Survey of Energy Efficient Clustering Mechanisms in Wireless Sensor Networks

Advancements in wireless communications and Micro-Electro-Mechanical structures have enabled the improvement of wireless sensor networks (WSN), which in flip have fostered the emergence of a plethora of programs in diverse fields together with agriculture, healthcare supervision, and transportation systems. However, because of the strength dilemma of battery-powered sensors, these packages nonetheless face a major energy issue that save you their giant adoption. In this thesis, we contributed to conquer this challenge via several contributions. In this paper we've got surveyed the various techniques to power efficient strategies in wi-fi sensor networks

A Review of Ground-Bouncing-Noise Minimization Techniques in MTCMOS Circuits

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U-Shaped Microstrip Patch Antenna for WLAN/WIMAX Applications

A full-duplex radio design communication systems design based on the WiMax/WLAN antenna. The design an antenna in this report presented a triple-band operation with significant impedance bandwidth for WLAN/WiMAX system. The designed antenna having the compact size of 10 x 26 mm2 and shaped of antenna is U-shaped. The overall performance of the antenna three different bands 1) band-1:- 2.40 to 2.53 GHz, 2) band-2:-3.40 o 3.60 GHz and 3) band-3:- 5.00 to 6.00 GHz, these bands cover the WiMAX (2.5, 3.5, 5.5) and WLAN (2.4, 5.2, 5.8) bands. Here HFSS simulator used to simulate and validate the results. By combining the performance of complete WLAN/WiMAX antenna with MIMO antenna, the proposed MIMO antenna with wide operating frequencies 2.4 GHz. Thus the simulation results along with the given parameter values show that the antenna can simultaneously operate over WLAN, WiMAX and MIMO frequency bands

A Brief on Home Automation Using IoT

With the recent advances in automation worldwide, items that are widely available to every person of the country are crucial to keeping their rapidly developing environment up to date. We are delighted to showcase our investigation using these items on an IOT-based home automation device designed, implemented and produced in India. Energy efficiency conservation is becoming a major challenge in developing countries worldwide, in particular. A key cause is the lack of knowledge among end-users (or customers), which may help mitigate the above-mentioned problem, of the employment of new and developing techniques and technologies e.g. Internet-of-things (IoT). This research presented the most advanced technology in the literature on IoT-compatible energy conservation methods. This study also points out aspects of the infrastructure and communication models utilised to create IoT-enabled applications in the literature

Surveillance Method for Surgical Site Infection

ABSTRACT Surgical Site Infection (SSI) is the third most commonly reported Nosocomial infection and accounts for 14-16% of all Nosocomial infections among hospital inpatients. The morbidity, mortality and the cost to health services of surgical site infections is huge. In addition, many workers have shown that feedback of appropriate data to surgeons has been an indispensable component of strategies to reduce SSI rates. The elements essential for a successful programmed of prevention of SSIs include intensive surveillance, infection control activities and regular feedback of SSI rates to surgeons. Surveillance with information feedback to surgeons and other medical staff has been shown to be an important element in the overall strategy to reduce the numbers of SSIs. Despite the apparent effectiveness in lowering SSI rates when surgeons receive feedback, however, there has been no consensus on which surveillance methods are best for collecting data on SSIs. A successful SSI surveillance program should include standardized definitions of infection, effective surveillance methods and stratification of the SSI rates according to risk factors associated with the development of SSI. For many years wound contamination class was the only factor that was well described for predicting the risk for SSI. During the Study on the Efficacy of Nosocomial Infection Control (SENIC) Project, an index was developed that provided a better assessment of the risk of SSIs than had the traditional wound classification system. In 1991, a modification of the SENIC risk index by Culver et al. led to the National Nosocomial Infections Surveillance (NNIS) System risk index. This review examines the best surveillance method for surgical site infection

Concomitant pulmonary tuberculosis and tuberculous appendicitis in a recipient of a renal transplant: a case report

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Tuberculosis is still a serious infection among recipients of renal transplants. Although the ileocecal region is the most affected part in intestinal tuberculosis, acute tuberculous appendicitis is quite a rare entity. We report a case of concomitant pulmonary tuberculosis and tuberculous appendicitis in a recipient of a renal transplant.</p> <p>Case presentation</p> <p>A 27-year-old Iranian woman, who had been the recipient of a renal transplant five years earlier, presented with a two-week history of coughing, fever and weight loss. The cause of her end-stage renal disease was chronic pyelonephritis. There were fine crackles noted during a chest examination, and a plain chest radiography showed fine miliary nodules throughout her entire lung fields. Sputum and bronchial aspirate examination was positive for acid-fast bacilli, suggestive of <it>Mycobacterium tuberculosis </it>infection. A chest computed tomography scan revealed widespread miliary nodules, compatible with miliary tuberculosis. She developed severe abdominal pain and abdominal surgery disclosed a perforated appendicitis. Histopathological examination of the resected appendix revealed widespread caseating epithelioid granulomas, suggestive of tuberculosis.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>Our case report highlights a rare presentation of tuberculosis in a patient who has undergone renal transplant. Such unusual presentation of tuberculosis, particularly among patients receiving potent immunosuppressive protocols, should be considered by clinicians.</p

Maternal psychological distress in primary care and association with child behavioural outcomes at age three

Observational studies indicate children whose mothers have poor mental health are at increased risk of socio-emotional behavioural difficulties, but it is unknown whether these outcomes vary by the mothers’ mental health recognition and treatment status. To examine this question, we analysed linked longitudinal primary care and research data from 1078 women enrolled in the Born in Bradford cohort. A latent class analysis of treatment status and self-reported distress broadly categorised women as (a) not having a common mental disorder (CMD) that persisted through pregnancy and the first 2 years after delivery (N = 756, 70.1 %), (b) treated for CMD (N = 67, 6.2 %), or (c) untreated (N = 255, 23.7 %). Compared to children of mothers without CMD, 3-year-old children with mothers classified as having untreated CMD had higher standardised factor scores on the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (d = 0.32), as did children with mothers classified as having treated CMD (d = 0.27). Results were only slightly attenuated in adjusted analyses. Children of mothers with CMD may be at risk for socio-emotional and behavioural difficulties. The development of effective treatments for CMD needs to be balanced by greater attempts to identify and treat women. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1007/s00787-015-0777-2) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users

Primary aneurysmal bone cyst of coronoid process

BACKGROUND: Aneurysmal bone cysts are relatively uncommon in the facial skeleton. These usually affect the mandible but origin from the coronoid process is even rarer. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first reported case of a coronoid process aneurysmal bone cyst presenting as temporal fossa swelling. CASE PRESENTATION: A 17 year old boy presented with a progressively increasing swelling in the left temporal region developed over the previous 8 months. An expansile lytic cystic lesion originating from the coronoid process of the left mandible and extending into the infratemporal and temporal fossa regions was found on CT scan. It was removed by a superior approach to the infratemporal fossa. CONCLUSION: Aneurysmal bone cyst of the coronoid process can attain enormous dimensions until the temporal region is also involved. A superior approach to the infratemporal fossa is a reasonable approach for such cases, providing wide exposure and access to all parts of the lesion and ensuring better control and complete excision

A review of multi-component maintenance models with economic dependence

In this paper we review the literature on multi-component maintenance models with economic dependence. The emphasis is on papers that appeared after 1991, but there is an overlap with Section 2 of the most recent review paper by Cho and Parlar (1991). We distinguish between stationary models, where a long-term stable situation is assumed, and dynamic models, which can take information into account that becomes available only on the short term. Within the stationary models we choose a classification scheme that is primarily based on the various options of grouping maintenance activities: grouping either corrective or preventive maintenance, or combining preventive-maintenance actions with corrective actions. As such, this classification links up with the possibilities for grouped maintenance activities that exist in practice