South Korea, one of the poorest nations in the 1960s, has become one of the most developed countries in the 21st century. The Miracle by the Han River becomes the model for many countries to follow. Among those countries is Vietnam. Vietnam and South Korea share similarities in history and culture. Yet, Vietnam in spite of having forty years of reunification and independence with a better start...

This paper proposed an improved Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) system for all types of Vietnam license plates (LP), which consists of three modules: license plate location (LPL), characters segmentation and characters recognition. In the LPL module, we have combined edge detection, image subtraction, mathematical morphology, radon transform, interpolation and specific characteristic...

INTRODUCTION There remains a lack of information on economic aspects of chronic diseases. This paper, by gathering available and relevant research findings, aims to report and discuss current evidence on economic aspects of chronic diseases in Vietnam. METHODS DATA USED IN THIS PAPER WERE OBTAINED FROM VARIOUS INFORMATION SOURCES: international and national journal articles and studies, gover...

a. Country profile Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, is the easternmost nation on the Indochina Peninsula. It borders China to the north, Laos to the northwest, and Cambodia to the southwest. On the country's east coast lies the South China Sea. The capital of Vietnam is Hanoi and the largest and most populous city is Ho Chi Minh City. Vietnam, with its 4-level administrati...

To estimate the epidemic history of HIV-1 CRF01_AE in Vietnam and adjacent Guangxi, China, we determined near full-length nucleotide sequences of CRF01_AE from a total of 33 specimens collected in 1997-1998 from different geographic regions and risk populations in Vietnam. Phylogenetic and Bayesian molecular clock analyses were performed to estimate the date of origin of CRF01_AE lineages. Our ...

Pieter A. Zuidema*, Eelke Jongejans, Pham D. Chien, Heinjo J. During and Feike Schieving Ecology and Biodiversity Group, Institute of Environmental Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands; Experimental Plant Ecology, Radboud University Nijmegen, Heyendaalseweg 135, 6525 AJ, Nijmegen, The Netherlands; Forest Science Institute of Vietnam, Dong Ngac, Tu Liem, Han...

We conducted a retrospective study among 4,734 women who served in the US military in Vietnam (Vietnam cohort), 2,062 women who served in countries near Vietnam (near-Vietnam cohort), and 5,313 nondeployed US military women (US cohort) to evaluate the associations of mortality outcomes with Vietnam War service. Veterans were identified from military records and followed for 40 years through Dec...

Health financing has been considered as an important building block of a health system and has a key role in promoting universal health coverage in the Vietnam. This paper aims to describe the pattern of health expenditure, including total health expenditure and composition of health expenditure, over the last two decades in Vietnam. The paper mainly uses the data from Vietnam National Health A...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Vietnam Family Medicine Development Project has successfully created postgraduate training programs for family medicine in Vietnam. This paper's objective is to report on the project's progress and provide initial evaluation results. METHODS A training network of medical schools in Vietnam partnered with family medicine departments in the United States to accompl...

Vietnam veterans' risks for fathering babies with major structural birth defects were assessed using a case-control study. Information regarding military service in Vietnam was obtained from interviews with mothers and fathers of babies in case and control groups and from review of military records. Vietnam veterans, in general, did not have an increased risk of fathering babies with defects (a...