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Data availability on men's involvement in families in sub-Saharan Africa to inform family-centred programmes for children affected by HIV and AIDS
No full textThe Joint Learning Initiative on Children and AIDS recently recommended that programmes for children affected by HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa direct more support to families. Interest has grown in including men in such family-orientated interventions by researchers, policy makers, and community and non-governmental organizations. However, there is a lack of good quality data on men's involvement with children in the diverse settings in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition, limited research has examined their role in providing emotional, material support and protection for HIV- and AIDS-affected children and families.In this paper, we describe the availability of data about men and families, in particular fathers, in ongoing sub-Saharan African surveys and longitudinal population cohorts. We discuss the conceptual and measurement issues associated with data collection on men's involvement in these types of studies. We consider the opportunities for improving the collection of data about men and families in household surveys and population cohorts in order to inform the design and evaluation of family-centred interventions for children affected by HIV and AID
Sideffective-system to mine patient reviews: side effect extraction
No full textSideffective is the system to crawl, rank and analyze patient testimonials about side effects from common medications. Since the wealth of any mining model is the Data corpus, the data collection phase involved extensive crawling of massive medical websites comprised of user forums from the internet. Subsequently, the raw files were subjected to certain site-specific parsing routines, yielding outputs conforming to a well-defined data model. Currently, the system holds close to 400,000 user testimonials pertaining to more than 2500 drugs/medicines. Sideffective aims at gathering and aggregating this wealth of information, build useful associations and present interesting observations and numeric validations, all in a user-friendly interface. The important issues that we have tried to tackle are: Extracting side effects without relying on pre-built lists, aggregating distribution of different side effect for a give drug, site-specific search, ranking and determining the negativity of reviews. The main focus of this thesis undertaking is Extraction & Discovery of Side effect from a users review about a drug. Apache Lucene's Shingle Analyzer, which extracts terms and their frequency, was used to generate more than 7 million phrases out of which the top 25,000 terms, with frequencies more than 100 was chosen for discovering side effects. After eliminating the syntactically incorrect phrases, our method calculates the frequency of occurrence of each of the terms in a medical websites domain versus a purely non-medical user websites domain, which proves to be highly effective in extracting side effects. Using this technique, more than 600 unique side effects reported by users has been discovered without using any fixed lists. This list extracted is also used to mine and summarize patients reviews. The aggregation and distribution tables we built, effectively determine top reactions exhibited by various drugs and reverse mapping of the same, demonstrating the symptom to drug associations. Our system also eliminates synonymous side effects as well as cures falsely appearing as a possible side effect.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Sangeetha Rajagopala
CADD: Context Awareness For Distraction-Free Driving, system design and implementation
No full textSmart phones have extended the capability of a phone from "texting and calling" to a whole new dimension of context-awareness with the capabilities of on-device sensors. This is particularly useful in providing context-adaptive user-centric automated services, which is emerging as an area of much current research interest. In this work, we present the system design aspects pertaining to Context Awareness for Distraction-free Driving (CADD) system, a realization of context awareness and context-aware automated services, designed to mitigate in-vehicle distraction caused by cell phones. Context awareness in this work refers to the state of the user: Driving or Available. This state is detected using a Bluetooth and GPS sensor based scheme on the device. Along with the end to end system design, our focus has been on reducing latency, enabling privacy driven data sharing and attaining reliability, aimed at optimization of automated services. The design exploits the Google Cloud to Device Messaging framework and Amazon Web Services to enable efficient communication between clients and allow scaling to large numbers of users. For critical services as context updates, we have improved the reliability from a success rate less than 50% to greater than 90%, by introducing triple re-transmissions and network connectivity monitored re-tries for intermittently connected devices. Further, we have tested both GPS based and Network based updates for location services. By using an algorithm that combines both GPS and Network based updates, we have reduced the latency of obtaining the first location fix from a few seconds (> 4seconds) to less than a second (~500-800msec) with a deviation in path limited to 500-1000m. This scheme also improved performance with in-door locations where GPS-based updates fail. To address the location related privacy concerns, our design maintains no location history information and utilizes proximity metrics namely time and distance, as opposed to plainly exposing the geo-location of users on maps. Further, we have also designed the user interfaces iteratively based on feedback from test users. The user interface has been optimized to keep the depth of navigation to be less than 4 (measured as the number of clicks or the screens navigated to complete one service).M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Sangeetha Siddegowd
sj-docx-1-pie-10.1177_09544089221131157 - Supplemental material for Electroosmotic effect on two immiscible (conducting–non-conducting) fluids flowing in the porous channel under magnetic field
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-pie-10.1177_09544089221131157 for Electroosmotic effect on two immiscible (conducting–non-conducting) fluids flowing in the porous channel under magnetic field by Ramasamy Ponalagusamy and Jaganmohan Sangeetha in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering</p
PCI Shared Data
No full textData underlying the results of the manuscript, Cleland, Brice Thomas PhDa; Madhavan, Sangeetha PT, PhDa. The association of interlimb coordination and temporal symmetry with walking function and motor impairment after stroke. American Journal of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation ():10.1097/PHM.0000000000002522, May 6, 2024. | DOI: 10.1097/PHM.0000000000002522 </p
The R<sub>10</sub>Pd<sub>21</sub> compounds (R = Y, Pr, Nd, Sm, Gd–Lu). Crystal structure and magnetism of the ‘RPd<sub>2</sub>’ phases
No full textThe unknown RPd2, for many years expected to be a simple Laves phase, is actually a much more complex compound with stoichiometry R10Pd21.</p
sj-pdf-1-ino-10.1177_17557380231153899 - Supplemental material for Teaching primary care theory to promote general practice among medical students
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ino-10.1177_17557380231153899 for Teaching primary care theory to promote general practice among medical students by Dr Maxwell Cooper, Dr Jason Heath, Dr Carl Fernandes, Dr Sangeetha Sornalingam and Dr Menaka Jegatheesan in InnovAiT</p
sj-pdf-1-ino-10.1177_17557380221093654 - Supplemental material for Consultation dynamics and strategies: The Brighton guide
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-ino-10.1177_17557380221093654 for Consultation dynamics and strategies: The Brighton guide by Dr Maxwell Cooper Dr Sangeetha Sornalingam Dr Jason Heath Dr Carl Fernandes Dr Menaka Jegatheesan in InnovAiT</p
Supplementary_file_1_QHR – Supplemental material for Intensive Triangulation of Qualitative Research and Quantitative Data to Improve Recruitment to Randomized Trials: The QuinteT Approach
No full textSupplemental material, Supplementary_file_1_QHR for Intensive Triangulation of Qualitative Research and Quantitative Data to Improve Recruitment to Randomized Trials: The QuinteT Approach by Leila Rooshenas, Sangeetha Paramasivan, Marcus Jepson and Jenny L. Donovan in Qualitative Health Research</p
Tetranychus zaheri Nassar & Ghai 1981
No full text135. <i>Tetranychus zaheri</i> Nassar & Ghai, 1981 <p> <i>Tetranychus zaheri</i> Nassar & Ghai, 1981: 373.</p> <p> <b>Type host</b> – <i>Phaseolus vulgaris</i>.</p> <p> <b>Type locality</b> – India.</p> <p> <b>Distribution</b> – Delhi and Karnataka.</p>Published as part of <i>Chalil, Suada Poolayulla, Kunnathattil, Maneesha, Kaimal, Sangeetha G. & Punathil, Thejass, 2024, A checklist of spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae) of India, pp. 29-75 in Persian Journal of Acarology 13 (1)</i> on page 63, DOI: 10.22073/pja.v13i1.78022, <a href="http://zenodo.org/record/10943449">http://zenodo.org/record/10943449</a>
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