In this paper, we have designed and developed a technique for burning area identification using Intensity Hue Saturation (IHS) transformation and image segmentation. The process of identifying the burnt area in proposed technique consists of four steps such as: IHS transformation, object segmentation, identification of smoke area using Feed-Forward Neural Network (FFNN) and discovering burning ...

) the utilisation of the other NFS data: on net household income (which, although reducing the usable sample of Survey households by about 40070, may provide a better guide to pure income effects); on the age (particularly of children) and sex of the household members; on the occupation and industry of earners; on price movements during the calendar year; and on the extent of free supplies avai...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of the Chiranjeevi Yojana programme, a public-private partnership to improve maternal and neonatal health in Gujarat, India. METHODS A household survey (n = 5597 households) was conducted in Gujarat to collect retrospective data on births within the preceding 5 years. In an observational study using a difference-in-differences design, the relationship between ...

This paper examines the experiences of South East Queensland (SEQ) households concerning rainwater harvesting (RH). Although the adoption of household RH is currently booming after extended stagnation at around 8% in SEQ, what actually motivates this adoption is not well understood. This paper reports on the pilot study for my doctoral thesis, which has the three aims of (a) characterising hous...

Many applications of remote sensing – like, for example, urban monitoring – require high resolution data for a correct determination of object geometry. These spatial high resolution image data contain often limited spectral information (e.g. three band RGB orthophotos). This poor spectral information lead often to classification errors between visible similar classes like water, dark pavements...

PRIMARY CARE IS A MAJOR FOCUS of health policy discussions in the United States today. In this paper we describe the primary care system established at a small rural Indian Health Service (IHS) hospital, the ZuniRamah Comprehensive Health Care Center, in Zuni, N. Mex. We offer this report as a feasibility study to encourage further evaluation and implementation of primary care in the IHS. The I...

Amaç: Bu çalışmanın amacı iki uçlu bozukluğu olan hastalarda migren ekhastalık sıklığını ve bunun hastaların çeşitli demografik ve klinik değişkenleri üzerine olan etkisini belirlemektir. Yöntem: Psikiyatri polikliniğinde düzenli olarak takipleri sürdürülen ve DSM-IV kriterlerine göre, klinik olarak iki uçlu bozukluk tanıları almış olan, iyileşme dönemindeki hastalar (n= 96, 67 kadın, 29 erkek)...

Koreans usually prefer the district heating system (DHS) to the individual heating system (IHS) because DHS can give them convenience and safety within their living environment. The Korean government thus plans to expand the DHS and requires information about the value that consumers place on the DHS over the IHS, which has not been dealt with in academic literature. This paper attempts to inve...

To verify the features of an object or an area, there is a need to merge panchromatic images with high spatial resolution and multispectral images with high spectral resolution. Standard fusion methods like IHS transform are not satisfactory, because they distort spectral characteristics of the multispectral data. In wavelet methods, the aim is to decompose the image into subbands, which have t...

OBJECTIVE To derive estimates of age-gender specific food availability, based on data collected at household level. DESIGN Two alternative modelling approaches are described leading to linear and non-linear optimisation, respectively. The idea of penalised least squares is used for estimation of model parameters. The effect of household characteristics can be incorporated into both modelling ...