Ethiopia is the second-most populous country in Africa, at nearly 84 million. Approximately 14% are children under five years of age (Central Statistics Agency 2007). These children and their mothers suffer disproportionately from the poor health and nutrition situation in the country. In fact, malnutrition is the underlying cause of 57% of child deaths in Ethiopia (SCUK 2009), with some of the...

Introduction The latest report on mortality in Bolivia was issued in 1990. The three leading causes of death were infectious and parasitic diseases (23.9%), diseases of the circulatory system (19.5%), and diseases of the respiratory tract (14%), followed by accidents and violence (9.8%), disorders of the digestive system (8.6%), affections originating in the perinatal period (7.4%), and tumors ...

INTRODUCTION Despite the wide-spread availability of cervical cancer prevention and screening programs in developed countries, the morbidity and mortality rates of cervical cancer in Zimbabwe are still very high. Limited resources as well as the high HIV prevalence are contributors to the high burden of cervical cancer. This paper aims to analyse the policies, frameworks and current practices i...

A situation is continuously subject to changes. Therefore, all the representations and the mechanisms used in order to build up a situation model, must take the temporal factor into account. In order to model the current situation, information is collected from different sources, by different ways, and at different degrees of precision. Making such an information useful in a reasoning mechanism...

This paper proposes a new concept, Situation Analysis (SA), in an attempt to merge into a unifying synthesis the main notions put forward by well established data fusion and situation awareness models. In addition to clarifying the original concepts of these models, this synthesis expands on some of these ideas while achieving a fair depth in the level of details and the rigorousness of the res...

In a lot of situations a human is incapable to observe their environment properly. This can be due to disabilities, extreme conditions or simply a complex and changing environment. In those cases, help from an artificial system can be beneficial. This system, equipped with appropriate sensors, would be capable of perceiving things that a human cannot and inform them about the current state of t...

Kenya is home to more than 40 million people, 80% of whom live in rural areas and rely almost entirely on agriculture. More than 10 million (almost a third of the population) are chronically food insecure (Republic of Kenya 2011; FAO 2011; Republic of Kenya 2008). The country’s food and nutrition insecurity is often attributed to the performance of the agricultural sector, which while growing a...