Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Improved Keyword Extraction using Semantics for Question Retrieval in Healthcare

: In the healthcare systems, the criticality of health related information requires careful consideration of how to present the information for sociability. Our main aim is to reduce the gap that prevails between layman and experts in the healthcare domain. This is done by capturing the meaning of key phrases of given questions and retrieving the relevant descriptions by jointly utilizing local mining and global learning approaches. This could be useful to support multiple languages. There needs to be separate server implementations for local mining and global learning. The key concept from the ques tion is identified by using NLP POS tagging technique. If an answer could not be obtained after local mining process, we use resources in global learning . If uncertainty still prevails, an expert answer is to be provided.
Advances in Wireless Communications and Networks

In view of expense of extra redundancy and reduced spectral efficiency, prefix based multicarrier transmission can find its major applications in 5G and beyond 5G wireless communication networks with properly designed low complexity signal detection technique. Hybrid prefixing aided multicarrier modulated system is capable of providing reasonably acceptable bit-error rate (BER). In this paper, a comprehensive study has been made on performance evaluation of hybrid prefixing scheme implemented multicarrier cmWave wireless communication system on transmission of encrypted audio signal in a hostile flat fading channel. The 4×4 multi antenna configured simulated system under investigation incorporates LDPC and Repeat and Accumulate channel coding and various types of digital modulations (16-PSK, 16-DPSK, and 16-QAM) and signal detection (MMSE, and Cholesky Decomposition based) techniques. The implementation of pulse shaping filter in the simulated system is very much convenient to improve system performance in terms of BER through reduction of intersymbol interference (ISI). Additionally, utilization of hybrid prefix scheme enhances spectrum efficiency of the simulated system. It is noticeable from MATLAB based simulation study that the Repeat and Accumulate channel encoded simulated system is very much robust and effective in retrieving audio signal under utilization of Cholesky Decomposition based signal detection and 16-QAM digital modulation techniques.
A Survey on Traffic Aware Congestion Control Techniques in Wireless Sensor Network

:Wireless sensor network composed of one or more sink and ten or thousands of sensor nodes scattered in physical space. Congestion occurs in wireless sensor network when the numbers of packet being transmitted through the network approaches the packet handling capacity of network. Congestion in wireless sensor networkaffects the continuous flow of data, loss of information, delay and reduces the energy of nodes due to overhead of retransmission. It also decrease overall throughput of system. Therefore congestion needs to be control in wireless sensor network in order to prolong system lifetime, improve fairness and quality of service and to achieve high energy efficiency. There are various techniques available which control the congestion. This paper presents different techniques for congestion control in wireless sensor network and also includes comparison of the techniques based on various parameters like throughput, delay and energy consumption.
Barriers In The Adoption Of E-Commerce In Pakistan With The Focus On Gender

: Current research is aiming to explore the possible technological and human-related factors preventing the growth of e-commerce in Pakistan. Both qualitative and quantitative data have been collected with survey strategy and a mixed method approach is used for analyzing the data and presenting the results. Findings suggest that several hindrances, such as trust deficit, non-exist digital divide between payment infrastructure, digital divide among male and females and lack of appropriate cyber security laws, exist preventing the growth of e-commerce in Pakistan. Based on the findings, appropriate recommendations for improving the use of e-commerce in this densely populated country are presented.
Performance of First Year College Students in a Second Language Classroom Using the Magazine Strategy

This study aimed to determine the performance of the first year college students enrolled in English 12Grammar and Composition 2 using the magazine strategy at the College of Arts and Sciences, Cagayan State University, Carig Campus during the school year 2014-2015. Specifically, it determined the profile of the respondents in terms of sex, course, language used at home, parent‟s highest educational attainment; whether or not the profile variables are significantly related to respondents‟ perceived influence in using magazine strategy; and the significant differences between profile variables and academic performance and perceived influence in using the magazine strategy . Descriptive-correlational research design was used in this study. The instrument used was a questionnaire which elicited the respondents‟ profile variables and examined the perceived influence in using the magazine strategy. Total enumeration technique was used in the study. Frequency counts, means and percentages, t-test, Pearson-r and Chi-square were used to analyze the data generated in the study. Results of the study revealed that it is predominated by females, graduated from private high schools, and almost all of them speak Tagalog as their language used at home. The respondents‟ perceived influence towards magazine strategy is described as „strongly agree‟ along proficiency in the use of the second language, independent learning, and leadership skills/management. The study further revealed that the profile variables are not significantly related to the perceived influence towards the strategy. Likewise, respondents‟ perceived influence does not vary significantly when grouped according to profile variables except for sex. Moreover, in terms of academic performance, females performed better than males. Finally, academic performance and perceived influence in using the magazine strategy were found to be significantly related.
PATIENT DATA SET PUBLICATION THROUGH DIFFERENTIAL PRIVACY VIA WAVELET TRANSFORMS

: Every organization stores a required data in the digital form. This data needs to be published due to the mutual benefits or due to the government rule. This data also has significant research value. While publishing a data in its original form, there is loss of privacy of the individual record. To avoid this, we can use ε -differential privacy. Dwork provides a simplest way to achieve this. But it does not work well with range count query. In this paper we have used Privelet+ method using array based implementation for wavelet transforms and Privelet* method. These methods show better result than the Dwork method for the range count queries.
IMPROVING POWER SYSTEM STABILITY USING REAL-CODED GENETIC ALGORITHM BASED PI CONTROLLER FOR STATCOM

In this paper investigates the power-system stability improvement by a static synchronous compensator (STATCOM) based damping controller. The present study is considered both local and remote signals. The design problem of the proposed controller is formulated as an optimization problem, and Real-Coded Genetic (RCGA) algorithm is employed to search for the optimal controller parameters. The performances of the proposed controllers are evaluated under different disturbances and loading conditions for single-machine infinite bus power system. The performance of the proposed controllers has been investigated. Simulation results are presented under various operating conditions and disturbances to show the effectiveness and robustness of the proposed approach
A Survey on Privacy Preserving Data Mining Techniques

— Enormous amount of detailed private data is recurrently collected and analysed by applications using data mining, sharing of these data is useful to the application users . While sharing the private data, privacy preserving is becoming an increasingly significant issue. Sequential pattern mining is the process of finding relevant pattern in the data set. Sequential pattern helps in envisaging the next event. Predicting the sequence datasets leads to violate the privacy and disclose sensitive patterns related to medical records, business secrets etc.This paper explores about different various techniques for privacy preserving data mining such as anonymity, randomization, secure multiparty computation
Maximization of Per Node Throughputfor2HR-Manets under Limited Buffer Constraint

: This paper proposes an analytical framework on the lines of Jia Liu et al for maximization of per node throughput under limited buffer constraint of two hop relay (2HR) MANETs. To achieve maximization of per node throughput through partial derivative method with necessary and sufficient conditions (NSC) based search algorithm for finding the optimal values of network control parameter, buffer size at source node and buffer size at relay node. The per node throughput is evaluated through NSC search algorithm for different values of packet generating probability, area of the MANET and node density. The numerical results illustrate the effects of different network parameters on throughput performance.
Effect of Nigella Sativa Supplementation in Diet on Metabolic Syndrome in Aged Rats

Metabolic syndrome is a serious health problem that is increasing worldwide particularly in aged people due to increased fructose intake in processed foods as well as physical inactivity. The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of dietary supplementation with ground seeds of Nigella sativa on the criteria of metabolic syndrome in aged rats. The present study was carried out on 52 aged Wistar male albino rats (18-20 months). Rats were allocated into the following 3 groups: Control rats C (n=20) fed standard rat diet; metabolic syndrome group M (n=14) fed high fructose diet ( 60 % of diet in the form of pure fructose) and metabolic syndrome/Nigella sativa group M/NS (n=18) fed high fructose diet as M group but mixed with ground seeds of Nigella sativa (1.7 g/ Kg diet) to achieve daily intake of Nigella sativa (180 mg /Kg b.w). Throughout the study, rats were examined for daily food intake and weekly body weight. After 4 weeks, rats were subjected to estimation of the following parameters; final body weights, body mass index (BMI) and serum levels of glucose, insulin, total cholesterol, HDL-c, LDL-c , VLDL-c and adiponectin. Insulin resistance was estimated by calculating HOMA-R. Histopathological examination of rat livers, kidneys and brains was also done. Obtained results revealed that visceral fat weight increased significantly in M group compared to C group and decreased significantly in M/NS group compared to M group. Both M and M/NS groups had significant increase in serum levels of fasting glucose, insulin, total cholesterol, LDLc. VLDL-c and HOMA-R as well as significant decrease in serum adiponectin compared to C group. However M/NS group showed significant decrease of serum levels of fasting glucose, insulin, total cholesterol, LDL-c and HOMA-R as well as significant increase of serum adiponectin compared to M group. Histopathological examination revealed vascular congestion in the liver and kidneys, necrosis of hepatocytes and renal tubular cells as well as focal cerebral hemorrhage in M group and almost normal histological picture in M/NS group. In conclusion; Nigella sativa seeds co-feeding with high fructose diet improved some criteria of metabolic syndrome in aged rats. [Nehal M. Bahgat and Ghada Z.A. Soliman . Effect of Nigella Sativa Supplementation in Diet on Metabolic Syndrome in Aged Rats. Journal of American Science 2011;7(7):577-583]. (ISSN: 1545-1003). http://www.americanscience. org.
TALINUM PANICULATUM (JACQ.) GERTN: A MEDICINAL PLANT WITH POTENTIAL ESTROGENIC ACTIVITY IN OVARIECTOMIZED RATS

Objective: Talinum paniculatum (Jacq.) Gertn (T. paniculatum), is extensively used in Asian traditional medicine as a reproductive tonic. However, there is no conclusive scientific data to support this practice. This study was conducted to explore the possible estrogenic activity of T. paniculatum extracts compared with 17ß-estradiol (E2) in adult bilaterally ovariectomized (OVX) rats for the experimental model of menopause. Methods: OVX female Wistar rats were randomly divided into six groups. The first group was orally treated with sesame oil as a vehicle control. The other six groups were treated with different treatments consisted of the groups which were treated by a positive standard control of 17ß-estradiol (10μg. kg-1BW), T. paniculatum root or leaf extract at two different doses (100 and 1,000 mg.kg-1BW) for 42 consecutive days, respectively. Estrogenic activity was evaluated by determining the vaginal cornification, relative uterine weight (%RU), relative mammary weight (%RM), and their histoarchitecture changes. Results: T. paniculatum root and leaf extracts significantly increased the vaginal cornification (P<0.001). Compared to OVX control, a dose dependency response of %RU, %RM and proliferative changes in vagina, uterus and mammary ductular tissue were significantly observed in OVX treated with all dosages of T. paniculatum from root and leaf extracts (P<0.05). Conclusion: T. paniculatum extracts possess estrogenic activity in the OVX rats, which can be helpful in managing reproductive tissues regression during menopause in a natural way through herbal resources without any toxicity.
Modelling the Effect of Shoe-size and Neck-size on Human Weight Model

The research is concerned with the development of a mathematical model for estimating the body weight of human beings in relation to some of human body parameters such as; height, waist size, neck size, and shoe size. The model was validated to see whether the model conforms to reality or not. However, the optimization result showed that there is no specific body weight that could be called a maximum or minimum. Emphasis was laid mainly on a particular proportion of Nigerians from the north-east geopolitical zone (as a case study) in order to be able to make generalizations about the entire country and beyond. Hence, the population sample for the research was the Taraba state of Nigeria’s community. Moreover, several recommendations were made at the end of the model analysis, each when adhered to would bring about some medical breakthroughs to the entire human populace.
Diabetic macular edema and its association to systemic risk factors in an urban north Indian population

Aim: To study the association of systemic risk factors with diabetic macular edema in an urban North Indian population. Materials and Methods: 600 eyes of 300 patients in the age group of 30-70 years with pre-diagnosed diabetes mellitus type II were screened for diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema. All systemic parameters were studied. Results: Diabetic retinopathy was found in 52% males with the male to female ratio being 1.08:1. Cystoid macular edema and serous retinal detachment were associated with increased fasting and post prandial blood sugar levels respectively. Hypertriglyceridemia was significantly associated with cystoid macular edema (p-value=0.001). 73.7% of smokers had cystoid macular edema. Increased serum creatinine is more commonly found in cystoid macular edema. Higher levels of Blood urea is significantly associated with diffuse retinal thickening (p-value=0.006) Conclusion: Of the systemic risk factors found in the diabetic patients, macular edema was found more in females, smokers, those with uncontrolled diabetes mellitus, deranged lipid profile and nephropathy.
Development, Characterization and Ex vivo Evaluation of Various Liposome-encapsulated Aceclofenac Formulations

Aim: Formulation of aceclofenac (ACE) into liposomal gel, improving its skin permeation and potentiate its local anti-inflammatory effect. Methodology: ACE liposomes were fabricated by lipid film hydration technique. The prepared formulations were traditional liposomes containing cholesterol (F1), ultra-deformable liposomes containing Tween 60 (F2) and modified liposomes containing both cholesterol and Tween 60 (F3). All formulations were incorporated in 1% carbopol 974 as gelling agent. The developed liposomal formulations were evaluated for its particle size, zeta potential, drug entrapment efficiency percent and stability for 90 days at 4°C. While the developed liposomal gel formulations were characterized for its in vitro ACE release and ex vivo permeation through rat skin. Anti-inflammatory effect of ACE gel formulations were evaluated in rats using carrageenan induced paw edema. Results: The prepared liposomes had a mean vesicle size of 577 nm, 218 nm and 332 nm for F1, F2 and F3 respectively and entrapment efficiency percent of 76.8%, 58.3% and 66.2% for F1, F2 and F3 respectively. The stability study revealed that F1 vesicles have the highest physical stability followed by F3, while F2 showed the lowest stability in terms of vesicles size and entrapment Original Research Article Abd-Allah; BJPR, 9(4): 1-12, 2016; Article no.BJPR. 22501 2 efficiency percent. The in vitro and ex vivo results showed higher drug release and permeability from F2 and F3 than that of F1. In addition, ACE liposomal formulations have significant higher antiinflammatory effect than that of marketed product Bristaflam cream. Conclusion: All liposomal gel formulations have the ability to enhance ACE anti-inflammatory effect in rats paw edema in comparison with marketed product Bristaflam cream.
Quantum Cryptography using Quantum Key Distribution and its Applications

 Abstract-Secure transmission of message between the sender and receiver is carried out through a tool called as cryptography. Traditional cryptographical methods use either public key which is known to everyone or on the private key. In either case the eavesdroppers are able to detect the key and hence find the message transmitted without the knowledge of the sender and receiver. Quantum cryptography is a special form of cryptography which uses the Quantum mechanics to ensure unconditional security towards the transmitted message. Quantum cryptography uses the distribution of random binary key known as the Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) and hence enables the communicating parties to detect the presence of potential eavesdropper. This paper also analyses few application areas of quantum cryptography and its limitations.
High Sensitivity Troponin T Level and Cardiovascular Performance in Patients with Liver Cirrhosis

Introduction: Cirrhotic cardiomyopathy is a new entity reported in patients with advanced liver cirrhosis. High sensitivity cardiac troponin T (hs-cTnT) is a biological marker specifically derived from the cardiac muscle. Recent data suggest that cardiac troponins are valuable for screening asymptomatic individuals for subclinical cardiovascular disease. Objective: To evaluate hs-cTnT level in post hepatitis C cirrhotic patients and correlating the results with severity of liver disease, carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) and cardiac performance. Methods: The study involved 40 cirrhotic patients without established cardiovascular diseases in addition to 20 apparently healthy volunteers serving as control. Demographic details, clinical data, laboratory data, echocardiographic study of left ventricular systolic and diastolic function, abdominal ultrasonography, ECG, and B-Mode Carotid ultrasonography for evaluation of CIMT were obtained. Sera were collected for measurement of high sensitivity troponin T levels. Correlations of hs-cTnT level with echocardiographic parameters, ChildPugh functional scoring of cirrhosis as well as with abdominal ultrasound and laboratory parameters were investigated. Results: There was a highly statistically significant increase in hs-cTnT level in patient group compared to control group. We found a positive correlation between hs-cTnT level and portal vein diameter, serum K, Child-Pugh Score, corrected QT interval in ECG, left ventricular mass, interventricular septal diameter, peak velocity of atrial filling A and CIMT. There was a negative correlation between hs-cTnT level and liver diameter, serum sodium, serum albumin and echocardiographic E/A ratio. Conclusion: Elevated hs-cTnT in cirrhotic patients can be one of the tools used for early diagnosis of subclinical cirrhotic cardiomyopathy.
Biometric System using Iris Pattern Recognition

— Iris is unique body part which does not change with respect to time. Also every individual has unique and different pattern of the Iris for both the eyes. This helps in identifying a person, quite accurately. Initially, a filter must be employed to get rid of any kind of noises before pre-processing stage. Initially we detect the pupil-iris boundary. After that, we give it to Circular Hough transform to detect its center which will be used to extract iris from the image. Using Daugman’s Rubber sheet model, we normalize the iris pattern for making computations easy. Feature Extraction is done by using multi-scale Taylor series expansion of the iris texture. Feature vectors are extracted by binarizing the first and second order multi-scale Taylor coefficients. The proposed algorithm is tested against different images which gives better results in less computation time. The simulation is carried out using CASIA database on MATLAB.
Multiple Sample Based Fingerprint verification System for the Improvement of Verification Accuracy

Biometrics refers to the automatic verification of individuals based on their behavioral and/or physiological attributes. Multiple samples based biometric systems that strengthen proof from multiple biometric sources. Multiple sample based fingerprint verification systems are attaining good response because they are able to conquer limitation of unimodal fingerprint verification systems. In the fingerprint authentication module, combination of four fingerprint impressions of the same person has been used in different physical conditions. The hybrid algorithm has been used to improve the ridge and valley structure on the basis of local ridge orientation. A fingerprint database FVC2004 DB1 has been used for testing the identity of a person. The paper presents a general formula to combine the minutiae point of the fingerprint images of individual persons in order to generate a unique identity that can’t be easily hacked by the hackers as in the case of the password and token system. Therefore, proposed scheme can be used to increase privacy without affecting verification process. Thus in overall our proposed Hybrid algorithm based verification system has an accuracy of 99.5% on FVC 2004 DB1 database.
Daycase Robotic Surgery- The Future for CancerCare

Prostate cancer is one of the most common cancers in men. Radical robotic assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP) is the standard technique to treat localised prostate cancer. Standard operating procedure dictates an overnight admission. Yet the technique is minimally invasive and patients operated on early in the list with no complications are fit for discharge by that evening. We review the literature on Daycase prostatectomies. The majority of patients have no complications and complications that do occur are minor. Based on these results, a new follow-up protocol is developed for Daycase radical robotic laparoscopic prostatectomy.