Browse Items (16481 total)
Sort by:
-
Hyperledger Fabric as a Secure Blockchain Solution for Healthcare 4.0 Framework
The healthcare sector deals with extremely sensitive information that must be administered in a safe and confidential way. The objective of the proposed framework is to utilize Blockchain Technology (BT) for tracking medical prescriptions and the implementation is carried out using the Hyperledger Fabric platform, an enterprise-grade open-source distributed ledger technology platform designed for Bigdata applications. Multiple entities, including patients, e-pharmacies, pharmacies, doctors and hospitals can establish connections by introducing several nodes in the Fabric chain. A web-centered application is provided for doctors, connecting them with participating pharmacies, hospitals and e-pharmacies through which, they can share patient prescription. Pharmacies and e-pharmacies have access to this data and can notify patients about the availability of prescribed medicines. Additionally, reminders for refills, such as heart medication, can be sent for patients requiring long-term medication. Patients can also try with nearby pharmacies and the availability of their prescribed medicines. The inclusion of a wallet feature in the application enables patients to use mobile tokens for making purchases. Patient data is treated with the utmost confidentiality, kept private, and accessed only upon request and with the consent of the concerned parties. This privacy is ensured through the use of zero-knowledge proof. Patients retain access to their complete medical history, facilitating interactions with doctors without the need for repetitive information sharing. 2023 IEEE. -
Hyperspectral Image Classification using Archimedes Optimized 3D CNN layers
Background: Hyperspectral Image (HSI) classification involves analyzing images captured across numerous spectral bands to identify and categorize materials or objects. By exploiting spectral information, HSI enables precise detection of materials based on their unique spectral signatures. This extensive spectral information allows for accurate identification of materials and land cover types, making HSI classification essential for various applications. This research developed an optimization-based Deep Learning (DL) framework for effective classification of HSI. The methodology begins with a preprocessing step using Minimum Noise Fraction (MNF), a technique that leverages the noise covariance structure of the dataset to reduce dimensionality while preserving the most informative spectral features. To enhance classification performance, a novel model is proposed, known as Archimedes Optimization Algorithm-3D Convolutional Neural Network (AOA based 3D CNN). Archimedes Optimization Algorithm (AOA) is applied to fine-tune learning rate of 3D Convolutional Neural Network (3D CNN), thereby optimizing training convergence and enhancing accuracy. Result: The proposed AOA based 3D CNN approach exhibits outstanding performance, achieving 95.6% accuracy, 95.9% TPR, 94.1% TNR, 94.9% PPV, a Kappa coefficient of 95.4%, and an F1-score of 95.5%.Keywords: These results highlight the model's effectiveness, adaptability and robustness for HSI classification. 2025 IEEE. -
Hyperspectral Image Classification Using Denoised Stacked Auto Encoder-Based Restricted Boltzmann Machine Classifier
This paper proposes a novel solution using an improved Stacked Auto Encoder (SAE) to deal with the problem of parametric instability associated with the classification of hyperspectral images from an extensive training set. The improved SAE reduces classification errors and discrepancies present within the individual classes. The data augmentation process resolves such constraints, where several images are produced during training by adding noises with various noise levels over an input HSI image. Further, this helps in increasing the difference between multiple classes of a training set. The improved SAE classifies HSI images using the principle of Denoising via Restricted Boltzmann Machine (RBM). This model ambiguously operates on selected bands through various band selection models. Such pre-processing, i.e., band selection, enables the classifier to eliminate noise from these bands to produce higher accuracy results. The simulation is conducted in PyTorch to validate the proposed deep DSAE-RBM under different noisy environments with various noise levels. The simulation results show that the proposed deep DSAE-RBM achieves a maximal classification rate of 92.62% without noise and 77.47% in the presence of noise. 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG. -
Hyperspectral multi-level image thresholding using qutrit genetic algorithm
Hyperspectral images contain rich spectral information about the captured area. Exploiting the vast and redundant information, makes segmentation a difficult task. In this paper, a Qutrit Genetic Algorithm is proposed which exploits qutrit based chromosomes for optimization. Ternary quantum logic based selection and crossover operators are introduced in this paper. A new qutrit based mutation operator is also introduced to bring diversity in the off-springs. In the preprocessing stage two methods, called Interactive Information method and Band Selection Convolutional Neural Network are used for band selection. The modified Otsu Criterion and Masi entropy are employed as the fitness functions to obtain optimum thresholds. A quantum based disaster operation is applied to prevent the quantum population from getting stuck in local optima. The proposed algorithm is applied on the Salinas Dataset, the Pavia Centre Dataset and the Indian Pines dataset for experimental purpose. It is compared with classical Genetic Algorithm, Particle Swarm Optimization, Ant Colony Optimization, Gray Wolf Optimizer, Harris Hawk Optimization, Qubit Genetic Algorithm and Qubit Particle Swarm Optimization to establish its effectiveness. The peak signal-to-noise ratio and Sensen-Dice Similarity Index are applied to the thresholded images to determine the segmentation accuracy. The segmented images obtained from the proposed method are also compared with those obtained by two supervised methods, viz., U-Net and Hybrid Spectral Convolutional Neural Network. In addition to this, a statistical superiority test, called the one-way ANOVA test, is also conducted to judge the efficacy of the proposed algorithm. Finally, the proposed algorithm is also tested on various real life images to establish its diversity and efficiency. 2021 Elsevier Ltd -
I am less biased than others: themediating effect of career exploration on decision styleandbiasblind spot
Purpose: This study primarily investigated the tendency of management students to exhibit bias blind spots on three biases related to career decision-making. Second, it also explores how different decision styles, namely rational and intuitive, relate to bias blind spots, considering career exploration as a key factor that might influence this relationship. Design/methodology/approach: To gather data from 277 second-year MBA students specializing in management and business administration from two southern states of India. SPSS software was used to measure the bias blind spot score, and partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was used to test the hypotheses. Findings: The research findings highlight that students exhibit a bias blind spot tendency during self and environment exploration, and the decision styles indirectly affect bias blind spots through the mediating effects of career exploration. Originality/value: These findings have implications for future research in career psychology, career guidance, and social psychology and for developing interventions to enhance career exploration behavior and decision-making styles to mitigate cognitive biases in career decision-making. 2025, Emerald Publishing Limited. -
I am lost in that reality, and I'm just playing the game: a qualitative study exploring gaming behaviour and its effect on young adults in India
The current study aims to explore gaming behaviour among young adults in India and its effects on their physical and emotional health, productivity, interactions, and social life. Data were collected from 12 avid gamers through in-depth semi-structured interviews. A thematic analysis was conducted to identify the global theme and organise themes from the data. The global theme was the exploration of contemporary gaming behaviour. The habit theme included the origin of the game, practice, and change over time, while the effects theme focused on the physical and emotional health, productivity, interactions, and social life of young adults who engaged in gaming. The findings suggest that gaming behaviour has become an established habit among young adults in India, significantly affecting various aspects of their lives. The study highlights the need for increased awareness of the potential negative consequences of excessive gaming and emphasises the importance of moderation in gaming. 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. -
I am lost in that reality, and I'm just playing the game: a qualitative study exploring gaming behaviour and its effect on young adults in India
The current study aims to explore gaming behaviour among young adults in India and its effects on their physical and emotional health, productivity, interactions, and social life. Data were collected from 12 avid gamers through in-depth semi-structured interviews. A thematic analysis was conducted to identify the global theme and organise themes from the data. The global theme was the exploration of contemporary gaming behaviour. The habit theme included the origin of the game, practice, and change over time, while the effects theme focused on the physical and emotional health, productivity, interactions, and social life of young adults who engaged in gaming. The findings suggest that gaming behaviour has become an established habit among young adults in India, significantly affecting various aspects of their lives. The study highlights the need for increased awareness of the potential negative consequences of excessive gaming and emphasises the importance of moderation in gaming. 2024 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. -
I Can Live Without Banks, but Not Without Banking: Role of Trust on Loyalty and Evangelism
The purpose of this paper is to examine the antecedents of e-banking loyalty and evangelism via threefold construct of WEQUAL (usability, information quality, and service interaction) of public sector banks operating in India. Moreover, it also investigates the mediating role of consumers' trust on the website quality of these banks and their impact on e-banking loyalty and evangelism. The data was collected from 243 respondents through online questionnaire. In order to develop the model and test the hypotheses, partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM) was done through Smart PLS version 3.2.9. Results assert that website quality of banks positively influences the trust of consumers via usability, information quality, and service interaction. Also, consumer trust plays a mediation role between WEBQUAL constructs and e-banking loyalty and evangelism. 2021 IGI Global. All rights reserved. -
I Cant Talk to You: Reflecting on the Situated Knowledge of Women Researchers in Ethnographic Contexts in South Asia
This research employs an autobiographical approach to reflect on ethnographic challenges from the perspective of a woman ethnographer in Kerala, India. South Asia is not just a geographical concept but also a metaphor of exclusion, silencing, and marginalisation of underserved populations (Dutta & Visweswararv, 2019). Drawing on Jyothsna Latha Belliappas arguments on positionality and reflexivity, the findings show that ethnographic frameworks should be adapted to reflect intersectional realities and socio-cultural dynamics. Even though scholarly studies on feminist ethnography exist, there remains a huge gap in scholarship concerning how women researchers navigate kinship and religion in gendered spaces. As a woman ethnographer in the field for five months, I unlearned, re-learned, and co-learned how female nature is inscribed in various cultural locations (Sobritchea, 2002). Rethinking ethnography functions as a knowledge production system rather than merely writing a thick description of the study area. 2026 by IGI Global Scientific Publishing. All rights reserved. -
I Dont Play Games: Migrant Workers and Digital Media in Bengaluru
The great impact of media technologies in reordering almost every facet of modern life has been noted by theorists for over a century now, particularly since the idea of the global village imagined by media theorists, and enabled by globalisation and digital technology has become an inescapable reality. The new experience of time and space bears upon various dimensions of life, including the nature of work, the organisation of time and the place of leisure within these rhythms. This article attempts to engage with this very weighty body of scholarship in a modest way, through ethnographic research, to understand how mobile phones and internet technologies structure the experience of everyday life for low-income migrant workers in Bengaluru. The sites include a construction site and a hookah bar, and the study focuses on mobile gaming and the structuring of migrant social networks. 2024 South Asian University. -
I Refuse to Die: Remembering G N Saibaba's Rhetoric of Resistance
The inhuman and brute force that G N Saibaba suffered during and after his arrest makes one question the non-enforcement of the legal rights of a disabled person. 2025 Economic and Political Weekly. All rights reserved. -
I Was One of Them: The Journey of Return Migrants Becoming Subagents in Keralas Recruitment Networks
Kerala has long been a prominent hub for international labour migration, with a unique phenomenon of return migrants transitioning into subagents supporting blue-collar workers navigating recruitment networks. These returnees leverage their personal migration journeys to address challenges faced by prospective migrants. Yet, little is known about what motivates them to assume this role and how they contribute to the broader migration process. This qualitative study examines the lived experiences of return migrants turned subagents, shedding light on their motivations and the ripple effects of their work on migration systems. Drawing on 22 in-depth interviews, the findings reveal three interconnected themes: (1) utilizing lived migration experiences to build empathy and trust; (2) creating a bridge between aspirants and recruitment agencies through cultural and procedural expertise; and (3) fostering a sense of purpose by addressing systemic challenges they once faced. These insights demonstrate how return migrants unique positionality enhances recruitment efficiency and reliability, offering micro-level support to migrants and meso-level improvements to recruitment systems. This study contributes to the growing literature on migration facilitation by highlighting the transformative role of return migrants in reshaping recruitment practices, with implications for migration policy, workforce mobility, and sustainable recruitment frameworks. The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. 2025. -
I Woke Up Already Hurting: Postcolonial Affect in Tanya Tagaqs Split Tooth
Indigenous writing with postcolonial themes foregrounds the erasure and marginalization that result from colonialism. The genre-disrupting, coming-of-age novel Split Tooth (2018) by Inuit author Tanya Tagaq explores the personal and public life of a young Inuk woman from one of the Indigenous communities in the Canadian Arctic region. Split Tooth focuses on themes like the disappearances and deaths of Indigenous women, Inuit cultural settings, sexual assault, precarity, and violence. The novel meanders through emotions such as fear, shame, and grief, and can be analyzed through the theoretical framework of postcolonial affect. Postcolonial affect primarily examines the diverse emotional states of the colonized as indicators of the crisis that arises from colonization. The objective of the analysis is to highlight the delineation of affect in Split Tooth, as Tagaq blends the personal and the political in her narrative. Postcolonial affect is used for the theoretical examination of appropriation and violence that constitute the precarity of Inuit people, particularly women. 2025, Faculty of Philology, University of Bialystok. All rights reserved. -
I-Soil test : Intelligent IOT based soil fertilization test and their solution /
Patent Number: 201941031950, Applicant: Dr. J Suresh.
I-Soil Test• providing the soil condition and their solution for better production , our know this Country the soil test is a perfect method for examining the fertility level of soil and providing some valuable information for farmers to help them keep up with local fertility programs. If you want to grow healthy cash crops and make good money, you first need to figure out the condition of the soil and if it is necessary to manually increase the soil™s fertility -
IBA Graph Selector Algorithm for Big Data Visualization using Defence Dataset
International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research Vol.4,Issue 3 pp. 1-5 ISSN No. 2229-5518 -
ICT as a driver of women's social and economic empowerment
The role of information and communication technologies as a tool for development has attracted the sustained attention of various agencies worldwide. If the gender dimensions of information and communication technologies-in terms of access and use, capacity-building opportunities, employment, and potential for empowerment-are explicitly identified and addressed, information and communication technologies can be a powerful catalyst for the political and social empowerment of women and the promotion of gender equality. ICT as a Driver of Women's Social and Economic Empowerment contributes to the growing body of literature and present state of knowledge by offering evidence on how new information and communication technologies impact women's economic and social empowerment and overall welfare creation leading to inclusive growth. Covering key topics such as economics, entrepreneurship, digital technologies, and inclusion, this premier reference source is ideal for industry professionals, policymakers, administrators, business owners, managers, researchers, academicians, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students. 2023 by IGI Global. All rights reserved. -
ICT integration in universities in relation to ict challenges and work motivation of lecturers in harare zimbabwe
This study was ICT integration in universities in relation to ICT challenges and work motivation of lecturers in Harare, Zimbabwe. There exists varying rates of ICT newlineintegration in universities and this has a negative impact on the teaching and learning newlineprocesses. The major aim of the study was to assess the relationship between ICT integration, ICT Challenges and work motivation of lecturers. The findings of the study is expected to show how universities could isolate challenges and tailor-make strategies of overcoming them whilst at the same time getting deeper insight into human behavior in an organisation and its contribution towards ICT integration. The thesis was therefore conducted to match availability of ICTs and their utilization as newlinethis had a direct bearing on the curriculum delivery as well as empowering learners to newlineengage in meaningful, challenging and enlightening tasks since ICTs have the potential to play a powerful role in every university- both inside and outside lecture room/classroom. Institutional responses to ICT influences have inevitably brought about a lot of changes in the teaching / learning processes. The research approach adopted was quantitative. The sample included 200 lecturers drawn from a population of 600 lecturers consisting of two private and four state universities. Harare was conveniently chosen as it is the capital city of Zimbabwe and has the greatest number of state and private universities. Two questionnaires one on ICT integration and another one on ICT challenges were designed by the researcher and the third one on Work Motivation Questionnaire was adopted from Agrawal (1988) and standardized for the Zimbabwean context. The major challenges associated with slow newlineuptake were analysed and assessed in terms of their impact on the teaching and learning newlineprocesses and the motivation of lecturers was also evaluated together with demographic newlinefeatures to find predictors of successful ICT integration in universities. -
-
ICT Policy Reforms for Innovation and Economic Development: A Comparative Study of India and China
The widespread adoption of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has become essential for economic and social growth across the world. This paper aims to examine the impact of ICT policies and reforms on the level of economic development and adoption of ICTs in two countries, India and China. Previous studies have shown the positive impact of ICT adoption on economic growth, productivity, and innovation. However, the effectiveness of specific policy measures in promoting ICT adoption and economic development remains ambiguous to the users of ICT. This paper presents a comparative analysis of the ICT policies and reforms implemented in India and China from 2010 to 2021 and their impact on GDP per capita and internet usage. The study aims to identify and analyze the key ICT policies and reforms implemented in the two countries and examine their impact on economic development. The data for this study have been collected from the World Bank indicators database. The sample consists of the two fastest-growing economies in the world, India and China. The data analysis involves conducting descriptive statistics, correlation, and regression analysis to examine the relationship between ICT policies and reforms and their impact on GDP per capita, internet usage, and research and development expenditure. The findings of this study will contribute to the existing literature on the relationship between ICTs and economic development and provide insights into the policy measures that can promote ICT adoption and economic growth in different contexts. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024. -
Ideal co-secure domination in graphs
A set S ? V of a graph G = (V, E) is a co-secure dominating set if for every u ? S, there exists v ? V \ S such that uv ? E and (S \ {u}) ? {v} is a dominating set of G. The minimum cardinality of a co-secure dominating set of G is the co-secure domination number and is denoted by ?cs(G). In this paper we initiate the evaluation of a domination parameter known as the ideal co-secure domination and is defined as follows: A set D ? V is an ideal co-secure dominating set of a graph G = (V, E) if for every u ? D and for every v ? V \ D such that uv ? E, (D \ {u}) ? {v} is a dominating set of G. The minimum cardinality of an ideal co-secure dominating set of G is the ideal co-secure domination number and is denoted by ?ics(G). We look to determine the ideal co-secure domination number of some families of standard graphs and obtain sharp bounds. We also provide the conditions necessary for the trees to have ideal co-secure domination number equal to n - 2. 2020 Author(s).