This paper presents fully automatic approach for information extraction from digitized gray level images of Telecom Egypt diagrams. The information are feed into database system for later use by Telecom Egypt technicians staff. The first step is to separate between the graphic components and the text associated to them. The segmented texts are recognized by OCR system. The diagrams are segmente...

In order to examine the possibility of multiple founding populations of anatomically modern Homo sapiens, we collected DNA sequence data from 10 X-chromosomal regions, 5 autosomal regions, and 1 Y-chromosomal region, in addition to mitochondrial DNA. Except for five regions which are genealogically uninformative and two other regions for which chimpanzee orthologs are not available, the ancestr...

Ebola virus disease is the important emerging disease in Africa. This infection is deadly and has the main clinical feature as an acute hemorrhagic fever. The main hematological alteration in this infection is the platelet change. However, the change in other hematological parameters should be mentioned. 

Sub-Saharan Africa consists of 43 countries south of the Sahara (Figure 1). This area spans latitudes 13°N to 33°S with an average annual daytime temperature of 21 °C. The UV Index is often higher than 10 (extreme) and rarely drops below 7, except at high altitudes and towards the tip of South Africa in the winter months (June, July and August). The land varies from equatorial rainforest to dry...

This paper analyses the impact of economic growth on the incidence of chronic child malnutrition using data on spells of change. Growth is found to have a significant but small effect on chronic child malnutrition except in Sub-Saharan Africa, where it does not seem to have any impact. The estimates imply that outside of Africa, a doubling of income will reduce the incidence of chronic child ma...

This study has used TOMS AI as well as the reanalysis dataset of thirty-four years (1979-2012) to investigate the influence of atmospheric circulation on dust transport during the Harmattan period in West Africa, using Aerosol Index (AI) data, obtained from various satellite sensors. Changes in Inter-Tropical Discontinuity (ITD), Sea Surface Temperature (SST) over the Gulf of Guinea, and North ...

The volume aims to inform the implementation of human language technologies (HLTs) in the service of language policy in South Africa. Its 12 papers are organized into five sections whose themes, except for the first, “HLT resources and policy development,” considerably overlap. The contributors, most with backgrounds in computer science, computational linguistics, and language engineering, are ...

OBJECTIVE: To examine the loss of earning capacity and permanent impairment of a cohort of male patients who had experienced finger amputation due to occupational injury. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: University teaching hospital, Hong Kong. PATIENTS: Twenty-eight male patients aged 26 to 55 years who presented with work-related finger amputations in their dominant right hand from ...