Retrieval of Images Using Color, Shape and Texture Features Based on Content

The current study deals with deriving of image feature descriptor by error diffusion based block truncation coding (EDBTC). The image feature descriptor is basically comprised by the two error diffusion block truncation coding, color quantizers and its equivalent bitmap image. The bitmap image distinguish the image edges and textural information of two color quantizers to signify the color allocation and image contrast derived by the Bit Pattern Feature and Color Co-occurrence Feature. Tentative outcome reveal the benefit of proposed feature descriptor as contrast to existing schemes in image retrieval assignment under normal and textural images. The Error-Diffusion Block Truncation Coding method compresses an image efficiently, and at the same time, its consequent compacted information flow can provides an efficient feature descriptor intended for operating image recovery and categorization. As a result, the proposed design preserves an effective candidate for real-time image retrieval applications

Maternal Health Situation in India: A Case Study

Maternal Health Services are one of the basic health services to be provided by nay government health system as pregnant women are one of the most vulnerable victims of dysfunctional health system, India, in spite of rapid economic progress is still farm away from the goal of lowering maternal mortality to less than 100 per 100,000 live births. It still accounts for 25.7% maternal deaths. The maternal mortality in India varies across the states. Geographical vastness and socio-cultural diversity make implementation of health sector reforms a difficult task. The chapter analyses the trends in maternal mortality and various maternal health programs implemented over the years including the maternal health care delivery system at various levels including the recent innovative strategies. It also identifies the reasons for limited success in maternal health and suggests measures to improve the current maternal health situation. It recommends improvement in maternal death reporting, evidence based, focused, long term strategy along with effective monitoring of implementation for improving Maternal Health situation. It also stress the need for regulation of private sector and proper Public Private Partnership (PPP) policy together with a strong political will for improving Maternal Health.

Running Big Data Privacy Preservation in the Hybrid Cloud Platform

Now a day’s cloud computing has been used all over the industry, due to rapid growth in information technology and mobile device technology. It is more important task, user’s data privacy preservation in the cloud environment. Big data platform is collection of sensitive and non-sensitive data. To provide solution of big data security in the cloud environment, organization comes with hybrid cloud approach. There are many small scale industries arising and making business with other organization. Any organization data owner or customers never want to scan or expose their private data by the cloud service provider. To improve security performance, cloud uses data encryption technique on original data in public cloud. Proposed system work is carried out how to improve image data privacy preserving in hybrid cloud. For that we are implementing image encryption algorithm based on Rubik’s cube principle improves the image cryptography for the public cloud data securit

An Ayurvedic Management of Kitibha Kushta (Plaque Psoriasis) - A Case study

Skin disease makes a great impact as other serious medical conditions when assessed by effects on health-related quality of life. Skin diseases are ranked as the fourth most common cause of human illness, resulting in an enormous non-fatal burden. According to Global burden of diseases, skin and subcutaneous diseases are increasing at an alarming rate since few decades. Due to altered lifestyle, lack of physical exercise, unhygienic, mental stress, over eating, nutrition deficiency, skin diseases are commonly observed. All the skin diseases in Ayurveda  have been discussed under the broad heading of Kushta which is further divided into Mahakusta and Kshudra Kusta. Kitibha Kusta is included under Kshudra Kusta which simulates with signs and symptoms of Psoriasis. Psoriasis is chronic disorder which is commonly encountered in day today’s clinical practices accounting for wide spared prevalence. As it is relapsing in nature it requires treatment for long duration. In this case study, 41 years old male patient  had come to OPD of Agadatantra with chief complaint of Kandu (itching), dry silvery white patches over both the elbow, blackish discoloration over lower limbs, abdomen and back treated with Shodhana Chikitsa [Body purification] using Virechana Karma and Shamana Chikitsa using Panchatikta Guggulu Ghrta, Bilvadi Gutika, Manjista Choorna as Lepa and Marichadi Taila for application. Thus, this paper highlights a case study of Kitibha Kusta (Plaque Psoriasis) treated with Ayurvedic principles

A prospective randomised double-blinded study of intranasal midazolam atomizer spray for procedural sedation in paediatric patients

Background: Premedication prior to anaesthesia in children provides anxiolysis, facilitates parenteral separation and lessens adverse psychological effects on young minds. The present study was designed to study the safety, acceptability and degree of sedation by intranasal midazolam spray in children undergoing short procedures like endoscopy and CT scan. Methods: Sixty children scheduled for CT scan or endoscopy were randomly divided in to two groups. Thirty patients received intranasal midazolam spray 0.2 mg/kg, 20 minutes prior to procedure (group M) while other thirty patients received intra-nasal 0.9% normal saline spray (group C). Vital parameters such as heart rate (HR), systolic and diastolic blood pressure, respiratory rate (RR), SpO2, ramsay sedation score (RSS) and anxiety score level was observed and recorded prior to the premedication and then every 5 minutes till the end of the procedure. Parenteral separation and behaviour of the patient while entering the procedure room was also evaluated in both groups.Results: The mean heart rate, systolic blood pressure, respiratory rate, oxygen saturation were comparable between groups M and C. The mean diastolic blood pressure was significantly lower in group M as compared to group C. RSS and anxiety level score achieved were significantly higher in group M thereby facilitating easy parenteral separation.Conclusions: We can thereby say that administration of preservative free intranasal midazolam atomizer spray in dose of 0.2mg/kg as premedication in paediatric patients produces satisfactory level of sedation and anxiolysis with minimal adverse effects

Creating Searchable Public-Key Ciphertexts with Hidden Structure for Efficient Keyword Search

Old system public-key searchable encryption schemes get semantically secure it takes massive search time linear with the complete vary of the cipher texts. This makes retrieval from large-scale databases preventative. To alleviate this downside, this paper proposes Searchable Public-Key Ciphertexts with Hidden Structures (SPCHS) for keyword search as fast as attainable while not sacrificing linguistics security of the encrypted keywords. In SPCHS, all keyword-searchable ciphertexts ar structured by hid- den relations, and with the search trapdoor admire a keyword, the minimum information of the relations is disclosed to a look algorithmic program as a result of the steering to hunt out all matching ciphertexts efficiently. Construct a SPCHS theme from scratch within that the ciphertexts have a hidden star-like structure. prove our theme to be semantically secure inside the Random Oracle (RO) model. The search quality of our theme depends on the actual vary of the ciphertexts containing the queried keyword, rather than the amount of all ciphertexts. Finally, gift a generic SPCHS construction from anonymous identity-based encryp- tion and collision-free full-identity malleable Identity-Based Key Encapsulation Mechanism with obscurity

A comparative study of nebulized versus intravenous lignocaine to suppress the haemodynamic response to endotracheal suction in patients on mechanical ventilation

Background: Cardiovascular response to tracheal suction is decreased by intravenous lignocaine. Tracheal suction is a powerful stimulus that causes intense haemodynamic changes in patients on mechanical ventilation. In the present study, we compared the effect of nebulized and intravenous lignocaine on haemodynamic response to tracheal suctioning in patients on mechanical ventilation through an endotracheal tube.Methods: A prospective randomized cross over study was conducted in Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College and Government Hospital, Sion, Mumbai, India during the period of January 2012 to September 2013. Sixty patients requiring tracheal suction through an endotracheal tube received 1.5 mg/kg of lignocaine in the nebulized form or as an intravenous injection on two different occasions. Heart rate (HR), mean arterial pressure (MAP), systolic and diastolic blood pressure (SBP and DBP) and peripheral capillary oxygen saturation (SPO2) were recorded at baseline, after the administration of lignocaine, after two successive suctions and once in two minutes for the next 16 minutesResults: In the present study, SPO2 decreased in response to ETT suctioning in both the study groups as compared to the pre-suctioning value. However the changes in the SPO2 were not significant when compared between the groups. Changes in HR, SBP, DBP and MAP were not significantly different between the two routes of lignocaine administration.Conclusions: From the present study, we can conclude that the abolition of haemodynamic response to tracheal suction is similar with both intravenous and nebulized lignocaine. But the return of MAP towards baseline value was observed to be earlier with nebulized lignocaine than with intravenous lignocaine which favours use of nebulized lignocaine over intravenous lignocaine. With built-in nebulizer facility in the current intensive care ventilators, this technique should be easy, more effective and assure better haemodynamic stability than intravenous lignocaine during tracheal suction.

Command Agent Belief Architecture to Support Commander Decision Making in Military Simulation

In the war, military conflicts have many aspects that are consistent with complexity theory e.g., the higher commander’s decision is directed at animate entity that react under hierarchical and self-organised structure in decentralised command and control for the collectivist dynamism of decomposed elements due to nonlinear complexity of warfare on the battlefield. Agent technology have been found to be suitable for modelling tactical behaviour of entities at multiple level of resolution under hierarchical command and control (C2) structure and provide a powerful abstraction mechanism required for designing simulations of complex and dynamic battlefield situations. Intelligent agents can potentially reduce the overhead on such experiments and studies. Command agents, plan how to carry out the operation and assign tasks to subordinate agents. They receive information from battlefield environment and use such information to build situation awareness and also to respond to unforeseen situations. In the paper, we have proposed a mechanism for modelling tactical behaviour of an intelligent agent by which higher command level entities should be able to synthesize their beliefs derived from the lower level sub ordinates entities. This paper presents a role-based belief, desire and intention mechanism to facilitate in the representation of military hierarchy, modelling of tactical behaviour based on agent current belief, teammate’s belief propagation, and coordination issues. Higher commander can view the battlefield information at different levels of abstraction based on concept of aggregation and disaggregation and take appropriate reactive response to any unforeseen circumstances happening in battlefield

Sourdough bread preparation using selected lactic acid bacterial starter cultures

The lactic fermentation of cereals is known to improve the food quality through the development of flavor, enhancement of the nutritional value and shelf life, and by removing toxic or antinutritional factors of food products. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) strains are able to improve the shelf life of several food products. The efficiency of the LAB cultures determined in in vitro assays was confirmed in bread manufacture. The sourbread prepared using 50 per cent yeast and 50 per cent LAB starter (based on cell density) was found to be superior to the conventional bread in textural characteristics, flavor, appearance and even taste. It contained enough protein (10.15%) and the least fat value (7.68%). It scored the highest acceptability index of 81.70. These results point out the advantages of using selected LAB strains as starter cultures for sourdough fermentation

UTERINE ARTERIOVENOUS MALFORMATION TRANSVAGINAL DOPPLER ULTRASONOGRAPHY: CASE REPORT

Uterine arteriovenous malformation (AVM) is a rare condition, with fewer than 100 cases reported in the literature. Despite it being rare, it is a potentially life-threatening condition. This case report describes a healthy 29-year-old patient, nulligravida, with an unremarkable medical history, came from gynaecologist for ultrasaound due to complain of irregular heavy PV bleeding. Transvaginal Doppler ultrasonography is a widely available, noninvasive and excellent diagnostic method. Transvaginal ultrasound (TVS) of the pelvis showed increased vascularity with multidirectional flow of the uterus and a prominent vessel, located on the posterior wall.KEYWORDS: Arteriovenous malformation; Primary infertility; Transvaginal ultrasound