Parasitology and parasitic infections / International Journal of Infectious Diseases 101(S1) (2021) 419-436 thin blood smear pictures. This tool provides vital size/shape features, such as width, length and the perimeter of the T. cruzi and helps to attain a classification accuracy of 91.06% with the SVM classifier.Conclusion: This work proposes a soft-computing tool to detect, analyze and classify the T. cruzi existing in the thin blood smear microscopic images. This work achieved a classification accuracy of 91.06%, which confirms that the proposed tool has high clinical significance and it can be used for automated diagnosis of T. cruzi.
Humanitarian actors seeking to offer assistance and protection to civilians in many contemporary conflicts negotiate access with armed groups from a position of weakness. They consequently concede many of their demands, compromising humanitarian operations and principles, and leaving millions of vulnerable civilians beyond reach. Using a structural analysis of the negotiation process in many recent humanitarian crises this article demonstrates the basis of this marked power asymmetry and challenges the assumption in much of the literature that this power imbalance is immutable. Humanitarian negotiators have access to a range of tactics that can alter the structure of the negotiation to reach more favorable outcomes. This article argues that these strategies have proved effective in many recent negotiations, but also carry significant risks to humanitarian actors and to the civilians they seek to assist.
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