Papers by DARSHANA D H A N S U K H L A L / J I T E N D R A DHANGAR/ PATEL
International journal of computer applications, Nov 15, 2017
This paper describes the role of agent in distributed data mining, comparison of various agent fr... more This paper describes the role of agent in distributed data mining, comparison of various agent frameworks and also focusses on jade agent framework as a suitable framework for distributed data mining and discovery of patterns from multi agent systems. In this paper, overview of JADE architecture and basic steps to develop agents are described. The paper also focusses on implementing association rule mining algorithm-Apriori on JADE agent framework and result has been generated.
International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in digitization. With the strict social and physical... more The COVID-19 pandemic has led to an increase in digitization. With the strict social and physical distancing measures in place, new routines require accessing the internet for most online services which have led to the explosive growth of data. As a consequence, data mining technologies are used for the extraction of useful information from a huge compilation of such digital data. Thus, the desire to mine data from varied sources to discover behaviors and patterns among entities such as customers, diseases, and environmental conditions is on the rise which can be accomplished by association rule mining. However, such pattern discovery by association rule mining also discloses the personal information of an individual or organization. Thus, the challenge of association rule mining is privacy preservation wherein confidentiality of sensitive rules should be maintained while releasing the database of third parties. Privacy-preserving association rule mining is the process of modifying the original database to hide the sensitive rules for preserving privacy. Thus, the paper emphasizes multiple objectives like minimizing the side effects of hiding sensitive rules. i.e. reduce the number of ghost rules, lost rules, and hiding failure along with the increase in utility of the data.
Since 1950, Nepal has undergone a nationwide democratic movement that has impacted the country’s ... more Since 1950, Nepal has undergone a nationwide democratic movement that has impacted the country’s educational system. The shift to democracy was accompanied by support for a movement that would allow communities to establish and manage schools at the local level. But, a 1956 report by the National Education Planning Commission introduced intensive reforms aimed at restructuring Nepal’s education system and by 1971, the National Education System Plan (NESP) had shifted school governance and financing to the MoE. NESP introduced a series of reforms that were implemented across the country, including the introduction of a national curriculum, textbooks, standards for teacher service, and supervision system for schools as well as an intensive financial commitment to education and educational management by the MoE in the national budget. The NESP reforms shifted the responsibility for school governance from local communities to districtand national-level government bodies. In the decade a...
With technological revolution, a huge amount of data is being collected and as a consequence the ... more With technological revolution, a huge amount of data is being collected and as a consequence the need of mining knowledge from this data is triggered. But, data in its raw form comprises of sensitive information and advances in data mining techniques have increased the privacy breach. However, due to socio-technical transformations, most countries have levied the guidelines and policies for publishing certain data. As a result, a new area known as Privacy Preserving Data Mining (PPDM) has emerged. The goal of PPDM is to extract valuable information from data while retaining privacy of this data. The paper focuses on exploring PPDM in different aspects, such as types of privacy, PPDM scenarios and applications, methods of evaluating PPDM algorithms etc. Also, the paper shows parametric analysis and comparison of different PPDM techniques. The goal of this study is to facilitate better understanding of these PPDM techniques and boost fruitful research in this direction.
Satara District Council has an average budget of roughly US$30 million/1,410 million Indian rupee... more Satara District Council has an average budget of roughly US$30 million/1,410 million Indian rupees to provide health, nutrition, drinking water, sanitation, and education infrastructure services to its citizens. While social and economic indexes indicate that Satara is one of the better-developed districts in Maharashtra, it still falls short in attaining expected service delivery outcomes. Irregular health services and suboptimal health outcomes such as malnourishment, unsafe drinking water, and lack of sanitation remained major challenges in the district because of the absence of community participation in planning and poor accountability on the part of public functionaries. The overall objective of this accountability intervention was to improve development outcomes by strengthening the delivery of services by key government departments and programs. The micro-planning (MP) aspect of the process allowed communities to set collective priorities and decide on investments while the ...
An interdisciplinary and qualitative study was undertaken to determine whether a human rights bas... more An interdisciplinary and qualitative study was undertaken to determine whether a human rights based approach would ensure each person's access to a water supply sufficient to meet her basic needs. A human right to water shows promise as a strategy for ensuring universal access to water if a broad, comprehensive human rights theory is ascribed to. In a coherent, comprehensive human rights theory, human rights are interdependent and indivisible from other human rights and are predicated upon a core unifying principle such as justice or human dignity for all. The language of many human rights documents indicates that a coherent, comprehensive human rights system was envisioned, but the practices and actions of many countries over the past fifty years indicate that this vision is strongly resisted. Absent such a comprehensive theory of human rights, a human right to water can have great impact as a moral and ethical justification that planners and policy-makers can use to implement ...
Research Papers in Economics, 2009
Although Andhra Pradesh (AP) has high economic growth, the state's public education system, w... more Although Andhra Pradesh (AP) has high economic growth, the state's public education system, which most poor children attend, faces several structural issues that hinder its quality. Although the public education system offers a structured space for parent and community input into management of schools, these spaces are not systematically used. AP achieved 10.37 percent economic growth for 2007-08 against the national average of 8.37 percent and has a poverty headcount ratio of 16 percent, compared with 23 percent for India as a whole. Despite such growth, AP's public education system, which serves the children of most poor households, faces several structural issues that impair its quality. The quality of education itself is suboptimal, teacher absenteeism rates are high, and teachers lack accountability to parents and the community. As a result, parents who wish to give their children quality education opt for expensive private schools. The AP Community Participation Act al...
Review of Medical Image Classification Techniques
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2018
With the advancement in the technology, the data volume is increasing day by day. Besides, it cre... more With the advancement in the technology, the data volume is increasing day by day. Besides, it creates more complexity if the database is the image database, which requires more attention. The image databases are highly required in various areas like geographical systems, robotics, health sciences, bio-matrices. Thus, there emerged a need for depth research in the field of image mining. Image mining is method to extract knowledge from the images. Image classification is one of the techniques of image mining. Image classification is process of finding model from database of image features which predict unknown class label. In this paper, medical image classification task is enclosed. Medical image database sources, image pre-processing, feature extraction, and selection methods are included. Various classification methods are involved with description, pros, and cons.
Coordination Polymers of Indole Based Bis-ligand: Thermal, Spectral, and Antimicrobial Aspects
Synthesis and Reactivity in Inorganic, Metal-Organic, and Nano-Metal Chemistry, 2011
... Hasmukh S. Patel and Darshana J. Patel Department of Chemistry, Sardar Patel University Gujar... more ... Hasmukh S. Patel and Darshana J. Patel Department of Chemistry, Sardar Patel University Gujarat, India ... Address correspondence to Hasmukh S. Patel, Department of Chemistry, Sardar Patel University, Vallabh Vidyanagar388120, Gujarat, India. ...
BMC genomics, Jun 1, 2017
Group B streptococcus (GBS) capsular polysaccharide is one of the major virulence factors underly... more Group B streptococcus (GBS) capsular polysaccharide is one of the major virulence factors underlying invasive GBS disease and a component of forthcoming vaccines. Serotype classification of GBS is based on the capsule polysaccharide of which ten variants are known to exist (Ia, Ib, II-IX). Current methods for GBS serotype assignment rely on latex agglutination or PCR while more recently a whole genome sequencing method was reported. In this study, three distinct algorithms for serotype assignment from genomic data were assessed using a panel of 790 clinical isolates. The first approach utilised the entire capsular locus coupled with a mapping methodology. The second approach continues from the first and utilised a SNP-based methodology across the conserved cpsD-G region to differentiate serotypes Ia-VII and IX. Finally the third approach used the variable cpsG -K region coupled with a mapping methodology. All three approaches were assessed for typeability (percentage of isolates ass...
AMBIENT SCIENCE, 2014
The study has been carried out in the North Gujarat region of Gujarat state, Western India which ... more The study has been carried out in the North Gujarat region of Gujarat state, Western India which represents unique habitats from arid regions to dry deciduous forests with annual rainfall ranging from 25-125 cms. Humanwildlife conflicts are intensifying owing to increase in human population and destruction of wildlife habitats. In the present study we characterized and classif ied the conflicts, identif ied zones with acute conflicts and evaluated the economic loss to the local villagers due to such humanwildlife conflicts. Sampling methods mainly included village surveys for interviewing locals who are affected by wildlife damage. The information was overlaid on the existing digital land use data to identify landscape characteristics associated with wildlife occupancy in the region. The result depicts that 80% of total damage in seasonal crop is caused by wild ungulates. Wild animals like Blue bull, Wild boar and Porcupine are reported as a chief crop raider. The Leopard is the only big cat occurring in the region reported to cause human injury and livestock predation. Sloth bear attacks on human are very common in some part of the study area. Conflicts are more severe around unprotected forests while high intensity of conflicts was recorded on the fringes of the forests. Less compensation and delayed process of compensation by the government makes the local community more hostile towards the presence of wildlife in the area.
Variants of the Extracellular Domain of Bcma and Uses Thereof
It is a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program that targets poor households with children and/or... more It is a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program that targets poor households with children and/or pregnant women. Introduced in 2007 as a pilot program for 6,000 households, Pantawid Pamilya was rolled out nationally in 2008. Through a series of expansions, Pantawid Pamilya has now become one of the largest CCT programs in the world. The program features a systematic, professional, and rules-based procedure for handling grievances and appeals. The grievance redress system (GRS) of Pantawid Pamilya has made great strides and has resolved nearly 500,000 grievances since its launch. Well-designed structures, sound business processes and standards, and dynamic staff are some of the salient features in the current GRS. This note describes the Pantawid Pamilya experience in rolling out a large-scale system to redress grievances. It discusses the accountability context of Pantawid Pamilya and the role of grievance redress; outlines the institutional arrangements for Pantawid Pamilya and the GRS within the program; provides a summary of the GRS process and its performance; elaborates on the strengths as well as areas that need further strengthening in the GRS; and finally, provides operational implications for practitioners implementing similar GRSs in large-scale social programs.
Polypeptides That Bind Baff And/Or April
Monte Carlo simulations of3He ion physical characteristics in a water phantom and evaluation of radiobiological effectiveness
Medical Physics, 2016
(3)He ions may hold great potential for clinical therapy because of both their physical and biolo... more (3)He ions may hold great potential for clinical therapy because of both their physical and biological properties. In this study, the authors investigated the physical properties, i.e., the depth-dose curves from primary and secondary particles, and the energy distributions of helium ((3)He) ions. A relative biological effectiveness (RBE) model was applied to assess the biological effectiveness on survival of multiple cell lines. In light of the lack of experimental measurements and cross sections, the authors used Monte Carlo methods to study the energy deposition of (3)He ions. The transport of (3)He ions in water was simulated by using three Monte Carlo codes-fluka, geant4, and mcnpx-for incident beams with Gaussian energy distributions with average energies of 527 and 699 MeV and a full width at half maximum of 3.3 MeV in both cases. The RBE of each was evaluated by using the repair-misrepair-fixation model. In all of the simulations with each of the three Monte Carlo codes, the same geometry and primary beam parameters were used. Energy deposition as a function of depth and energy spectra with high resolution was calculated on the central axis of the beam. Secondary proton dose from the primary (3)He beams was predicted quite differently by the three Monte Carlo systems. The predictions differed by as much as a factor of 2. Microdosimetric parameters such as dose mean lineal energy (yD), frequency mean lineal energy (yF), and frequency mean specific energy (zF) were used to characterize the radiation beam quality at four depths of the Bragg curve. Calculated RBE values were close to 1 at the entrance, reached on average 1.8 and 1.6 for prostate and head and neck cancer cell lines at the Bragg peak for both energies, but showed some variations between the different Monte Carlo codes. Although the Monte Carlo codes provided different results in energy deposition and especially in secondary particle production (most of the differences between the three codes were observed close to the Bragg peak, where the energy spectrum broadens), the results in terms of RBE were generally similar.
Sensation Seeking and Sensational Interests
PXI based data acquisition system for SST-1 TF test program
SST-1 TF coil test program required data acquisition system (DAQ) for continuous monitoring of di... more SST-1 TF coil test program required data acquisition system (DAQ) for continuous monitoring of different sensors mounted on the coil for measurement of different parameters like voltage, pressure, temperature, strain, flow etc. Main design derivers for the system were ease of channel expansion capability, variable high/slow sampling rate, high accuracy, flexible GUI based configuration with reliable data storage and time synchronization with other acquisition systems. A PXI based data acquisition has been developed on Labview platform having these features. In present system, two NI-6225 Multifunction DAQ cards have been used, one dedicated for acquiring temperature data and other for acquiring voltages. GPS based time synchronization system has been used in this system. Application program provides flexibility of viewing online numeric data of selected channels in user defined groups and also the possibility to view online plots of four different groups in single window. This facilitated easy operator based actions during the test campaigns. Individual input channels have possibility to define sampling rate, gain, offset, multiplication factor and identification name. This data acquisition system has been successfully used for more than twenty coil test in the coil test campaigns and other small laboratory scale experiments. Present paper gives details of this system, application program and its performance during the tests.
Value of shock transmission units for Mumbai Bridge
Proceedings of the ICE - Bridge Engineering, 2004
The Second Bassein Creek Bridge at Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) is the first highway bridge ... more The Second Bassein Creek Bridge at Mumbai (formerly known as Bombay) is the first highway bridge in India to have shock transmission units (STUs) installed. The original bridge, which carries the existing two-lane highway adjacent to the second bridge, had faced many problems with caisson foundations during the construction in 1963–1970. During the design of the Second Bassein Creek Bridge the design and proof check consultants realised that, as the site conditions were rather difficult, it was prudent to limit the size of the caisson foundations to a maximum of 12·5 m o.d. These, however, would be unable to take full seismic and other short-term horizontal loads. They resolved this problem effectively by using STUs to distribute seismic loading on various substructure elements of the bridge, thereby limiting the foundation size. This paper describes the difficult site conditions for the construction of caisson foundations and evaluates the usefulness and cost-effectiveness of STUs ...
Physical Review Letters, 2006
We demonstrate the generation of an intense soft-x-ray-laser beam by saturated amplification of h... more We demonstrate the generation of an intense soft-x-ray-laser beam by saturated amplification of high harmonic seed pulses in a dense transient collisional soft-x-ray-laser plasma amplifier created by heating a titanium target. Amplification in the 32.6 nm line of Ne-like Ti generates laser pulses of subpicosecond duration that are measured to approach full spatial coherence. The peak spectral brightness is estimated to be 2 10 26 photons=s mm 2 mrad 2 0:01% bandwidth. The scheme is scalable to produce extremely bright lasers at very short wavelengths with full temporal and spatial coherence.
Nature Biotechnology, 2010
Indian-American life scientists can advance their careers by networking, receiving help from ment... more Indian-American life scientists can advance their careers by networking, receiving help from mentors and pursuing collaborations in academia, industry and the nonprofit sector. At regular networking events and conferences, EPPIC helps life science professionals of Indian origin advance their careers.
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