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Stroke Prediction from Hypertensive Retinopathy
Hypertensive Retinopathy (HR) is known as the damage to the eye which occurs due
to high blood pressure. This HR may lead to permanent vision lost hence timely
diagnosis and treatment of this disease is very important. Fundus image analysis is
used to diagnose HR and stroke prediction. There are four steps in the proposed
systems which are the Image Enhancement, Fourier Fractal Dimension, Logistic
Regression Classifier and Stroke Prediction Model. The proposed system consists of
method used to analyse retina blood vessels using Fourier Fractal Dimension to
extract the complexity of the retina blood vessels enhanced in different scales.
Logistic regression was used to model the classifier for stroke prediction. The
probability from 0 to 0.5 was classified as control case and the probability from 0.5
to 1 was classified as stroke case. From 20 images used in this project only 14
images was classified as the stroke case. The estimated percentage increase in the
odds of incident of stroke is calculated and categorised according to the Hypertensive
Retinopathy stages
Some Experiences in Electro-winning of Aluminium from Fused Chloride Bath
Although the electro-winning of aluminium from out of a fused chloride bath dates back to 1854, When Bunsen first isolated the metal, the interest in the process since then has been sporadic. Earlier work in this labo-ratory had not'only confirmed the results reported in the-literature, but had gone a step ahead in proposing and conducting electrolysis on extended time schedule with periodic additions of the trichloride. This work however was conducted at an optimum temperature of 400°C i.e. below the melting point-of the metal which was obtained mostly as loosely adherent flakes. The recovery of such a deposit had been problematical and the cell operation had to interrupted because the fluffy deposit would soon accumulate to short circuit the electrodes. Further it would drop off the c athode while the same was being removed, thus further complicating the procedure
Antiferromagnetic vs ferromagnetic interactions and spin-glass-like behavior in ruthenates
We have made a series of gradient-corrected relativistic full-potential
density-functional calculation for Ca-substituted and hole-doped SrRuO in
para, ferro, and -, -, and -type antiferromagnetic states. Magnetic
phase-diagram data for SrCaRuO at 0 K are presented. Neutron
diffraction measurement combined with total energy calculations show that
spin-glass behavior with short-range antiferromagnetic interactions rules in
CaRuO. The substitution of Sr by Ca in SrRuO decreases the
ferromagnetic interaction and enhances the -type antiferromagnetic
interaction; the -AF state is found to stabilize around = 0.75
consistent with experimental observations. Inclusion of spin-orbit coupling is
found to be important in order to arrive at the correct magnetic ground state
in ruthenates.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures. Solid state communications (in press
Pressure-induced structural transitions in MgH
The stability of MgH has been studied up to 20~GPa using
density-functional total-energy calculations. At ambient pressure
-MgH takes a TiO-rutile-type structure. -MgH is
predicted to transform into -MgH at 0.39~GPa. The calculated
structural data for - and -MgH are in very good agreement
with experimental values. At equilibrium the energy difference between these
modifications is very small, and as a result both phases coexist in a certain
volume and pressure field. Above 3.84~GPa -MgH transforms into
-MgH; consistent with experimental findings. Two further
transformations have been identified at still higher pressure: i) - to
-MgH at 6.73 GPa and (ii) - to -MgH at
10.26~GPa.Comment: 4 pages, 4 figure
Some experiences in Electro-winning of Aluminium from fused Chloride bath
ALTHOUGH the electro-winning of aluminium from a fused chloride bath dates back to 1854, when Bunsen first isolated the metal, the interest in the process since then has been sporadic. Some of the earlier documenters like Mellor', Richards2, Borches3 and others had taken up the lead, but had been discouraged into branding the approach as impracticable. Patents filed by Aluminium Industrie A.G.4, I.G. Farben Industrie, A.G.5, Henriques and Thomsen6, Brode7, Treadwell8, Daudonnet9 and others during the period 1928 to 1931 indicated a resurgence of the chloride bath, although in the subsequent period the only
mentionable patents were by Lovel and Phillips in 194510, Electronic Reduction Corporation in 1951,11 Grothe12 in 1953, and by Slatin13 in 1959 and 1963. Some of these were for the declared purpose of electroplating rather than electro-winning. The published investigations are also equally sporadic, and mention may be made of the work of Fink and Solanki14, Ramachandran15, and Newalkar and Altekar16
Detailed electronic structure studies on superconducting MgB and related compounds
In order to understand the unexpected superconducting behavior of MgB
compound we have made electronic structure calculations for MgB and closely
related systems. Our calculated Debye temperature from the elastic properties
indicate that the average phonon frequency is very large in MgB compared
with other superconducting intermetallics and the exceptionally high in
this material can be explained through BCS mechanism only if phonon softening
occurs or the phonon modes are highly anisotropic. We identified a
doubly-degenerate quasi-two dimensional key-energy band in the vicinity of
along -A direction of BZ which play an important role in
deciding the superconducting behavior of this material. Based on this result,
we have searched for similar kinds of electronic feature in a series of
isoelectronic compounds such as BeB, CaB, SrB, LiBC and
MgBC and found that MgBC is one potential material from the
superconductivity point of view. There are contradictory experimental results
regarding the anisotropy in the elastic properties of MgB ranging from
isotropic, moderately anisotropic to highly anisotropic. In order to settle
this issue we have calculated the single crystal elastic constants for MgB
by the accurate full-potential method and derived the directional dependent
linear compressibility, Young's modulus, shear modulus and relevant elastic
properties. We have observed large anisotropy in the elastic properties. Our
calculated polarized optical dielectric tensor shows highly anisotropic
behavior even though it possesses isotropic transport property. MgB
possesses a mixed bonding character and this has been verified from density of
states, charge density and crystal orbital Hamiltonian population analyses
Stroke Prediction from Hypertensive Retinopathy
Hypertensive Retinopathy (HR) is known as the damage to the eye which occurs due
to high blood pressure. This HR may lead to permanent vision lost hence timely
diagnosis and treatment of this disease is very important. Fundus image analysis is
used to diagnose HR and stroke prediction. There are four steps in the proposed
systems which are the Image Enhancement, Fourier Fractal Dimension, Logistic
Regression Classifier and Stroke Prediction Model. The proposed system consists of
method used to analyse retina blood vessels using Fourier Fractal Dimension to
extract the complexity of the retina blood vessels enhanced in different scales.
Logistic regression was used to model the classifier for stroke prediction. The
probability from 0 to 0.5 was classified as control case and the probability from 0.5
to 1 was classified as stroke case. From 20 images used in this project only 14
images was classified as the stroke case. The estimated percentage increase in the
odds of incident of stroke is calculated and categorised according to the Hypertensive
Retinopathy stages
Electronic structure, phase stability and chemical bonding in ThAl and ThAlH
We present the results of theoretical investigation on the electronic
structure, bonding nature and ground state properties of ThAl and
ThAlH using generalized-gradient-corrected first-principles
full-potential density-functional calculations. ThAlH has been reported
to violate the "2 \AA rule" of H-H separation in hydrides. From our total
energy as well as force-minimization calculations, we found a shortest H-H
separation of 1.95 {\AA} in accordance with recent high resolution powder
neutron diffraction experiments. When the ThAl matrix is hydrogenated, the
volume expansion is highly anisotropic, which is quite opposite to other
hydrides having the same crystal structure. The bonding nature of these
materials are analyzed from the density of states, crystal-orbital Hamiltonian
population and valence-charge-density analyses. Our calculation predicts
different nature of bonding for the H atoms along and . The strongest
bonding in ThAlH is between Th and H along which form dumb-bell
shaped H-Th-H subunits. Due to this strong covalent interaction there is very
small amount of electrons present between H atoms along which makes
repulsive interaction between the H atoms smaller and this is the precise
reason why the 2 {\AA} rule is violated. The large difference in the
interatomic distances between the interstitial region where one can accommodate
H in the and planes along with the strong covalent interaction
between Th and H are the main reasons for highly anisotropic volume expansion
on hydrogenation of ThAl.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figure
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