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Estimation of national and subnational all-cause mortality indicators in Nepal, 2017

open access: yesBMC Public Health, 2022
Background Despite the civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system in Nepal operating for several decades, it has not been used to produce routine mortality statistics.
Surender Prasad Pandey, Tim Adair
doaj   +1 more source

On the Structure, Covering, and Learning of Poisson Multinomial Distributions

open access: yes, 2015
An $(n,k)$-Poisson Multinomial Distribution (PMD) is the distribution of the sum of $n$ independent random vectors supported on the set ${\cal B}_k=\{e_1,\ldots,e_k\}$ of standard basis vectors in $\mathbb{R}^k$. We prove a structural characterization of
Daskalakis, Constantinos   +2 more
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Residence registration to cope with homelessness: evidence from a qualitative research study in Milan

open access: yesGenus, 2021
Homeless people are one of the most vulnerable and marginalized groups in developed countries, and their homelessness situation often persists over the long term.
M. Pasqualini, G. Bazzani
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The Implementation of Bantu Warga Apps and Metabase for Spatial Data Processing In Surabaya

open access: yesRekayasa, 2023
Civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) is known as an essential supporting system for effective policy-making and service delivery. Its primary purpose is establishing an individual's legal identity and vital events to ensure all citizens get ...
Alfandino rasyid   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Supporting information for National, regional, and worldwide estimates of low birthweight rates in 2015, with trends from 2000: a systematic analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Data produced by the World Health Organization, UNICEF, LSHTM and Johns Hopkins University to estimate national low birthweight (LBW) and numbers for 195 countries.
An, Xiaoyi   +13 more
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Mortality surveillance and verbal autopsy strategies: experiences, challenges and lessons learnt in Papua New Guinea

open access: yesBMJ Global Health, 2020
Full notification of deaths and compilation of good quality cause of death data are core, sequential and essential components of a functional civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system. In collaboration with the Government of Papua New Guinea (
Alan D Lopez   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Isolation of cyanophage CrV infecting Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii and the influence of temperature and irradiance on CrV proliferation [PDF]

open access: yesAquatic Microbial Ecology, 2016
A lytic virus that infects a European strain of the freshwater filamentous cyano-bacterium Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii was isolated from a lake in the Netherlands and partially characterised. With a genome size of 110 +/- 15 kb, an icosahedral capsid of 65 +/- 1 nm (n = 22) and a long non-contractile tail of 612 +/- 31 nm (n = 15), this dsDNA ...
Steenhauer, L.M.   +6 more
openaire   +4 more sources

The paradox of verbal autopsy in cause of death assignment: symptom question unreliability but predictive accuracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
Background: We believe that it is important that governments understand the reliability of the mortality data which they have at their disposable to guide policy debates.
Abraham D. Flaxman   +11 more
core   +2 more sources

Economic analysis of producing vital statistics using civil registration data in Lao People’s Democratic Republic

open access: yesJournal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2019
The government of Lao People’s Democratic Republic (PDR) is currently in the preparation stage of a 5-year project that will establish an electronic civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) system.
Samuel Mills, Daniel Amponsah
doaj   +1 more source

A Size-Free CLT for Poisson Multinomials and its Applications

open access: yes, 2016
An $(n,k)$-Poisson Multinomial Distribution (PMD) is the distribution of the sum of $n$ independent random vectors supported on the set ${\cal B}_k=\{e_1,\ldots,e_k\}$ of standard basis vectors in $\mathbb{R}^k$.
Daskalakis, Konstantinos   +4 more
core   +1 more source

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