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A Multi-Objective Approach for Materialized View Selection
In today's world, business transactional data has become the critical part of all business-related decisions. For this purpose, complex analytical queries have been run on transactional data to get the relevant information, from...
Published by: IGI Global
Review of Byron Williston, The Anthropocene Project
Jay Foster
Jan 07, 2019
Byron Williston has titled his thoughtful and engaging book on virtue ethics and climate change\ The Anthropocene Project. Here Williston is grappling with an issue that vexes most of us. The science of anthropogenic...
Expansion Planning in Distribution Network With DSTATCOM Using Distance-Oriented Grasshopper Optimization Algorithm
This paper intends to consider a multi-objective problem for expansion planning in Power Distribution System (PDS) by focusing on (i) expansion strategy (ii) allocation of Circuit Breaker (CB), (iii) allocation of Distribution...
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Let’s Not Talk About the Anthropocene
Jay Foster
Jan 07, 2019
The Hungarian philosopher of science Imre Lakatos once complained that Thomas Kuhn had reduced scientific research to “mob psychology." In The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), Kuhn famously suggested that scientific...
Review of Capitalism, The American Empire, and Neoliberal Globalization by Kenneth E. Bauzon
Jay Foster
Nov 12, 2021
At the G7 summit in June 2021, leaders of the top seven “advanced economies” met at a seaside resort in Cornwall, England. After three days of frolicking on the beach for photo-ops, they emerged promising a billion COVID-19...
Finite Element Modelling for Failure Prevention of Coated Piston Compression Ring
Finite element simulation using ANSYS software, to analyze the effect of coating layers of different materials on piston compression ring. Similar material properties to that in the actual structural piston-compression-ring were...
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An Enhanced Security Measure for Multimedia Images Using Hadoop Cluster
Information are generated over the internet for every second. These information are not fully secured. To increase the security of these information send over the internet there are two methods Cryptography and Steganography are...
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Introduction
The Fifth Assessment Report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was published in early 2014. In addition to expressing a “high confidence” in anthropogenic climate change, the report introduced a new emphasis...
Use of Artificial Neural Network for Forecasting Health Insurance Entitlements
A number of numerical practices exist that actuaries use to predict annual medical claims expense in an insurance company. This amount needs to be included in the yearly financial budgets. Inappropriate estimating generally has...
Published by: IGI Global
Health Insurance Claim Prediction Using Artificial Neural Networks
A number of numerical practices exist that actuaries use to predict annual medical claim expense in an insurance company. This amount needs to be included in the yearly financial budgets. Inappropriate estimating generally has...
Published by: IGI Global
Handling Data Scarcity Through Data Augmentation in Training of Deep Neural Networks for 3D Data Processing
Due to the availability of cheap 3D sensors such as Kinect and LiDAR, the use of 3D data in various domains such as manufacturing, healthcare, and retail to achieve operational safety, improved outcomes, and enhanced customer...
Published by: IGI Global
An Approach to Convert Conventional Laboratories Into IoT-Enabled Laboratories
Practical learning methodologies have become the need of the hour in the education sector, in particular in engineering education, to achieve technical competencies and skills. Advancements in web-based learning strategies have...
Published by: IGI Global