28 research outputs found
Operations on Intuitionisitc Fuzzy Soft Sets Based on First Zadeh's Logical Operators
No full textIn this paper, we have defined First Zadeh's intuitionistic fuzzy conjunction and intuitionistic fuzzy disjunction of two intuitionistic fuzzy soft sets. The author also defined some of their basic properties of intuitionistic fuzzy disjunction and conjunction with some examples. Nithya. A "Operations on Intuitionisitc Fuzzy Soft Sets Based on First Zadeh's Logical Operators" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-3 | Issue-1 , December 2018, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd18986.pd
Erratum: SDCF: A software-defined cyber foraging framework for cloudlet environment,” IEEE Trans. Netw. Service Manag. (2020) 17:4 (2423–2435) DOI: 10.1109/TNSM.2020.3015657)
No full textIn the above article [1], the corresponding author was incorrectly identified. The corresponding author is the first author, S. Nithya
Mediating roles of food availability and parental role-modeling on the socioeconomic inequalities of children’s diet
No full textThe socioeconomic status (SES) of the family is associated with the food consumption of the children and this association is mediated by different mediators. This study had two aims; firstly, to determine the associations between the determinants of SES and children’s food consumption, secondly to assess the mediating effects of food availability and parental role-modeling of the above associations.
Parental educational level and relative income of the family were studied as the determinants of SES. Children’s food consumption was measured under two categories; fruits & vegetables (FV) and sugary food & drinks (SFD). Data was obtained from the baseline data collection of the DAGIS intervention study in 2017 which was conducted in 32 preschools in Salo (N=29) and Riihimäki (N=3). A FFQ filled by the parents was used to determine children’s food consumption. Information on parental educational level, family income, food availability, and parental role-modeling was extracted from the self-administered parental questionnaire. Parents of 698 preschool children aged from 3 to 6 years filled the parental questionnaire. Spearman’s correlations tests were conducted to determine the associations between SES determinants and children’s food consumption. Mediating roles of food availability and parental role-modeling were assessed through mediation analysis using PROCESS version 3 macro for SPSS.
Parental educational level was a statistically significant predictor of children's FV consumption. Family relative income did not predict FV or SFD consumption of the children. The multiple mediators model revealed that the association between the parental educational level and children’s consumption of FV was partially mediated by three mediators: the availability of FV, parental role-modeling of FV, and the availability of SFD. The association between the relative income of the family and children's consumption of FV was fully mediated by two mediators: home availability of FV, and parental role-modeling of FV.
This study suggested parental educational level is a better predictor of children’s food consumption compared to family income. The mediation roles of food availability and parental role-modeling should be taken into account in developing interventions to improve the FV and SFD consumption of children in Finland
Partition Studies Of Betalains in Aqueous Two Phase Systems
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Isolation and Characterization of Lipolytic and Proteolytic Lactic Acid Bacteria with Antibacterial Properties from Fish Industry Wastes
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Does Outward Foreign Direct Investment Reduce Domestic Investment?: An Industry-Level Analysis
No full textWith the rise of globalisation, countries have become more connected financially and global cross-border investment flows have become more common. FDI is an important form of cross-border flow which is responsible for the spread of technology across countries and is the main source of external finance for emerging countries. In the last two decades, FDI has increased tremendously. But this has been accompanied by fears about outward FDI taking away production activities and jobs away from the home country. I look at how outward FDI affects home country investment. One can intuitively understand that a dollar of money spent abroad means a dollar less to invest in the domestic economy. Based on the theory of the financially constrained firm, I hypothesize that outward FDI reduces domestic fixed capital investment and R&D spending. I also develop a theoretical framework to distinguish the varying effects of outward FDI on domestic investment across traditional and R&D-intensive industries.By using industry-level panel data for 18 OECD countries covering the period 1995-2009, I regressed the shares of Gross Fixed Capital Formation (GFCF) and R&D spending separately on the share of outward FDI both for all industries as well as specifically for traditional and R&D-intensive industries. While, outward FDI had a negative effect on domestic capital investments at the aggregate level, it did not have any significant effect while looking at specific industry types. This could be because of the reduced sample size in the individual types. Outward FDI had a negative effect on domestic R&D spending at the aggregate level and for R&D-intensive industries, but it had a positive effect for traditional industries. Thus, while fears about outward FDI taking away domestic fixed capital investments are valid, outward FDI can have both a positive and negative effect on R&D expenditure, depending on the type of industry. These results can help MNCs make strategic investment decisions taking into account their effect on their home country industry. It can also help policymakers formulate tax and industrial policies to promote home country investments.Management of Technology (MoT
Analysis of distribution of DNA methylation in kidney-renal-clear-cell-carcinoma specific genes using entropy
No full textAbstractDNA Methylation is an epigenetic phenomenon in which methyl groups are added to the cytosines, thereby altering the physio-chemical properties of the DNA region and influencing gene expression. Aberrant DNA methylation in a set of genes or across the genome results in many epigenetic diseases including cancer. In this paper, we use entropy to analyze the extent and distribution of DNA methylation in Tumor Suppressor Genes (TSG's) and Oncogenes related to a specific type of cancer (viz.) KIRC (Kidney-renal-clear-cell-carcinoma). We apply various mathematical transformations to enhance the different regions in DNA methylation distribution and compare the resultant entropies for healthy and tumor samples. We also obtain the sensitivity and specificity of classification for the different mathematical transformations. Our findings show that it is not just the measure of methylation, but the distribution of the methylation levels in the genes that are significant in cancer
Isolation of Methionine Enriched Fraction from Sunflower Protein.
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Where AES is for Internet, SIMON could be for IoT
No full textAbstractWith the upcoming era of Internet of Things and the Pervasive Computing, there is a need to develop block ciphers with tight constraints such as area, power, memory, performance, throughput and others. These are so called the lightweight block ciphers which are specifically intended for resource constrained platforms. Lined up in the line is SIMON, a light weight block cipher proposed by NSA after the prompting from the U.S. Government in the year 2013 along with SPECK lightweight block cipher. SIMON implementation on hardware has excellent results in terms of area and has been found to be a very strong alternative to the existing AES. This paper involves the basic design considerations, round functions, key schedule and parameters of SIMON and also we can look forward into the implementations of SIMON in hardware comparing with the existing AES standard. This paper also focuses on the analysis in terms of area, power and delay of the SIMON 64/128 configuration in Cadence Synthesis RTL Compiler using the CMOS 180 nm and 90 nm technology libraries
Parental self-efficacy, parental restrictions and young children's food consumption : does socio-economic status play a role?
No full textCompared with ample evidence on the influence of the home food environment on children's food consumption, associations between certain aspects of the social home food environment (such as parental self-efficacy (PSE) and parental restrictions) and young children's food consumption are less studied. Our aims were 1) to investigate the associations among feeding-related PSE, sugary food and drink (SFD)-related parental restrictions, and children's food consumption, and 2) to determine whether socio-economic factors (parental education level and household relative income) moderate them. We used cross-sectional data from 564 Finnish 3- to 6-year-olds participating in the DAGIS study. Parents completed a questionnaire assessing the home food environment and socio-economic status and a food frequency questionnaire assessing children's food consumption. Principal component analysis was used to identify SFD-related parental restriction patterns. We calculated a children's Healthy Food Intake Index (HFII) using food frequency data. We regressed the associations among feeding-related PSE and SFD-related parental restriction patterns in single and multiple regression models. Moderation by parental education level and household relative income was also tested. We identified three SFD-related parenting practice patterns: restricting SFD consumption, restricting SFD accessibility, and restricting SFD availability. Feeding-related PSE (B = 0.88, p < 0.001) and restricting SFD availability (B = 0.46, p < 0.001) were significantly associated with the children's HFII after adjusting the model for socio-economic factors. Parental education level or household relative income did not moderate any of these associations. Future health promotion interventions should target enhancing feeding-related PSE and restricting SFD availability to improve children's food consumption despite socio-economic status.Peer reviewe
