This study was funded by a programme grant (RG/10/007/28300) from the British Heart Foundation (BHF). Dr. Joshi was supported by a BHF Clinical Research Training Fellowship (FS/12/29/29463), a British Atherosclerosis Society...
BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE: Birth weight and post-natal growth are important predictors of adult health. Preeclampsia (PE) is associated with low birth weight and may have long term effects on the health of the children. The...
Why-type non-factoid questions are ambiguous and involve variations in their answers. A challenge in returning one appropriate answer to user requires the process of appropriate answer extraction, re-ranking and validation....
In the early twentieth century, the vernacular science periodical emerged as a key medium for building science-literate publics in colonial South Asia. This article argues that the Hindi science monthly Vigyan became a...
In the early twentieth century, the vernacular science periodical emerged as a key medium for building science-literate publics in colonial South Asia. This article argues that the Hindi science monthly Vigyan became a...
Face Recognition is an efficient technique and one of the most liked biometric software application for the identification and verification of specific individual in a digital image by analysing and comparing patterns. This...
It is important for cloud users to be able to evaluate and compare different cloud services to achieve high performance and maximize cost savings. To that end, this research benchmarked Amazon web services elastic compute cloud...
Understanding the actual need of user from a question is very crucial in non-factoid why-question answering as Why-questions are complex and involve ambiguity and redundancy in their understanding. The precise requirement is to...
Cervical cancer is second most prevailing cancer in women all over the world and the Pap smear is one of the most popular techniques used to diagnosis cervical cancer at an early stage. Developing countries like India has to...
The healthcare domain gets wide attention among the research community due to incremental data growth, advanced diagnostic tools, medical imaging processes, and many more. Enormous healthcare data is generated through diagnostic...
Cervical cancer is second most prevailing cancer in women all over the world and the Pap smear is one of the most popular techniques used to diagnosis cervical cancer at an early stage. Developing countries like India has to...
In the knowledge-based economy, creation, management, and dissemination of knowledge in an organized way will certainly enhance the innovative practices of companies in any country. This article has tried to explore the impact...
Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH) is an emerging solution that aims to standardize existing proprietary streaming systems. DASH specification defines the media presentation description (MPD), which describes a list of...
Business intelligence (BI) helps organizations to make better and quicker decisions. The primary requirement, as per previous studies, for any successful BI implementation in an organization and its' stakeholders, is to...
Thoracic aortic diseases, whether sporadic or due to a genetic disorder such as Marfan syndrome, lack effective medical therapies, with limited translation of treatments that are highly successful in mouse models into the...
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is a variety of diseases that affect the blood vessels and the heart. The authors propose a set of deep learning inspired by the approach used in CVD support centers for the early diagnosis of CVD...
In this paper, a hybrid approach using sliding window mechanism followed by fuzzy c means clustering is proposed for the automated brain tumour extraction. The proposed method consists three phases. The first phase is used for...
Pathogens that invade the human host are confronted by a multitude of defence mechanisms aimed at preventing colonization, dissemination and proliferation. The most frequent outcome of this interaction is microbial elimination...
Vascular smooth muscle cells (SMCs) arise from multiple origins during development, raising the possibility that differences in embryological origins between SMCs could contribute to site-specific localization of vascular...
A key question in vascular biology is how the diversity of origin of vascular mural cells, namely smooth muscle cells (SMCs) and pericytes influences vessel properties, in particular the regional propensity to vascular diseases....