Browse Items (5511 total)
Sort by:
-
The effect of hopeful lyrics on levels of hopelessness among college students
Hopelessness is a product of negative future expectations, negative feelings toward the future, and feeling a lack of control over future improvements. College students are seen to experience hopelessness. This study aimed to reduce levels of hopelessness in college students through an intervention that involved listening to songs having hopeful lyrics. The sample consisted of college students (N = 66), who were randomly assigned to three groups, namely the lyrics-music group, music-only group, and the control group (no intervention). The Becks Hopelessness Scale was used to measure their levels of hopelessness before the intervention and at the end of four weeks. The lyrics-music group and the music group participants were exposed to songs and instrumental tracks, respectively, twice a week, for four weeks. The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test for related samples was used to analyze the effect of the intervention on levels of hopelessness. The KruskalWallis test was used to analyze the differences across the three groups. Results indicated that the lyrics-music group had a significant decrease in levels of hopelessness after the intervention. However, the music group and the control group showed no significant decrease. There was a significant difference between the three groups with regard to the difference score obtained from pre to post intervention. Thus, the evidence suggests that hopeful lyrics do have an effect on hopelessness and can be seen as differing from the functions of music alone. 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature. -
Revolutionizing Biodegradable and Sustainable Materials: Exploring the Synergy of Polylactic Acid Blends with Sea Shells
This study explores the mechanical properties of a novel composite material, blending polylactic acid (PLA) with sea shells, through a comprehensive tensile test analysis. The tensile test results offer valuable insights into the materials behavior under axial loading, shedding light on its strength, stiffness, and deformation characteristics. The results suggest that the incorporation of sea shells decrease the tensile strength of 14.55% and increase the modulus of 27.44% for 15 wt% SSP (sea shell powder) into PLA, emphasizing the reinforcing potential of the mineral-rich sea shell particles. However, a potential trade-off between decreased strength and reduced ductility is noted, highlighting the need for a delicate balance in material composition. The study underscores the importance of uniform sea shell particle distribution within the PLA matrix for consistent mechanical performance. These results offer a basis for additional PLA-sea shell blend optimization, directing future efforts to balance strength, flexibility, and other critical attributes for a range of applications, including biomedical devices and sustainable packaging. This investigation opens the door to more sustainable and mechanically strong materials in the field of additive manufacturing by demonstrating the positive synergy between nature-inspired materials and cutting-edge testing techniques. 2024 The Authors. -
Enhanced technique for detection and prevention of phishing on websites
Phishing is a kind of assault where cyber criminals trap individuals to gain access to someone's private data like credit card details, passwords, account details, etc. The false e-mails look shockingly genuine and even the Web pages where clients are requested to enter their data may look legitimate. Forgery of a website is a sort of online assault where the phishing person builds a duplicate of a true authorized site, with the objective of misguiding a client by fishing out data that could be utilized to dupe or instigate different assaults upon the victim. In this paper, a new technique is developed using the combination of CORS, Public Repository technique and Heuristic functions. This technique allows only authorized Domain to replicate the original website. Copyright 2019 American Scientific Publishers All rights reserved. -
Experimental analysis and RSM-based optimization of friction stir welding joints made of the alloys AA6101 and C11000
In the present study, the evaluation of FSW input parameters on output response ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of the friction stir welded AA6101-C11000 joint is in agreement. The response surface methodology (RSM) was adapted for generating the mathematical regression equation to predict the UTS and to develop the FSW parameters to attain the highest UTS of the FSW joints. The central composite design (CCD) method from RSM with five levels and three factors, i.e., tool rotational speed, feed rate, and tool offset used to conduct and minimize the number of tests. During FSW, base sheet cu (hard metal) was stationed on the advancing side (+1 mm, +1.68 mm tool offset) and the base sheet Al (soft metal) on the retreating side (?1 mm, ?1.68 mm tool offset). The radiography studies were accomplished to inspect the internal flaws of the FSW joints (Al-Cu).The XRD and SEM investigation of the ruptured specimens during the tensile test to evaluate the IMCs phase anatomy and fracture analysis. The maximum UTS value measured during the experimental work was 142.69 MPa at 1000 rpm, 40 mm min?1, and ?1.68 mm tool offset. The highest joint efficiency obtained was 82% compared with the AA6101 UTS value. RSM adapted for this work was 92% accurate and satisfactory. 2023 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd. -
Design and Optimization of Friction Stir Welding of Al-Cu BUTT Joint Configuration using Taguchi Method
Friction stir welding (FSW) is a solid-state welding technique in which the joint quality was predominantly subjected to heat formation throughout the metal welding process. The weld joint produced from FSW was better than the other fusion welding process. In this research, the base plates AA6101 and C11000 of 5 mm thickness were joined using the hardened oil-hardened non-shrinkable steel(OHNS) tool by the FSW method. The design of experiment (DOE) was used to optimize the input parameters such as tool rotational speed (rpm), feed rate (mm/min), and tool pin offset (mm) on output parameter ultimate tensile strength (UTS). The design of experiment (DOE) was carried out by employing a Taguchi L9 orthogonal array, three factors, and three levels for obtaining a quality joint with good strength. The results of nine trial runs from the Taguchi experimental approach were formulated and analyzed using the statistical tool analysis of variance (ANOVA) using MINITAB 19 software. ANOVA analysis was employed to find the contribution of the input parameters toward the output. The optimized input process parameters will help to create effective weld joints. This study revealed that tool pin offset towards softer metal at medium tool rotational speed would create joints with the highest UTS. Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) was applied to investigate the structural changes in the FSW of Al-Cu joints. 2022, Books and Journals Private Ltd.. All rights reserved. -
Geo-spatial crime density attribution using optimized machine learning algorithms
Law enforcement agencies use various crime analysis tools. A large amount of crime data has enabled crime analysis. In this paper, the proposed research methodology uses Kernel Density Estimation (KDE) in a Geographical Information System (GIS) to analyze crime-type data. Bangalore and India newsfeeds are considered for experimental purposes. The paper introduces an optimized KDE machine learning algorithm that detects hotspots, estimates a locations crime rate, and identifies point pattern lows and highs. As a result of the experiment, the proposed methodology identified that the bandwidth of the Geographical information system influences the visualization of crime density. The paper also aids in visually determining the appropriate bandwidth for the problem using an optimized KDE algorithm. We had identified a significant correlation between Newsfeed data and Official Government data, both overall Crime and by crime type. The proposed KDE model achieved a predictive performance of 77.49%. 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Bharati Vidyapeeth's Institute of Computer Applications and Management. -
Crime analysis and forecasting on spatio temporal news feed dataan indian context
Social media is a platform where people communicate, interact, share ideas, interest in careers, photos, videos, etc. The study says that social media provides an opportunity to observe human behavioral traits, spatial and temporal relationships. Based on study Crime analysis using social media data such as Facebook, Newsfeed articles, Twitter, etc. is becoming one of the emerging areas of research across the world. Using spatial and temporal relationships of social media data, it is possible to extract useful data to analyse criminal activities. The research focuses on implementing textual data analytics by collecting the data from different news feeds and provides visualization. This researchs motivation was identified based on relevant work from different social media crime and Indian government crime statistics. This article focuses on 68 types of different crime keywords for identifying the type of crime. Nae Bayes classification algorithm is used to classify the crime into subcategories of classes with geographical factors, and temporal factors from RSS feeds. Mallet package is used for extracting the keywords from the news-feeds. K-means algorithm is used to identify the hotspots in the crime locations. KDE algorithm is used to identify the density of crime, and also our approach has overcome the challenges in the existing KDE algorithm. The outcome of research validated the proposed crime prediction model with that of the ARIMA model and found equivalent prediction performance. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021. -
AI-Based Yolo V4 Intelligent Traffic Light Control System
With the growing number of city vehicles, traffic management is becoming a persistent challenge. Traffic bottlenecks cause significant disturbances in our everyday lives and raise stress levels, negatively impacting the environment by increasing carbon emissions. Due to the population increase, megacities are experiencing severe challenges and significant delays in their day-to-day activities related to transportation. An intelligent traffic management system is required to assess traffic density regularly and take appropriate action. Even though separate lanes are available for various vehicle types, wait times for commuters at traffic signal points are not reduced. The proposed methodology employs artificial intelligence to collect live images from signals to address this issue in the current system. This approach calculates traffic density, utilizing the image processing technique YOLOv4 for effective traffic congestion management. The YOLOv4 algorithm produces better accuracy in the detection of multiple vehicles. Intelligent monitoring technology uses a signal-switching algorithm at signal intersections to coordinate time distribution and alleviate traffic congestion, resulting in shorter vehicle waiting times. 2022 Boppuru Rudra Prathap et al., published by Sciendo. -
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Detecting Driver Drowsiness
The number of automobiles on the road grows in lockstep with the advancement of vehicle manufacturing. Road accidents appear to be on the rise, owing to this growing proliferation of vehicles. Accidents frequently occur in our daily lives, and are the top ten causes of mortality from injuries globally. It is now an important component of the worldwide public health burden. Every year, an estimated 1.2 million people are killed in car accidents. Driver drowsiness and weariness are major contributors to traffic accidents this study relies on computer software and photographs, as well as a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), to assess whether a motorist is tired. The Driver Drowsiness System is built on the Multi-Layer Feed-Forward Network concept CNN was created using around 7,000 photos of eyes in both sleepiness and non-drowsiness phases with various face layouts. These photos were divided into two datasets: training (80% of the images) and testing (20% of the images). For training purposes, the pictures in the training dataset are fed into the network. To decrease information loss as much as feasible, backpropagation techniques and optimizers are applied. We developed an algorithm to calculate ROI as well as track and evaluate motor and visual impacts. 2022 Boppuru Rudra Prathap et al., published by Sciendo. -
Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Techniques for Detecting Driver Drowsiness
The number of automobiles on the road grows in lock-step with the advancement of vehicle manufacturing. Road accidents appear to be on the rise, owing to this growing proliferation of vehicles. Accidents frequently occur in our daily lives, and are the top ten causes of mortality from injuries globally. It is now an important component of the worldwide public health burden. Every year, an estimated 1.2 million people are killed in car ac-cidents. Driver drowsiness and weariness are major con-tributors to traffic accidents this study relies on computer software and photographs, as well as a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), to assess whether a motorist is tired. The Driver Drowsiness System is built on the Multi-Layer Feed-Forward Network concept CNN was created using around 7,000 photos of eyes in both sleepiness and non-drowsiness phases with various face layouts. These photos were divided into two datasets: training (80% of the images) and testing (20% of the images). For training purposes, the pictures in the training dataset are fed into the network. To decrease information loss as much as feasible, backpropagation techniques and optimizers are applied. We developed an algorithm to calculate ROI as well as track and evaluate motor and visual impacts. 2022, Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements. All rights reserved. -
A pragmatic study on heuristic algorithms for prediction and analysis of crime using social media data
Advancement in technology and Social media has grown to become one amongst the foremost powerful communication channels in human history and this is where individuals are sharing their perspectives, thoughts, suppositions, and feelings. Law enforcement units are having hard time fighting crime with evergrowing population, regional issues and political con-sequences. The adoption of social media data for crime analysis is increasing day by day. Crime analysis can help use the resources wisely. A crime prediction alerts the department at the right time to focus their staff with better equipment in suspected areas. Crime analysis prevents threats to life and money loss in terms of damage. In recent days, the collection of crime data from different heterogeneous sources becomes a primary step for the crime analysis and prediction. In this paper Overview of Heuristic Based Crime Prediction and Analysis algorithms identified by different authors. Also, various sources of social media used for analysis and prediction are also reviewed in detail. This information can be considered for one of the prominent asset for crime investigation through social media data procedure and also, we had identified the different algorithms and research gaps of that algorithms with related to crime analysis and prediction. 2019, Institute of Advanced Scientific Research, Inc. All rights reserved. -
Geospatial crime analysis to determine crime density using kernel density estimation for the indian context
Crime is the most common social problem faced in a developing country. Crime affects the reputation of a nation and the quality of life of its citizens. Crime also affects the economy of the country, increasing the financial burden of the government due to the need for expenditure in the police force and judicial system. Various initiatives are taken by law enforcement to reduce the crime rate. One such initiative, real-time accurate crime predictions can help reduce the occurrence of crime. In this paper, a crime analytics platform is developed, which processes newsfeed data analysis for different types of crimes and identify crime hotspots using Kernel Density Estimation method. This system enables criminologists to understand the hidden relationships between crime and geographical locations. Interactive visualization features are available that enable law enforcement agencies to predict crime. 2020 American Scientific Publishers. -
Polarity detection on real-time news data using opinion mining
Sentimental Analysis or Opinion Mining plays a vital role in the experimentation field that determines the users opinions, emotions and sentiments concealing a text. News on the Internet is becoming vast, and it is drawing attention and has reached the point of adequately affecting political and social realities. The popular way of checking online content, i.e. manual knowledge-based on the facts, is practically impossible because of the enormous amount of data that has now generated online. The issue can address by using Machine Learning Algorithms and Artificial Intelligence. One of the Machine Learning techniques used in this is Naive Bayes classifier. In this paper, the polarity of the news article determined whether the given news article is a positive, negative or neutral Naive Bayes Classifier, which works well with NLP (Natural Language problems) used for many purposes. It is a family of probabilistic algorithms that used to identify a word from a given text. In this, we calculate the probability of each word in a given text. Using Bayes theorem, they are getting the probabilities based on the given conditions. Topic Modeling is analytical modelling for finding the abstract of topics from a cluster of documents. Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA) is a topic model is used to classify the text in a given document to a specified topic. The news article is classified as positive or negative or neutral using Naive Bayes classifier by calculating the probabilities of each word from a given news article. By using topic modelling (LDA), topics of articles are detected and record data separately. The calculation of the overall sentiment of a chosen topic from different newspapers from previously recorded data done. 2020 The authors and IOS Press. -
Prediction of Answer Keywords using Char-RNN
Generating sequences of characters using a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) is a tried and tested method for creating unique and context aware words, and is fundamental in Natural Language Processing tasks. These type of Neural Networks can also be used a question-answering system. The main drawback of most of these systems is that they work from a factoid database of information, and when queried about new and current information, the responses are usually bleak. In this paper, the author proposes a novel approach to finding answer keywords from a given body of news text or headline, based on the query that was asked, where the query would be of the nature of current affairs or recent news, with the use of Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) variant of RNNs. Thus, this ensures that the answers provided are relevant to the content of query that was put forth. Copyright 2019 Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science. All rights reserved. -
The Influence of Cartoons Soundscape Irrelevant Sound Effects on young children's Auditory Processing and Working memory skills
Background: Irrelevant sound or speech effect (ISE) affects an individual's serial recall task of visual and auditory presentations. Cartoon soundscape mimics irrelevant sound effect hypothesis. A constant and repeated exposure to cartoons in early childhood should influence children's auditory learning or recall performance. Purpose: To investigate the effects of cartoons' soundscape irrelevant sound effects on young children's auditory processing and working memory skills. Research Design: A cross-sectional study was used to observe the influence of the cartoon soundscape irrelevant sound effects on children. Study sample: Sixty young children with normal hearing in the age range 5-6years were exposed to cartoons (Indian plus Non-Indian) considered for the study. Data Collection and analysis: Pitch Pattern Test (PPT), Duration Pattern Test (DPT), and Corsi-Block working memory apparatus were applied to the participants exposed to cartoons. The data obtained were compared statistically in terms of the groups' performances. Results: There was a significant difference in PPT (p=.023) and DPT (p=.001) between the cartoon exposed and non-exposed groups. In contrast, there was no significant difference between the two groups in Corsi-Block working memory(p>0.05). Conclusion: Cartoon soundscape irrelevant sound or speech affects young children's auditory processing skills. The visual-spatial recall follows a different developmental pattern in young children without recoding to phonological aspects. It is predicted that our study findings might help determine the ill effects of cartoons on the auditory and language development process. 2022 American Academy of Audiology. All rights reserved. -
Research asset creation (RAC) model for PhD awarding universities in India
Importance of higher education and research is becoming more prominent and admission for PhD is increasing year by year in India. Most of the time Research done as part of PhD ends with the submission and acceptance of thesis in Universities. This research future work or extension work might be picked by other PhD candidate in the same or from the different Universities but not sure when it will happen. Also not sure the research completed has achieved its end objective and University is fine to stop that research after spending so much of time and resources of University. This paper insists on continuous research with PhD candidates every year in Universities until the completion of research and scope for reducing the waste of resources and time. This paper considers the importance and effectiveness of Indexing parameters, Indexing agencies, review methods, Journals and relevant concepts. Considering the usefulness and facts of the same to research community building a standard process with procedures to control quality, performance and original research in place, I have built a Research Asset Creation (RAC) model for universities offering PhDs in India by making use of University level Indexing, Indexing parameters, Inter and Intra University peer review methods and University Journal as magazine and as well as Indexing agency. Research cannot be considered just for the award of degree. There is a need for making use of research, resources of University and time spent on research till the objective of the research is accomplished. This can be accomplished by adopting Research Asset Creation model. Complete details of the model, components of the model, implementation, its benefits and usage is discussed in this paper. This is a generalized Model and fit for all Countries which are looking for effective use of research and resources in a progressive manner. BEIESP. -
Polyphenol composition and antioxidant activity of andrographis paniculata L. nees /
Mapana Journal of Sciences, Vol.13, Issue 4, pp.481-494, ISSN No: 0975-3303 (Print) -
Experimental Investigation on Density and Volume Fraction of Void, and Mechanical Characteristics of Areca Nut Leaf Sheath Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites
Natural fiber-reinforced polymer composite is a rapidly growing topic of research due to the simplicity of obtaining composites that is biodegradable and environmentally friendly. The resulting composites have mechanical properties comparable to synthetic fiber-reinforced composites. In this regard, the present work is formulated with the objectives related to the development, characterization, and optimization of the wt% of reinforcements and the process parameters. The novelty of this work is related to the identification and standardization of the appropriate wt% of reinforcements and parameters for the processing of the areca nut leaf sheath fiber-based polymer composites for enhanced performance attributes. With this basic purview and scope, the composites are synthesized using the hand layup process, and the composite samples of various fiber compositions (20%, 30%, 40%, and 50%) are fabricated. The mechanical characteristics of biodegradable polymer composites reinforced with areca nut leaf sheath fibers are investigated in the present work, with a focus on the effect of fiber composition (tensile properties, flexural strength, and impact strength). The properties of composites are enhanced by combining the areca nut leaf sheath fiber and epoxy resin, with a fiber content of 50% being the optimal wt%. The Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) investigations also ascertain this by depicting the good interfacial adhesion between the areca nut leaf sheath fiber and the epoxy resin. The tensile strength of the composite specimen reinforced with 50% areca nut fiber increases to 44.6 MPa, while the young's modulus increases to 1900 MPa, flexural strength increases to 64.8 MPa, the flexural modulus increases to 37.9 GPa, and impact strength increases to 34.1 k J/m2. As a result, the combination of areca nut leaf sheath fiber reinforced epoxy resin shows considerable potential as a renewable and biodegradable polymer composite. Furthermore, areca nut leaf sheath fiber-reinforced epoxy resin composites are likely to replace petroleum-based polymers in the future. The ecosustainability and biodegradability of the composite specimen alongside the improved mechanical characteristics serve as the major highlight of the present work, and can help the polymer composite industry to further augment the synthetic matrix and fiber-based composites with the natural fiber-reinforced composites. 2022 B. A. Praveena et al. -
Balancing module in evolutionary optimization and Deep Reinforcement Learning for multi-path selection in Software Defined Networks
Software Defined Network (SDN) has been used in many organizations due to its efficiency in transmission. Machine learning techniques have been applied in SDN to improve its efficiency in resource scheduling. The existing models in SDN have limitations of overfitting, local optima trap and lower efficiency in path selection. This study applied Balancing Module (BM)-Spider Monkey Optimization (SMO)-Crow Search Algorithm (CSA) for multi path selection in SDN to improve its efficiency. The balancing module applies Gaussian distribution to balance between exploration and exploitation in the multi-path selection process. The Balancing module helps to escape local optima trap and increases the convergence rate. Deep Reinforcement learning is applied for resource scheduling in SDN. The Deep reinforcement learning technique uses the reward function to improve the learning performance, and the BM-SMO-CSA technique has 30 J energy consumption, where the existing models: DRL has 40 J energy consumption, and Graph-ACO has 62 J energy consumption. 2022 -
CNN-based Indian medicinal leaf type identification and medical use recommendation
Medicinal leaves are playing a vital role in our everyday life. There are an enormous amount of species present in the world. Identification of each type would be a tedious task. Using image processing technology, we can overcome this problem by providing computer vision with the help of a convolution neural network (CNN). The objective of this research is to find out the best CNN model that helps in classifying the plant leaf species and identifying its category. In this research work, the proposed basic CNN model consisting of four convolution layers uses ten different medicinal leaf species each belonging to two categories providing an accuracy of 96.88%. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer-Verlag London Ltd., part of Springer Nature 2024.