BACKGROUND This article reports on the use of the 'neighborhood method' to measure the prevalence and basic characteristics of children who became separated from their parents or usual caregivers subsequent to an attack by the M23 militia group in North Kivu, Democratic Republic of the Congo. METHODS A two-stage household cluster survey was conducted in 522 households in North Kivu in August ...

To efficiently fuse multi-spectral (MS) and panchromatic (PAN) images acquired from THEOS satellite, the authors offer proper parameters to improve IHS fusion technique based on its spectral responsivity. This concept was originally contributed by Tu et al., applied to IKONOS image fusion. Red and NIR bands of THEOS imagery with lower response were adjusted to be higher and close to the respons...

While both public and private financial agencies supply asset markets with large amounts of information, they do not generally disclose all assetrelated information to the general public. This observation leads us to ask what principles might govern the optimal disclosure policy for an asset manager or financial regulator. To investigate this question, we study the properties of a dynamic econo...

Against the Spectrum distortion problem of the IHS method which exists in the Quick-Bird data fusion, the paper proposes visualpan band method and Linear weighted matching two methods to improve it, provides the best value scope of the α in the VisualPan band method as well as the best weighted values of pan and I when the spatial characteristic and the spectrum characteristic of the linear wei...

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The American Indian population, made up of well over 300 tribes, now numbers more than 1.5 million or over 0.6 percent of the U.S. population. Throughout the recent past, it has been a rapidly growing population that has consistently had a birth rate twice that of the rest of the U.S. population (IHS 1988; May 1988; Broudy and May 1983). Because of this high fertility, the median age of the Ind...

Wild product harvesting by forest-dwelling peoples, including hunting, fishing, forest product collection and timber harvesting, is believed to be a major threat to the biodiversity of tropical forests worldwide. Despite this threat, few studies have attempted to quantify these activities across time or across large spatial scales. We use a unique longitudinal household survey (n = 480) to desc...

There would seem to be many students who really want to learn, who have a huge appetite to learn, but who constantly struggle with their work. They just have not been prepared to be independent learners who can think and solve problems. A recent but promising area of applying IHS (Intelligent Hybrid Systems) is focused on intelligent tutoring systems. These intelligent tutoring systems, based o...

This technical paper lays out the methodology used to develop a hedonic price model to measure price trends around The 606, a newly established linear park system on the northwest side of Chicago. Two pricing models were required to understand how the housing market responded to the development of the trail. First, in order to analyze the project’s impact by time and geographical area, the Inst...

Results IHD (not suicide) was the majorcause of excessmortalityin psychiatric patients.In contrastto the rate inthe generalpopulation, the IHS mortalityrate inpsychiatric patients did notdiminish over time.Therewas little difference inhospital admissionrates for IHD betweenpsychiatric patients and the general community, butmuch lower rates of revascularisationprocedureswith psychiatric patients...