governmental contracts have an important place in the financial and economic system.because the transfer of funds generally is done by contracts. in other hand because of governmental economic system in our country and concentration of capital in this section, the governmental contracts has greater importance.therefore the special monitoring on various stages of contract from foundation to impl...

Introduction The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) established the Canadian Chronic Disease Surveillance System (CCDSS) in 2009 to facilitate national estimates of chronic disease prevalence, incidence, and health outcomes. The CCDSS uses population-based linked health administrative databases from all provinces/territories (P/Ts) and a distributed analytic protocol to produce standardized ...

In this project, we worked on a network based cooperative surveillance system. It can be used to track either humans or monitor still objects for anti-theft purpose. We designed multiple ways for user to select the tracking target. The tracking algorithm is based on a Tracking-Learning-Detection pipeline. Experiment results show fast and accurate tracking performance of the system. The potentia...

The widespread deployment of surveillance cameras has raised serious privacy concerns and many privacy-enhancing schemes have been recently proposed to automatically redact images of selected individuals in the surveillance video for protection. To identify these individuals for protection, the most reliable approach is to use biometric signals such as iris scans as they are immutable and highl...

Cases and outbreaks of influenza-like illness were reported in Cordoba, Mendoza and Santa Fe, Argentina, during June and July. Activity in Cordoba affected mainly adults and reached a peak at the end of July. Specimens obtained in all 3 cities are under investigation at the National Influenza Centre in Cordoba. So far, influenza A(H3N2) virus was isolated from 2 of 35 specimens collected among ...

 Background: Every year more than 2 million people depart from Iran to Saudi Arabia for Hajj ritual which can be faced with some different diseases. There are not much information about frequencies and trend of diseases in Hajj. The main objective of this study was to determine the trend of prevalent diseases during five consecutive Hajj rituals among Iranian pilgrims. Methods: We est...

Non-overlapping field-of-view (FOV) cameras are used in surveillance system to cover a wider area. Tracking in such systems is generally performed in two distinct steps. In the first step, people are identified and tracked in the FOV of a single camera. In the second step, re-identification of the people is carried out to track them in the whole area under surveillance. Various conventional fea...

BACKGROUND An extensive West Nile virus surveillance program of dead birds, mosquitoes, horses, and human infection has been launched as a result of West Nile virus first being reported in Canada in 2001. Some desktop and web GIS have been applied to West Nile virus dead bird surveillance. There have been urgent needs for a comprehensive GIS services and real-time surveillance. RESULTS A pilo...