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Vetronics Architecture with in vehicle Networking
The effectiveness of combat and combat support vehicles platforms can be improved significantly by incorporating Vetronics concept at the platform design stage itself which allows on-board systems to be interconnected as networks and enables them not only to share the information with-in the platform but also with the neighbouring platforms. The Vetronics concept not only optimises the on-board computing resources and other electronic sub-systems, also aids in easier platform integration. The Vetronics architecture with in-vehicle networking can be conceived and optimised based for vehicle type, requirement of types of systems envisaged for integration and having a balance between standard and customised components. The conceptual architecture proposed in this paper brings out the benefits offered by Vetronics approach for integration of on-board sub-systems thereby enhancing the platform effectiveness and Battlefield Management System for in-service and futuristic platforms considering the space as one of the major constraints. The proposed concept is adaptable, flexible and scalable enabling integration of the various electronic sub-systems
Clinical study of Misgav Ladach technique of caesarean section
Background: In the last decades caesarean section rates increased in many countries becoming the most performed intraperitoneal surgical procedure. The operative technique performed is made chiefly on the basis of the individual experience and preference of operators, the characteristics of patients, timing and urgency of intervention. Present study was undertaken to assess the benefits of the Misgav Ladach caesarean section technique in tertiary care hospital and evaluate the operative parameters like efficacy, safety, duration of surgery, blood loss, need for suture material, post-operative morbidity.Methods: Prospective surgical interventional study conducted in department of obstetrics and gynecology in tertiary care institute.Results: The duration of surgery, blood loss and post-operative complications were significantly less in the Misgav Ladach technique of LSCS.Conclusions: The choice of the Caesarean section technique is strictly linked to the individual experience and confidence of the surgical team. Misgav-Ladach technique proved to be associated to less complications, moreover, since its shorter operating time; it is to prefer in all that cases a prompt operation is required
A Numerical Method to Compute Brain Injury Associated to Concussion
This research proposes a new a numerical method to compute brain injury
associated with concussion using the Peak Virtual Power method, using the THUMS
4.02 head model. The results indicate that mild and severe concussions could be
prevented for lateral collisions and frontal impacts with PVP values lower than
0.928mW and 9.405mW, respectively, and no concussion would happen in the head
vertical direction for a PVP value less than 1.184mW. This innovative method
proposes a new paradigm to improve helmet designs, assess sports injuries and
improve people's wellbeing.Comment: 12 page
A Numerical Method to Compute Brain Injury Associated to Concussion
This research proposes a new a numerical method to compute brain injury
associated with concussion using the Peak Virtual Power method, using the THUMS
4.02 head model. The results indicate that mild and severe concussions could be
prevented for lateral collisions and frontal impacts with PVP values lower than
0.928mW and 9.405mW, respectively, and no concussion would happen in the head
vertical direction for a PVP value less than 1.184mW. This innovative method
proposes a new paradigm to improve helmet designs, assess sports injuries and
improve people's wellbeing.Comment: 12 page
Comparative study on Judgment Text Classification for Transformer Based Models
This work involves the usage of various NLP models to predict the winner of a
particular judgment by the means of text extraction and summarization from a
judgment document. These documents are useful when it comes to legal
proceedings. One such advantage is that these can be used for citations and
precedence reference in Lawsuits and cases which makes a strong argument for
their case by the ones using it. When it comes to precedence, it is necessary
to refer to an ample number of documents in order to collect legal points with
respect to the case. However, reviewing these documents takes a long time to
analyze due to the complex word structure and the size of the document. This
work involves the comparative study of 6 different self-attention-based
transformer models and how they perform when they are being tweaked in 4
different activation functions. These models which are trained with 200
judgement contexts and their results are being judged based on different
benchmark parameters. These models finally have a confidence level up to 99%
while predicting the judgment. This can be used to get a particular judgment
document without spending too much time searching relevant cases and reading
them completely.Comment: 28 pages with 9 figure
A study on health profile of geriatric population in an urban slum of bijapur
Background: Advances in medical field have increased the longevity of people by reducing morbidity and mortality to a great extent. With the increase in longevity, problems related to old age have also increased. These problems are more confounded by social factors. Objective: To assess the various health problems faced by elderly people and suggest the remedial measures so that effective preventive and promotive measures can be implemented. Methodology: Community based cross-sectional study of the elderly persons residing in an urban slum of Bijapur. Results: Among acute health problems most common were arthritis (39%) and bronchitis (20.8%). Most common chronic illness observed was respiratory illness 19% (COPD and asthma) fallowed by visual impairment (11.5%), arthritis (11.1%), and hypertension (9.1%) Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE) showed that majority of respondents 297 (60%) were having the normal score. Conclusion: The pattern of geriatric health problems have different characteristics and hence require a specific type of screening programme based on the finding of various geriatric health studies
Variations of the McEliece Cryptosystem
Two variations of the McEliece cryptosystem are presented. The first one is
based on a relaxation of the column permutation in the classical McEliece
scrambling process. This is done in such a way that the Hamming weight of the
error, added in the encryption process, can be controlled so that efficient
decryption remains possible. The second variation is based on the use of
spatially coupled moderate-density parity-check codes as secret codes. These
codes are known for their excellent error-correction performance and allow for
a relatively low key size in the cryptosystem. For both variants the security
with respect to known attacks is discussed
Prehistoric Painted Rock Shelter or Chalukyan Workshop? New Discovery of a Rock Art Site near Aihole and Its Examination in Context
We report the discovery of a hitherto unreported rock art site in the neighbourhood of a recently uncovered single‐celled shrine at Benakanawari, near Aihole. The shrine is located deep inside a cleft of the sandstone ranges near Benakanawari, between Pattadakal and Aihole, at the foot of an escarpment. The painted rock shelter, which is roughly at a height of 25m in the cliffs above the temple, is formed by two large slabs of sandstone, collapsed and resting against a natural overhang, and contains a painted image as well as painted inscriptions in ochre and white. The inscriptions are in 8th century Kannada script as well as modern Kannada script, the former being definitely of Early Chalukyan provenance. In this paper, we describe the newly discovered site as well as the context in which it is located, and attempt to understand the possible use(s) it might have been put to
Search for precursor eruptions among Type IIb supernovae
The progenitor stars of several Type IIb supernovae (SNe) show indications
for extended hydrogen envelopes. These envelopes might be the outcome of
luminous energetic pre-explosion events, so-called precursor eruptions. We use
the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) pre-explosion observations of a sample of
27 nearby Type IIb SNe to look for such precursors during the final years prior
to the SN explosion. No precursors are found when combining the observations in
15-day bins, and we calculate the absolute-magnitude-dependent upper limit on
the precursor rate. At the 90% confidence level, Type IIb SNe have on average
precursors as bright as absolute -band magnitude in the final
3.5 years before the explosion and events over the final year. In
contrast, precursors among SNe IIn have a times higher rate. The
kinetic energy required to unbind a low-mass stellar envelope is comparable to
the radiated energy of a few-weeks-long precursor which would be detectable for
the closest SNe in our sample. Therefore, mass ejections, if they are common in
such SNe, are radiatively inefficient or have durations longer than months.
Indeed, when using 60-day bins a faint precursor candidate is detected prior to
SN 2012cs (% false-alarm probability). We also report the detection of
the progenitor of SN 2011dh which does not show detectable variability over the
final two years before the explosion. The suggested progenitor of SN 2012P is
still present, and hence is likely a compact star cluster, or an unrelated
object.Comment: 16 pages, 10 figure
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