Developing countries, particularly in their rural areas lack in health care facilities. In Pakistan, 65% of population lives in rural areas. The patients from these areas are unable to interact with the health specialists for their particular diseases. The complications faced by women during...

Context: According to Nottingham grading system, mitosis count in breast cancer histopathology is one of three components required for cancer grading and prognosis. Manual counting of mitosis is tedious and subject to considerable inter- and intra-reader variations. Aims: The aim is to...

The situation of health care in Pakistan is below the international standards due to scarcity and unavailability of specialists. Moreover the patients do not have access to proper specialists because they live in remote areas and cannot afford the high ailment expenditures. The use of...

The doctor to population ratio in Pakistan is very low (1:1436). Normally, a doctor has to go through a manually filled file of every patient for analyzing and finding anomalies. Performing efficiently in such a situation becomes a challenging task for a doctor. We believe that the use of our...

This document describes an extension of ITK to handle both primal and dual meshes simultaneously. This paper describe in particular the data structure, an extension of itk::QuadEdgeMesh, a filter to compute and add to the the structure the dual of an existing mesh, and an adaptor which let a...

We extend a unified and easy-to-use approach to measurement error and missing data. Blackwell, Honaker, and King (2014a) gives an intuitive overview of the new technique, along with practical suggestions and empirical applications. Here, we offer more precise technical details; more...

Many methodological debates in microeconometrics are driven by the tension between ``what we can get'' (identification) and ``what we want'' (parameters of interest). This paper proposes to consider models of policy choice which allow for a joint formal discussion of both issues. We consider a...

Despite the fact that the average American student is absent more than two weeks out of every school year, most research on the effect of instructional time has focused not on attendance but on the length of the school day or year. Student and school fixed effects models using Massachusetts...