The analysis of medical records is a major challenge, considering they are generally presented in plain text, have a very specific technical vocabulary, and are nearly always unstructured. It is an interdisciplinary work that requires knowledge from several fields. The analysis may have several goals, such as assistance on clinical decision, classification of medical procedures, and to support hospital management decisions. This work presents the concepts involved, the relevant existent related work and the main open problems for future analysis among the analysis of electronic medical records, using data and text mining techniques. It provides a comprehensive contextualization to all those who wish to perform an analytical work of medical records, enabling the identification of fruitful research fields. With the digitalization of medical records and the large amount of medical information offered, this is often a locality of wide research potential.

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Accreditation of courses in tertiary institutions is mainly regarded as business to be executed by the management and teaching staff. This is done despite the fact that some students with practical industry experience may be knowledgeable on the subject matter, which lecturers and management might not have. There is no evidence of student involvement and participation in course design or review or other quality assurance activities in Lesotho tertiary institutions. It therefore is in the interest of this study to explore whether student input can be of significance to course design and content. The study also seeks to unveil the extent to which an all-inclusive approach should be adopted by tertiary institutions to ensure quality of course design and content. Qualitative methodology, in the form of in depth interviews and document analyses is going to be employed for this study.

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The textile production industry uses highly water intensive chemical operations. This industry produces massive levels of wastewater and therefore presents great environmental and economic challenges. In the past, the process of electrochemical (EC) has attracted much attention. It has been a cost-effective and an environmentally friendly process implemented to remove different types of pollutants, including dyes, heavy metals , and organic substances . This process is known for its simple equipment and process and for producing relatively low amounts of sludge. Study has been made to replace the chemical treatment of wastewater containing residual indigo dye from the blue denim manufacturing by electrochemical process with consideration to achieve desired water quality. Present study was conducted to investigate the applicability of the electro-coagulation technique for the treatment of indigo dye wastewater. In this study lab-scale electro-coagulation was carried out for the treatment of indigo dye wastewater at different operating time i.e 15min, 20min, 25min, 30min using Aluminum as Cathode and Mild steel as a Anode, with 15mm and 10 mm electrode spacing, supplying 24v and 10amp. It is observed that the batch which is operated at 10Amp for 30 min has maximum removal efficiency of COD &Color i.e. 95% & 86% respectively at optimum pH 8.3.

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Several small scale industries have formed cooperatives and established Common Effluent Treatment Plants (CETP) to treat wastewater in India. The wastewaters are subjected to primary treatment in the industry and thereafter discharged to be further treated at the CETPs. The management and treatment costs are shared by the member industries. Wastewater treatment is always highly concerned in the sake of environmental protection. A considerable effort has been made into exploring and implementing new methods of wastewater treatment. The principle way to remove the pollutants from wastewater is by combining different treatment methods in one wastewater treatment system. Fenton’s oxidation was one of the best known metal catalyzed oxidation reactions of water-miscible organic compounds. The mixture of FeSO4 or any other ferrous complex and H2O2 (Fentons reagent) at low enough pH, results in Fe2+ catalytic decomposition of H2O2 and proceeds via a free radical chain process that produces hydroxyl radicals which have extremely high oxidizing ability and could oxidize hard to decompose organic compounds in a short time. This work aims at highlighting Fentons oxidation processes operating at ambient conditions viz. photo-catalytic oxidation, Fentons chemistry and use of hydrogen peroxide & also the study for providing economic feasibility of the proposed physicochemical process.

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Industrial wastes are normally characterized with its toxic and hazardous nature. Proper disposal of huge quantity of industrial wastes into environmentally safe manner is troublesome for waste generators as well as authorities of the country. Proper disposal needs energy, expertise in its handling and manifold economical cost. Further, land disposal of industrial wastes leads to liability of its supervision for decades and cost of cleanup in case of failure of landfill. The cement industry is an intensive consumer of natural material resources, energy and also having great potential of greenhouse gas emission. Some of the industrial wastes are having lesser hazardous characteristics and potential for its reuse/ reutilization. Chemical gypsum, Iron Sludge, ETP sludge from textile effluent, dust from foundry or metallurgical activities, marble waste, fly ash etc are having Cementious properties or Pozzolana properties can be utilized for manufacturing of blended cement. Proper use of wastes as alternate raw materials can decrease the environmental impacts lowering the consumption of natural materials & embodied energy with associated waste management activities. Further, utilization of wastes as AFR reduces economical cost of its proper incineration or secured disposal at landfills and also reduces economical costs towards fresh materials consumption & energy requirements at cement industry.

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Enormous loss to property and life loss has been witnessed during past earthquakes due to collapse of unreinforced brick masonry walls. To overcome seismic deficiency of these unreinforced masonry (URM) wall panels has led to the development of confined masonry. Confined masonry is built as a system of unreinforced masonry walls confined with tension columns and beams. The columns and beams are poured after the masonry is constructed – to maximize the interaction between masonry and the surrounding concrete members. As the concrete members are non-flexible with limited reinforcement, these systems always include the wall stiffness in the seismic load calculation as such can be potentially designed appropriately avoiding unexpected catastrophic failure. This dissertation aims to present a parametric study of typical wall panels of one. Two and three bays with and without confinement in masonry walls the different performance characteristics such as displacement, maximum and minimum stresses in wall panels etc. are studied. The cyclic load analysis is carried out on the entire mathematical 2D models using software SAP 2000. The comparison of these models is presented. Finally, the performance of masonry wall panels with openings also studied and compared.

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This paper plan an smart floor cleaner Robot using Android. This project is used for school, collage and home, hospital purpose to clean the surface manually. When Robot turn ON, it first clean the surface using vacuume cleaner. The controller ATmega328p-pu used to drive two Gear motor and plastic gear motor also the pump motor and vacuume cleaner. This Robot is useful for reduce the human effort.

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The Now a days, we need to look at a way to reduce the cost of building materials, particularly cement is currently so high that only rich people and governments can afford meaningful construction. This study investigated the strength properties of Silica fume, fly ash, GGBS. This work primarily deals with the strength characteristics such as compressive, Split tensile and flexural strength. The High performance concrete M40 Mix design a set of 7 different concrete mixture were cast and tested with different cement replacement levels (0%, 2.5%, 5%, 7.5%, 10% 12.5% and15%) of Fly ash (FA) with silica fume (SF) as addition ( 0%,5%,10 % ,15%,25and 30%) by wt of Cement and/or each trial super plasticizer has been added at constant values to achieve a constant range of slump for desired work ability with a constant water-binder (w/b) ratio of 0.30.Specimens were produced and cured in a curing tank for 3, 7, 14 and 28 days. The cubes were subjected to compressive strength tests, split tensile test after density determination at 3,7,14 and 28 days respectively. The density of the concrete decreased with increased in percentage of micro silica and Fly ash replacement up to 15%. Increase in the level of micro silica fume and Fly ash replacement between 30% to 45% led to a reduction in the compressive strength of hardened concrete. This study has shown that between 15 to 22.5% replacement levels, concrete will develop strength sufficient for construction purposes.

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India is the developing country, where rate of accidents increase year by year. Road transportation increase year by year. This paper presents a categorization of accidents on Jaipur to Ajmer Section of N.H 48 in Rajasthan. Show the road condition of India. This paper presents how to safe on the road and safety our self.

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The existing soil at a particular location may not be suitable for the construction due to poor bearing capacity and higher compressibility. Particularly clays exhibit generally undesirable engineering properties. They tend to have low shear strengths and also loose shear strength further upon wetting or other physical disturbances. The improvement of soil at a site is indispensable due to rising cost of the land, and huge demand for high rise buildings. So recent research could be beneficial in finding the different ways of utilizing waste materials in most efficient ways like rice husk ash, fly ash, used tyres etc. So replacement of natural soils aggregates and cement with solid industrial by-product is highly desirable.

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This paper explains An Automatic Teller Machine (ATM) is a computerized machine that uses to withdraw the cash from customer’s respective bank account. As financial user prefer ATM for cash withdrawals, cash deposits and many other transactions, the banks are focusing a lot over the security of ATMs. .In this system, we use a modern method of human body communication using RED-TACTON. Here a body based communication is performed. Redtacton is a Human Area networking technology that uses human body as a safe high speed network transmission path. Redtacton uses minute electric field on the surface of the human body as a medium for transmitting the data. A transmission Path is formed at the moment a part of human body comes in contact with Redtacton transceiver. In addition, the element of one time secret key (OTP) based transaction, if the user is not present physically to access the ATM. Now the person trying to access the ATM can call and get the OTP details and access the atm. in order to enhance the security for atm cards, redtacton based smart security card is presented. thus, the proposed method is secure against all types of pin attacks such as card skimming, card cloning and hacking.

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Now a days boost converters are widely used in applications where dc output voltage is low and we have to boost it. The interleaved boost converter consist of several identical boost converters connected in parallel and controlled by interleaved method. Here we have compared IBC and boost converter. And we have done MATLAB simulation of both.

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India will rank as the country with largest urban population in the world, by 2021. Therefore the shortage of land is felt, mainly in urban areas. And the attention to the basic concept of land value as derived from service to people has shifted to the concept of land as a speculative commodity. Generally, 35-40% of construction cost goes to the building services. So it is very needy to study the building services are to be provided to achieve quality standards of the service.[3] The scope is to study various facilities and services which are required to be provided in the high rise residential building. This subject holds very high importance in the field of construction and in good functioning of building and maintenance of the building. This study is done to achieve Indian standards with low cost.[5] Now a days clean water is essential factor of human life and living standard. Thus, DEWAT is the effective system of purification of water to use in residential and domestic purposes. So, it is necessary to provide DEWAT system facility in high rise residential buildings.

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From the traditional age, gesture was the primary mode of communication, when the evolution of human civilization they developed the verbal communication, however still non-verbal communication is equally important. Such non-verbal communication is not solely used for physically challenged person however additionally it is expeditiously used for numerous applications like 3D gambling, aviation, surveying, etc. this can be the simplest technique to act with pc with none peripheral devices. Several Researchers are still developing sturdy and economical new hand gesture recognition techniques. The most important steps associated whereas coming up with the system are: information acquisition, segmentation and following, feature extraction and gesture recognition. There are totally different methodologies related to many sub-steps gift at every step. A numerous segmentation and following, feature extraction and recognition techniques are studied and analyzed. This paper reviews the comparative study of varied hand gesture recognition techniques that are bestowed up-till currently.

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This paper presents a technique for the detection of brain tumor and skull fracture from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The MRI is basically used in the biomedical to detect, analyze and visualize finer details in the internal structure of the human body. This methodology is basically used to detect the differences in the tissues which have a far better technique as compared to computed tomography (CT). So this method makes this technique a very special one for brain tumor and skull fracture detection. Computed tomography (CT) images which are used to ascertain the difference in tissues density and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides an excellent contrast between various tissues of the body. In this present methodology, preprocessing includes image resizing, conversion to gray, image enhanced in the way that finer details are improved and the noise level removed from the specimen image. In this methodology, the technique is using threshold segmentation, threshold segmentation is one of the simplest segmentation methods which is using for the improves the quality of result. The input gray scale image is converts in a binary format. Here we use one more segmentation method watershed segmentation; watershed segmentation is one of the most appropriate methods to group pixels of an image on the basis of their intensities. The main purpose of morphological operation is to separate the tumor parts and the fracture parts of the image. Now only the tumor and fracture portion of the images is visible, shown as white color and bubble, with the help of edge detection.

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Underwater wireless sensor network are those network which is self-powered sensor nodes and autonomous vehicles are deployed in oceans, because seventy percent of the earth is covered by oceans, and there are many natural disaster occur in the earth like earthquakes, tsunami, etc. So these type of disastrous protection the sensor are deploy for early warning generation system and performing collaborative task by using acoustic links. Underwater wireless sensor network is also helping for ocean mapping, oil and mineral exploration and assisted navigation & tracking. By developing an intent adaptive algorithms for time critical applications in underwater wireless sensor auditory and multipath network is a difficult task due to high propagation delay, low bandwidth (Data transmission rate), limited battery power of nodes and the charging of batteries or replacement is difficult job. So we are facing these type of so many problems, we design an intent adaptive algorithms which take less time in underwater for receiving the data or information and to send the sink node.

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Composites are widely used in the field of aerospace, automotive structures etc. as the material possesses extensive applications and greater mechanical properties. Among the applications of composites, the shafts made of composites are giving a high strength to weight ratio, stability and efficiency. In the present scenario, filament winding has been recognized as an economical technique to manufacture composite products with high level properties. In filament winding process, resin bathed fibre winded on a mandrel having cylindrical shape. The aim of the project is to develop a low cost filament winding machine and using the machine to develop an E-glass/Epoxy composite hollow shaft to make a study on the torsional characteristics of the composite shaft and thereby concluding on the effectiveness of developed filament winding machine and the specimen developed.

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The various factors have to be taken into consideration before commencing the actual work of designing a building, which is carried out before the construction work. The type of building and its design depends on the purpose for which it is built. This study aims in designing, which is not only innovative but also endeavors to explore a new facet of civil engineering. The design process involves determining the size of the different components of the building and checking the stability of the building for various external forces to which it is subjected. The study comprises of RCC building having G+15 floors which have been elevated as inclined structure. The proposed building is a commercial building. The shear wall will act as a single core. The shear wall will be connected to each other with a network of beams/ slabs with the slabs acting as in plane rigid diaphragms for each of the floors. . As the structure is resisting only on a single core the shear wall will be provided in such a way to control deflections and resist lateral forces. Shear wall will be provided in such a way to control deflections and resist lateral forces. Provision is done in design in such a way that services can be laid without major obstructions and maximum headroom is achieved.

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The abstract of this paper is to deliver clean and hygiene toilets at a cost of Rs. 12000 or less. All the public toilets should be neat, clean and hygiene. In our country, our government has introduced the scheme called “Swachh Bharat” (Clean India). So keeping the toilets uncontaminated is the one of the objective of Clean India scheme. This paper can be helpful to encourage the clean India project. In future, it can show the major part in clean India scheme. In an Existing system, they are focused only on identifying the dirt in the toilets. In our proposed system, we have determined on keeping clean toilets, observing the sweeper’s working activities. It may create the consciousness amongst people about the toilet management. The improvement in sanitation should be one of the goal among Millennium Development Goals, awareness of sanitary toilet and lack of the same is still a major public problem in rural areas. Concrete and steel are the basic construction materials, which are used for different concepts of construction such as Ferro cement. Ferro cement is an innovative technology which has several advantages. This paper is to promote extensive use of Ferro cement components as an alternative to conventional concrete components for application in low rise housing by doing a comparative study of cost analysis of Ferro cement and RCC.

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The management and recycling of E waste is rapidly growing as it is a valuable resource of IT industries and it is very hazardous substances and with low recycling rate. The Utilization of e waste materials is a partial solution to environmental and ecological problems. As the use of E waste will reduces the cement cost and provides a good strength for the structures and roads. It will reduces the landfill cost and it is energy saving. The E- waste consists of discarded plastic waste from the old computers, TVs, refrigerators, radios; these plastics are non-biodegradable components of E- waste as a partial replacement of the cement. An experimental study is made on the utilization of E-waste crush fine powder as cement in concrete with a percentage replacement ranging from 0 %, 10% to 50% .on the strength criteria of M30 Concrete. Compressive strength and Flexural strength Concrete with and without E- waste plastic as partial replacement cement was observed which exhibits a good strength. The feasibility of utilizing E-waste powder as partial replacement of cement has been presented. In this paper we collect all relevant data for our project such as literature review, required material their properties and test methods from lots of authors research papers.

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Headlight of vehicles poses a great danger during night driving. The drivers of most vehicles use high, bright beam while driving at night. This causes a discomfort to the person travelling from the opposite direction and therefore experiences a sudden glare for a short period of time. This is caused due to the high intense headlight beam from the other vehicle coming towards the one from the opposite direction. In this project, an automatic headlight dimmer which uses a Light Dependent Resistor (LDR) sensor has been designed to dim the headlight of our vehicles to avoid human eye effects. This automatically switched the high beam into low beam, therefore reducing the glare effect by sensing the light intensity value of approaching vehicle and also eliminated the requirement of manual switching by the driver which has not done at all times. The Arduino software was employed to program the microcontroller. The system device was able to automatically switch the headlight to low beam when it sensed a vehicle approaching from the opposite side using LDR sensor. It was observed that the maximum spread angle of headlight was 135 degree. At the time the spread light from other sources reached the sensor, its intensity would be very much reduced below the triggering threshold level. The sensitivity of a photo detector determined the relationship between the light falling on the device and the resulting output signal. A server module could be included to this system for receiving and storing headlight rays parameter information in a database application.

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Construction planners often face the challenge of optimum resource utilization to compromise between different and usually conflicting aspects of projects. Time, cost and risk of project delivery are among the crucial aspects of each project with both client and contractor striving to optimize the project duration and cost concurrently. Studies have been conducted to model the time–cost relationships, ranging from heuristic methods and mathematical approaches to genetic algorithms. Emergence of new contracts that place an increasing pressure on maximizing the quality of projects while minimizing its time and cost, require the development of innovative models considering risk in addition to time and cost.. Besides time and cost of activities, every resource utilization option will yield a specific performance quality according to the involved. The optimization of trade-off between these time, cost and risk parameters is done using Multi-Objective Ant Colony Optimization technique. The optimization program was run for a number of giving weightage for the parameters. The total time, cost and risk for the project when executed in various combinations of alternatives were taken the trade-off between the parameters are analyzed.

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The main objective of this project work is to design and simulate simple, appropriate and reliable multipliers for DSP processors. Multipliers are one amongst the foremost important arithmetic units in Microprocessors and DSPs and also a serious supply of power dissipation. Reducing the power dissipation of multipliers could be a key to satisfy the general power consumption of digital circuits and systems. During this paper a High speed and low space design for the Wallace tree using compressed multiplier is projected compared to area architecture. This design is employed in FIR Filter style. The simulation result for eight bit multipliers and 4 tap filters shows that the projected low area and delay architecture lowers the overall area and delay in comparison to array multiplier and Wallace tree using compressed multiplier design based filter. To develop the system blocks in Modelsim 6.4 c and Xilinx ISE13.2.To achieve simulation and synthesis of Spartan3E FPGA tools from Xilinx ISE is employed. Verilog HDL is employed for describing the hardware and system understanding language.

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Knowledge about quality of rainwater is crutial for safeguarding human health. This review investigated harvested rainwater quality and hazardous health risk associated with it. Rain water results to physicochemical contamination and microbial contamination as it passes through atmosphere, also due to weathering and washing of roof materials, storage, faecal contamination and conveyance utilities. Rainwater is relatively free from impurities but it picks up impurities from atmosphere, also the rainwater quality deteriorates during harvesting and collection. Wind-blown dirt, faecal droppings from animals and birds, leaves, insects, contaminated litter on the catchment area are the sources of contamination of rainwater, leading some of the health risks. Coliform and E. coli were detected when the harvested rainwater was not treated with ultraviolet (UV) light. Results have shown apparent variation in the quality of rainwater by using different collection alternatives. The study shows that without proper treatment harvested rainwater may not be suitable for direct drinking, but could be used for other domestic purposes, but for direct drinking purpose it should be treated or disinfected .There are very many treatment methods, in which this review considers Solar Disinfection for investigation of its suitability in treated rainwater for portable water standards.

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Permanent Magnet (PM) Brushless DC machine has high efficiency, high power density, high power factor, high torque, simple control, and minimal maintenance. Modelling, simulation of drives with converter configuration and control schemes is presented in this project. This project describes modelling of four switch inverter fed BLDC motor, is explained with transfer function model. The simulation of sensor and sensor less control of drive will be done in MATLAB/Simulink. Control with sensor, the controller is used Fuzzy logic Controller/PI Controller and in sensor less control the method is used is terminal voltage sensing.

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