Implementation of an efficient Fuzzy Logic based Information Retrieval System

This paper exemplifies the implementation of an efficient Information Retrieval (IR) System to compute the similarity between a dataset and a query using Fuzzy Logic. TREC dataset has been used for the same purpose. The dataset is parsed to generate keywords index which is used for the similarity comparison with the user query. Each query is assigned a score value based on its fuzzy similarity with the index keywords. The relevant documents are retrieved based on the score value. The performance and accuracy of the proposed fuzzy similarity model is compared with Cosine similarity model using Precision-Recall curves. The results prove the dominance of Fuzzy Similarity based IR system.Comment: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with http://ntz-develop.blogspot.in/ , http://www.micsymposium.org/mics2012/submissions/mics2012_submission_8.pdf , http://www.slideshare.net/JeffreyStricklandPhD/predictive-modeling-and-analytics-selectchapters-41304405 by other author

Jaw bone metastasis from Lung cancer as sole primary source : a systematic review

Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. Lung cancer metastasis to oral region is very rare. Very few research work has been conducted till date to analyse the jaw bone metastasis from Lung cancer as the primary source. The goal of th

Methanogenesis of organic wastes and their blend in batch anaerobic digester: Experimental and kinetic study

The scarcity of the fossil fuels and increasing energy demand urges the production of sustainable source of energy. The uncontrolled generation of wastes and their easy accessibilities gained a significant attention towards its use for the synthesis of renewable energy like biomethane. In order to cope up with the energy demand and urgency of alternative non-conventional energy source, the present study is focused on improvisation of biogas production qualitatively and quantitatively from different substrates viz. paper waste, Parthenium hysterophorus, canteen waste, and their mixture. The enhancement of the methane potential is accomplished by treating these substrates with catalyst (poultry litter, silica gel and cow urine) and active inoculum (gobar gas slurry) under the standard anaerobic digestion condition. The methanogesis process was carried out in a 1 l batch digester at 1:1 ratio of water:feed under mesophilic temperature (37 °C) for hydraulic retention time of 30 days. Moreover, cumulative gas yield for considered substrates were 167.32 ml/g VS, 149.05 ml/g VS, 197.72 ml/g VS, 290.69 ml/g VS respectively with methane content in biogas for each substrate of 25.5%, 56.8%, 60%, 62% respectively. Among various kinetic models studied, first order kinetic model was found to be best to describe the kinetics of biomethane synthesis for all employed wastes with maximum fitting accuracy (R2 = 0.966). Results of the study confirm the enrichment of quality and quantity of the product gas. The experimental study also revealed that the process is prominent for the efficient production of biomethane to meet the excessive energy thrust

Hypertension and its correlates among pregnant women consuming tobacco in India: Findings from the National Family health Survey-4

Background: Hypertension (high blood pressure) during pregnancy has significant implications on maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Tobacco use during pregnancy amplifies this burden and increases the risk of hypertensive disorders along with adverse birth outcomes. The current study aimed to evaluate the joint risk atpopulation-level of tobacco use and hypertension among pregnant women in India. Methodology: Data of 32,428 “currently pregnant” women aged 15–49 years was obtained from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16to estimate bivariate (tobacco user vs. non-user) and binomial logistic regression analysis in order to get odds ratios of having hypertension. The analysis included socio-demographic variables such as the respondent's age, type of residence, wealth index, and education status. Results: Prevalence of hypertension among pregnant tobacco users (7.5%) was significantly higher than that of non-users (6.1%). The unadjusted odds of having hypertension were 1.17 (95% CI: 1.02–1.35) times among tobacco users than non-users and increased with age (p  0.05; NS) and wealth quintile (p = 0.01). Conclusion: The present study identifies the higher co-existence of hypertension among tobacco-using pregnant women and highlights the need for tobacco control/cessation and hypertension prevention and management during pregnancy considering socio-demographic disparities

Hypertension and its correlates among pregnant women consuming tobacco in India: Findings from the National Family health Survey-4

Background: Hypertension (high blood pressure) during pregnancy has significant implications on maternal and perinatal morbidity and mortality. Tobacco use during pregnancy amplifies this burden and increases the risk of hypertensive disorders along with adverse birth outcomes. The current study aimed to evaluate the joint risk atpopulation-level of tobacco use and hypertension among pregnant women in India. Methodology: Data of 32,428 “currently pregnant” women aged 15–49 years was obtained from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-4) 2015-16to estimate bivariate (tobacco user vs. non-user) and binomial logistic regression analysis in order to get odds ratios of having hypertension. The analysis included socio-demographic variables such as the respondent’s age, type of residence, wealth index, and education status. Results: Prevalence of hypertension among pregnant tobacco users (7.5%) was significantly higher than that of non-users (6.1%). The unadjusted odds of having hypertension were 1.17 (95% CI: 1.02–1.35) times among tobacco users than non-users and increased with age (p 0.05; NS) and wealth quintile (p = 0.01).Conclusion: The present study identifies the higher co-existence of hypertension among tobacco-using pregnant women and highlights the need for tobacco control/cessation and hypertension prevention and management during pregnancy considering socio-demographic disparities.</p

Hardware Support for Safety Interlocks and Introspection

Abstract—Hardware interlocks that enforce semantic in-variants and allow fine-grained privilege separation can be built with reasonable costs given modern semiconductor tech-nology. In the common error-free case, these mechanisms operate largely in parallel with the intended computation, monitoring the semantic intent of the computation on an operation-by-operation basis without sacrificing cycles to per-form security checks. We specifically explore five mecha-nisms: (1) pointers with manifest bounds (fat pointers), (2) hardware types (atomic groups), (3) processor-supported au-thority, (4) authority-changing procedure calls (gates), and (5) programmable metadata validation and propagation (tags and dynamic tag management). These mechanisms allow the processor to continuously introspect on its operation, efficiently triggering software handlers on events that require logging, merit sophisticated inspection, or prompt adaptation. We present results from our prototype FPGA implementation of a processor that incorporates these mechanisms, quantifying the logic, memory, and latency requirements. We show that the dominant cost is the wider memory necessary to hold our metadata (the atomic groups and programmable tags), that the added logic resources make up less than 20 % of the area of the processor, that the concurrent checks do not degrade processor cycle time, and that the tag cache is comparable to a small L1 data cache. Keywords-Processor; security; least privilege; separation of privilege; complete mediation; hardware interlocks I