The role of public spaces in generating and encouraging interaction among people has been established by various studies. However, in the present urban cities, social media is gradually taking over the role of public spaces, in serving as a platform for interaction. The allure of the virtual world is driving our youth towards an introverted indoor based lifestyle, who prefer to stay detached from the realities of the outdoor world. Considering the present context, this study aims at identifyi...

Edible films and coatings incorporated with antimicrobials are gaining research interest due to raising awareness in food safety and application of renewable biopolymers. Compared to petroleum-based polymers, edible film offers several added advantages such as edibility, aesthetic appearance, prevents microbial contamination , biocompatibility, and biodegradability.

A convolutional spatiotemporal autoencoder is used for video anomaly detection. The proposed model architecture comprises of three major sections, such as spatial encoder, tem-poral encoder-decoder, and spatial decoder. The spatial encoder is implemented using three layers of the convolutional layers. Then, the temporal encoder-decoder is realized with the help of Convolutional Long Short Term Memory (ConvLSTM), gated with the tanh and sigmoid activation functions. Finally, the spatial decode...

Cloud computing provides information technology based solutions to the end-users as a utility. Virtual machine or the virtualization technology is the backbone of implementing cloud computing technologies. However, such implementation encounters the problem of tremendous energy consumption. One of the foremost issues in implementing cloud computing is high energy consumption. This can be reduced to some extent by proper allocation and efficient utilization of resources. At present, containeri...

Livelihood Resilience is a distinctive capacity of people to sustain or improve their livelihood opportunities and well-being in case of any disturbance includes development. The main goal of any development project involving displacement though is to restore the livelihood of the resettlers or bringing it to their prior condition that has not been considered in the majority of development-induced displacement and resettlement projects in India. Further, a review of the literature shows studi...

An abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) is identified as a localized expansion of the abdominal aorta with a 50% increase in the aortic diameter. This cardiovascular condition is usually asymptomatic and rupture can occur at any time without warning, making it difficult for patients to seek help and treatment. As a consequence, a robust early AAA predictor is highly relevant for minimizing the mortality rate due to the aortic wall rupture. This work aims to identify potential attributes for AAA pr...

Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging technology, in which sensible objects are connected to form a network and are in constant touch with one another. Today’s IoT applications are developed using different architecture approaches like centralized, distributed, and cooperative approach etc. In the IoT applications, security is a main concern which needs to be studied thoroughly and deduce feasible solutions. This paper presents a brief survey of existing security challenges at different lay...

Cloud computing is one of the highly discussed topics in the field of Internet and communication technology. It is responsible for the on-demand provision of computing resources, mainly data and computing power to the end-users. More than one server works together in a cloud network. So, the incoming request for resources must be distributed among all servers in the network for better performance. The process of efficiently distributing incoming tasks and sharing the workload among a group of...

Theoretical investigation on Cylindrical Dielectric Resonator Antenna (CDRA) using imperfect wall boundary condition is presented here for TM z modes for the first time, hitherto unreported. Approximate expression for eigenfunctions and eigenvalues are given here for different modes. Simple formula is given to predict the resonant frequency. Numerical and graphical both solutions are presented here. Theoretical results on resonant frequency are compared with measured data and data obtained u...

In this article, the design of a Pythagorean-tree shaped fractal microstrip antenna is investigated for RFID reader applications. The antenna consists of a fourth-order Pythagorean tree shaped fractal, a feed-line matched to the radiator, and co-planar waveguide (CPW) line with the filleted ground plane. The monopole antenna provides a wider operational bandwidth from 4.22-7.52 GHz. The use of fractal geometry enhances the bandwidth of the microstrip antenna and reduces the metallic footprint...

The clustering technique is used to increase the lifetime of the network. The existing unequal clustering uses the two techniques: the selection of the head with more residual energy and multi-hop routing. In this algorithm, the cluster members are not fixed in the cluster, when the cluster member send their data to the cluster head, a large amount of energy is spent during the data aggregation. When the cluster head sends data to the base station, the cluster head near the base station dies ...

Electrospinning is an efficient technique for the fabrication of polymer nanofibers. • Electrospun fibers have high surface area to volume ratio and higher porosity. • Nanofibers are fabricated from a number of materials like natural polymers and synthetic polymers. • Synthetic polymers used are PCL, PVA, PEO, PEVA, Polyurethane, etc.

MoS2 has a great deal of interest among the semiconductor group of researchers, due to the unique electronic and optoelectronic properties like, finite bandgap, low static power consumption. In this work an attempt has been made to develop a CMOS compatible process for the fabrication of a homogeneous MoS2 thin film. A two step synthesis process was adopted. In the first step, Molybdenum (Mo) thin film was deposited on silicon substrate by RF magnetron sputtering technique. The sputtering was...

Air pollution occurs when the environmental gases such as CO2, NH3 etc. concentration levels go above the optimum level. As the AQI is being calculated and as per the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), there is standard level of ranges for pollution level. This paper presents about monitoring the pollution level using Raspberry Pi 3 based on IoT technology. Here, the temperature, humidity, due point and wind speed parameters are also monitored and use of these parameters as data sets for...

River floods are generally described as two stage compound open channels. The lateral variation in depth and roughness across the cross section of a compound channel causes momentum transfer at the interface. So, prediction of discharge primarily depends upon the proper quantification of momentum transfer at the junction. As overbank flows are commonly non-uniform along the stream-wise direction, therefore analysis and estimation of flow variables under non-uniform flow condition is a challen...

Human actions are challenging to recognize as it varies its shape from different angle of perception. To tackle this challenge, a multi view camera set up can be arranged, however, it is not cost effective. To handle this issue, a multi stream deep learning network is proposed in this work which is trained on different 3D projected planes. The extracted projected planes which represents different angle of perception, are used as an alternative to multi view action recognition. The projected p...

The least squares based cost functions are sensitive to outliers in the measured data. The presence of outliers is con-sidered as impulsive noise. In practical scenarios, the co channel interference, saturation effects, non linearity of the measuring instruments, atmospheric conditions and malfunction of sensors will result in outliers or impulsive noise. The robust function obtained by considering the error as the linear combination of sign preserving basis functions is found to be robust ag...

One of the assuring technologies today is Fog computing, focus on the extensive use of the computational and storage capacities of the end devices in a network. In present day there due to the enormous amount of data from the number of IoT devices, a centralized cloud system is quite inadequate. This challenge can be addressed by deploying Fog devices neighbouring to these IoT devices so as to provide with real-time response. Thus for the creation of a smart city we advance towards an archite...

With the advancement in technology, the Internet of Things (IoT) systems has been blooming in leap and bounds. It aims at connecting things such as vehicles, hospitals, industries, and consumers through the Internet. The increase in a number of IoT devices and the heterogeneity of their network connection is increasing day by day; it has given rise to several challenges such as authenticity, cost and usability, scalability, interoperability, mobility, and many more. Interoperability is one of...