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    SOFTWARE QUALITY: DUAL EXPERTS OPINION AND CONDITIONAL BASED AGGREGATION METHOD

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    The software reliability is the significant factor to find out software failures in software development Life Cycle. The one more factor considered is the quality of software measurement process. These two factors are mostly considered for the possibility of execution of the software without failures in a software development life cycle. The software reliability and software quality cannot be predicted accurately because of its unsuccessful detection of failures in certain scenarios. This paper mainly focuses on improving the software engineering metrics using an expert opinion and in order to resolve the software failures. On choosing the software engineering measures there are different types of problem that are been occurred in that in this paper we have taken two main issues. The first issue is number of measures that are utilized in estimating software quality and these software measures are chosen with the help of expert opinion. However, the experts are humans so they may have less adequate knowledge about different software evaluations. The Problem is resolved by taking consideration with first level and second level of experts ā€™ opinion for selecting the best measures for software quality. The second issue is of data aggregation function which is not suitable for large number of data aggregations, here in this paper we select a prioritized opinion for data aggregation. The prioritization is based on number of experts involved in each life-cycle phase of software development with time duration to give the opinion. Finally the experiments results are shown for the software quality improvisation by the proposed framework

    SPMLS: An Efficient Sequential Pattern Mining Algorithm with candidate Generation and Frequency Testing

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    India. Abstract- Sequential pattern mining is a fundamental and essential field of data mining because of its extensive scope of applications spanning from the forecasting the user shopping patterns, and scientific discoveries. The objective is to discover frequently appeared sequential patterns in given set of sequences. Now-a-days, many studies have contributed to the efficiency of sequential pattern mining algorithms. Most existing algorithms have verified to be effective, however, when mining long frequent sequences in database, these algorithms do not work well. In this paper, we propose an efficient pattern mining algorithm, SPMLS, Sequential Pattern Mining on Long Sequences for mining long sequential patterns in a given database. SPMLS takes up an iterative process of candidate-generation which is followed by frequency-testing in two phases, event-wise and sequence-wise. Event-wise phase presents a new candidate pruning approach which improves the efficiency of the mining process. Sequence-wise phase integrates considerations of intra-event and inter-event constraints. Simulations are carried out on both synthetic and real datasets to evaluate the performance of SPMLS

    Numerical solution of the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation with variable coefficients by the radial integration boundary integral and integro-differential equation methods

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    This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2012 Taylor & Francis.This paper presents new formulations of the boundaryā€“domain integral equation (BDIE) and the boundaryā€“domain integro-differential equation (BDIDE) methods for the numerical solution of the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation with variable coefficients. When the material parameters are variable (with constant or variable wave number), a parametrix is adopted to reduce the Helmholtz equation to a BDIE or BDIDE. However, when material parameters are constant (with variable wave number), the standard fundamental solution for the Laplace equation is used in the formulation. The radial integration method is then employed to convert the domain integrals arising in both BDIE and BDIDE methods into equivalent boundary integrals. The resulting formulations lead to pure boundary integral and integro-differential equations with no domain integrals. Numerical examples are presented for several simple problems, for which exact solutions are available, to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed methods

    Radial-Distance Based Shape Descriptor for Image Retrieval

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    Shape analysis is used in many application fields including emerging virtual environments or 3D model market, security applications, medical imaging and many more. A Shape descriptor (or Signature) is the simplified representation of images. These shape descriptors carry important image information to store and makes easy the comparing of different shapes. The proposed shape descriptor is based on radial-distances. The type of shape descriptor used here is contour-based shape descriptor. Distance from center of bounding box encompassing the edge image to farthest point on the edge is calculated. A circle is drawn using the distance mentioned above as radius. The ratio of Euclidean distances of an edge pixel and the radius is considered as a feature. A set of such ratios for all the edge pixels forms a shape descriptor. The descriptor is divided into segments so as to avoid global distribution. A rotational matching scheme ensures invariance to rotation. As the computation of feature set is compact, implementation of this method results in quick retrieval of images invariant to scaling, translation and rotation

    Numerical solution of the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation with variable coefficients by the radial integration boundary integral and integro-differential equation methods

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    This is the author's accepted manuscript. The final published article is available from the link below. Copyright @ 2012 Taylor & Francis.This paper presents new formulations of the boundaryā€“domain integral equation (BDIE) and the boundaryā€“domain integro-differential equation (BDIDE) methods for the numerical solution of the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation with variable coefficients. When the material parameters are variable (with constant or variable wave number), a parametrix is adopted to reduce the Helmholtz equation to a BDIE or BDIDE. However, when material parameters are constant (with variable wave number), the standard fundamental solution for the Laplace equation is used in the formulation. The radial integration method is then employed to convert the domain integrals arising in both BDIE and BDIDE methods into equivalent boundary integrals. The resulting formulations lead to pure boundary integral and integro-differential equations with no domain integrals. Numerical examples are presented for several simple problems, for which exact solutions are available, to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed methods

    Data Preparation and Analysis for Andhra Pradesh Clusters

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    Local clusters are highly preferable in all domains due to complex and large Database applications are available. Clustering techniques are applied to local clusters as per needs of local clusters. We can apply divide and conquer rule for local clusters. Local clusters are always constructed as per needs of local bodies. In future we can combine or integrate these local clusters with big clusters or centralized clusters. The number of local cluster formation is completely depend upon requirements of local bodies. But in some contexts they must work along with central systems when they are integrated or combine with central systems

    Molecular docking study of active phytocompounds from the methanolic leaf extract of vitex negundo against cyclooxygenase-2

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    The aim of the study is to identify the phytocompounds with anti-inflammatory properties from the methanolic leaf extract of Vitex negundo and also to find the inhibitors of cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) enzyme through molecular docking. GC-MS was performed for the methanolic leaf extract of V. negundo. Various phenolic phytocompounds were identified through GC-MS. This Study has illustrated the binding of four biologically active compounds from the methanolic extract of V. negundo against the inflammation associated target COX-2 enzymes. The binding energy is evaluated through docking studies of the ligand with the target protein 6COX_A. These Phytochemical compounds have a good docking score and glide energy. Based on the results, binding energy was compared with the known COX-2 inhibitory compounds namely aspirin and ibuprofen. It is understood that these phytochemical compounds can be considered as strong inhibitors for COX-2 and possess potential medicinal values with anti-inflammatory properties

    Boundary element formulations for the numerical solution of two-dimensional diffusion problems with variable coefficients

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    This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Computers & Mathematics with Applications. The published article is available from the link below. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. Copyright @ 2012 Elsevier B.V.This paper presents new formulations of the radial integration boundary integral equation (RIBIE) and the radial integration boundary integro-differential equation (RIBIDE) methods for the numerical solution of two-dimensional diffusion problems with variable coefficients. The methods use either a specially constructed parametrix (Levi function) or the standard fundamental solution for the Laplace equation to reduce the boundary-value problem (BVP) to a boundaryā€“domain integral equation (BDIE) or boundaryā€“domain integro-differential equation (BDIDE). The radial integration method (RIM) is then employed to convert the domain integrals arising in both BDIE and BDIDE methods into equivalent boundary integrals. The resulting formulations lead to pure boundary integral and integro-differential equations with no domain integrals. Furthermore, a subdomain decomposition technique (SDBDIE) is proposed, which leads to a sparse system of linear equations, thus avoiding the need to calculate a large number of domain integrals. Numerical examples are presented for several simple problems, for which exact solutions are available, to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approaches

    NFAT-mediated defects in erythropoiesis cause anemia in Il2-/- mice.

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    The role of NFAT family transcription factors in erythropoiesis is so far unknown, although their involvement has been suggested previously. We have shown recently that Il2-/- mice develop severe anemia due to defects in KLF1 activity during BM erythropoiesis. Although, KLF1 activity is indispensable for erythropoiesis, the molecular details of Klf1 expression have not yet been elucidated. Here we show that an enhanced NFATc1 activity induced by increased integrin-cAMP signaling plays a critical role in the dysregulation of Klf1 expression and thereby cause anemia in Il2-/- mice. Interestingly, enhanced NFATc1 activity augmented apoptosis of immature erythrocytes in Il2-/- mice. On the other hand, ablation of NFATc1 activity enhanced differentiation of Ter119+ cells in BM. Restoring IL-2 signaling in Il2-/- mice reversed the increase in cAMP-NFAT signaling and facilitated normal erythropoiesis. Altogether, our study identified an NFAT-mediated negative signaling axis, manipulation of which could facilitate erythropoiesis and prevent anemia development
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