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Empowering and conquering infirmity of visually impaired using AI‐technology equipped with object detection and real‐time voice feedback system in healthcare application

open access: yesCAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract The Internet of Things is emerging as a crucial technology in aiding humans and making their lives easier. Among the human population, a large percentage of people suffer from disabilities resulting in challenges in everyday life particularly people with visual disabilities.
Hania Tarik   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Incidence and Mortality from a Neglected Tropical Disease (Rabies) in 28 African Countries

open access: yesFolia Veterinaria, 2020
Rabies, a zoonotic disease, is one of the deadliest and most serious threats to public health as it has an almost 100 % case fatality rate. The global estimated mortality of the virus is between 40,000 to 70,000 deaths annually with most of the death ...
Adesina M. A.   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Slums and Pandemics

open access: yesSSRN Electronic Journal, 2020
How do slums shape the economic and health dynamics of pandemics? A difference-in-differences analysis using millions of mobile phones in Brazil shows that residents of overcrowded slums engaged in less social distancing after the outbreak of Covid-19. We develop and calibrate a choice-theoretic equilibrium model in which individuals are heterogeneous ...
Luiz Brotherhood   +3 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Slum Tourism: Representing and Interpreting Reality in City

open access: yesIndonesian Journal of Tourism and Leisure, 2023
Slum areas are often seen in urban spatial policy gaps. The slum area becomes a dilemma, it portrays the unsuccessful management of a city area, on the other hand the reality of the city has the potential to become slum area tourism as an alternative ...
Tatang Rusata   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Slums, Slum Dwellers, and Health

open access: yesAmerican Journal of Public Health, 2003
Although this issue of the Journal is focused on the connections between the built environment and health in the developed world these links are even more relevant in the developing world where billions of the world’s poor live in precarious housing submarkets known as slums. (excerpt)
Elliott D, Sclar, Mary E, Northridge
openaire   +3 more sources

Differences in the Prevalence of Non-Communicable Disease between Slum Dwellers and the General Population in a Large Urban Area in Brazil. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Residents of urban slums are at greater risk for disease than their non-slum dwelling urban counterparts. We sought to contrast the prevalences of selected non-communicable diseases (NCDs) between Brazilian adults living in a slum and the general ...
Calcagno, Juan I   +9 more
core   +2 more sources

Toward a multidimensional indicator of resident-oriented sustainable development: The case of slum areas in Mumbai

open access: yesFrontiers in Sustainability, 2022
This paper proposes a framework for weighting priority for the multidimensional domains of slum development from the viewpoint of residents. The weights estimated by our framework can be interpreted as marginal utility, and multiplying satisfaction ...
Akinori Kitsuki, Shunsuke Managi
doaj   +1 more source

Slum clinics [PDF]

open access: yesOccupational Medicine, 2015
Abstract In Slum clinics Dianne Baxendine briefly explores her summer working medical clinics in an Indian slum, and the many occupational hazards that she came across.
openaire   +2 more sources

Analisis Faktor Penyebab Kumuh Permukiman Kumuh di Kelurahan Baru Ulu, Kota Balikpapan

open access: yesJurnal Pembangunan Wilayah dan Kota, 2021
Slum settlements are one of the problems faced by almost all cities in Indonesia and even other developing countries. UU No. 1 of 2011(1) defines slum settlements as settlements that are unfit for habitation due to building irregularities, high building ...
Risnayanti Arung, Mega Ulimaz
doaj   +1 more source

Book Review: \u3ci\u3eTo Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness of Belonging in an Indian Slum\u3c/i\u3e [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Book review of To Be Cared For: The Power of Conversion and Foreignness of Belonging in an Indian Slum. By Nathaniel Roberts.
Taneti, James Elisha
core   +2 more sources

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