www.thelancet.com/lancetgh Vol 4 April 2016 e234 2013 legal amendment to eliminate fees for all CRVS documents, the implementation of these laws has been inconsistent across regions, and many parents continue to pay hidden fees. Acquisition of the prerequisite documents, including parents’ marriage certifi cates (found to increase a child’s odds of birth certificate ownership by 90%), contribut...

MediaStreams is a system for annotating video content with semantic metadata. Because the meaning of a particular video segment is affected by segments that precede or follow it, MediaStreams supports video annotation only for semantics that survive possible re-sequencing. Consequently, the system represents action at the level of basic physical movements such as “raising an arm” or “smiling.” ...

Presenting gifts at funerals, weddings, and other ceremonies held by fellow villagers have been regarded as social norms in Chinese villages for thousands of years. However, it is more burdensome for the poor to take part in these social occasions than for the rich. Because the poor often lack the necessary resources, they are forced to cut back on basic consumption, such as food, in order to a...

India has glorious sericulture tradition of its own, which no other country in the world can share. Silk is indispensable in ceremonies and religious rituals, being a must in weddings and festivals. India’s traditional and culture bound domestic market and an amazing diversity of silk garments that reflect geographic specificity helped the country to achieve a leading position in silk industry....

Technology increasingly plays a role in the way that we prepare for, celebrate, and reflect upon major life events. Modern digital artefacts, such as Facebook messages and digital photos, now stand alongside traditional artefacts, such as guest books and heirloom jewellery, as cherished mementos of these occasions. Considering how these physical artefacts are crafted provides a useful lens for ...

Although problems with remembering significant events from the past (e.g. holidays, weddings, etc.) have been reported previously in patients with transient epileptic amnesia (TEA), to date there have been no detailed studies of autobiographical memory in patients with this disorder. To investigate this issue, a 68-year-old right-handed man (R.G.) who suffered from TEA and reported significant ...

Having seen a news title “Alba denies wedding reports”, how do we infer that it is primarily about Jessica Alba, rather than about weddings or reports? We probably realize that, in a randomly driven sentence, the word “Alba” is less anticipated than “wedding” or “reports”, which adds value to the word “Alba” if used. Such anticipation can be modeled as a ratio between an empirical probability o...

This article discusses the giving of panaik money to Bugis marriage customs outside dowry obligation. culture has long been carried out at traditional weddings. The custom become a topic discussion among academics because it is not included in pillars and conditions Islam or positive law. that sometimes considered burdensome prospective groom cause be annulled. research library with normative a...