OBJECTIVE To investigate disparities in full immunization coverage across and within 86 low- and middle-income countries. METHODS In May 2015, using data from the most recent Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, we investigated inequalities in full immunization coverage - i.e. one dose of bacille Calmette-Guérin vaccine, one dose of measles vaccine, three dos...

Multi-core devices are envisioned to support the development of next-generation safety-critical systems, enabling on-chip integration functions different criticality. This provides multiple system-level potential benefits such as cost, size, power, and weight reduction. However, safety certification becomes a challenge several fundamental technical requirements must be addressed, temporal spati...

Background: Due to the current trends towards replacing axillary dissection with radiotherapy, the need for more precise definition for different nodal stations becomes a must to ensure safe and adequate dose coverage. So, our study aimed to evaluate the coverage of axillary nodal volumes based on Project on Cancer of the Breast (PROCAB) guidelines, for cases previously treated with our standar...

In wireless sensor networks, multiple-coverage, in which each point is covered by more than one sensor, is often required to improve detection quality and achieve high fault tolerance. However, finding optimal patterns that achieve multiple-coverage in a plane remains a long-lasting open problem. In this paper, we first derive the optimal deployment density bound for two-covered deployment patt...

Planning for multi-robot coverage seeks to determine collision-free paths a fleet of robots, enabling them collectively observe points interest in an environment. Persistent is variant traditional where levels the environment decay over time. Thus, robots have continuously revisit parts maintain desired level. Facilitating this real world demands we tackle numerous subproblems. While there exis...

The body of work on multi-body factorization separates between objects whose motions are independent. In this work we show that in many cases objects moving with different 3D motions will be captured as a single object using these approaches. We analyze what causes these degeneracies between objects and suggest an approach for overcoming some of them. We further show that in the case of multipl...

The presence of degeneracies can considerably worsen the measure of the neutrino oscillation parameters θ13 and δ. We study the physics reach of a specific “CERN” setup, using a standard β-Beam and Super-Beam facility. These facilities have a similar sensitivity in both parameters. Their combination does not provide any dramatic improvement as expected due to their almost identical L/E ratio. W...

BACKGROUND There is a growing international commitment to universal health coverage (UHC), but limited means to determine progress towards that goal. We developed a practical index for capturing health service coverage - a critical dimension of UHC -- that was more inclusive than previous methods. METHODS Our data included publicly-available, indicators reflecting health service delivery, inf...