Host-directed therapy has now been adopted as a novel anti TB strategy to strangulate the ever threatening global tuberculosis (TB) burden. In past few years, autophagy is one of such strategy that has been manipulated through various inducers to curtail the intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) survival. Amongst various inducers, triggering autophagy through natural compounds is a treasure resource whose potential can be harnessed for better therapeutics against TB. In t...

With the advancement of network and communication technologies, the Internet plays a vital role in our day-to-day life. These technologies provide several online services such as online booking, gaming, online shopping, e-health care, etc. WBAN such type of e-healthcare systems which consists of several sensors implanted in patient’s body. These sensor nodes collect various health-related sensitive data such as heart rate, blood pressure, pulse rate, etc. and send them to the network server f...

Utilization of biomass as renewable and sustainable resource has attracted much attention of scientific community around the world. Herein, for the first time we report a green synthesis approach for carbon dots (CDs) from spider silk (Crossopriza lyoni) done by simple thermal pyrolysis at low temperature of 250⁰C. The synthesized CDs are comprehensively characterized by XRD, Raman, UV-visible and photoluminescence spectroscopy. The obtained higher band gap confirms the formation of CDs. The...

Financial fraud in the credit card transaction environment refers to the unauthorized use of card transactions through multiple platforms by stealing the user credentials to gain advantages fraudulently. In order to curb this problem,an accurately financial fraud detection method is necessary to implement; since this type of fraud causes financial loss with security breach. It is observed in literature that application of machine learning techniques yields satisfactory resu...

Nonlinear fractional differential equations (NLFDEs) are widely used to describe various phenomena in different fields of science and engineering such as physics, chemistry, acoustics, control theory, finance, economics, mechanical, civil, electrical engineering and also in social sciences. Applications of NLFDEs can also be found in turbulence, fluid dynamics, and nonlinear biological systems. NLFDEs are believed to be potent tools to define real-world problems more accurately than the integ...

Internet of Things (IoT) [1] is defined as connecting and interacting with things using Internet. In the context of IoT enabled Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN), WBAN [2] is a wireless networking paradigm of wearable sensors which can be referred as things. The sensors collect patients’ vital sign parameters such as Electrocardiogram (ECG) and body temperature, and then send this vital information to Hub or Coordinator over wireless medium. In turn, the coordinator relays the information ga...

The mechanical and dielectric properties of Natural Sunn Hemp Fiber-reinforced Epoxy Composite with various fiber loadings are investigated at ambient temperature. Inadequate fiber loading decreases the mechanical strength of the composite. Dielectric constant and loss factor are increased with loading. The presence of non-debye type of relaxation was confirmed from the cole-cole impendence plot. Conduction mechanism in the composite system revealed the increase of conductivity values with a...

Today’s advanced growing technological era, global scientific as well as commercial communities are given special interest in multifunctional magnetoelectric (ME) composites due to induce of significant coupling between ferroelectric (FE) and magnetic ordering even in low field and high temperature (which is absent in single phase ME systems) 1 . So these systems can be superior than single phase towards various applications: spintronic, solid-state transformers, high sensitivity magnetic...

Hand anthropometry data collection of a sample population is a conventional and important first step during design and evaluation of any hand operated product. The purpose of this work is first to discuss some of the deficiencies in the use of hand anthropometry nomenclature in published scientific literature. Based on the limitations observed, a mnemonics-based novel nomenclature system called TWHP (TYPE-WHAT-HOW-POSE) is proposed for easy and efficient referencing and management of the nam...

VANET is a vital part of wireless networking. Vehicular movement is expanding indefinitely everywhere and is causing terrible problems to daily life. Almost all of the traffic lights now feature a fixed green light sequence and so green light sequence is determined without taking the existence of emergency vehicles into consideration. Consequently emergency vehicles such as ambulances, fire engines, police vehicles etc. are struck in traffic which might cause loss of valuable life and propert...

. Vehicle accidents are increasing day by day as a result of high-speed vehicles on highways so, the speed determination of fastapproaching vehicles is becoming a challenging task with moving camera. Most of the vehicles are driven above the prescribed vehicle speed. On expressways, light motor vehicles are unaware of the speed of the rapid vehicle following to them. So in this paper, an algorithm has been proposed to anticipate the speed of the fast approaching vehicle by a moving camera to ...

Development of intelligent surveillance systems for anomalous event detection is essential to save human life and property. In recent years, various deeplearning techniques have been proposed to increase the system performance. However, due to complexity involved in the deep architectures very few can be applicable to real world scenarios. In this paper, a two-stream CNN architecture for anomalous event detection is proposed by exploiting both normal and anomalous videos. Furthermore,a datab...

Silicon nanowires (SiNWs) are promising semiconductor material for various device applications such as Lithium-ion batteries, sensors, thermoelectric devices, and solar cells due to their unique optical, mechanical, electrical, and thermal properties. Metal-assisted chemical etching (MACE) is a low-cost process to fabricate SiNWs at room temperature on crystalline Si (c-Si) substrate. However, the c-Si substrate is rigid, fragile, and costly that preclude the use of SiNWs in flexible devices....

A landfill liner should be a low permeable barrier which prevents a pollutant in a waste containment system from entering surface water, ground water and thus polluting them. The performance of the lining system is greatly affected by its hydraulic conductivity (Daniel 1987, 1990). Highly expansive clays such as bentonites (because of their low hydraulic conductivity, k ≤ 10-9 m/sec) mixed with certain geo-materials are used for the construction of hydraulic barriers. Bentonites consist of mo...

The Sukinda ultramafic complex contributes nearly 95% of the total chromite reserve in India. The occurrence of high level of Cr(VI) in the area has been reported. The Cr(VI) is highly mobile than Cr(III) and it is carcinogenic in nature. Thus, main objective of this study is to understand the governing mechanism that influences the Cr(VI) in various water bodies. The pH varies from 6.46 to 8.48 and the Eh varies from 12.3 to 245.9 mV. Most of the water is classified into Mg- HCO3 - facies. ...

Hydraulic barriers are a part of lining systems which are responsible for preventing a potential pollutant present in the waste containment from migrating to surface water, groundwater and thus polluting them. Natural clays, calcium or sodium-based bentonite mixed with specific geo-materials are widely used in the construction of hydraulic barriers such as liners and covers due to their low hydraulic conductivity (i.e. k ≤ 10-7 cm/sec). However, the long term interaction of landfill liner wit...

Multigenerational nature of the workforce makes engagement more captivating as each generation has distinctive engagement drivers. However, Gen Y is found to be the least engaged segment of the workforce worldwide. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to identify the factors which affect the engagement level of Gen Y and to develop a model of employer branding for Gen Y. The paper also prioritizes the identified factors and sub-factors relating to the different aspects of employee engageme...

In the mines, run off water gets polluted by many reasons. During rainy season the mine water generally mix up with the sulphides, particularly iron sulphides and form a yellowish coloured waste called acid mine drainage (AMD). To deal with AMD is a great challenge as this contaminates the drinking water in different ways and as a result the miners and residents are suffering from different diseases. This AMD further permeates through the ground and pollute the runoff for a long period of tim...

The present research focuses to evaluate a complete outlook of virgin high density polyethylene (HDPE) and polypropylene (PP) polyblends. Virgin PP of 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 weight % is compounded with virgin HDPE. Tensile, Flexural and impact test specimens of virgin HDPE, Virgin PP and HDPE-PP composites are prepared via twin screw extruder and injection moulding methods as per ASTM D638-02a (Type-I), ASTM D790 and ASTM D256-A standa...