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FogGIS: Fog Computing for Geospatial Big Data Analytics
Cloud Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has emerged as a tool for
analysis, processing and transmission of geospatial data. The Fog computing is
a paradigm where Fog devices help to increase throughput and reduce latency at
the edge of the client. This paper developed a Fog-based framework named Fog
GIS for mining analytics from geospatial data. We built a prototype using Intel
Edison, an embedded microprocessor. We validated the FogGIS by doing
preliminary analysis. including compression, and overlay analysis. Results
showed that Fog computing hold a great promise for analysis of geospatial data.
We used several open source compression techniques for reducing the
transmission to the cloud.Comment: 6 pages, 4 figures, 1 table, 3rd IEEE Uttar Pradesh Section
International Conference on Electrical, Computer and Electronics (09-11
December, 2016) Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University)
Varanasi, Indi
HRM Strategies in Structurally Depressed Industries: The Japanese Approach
Several adverse macro-economic trends beginning in the early 1970’s drastically reduced the relative competitiveness of various sectors of the Japanese economy. Firms in Western (industrialized) countries that were faced with a similar loss of comparative advantage dealt with the problem by undertaking strategies of restructuring--primarily, retrenchment and downsizing strategies. However, in sharp contrast to the Western approach, the Japanese response to industrial decline, from a HRM standpoint, was a product of the political, cultural, and social institutions/values of that society. The Japanese government, business sector and the labor unions worked together to ‘maintain’ employment levels (albeit, mainly that of permanent employees) in order to minimize the costs of adjustment for the key stakeholder groups in particular, and for the Japanese society as a whole, in general
Design and Analysis of New Shuffle Encryption Schemes for Multimedia
Securing the contents of visual data and multimedia requires specific design consideration for use in different applications. The major issue with this type of data has been occurrence of redundancy, at various places particularly in images, which makes data values repetitive at several places. The focus of this paper is on design of new shuffling schemes that can efficiently destroy redundancy in the visual data ensuring its secured transmission and distribution over public networks. Different variants of these shuffling schemes will be used as pre-processing schemes on multimedia data values especially in light weight devices using images. Standard as well as chaotic permutation and substitution schemes together with S-box rotation have been used to shuffle and map the plain data into random uncorrelated values via various variants of the presented schemes. For further improving the security, the processed data is encrypted using a computationally fast algorithm in its normal mode of operation. Security analysis using different types of images show that the proposed schemes satisfy the parameters required for securing visual contents even with very high redundancy.Defence Science Journal, 2012, 62(1), pp.159-166, DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.14429/dsj.62.100
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Microstrip Patch Antenna Configurations Suitable for Integration in Monolithic and Hybrid Microwave Circuits
Lichen synusiae in East Antarctica (Schirmacher Oasis and Larsemann Hills): substratum and morphological preferences
Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems experience some of the most extreme growth conditions, where plant distribution is determined by favourable environmental gradients of temperature and moisture along with micro-topography of habitats. Lichens are among the most tolerant symbiotic organisms which constitute dominant component in the terrestrial biota of Antarctica. There are various studies dealing with patterns of lichen diversity of various regions of Antarctica are done but in east Antarctica such studies are scanty. Lichen synusiae of Schirmacher Oasis and McLeod Island, Larsemann Hills, East Antarctica were studied in order to determine their morphological and substratum affinities. The Lichen synusiae of the study sites was represented by 71 species, 24 genera and 13 families in Schirmacher Oasis and 27 species, 18 genera and 10 families in McLeod Island, Larsemann Hills. Hierarchical cluster analysis of lichen communities on the basis of growth form diversity and substratum occurrence showed that crustose growth form and saxicolous (on rock, stones and moraines) habitat were the most preferred, in both study sites. The study presents a representative account of morphological and substratum preference patterns in lichen synusiae of east Antarctica, which can be of fundamental importance for future lichenological investigation in the region
Defining the Incremental Utility of Prostate Multiparametric Magnetic Resonance Imaging at Standard and Specialized Read in Predicting Extracapsular Extension of Prostate Cancer
AbstractMultiparametric magnetic resonance imaging (mpMRI) is increasingly used in staging early prostate cancer (PCa) but remains heavily reader-dependent. We aim to define the incremental utility of mpMRI over clinical parameters in determining the pathologic extracapsular extension (pECE) of PCa interpreted in a standard radiologic setting and when further over-read by a specialized reader. We retrospectively reviewed 120 men with clinically localized PCa undergoing mpMRI and radical prostatectomy. We obtained radiologic prediction of pECE from standard radiologic reports (standard read) and by a specialized reader blinded to clinical and pathologic findings (specialized read). We determined the incremental benefit of standard read and specialized read by sequential addition to a baseline clinical parameters-only logistic regression model predicting pECE. The sensitivity and specificity of standard read were 77% and 44%, respectively, whereas those of specialized read were 86% and 81%. The positive likelihood ratio was 1.7 at baseline, 1.7 adding standard read, and 6.5 adding specialized read. The negative likelihood ratio was 0.6 at baseline, 0.5 adding standard read, and 0.1 adding specialized read. Standard read modestly improved prediction of pECE, whereas specialized read improved it moderately.Patient summaryThe incremental benefit of mpMRI over clinical information is small but increases to moderate with a specialized second opinion. This second opinion may be useful when considering active surveillance, nerve-sparing surgery, or focal therapy
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease may not be a severe disease at presentation among Asian Indians
Aim: To evaluate the clinical and biochemical profile of patients with non alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and to assess their histological severity at presentation. Methods: Consecutive patients presenting to the liver clinic of All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) with raised transaminases to at least 1.5 times upper limit of normal, and histologically confi rmed non-alcoholic fatty liver disease were included. Patients who had significant alcohol intake or positive markers of other liver diseases or who were taking drugs known to produce fatty liver were excluded. The clinical, biochemical and histological profi le of this group was studied. Results: Fifty-one patients with NAFLD formed the study population. Their median age and BMI were 34(17-58) years and 26.7(21.3-32.5) kg/m2 respectively and 46 (90.1%) were males. The majority of the patients had mild inflammation, either grade 1 [32 (63%)] or grade 2 [16 (31%)] and only 3 (6%) patients had severe (grade 3) infl ammation. Twenty-three (45%), 19 (37%), 8(16%) and 1(2%) patient had stage 0, 1, 2 and 3 fi brosis respectively on index biopsy and none had cirrhosis. On univariate analysis, triglyceride levels more than 150 mg % (OR = 7.1; 95% CI: 1.6-31.5, P = 0.002) and AST/ALT ratio > 1 (OR = 14.3; 95% CI: 1.4-678.5, P = 0.008) were associated with high grades of inflammation and none was associated with advanced fibrosis. On multivariate logistic regression analysis, hypertriglyceridemia >150 mg% was the only factor independently associated with presence of high grade of infl ammation (OR = 1.6; 95% CI: 1.3-22.7, P = 0.02), while none was associated with advanced fi brosis. Triglyceride levels correlated positively with infl ammatory grade (r = 0.412; P = 0.003). Conclusion: NAFLD in North Indian patients is a disease of young over-weight males, most of whom are insulin resistant and they tend to have a mild histological disease at presentation
Light Quark Masses from Lattice QCD
We present estimates of the masses of light quarks using lattice data. Our
main results are based on a global analysis of all the published data for
Wilson, Sheikholeslami-Wohlert (clover), and staggered fermions, both in the
quenched approximation and with dynamical flavors. We find that the
values of masses with the various formulations agree after extrapolation to the
continuum limit for the theory. Our best estimates, in the MSbar scheme
at , are \mbar=3.4 +- 0.4 +- 0.3 MeV and in the quenched approximation. The results, \mbar = 2.7 +- 0.3 +-
0.3 MeV and , are preliminary. (A linear
extrapolation in would further reduce these estimates for the physical
case of three dynamical flavors.) These estimates are smaller than
phenomenological estimates based on sum rules, but maintain the ratios
predicted by chiral perturbation theory. The new results have a significant
impact on the extraction of from the Standard Model. Using
the same lattice data we estimate the quark condensate using the
Gell-Mann-Oakes-Renner relation. Again the three formulations give consistent
results after extrapolation to , and the value turns out to be
correspondingly larger, roughly preserving m_s \vev{\bar \psi \psi}.Comment: 32 pages. Package submitted in uufiles format: unpack and tex
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Phenomenology with Wilson fermions using smeared sources
We investigate the use of two types of non-local (``smeared'') sources for
quark propagators in quenched lattice QCD at using Wilson fermions
at and . We present results for the hadron mass spectrum,
meson decay constants, quark masses, the chiral condensate and the quark
distribution amplitude of the pion. The use of smeared sources leads to a
considerable improvement over previous results. We find a disturbing
discrepancy between the baryon spectra obtained using Wuppertal and wall
sources. We find good signals in the ratio of correlators used to calculate the
quark mass and the chiral condensate and show that the extrapolation to the
chiral limit is smooth.Comment: (revised), 57 pages (29 pages of PostScript in landscape mode, 765924
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