Diamond is a material of choice for the fabrication optical windows and protective anti-reflecting coatings materials. For these kinds applications, diamond coating must have high purity low surface roughness to guarantee transparency. It should also be synthesized at temperature allow deposition on melting-point substrates such as glasses. In this work, ability Distributed Antenna Array (DAA) ...

Physical-layer network coding (PNC) has the potential to significantly improve the throughput of wireless networks where the channels can be modeled as additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) channel. As extending to multiple channels, this technique requires both amplitude and phase compensation at each transmitter and will lead to inefficient systems yielding no diversity even with perfect chann...

BACKGROUND National programs for non-communicable diseases (NCD) prevention and control in different low middle income countries have a strong community component. A community health worker (CHW) delivers NCD preventive services using informational as well as behavioural approaches. Community education and interpersonal communication on lifestyle modifications is imparted with focus on primordi...

Successful prevention and control of the epidemic of noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) cannot be achieved by the health sector alone: a wide range of organisations from multiple sectors and across government must also be involved. This requires a new, inclusive approach to advocacy and to coordinating, convening and catalysing action across civil society, best achieved by a broad-based network. T...

Given the complexity of global health crises such as COVID-19 pandemic, it is typical for crisis-focused interventions to have a multiplicity impacts. Some these impacts may yield positive or negative externalities priorities that do not same perceived urgency. The interplay between prevention (a high priority, urgency issue) and non-communicable disease (NCD) low provides good case in point. B...

BACKGROUND Although in developing countries the burden of morbidity and mortality due to infectious diseases has often overshadowed that due to chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs), there is evidence now of a shift of attention to NCDs. DISCUSSION Decreasing the chronic NCD burden requires a two-pronged approach: implementation of the multisectoral policies aimed at decreasing population-...

BACKGROUND The International Network of field sites with continuous Demographic Evaluation of Populations and Their Health (INDEPTH) has 34 Health and Demographic Surveillance System (HDSS) in 17 different low and middle-income countries. Of these, 23 sites are in Africa, 10 sites are in Asia, and one in Oceania. The INDEPTH HDSS sites in Asia identified chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs)...

We present the MT-NCD and MT-mNCD machine translation evaluation metrics as submission to the machine translation evaluation shared task (MetricsMATR 2010). The metrics are based on normalized compression distance (NCD), a general information theoretic measure of string similarity, and evaluated against human judgments from the WMT08 shared task. The experiments show that 1) our metric improves...

OBJECTIVES The objective of the present study was to estimate the proportion of older adults with non-communicable disease (NCD) multimorbidity, its correlates and implications in selected Indian states. METHODS The study used data of 9852 older adults (≥60 years) (men 47%, mean age 68 years) collected by the United Nations Population Fund from seven selected Indian states. Multiple logistic ...

This study describes usage of a particular implementation of Normalized Compression Distance (NCD) as a machine translation quality evaluation tool. NCD has been introduced and tested for clustering and classification of different types of data and found a reliable and general tool. As far as we know NCD in its Complearn implementation has not been evaluated as a MT quality tool yet, and we wis...