ABSTRACT
Beginning in 1990, the University of Arizona, Arizona Remote Sensing Center (ARSC) has been involved in a collaborative effort with the Global Information and Early Warning System (GIEWS) and the Remote Sensing Center of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations in designing and developing an integrated computer workstation for famine early warning. The goal of the project is to provide food security analysts with a set of computer tools to manage a very large and diverse set of data for predicting the onset of food security emergencies for every country on Earth. The initial stage of the project involved the conceptual definition of system elements and the development of overall system architecture. We are now developing an open, flexible, and portable system designed to significantly assist the work of the analysts. System architecture provides a task-specific and user-friendly graphic user interface (GUI) within a Windows environment that will link image processing, geographic information system (GIS), spreadsheet, text, and graphics software packages into a single operational environment. A relational database management system (RDBMS) is serving as the back-end of the workstation to facilitate data storage and retrieval and as a means to preserve analysis methodologies.
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Computer Systems , Food Supply/statistics & numerical data , Global Health , Population Surveillance/methods , Starvation/epidemiology , Database Management Systems , Humans , Starvation/prevention & control , User-Computer InterfaceABSTRACT
The photograph of the 1 January 1973 Santa Ana wind condition reveals local atmospheric dynamics rarely recorded on satellite imagery. The Santa Ana wind implies very specific weather conditions for the Los Angeles coastal lowland. Destructive land uses, in part, provided the material visible in the dust plumes.
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Fallopian Tubes/cytology , Ovarian Follicle/cytology , Spermatozoa , Animals , Cattle , Cell Membrane/metabolism , Cells, Cultured , Cricetinae , Dialysis , Female , Freezing , Hot Temperature , Hyaluronoglucosaminidase , In Vitro Techniques , Male , Neuraminic Acids/metabolism , Neuraminidase , Ovulation , Sperm CapacitationABSTRACT
Over a period of 39 months, ending March, 1964, 1000 unselected cases were autopsied - 787 cases of neonatal death and 213 of still births. In the neonatal series 39 percent were premature males, 35 percent premature females, 17 percent full-term males, 29 percent full term females, 21 percent premature males, and 20 percent premature females. In the neonatal period 67 percent of the deaths occurred within the first seven days (AU)
