Pipelined Ensemble Architecture for Mortality Prediction on MIMIC III

Automated healthcare decision support has seen a huge rise with the improved data collection models in hospitals and also improved machine learning based techniques that exhibit high possibilities for automation. Automating healthcare systems as an aide for clinical practitioners can ensure fast and more accurate results for the patients and can also aid in hospital administration. Mortality prediction has been one of the major and critical factors that determines the type of treatment and the level of resources that has to be allocated for a patient. This work presents a pipelined ensemble architecture that can be used for effective prediction of mortality levels of a patient. The pipeline model has been designed in multiple levels to ensure improvement of quality of the medical data and effective prediction. The pipelined architecture model has been compared with existing state-of-the-art model, and the results indicate high performance with 92% accuracy levels, ensuring the model is suitable for use in real time mortality prediction

EFFECTS OF HOME EXERCISE PROGRAMME ON SHOULDER PAIN AND FUNCTIONAL STATUS IN MALE CONSTRUCTION WORKERS

Objective: To evaluate the effect of home exercise program on shoulder pain and functional status in male construction workers.Methods: Study design was quasi-experimental study, subjects were 30 male construction workers, n=15 Group A (experimental) and n=15 Group B (control). Subjects in the experimental group were instructed in a 6 weeks home exercise program, Group B subjects were treated with only ergonomic advices. The outcome measurements were visual analog scale and shoulder pain and disability index.Results: The results of this study showed that significant reduction in pain and improvement in the functional status of construction workers in Group A than Group B.Conclusion: The study concluded that there was a significant reduction in shoulder pain and improvement in functional status by home exercise program than ergonomic advices in male construction workers

MEASUREMENT OF ANTERIOR PELVIC TILT IN LOW BACK PAIN- AN OBSERVATIONAL STUDY

Objective: The objective of the study was to measure the anterior pelvic tilt for both males and females of low back pain patients.Methods: Observational type. Procedure: Totally, 120 subjects were approached. In that 70 were males and 50 were females. Using i@handyapplication in mobile anterior pelvic tilt was calculated among low back pain patients.Results: Anterior pelvic tilt was increased in low back pain patients (male - 14.15° and female - 16.26°). In that correlation between males and visualanalog scale (VAS) was not significant. However, there was a significant correlation found in female anterior pelvic tilt and VAS (p<0.01).Conclusion: This study concluded that there was an increase in anterior pelvic tilt among low back pain patients. Anterior pelvic tilt and VAS washighly correlated in females, not in males.Keywords: i@handy, Anterior pelvic tilt, Low back pain

A Comparative Analysis of Age-Stage Two Sex Life Tables in Distinct Forms of Callosobruchus maculatus (F.): Insights into Population Dynamics and Reproductive Strategies

Callosobruchus maculatus, the bean weevil, is a fascinating insect that showcases remarkable adaptations for survival. Found in tropical and subtropical regions, it has become a global pest due to its adaptability and hitchhiking capabilities, causing substantial grain losses. This small beetle, part of the Chrysomelidae family, serves as a valuable model organism in entomology and agricultural research. One of the key aspects of Callosobruchus maculatus that captures the attention of scientists is its dichotomy between active and inactive forms. These two forms represent distinct survival strategies employed by the beetle to navigate its ever-changing environment. The present study provides a comprehensive overview of the study on Callosobruchus maculatus, highlighting the two distinct forms of the species, their adaptations, and the significance of understanding their lifetable parameters. It emphasizes the ecological, practical, and research-oriented implications of this study, ranging from ecological insights to pest management strategies and the optimization of mass multiplication protocols. These forms exhibited notable differences in various life history parameters and survival characteristics. Flightless-inactive females had longer preoviposition and oviposition period and laid a significantly higher average of eggs per female with higher reproduction potential. Female fecundity (eggs/female) was much lower in the flight-active form (18.6) than in the flightless-inactive form (84.10) and maintained constant survival rate. Life expectancy values were generally lower for the flightless-inactive form compared to the flight-active form across different stages and sexes. Both males and females in the flight-active form exhibited a consistent and relatively high life expectancy, with a 100% chance of survival throughout all age intervals. Overall, these findings provide a comprehensive understanding of the differences in life history traits, reproductive strategies, and survival patterns between the flight-active and flightless-inactive forms of Callosobruchus beetles in a controlled laboratory environment

Pedestrian Detection with Wearable Cameras for the Blind: A Two-way Perspective

Blind people have limited access to information about their surroundings, which is important for ensuring one's safety, managing social interactions, and identifying approaching pedestrians. With advances in computer vision, wearable cameras can provide equitable access to such information. However, the always-on nature of these assistive technologies poses privacy concerns for parties that may get recorded. We explore this tension from both perspectives, those of sighted passersby and blind users, taking into account camera visibility, in-person versus remote experience, and extracted visual information. We conduct two studies: an online survey with MTurkers (N=206) and an in-person experience study between pairs of blind (N=10) and sighted (N=40) participants, where blind participants wear a working prototype for pedestrian detection and pass by sighted participants. Our results suggest that both of the perspectives of users and bystanders and the several factors mentioned above need to be carefully considered to mitigate potential social tensions.Comment: The 2020 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2020

Methyl 2,2-bis­(2,4-dinitro­phen­yl)ethano­ate

In the title compound, C15H10N4O10, the dihedral angle between the aromatic rings is 89.05 (16)°. One O atom of one of the nitro groups is disordered over two sites in a 0.70:0.30 ratio. In the crystal, the mol­ecules are linked by weak C—H⋯O inter­actions

ASIC Implementation of Multiplexer Based DAA

ABSTRACT: In Digital Image Processing Point, Line and Edge detection are performed through software approach. The proposed Architecture performs these operations through hardware approach using Distributed Arithmetic. Distributed arithmetic (DA) has been widely used to implement inner product computations with fixed inputs. Conventional ROM-based DA suffers from large ROM requirements. To reduce the memory requirements, Adder based DA uses pre-defined structure for computation. But both the methods are suitable only if at least one input is constant. This project aims to implement a new Distributed Arithmetic Architecture for point detection, line detection and edge detection in DIP when both the inputs are variable. The new architecture is termed as Multiplexer based Distributed Arithmetic (MUX based DA). The proposed architecture takes the advantage of Multiplexer and DA for inner product computations when both the inputs are variable. In addition it reduces ROM requirement and complexity in constructing Adder based architecture for higher order inputs. Here, the performance of proposed Architecture with ROM based DA, Adder based DA and with multiplier based implementation are compared. The MUX based DA reduces power up to 81% and needs 40% of area as compared with multiplier based implementation. KEYWORDS: ROM based DA,ADDER based DA,MULTIPLEXER based DA, CADENCE 180nm Technology. I.INTRODUCTION Distributed Arithmetic (DA) has been widely adopted for its computational efficiency in many digital signal processing applications. The most frequently used form of computation in digital signal processing is a sum of products which is dot-product or inner-product generation. DA is generally abit-serial computation operation that forms a product of two vectors in one clock cycle. The typical applications include DCT, DFT (Discrete Fourier Transform), FIR (Finite Impulse Response), and DHT (Discrete Hartley Transform) which can be found in main stream multimedia standards and telecommunication protocols. The advantage of DA is its special non multiplication mechanization which uses adder replacing multiplication and therefore simplifies the hardware implementation. The idea behind the conventional DA, called ROM based, is to replace multiplication operations by pre-computing all possible values and storing these in a ROM. The Adder based DA uses a fixed architecture which can be obtained by distributing fixed variable is used for inner product computation. The DA technique distributes arithmetic operation rather than lumps themas multipliers do. Conventional DA called ROM based DA decomposes the variable input of the inner product into bit level to generate pre-computed data.ROM based DA uses a ROM table to store the pre-computed data, which makesit regular and efficient in silicon area in VLSI implementation. However, when the size of the inner product increases the ROM area increases exponentially and becomes impractically large, even using ROM partition. In contrast to conventional DA, Adder based DA decomposes the other operand of inner product into bit level, distributes the multiplication operation, and shares the common summation terms .The adder based DA exploits the distribution of binary value pattern and may maximize the hardware sharing possibility in the implementation. Although the Adder based DA requires less hardware area and smaller computation cycle time than ROM based DA, both the existing method operates only on one input as fixed but the proposed MUX base DA computes result with both the input as variable as same as MAC. The direct implementation of the filter requires more number of resources, to reduce the number of resources Distributed Arithmetic came into existence which replaces multiplications by additions and siftings. The proposed DA algorithm came into existence which uses multiplexers to remove the usage of ROM memory and complexity in constructing fixed architecture for higher order inputs. The proposed MUX based D

Phase I-Designing a biofeedback device for quadriceps re-education-bridging the gap in exercise compliance

529-532Knee Osteoarthritis is a painful and disabling condition which causes difficulty in activities of daily living. Such patients are referred for physiotherapy sessions where they were prescribed with exercises as home programs, quadriceps isometrics was the commonly prescribed exercises as it causes the least intraarticular inflammation than other types of exercises. Research reports poor compliance to the exercise program with lack of confidence and doubt of performing correctly were being commonly reported answers to the lack of compliance. With the idea to improve the compliance to the exercise program this device is developed which helps the patients to perform the exercises at home and improve their confidence levels too. The Microcontroller used is Arduino Mega 2560 and Force sensor. Force sensor is used to sense the force produced by the patient and MCP6004 operational amplifier is used as Voltage follower for providing the exact voltage. It also has audio feedback and visual feedback, Audio feed back is given by connecting a voice playback module and a buzzer and visual feedback is given by LED’s of three colours- red, yellow, blue. LCD also displays the time taken by the patients. This device will surely improve the compliance with exercises for the wellbeing of patient

Synthesis of an ordered mesoporous carbon with graphitic characteristics and its application for dye adsorption

An ordered mesoporous carbon (OMC) was prepared by a chemical vapor deposition technique using liquid petroleum gas (LPG) as the carbon source. During synthesis, LPG was effectively adsorbed in the ordered mesopores of SBA-15 silica and converted to a graphitic carbon at 800 °C. X-ray diffraction and nitrogen adsorption/desorption data and high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) of the OMC confirmed its ordered mesoporous structure. The OMC was utilized as an adsorbent in the removal of dyes from aqueous solution. A commercial powder activated carbon (AC) was also investigated to obtain comparative data. The efficiency of the OMC for dye adsorption was tested using acidic dye acid orange 8 (AO8) and basic dyes methylene blue (MB) and rhodamine B (RB). The results show that adsorption was affected by the molecular size of the dye, the textural properties of carbon adsorbent and surface-dye interactions. The adsorption capacities of the OMC for acid orange 8 (AO8), methylene blue (MB) and rhodamine B (RB) were determined to be 222, 833, and 233 mg/g, respectively. The adsorption capacities of the AC for AO8, MB, and RB were determined to be 141, 313, and 185 mg/ g, respectively. The OMC demonstrated to be an excellent adsorbent for the removal of MB from wastewater.Web of Scienc