While several indicators for reproductive health have improved for entire populations, few analyses are available for trends over time in the gaps between the poor and the rich. This paper tracks improvements in the equitable distribution of reproductive health indicators according to wealth quintiles, especially for contraceptive use, in 46 low- and middle-income countries based on national po...

Protected areas are vital tools to safeguard the remaining strongholds of biodiversity, championed by High Ambition Coalition for Nature and People Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework as one main instruments protect nature help save species from extinction (Jetz et al., 2007) (HAC: www.hacfornatureandpeople.org, global biodiversity framework: https://www.cbd.int/conferences/post2020). Howev...

OBJECTIVE To audit the process of stroke care. DESIGN Retrospective case record evaluation using an audit package designed by the Royal College of Physicians of London. SETTING Institute of Neurology, National Hospital of Sri Lanka, Colombo. PATIENTS 263 patients with stroke admitted over a period of 3 years. MEASUREMENTS Documentation of 60 audit items related to 13 aspects of stroke c...

The efforts made to plan cities in emerging and developing countries are confronted to multiple issues, especially in small and middle sized cities which can be considered as poor through several criteria: socio-economic level of majority of population; low levels of public investments, weak quality of local administration, and large dependence of external donors. Following several authors, one...

ion Multimodal Low-Dimensional Representation from High-Dimensional Posture Information and Visual Images Tatsuya Hirose Kyoto University Tadahiro Taniguchi Ritsumeikan University

The role of the body of the player in trumpet pedagogy has either tended to go unrecognised, or the ability of the body to find appropriate techniques has been assumed. However, there has been increasing recognition that bodily posture is important, both in terms of its impact on performance and longer-term injury prevention. As a result, the literature of brass pedagogy has tried to identify t...

1 はじめに IoTの適用例として,hitoe[1]等のウェアラブルセン サを用いてバイタルデータを取得し,健康や作業状態を 分析して安全管理することが検討されている.センサに より加速度や心拍を取得し,そのデータをクラウド技術 (例えば,[2]-[9])を用いて管理,分析し,転倒等の姿勢 や疲労蓄積を迅速に判断する.更に,Webサービス等の サービス連携技術(例えば,[10]-[21])を用いて外部シ ステムと連携し,スタッフ手配や緊急警告等を行う. バスやタクシー(以後,車)のドライバーは,運転中 の物拾いや疲労蓄積等は事故につながる可能性があり, ウェアラブルセンサでの安全管理にニーズがある.しか し,車内では,車加速度がウェアラブルセンサ加速度に 加算されるため,正確な姿勢を推定できる保証はない. そこで,本稿では hitoeの加速度データを用いて,乗車 中の姿勢推定に関する...