Lane Detection System based on Hough Transform with Retinex Algorithm

Nowadays, automotive system becomes a great innovation in the world and lane detection system is important to control automobile vehicles. This paper has developed an efficient lane detection system to deal with different types of lighting conditions. Six types of edge detection techniques: canny, sobel, prewitt, Roberts, Laplacian of Gaussian (LOG) and zero-cross methods are analyzed. Line detection based on canny operator is developed. Moreover, Retinex algorithm is employed to normalize input images for all types of illumination. And Hough Transform with Retinex algorithm is developed to solve lighting problem. The proposed method is compared to Hough Transform with Otsu’s threshold method. The experimental results show that the proposed method can reduce computation time and improve accuracy for lane detection system

Alcohol consumption among adult males in urban area of Thanlyin Township, Yangon Region, Myanmar

Background: Alcohol consumption is a major cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. It is frequently related to health and behavioural problems as well as socio-economic hardship. Therefore, this study was conducted to determine the prevalence and risk factors of alcohol consumption among adult males residing in urban area of Thanlyin Township, Yangon Region.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among 380 adult males. Multi-stage random sampling was applied. Data entry and analysis was done using Stata 11.0 statistical package.Results: The prevalence of current alcohol drinking, ex-drinking and never drinking were 20.5%, 9.0% and 70.5%, respectively. There was a significant decreasing trend of alcohol consumption across the levels of age-group. Age, education status and practicing other health-risk behaviours such as smoking and betel chewing were detected as significant risk factors of alcohol consumption. Ever smokers and ever betel chewers were about 4 times more likely to be ever alcohol user compared to their counterparts even if age and education level were adjusted. By controlling smoking and betel chewing habits, 79.2% and 76.6% of existing prevalence of alcohol consumption among respondents would be reduced, respectively.Conclusions: There is an urgent need to curb the habit of alcohol consumption among adult males living in urban area, especially young adults. Alcohol and tobacco control policies in Myanmar should be strengthened or reinforced. Tobacco control program also needs to be intensified. Health education and health promotion activities should be enhanced in order to reduce alcohol consumption in the country.

Some orchid species found in Kalay area

The studied area is situated on the South-Western part of Region, Kalay area. It lies between 22° 16' and 23° 41' N latitude and 93° 57' and 94° 46' E longitude. The studied area was characterized by ranges, pleasant climate and rich in natural plant resources. The wild species of orchids were collected during the years of 2006-2007. The research work consisted of 12 species belonging to 9 genera of the family Orchidaceae. It provided Taxonomic knowledge and distinctive characters of studied species. Although the terrestrial orchids were widely distributed inthroughout the studied area, some epiphytic species like Pholidota articulata Lindl., Rhynchostylis retusa Blume and Vanda thwaitesii Hook. found upon the giant trees in the unreserved dense-forest. Ke

Forensics Analysics of Mobile Financial Applications used in Myanmar

This paper aims to analyze digital forensics of specificAndroid mobile financial applications such as m-bankingand m-pay applications used in Myanmar. Someapplications may store customer’s credentials on thephone’s internal memory. As sensitive data can berecovered through mobile forensic, sensitive userinformation is at vulnerability. Thus, we investigated onmobile financial applications to become aware of howtons touchy statistics may be recovered. Androidapplication usually stores data in/data/data/package_name, thus analysis focuses primarilythere. The selected Android applications are three mobilebanking applications and five mobile money applicationswhich are popular in Myanmar. We used popular opensource forensics tools for data extraction and analysis.After analysis, finding indicates that some applications donot store data on user’s device. Some applications storeencrypted user credentials on device. Some applicationsnot only store user information on device but also uploadsignature and photo of customer in cleartext

Developing and Analysis of Cyber Security Models for Security Operation Center in Myanmar

In counteraction to the increasing threat ofcyber terrorism, the modeling to be predicted inguessing the predictive models for estimating theincidence of cyber-attacks for enterprise network inMyanmar are seriously needed. Although we needthese models, there is no record of attacks,defenseless, outcome and threat to utilize thedeveloping predictive models and authentication. Themain purpose of this research is to determinewhether SOC (Security Operation Center) manageruses cyber security model by using SOC resultsfigures to prepare further cyber defense and incidentresponse plan. The goal of this study was achieved byconducting experiments on various cyber-attacksoccurred in security operation center of IndustrialControl System (ICS).Blue team, Incident Handling, SOC,Cyber Security Model, Vulnerabilities, Threats,Attack

Ultrasonographic study on the arterial variations of the arm and forearm in Malaysian adults

Introduction: The information and incidence of arterial variations have been implicated in different clinical situations. In Malaysia no study on the variants has been done in vivo. Methodology: 400 subjects (staff and students of IIUM) were examined with Logiq P5 General Electric Ultrasound machine using 12L- RS linear probe. Data analysis was carried out with SPSS 19. Results: The variants were found in 11% of the subjects (6.1% of upper limbs). Out of 800 upper limbs, there were seven types of variants; (a) persistent median artery (PMA) (2.6%), (b) brachioradial artery (BRA) (1.7%), (c) superficial brachioulnar artery (SBUA) (1.2%), (d) double radial artery (DRA) (0.6%), (e) brachioulnar artery (BUA) (0.2%), (f) radial artery (RA) loop (0.1%), and (g) aberrant radial artery (0.1%). Variations found in the arm were the BRA, SBUA and BUA while in the forearm were PMA, DRA, RA loop, and aberrant RA. Among them four cases of PMA were associated with BRA, SBUA, BUA, and aberrant RA on the same side. One case of BRA was found together with DRA on the left side. Although the variations were more slightly common in females (6%) than males (5%), and on the right side (3.5%) than the left (2.6%), these differences were not statistically significant (p > 0.05). Conclusion: This study confirms that the arterial variations of the arm and forearm are not uncommon. The microsurgical techniques for reconstruction of upper extremity could be fulfilled by thorough knowledge of the structural variations between individuals in different population

Superficial Brachioulnar Artery (SBUA) & Persistent Median Artery (PMA) : a case report

Variations in the arterial pattern of the upper limbs are frequently observed. During ultrasonography with General Electric Ultrasound machine with 12L-RS linear probe on a 47-year old Malay man, superficial brachioulnar arteries (SBUA) were found bilaterally. While persistent median artery (PMA) was only found on the right forearm. Both SBUA originated 1.5 cm from the origin of the brachial arteries with diameter of 3 mm on the right and 2.8 mm on the left. On the left, it maintained its superficial position on the medial aspect of the arm and the forearm. On the right, initially it ran along the medial aspect of the arm and then coursed laterally to assume a midway position in the cubital fossa. At the elbow, it crossed anterior to the median nerve and coursed in a short distance deep to flexor carpi ulnaris muscle. Later it became superficial at the middle and distal forearm. At the wrist, both arteries ran just lateral to flexor carpi ulnaris and entered the hand with diameter of 1.6 mm. Both brachial arteries were present as their normal course and divided into radial and common interosseous arteries (CIA) approximately 2 cm distal to the elbow crease. The ulnar arteries were not found bilaterally. The right CIA gave off a PMA approximately 2.5 cm from its origin. This PMA descended medially towards the right median nerve and ran along the posterolateral aspect of the nerve. It terminated at the junction between proximal and middle thirds of forearm by fusing with the sheath of median nerve. Knowledge of these variations are clinically important in vascular surgeries and arterial flap plannings

Brachioradial Artery (BRA) & Superficial Brachioulnar Artery (SBUA): a case report

It is no longer uncommon to encounter arterial variants of upper extremities during routine dissection and clinical practice. It has been reported that arterial variations can occur up to 20%. Of these variants, radial and ulnar artery of high origin is quite commonly encountered. We reported a subject with high origin of radial (BRA) and ulnar artery (SBUA) on each side of the upper limb