Innovative Smart appliances with an interactive approach and their consumers are growing exponentially. Smart refrigerators are such a prominent intelligent kitchenware and hence published studies on smart homes and smarter kitchen appliances have been around in recent years. Although published research is available on smart refrigerators which describe its use for managing items stored in it a...

SafeCap is an advisory system which operates as a layer above the fixed-block signalling in order to improve track capacity and the operational safety of junctions and stations. It does this through real-time control which projects the current state of the train configuration along with its set of commands into the future. Control software allows the traffic to be quickly stabilised should ther...

Software quality assurance is a planned and systematic approach to ensure that software processes and products confirms to the established standards, processes, and procedures. The goals of software quality assurance are to improve software quality by appropriately monitoring both software and the development process to ensure full compliance with the established standards and procedures. There...

The National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel has updated the definition of a pressure ulcer and the stages of pressure ulcers based on current research and expert opinion solicited from hundreds of clinicians, educators, and researchers across the country. The amount of anatomical tissue loss described with each stage has not changed. New definitions were drafted to achieve accuracy, clarity, suc...

With the increased performance capabilities of desktop computers, networked computing has become a popular vehicle for using parallelism to solve a variety of computationally intense problems. However, node heterogeneity and high communication costs may limit performance unless the problem space is carefully partitioned across the network in a way that considers both the capabilities of the mac...

The Indo-UK Advanced Technology Centre of Excellence in Next Generation Networks, Systems and Services (IUATC) is trying to address the future challenges identified by the UK Government under the Digital Economy Theme and the Department of Science and Technology in India. One such area in rural India where Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) networks can have a major impact is Agri...