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Missing Millions and Measuring Progress towards the Millenium Development Goals with a focus on Central Asian States

Central Asian Journal of Global Health, 2012
Background In developing countries, population estimates and assessments of progress towards the Millenium Development Goals are based increasingly on household surveys.
Roy Carr-Hill
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An Evaluation Framework for The Adoption of Big Data Technologies in Higher Educational Institutions

Journal of Information Systems and Informatics, 2023
The aim of this study is to develop a framework for the use of Big Data Technology in Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs). The research which employed a mixed method approach, is primarily based on relevant critical analysis and literature review of ...
Mercy Ziezo, Jude Odiakaosa Osakwe, Martin Ujakpa, Gloria Iyawa   +3 more
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Empowerment of Informal Settlements with Emphasis on Desirable Urban Governance Indicators (Case Study: Informal Settlements of Tabriz metropolis) [PDF]

برنامه ریزی فضایی, 2022
Today, one of the critical approaches to controlling and managing informal settlements is the approach of good urban governance. Good urban governance can be defined as the method and process of managing urban affairs with the constructive participation ...
Darioush Nowin, Ebrahim Taghavi, Bakhtyar Ezzatpanah   +2 more
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Efficient analysis in planet transit surveys [PDF]

, 2005
With the growing number of projects dedicated to the search for extrasolar planets via transits, there is a need to develop fast, automatic, robust methods with a statistical background in order to efficiently do the analysis.
A. Schwarzenberg-Czerny, Beaulieu, Beaulieu, Beaulieu, Bouchy, Brandt, Carpano, Charbonneau, Claret, Cumming, Davies, Defay, Deming, Doyle, Eadie, Fisher, Fisz, Gregory, Horne, J.-Ph. Beaulieu, Jenkins, Konacki, Kovacs, Lomb, Press, Schwarzenberg-Czerny, Schwarzenberg-Czerny, Schwarzenberg-Czerny, Schwarzenberg-Czerny, Stellingwerf, Struve, Tingley, Tingley, Udalski, Udalski, van Leeuwen, Weldrake, Whittaker   +37 more
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Process Evaluation of an Implementation Trial: Design, Rationale, and Early Lessons Learnt From an International Cluster Clinical Trial in Intracerebral Hemorrhage

Frontiers in Medicine, 2022
BackgroundThe third INTEnsive care bundle with blood pressure Reduction in Acute Cerebral Hemorrhage Trial (INTERACT3) is an ongoing, international, multicenter, stepped-wedge cluster, prospective, randomized, open, blinded endpoint assessed trial ...
Menglu Ouyang, Craig S. Anderson, Craig S. Anderson, Craig S. Anderson, Craig S. Anderson, Lili Song, Lili Song, Alejandra Malavera, Stephen Jan, Guojuan Cheng, Honglin Chu, Xin Hu, Lu Ma, Xiaoying Chen, Chao You, Hueiming Liu   +15 more
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The Size and Shape of Voids in Three-Dimensional Galaxy Surveys [PDF]

, 2000
The sizes and shapes of voids in a galaxy survey depend not only on the physics of structure formation, but also on the sampling density of the survey and on the algorithm used to define voids.
Adrian L. Melott, Barbara S. Ryden, Efstathiou G., Einasto J., Fujimoto M., Icke V., Jason D. Schmidt, Kauffmann G., Kauffmann G., Lahav O., Little B., Melott A. L., Sheth R. K., van de Weygaert R., Weinberg D. H., White S. D. M.   +15 more
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Optimizing future dark energy surveys for model selection goals [PDF]

, 2011
We demonstrate a methodology for optimizing the ability of future dark energy surveys to answer model selection questions, such as `Is acceleration due to a cosmological constant or a dynamical dark energy model?'.
Andrew R. Liddle, Bassett, Bassett, Bassett, Caldwell, Catherine Watkinson, Chevallier, Cox, David Parkinson, Feroz, Gregory, Hastings, Hobson, Huterer, Jaynes, Jeffreys, Kass, Linder, MacKay, Metropolis, Mukherjee, Mukherjee, Parkinson, Parkinson, Pia Mukherjee, Seo, Skilling, Trotta, Trotta, Trotta   +29 more
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Impacts of urban safety net on income, food expenditure and intake capacity of poor households in Addis Ababa city, Ethiopia, 2021

Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, 2022
Although measures taken to address food insecurity and income inequality showed notable outcomes, they have continued to be major global issues mainly in urban areas of developing countries. To relieve these problems, Ethiopia started an urban safety net
Kassa Moges Tareke
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Replicability of data collected for empirical estimation of relative pollen productivity [PDF]

, 2016
The effects of repeated survey and fieldwork timing on data derived from a recently proposed standard field methodology for empirical estimation of relative pollen productivity (RPP) have been tested.
Bunting, M. Jane, Farrell, Michelle, Middleton, Richard   +2 more
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A simple variance estimator of change for rotating repeated surveys: an application to the EU-SILC household surveys

, 2016
A common problem is to compare two cross-sectional estimates for the same study variable taken on two different waves or occasions, and to judge whether the change observed is statistically significant.
Andersson, Berger, Berger, Berger, Berger, Berger, Birch, Chao, Christine, Demnati, Deville, Deville, Di Meglio, Gambino, Goga, Hansen, Hansen, Horvitz, Hájek, Kalton, Kish, Knottnerus, Nordberg, Oguz-Alper, Osier, Preston, Qualité, R Core Team, Smith, Särndal, Tam, Wood, Wood   +32 more
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