Diabetes is a common chronic condition that significantly impacts patients' daily lives. Although it cannot be cured, if left unmanaged, diabetes can progressively damage vital organs. Without early and appropriate care, it may lead to multiple adverse effects. To ensure proper care, diabetic individuals typically require regular visits to healthca...

By B. Saratha, M S Radhika, V. Shenbaga Priya

Water efficiency in agriculture is a crucial measure of how effectively farmers use their most vital resource. In practical terms, it reveals how much applied water actually nourishes crops versus being lost to evaporation or runoff. In the Bundelkhand region of Uttar Pradesh, India, where water is incredibly scarce, making every drop count is cruc...

By Aakanksha Rawat, Mukul Kulshrestha

Sentiment analysis has come out as an important activity in natural language processing (NLP) applications whose data analysis is in high demand at present in the modern world. The BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) algorithm has proved to be extremely efficient when it comes to sentiment analysis tasks, and its potentia...

By Alaa A. El-Demerdash, Nahla B. Abdel- Hamid, Amira Y. Haikal

Measuring small flow rates often requires expensive equipment and is associated with inherent limitations. In practice, various measuring structures, such as weirs, are commonly constructed at specific locations to facilitate flow measurements. This paper proposes an innovative and low-cost measurement structure made from sewer pipes, incorporating...

By Petar Praštalo, Anica Milanović

This study explores the growing phenomenon of cybercrime targeting older adult individuals in Malaysia, a demographic increasingly susceptible due to factors such as limited digital literacy, social isolation, and perceived financial stability. Drawing upon Routine Activity Theory and Social Engineering Theory, the research investigates the situati...

By Kian-Lam Tan, Jayaeswari Sangaralingam, Lau Pei Mey, Premalatha Karupiah, Chen-Kim Lim

This study presents a year-long vibration-based structural health monitoring (SHM) of the Swarnamukhi River Bridge and Bhakta Kannappa Sethu Bridge using a MEMS accelerometer integrated with a low-cost microcontroller system. The monthly dynamic response parameters of acceleration, displacement, frequency, and velocity were monitored from June 2024...

By K. Asha Latha, K. Narasimhulu

This study aimed to evaluate the impact of participatory urban planning on community well-being and quality of life. Urban planning is done to transform urban areas into sustainable cities with adequate open spaces and many features of smart cities. To achieve successful urban planning, active and involved participation of the stakeholders is neces...

By Ammar A Naji

In the current era of data-intensive applications, including OTT services, IoT, and autonomous systems, efficient image compression is indispensable in order to minimize bandwidth consumption while preserving visual quality. Conventional compression techniques frequently fail to satisfactorily balance compression ratios and the preservation of crit...

By K. Subba Reddy, R. Arshiya

This paper derives a novel direct model predictive based power controller (DMPPC) for renewable energy systems (RES) to address voltage fluctuations caused by varying power demands and renewable source outputs. This method utilizes the bi-directional DC-DC converter in the Battery Energy Storage (BES) System to level the renewable energy output, al...

By P. Sai Sampath Kumar, P. Suresh, D. Lenine

Background Mental health is regarded as the core component of a person's health. India has a burden of 2442 disability-adjusted life years per 100,000 population imputable to mental health disorders, according to the WHO. The age-standardized suicide rate is 21.1 per 100,000 population. The estimated economic cost of mental dis...

By Farida Virani, G. Amutha, M. Kotteeswaran, R. Priyadharshini, A. Narmadha, B. Kalaiyarasan, Arun Raaza