This study was aimed at delineating groundwater potential zones (GWPZ) using geo-spatial techniqu... more This study was aimed at delineating groundwater potential zones (GWPZ) using geo-spatial techniques for Ranchi district, Jharkhand (India). Data including Cartosat-1 digital elevation model (DEM), Landsat 8 satellite images, lithology, geology, soil, and water yield data were utilised in this study. The relative importance of multiple parameters including lithology, soil, slope, geology, rainfall, drainage density, and land use/land cover (LULC) that influence the availability of groundwater was determined subjectively. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) along with pair-wise comparison decision theory was utilized to calculate the weights for each aforementioned parameter. The delineated GWPZ were categorized into four classes viz., very good zone (31.57%), good zone (45.43%), moderate zone (13.09%), and poor zone (8.53%). The sensitivity analysis indicated lithology and soil type as the most and least sensitive parameters, respectively influencing the presence of groundwater in the...
This paper helps in understanding and reviewing the different types of risks and challenges that ... more This paper helps in understanding and reviewing the different types of risks and challenges that are encountered with respect to project management and how various methods can be used to resolve those risks. The main interest of this paper is to analyze the influence of the dynamic and ever-changing environment of projects nowadays. Corporate projects undergo lots of real time changes and these need to be thought of and understood before starting the project so as to avoid any delays or obstruction in the completion of the project. The following are some of the topics that have been analyzed in this paper: What is project management? What are the challenges faced? How can those issues be resolved?
This study tries to connect with the subjugated knowledge practices of indigenous communities of ... more This study tries to connect with the subjugated knowledge practices of indigenous communities of India by attempting to comprehend and disseminate valuable information about one of their significant institutions called Dhumkuria. This is the name of youth dormitory of the Oraon tribal community of Jharkhand. It provided training in socio-cultural, politicoeconomic and religious grounds, along with mores of collective living. Dhumkuria encouraged learning by doing, as well as teaching while learning-to younger and from elder cohorts, simultaneously. Here, knowledge was mostly orally accumulated, education was an act of sharing skills and values for collective and harmonious living and pedagogy was dialogical and coconstructive. However, this practice was lost due to cultural changes, outmigration, impact of formal religious practices and then encouragement given by Colonial and Indian Government to formalised schools and colleges. Also, for intellectuals and knowledge brokers, working within positivistic framework, youth dormitories like Dhumkuria represented backwardness and promiscuousness. Such epistemic violence humiliated tribal communities and eroded several of their institutions and practices. Nevertheless, in the last few years there has been an attempt to resurrect pivotal tribal institutions. Hopefully, we can undo the wrong and change public perception and policies to encourage marginalised communities and their youth.
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2021
Any metal surface’s usefulness is essential in various applications such as machining and welding... more Any metal surface’s usefulness is essential in various applications such as machining and welding and aerospace and aerodynamic applications. There is a great deal of wear in metals, used widely in machines and appliances. The gradual loss of the upper metal layers in all metal parts is inevitable over the machine or component’s lifetime. Artificial intelligence implementations and computational models are being studied to evaluate different metals’ tribological behavior, as technological progress has been made in this field. Different neural networks were used for different metals. They are classified in this paper, together with a description of their benefits and inconveniences and an overview and use of the different types of wear. Artificial intelligence is a relatively new term that uses mechanical engineering. There is still no scientific progress to examine various metal wear cases and compare AI and computational models’ accuracy in wear behavior.
2021 IEEE Mysore Sub Section International Conference (MysuruCon), 2021
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized technology in the recent past. AI in the energy s... more Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized technology in the recent past. AI in the energy sector has proven to be of great importance at forecasting energy loads in power systems and predicting state of charge in batteries. Although ample improvements have been made in the energy sector, access to experimental battery datasets has hampered progress. This has resulted in restricted improvement of machine learning models. This paper aims to provide guidelines to produce high fidelity battery parameter data using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). This approach was used to produce synthetic data using the NASA Prognostic Data Repository and smartphone battery dataset. Discriminative and predictive scores of 0.0422, 0.0703 and 0.0638, 0.1427 were obtained for the smartphone charge dataset and NASA Prognostic dataset respectively.
International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology, 2021
Ridesharing is a transportation strategy that allows drivers to share their trips with other peop... more Ridesharing is a transportation strategy that allows drivers to share their trips with other people which results in less travel expenses. It also minimizes traffic congestions and carbon emissions. Currently, most of the existing ride-sharing services rely on a central third party, like Uber, Ola, Didi which charges high service fees. In this paper, we are using blockchain technology to build a smart ride-sharing platform - CypherCab. All the services from registering as a driver, to using this platform for ridesharing will be written directly to the blockchain distributed ledger. Utilizing the decentralized nature of blockchain, the data stored in the blocks will be stored in a distributed ledger, hence removing the dependency on a central third-party server. Moreover, blockchain enables us to remove intermediaries and allows direct transactions between the driver and passengers. In this paper, we have implemented a prototype using smart contracts in the Ethereum network and Ganac...
For production of energy in remote locations and standalone applications the best resources may b... more For production of energy in remote locations and standalone applications the best resources may be the renewable energy sources like Photovoltaic (PV), Wind turbine system and Fuel cell. Fuel cell (FC) is the most environmental friendly device that uses hydrogen and oxygen to generate electricity without leading to pollution. The benefits of FC are almost zero pollutant emission and low noise emission. The development of powerful fuel stacks has increased the need to integrate them into power systems. In this paper we develop and study the behavior of a fuel cell fed 3 phase induction motor, simulated under different load conditions along with a 40kW load present in the system. A combination of fuel cells having a maximum power of 135kW has been connected to boost converter and three-phase inverter (with an inverter controller). Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) controller has been used to operate the fuel cell at maximum power point (MPP) by changing the operating voltage according to the load conditions. Fuzzy logic controller has been used in inverter voltage control to improve the efficiency of fuel cell. The behavior of a 5HP induction motor and a fuel cell system at different stages of operation has been discussed.
The increased use of technology had an impact to the overall wellbeing. Health experts have incre... more The increased use of technology had an impact to the overall wellbeing. Health experts have increasingly taken advantage of the benefits of these technologies thus generating a scalable improvement in the area of health care. Because of this, there is paradigm shift from manual monitoring toward more accurate virtual monitoring with minimum percentage of error in the area of health care. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) led to exciting solutions with good accuracy for medical imaging and is a key method for future applications in health care. Brain tumor detection is an important task in medical image processing. Early detection of brain tumors plays an important role in improving treatment possibilities and thus increasing the survival rate of the patients. Manual detection of the brain tumors for cancer diagnosis from a large amount of MRI images generated in clinical routines is a difficult and time consuming task due to the complexity and variance of tumors and medical d...
Introduction: Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of death due to carcinoma in developed... more Introduction: Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of death due to carcinoma in developed countries due to metastasis. Most of the patient at the time of diagnosis has shown metastasis. Metastasis to bone leads to various skeletal-related events such as fracture and neural compression leading to increase morbidity in such patients. An early diagnosis leads to favorable outcomes. Skeletal metastasis is usually presented as osteoblastic localized lesion in the spine or pelvis. Here, we like to present a case of prostatic metastasis in a patient with widespread metastasis making the diagnosis in such condition a challenging issue. Case Report: A 61-year-old male comes with a complaint of right hip pain who has been diagnosed in some other clinic as a case of osteopoikilosis after an X-ray of the pelvis with both hips. However, on the further skeletal analysis found to involve most of the skeletal system with the diffuse osteolytic lesion. A bone scan, lab investigations helped ...
2017 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2017
Although H.264 standard is the most efficient video codec, it is sensitive to transmission error ... more Although H.264 standard is the most efficient video codec, it is sensitive to transmission error over noisy channels. This issue is achieved by several error resilience/concealment techniques, to deal with packet losses. Whereas, these typical techniques are not suited for streaming video transmission which requires high quality. In fact, since the H.264 standard provides different type of frame, these techniques don't give high priority to I frames. Moreover, video transmission over error prone channel has increased greatly. These facts provided the necessary to propose a new technique to deal with errors in video streaming over noisy channels. In this paper, we propose a novel technique, named novel robust decoding algorithm-aware channel conditions for video streaming (denoted as RDVS). The main idea of RDVS is to estimate CAVLC sequence by exploiting the bitstream structure and the semantic property. Through simulations, we show that the RDVS outperforms the H.264 standard.
Introduction: Paragangliomas are relatively rare tumors, accounting for only about 0.3% of all ne... more Introduction: Paragangliomas are relatively rare tumors, accounting for only about 0.3% of all neoplasms. Most paragangliomas are defined as benign in nature, but 10—% possess metastatic potential. There have been scattered reports of metastatic paraganglioma in the literature, but in rare circumstances, paragangliomas can metastasize to the spinal column causing destruction or compression of the spinal cord, clinically manifesting as pain or neurological deficit. Case Report: We present a case of a 43-year-old man who presented with paresthesia and paraparesis and was found to have pathologic fracture involving D1 vertebra as a manifestation of metastasis from a non-secretory right paratesticular paraganglioma. Conclusions: We will review the literature on the topic of metastatic paraganglioma, management of paragangliomas involving spine, and touch on the importance of angioembolization, staged procedures, and a team approach.
In this note I present mathematical coincidences concerning the mathematical constant Pi (π) and ... more In this note I present mathematical coincidences concerning the mathematical constant Pi (π) and Archimedes’ constant (√2), containing other mathematical constants i.e. The Golden Ratio (φ), the Silver Ratio (δs) and the Euler’s number (e). π ≈ √[{∑ ( ln(φφ i ) 2i ) 10 i=01 } − ln2(φ)] − {∑ ( 1 10j+1 ) ∞ j=01 } ≈ 3.141522... (1) Being about 0.0022 % accurate and correct up to 4 decimal places. π ≈ { √√√(δs) 2 + (φ)2 } + 1.998888... ≈ 3.141549... (2) Being about 0.0014 % accurate and correct up to 4 decimal places. π ≈ 2δs√φ− 3 ≈ 3.141854... (3) Being about 0.008 % accurate and correct up to 3 decimal places. √2 ≈ {√√(δs) 2 + (φ)2+(π)2 + (e)2 3 3 } − ∑ ( 2 102k ) ∞ k=01 ≈ 1.414193... (4) Being about 0.0014 % accurate and correct up to 3 decimal places.
Wireless Sensor Networks deployed in recent years often share the commonality of relying on homog... more Wireless Sensor Networks deployed in recent years often share the commonality of relying on homogeneous hardware platforms. The upcoming vision of the Internet of Things, however, is strongly based on the co-existence of embedded devices manufactured and operated by different stakeholders. Thus, device heterogeneity will become an omnipresent characteristic of future sensor deployments, particularly within the scope of fog computing. In this paper we present CLAP, a collaborative data processing approach that exploits device heterogeneity for collaborative data processing instead of trying to mitigate its negative effects. Through simulations, we demonstrate that CLAP, in conjunction with a data collection protocol, can effectively reduce the volume of traffic and thus cater to energy savings and consequently prolonged network runtimes.
Introduction Early studies on human embryology reveal a migration of the tendon of long head of b... more Introduction Early studies on human embryology reveal a migration of the tendon of long head of biceps from the synovium and fibrous capsule to an intra-articular position [1, 2, 3]. Any hindrance in the normal course of events of development, pathological or otherwise, may result in variations from the normal anatomy. Case Report Here, we discuss a case of a rare anatomical variant of the origin of long head of biceps tendon discovered incidentally in a 30-year-old manual laborer. The patient had an insidious onset and gradually progressive right shoulder pain, especially in initiating abduction, with a feeling of instability for 5 months. On examination, apprehension test and anterior drawer test were present and sulcus sign was positive. Partial-thickness supraspinatus tear and fraying of the anteroinferior glenoid labrum were noted in the imaging. After giving a fair trial of conservative management, the patient was posted for an arthroscopic repair of the supraspinatus tear and...
This study was aimed at delineating groundwater potential zones (GWPZ) using geo-spatial techniqu... more This study was aimed at delineating groundwater potential zones (GWPZ) using geo-spatial techniques for Ranchi district, Jharkhand (India). Data including Cartosat-1 digital elevation model (DEM), Landsat 8 satellite images, lithology, geology, soil, and water yield data were utilised in this study. The relative importance of multiple parameters including lithology, soil, slope, geology, rainfall, drainage density, and land use/land cover (LULC) that influence the availability of groundwater was determined subjectively. Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) along with pair-wise comparison decision theory was utilized to calculate the weights for each aforementioned parameter. The delineated GWPZ were categorized into four classes viz., very good zone (31.57%), good zone (45.43%), moderate zone (13.09%), and poor zone (8.53%). The sensitivity analysis indicated lithology and soil type as the most and least sensitive parameters, respectively influencing the presence of groundwater in the...
This paper helps in understanding and reviewing the different types of risks and challenges that ... more This paper helps in understanding and reviewing the different types of risks and challenges that are encountered with respect to project management and how various methods can be used to resolve those risks. The main interest of this paper is to analyze the influence of the dynamic and ever-changing environment of projects nowadays. Corporate projects undergo lots of real time changes and these need to be thought of and understood before starting the project so as to avoid any delays or obstruction in the completion of the project. The following are some of the topics that have been analyzed in this paper: What is project management? What are the challenges faced? How can those issues be resolved?
This study tries to connect with the subjugated knowledge practices of indigenous communities of ... more This study tries to connect with the subjugated knowledge practices of indigenous communities of India by attempting to comprehend and disseminate valuable information about one of their significant institutions called Dhumkuria. This is the name of youth dormitory of the Oraon tribal community of Jharkhand. It provided training in socio-cultural, politicoeconomic and religious grounds, along with mores of collective living. Dhumkuria encouraged learning by doing, as well as teaching while learning-to younger and from elder cohorts, simultaneously. Here, knowledge was mostly orally accumulated, education was an act of sharing skills and values for collective and harmonious living and pedagogy was dialogical and coconstructive. However, this practice was lost due to cultural changes, outmigration, impact of formal religious practices and then encouragement given by Colonial and Indian Government to formalised schools and colleges. Also, for intellectuals and knowledge brokers, working within positivistic framework, youth dormitories like Dhumkuria represented backwardness and promiscuousness. Such epistemic violence humiliated tribal communities and eroded several of their institutions and practices. Nevertheless, in the last few years there has been an attempt to resurrect pivotal tribal institutions. Hopefully, we can undo the wrong and change public perception and policies to encourage marginalised communities and their youth.
Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, 2021
Any metal surface’s usefulness is essential in various applications such as machining and welding... more Any metal surface’s usefulness is essential in various applications such as machining and welding and aerospace and aerodynamic applications. There is a great deal of wear in metals, used widely in machines and appliances. The gradual loss of the upper metal layers in all metal parts is inevitable over the machine or component’s lifetime. Artificial intelligence implementations and computational models are being studied to evaluate different metals’ tribological behavior, as technological progress has been made in this field. Different neural networks were used for different metals. They are classified in this paper, together with a description of their benefits and inconveniences and an overview and use of the different types of wear. Artificial intelligence is a relatively new term that uses mechanical engineering. There is still no scientific progress to examine various metal wear cases and compare AI and computational models’ accuracy in wear behavior.
2021 IEEE Mysore Sub Section International Conference (MysuruCon), 2021
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized technology in the recent past. AI in the energy s... more Artificial Intelligence (AI) has revolutionized technology in the recent past. AI in the energy sector has proven to be of great importance at forecasting energy loads in power systems and predicting state of charge in batteries. Although ample improvements have been made in the energy sector, access to experimental battery datasets has hampered progress. This has resulted in restricted improvement of machine learning models. This paper aims to provide guidelines to produce high fidelity battery parameter data using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs). This approach was used to produce synthetic data using the NASA Prognostic Data Repository and smartphone battery dataset. Discriminative and predictive scores of 0.0422, 0.0703 and 0.0638, 0.1427 were obtained for the smartphone charge dataset and NASA Prognostic dataset respectively.
International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology, 2021
Ridesharing is a transportation strategy that allows drivers to share their trips with other peop... more Ridesharing is a transportation strategy that allows drivers to share their trips with other people which results in less travel expenses. It also minimizes traffic congestions and carbon emissions. Currently, most of the existing ride-sharing services rely on a central third party, like Uber, Ola, Didi which charges high service fees. In this paper, we are using blockchain technology to build a smart ride-sharing platform - CypherCab. All the services from registering as a driver, to using this platform for ridesharing will be written directly to the blockchain distributed ledger. Utilizing the decentralized nature of blockchain, the data stored in the blocks will be stored in a distributed ledger, hence removing the dependency on a central third-party server. Moreover, blockchain enables us to remove intermediaries and allows direct transactions between the driver and passengers. In this paper, we have implemented a prototype using smart contracts in the Ethereum network and Ganac...
For production of energy in remote locations and standalone applications the best resources may b... more For production of energy in remote locations and standalone applications the best resources may be the renewable energy sources like Photovoltaic (PV), Wind turbine system and Fuel cell. Fuel cell (FC) is the most environmental friendly device that uses hydrogen and oxygen to generate electricity without leading to pollution. The benefits of FC are almost zero pollutant emission and low noise emission. The development of powerful fuel stacks has increased the need to integrate them into power systems. In this paper we develop and study the behavior of a fuel cell fed 3 phase induction motor, simulated under different load conditions along with a 40kW load present in the system. A combination of fuel cells having a maximum power of 135kW has been connected to boost converter and three-phase inverter (with an inverter controller). Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) controller has been used to operate the fuel cell at maximum power point (MPP) by changing the operating voltage according to the load conditions. Fuzzy logic controller has been used in inverter voltage control to improve the efficiency of fuel cell. The behavior of a 5HP induction motor and a fuel cell system at different stages of operation has been discussed.
The increased use of technology had an impact to the overall wellbeing. Health experts have incre... more The increased use of technology had an impact to the overall wellbeing. Health experts have increasingly taken advantage of the benefits of these technologies thus generating a scalable improvement in the area of health care. Because of this, there is paradigm shift from manual monitoring toward more accurate virtual monitoring with minimum percentage of error in the area of health care. Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) led to exciting solutions with good accuracy for medical imaging and is a key method for future applications in health care. Brain tumor detection is an important task in medical image processing. Early detection of brain tumors plays an important role in improving treatment possibilities and thus increasing the survival rate of the patients. Manual detection of the brain tumors for cancer diagnosis from a large amount of MRI images generated in clinical routines is a difficult and time consuming task due to the complexity and variance of tumors and medical d...
Introduction: Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of death due to carcinoma in developed... more Introduction: Prostate cancer is one of the leading causes of death due to carcinoma in developed countries due to metastasis. Most of the patient at the time of diagnosis has shown metastasis. Metastasis to bone leads to various skeletal-related events such as fracture and neural compression leading to increase morbidity in such patients. An early diagnosis leads to favorable outcomes. Skeletal metastasis is usually presented as osteoblastic localized lesion in the spine or pelvis. Here, we like to present a case of prostatic metastasis in a patient with widespread metastasis making the diagnosis in such condition a challenging issue. Case Report: A 61-year-old male comes with a complaint of right hip pain who has been diagnosed in some other clinic as a case of osteopoikilosis after an X-ray of the pelvis with both hips. However, on the further skeletal analysis found to involve most of the skeletal system with the diffuse osteolytic lesion. A bone scan, lab investigations helped ...
2017 13th International Wireless Communications and Mobile Computing Conference (IWCMC), 2017
Although H.264 standard is the most efficient video codec, it is sensitive to transmission error ... more Although H.264 standard is the most efficient video codec, it is sensitive to transmission error over noisy channels. This issue is achieved by several error resilience/concealment techniques, to deal with packet losses. Whereas, these typical techniques are not suited for streaming video transmission which requires high quality. In fact, since the H.264 standard provides different type of frame, these techniques don't give high priority to I frames. Moreover, video transmission over error prone channel has increased greatly. These facts provided the necessary to propose a new technique to deal with errors in video streaming over noisy channels. In this paper, we propose a novel technique, named novel robust decoding algorithm-aware channel conditions for video streaming (denoted as RDVS). The main idea of RDVS is to estimate CAVLC sequence by exploiting the bitstream structure and the semantic property. Through simulations, we show that the RDVS outperforms the H.264 standard.
Introduction: Paragangliomas are relatively rare tumors, accounting for only about 0.3% of all ne... more Introduction: Paragangliomas are relatively rare tumors, accounting for only about 0.3% of all neoplasms. Most paragangliomas are defined as benign in nature, but 10—% possess metastatic potential. There have been scattered reports of metastatic paraganglioma in the literature, but in rare circumstances, paragangliomas can metastasize to the spinal column causing destruction or compression of the spinal cord, clinically manifesting as pain or neurological deficit. Case Report: We present a case of a 43-year-old man who presented with paresthesia and paraparesis and was found to have pathologic fracture involving D1 vertebra as a manifestation of metastasis from a non-secretory right paratesticular paraganglioma. Conclusions: We will review the literature on the topic of metastatic paraganglioma, management of paragangliomas involving spine, and touch on the importance of angioembolization, staged procedures, and a team approach.
In this note I present mathematical coincidences concerning the mathematical constant Pi (π) and ... more In this note I present mathematical coincidences concerning the mathematical constant Pi (π) and Archimedes’ constant (√2), containing other mathematical constants i.e. The Golden Ratio (φ), the Silver Ratio (δs) and the Euler’s number (e). π ≈ √[{∑ ( ln(φφ i ) 2i ) 10 i=01 } − ln2(φ)] − {∑ ( 1 10j+1 ) ∞ j=01 } ≈ 3.141522... (1) Being about 0.0022 % accurate and correct up to 4 decimal places. π ≈ { √√√(δs) 2 + (φ)2 } + 1.998888... ≈ 3.141549... (2) Being about 0.0014 % accurate and correct up to 4 decimal places. π ≈ 2δs√φ− 3 ≈ 3.141854... (3) Being about 0.008 % accurate and correct up to 3 decimal places. √2 ≈ {√√(δs) 2 + (φ)2+(π)2 + (e)2 3 3 } − ∑ ( 2 102k ) ∞ k=01 ≈ 1.414193... (4) Being about 0.0014 % accurate and correct up to 3 decimal places.
Wireless Sensor Networks deployed in recent years often share the commonality of relying on homog... more Wireless Sensor Networks deployed in recent years often share the commonality of relying on homogeneous hardware platforms. The upcoming vision of the Internet of Things, however, is strongly based on the co-existence of embedded devices manufactured and operated by different stakeholders. Thus, device heterogeneity will become an omnipresent characteristic of future sensor deployments, particularly within the scope of fog computing. In this paper we present CLAP, a collaborative data processing approach that exploits device heterogeneity for collaborative data processing instead of trying to mitigate its negative effects. Through simulations, we demonstrate that CLAP, in conjunction with a data collection protocol, can effectively reduce the volume of traffic and thus cater to energy savings and consequently prolonged network runtimes.
Introduction Early studies on human embryology reveal a migration of the tendon of long head of b... more Introduction Early studies on human embryology reveal a migration of the tendon of long head of biceps from the synovium and fibrous capsule to an intra-articular position [1, 2, 3]. Any hindrance in the normal course of events of development, pathological or otherwise, may result in variations from the normal anatomy. Case Report Here, we discuss a case of a rare anatomical variant of the origin of long head of biceps tendon discovered incidentally in a 30-year-old manual laborer. The patient had an insidious onset and gradually progressive right shoulder pain, especially in initiating abduction, with a feeling of instability for 5 months. On examination, apprehension test and anterior drawer test were present and sulcus sign was positive. Partial-thickness supraspinatus tear and fraying of the anteroinferior glenoid labrum were noted in the imaging. After giving a fair trial of conservative management, the patient was posted for an arthroscopic repair of the supraspinatus tear and...
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