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Background Population-based screening for the common non-communicable diseases (NCD) is recommended but is difficult to implement in the hard-to-reach areas of low resourced countries. The objective of our pilot study was to evaluate the feasibility and the efficacy of delivering NCD screening services at home by trained community health workers (CHWs). Men and women aged 30-60 years residing in rural...
Satellite imagery analysis is becoming increasingly important in a variety of fields. Automation of analysts' workflows has the potential to greatly increase their efficiency and effectiveness. Specifically, developing automatic parking lot extraction from overhead imagery has huge importance to predicting stores future sales. However, to the best of our knowledge, there is no prior work for the development...
In this paper, particle swarm optimization (PSO) which is one of the evolutionary computing techniques is applied successfully to solve the problem of economic load dispatch (ELD). The objective function considered here is minimization of fuel cost of generators for three different bus systems. The results obtained from PSO have better convergence as compared to the conventional technique of using...
This work seeks to characterize the component of friction, which arises from energy being dissipated via elasto-plastic deformation during sliding contact (as apposed to adhesive mechanisms). The sliding interaction between spheres is analyzed using two approaches (a semi-analytical and finite element simulation). These analyses are used to formulate empirical equations, which describe the average...
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