Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are one of the most exciting and challenging research areas. Sensor nodes (SNs) are generally deployed randomly from some flying base station (BS) in the deployment area, which may result uneven distribution of these static SNs. Besides these, they may be damaged because of natural calamities. In order to obtain the homogeneous distribution it is necessary to pro...

Social Media tools popularized the digital devices among masses making information dissemination easier and faster. Exchange of text is most popular effective means of communication across social media users. It has become necessity to process, understand the semantics of messages communicated as the messages have wide effect across the users. Event extraction refers to understanding the events...

I express heartfelt gratitude to all the members of Indian Psychiatric Society for bestowing upon me the responsibility of the office of the President of Indian Psychiatric Society. I believe your blessings and guidance will help me to do justice to the confidence reposed in me. I have pondered a lot to select the topic of the customary Presidential-address to be delivered on this auspicious oc...

At present the world is experiencing an extraordinary rate of urbanization. India is also in a major phase of urbanization. Almost all Indian cities have grown up beyond their limits. Thus, the ecological footprint, which is the ‘area of wilderness of both land and sea needed to supply resources to a human population and needed to assimilate human waste’ of these cities is at the warning stage....

Water contamination with harmful arsenic compounds represents one of the most serious calamities of the last two centuries. Natural occurrence of the toxic metal has been revealed recently for 21 countries worldwide; the risk of arsenic intoxication is particularly high in Bangladesh and India but recently also Europe is facing similar problem. Liquid membranes (LMs) look like a promising alter...

There are many and varied types of trauma. The extent to which trauma influences the mental health of an individual depends on the nature of trauma, as well as on the individual's coping capabilities. Often trauma is followed by depression, anxiety, and PTSD. As the pharmacological remedies for these conditions often have undesirable side-effects, nonpharmacological remedies are thought of as a...

A research study was conducted in Mashuru Division of Kajiado District, Kenya with the objective of analyzing the types of vegetation degradation, their causes and their influence on rangeland condition and trend. The study was conducted through remote sensing tools, ground truthing, interviews, community workshop and literature. The results of the study showed that excessive use of the woody s...

Social networking sites such as Flickr, YouTube, Facebook, etc. contain huge amount of usercontributed data for a variety of real-world events. These events can be some natural calamities such as earthquakes, floods, forest fires, etc. or some man-made hazards like riots. This work focuses on getting better knowledge about a natural hazard event using the data available from social networking s...

For the solution of a set equation (linear or non-linear) with n number (n > 1) of variables we need at least n number of different relations (called as rank). Our present work is showing how the bio-inspired Bacteria Foraging Optimization Algorithm (BFOA), which is mimicry of the life-cycle of common type of bacteria like E. Coli, can be used to solve such system of equation with rank less tha...

Recently natural disasters and man-made calamities happened very frequently in Taiwan, some of which caused hundreds of inhabitants died and injured. The most important thing that makes the emergency medical treatment system work effectively during these catastrophes is dependent on the accuracy and immediacy of the information among ambulances, hospitals, fire bureaus, public health bureaus or...