104 research outputs found
Scada and its Application in Power Generation and Distribution System
The essential common sources like Coal, gas, Diesel, nuclear and so forth. Is single time useable due to which the quantity of these sources is decreasing day by day. The emission of these fuels is also responsible for air pollution. On the other hand, if we can use renewable sources like hydro power, solar power and wind power to generate electricity such that SCADA system can incorporate to have better monitoring and reliability of the system for proper distribution of load optimise. So we have developed a system in which consumers are connected to different types of power plants via a Grid. The network load and plants are checked and controlled by the SCADA framework. This provides the uninterrupted power supply to the distributors with more reliable solution
ISLTranslate: Dataset for Translating Indian Sign Language
Sign languages are the primary means of communication for many
hard-of-hearing people worldwide. Recently, to bridge the communication gap
between the hard-of-hearing community and the rest of the population, several
sign language translation datasets have been proposed to enable the development
of statistical sign language translation systems. However, there is a dearth of
sign language resources for the Indian sign language. This resource paper
introduces ISLTranslate, a translation dataset for continuous Indian Sign
Language (ISL) consisting of 31k ISL-English sentence/phrase pairs. To the best
of our knowledge, it is the largest translation dataset for continuous Indian
Sign Language. We provide a detailed analysis of the dataset. To validate the
performance of existing end-to-end Sign language to spoken language translation
systems, we benchmark the created dataset with a transformer-based model for
ISL translation.Comment: Accepted at ACL 2023 Findings, 8 Page
Motivating Persons Living with Diabetes for Insulin/Injectable Therapy
Motivating patients to initiate or intensify insulin is a challenging aspect of diabetes practice. This paper reviews certain motivational strategies and methods used for insulin initiation/intensification. It places various domains of motivational interviewing in perspective, under a single umbrella, making it easier for practitioners to understand the art and science of insulin motivation
Motivating Persons Living with Diabetes for Insulin/Injectable Therapy
Motivating patients to initiate or intensify insulin is a challenging aspect of diabetes practice. This paper reviews certain motivational strategies and methods used for insulin initiation/intensification. It places various domains of motivational interviewing in perspective, under a single umbrella, making it easier for practitioners to understand the art and science of insulin motivation
Pulmonary arterial hypertension in the elderly: Clinical perspectives
Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a rare and devastating disease characterized by progressive increases in pulmonary arterial pressure and pulmonary vascular resistance, which eventually leads to right ventricular failure and death. Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) (World Health Organization Group I), a subset of PH, and may be idiopathic in nature or associated with other systemic conditions and is thought to most commonly effect women, the majority of whom are of childbearing age. However, PAH in the elderly population is being increasingly diagnosed creating clinical considerations that had once not been considered. Often in an elderly population the diagnosis of PAH may be delayed due to chronic comorbid conditions such as coronary artery disease or other dyspneic conditions. Though survival and clinical outcomes have improved, the elderly population continues to have disproportionately lower survival rates. High clinical suspicion of PAH warrants a complete diagnostic workup with right heart catheterization. Upon diagnosis, PAH specific therapy should be initiated with possible drug interactions in mind. Adjuvant pulmonary rehabilitation should be considered as a conservative measure with definitive results. Finally, psychosomatic aspects of the disease should also be considered in elderly populations
Nationwide Trends in Inpatient Admissions of Pulmonary Hypertension in the United States from 2000 to 2013
Introduction: Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) is a disorder of the pulmonary vasculature with high mortality and bears a large economic burden on the healthcare system. We conducted a review of the largest inpatient database in the United States and analyzed the trends in hospitalizations due to PH from the turn of the century (2000) to 2013 to evaluate the rate of hospitalizations and determine the cost and mortality associated with PH.
Material and methods: We analyzed the National Inpatient Sample Database (NIS) for all patients in which PH (Primary or Secondary) or cor pulmonale was the primary discharge diagnosis (ICD-9: 416.0, 416.8 and 416.9) from 2000 to 2013. The NIS is the largest all-payer inpatient database in the United States and contains data from approximately 8 million hospital stays each year. The statistical significance of the difference in the number of hospital discharges, lengths of stays and associated hospital costs over the study period was calculated.
Results: In 2000, there were 12,066 hospital admissions with the principal discharge diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension, which increased to 13,605 admissions in 2013 (p \u3c 0.001). The mean length of stay for PH increased from 5.89 days to 6.67 days during this period (p = 0.04). During the same period, the hospital charges increase by 174.5% from US 68,545 in 2013 (Adjusted for inflation). The aggregate cost of hospital visits of a patient increased by 209.5% from US 932,554,725 in 2013.
Conclusion: The number of inpatient discharges related to PH has increased even though the number of inpatient discharges with PAH has been reported to be lower in literature. The mean length of stay has also shown a mild increase. This increase is associated with a significant increase in the mean and aggregate cost. These inpatient costs associated with PH contribute significantly to the total healthcare burden. Further research on cost-effective evaluation and management of PH is required
Nationwide trends in inpatient admissions of pulmonary hypertension in the United States from 2000 to 2013
INTRODUCTION: Pulmonary hypertension (PH) is a disorder of the pulmonary vasculature with high mortality and bears a large economic burden on the healthcare system. We conducted a review of the largest inpatient database in the United States and analyzed the trends in hospitalizations due to PH from the turn of the century (2000) to 2013 to evaluate the rate of hospitalizations and determine the cost and mortality associated with PH.
MATERIAL AND METHODS: We analyzed the National Inpatient Sample Database (NIS) for all patients in which PH (Primary or Secondary) or cor pulmonale was the primary discharge diagnosis (ICD-9: 416.0, 416.8 and 416.9) from 2000 to 2013. The NIS is the largest all-payer inpatient database in the United States and contains data from approximately 8 million hospital stays each year. The statistical significance of the difference in the number of hospital discharges, lengths of stays and associated hospital costs over the study period was calculated.
RESULTS: In 2000, there were 12,066 hospital admissions with the principal discharge diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension, which increased to 13,605 admissions in 2013 (p < 0.001). The mean length of stay for PH increased from 5.89 days to 6.67 days during this period (p = 0.04). During the same period, the hospital charges increase by 174.5% from US 68,545 in 2013 (Adjusted for inflation). The aggregate cost of hospital visits of a patient increased by 209.5% from US 932,554,725 in 2013.
CONCLUSIONS: The number of inpatient discharges related to PH has increased even though the number of inpatient discharges with PAH has been reported to be lower in literature. The mean length of stay has also shown a mild increase. This increase is associated with a significant increase in the mean and aggregate cost. These inpatient costs associated with PH contribute significantly to the total healthcare burden. Further research on cost-effective evaluation and management of PH is required.
Secure Message Transmission In Asynchronous Directed Networks
We study the problem of information-theoretically secure message transmission (SMT) in asynchronous directed networks. In line with the literature, the distrust and failures of the network is captured via a computationally unbounded Byzantine adversary that may corrupt some subset of nodes. We give a characterization of networks over which SMT from sender S to receiver R is possible in both the well-known settings, namely perfect SMT (PSMT) and unconditional SMT (USMT). We distinguish between two variants of USMT: one in which R can output an incorrect message (with small probability) and another in which R never
outputs a wrong message, but may choose to abort (with small probability). We also provide efficient protocols for an important class of networks
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