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Review on prediction of heart disease using data mining

The heart is the next major organ comparing to the brain which has more priority in the Human body. Prediction of occurrences of heart diseases in the medical field is significant work. Data analytics is useful for prediction from more information and it helps medical centers to predict various diseases. A huge amount of patient-related data is maintained monthly. The stored data can be useful for the source of predicting the occurrence of future disease. Some of the data mining and machine learning techniques are used to predict heart disease, such as Artificial Neural Network (ANN), Decision tree, K-Nearest Neighbor(KNN), Naïve Bayes and Support Vector Machine (SVM). This paper provides an insight into the existing algorithm and it gives an overall summary of the existing work.

Published by: Siddharth Mundra, Kiran Manjrekar, Nimit Lalwani, Nilesh Rathod

Author: Siddharth Mundra

Paper ID: V5I6-1152

Paper Status: published

Published: November 8, 2019

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Research Paper

The influence of social media tools on public universities in Kenya

Students in public universities are among the most active users of social media tools and platforms. There is little research data on the influence of social media on public universities in Kenya. It is critical to study how social media affects the wellbeing and academics of public university students in Kenya. The objective is to determine the influence of social media on public universities in Kenya. The research utilized a qualitative research design facilitated by a systematic literature review methodology. Findings from 12 studies were comparatively analyzed to determine the degree of conformity in a bid to answer the research question. The findings included that the influence of social media on a student’s wellbeing and academics depends on the student’s engagement in social media activities and consumption of the corresponding content. Social media can be an educational resource, enhance engagement, communication, and participation in classroom activities, and improve professional networking. Social media can also be a source of distraction and cybercrime besides the fact that it can also lead to addiction. The influence of social media on public universities in Kenya depends on the students’ engagement with social media activities and content. Educators, higher education administrators, and parents should monitor and control how students use social media content.

Published by: Annette Munyiva, John Simiyu, Jackson Too

Author: Annette Munyiva

Paper ID: V5I6-1151

Paper Status: published

Published: November 8, 2019

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Comprehensive study of software testing: Categories, levels, techniques, and types

Software Testing is the process of evaluating a software program to ensure that it performs its intended purpose. Software testing verifies the safety, reliability, and correct working of the software. The growing need for quality software makes software testing a crucial stage in Software Development Lifecycle. There are many methods of testing software, however, the choice of method to test a given software remains a major problem in software testing. Although, it is often impossible to find all errors in software, employing the right combination of methods will make software testing efficient and successful. Knowing these software testing methods is the key to making the right selection. This paper presents a comprehensive study of software testing methods. An explanation of Testing Categories was presented first, followed by Testing Levels (and their comparison), then Testing Techniques (and their comparison). For each Testing Levels and Testing Techniques, examples of some testing types and their pros and cons were given with a brief explanation of some of the important testing types. Furthermore, a clear and distinguishable explanation of two confused and contradictory terms (Verification and Validation) and how they relate to Software Quality was provided.

Published by: Mubarak Albarka Umar

Author: Mubarak Albarka Umar

Paper ID: V5I6-1154

Paper Status: published

Published: November 7, 2019

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Performance analysis of 1.6 Tbps Optical Code Division Multiple Access system using Multi-Diagonal Code

The rapid expansion of multimedia services could lead to improve network accessibility with multiple users simultaneously. The technological development in asynchronous communication considered system performance as one of the major issues. Simultaneous accessing of the channel from the multiple stations is one of the techniques. Traditionally multiple access for the channel is playing an important role in multiple asynchronies communication. Optical Code Division Multiple Access (OCDMA) is one of the advanced techniques used in accessing the asynchronous network due to its inherent capability. OCDMA provides dynamic bandwidth support for multimedia services. In this paper, the OCDMA system is designing using Multi Diagonal (MD) code and Direct Detection (DD) code to improve the Bit Error Rate (BER), Q-factor. The designed system is used to compare with the MD code and Modified Congruence Quadratic (MCQ) code to determine the performance improvement for multiple users.

Published by: Bharath Kumara, Deelip R.

Author: Bharath Kumara

Paper ID: V5I6-1153

Paper Status: published

Published: November 6, 2019

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Research Paper

IR based image processing techniques for media applications

A compression artifact (or artefact) is a noticeable distortion of media that includes images, audio and video caused by the application of lossy data compression that involves discarding some of the media's data so that it becomes simplified enough to be stored within the desired disk space or be streamed within the bandwidth limitations. At low bit rates, any lossy block-based coding scheme introduces visible artifacts in pixel blocks and at block boundaries. These boundaries can be transforming block boundaries, prediction block boundaries, or both, and may coincide with macroblock boundaries. Because this quantization process is applied individually in each block, neighboring blocks quantize coefficients differently. This leads to discontinuities at the block boundaries. These are most visible in flat areas, where there is little detail to mask the effect.

Published by: Shalu Rana, Ramanjot Kaur

Author: Shalu Rana

Paper ID: V5I6-1149

Paper Status: published

Published: November 5, 2019

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Review Paper

A review paper: Image Processing of IR images

Infrared imaging takes the temperature division of the human body exterior and is currently employed in a variety of medical relevance. In the earlier days, Image processing was prepared by painters and photographs and also done manually. This Image processing is the sculpture of filling lose piece of the entity in image. The processing is used to make over the lost piece of absent division inside the image in order to look reasonable in all way to the human eye. There have been several approaches proposed for the same. This paper proposes the best method to find the nearest neighbor to balance the resultant and the method that is proposed would be iterative. Our main motive is based on that we'll process the cracked or fracted part of image and enhance its quality so that would help us in medical and other fields.

Published by: Shalu Rana, Ramanjot Kaur

Author: Shalu Rana

Paper ID: V5I5-1337

Paper Status: published

Published: November 5, 2019

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