bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Bene rotunda et globosa ueritas
Authors: Berruecos Frank Bernardo
Published: April 2019

En el presente artículo se discuten brevemente las tres variantes, ofrecidas por la tradición, del adjetivo que califica ἀληθείη en el fr. DK28 B1.29 de Parménides, es decir, εὐφεγγέος, εὐπειθέος y εὐκυκλέος, buscando sobre todo aclarar la última de éstas. Dicha lectura ha sido acogida por algunos editores del Poema no sólo por ser considerada la lectio difficilior (así ya desde Diels), sino también debido a la autoridad de quien la ha transmitido, Simplicio, y a la conexión que emerge con la imagen de la esfera del fragmento B8. Se presenta a continuación un breve estudio sobre el adjetivo εὔκυκλος y su significación en la poesía arcaica griega y finalmente se intenta dar una posible respuesta a la pregunta de por qué la diosa habría calificado de “bien redonda” la verdad.
The operational concepts in the Vitruvian system of design
Authors: Manenti Leandro
Published: April 2019

The study aims to contribute to understand the Vitruvian design system through the analysis of the temples described in the text leading to the three key concepts related: proportio, commensus and commodulatio. At first, it is proposed a conceptual discussion about the origin of the compositional elements, and further it is discussed the concept of proportio as an operation of sizing and scaling these elements individually. Analyzed the definition and types of elements, it is proposed to continue the discussion on the relationship that must be built as a way of associating elements in a consistent way, leading to the notion of symmetria, understood as an ideal state in which the elements maintain dimensional and/or geometrical relationships between them, creating a relational harmony. From the operational point of view, it is sought to demonstrate that the Vitruvian symmetria is fetched from two types of relations: a modular (commodulatio) and a dimensional (commensus).
Platão. Hípias Maior
Authors: Angioni Lucas
Published: April 2019

Trata-se de tradução do Hípias Maior de Platão para o Português, com algumas notas de elucidação e justificação das opções.
Hypertension Today: Role of Sports and Exercise Medicine
Authors: Stefani Laura , Mascherini Gabriele , Tosi Benedetta , Galanti Giorgio
Published: April 2019

Progressive increase of cardiovascular disease (CVD), with a rising costs for the society, is driving to focus on risk’s factors reduction. The importance to prevent acute events and to reduce mortality and morbility have risen the sound of the correct life style indications as the primary approach for hypertension. The new classification of hypertension has amplified an high-value of the role of the physical activity especially in the initial phase of the disease when the potential positive impact of the regular physical activity can permit to avoid the use of the pharmacological treatment. The numbers of the hypertensive subjects is increasing everywhere; however the awareness of the presence of the disease is not so frequent. Although some risk factors, such as age and hereditary factors cannot be changed, on the contrary lifestyle’s modification can prevent the CVD and hypertension.

Sports Medicine physicians agree that healthcare providers need to focus on preventive and lifestyle aspects of cardiovascular care to promote individual and population health. A dedicated approach to prescribe the amount of weekly physical activity at moderate intensity can allow to control the blood pressure values avoiding the assumption of antihypertensive drugs. Aerobic and resistance exercises need to be individually established by dedicated models tailored on the basis of the specific characteristics of the people involved. Sports and Exercise Medicine can contributes to manage and to tailor the amount of programmed physical activity starting from the ”exercise prescription” guidelines.
Civismo e patriotismo na escolarização feminina no Brasil: a Escola de Economia Doméstica de Uberaba (Minas Gerais, 1953-1963)
Authors: Riccioppo Ana Carolina , Gatti Giseli Cristina Do Vale
Published: April 2019

Este texto objetiva demonstrar a importância da Escola de Economia Doméstica no processo de escolarização feminina levado a termo na cidade de Uberaba (Minas Gerais, Brasil), no período compreendido entre 1953 e 1963. Para tanto, partiu-se das ideias de Ratto (1992), Ferreira (2012 e 2014) e Ferreira & Gonçalves Neto (2013). Em seguida, foi consultada a bibliografia de referência e examinada a documentação relacionada à legislação de ensino e a vida escolar em acervos públicos e da própria instituição. Verificou-se um processo de escolarização do cotidiano doméstico, no qual se coadunaram civismo, patriotismo e preceitos morais católicos, em uma instituição escolar que recebia jovens de Uberaba e de cidades próximas, para que elas aprendessem a desempenhar o papel de gestoras da família, baseadas na aquisição de conhecimentos científicos e de valores católicos, cujo destino seria o matrimônio e o lar, mas, também, no caso daquelas que pudessem precisar, a produção agrícola relacionada à subsistência familiar.
Municípios e História da Educação
Authors: Magalhães Justino
Published: April 2019

A história da educação tem-se aberto a novas temáticas, a domínios científicos em construção, a perspetivas inter e transdisciplinares, pela via da educação (como campo de representação, investigação e acção, vasto e polissémico) e pela epistemologia. A história dos municípios na educação vem constituindo uma área historiográfica onde cruzam distintos tempos e distintos quadros de acção ordenados pela centralidade do local e normalizados pela institucionalidade política, administrativa, educativa. Há uma institucionalidade municipal. A soberania do município associada à perspectiva desenvolvimentista, conciliando identidade e mobilização sociocultural, encontrou na educação uma base sociocultural de costumes, valores e práticas, e na escola um meio de integração e normalização, que configuram a autarcia local como município pedagógico. Neste texto, após uma sistematização de algumas linhas historiográficas, faço referência breve à História dos Municípios na Educação.
Wolf Lepenies: Homo Europaeus Intellectualis revisitado
Authors: Kwiek Marek , Ferreira Rosangela Molento , Barreira Luiz Carlos
Published: April 2019

O autor revisita as narrativas de Wolf Lepenies sobre os papeis desempenhados pelos intelectuais na história da Europa contemporânea, situando-as no interior de uma oposição que estruturou o pensamento do sociólogo nos últimos vinte e cinco anos do século XX, pelo menos: a da melancolia e utopia. Tal par não apenas no permite ver o passado dos intelectuais no Oeste e no Leste europeus após os acontecimentos de 1989 (a queda do Muro de Berlim e a extinção do Estado soviético) de uma perspectiva distinta (daquela que valoriza o engajamento político do intelectual, por exemplo), mas também nos permite examinar cuidadosamente o lugar do intelectual no mundo de hoje, após a queda das duas grandes utopias da modernidade: a utopia comunista do fins e a utopia capitalista dos meios.
Entre becos, morros e trilhos: expansão da escola primária na cidade do Rio de Janeiro (1870-1906)
Authors: Schueler Alessandra Frota M. de , Rizzini Irma
Published: April 2019

Estudo sobre o processo de expansão das escolas primárias no Rio de Janeiro, entre as décadas de 1870 e 1906, com ênfase nas regiões consideradas rurais ou periféricas, mais afastadas do centro da cidade, ou seja, aquelas áreas designadas como suburbanas. A abordagem abrange as possíveis convergências, e também disputas, entre ações e projetos educacionais distintos, de iniciativa do Estado e da sociedade civil, observados por meio de fontes, tais como, os requerimentos feitos à Diretoria Geral de Instrução Pública e a imprensa dos subúrbios. Respostas diferenciadas do Estado foram apresentadas às demandas por instrução, já que a municipalidade privilegiou a subvenção de escolas particulares para atender à população dos subúrbios, quando nas áreas centrais (a “cidade”) predominaram as escolas públicas.
A BASE NACIONAL COMUM CURRICULAR: uma estratégia a favor da educação emancipatória das infâncias e redução das desigualdades educacionais? /THE COMMON NATIONAL CURRICULAR BASE: a strategy in favor of emancipatory education of childhood and reduction of educational inequalities?
Authors: Novais Gercina Santana , Nunes Silma do Carmo
Published: April 2019

Este texto expõe reflexões sobre a Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC) homologada e seus significados na/para a educação infantil emancipatória e redução das desigualdades educacionais, com base em resultados de pesquisa qualitativa, com uso de análise documental. Para tanto, analisa o documento â€˜Base Nacional Comum Curricular - Educação é a baseâ€, utilizando como referência, especialmente, as elaborações de Freire (1987; 1996; 2009) acerca de educação emancipatória e Sacristán (1998) sobre concepção de currículo. Essa análise é orientada pelas questões: a BNCC é uma estratégia a favor da educação emancipatória nas infâncias e redução das desigualdades educacionais? Quem participou da elaboração da BNCC? Quais são os objetivos estabelecidos para a BNCC da educação infantil? Qual é o caráter da BNCC e o significado para educação infantil, vinculada ao reconhecimento das infâncias e da produção cultural dos diferentes grupos sociais? A BNCC incorporou alguns conceitos e perspectiva de organização curricular contidos em pesquisas da área e em propostas pedagógicas em andamento no país? Os resultados indicam que a BNCC, instrumento de caráter normativo, não fortalece a perspectiva de uma educação infantil emancipatória e fomenta a desigualdade de oportunidade a educação ampliada e contextualizada.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Base Nacional Comum Curricular. Regulação. Educação infantil emancipatória. Classes Populares.
Um mapeamento das pesquisas sobre Tecnologias Digitais e Modelagem Matemática no Cálculo Diferencial e Integral do Ensino Superior /A mapping of research on Digital Technologies and Mathematical Modeling in the Differential and Integral Calculus of Higher Education
Authors: Junior Arlindo José de Souza , Resende Pereira Giselle Moraes , Lopes Chioca
Published: April 2019

Neste artigo apresentamos um mapeamento de dissertações e teses brasileiras, produzidas nos últimos anos, que abordam práticas educativas para o ensino de Cálculo Diferencial e Integral, no Ensino Superior, através de duas tendências bastante atuais: as Tecnologias Digitais de Informação e Comunicação e a Modelagem Matemática na Educação. Trata-se de uma pesquisa bibliográfica, cuja coleta de dados foi realizada no banco de teses e dissertações da Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior. A partir de características semelhantes emergentes dos vinte trabalhos encontrados, entre dissertações e teses, agrupamos aqueles que apresentam uma proposta educativa e os que analisam a implementação de uma proposta educativa. Esses agrupamentos nos revelaram a multiplicidade de atuação da Modelagem Matemática, como e quais tecnologias digitais estão sendo utilizadas nessas propostas educativas, e, além disso, mostrou-nos como está ocorrendo a interseção entre as práticas educativas que se utilizam dessas tendências no processo de aprendizagem e ensino de Cálculo.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Cálculo Diferencial e Integral. Modelagem Matemática. Tecnologias Digitais de Informação e Comunicação. Ensino Superior.
La escuela y la cuestión nacional en CataluÃ±a (siglos XVIII-XX) / The school and the national question in Catalonia (XVIII-XX centuries)
Authors: Pagès Joan
Published: April 2019

El artículo presenta algunos hitos claves de la lucha por la consecución de una escuela catalana, dentro la creación del sistema educativo espaÃ±ol destacando los conflictos y los problemas entre el modelo espaÃ±ol y el catalán en relación con el papel que otorgan a la escuela en la construcción de su ciudadanía nacional - la espaÃ±ola o la catalana. En primer lugar presenta una panorámica histórica de los primeros intentos de construir un sistema educativo catalán. A continuación, seÃ±ala algunos hitos en esta construcción hasta el final dela GuerraCivil y una analice de la escuela franquista y con un análisis del papel que jugó el Movimiento de Renovación Pedagógico catalán en la recuperación de la democracia y, con ella, de la escuela catalana durante el franquismo y en los primeros aÃ±os de la transición democrática.PALABRAS-CLAVES: Escuela. Nación. Ciudadanía.
El Currículo Escolar en Colombia: un campo en conflicto y construcción permanente / The school curriculum in Colombia: a field in conflict and permanent construction
Authors: Téllez Gerardo Machuca
Published: April 2019

La configuración del Currículo en Colombia está atravesada por las vicisitudes espacio-temporales propias de un país inserido en la realidad latinoamericana. Comprender su desarrollo histórico, implica pues, el entendimiento primario del Currículo, que es sin más, un "campo de conflicto" con infinidad de agentes y escalas que intervienen en una dialéctica que perpetua permanencias y atisba giros articulados a lógicas gubernamentales. Por consiguiente, el presente artículo pretende discutir dicho proceso a la luz de la comprensión del Currículo como una construcción social en donde se consignan las visiones de país en amplios sentidos contradictorios. El documento se divide en tres momentos: 1. El contexto colombiano en materia curricular; 2. El marco legal del currículo en Colombia y sus relaciones con escalas ampliadas del sistema-interestatal; y, 3. Los retos pendientes del currículo en Colombia. Finalmente, se presentan algunas consideraciones, que pretenden avivar el constante debate sobre el campo curricular.PALABRAS-CLAVE: Currículo. Colombia. Unesco.
Base Nacional Comum Curricular: um olhar para Estatística e Probabilidade nos Anos Iniciais do Ensino Fundamental / National Curricular Common Base: a look at Statistics and Probability in the Early Years of Elementary Education
Authors: Vilas Bôas Sandra Gonçalves , Konti Keli Cristina
Published: April 2019

No Brasil, desde a publicação dos Parâmetros Curriculares Nacionais, os conteúdos de Estatística e Probabilidade fazem parte dos currículos e foram reafirmados na Base Nacional Comum Curricular. Neste artigo, apresentamos um breve percurso histórico sobre a questão curricular de inserção dessa temática no currículo brasileiro. Apresentamos o lugar da Educação Estatística nesse contexto, discutimos a Unidade Temática Probabilidade e Estatística, bem como seus objetos de conhecimento para os anos iniciais do Ensino Fundamental (1.º ao 5.º ano), apresentando alguns caminhos que permitam colocar a BNCC em "ação" por meio de situações que exemplificam as questões.PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Educação Estatística. Currículo. Objeto de conhecimento. Estatística. Probabilidade.
Teaching of Angle of Elevation by Integrating Angle Measurement in Ancient Egyptian Mathematics
Authors: Juquiana Steffan-Mae , Carlo Padua John , Ilao Herminia , Simangan Joan , Esteban Elipane Levi
Published: April 2019

The aim of this study is to stimulate reflections and determine the effects of teaching mathematics by integrating its history through Lesson Study. Lesson Study was utilized as a process to delve into the possible outcomes of incorporating history of mathematics in teaching angle of elevation to 15 freshmen college students taking BS Air Transportation. The researchers followed the three steps in conducting a Lesson Study; planning, implementing, and conducting the post-lesson discussion. The implementation of the lesson and the post-lesson discussion were video and audio recorded which later on transcribed. Three issues in attaining the objectives of the lesson were identified: (1) Being Able to Set-up the Condition and Being Clear with the Instructions (2) Being Realistic with Examples, and (3) Importance of Processing Methodologies, which greatly play an important share on maximizing the learning process and students’ success. Furthermore, feedbacks from the observers and students suggests that using history of mathematics enhanced students’ curiosity about the significance of the lesson in real life. This study may contribute to the advancements of innovative teaching strategies to the rest of educators and researchers.
Performance of IF-Postdiffset and R-Eclat Variants in Large Dataset
Authors: Aida Jusoh Julaily , Man Mustafa , Aezwani Wan Abu Bakar Wan
Published: April 2019

Pattern mining refers to a subfield of data mining that uncovers interesting, unexpected, and useful patterns from transaction databases. Such patterns reflect frequent and infrequent patterns. An abundant literature has dedicated in frequent pattern mining and tremendous efficient algorithms for frequent itemset mining in the transaction database. Nonetheless, the infrequent pattern mining has emerged to be an interesting issue in discovering patterns that rarely occur in the transaction database. More researchers reckon that rare pattern occurrences may offer valuable information in knowledge data discovery process. The R-Eclat is a novel algorithm that determines infrequent patterns in the transaction database. The multiple variants in the R-Eclat algorithm generate varied performances in infrequent mining patterns. This paper proposes IF-Postdiffset as a new variant in R-Eclat algorithm. This paper also highlights the performance of infrequent mining pattern from the transaction database among different variants of the R-Eclat algorithm regarding its execution time.
A Case Study of Health Expenditure in India
Authors: Kalpanapriya D. , Mubashir Unnissa M. , Sekar Rakshanya
Published: April 2019

The article aims in analysing healthcare expenditure of India, as it struggles to meet the health care requirements of all the citizens. In order to acheieve this, it is important to understand the trends in healthcare expenditure of the country to create a sustainable health expenditue model. Post millenium, with various reforms and increased awareness, a certain redistribution can be observed among different arms that contribute to total healthcare expenditure.This study reviews and summarise the expenditure trends between the years 2004 and 2014. Numerical illustrtions are also provided to show the government and private sectors contributions on the health care products.Â
Batch Arrival Queueing Model with Unreliable Server
Authors: Seenivasan M. , S.Subasri K.
Published: April 2019

The unreliable server with provision of temporary server in the context of application has been investigated. A temporary server is installed when the primary server is over loaded i.e., a ï¬xed queue length of K-policy customers including the customer with the primary server has been build up. The primary server may breakdown while rendering service to the customers; it is sent for the repair. This type of queuing system has been investigated using Matrix Geometric Method to obtain the probabilities of the system steady state.AMS subject classiï¬cation numberâ€” 60K25, 60K30 and 90B22.Â Â
Improvement of ANN Models via Data Envelopment Analysis for Stock Prices Forecasting
Authors: Das Raja , Kumar Jaiswal Jitendra , . .
Published: April 2019

The implementation of artificial neural network techniques has become quite prevalent in the field of nonlinear data modelling and forecasting in this era. The only application of ANN models for model fitting may not be sufficient for close and satisfactory performances; hence the researchers are adopting hybrid models of ANN with different statistical and machine learning approaches such as support vector machines, particle sworm optimization, principal component analysis, etc. We have also developed a hybrid model in this paper with ANN and data envelopment analysis (DEA) techniques for stock prices forecasting in share market. The efficient decision making units have been selected with help of DEA approach and provided it as input to the Lavenberg-Marquardt technique based ANN model in sliding window manner. Further a closed performance of our hybrid model has been achieved by carrying out our experimentation with different number of nodes in the hidden layer of ANN model. Since the prices of stocks follow numerous factors such as demand and supply, political environments, economy and finance, buy and sell, etc., the historical prices for stocks may be convenient for the further forecasting.Â Â
A Study on Connected Domination Transition Number of a Graph
Authors: S Kaspar , Gayathri B. , Kalpanapriya D. , P. Kulandaivel M.
Published: April 2019

Since its inception, the notion of domination has found vital roles in several real life applications related to facility locations, representativesâ€™ selection, communication networks, electrical networks, etc. The vast application of the notion has paved the way for the development of the notion with several types. The notion of connected domination is a significant domination parameter amongst the several domination varieties emerged in this domain. The problem of determining limited bus stops in a route was effectively addressed by the connected domination parameter. Most of the biological and neural networks effectively use this notion to solve several problems which require the connectedness of the structures. In view of the growing applications of the variant, several researchers and scholars have published numerous research articles on the said parameter. Recently, some researchers attempted on transition of the domination parameter into a connected one. In order to facilitate this transition, another variant viz., connected domination transition number was introduced and its properties and bounds were studied. In this article we explore more properties and bounds of the parameter connected domination transition number for special types of graphs. We also characterize the instances at which the domination and connected domination parameters would be same for few types of graphs. We also attempted to derive few Nordhausâ€“Gaddum (NG) type results for the same.Â
MHD Peristaltic Transport of a Dusty Couple Stress Fluid Through a Symmetric Porous Channel
Authors: P. Siva E. , Prakash `J. , Govindarajan A. , Vidhya M.
Published: April 2019

This paper agreement with the MHD peristalsis flow of a dusty couple stress liquid in a 2-D channel. Analytical solutions are got for pressure gradient and axial velocity in the fluid using perturbation technique. The results obtained for velocity profile, pressure gradient and skin friction are graphically represented. It is noted the velocity profiles increases with the increase in time averaged flow rate (Q). The velocity profiles reduce with the raise in couple stress parameter (S) and Permeability parameter (k).Â
Diabetes Disease Analysis Using Rough Soft Set
Authors: Manimaran M. , Praba B. , Deepa G. , M. Chandrasekaran V. , Venkatesan Krishnamoorthy
Published: April 2019

Diabetes is a noteworthy medical issue in both modern and creating nations, and its frequency is rising apparently. It is a metabolic disease in which the person who has been affected will have high blood glucose or high blood sugar. It is mainly because of inadequate production of insulin or the bodyâ€™s cells do not respond to insulin. In some special cases it may be due to both the reasons. This disease causes a lot of health issues in humansâ€™ life. Rough set and soft set theory plays a major role for dealing with uncertainty and it has been applied in many fields. In this paper we aim at finding the age group of people in which maximum diabetes mellitus occurs using the concept of rough soft set and rough soft decision set.Â Â
Equitable Power Domination Number of Certain Graphs
Authors: Banu Priya S. , Srinivasan N.
Published: April 2019

Let Â  12G"> Â be a graph with vertex set 12V"> , a set 12SÃ¢Ù¹â€ V"> Â is said to be a power dominating set (PDS), if every vertexÂ  12uÃ¢Ë†Ë†V-S"> Â is observed by some vertices in 12S"> Â using the following rules: (i) if a vertexÂ  12v"> Â in 12G"> Â is in PDS, then it dominates itself and all the adjacent vertices of 12v"> Â and (ii) if an observed vertex 12v"> Â in 12G"> Â hasÂ  12k>1"> Â adjacent vertices and if 12k-1"> Â of these vertices are already observed, then the remaining one non-observed vertex will also be observed by 12v"> Â in 12G"> . The degree 12d(v)"> Â of a vertex 12v"> Â in 12G"> Â is the number of edges of 12G"> Â incident with 12v"> Â and any two adjacent vertices 12u"> Â and 12v"> Â in 12G"> Â are said to hold equitable property if 12|d(u)-d(v)| Ã¢â€°Â¤ 1"> . In this paper, we introduce the notions of equitable power dominating set and equitable power domination number. We also derive the equitable power domination number of certain graphs.Â Â
Trace Crawler
Authors: Umamahewari E. , S Krishnaveni , Gao Xiao-Zhi
Published: April 2019

The Object Request Broker (ORB) manages the interaction between clients and servers using the Internet InterORB Protocol (IIOP). The ORB trace file comprises of messages, trace points, and wire tracing. These trace files are usually large and at times they can grow to 1-2 GBs. For debugging an ORB problem, the developer must determine whether the problem is in the client or in the server of the distributed application. Typically during debugging process, developer have to switch between source codes and trace logs back and forth multiple times. Often browsing the right source code file, opening it in the IDE and then moving to the line from where the trace is originated. This work proposes a tool which will help developers and service engineers to browse through source code and corresponding trace by providing integrated framework. The Aim of the tool is to build an application to parse and analyse ORB trace files. The application will fetch relevant details for the failing entries, and will perform the preliminary analysis. In this way a lot of time and human effort can be saved. The customers such as defense, military organizations can themselves view relevant details about the failures of their application by this tool, without having to compromise on confidentiality with minimal effort and time.Â Â
An Approach to Estimate the Outstanding Loss Reserve of the Non-Life Insurer Under Solvency- II Regime
Authors: Mohd Ilyas Ashiq , Rajasekaran S
Published: April 2019

This paper studies the reserve risk estimation requirement under the Solvency-II regime that came into effect in the European insurance sector in January 2016. In particular, it shows how the outstanding loss of a non-life insurer can be estimated under this regime. This regime totally replaces the traditional approaches of providing standard deviations of the liabilities over their full run-off. The requirement under this regime is that each risk shall be calibrated using a value-at-risk measure with 99.5 percentile confidence level over a single period. In connection with this, a bootstrap framework is used to estimate the uncertainty of loss reserve over the single period time horizon. Two process distributions are used namely Over-dispersed Poisson and Gamma in two separate bootstraps to estimate the uncertainty of loss reserve. Further, a comparison is established in the estimated results and it is found that Over-dispersed Poisson process distribution produces lower prediction errors than the gamma process distribution.Â Â
(â€“1, 1) Rings without Nilpotent Elements
Authors: Hari babu K. , Jayalakshmi K.
Published: April 2019

A ring ofÂ  type 12(Ø®Â³,Ø®Â´)"> , was introduced by Albert and Kokoris [1,3] where in they have shown that a simple ring of 12(Ø®Â³,Ø®Â´)"> Â type is either associative or contains no idempotent other than 1. In this paper we obtain further results on the residual cases, to prove that a nonassociative (-1,1) rings satisfying (x, x, y)2 = 0, for all elements of the rings imply (x, x, y) = 0. But then indeed (-1,1) rings which have no nilpotent elements are associative and there by all such rings are division rings.Â Â
Big Data Health Care System Using Distributed Wearable Sensors
Authors: Vijayalakshmi A. , John Paul C.
Published: April 2019

The modern world facilitates a luxurious life with more comfort using technology support. The latest developments not only support the human life, but it causes problems to the humans in many ways. The primary concern of Big Data is underway in Healthcare unit. Alerting before occurring of problem is evolved with the help of big data health care solutions.Â  Different types of sensors can be integrated with big data to produce a good solution. Our system provides a mechanism for health care systems using hidden Markov model. It acts as an intelligent system. It provides appropriate support and forwarding health related data to do real time analysis for analyzing and understanding health status.Â
A Tactical Strategy in Transportation Problems Using Statistical Process
Authors: Sumathi P. , V. Sathiya Bama C.
Published: April 2019

In this paper, a new algorithm is projected for finding initial basic feasible solution (IBFS) using average and also compared various methods of transportation problems. The proposed approach is also discussed with various numerical problems.Â Â
Vertex Hyper-Zagreb Index of Graphs
Authors: Pattabiraman K. , Seenivasan M.
Published: April 2019

In this paper, we obtain the vertex hyper-Zagreb index for some composite graphs. Using the results obtained here, the vertex hyper-Zagreb index for some important classes of graphs are obtained.Â Â
Characterizations of Strong and Balanced Neutrosophic Complex Graphs
Authors: Narmada Devi R. , Kalaivani N. , Broumi S. , A.Venkatesan K.
Published: April 2019

In this paper, the concepts ofÂ  neutrosophic complex graph, complete neutrosophic complex graph, strong neutrosophic complex graph, balanced neutrosophic complex graph and strictly balanced neutrosophic complex graph are introduced. Some of the interesting properties and related examples are established.Â Â
Effect of Nonlinear Thermal Radiation, Heat Source on MHD 3D Darcy-Forchheimer Flow of Nanofluid Over Aa Porous Medium with Chemical Reaction
Authors: Tarakaramu Nainaru , Ramesh Babu K. , V. Satyanarayana P.
Published: April 2019

The present work nonlinear thermal radiation and chemical reaction effect on three-dimensional MHD flow of permeable medium analysed. We are considering introduce the Darcy-Forchheimer law along with axial and transverse velocity. Using suitable transportations the nonlinear partial differential equations are converted into ordinary differential equations. These equations are solved numerically by 4th Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg scheme with shooting procedure. We are getting unique numerical solution for distinct physical variables temperature and concentration fields are depicted. Also the heat transfer and skin friction coefficients drawn through numerical data. We are finding great results of the velocity profiles behaviors opposite trend of porosity and Forchheimer parameters, the profiles of and behavior reverse trend follows other than chemical reaction parameter, both directions of skin friction coefficient and heat transfer rates reduction.Â Â
Numerical Solution of Time Fractional Gas Dynamics Equation
Authors: R.Ramesh Rao T. , Santosh Balaji R.
Published: April 2019

In this paper, we propose new technique for solving time fractional gas dynamics equation using Laplace-Adomian Decomposition method coupled with fractional complex transform. It is found that the tested examples reveal the present method is more reliable and does not require strong assumptions.Â Â
Fractional Calculus and Fuzzy Rule Based Filter for Despeckling the Medical Images
Authors: P Nageswari , S Rajan , K Manivel
Published: April 2019

Medical ultrasound imaging plays an important role in diagnosis of various complicated disorders. But, these ultrasound images are intrinsically degraded with speckle noise which harshly affects the image visual qualities and essential particulars. Hence, denoising is an unavoidable process in medical image processing.Â  In this paper, a new despeckling technique is presented for denoising the medical ultrasound images by employing fuzzy technique on co-efficient of variation and fractional order integration filter. The proposed technique has two steps. During first step, the noisy image pixels are classified into three regions by using fuzzy technique on co-efficient of variation and consequently, the proposed technique adaptively employs appropriate filters on the grouped pixels to reduce noise in the ultrasound image. In the second step, to obtain an effective denoising image, the fractional order integration filter is applied on the resulting image of step 1. The performance of the proposed technique is tested on various medical images in terms of Peak signal to noise ratio and speckle suppression index quality measures. Experimental results reveal that the proposed despeckling technique can efficiently reduce the speckle noise, protect the edges and preserves any other important structural details of an image. It is suggested that the proposed technique is employed as a preprocessing tool for medical image analysis and diagnosis.Â
Evaluation of NSE Price Data Using Reliability of Series Structure Model
Authors: Razak K Abdul , K Rajakumar
Published: April 2019

Fluffy set based techniques have been turned out to be successful in taking care of numerous kinds of vulnerabilities in Â various fields, including dependability building. In any modern system, the reliability and cost are considered to be the most important factor and the reliability of the system may be twisted as linear or nonlinear programming. This paper deals the fluffy nonlinear reliability optimization problem for series structure model. The objective of this paper is to quantify the most extreme unwavering quality subject to leat cost using triangular fluffy number. As an illustration, system of five components NSE price data is analyzedÂ Â
Long-Term Trend Analysis of Changing Precipitation in Tamil Nadu, India
Authors: Sivajothi R. , Karthikeyan K.
Published: April 2019

Spatial and temporal precipitation changeability in Tamil Nadu State in India was analyzed by utilizing month to month precipitation information for a long time (1901-2002) from 29 stations. Tamil Nadu is one of the southern states of India which has a farming-based economy. Senâ€™s slope method has been used to estimate the magnitude of trend, whose statistical significance was assessed by the Mann-Kendall test, the highest decreases were observed in a summer precipitation and annual precipitation decreasing trends were detected at many stations in January, February and June. The coefficient of variation (CV) was used to analyze precipitation variability. The Slope test depicts a decreasing trend at all Stations over the past 102 years, from the results obtained by both Parametric and Non-parametric tests for annual and monsoon precipitation at 5% level of significance. The Weakening precipitation of the monsoon circulation parameters caused by global warming appears to be the main causes of recent changes. The most elevated inconstancy was seen in the monsoon precipitation and least fluctuation was seen in the late summer over the 102 years (1901-2002). The weakening precipitation of the monsoon circulation parameters caused by gradual increase in the overall temperature of the earth is the major cause of recent changes.Â
A Descriptive Study of Customer’s Opinions on Factors Influencing Purchasing Decisions in Corporate Retail Stores in a City of Vijayawada.
Authors: Anusha S. , Satish Kumar D. , Bindu P. , S. Rao D. , Niranjan H.
Published: April 2019

Corporate retail stores are today the focal points for purchasing decisions of middle and high-income groups in urban India. However, each corporate retail store has its own model of retailing. Storing different varieties of products at same locality, location advantage, self-servicing outlets, window shopping, large scale discount, specialty stores are some of the models retailing stores adopted, but all these retail models are not being   popular among the consumers. Consumer’s preferences and choices are varying across different retail models. In this context the present study wants to explore significant difference among corporate retail stores in Vijayawada in consumer preference and choices.
An Intuitionistic Fuzzy Graph’s Signless Laplacian Energy
Authors: Ramesh Obbu , Sharief Basha S.
Published: April 2019

We are extending concept into the Intuitionistic fuzzy graph’ Signless Laplacian energy  instead of the Signless Laplacian energy of fuzzy graph. Now we demarcated an Intuitionistic fuzzy graph’s Signless adjacency matrix and also  an Intuitionistic fuzzy graph’s Signless Laplacian energy. Here we find the Signless Laplacian energy ‘s Intuitionistic fuzzy graphs above and below   boundaries of   an with suitable examples.
Ensemble EMD based Time-Frequency Analysis of Continuous Adventitious Signal Processing
Authors: B Shankar B. , Jayadevappa D.
Published: April 2019

The importance of lung sound analyses is increasing day by day very rapidly. In this paper, we present a new method for analysis of two classes of lung signals namely wheezes and crackles. The procedure used in this article is based on improved Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD) called Ensemble Empirical Mode Decomposition (EEMD) to analyze and compare continuous and discontinuous adventitious sounds with EMD. These two proposed procedures decompose the lung signals into a set of instantaneous frequency components. Function (IMF). The continuous and discontinuous adventitious sounds are present in an asthmatic patient, produces a non-stationary and nonlinear signal pattern. The empirical mode decomposition (EMD) decomposes such characteristic signals. The instantaneous frequency and spectral analysis related to dual techniques specified above are utilized by IMF to investigate and present the outcome in the time-frequency distribution to investigate the qualities of inbuilt properties of lung sound waves. The Hilbert marginal spectrum has been used to represent total amplitude and energy contribution from every frequency value. Finally, the resultant EEMD analysis is better for wheezes that solves mode mixing issues and improvisation is seen over the EMD method.
Characterizations of -Continuous Mappings in Ideal Topological Spaces
Authors: Kalaivani N. , Narmada Devi R. , Gunasekar T.
Published: April 2019

In this paper the notion of -Continuous Mappings is introduced and some of their properties are studied. Further the concept of contra -Continuous Mappings and(Î³Î±, Î²)-I-Continuous Mappings are introduced and properties are analyzed.Â Â
Kamenev-Type Oscillation Criteria for Generalized Second Order Sublinear -Difference Equations
Authors: Benevatho Jaison A. , Khadar Babu Sk. , Chandrasekar V.
Published: April 2019

By means of Riccati transformation techniques, authors establish some new oscillation criteria for generalized second order nonlinear -difference equation when Â and Â are quotient of odd positive integers.Â Â Â
Simulation, Numerical Analysis of double slope - Tribasin solar still effects of higher yield with Solution Techniques
Authors: S Shanmugan. , P Selvaraju.
Published: April 2019

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Securing RF Communication Using AES-256 Symmetric Encryption: A Performance Evaluation
Authors: Jamaluddin A. , N. Mohamed N. , Hashim H.
Published: April 2019

Radio Frequency (RF) communication plays a vital role for sensor node data transmission, which typically runs on top of lightweight protocol such as Constrained Application (CoAP) and Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP). Introducing a cryptographic scheme to the process is known to be the common and most efficient method to protect RF communication. This paper presents the performance comparison of AES-encrypted data transmission over RF communication via Raspberry Pi boards, experimented on a client-server architecture. The performance analysis is measured based on throughput metric and the transmission time delay when sending three types of payload which are, a plaintext data, a ciphertext with padding and a ciphertext without padding. The result from the study indicates that there is a significant difference in data transmission time between the three types of data due to the data expansion factor. The result also showed that adding padding to the ciphertext has increased the data size slightly but not significant enough to affect transmission time of ciphertext.
Profiling of Myocardial Infarction History from Electrocardiogram using Artificial Neural Network
Authors: Hanis Hussin Amerah , Syukri Abdul Aziz Ahmad , Syahirul Amin Megat Ali Megat
Published: April 2019

Myocardial infarction is an irreversible damage of heart muscle caused by prolonged oxygen deficiency. As a result, the presence of damaged tissue will alter the normal sinus rhythm. Hence, the paper proposes to profile history of myocardial infarction from electrocardiogram using artificial neural network. Data for anterior and inferior myocardial infarction, as well as healthy control is acquired from PTB Diagnostic ECG Database. Subsequently, QRS power ratio features for different frequency zones are extracted from the pre-processed electrocardiogram. Discriminative ability of the features is assessed using k-nearest neighbor. The best combination of features with 99.7% testing accuracy is the power ratio composite that combines both low-frequency and mid-frequency information. An intelligent profiling model is successfully developed using the composite features and an optimized artificial neural network. The model was able to identify between different electrocardiogram groups with overall accuracy of 98.4% and mean squared error of less than 0.1. Conclusively, the proposed signal processing approach has provided an improved alternative to the established methods from literature.
The Awareness Level on Financing Long Term Care Cost Among Rural-Urban and Marital Status in Malaysia
Authors: Md Yusuf Mazlynda , Safwan Hamdy Muhammad , Athirah Ruslan Nur , Yazis Ali Basah Mohamad
Published: April 2019

The increase in the number of older populations has raised concerns globally.Â  This demographic changes is due to the increase in life expectancy and declines in fertility as well as mortality rates.Â  Malaysia is also currently experiencing the demographic changes and these changes leads to concerns on the uncertaintiness of future family care and the need for long-term care services.Â  Therefore, this study investigates on the level of awareness on financing long term care cost between rural and urban residential area and marital status amomg respondents in Malaysia. 452 responds were analysed using multiple linear regiression model to identify the variables that influenced the level of acceptance and awareness towards long-term care cost.Â  Findings show that dependency towards retirement income is significant from urban-rural residents and among single respondents. Health status is also significant for both rural-urban and marital status. However, literacy towards the long term care cost is significant among respondents residing in urban areas only and also married couples. The findings are beneficial and relevant to demonstrate on the importance of financial planning to fund for future long-term care costs.Â
Automated Kidney Stone Segmentation by Seed Pixel Region Growing Approach: Initial Implementation and Results
Authors: Navaratnam Sujata , Fazilah Siti , Raman Valliappan , Perumal Sundresan
Published: April 2019

This research develop a computer aided diagnosis prototype for early detection of kidney stone. Once a kidney stone is diagnosed accurately, this will be useful for the patients to change their diet condition. The proposed approach is based on five stages which includes kidney image acquisition, pre-processing, segmentation, feature extraction and classification. The enhanced seed region growing segmentation depends on the extracted feature granularities. Noise may be visible and more prevalent in certain dimensions of an image, where this particular specific portion will be extracted. The segmentation process is based on the thresholds of the identified renal stone regions. The segmented stone size portion is classified based on rules; if the size is greater than 2mm, then the stone is at benign stage; if the size is greater than 5mm, then it is in malignant stage; if the size is lesser than 2mm, then this leads to absence of stone. The proposed work is implemented in MATLAB with the development of an initial prototype with the detection of stone accuracy of 92%. Based on the experimental analysis, texture feature, threshold intensity values and stone sizes are evaluated. This study will help the urologist to take decision whether there is a presence or absence of stone in early stage diagnosis and clinical decision-making.
Trustworthy E-Commerce Model for Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs)
Authors: F.H.O Hamed , M.S Madihah , S Kamaruzzaman
Published: April 2019

This paper presents a trustworthy model for an e-commerce website consisting of technologically-driven factors that influence the e-commerce usage and by employing the Theory of Planned Behaviour as the basis of developing the model. For this paper, self-administered survey questionnaires were distributed to 600 respondents at small medium enterprises (SMEs) in Libya, the structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to test the factor analysis. Based on 296 of 600 respondents of the administered questionnaires, the results showed that the perceived ease of usage and perceived ease of trust are highly significant when it comes to the usage of ecommerce. Both parameters recorded a preference score of 52% and 36% respectively. As a result, these two factors are considered to be the main factors that influence the e-commerce usage by SMEs in Libya.
A Review of Individual Factors on Knowledge Sharing: Evidence from the Empirical Literature
Authors: Shehab Salah , Eladwiah Abdul Rahim Rabiah , Daud Salina
Published: April 2019

Knowledge sharing is considered to be an essential concept and a determinant of success regarding knowledge management. The current paper reviews the most relevant quantitative studies, within the context of individual-level knowledge sharing. The main aim of this paper is to identify the relevant individual factors that influence knowledge sharing. Furthermore, it seeks to identify relevant theories, previously used in literature, that communicate a theoretical understanding of individual levels of knowledge sharing. The researchers searched through five well-known databases using a combination of keywords related to the study context. By applying filtration procedures to the articles gathered from the selected databases, the literature survey revealed 31 most relevant articles. As a result of reviewing the selected articles, it has been indicated that the factors that most affect knowledge sharing include trust, reciprocity, self-efficacy, altruism, and reputation. These factors, studied through different contexts, have been found to significantly affect the behavior of individuals in terms of sharing knowledge. Furthermore, it has been found that the social exchange theory has been repeatedly used. It has been concluded that the resulted antecedents may influence the knowledge sharing of individuals and consider these factors by the decision makers will motivate the individual’s intention to knowledge sharing.