Reorganizing Educational Institutional Domain using Faceted Ontological Principles

The purpose of this work is to find out how different library classification systems and linguistic ontologies arrange a particular domain of interest and what are the limitations for information retrieval. We use knowledge representation techniques and languages for construction of a domain specific ontology. This ontology would help not only in problem solving, but it would demonstrate the ease with which complex queries can be handled using principles of domain ontology, thereby facilitating better information retrieval.Comment: 26 pages, 12 figures, KNOWLEDGE ORGANIZATION Journal Pape

Physical Characteristics, Movement Pattern and Heart Rate Response of Indian Cricketers During Batting in Twenty20 (T20) Matches

International Journal of Exercise Science 16(6): 1413-1425, 2023. The study aims to provide a morphological profile of Indian cricketers and find physiological demands and positional differences of the batsmen in T20 matches according to their batting order. Eighty-three male cricketers (age: 17.93 ± 2.23 years) participated in this study and categorized into upper-order (n = 36), middle-order (n = 35) and lower-order (n = 12) batsmen. Height, weight, body fat%, and somatotype were measured. Movement analysis and heart rate (HR) responses were recorded during batting in T20 matches using PolarV800 smart-watch and H7 HR sensor. Descriptive statistics, one-way ANOVA followed by post-hoc analysis examined group differences. Results indicated that upper-order batsmen were balanced mesomorph, middle-order batsmen were mesomorphic-endomorph, and lower-order batsmen were mesomorphic-ectomorph. Cricket-specific movement patterns showed that standing made-up the majority of time spent (54.1 - 60.9%), while maximum distance was covered by walking (68.5 - 73.3%) during batting. Lower-order batsmen spent significantly lesser time (p \u3c 0.01; d = 1.02) in the crease and covered lesser total distance (p \u3c 0.05; d = 0.85) compared to upper and middle-order batsmen, respectively. Upper-order batsmen maintained a significantly lower average HR throughout batting compared to middle (p \u3c 0.01; d = 1.07) and lower-order (p \u3c 0.01; d = 2.04) batsmen. Moreover, upper-order batsmen spent significantly more time in the low-intensity target HR (THR) zone (∼9.9%) compared to the middle (∼3.2%; p \u3c 0.01; d = 0.72) and lower-order (∼2.3%; p \u3c 0.05; d = 0.69). Additionally, upper-order batsmen spent significantly less time (20.8%; p \u3c 0.01) in the high-intensity THR compared to the middle (55.3%) and lower-order (52.2%) batsmen. Therefore, the findings highlight distinct movement and physiological demands associated with batting at different orders during T20 matches, which conditioning coaches and cricketers can utilize to optimize training programs and enhance individual performance

RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: MOLECULAR BASIS AND CURES FROM NATURE

Incidences of arthritic diseases in human have seen recent increases which are thought to have resulted from a complex interplay of several factors, such as changes in lifestyle, nutritional insufficiencies, aging and genetic factors. These putative factors possibly lead to different arthritic diseases in humans affecting 2-5% of the total population in India. This group of diseases results in serious malfunction and structural abnormalities in the patient body leading to permanent and substantial immovability of joints. Conventional medicinal systems usually elicit various side effects in which the defence mechanism of the body i.e. the immune system is compromised. In the last few decades many alternative medicinal systems have been developed that show promising effects on treating such diseases. Many purified compounds from natural origin, both from plants and animal sources have shown promise and many new compounds are continuingly being identified which have no marked side effects. In the light of modern science and technology, different natural products and ethnic practices that ensure health, seem to be the best weapon to combat these diseases. Endemic as well as naturalized plants from India have been screened by several groups for their anti-arthritic activities. The review summarizes our current knowledge on the molecular basis of Rheumatoid Arthritis and discusses the efficacious roles of those natural products, especially of plant origin, in arthritic conditions

Ship resistance analysis using CFD simulations in Flow-3D

While designing the power requirements of a ship, the most important factor to be considered is the ship resistance, or the sea drag forces acting on the ship. It is important to have an estimate of the ship resistance while designing the propulsion system since the power required to overcome the sea drag forces contribute to ‘losses’ in the propulsion system. There are three main methods to calculate ship resistance: Statistical methods like the Holtrop-Mennen (HM) method, numerical analysis or CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) simulations, and model testing, i.e. scaled model tests in towing tanks. At the start of the design stage, when only basic ship parameters are available, only statistical models like the HM method can be used. Numerical analysis/ CFD simulations and model tests can be performed only when the complete 3D design of the ship is completed. The present paper aims at predicting the calm water ship resistance using CFD simulations, using the Flow-3D software package. A case study of a roll-on/roll-off passenger (RoPax) ferry was investigated. Ship resistance was calculated at various ship speeds. Since the mesh affects the results in any CFD simulation, multiple meshes were used to check the mesh sensitivity. The results from the simulations were compared with the estimate from the HM method. The results from simulations agreed well with the HM method for low ship speeds. The difference in the results was considerably high compared to the HM method for higher ship speeds. The capability of Flow-3D to perform ship resistance analysis was demonstrated

ContSOnto: a formal ontology for continuity of care

The global pandemic over the past two years has reset societal agendas by identifying both strengths and weaknesses across all sectors. Focusing in particular on global health delivery, the ability of health care facilities to scale requirements and to meet service demands has detected the need for some national services and organisations to modernise their organisational processes and infrastructures. Core to requirements for modernisation is infrastructure to share information, specifically structural standardised approaches for both operational procedures and terminology services. Problems of data sharing (aka interoperability) is a main obstacle when patients are moving across healthcare facilities or travelling across border countries in cases where emergency treatment is needed. Experts in healthcare service delivery suggest that the best possible way to manage individual care is at home, using remote patient monitoring which ultimately reduces cost burden both for the citizen and service provider. Core to this practice will be advancing digitalisation of health care underpinned with safe integration and access to relevant and timely information. To tackle the data interoperability issue and provide a quality driven continuous flow of information from different health care information systems semantic terminology needs to be provided intact. In this paper we propose and present ContSonto a formal ontology for continuity of care based on ISO 13940:2015 ContSy and W3C Semantic Web Standards Language OWL (Web Ontology Language). ContSonto has several benefits including semantic interoperability, data harmonization and data linking. It can be use as a base model for data integration for different healthcare information models to generate knowledge graph to support shared care and decision making

Development of an interoperable-integrated care service architecture for intellectual disability services: an Irish case study

The Center for eIntegrated Care (CeIC) in Dublin City University is a research center with a mission to advance eIntegrated care in order to improve citi- zen health and wellbeing. The core objective of the CeIC is to inform, develop and advance knowledge on integrated care at the national and international level to sup- port eHealth practices, empower citizens and practitioners. This chapter will provide a summary overview using a case study focused on development of an ontology underpinned by a published International Standard ISO 13940 entitled Health Infor- matics Systems of Concepts for Continuity of Care (Contsys). The development work focuses on semantic interoperabilty to support service improvement initiatives to in- form the development of core infrastructure for shared intellectual disablities care services. Based on user defined and agreed needs, the authors illustrate phase one of preliminary development work using a dedicated application to support COVID-19 clients in residential care units. This initial work is used to test an emerging con- ceptual framework underpinned by state of the art health informatics standards for knowledge discovery and data integration systems. Involving a scholarship group of intellectual disability service staff and users, a co-participatory design approach has been used to conduct the following methodology

HL7-FHIR-based ContSys formal ontology for enabling continuity of care data interoperability

The rapid advancement of digital technologies and recent global pandemic-like scenarios have pressed our society to reform and adapt health and social care toward personalizing the home care setting. This transformation assists in avoiding treatment in crowded secondary health care facilities and improves the experience and impact on both healthcare professionals and service users alike. The interoperability challenge through standards-based roadmaps is the lynchpin toward enabling the efficient interconnection between health and social care services. Hence, facilitating safe and trustworthy data workflow from one healthcare system to another is a crucial aspect of the communication process. In this paper, we showcase a methodology as to how we can extract, transform and load data in a semi-automated process using a common semantic standardized data model (CSSDM) to generate a personalized healthcare knowledge graph (KG). CSSDM is based on a formal ontology of ISO 13940:2015 ContSys for conceptual grounding and FHIR-based specification to accommodate structural attributes to generate KG. The goal of CSSDM is to offer an alternative pathway to discuss interoperability by supporting a unique collaboration between a company creating a health information system and a cloud-enabled health service. The resulting pathway of communication provides access to multiple stakeholders for sharing high-quality data and information

A micro credential for interoperability

In the midst of a global pandemic the need for health and social care providers to commit to, and deliver on, integrated patient-centered care services has been accelerated. Globally, health and social care programme administrators are turning to digital devices and applications to provide supporting infrastructure which can offer safe access to health information at the point of care. Digitalisation is increasingly considered a key requirement to support diagnostics and therapeutic care services in health care delivery. The open source community are responding to this need to advance integrated care and digital services by providing targeted resources to address the interoperability challenge. Addressing interoperability in health systems is a core part of achieving sustainable enterprise wide integrated care. Using Open Innovation 2.0 methods for advancing knowledge on interoperability, this paper describes the development of a micro credential for knowledge transfer on interoperability created by the Centre for eIntegrated Care (CeIC). Designed and developed to signpost interested stakeholders to targeted material and build understanding and capacity on the topic. The design approach and initial resource content are explained through the lens of a specific research project funded by an Elite S Fellowship to advance leadership and standardisation for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in Europe