This paper presents the work of the team of IIT (BHU) Varanasi for the IRMiDis track in FIRE 2017. The task involved classifying tweets posted during a disaster into those expressing need and availability of various types of resources, given some tweets from the Nepal 2015 earthquake. We submitted two runs, both of which were fully automatic.

1University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1901 East Road, Houston, TX 77054, USA 2Department of Biochemistry, Institute of Science, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh 221 005, India 3Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, 1214 Research Boulevard, Hummelstown, PA 17036, USA 4Institute of Bioresources and Sustainable Development (IBSD), Takyelpat Institutional Area, Imp...

1 Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, AAI-Deemed University, Allahabad, (UP), India. Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi (UP), India. Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering, B. S. A. College of Engineering & Technology, Mathura, India. Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, B. M. ...

a Institut für Botanik und Pharmazeutische Biologie, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität, Staudtstr. 5, D-91058 Erlangen, Germany b Mrigtrishna B32/605 Plot 214, Varanasi 221005, India c Institute for Computational Earth System Science (ICESS) and Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA d CIESIN, Columbia University, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive (MS-302...

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, U.K. 2 Department of Mineralogy, The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, U.K. 3 Department of Earth & Planetary Systems Science, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, HigashiHiroshima 739-8526, Japan Department of Geology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, 221005, India 5 Post Graduate Departme...

Phytochemical analysis and standardization of Strychnos nux-vomica extract through HPTLC techniques Dinesh Kumar Patel , Kanika Patel, B. Duraiswamy, S. P. Dhanabal Department of Pharmaceutics, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, India. J.S.S. College of Pharmacy, Ooty643 001, India. 3 G.L.A Institute of Pharmaceutical Research, Mathura, India Asian Pacific Journ...

Jitendra Mohan, Sudhanshu Maheshwari, Durg S. Chauhan Department of Electronics and Communications, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Solan, India Department of Electronics Engineering, Z. H. College of Engineering and Technology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India Department of Electrical Engineering, Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India E-mail: ...

Xinrong Li, Major Professor Murali R. Varanasi, Committee Member and Chair of the Department of Electrical Engineering Shengli Fu, Committee Member and Graduate Program Coordinator Kamesh Namuduri, Committee Member Costas Tsatsoulis, Dean of College of Engineering Michael Monticino, Dean of the Robert B. Toulouse School of Graduate Studies A STUDY OF ANTI-COLLISION MULTI-TAG IDENTIFICATION ALGO...

1 UNICEF/UNDP/World Bank/WHO Special Programme on Research & Training in Tropical Diseases (TDR), Geneva, Switzerland, 2 Centre for Tropical Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, 3 Methodology and Statistical Unit, Centre for Health Studies, CRP-Santé, Luxembourg, 4 Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India, 5 Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiat...

A 60% (W/W) simple ointment of Udumbar (Ficus glomeruta) was prepared. The cases of cervical erosion were selected from S.S. Hospital, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi. The ointment was applied in the form of tampon following electric cauterization and compared the results with the triples sulpha ointment. It showed 95% cure rate as against 85% of Triple sulpha ...