Induced abortion potential among Indian women

Information on abortion is limited and inaccurate especially in the developing world, which has led to several speculations on the prevalence of abortion in this region. A rise in prevalence of abortion is mostly accounted for in terms of increase in the prevalence of induced abortions, which reflects on the reproductive health of women. With the growing concern for reproductive health of women, the study of abortion phenomenon has drawn serious attention of researchers world wide. In such circumstances, this is an attempt to assess the induced abortion potential among Indian women by utilising information on proportion of unwanted and ill-timed pregnancies obtained through National Family Health Survey, India.

Multitechnique studies of ionospheric phenomena

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Analisis Biaya Pekerjaan Tangga Panelmenggunakan Metode Monte Carlo (Studi Kasus: Proyek Ruko the Boulevard Jakarta Garden City)

Pesatnya perkembangan teknologi turut mempengaruhi ranah konstruksi. Sehingga pada akhirnya muncul material terbarukan yaitu panel. Namun material panel ini belum diatur dalam SNI, sehingga perlu adanya penelitian lebih lanjut. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui biaya yang diperlukan untuk menyelesaikan pemasangan tangga panel, tidak hanya biaya langsung namun juga biaya tidak langsung, yaitu biaya overhead dan kontingensi. Dalam 1 panel tangga terdiri dari lebar 1,075 m, panjang 5,15 m', dan 15 anak tangga. Panel yang digunakan yaitu dari Mpanel,salah satu produk milik PT Modern Land. Adapun penelitian dilakukan dengan mengamati waktu pengerjaan di lapangan untuk mengetahui produktivitas 1 unit tangga panel menggunakan daily record sheet. Diketahui bahwa efektivitas jam kerja yaitu 40 menit dalam 1 jam. Data-data tersebut dianalisis menggunakan Analisa Harga Satuan Pekerjaan (AHSP) dengan harga satuan yang didapat dari proyek untuk menghasilkan biaya langsung. Sedangkan biaya overhead diambil 15% dari biaya langsung tiap pekerjaan, 15% diambil berdasarkan contoh yang tertera pada Peraturan Menteri PUPR28-2016. Pada biaya kontingensi diambil tingkat resiko sebesar 11% berdasarkan asumsi proyek. Untuk mendapatkan nilai kontingensi menggunakan Monte Carlo maka digunakan software @risk dengan memasukkan data RAB maksimum, most likely, dan minimum dengan harga satuan yang didapat dari wawancara serta nilai iterasi kemudian akan diproses otomatis hingga mendapatkan persentil ke 89%. Setelah biaya langsung, biaya overhead, dan kontingensi diketahui maka didapatkan total biaya yang diperlukan untuk pengerjaan 1 unit tangga panel. Hasil dari penelitian ini yaitu dapat diketahui biaya langsung untuk upah 1 unit tangga panel yaitu Rp 1.967.866, biaya langsung untuk material 1 unit tangga panel Rp 11.146.913, biaya langsung 1 unit tangga panel Rp 13.114.779, biaya tak langsung yaitu biaya overhead dan kontingensi untuk 1 unit tangga panel Rp 2.939.002, dan harga satuan yaitu total harga langsung dan tak langsung yang diperlukan untuk pekerjaan 1 unit tangga panel adalah Rp 16.053.800,36

Delivery complications and determinants of caesarean section rates in India : an analysis of National Family Health Surveys, 1992-93

Caesarean section rates have been increasing world-wide raising the question of the appropriateness of the selection of cases for the procedure. This paper examines the levels and correlates of delivery related complications and caesarean section deliveries in eighteen selected states of India in terms of specific maternal and institutional factors, using data from the National Family Health Surveys, 1992-93. Goa (15.3 per cent) and Kerala (13.7 per cent) were the two states with relatively higher caesarean section rates. There is reason to believe that the current caesarean section rates are part of a rising trend. This can not be attributed entirely to the rise in institutional deliveries alone because of the strong association between caesarean sections and private sector institutions. Apart from the fact that the states of Kerala and Goa are having relatively high caesarean section rates, in Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Gujarat, Karnataka, Punjab and Uttar Pradesh the risk of undergoing caesarean section in the private sector institutions is four or more times that in the public sector. It is possible that this extremely useful surgical procedure is being misused for profit purposes in the private sector in several states. There is therefore a need to examine this phenomenon using disaggregated data by the nature of caesarean sections, i.e. whether it was an elective or an emergency c-section along with the reasons for the choice. JEL Classification : I1, I18 Key Words: caesarean section, institutional deliveries, delivery complications, medical interventio

Classifying User Predilections using Naïve Bayes Classifier (NBC) and Jaccard Similarity for Service Recommender System in Big Data Applications

Service recommender systems have been shown as valuable tools for providing appropriate recommendations to users. The main objective is to identify a system that will classify the user reviews using effective methods and provide personalized recommendations to the users. The proposed architecture will present the different ratings and rankings of services to different users by considering diverse users' preferences, and therefore it will meet users' personalized requirements. The data classification can be achieved through analysing the user review as positive or negative using Naive Bayes classifier (NBC) in large-scale datasets and Jaccard Similarity and MinHash used to compute the similarity and provide the recommendation to user

A Lossless Image Compression using Modified Entropy Coding

Due to size limitation and complexity of the hardware in transmission applications, multimedia systems and computer communications, compression techniques are much necessary. The reasons for multimedia systems to compress the data, large storage is required to save the compressed data, the storage devices are relatively slow which in real-time, has constrain to play multimedia data, and the network bandwidth, that has limitations to real-time data transmission. This paper presents an enhanced approach of run length coding. First the DCT applied, and the quantization done on the image to be compressed, then the modified run length coding technique has been used to compress the image losslessly. This scheme represents the occurrence of repeated zeros by RUN, and a non-zero coefficient by LEVEL. It removes the value of RUN, as for the sequence of non-zero coefficients it is zero for most of the time and for a zero present between non-zero coefficients is replaced by ‘0’ which results in larger compression than RUN, LEVEL (1, 0) pair is used

Reviewing effectivity in security approaches towards strengthening internet architecture

The usage of existing Internet architecture is shrouded by various security loopholes and hence is highly ineffective towards resisting potential threats over internet. Hence, it is claimed that future internet architecture has been evolved as a solution to address this security gaps of existing internet architecture. Therefore, this paper initiates its discussion by reviewing the existing practices of web security in conventional internet architecture and has also discussed about some recent solutions towards mitigating potentially reported threats e.g. cross-site scripting, SQL inject, and distributed denial-of-service. The paper has also discussed some of the recent research contribution towards security solution considering future internet architecture. The proposed manuscripts contributes to showcase the true effectiveness of existing approaches with respect to advantages and limitation of existing approaches along with explicit highlights of existing research problems that requires immediate attention

Development of material stimulation in large-scale agroindustrial entities

У статті розглянуто взаємозв’язок між організаційно-правовою формою господарювання і системою матеріального стимулювання працівників. Запропоновано систему стимулювання для агрохолдингів.The interrelation between an organizational and legal form of managing and system of material stimulation of the workers is considered in the article. The system of stimulation for agroholdings is offered