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Background: suicide is a serious public health problem in many provinces in Iran such as Kermanshah province. Objective(s): to determine the incidence of suicide & its trend among kermanshah rural population and its risk factors. Methods: In this descriptive cross-sectional study, all cases of attempted suicide over a period of 7 years (2000-2006) have been investigated. There were a total number...
Urban fringe is a special area with interaction of urban and rural areas. So far how to identify urban fringe from urban area and rural areas is one of the major fields that urban geography concern. In this paper, remote sensing images of Nanjing district in 2003 is the calculating base. At the same time, the RS and GIS softwares are applied to program and recognize the image. A improved model of...
Telemedicine is producing a great impact in the monitoring of patients located in non-clinical environments such as homes, gymnasiums, schools, remote military bases, ships, and rural area. A number of applications, ranging from data collection to chronic patient monitoring, and even to the control of therapeutic procedures, are being implemented in many parts of the world. As part of this growing...
The objective of this study was to identify wooded hedgerows from remote sensing data in using an object-oriented approach, in order to estimate the proportion of hedgerow network that can be automatically extracted, whatever its characteristics. To evaluate the reliability, accuracy, and computational efficiency of the object-oriented method to extract wooded hedgerows, we applied it on different...
Digital green is a research project that seeks to disseminate targeted agricultural information to small and marginal farmers in India using digital video. The unique components of digital green are (1) a participatory process for content production, (2) a locally generated digital video database, (3) human-mediated instruction for dissemination and training, and (4) regimented sequencing to initiate...
The Akshaya project from Kerala has been a much discussed case for the community of practitioners and scholars working on technology and development. A unique feature of the project is its state-wide e-literacy goal in which one member of every household was trained in the telecenters set up under Akshaya. Using a survey of 1750 households in the experimental area of Malappuram and a comparison group...
Computer centers in rural Indian public schools raise questions about the value of expensive modern technology in starkly poor environments. Arguments for or against spending on computers in low-income schools have appeared in policy circles, academia, teacher conferences, and philanthropic discussions, with passionate rhetoric from all sides. One shortcoming of the debate has been the absent voice...
In this paper, we present what we believe to be the first documented experiment to replace an existing PC-based system that had goals of "bridging the digital divide" for an agricultural district with a mobile-phone-based system in which a small, but relevant amount of data is transferred to farmers via SMS text messaging. Implemented in rural Maharashtra, Warana Unwired sought to replace...
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