Open Source Hardware and Software Design for a Quadcopter

In the recent years quadcopter has attracted a great degree of attention both from researchers and users. Companies such as Amazon are planning to deliver goods using drones, even though applications of quadcopter might be very complex. Building and programming a drone is very easy and exciting engineering project. In this poster we describe and outline the steps for designing a quadcopter complete from scratch using components, with open source firmware. Hardware and Software is implemented in this poster

Car rental website

The main purpose of this thesis is to create a website for car renting. This website helps the owner to maintain the car business and the user to book and inquiry about new cars. Both the user and the admin have different rights from their perspectives as well as different credentials. Each prosperous task needs the correct arrangement. This initiative gains experience at the proper management level. Some portion of the theory portrays present-day web innovation on the best way to utilize web components in the web programming language. Another segment portrays the way toward actualizing web improvement with functional information. The use of HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and bootstrap is discussed in user interface processing, while PHP and MySQL are developed on the back. Using all these tools and technology required website can be built. As a result of the thesis, the whole webpage is a proper case of a business website. This can be a guarantee to fabricate a vehicle rental website

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION OF ANIMALS IN THE WILD: A COMPARATIVE STUDY BETWEEN C-CAPSULE NETWORKS AND DEEP CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS.

The evolution of machine learning and computer vision in technology has driven a lot of improvements and innovation into several domains. We see it being applied for credit decisions, insurance quotes, malware detection, fraud detection, email composition, and any other area having enough information to allow the machine to learn patterns. Over the years the number of sensors, cameras, and cognitive pieces of equipment placed in the wilderness has been growing exponentially. However, the resources (human) to leverage these data into something meaningful are not improving at the same rate. For instance, a team of scientist volunteers took 8.4 years, 17000 hours at a rate of 40 hours/week to label 3.2 million images from the Serengeti wild park. For our research, we are going to focus on wild data and keep proving that deep learning can do better and faster than the human equivalent labor for the same task. Moreover, this is also an opportunity to present some custom Capsule Networks architectures to the deep learning community while solving the above-mentioned critical problem. Incidentally, we are going to take advantage of these data to make a comparative study on multiple deep learning models, specifically, VGG-net, RES-net, and a custom made Convolutional-Capsule Network. We benchmark our work with the Serengeti project where Mohammed Sadegh et al. recently published a 92% top-1 accuracy [23] and Gomez et al. had a 58% top-1 accuracy [12]. We successfully reached 96.4% top-1 accuracy on the same identification task. Concurrently, we reached up to 79.48% top-1 testing accuracy 33on a big, complex dataset using capsule network, which out-performed the best results of Capsule networks on a complex dataset from Edgar Xi et al. with 71% testing accuracy [8,33,27]

Pendidikan Karakter Peduli Lingkungan Berbasis Adiwiyata pada Mata Pelajaran Fiqih di MTsN Tambakberas Jombang

Bahasa Indonesia:Setiap individu memiliki peran dengan lingkungan sekitarnya dan dapat menciptakan perubahan, terutama tentang kebersihan lingkungan. Kepedulian terhadap lingkungan bisa dilakukan dari lingkup terkecil, yaitu keluarga, sekolah dan madrasah. Artikel ini membahas pembelajaran mata pelajaran fiqih berbasis program adiwiyata yang dilaksanakan di MTsN Tambakberas Jombang dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian disimpulkan bahwa karakter peserta didik MTsN Tambakberas terhadap kepedulian lingkungan terintegrasi dengan baik melalui pelajaran fiqih dan mata pelajaran lainnya. Sehingga pada mata pelajaran apapun peserta didik akan tetap diingatkan dan dimotivasi untuk selalu peduli dan cinta kepada lingkungannya. Hal ini disebabkan oleh dua usaha, yaitu pembiasaan dan partisipasi. Implementasi pembelajaran fiqih dalam pembentukan karakter peduli lingkungan dilakukan dengan berbagai cara, diantaranya melalui pemberian materi yang terintegrasi dengan mata pelajaran dan juga praktik di lapangan.English:Everyone has environmental role to create changes, especially in creating cleanliness. Environmental concerns may begin from the smallest scopes, such as family and school or madrasah. This article deals with Islamic jurisprudence learning with concerns of Adiwiyata achievement in MTsN Tambakberas Jombang. This study is using qualitative approach and is conducted at di MTsN Tambakberas Jombang. The result shows that students’ attitudes toward environmental issues is satisfying through integration of the issues in Islamic jurisprudence class and other classes. Therefore, in any classes, students are always motivated to love and responsible with their environment. This is a result of two efforts, habitual development and participation. Islamic jurisprudence class contributes in the character building of environmental concerns, either through integrating the concerns into the teaching materials and practice in the fields

Reference Physiological Ranges for Serum Biochemical Parameters among Healthy Cameroonians to Support HIV Vaccine and Related Clinical Trials

Background: A valid scientific evaluation of the efficacy of HIV vaccines or antiretroviral drugs includes measurement of changes in physiological parameters of subjects from known established baseline reference ranges. This study was designed to establish reference ranges for biochemical parameters among healthy adult Cameroonians to support planned HIV Vaccine clinical trials and scaling up of ARV drugs among AIDS patients.Methods: After informed consent, blood and urine samples were collected from a total of 576 adult Cameroonians and analyzed for the presence of underlying pathologies that may affect biochemical parameters. Samples from 501 of them were found eligible for the determination of reference biochemical parameters. After complete assay, the data were subjected to both parametric and non parametric statistics for analyses with 2.5 and 97.5 percentiles considered as the lower and upper limits of reference ranges.Results: There were 331(66.1%) males and 170(33.9) females, with 359(71.7%) and 142(28.3) of them residing in the urban and rural areas respectively. Statistically significant differences (P<0.05) were observed in the following biochemical parameters between urban and rural participants: AST, ALT, alkaline phosphatase, creatinine, total protein, albumin, triglyceride, total cholesterol, and the bilirubins. When the data were regrouped into sex, there were statistically significant differences (P<0.05) in the following parameters between males and females: AST, ALT, creatinine, albumin, triglyceride, total cholesterol, and direct bilirubin.Conclusion: The present study shows that sex and geographic location have significant impact on reference physiological biochemical parameters of healthy, adult Cameroonians; hence this should be taken into consideration when monitoring participants either during HIV Vaccine clinical trials or on antiretroviral (ARV) drugs treatment.Key Words: Normal Biochemical Ranges, Health Adult Cameroonians

As linhas políticas do MTST: Resolução final do I Encontro Nacional (2011)

InSURgência: revista de direitos e movimentos sociais. Brasília: IPDMS; PPGDH/UnB; Lumen Juris, vol. 1, n. 1, janeiro-junho de 2015, p. 242-246

po 8580 treatment response among cameroonian adolescents receiving antiretroviral therapy in urban and rural settings preliminary findings from the ready study

BackgroundTransitioning from paediatric to adult healthcare requires successful antiretroviral treatment (ART) for adolescents living with HIV (ADLHIV). Implementing such a policy implies monitoring ART response and selecting for therapeutic options for ADLHIV in resource-limited settings (RLS) like Cameroon.MethodsThe Ready study (EDCTP-CDF-1027) is conducted amongst ART-experienced ADLHIV (10–19 years old) in the Centre region, Cameroon. WHO-clinical staging, CD4-counts and viraemia were determined; in case of virological failure [VF] (viraemia ≥1000 copies/ml), HIV drug resistance (HIVDR) and subtyping were performed, and p<0.05 considered significant.ResultsOut of 279 ADLHIV (212 urban vs 67 rural), the gender distribution was similar (54.5% female); median age was higher in urban (15 [IQR: 13–17] years) compared to rural (13 [IQR: 11–17] years), as well as the median duration on ART (7 [IQR: 3–10] years compared to 4 [IQR: 2–7] years, respectively); and the majority was on first-line ART (79.4% [162/204] urban vs 98.5% [66/67] rural, p<0.0004). Following treatment response, clinical failure (WHO-stage 3/4) was similarly low in both urban (5.7% [12/210]) and rural (4.5% [3/67]), p=0.938; CD4 increased similarly (p=0.298) from ART-initiation (370 cells/mm3[urban] vs 332 cells/mm3[rural]) to 6 years after initiation (938 cells/mm3[urban] vs 548 cells/mm3[rural]) and rate of immunodeficiency (<500 CD4 cells/mm3) was 41.0% (87/208) in urban vs 47.5% (29/61) in rural, p=0.428. VF was 43.2% (41/95) in urban vs 60.9% (14/23) in rural, p=0.126. Among nine (9) sequences available from those experiencing VF, overall HIVDR was found in 88.8%, with 77.7% NNRTI, 55.6% NRTI and 22.2% PI/r. All were HIV-1 group M, with 55.6% CRF02_AG, 22.0% F1 and 22.4% others.ConclusionADLHIV appear clinically asymptomatic, with considerable immune recovery overtime. Despite differences in ART duration between urban and rural settings, VF was similarly high, associated with HIVDR mainly to NNRTI-based regimens. Thus, NNRTI-sparing regimens might be highly convenient when transitioning ADLHIV to adult ART-regimens in RLS like Cameroon

Yield and yield components of coriander under different sowing dates and seed rates in tropical environment

Coriander makes use of favorable environmental conditions when it is sown at optimum time and rate. However, this information is very limited in the southeastern mid-highlands of Ethiopia. Field experiments were, therefore, conducted between 2011 and 2014 at three different research stations to determine optimum sowing dates and rates. The experiment had split plot design in randomized complete block with three replications, in which sowing dates and seed rates were the main and sub-plot treatments, respectively. The four sowing date treatments were June 20, July 10, July 30 and August 20 while the four seeding rate treatments were 30, 40, 50 and 60 kg ha-1. Coriander sowed in the third decade of July at Arsi Robe and from the first to the third decades of July at Kulumsa and Sagure gave the highest fruit and biomass yields. Earlier sowing in the second decade of June, and delayed sowing in the second decade of August brought fruit yield reductions of 37-66 and 37% at Arsi Robe, 27-45 and 58-66% at Kulumsa, and 24-40 and 26% at Sagure, respectively. However, coriander did not respond to seed rates. Owing to the enhanced yields of coriander, intermediate cultivation at a seed rate of 30 kg ha-1 was found optimum

HIV-1 Gag gene mutations, treatment response and drug resistance to protease inhibitors: a systematic review and meta-analysis protocol

Background: Some mutations in the HIV-1 Gag gene are known to confer resistance to ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitors (PI/r), but their clinical implications remain controversial. This review aims at summarizing current knowledge on HIV-1 Gag gene mutations that are selected under PI/r pressure and their distribution according to viral subtypes. Materials and methods: Randomized and non-randomized trials, cohort and cross-sectional studies evaluating HIV-1 Gag gene mutations and protease resistance associated mutations, will all be included. Searches will be conducted (from January 2000 onwards) in PubMed, Embase, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature (LILAC), Web of Science, African Journals Online, and Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) databases. Hand searching of the reference lists of relevant reviews and trials will be conducted and we will also look for conference abstracts. Genotypic profiles of both Gag gene and the protease region as well as viral subtypes (especially B vs. non B) will all serve as comparators. Primary outcomes will be the "prevalence of Gag mutations" and the "prevalence of PI/r resistance associated mutations". Secondary outcomes will be the "rate of treatment failure" and the distribution of Gag mutations according to subtypes. Two reviewers will independently screen titles and abstracts, assess the full texts for eligibility, and extract data. If data permits, random effects models will be used where appropriate. This study will be reported according to the guidelines of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta Analyses. Discussion: This systematic review will help identify HIV-1 Gag gene mutations associated to PI/r-based regimen according to viral subtypes. Findings of this review will help to better understand the implications of the Gag gene mutations in PI/r treatment failure. This may later justify considerations of Gag-genotyping within HIV drug resistance interpretation algorithms in the clinical management of patients receiving PI/r regimens. Systematic review registration: PROSPERO: CRD42019114851