May 2014
Management and welfare needs of donkeys in the rural areas of Noushahro Feroze, Pakistan
In this study a concise review was provided, discussing the management of donkeys in the rural area of Naushahro Feroze Sindh Pakistan. In this area donkeys are commonly used for the transport ion of clay bricks, mud, and grain for grinding, manure from pens to field, crop harvests from fields to stores and market places, crop residues from fields to homesteads for storage, plowing and weeding, and it also as a means of...
May 2014
Secure anycast routing in wireless mesh networks
Wireless Mesh Networks (WMNs) are the hybrid networks having fixed infrastructure of gateways to provide the Internet connectivity to its fixed or mobile clients. It has redundant links to provide reliable communication. Anycast is an important service for the group communication. Field based routing is getting popularity due to its robustness and simplicity. In this paper, we have studies on the security issues for the...
May 2014
Patterns of premarital childbearing among unmarried female youths in sub-Saharan Africa: Evidence from demographic health survey
Premarital childbearing (PC) among young women remains a problem in Africa. Victims are often stigmatized, neglected and their socio-economic advancement in life is compromised. There is dearth of information on patterns of PC among unmarried female youths (UFY) in sub-Saharan Africa. The objectives of the study are to explore the patterns and differentials in the levels of PC in sub-Saharan Africa. It also identifies...
May 2014
Medical waste management practices among selected health-care facilities in Nigeria: A case study
Inappropriate medical waste (MW) management practices have become one of the major concerns in developing countries. The objectives of this study are to appraise the procedures and techniques available in collection and segregation of MW, treatment and recycling processes, disposal practices and compliances with rules and regulations in the Health-care Facilities (HCFs) in Ota, South West Nigeria. The HCFs visited...
May 2014
Automated classification of coronary artery disease using discrete wavelet transform and back propagation neural network
An automated classification of coronary artery disease using discrete wavelet watershed transform and back propagation neural network has been proposed which basically segments the blood vessels of the coronary angiogram image as a first step, which in turn involves various stages such as pre-processing, image enhancement, and segmentation using discrete wavelet transform and watershed transform along with...
May 2014
Generation and simulation of new transmission control protocol (TCP) agent over network simulator 2 (NS-2) platforms
Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is the most popular protocol used over the wired and wireless networks, and it still has a practical problem where the congestion control mechanism does not permit the data stream to get complete bandwidth over the existing network links. To solve this problem, many TCP protocols have been introduced with high speed performance. The work provided in this article is based on using the...
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