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A system for synthetic vision and augmented reality in future flight decks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2000
Rockwell Science Center is investigating novel human-computer interaction techniques for enhancing the situational awareness in future flight decks. One aspect is to provide intuitive displays that provide the vital information and the spatial awareness ...
Behringer, R   +4 more
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Irregular marriage: myth and reality [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article examines the historiography, the law, and the practice of irregular marriage in Britain. It argues that there has been a confusion of terms in the historiography of irregular marriage that has served to obscure its meaning, pattern, and ...
Gordon, Eleanor
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Evaluation of a village-informant driven demographic surveillance system in Karonga, Northern Malawi

open access: yesDemographic Research, 2007
This paper describes and evaluates the first demographic surveillance system (DSS) in Malawi, covering a rural population of 30,000. Unlike others, the Karonga DSS relies on trained village informants using formatted registers for the primary ...
Basia Zaba   +9 more
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How useful are registered birth statistics for health and social policy? A global systematic assessment of the availability and quality of birth registration data

open access: yesPopulation Health Metrics, 2018
Background The registration and certification of births has a wide array of individual and societal benefits. While near-universal in some parts of the world, birth registration is less common in many low- and middle-income countries, and the quality of ...
David E. Phillips   +2 more
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Governance and Policy Coordination : the Case of Birth Registration in Peru [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Paper explores coordination through the lens of civil registration and vital statistics, with particular reference to birth registration in Peru.
Mawson, Andrew, Peters, B. Guy
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Improving coverage of civil registration and vital statistics, Bangladesh

open access: yesBulletin of the World Health Organization, 2019
Bangladesh has no national system for registering deaths and determining their causes. As a result, policy-makers lack reliable and complete data to inform public health decisions.In 2016, the government of Bangladesh introduced a pilot project to strengthen the civil registration and vital statistics system and generate cause of death data in Kaliganj
Uddin, M   +9 more
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Estimating global mortality from potentially foodborne diseases: an analysis using vital registration data

open access: yesPopulation Health Metrics, 2012
Background Foodborne diseases (FBD) comprise a large part of the global mortality burden, yet the true extent of their impact remains unknown. The present study utilizes multiple regression with the first attempt to use nonhealth variables to predict ...
Hanson Laura A   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Managing for change: June 1, 1990 v. 1, no. 1 [PDF]

open access: yes, 1990
Bi-weekly newsletter of University Hospital's Change Project, provided to managers at the ...
Boston University Medical Center, Office of Publication Services
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Election Day Registration: A Study of Voter Fraud Allegations and Findings on Voter Roll Security [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
The specter of fraud in American elections has pervaded our political and media landscape for a long time. In recent years it has been raised again as a key lever in arguments for or against certain state or federal election reforms -- in legislative and
Lorraine C. Minnite
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Evaluation and adjustment of vital registration data from the compulsory registration areas of Ghana [PDF]

open access: yesDemography, 1968
Resumen El propósito de este estudio es evaluar y ajustar los datos recopilados hasta ahora, sobre nacimientos y muertes de todas las áreas de registro obligatorio en Ghana. El análiss muestra que hay un registro incompleto de nacimientos y que la subenumeración afecta tanto a hombres como a mujeres, en una proporción de 75 y 72 ...
openaire   +1 more source

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