Given the size of modern cities in the urbanising age, it is beyond the perceptual capacity of most people to develop a good knowledge about the beauty and ugliness of the city at every street corner. Correspondingly, for planners, it is also difficult to accurately answer questions like ‘where are the worst-looking places in the city that regeneration should give first consideration’, or ‘in t...

‘... it is hoped that detection of [HIV-infected] individuals with high-quality, rapid, accurate point-of-care oral HIV tests will enable provision of early, timely and highly effective ART or expedite triage to care and prevention.’ Nitika Pant Pai McGill University Health Centre, Division of Infectious Diseases & Immunodeficiency Service, Montreal Chest Institute, 3650 St Urbain Street, Montr...

The popularization of science and public health was a major reason for the choice by the Editors of CSP to illustrate the covers of the journal’s 2017 editions with the theme Street Art 1. This same choice served as the inspiration for organizing the first internship program in science publishing in Brazil. Just as many people believe that the urban canvases covering cities are hardly appropria...

the street garment vendors are playing a significant role in the fields of the economic development through protecting resources (garment products) from such a position where they are treated as wastes; very much less valued products and creating the opportunity for self-employment. this study aimed at showing the economic contribution and the impact of the street vendors to the local community...

In this paper we present a framework for pixel-wise object segmentation of road scenes that combines motion and appearance features. It is designed to handle street-level imagery such as that on Google Street View and Microsoft Bing Maps. We formulate the problem in a CRF framework in order to probabilistically model the label likelihoods and the a priori knowledge. An extended set of appearanc...