this survey was carried out on children less than five years of age from rural areas of three provinces in iran (west azarbaijan, bushehre, and central province), with different health care delivery systems and various types of immunization scheme, to determine the immune status of measles and the vaccine coverage. our results indicate that the rates of measles immunity and vaccine coverage for...

Advances in healthcare information technology have enabled new models for electronic delivery of healthcare services. In this article, we present the case of electronic delivery of radiological services and describe the market-based and technological factors that have led to the development of Internet-based service models for flexible delivery of radiological services. Specifically, we describ...

Tulare County's program of monitoring land use changes consists of three parts. First, on a quarterly basis the county's current parcel theme is compared with the earlier parcel theme to identify land use changes. Second, the county has created a "resistance to development" model which predicts the susceptibility of each parcel to become urbanized. On a quarterly basis this model is refreshed t...

Learning smooth sequences of multi dimensional values trajectories can be performed by a neural network approximating a function which maps the one dimensional input space time onto anm dimensional output space workspace of the trajectory The underlying structure of the proposed network and the basic learning scheme for trajectory storage has already been published in Go erke et al This paper d...

In this paper we present a new language, called ParCeL-1, intended to make easier the implementation of computation-intensive and artiicial intelligence applications on highly parallel MIMD architectures. The computational model of ParCeL-1 is object-oriented and synchronous, based on virtual processors called cells that compute and communicate alternately. The current prototype is implemented ...

Parcel model simulations of aerosol – warm phase cloud microphysics interactions over the Amazon A. A. Costa and S. Sherwood Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA Fundação Cearense de Meteorologia e Recursos Hı́dricos, Fortaleza, Brazil Received: 19 October 2004 – Accepted: 9 December 2004 – Published: 31 January 2005 Correspondence to: A. A. Costa (alexandre....

Introduction. Universities of Medical Sciences & Health Services were established with the aim of training and development of efficient health manpower for improving the community health. The people of the community have common health problems and needs, so universities of medical sciences and health services can affect diagnosing the problems, providing the health needs and developing health c...

In this paper, a least-squares based cadastral parcel area adjustment in geographic information systems (GIS) is developed based on (1) both the areas and coordinates being treated as observations with errors; and (2) scale parameters being introduced to take the systematic effect into account in the process of cadastral map digitization. The area condition equation for cadastral parcel conside...

Nutritional intakes of food bank recipients and consequently their health status largely rely on the availability and quality of donated food in provided food parcels. In this cross-sectional study, the nutritional quality of ninety-six individual food parcels was assessed and compared with the Dutch nutritional guidelines for a healthy diet. Furthermore, we assessed how food bank recipients us...