demonstrate that an adaptive system can decrease operator intervention with increasing conversion volume. The extracted information is evaluated against an established database, and a cost model is constructed to evaluate the entire conversion t...

Matching Range Images of Streets with a Residential Map

In order to realize 3D modeling and refinement of buildings in a digital 2D residential map using range images of the streets, we match range images of streets with the digital map. After pattern lines of the range images are determined using edge detection and depth analysis, they are matched with pattern lines of the digital map using a pattern matching algorithm based on dynamic programming....

Relaxed Lockdown in Bangladesh During COVID-19: Should Economy Outweigh Health?