Trends in the civil registration of fetal death in multiple gestations that has occurred before, but expelled from the womb after, 24 weeks' gestation are examined using England and Wales 1993-2004 registration obtained from the Office for National Statistics. Count was made of fetal death registrations in which fetus papyraceous, fetal death before 24 weeks' gestation or fetocide before 24 wee...

BACKGROUND Mortality statistics are essential for population health assessment. Despite limitations in data availability, Pacific Island Countries are considered to be in epidemiological transition, with non-communicable diseases increasingly contributing to premature adult mortality. To address rapidly changing health profiles, countries would require mortality statistics from routine death re...

For Ghanaian civil servant Ofori Asante every day begins with an insurmountable challenge: how to document all the births and deaths taking place in the Northern Region of his country, an area extending 70 384 square kilometrers and containing a sparsely distributed population of two and a half million people. “The Northern Region is very large, the roads are very bad and the villages are very ...

Image mosaicing has found a number of applications such as panoramic imaging, digital terrain mapping, ophthalmology and virtual microscopy. In this study, we present an automated mosaicing technique for generating virtual slides from microscope images. We carried out robust image feature matching and global geometric and radiometric parameter estimation. The input images were transformed using...

This article assesses the preliminary impact of the Internet on civil society development in China. Based on survey data and in-depth case studies, three areas of impact are identified and analysed. First, with respect to China’s public sphere, the social uses of the Internet have fostered public debate and problem articulation. The Internet has demonstrated the potential to play a supervisory ...

This study aims to describe the quality of population administration services at Department Population and Civil Registration South Tapanuli Regency. research is a descriptive using qualitative approach. Data collection techniques were carried out by observation, interview, documentation techniques. The theory used in this uses Five Dimension SERVQUAL according Zeithaml, Parasuraman, Berry. Adm...

In this paper we present a registration method for cerebral vascular structures in the 2D MRA images. The method is based on bifurcation structures. The usual registration methods, based on point matching, largely depend on the branching angels of each bifurcation point. This may cause multiple feature correspondence due to similar branching angels. Hence, bifurcation structures offer better re...

3D laser range sensors provide range data of objects in a scene. Most of the known approaches for object recognition and localization in range data try to extract features and determine the position of the object from this information. In opposite we create a virtual scene, make a virtual range image with a virtual 3D laser range sensor and compare the result with range data of the real 3D lase...