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...

Author(s): Ghulam Murtaza Lochi, Muhammad Ghias Uddin Shah, Muhammad Shuaib Khan, Jamil Ahmad Gandahi, Dildaar Husain Kalhorro, Sumera Ali Khan, Farooq Alam, Abdul Manan Khokar, Mubashir Hasan and Abdul Haseeb Danish

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...

Author(s): Fazl-e-Hadi, Abid Ali Minhas, Atif Naseer and Abdulaziz Almazyad, 

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...

Author(s): M. E. Palamuleni and A. S. Adebowale,

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...

Author(s): David O. Olukanni, Dominic E. Azuh, Tunde O. Toogun and Uchechukwu E. Okorie

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...

Author(s): S. Sathish Kumar and R. Amutha

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...

Author(s): Bayan M. Sabbar