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Antibiotic Prophylaxis before dental procedures in patients at risk of Bacterial Endocarditis, a review article

Several studies show that dental procedures especially in case of gingivitis, peri-apical lesions and periodontitis with inflamed periodontal tissues or infected pocket epithelium surrounding the teeth may be a cause of bacterial invasion through the bloodstream and resulting in Infective endocarditis which is a severe disease that may affect the heart valves or the endocardium. The most common bacteria responsible for bacterial endocarditis are alpha-hemolytic streptococci like Streptococcus viridians but oral pathogens like Eikenella corrodens, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, Capnocytophaga, and Lactobacillus species can cause bacterial endocarditis. In this review, we searched the United States National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health (PubMed) to make out all articles that included the terms endocarditic, prophylaxis, oral or dental in the title. Several published sources of information relating to dental procedures, bacteremia, and infective endocarditis were reviewed. This review is focused on the patients that need prophylactic antibiotics and the recommended antibiotics for adults and children for dental procedures in which the prophylaxis is necessary. Antibiotic prophylaxis is indicated for patients with prosthetic cardiac valve, history of infective endocarditis, distinct Congenital Heart Diseases (CHD) and Cardiac transplant recipients with cardiac valvular disease. The most important pathogen responsible for endocarditis during dental procedures is S viridans (alpha-hemolytic streptococci). Antibiotic regimens for endocarditis prophylaxis are used against S viricians, and the recommended standard prophylactic regimen is a single dose of oral amoxicillin. For patients with high cardiac risk, antibiotic prophylaxis is recommended for all dental procedures like manipulation of gingival tissue or the periapical area of teeth or perforation of the oral mucosa.

Published by: Ali Forouzanfar, Hamideh Sadat Mohammadipour, Lohrasb Dehghani

Author: Ali Forouzanfar

Paper ID: V5I2-1371

Paper Status: published

Published: March 23, 2019

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Automatic Waste Management

With an increase in population, the situation of cleanliness with relevancy garbage management is degrading hugely. The overflow of garbage publicly areas creates unhealthful condition within the surroundings. It is going to unfold many serious diseases amongst the folks living close. It conjointly degrades the valuation of the realm. To avoid this and to boost the improvement, Garbage Management System is projected during this paper. This paper presents a system to spot a garbage full condition which is able to be set by sensors (weight and level) during a timely manner and to alert the area |room} concerning constant. The role of the room is to seek out the current standing of auto and to send the SMS to the motive force alongside garbage container’s position. the motive force would then attend a given location and collect the rubbish. With the assistance of the system, we are able to offer an answer to this problem in Garbage Management System.

Published by: Manisha Rawal, Asha Sale, Mohammad Sayed, Rohan Mishra, Hrishikesh Kagde

Author: Manisha Rawal

Paper ID: V5I2-1436

Paper Status: published

Published: March 23, 2019

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Agricultural mapping and statistical analysis of Thanjavur district using remote sensing and GIS

Mapping and analyzing the agricultural lands using remote sensing and GIS technique is faster and cost-effective compared to conventional site verification method. Thanjavur is a district in Tamil Nadu which rich in agriculture. It is a lower riparian of Cauvery river. It is rich in alluvial soil, but its crop production is falling due to urbanization and water insufficiency. Failure of monsoon and insufficient river water are also major reasons. Since agricultural lands are depleting, the cost of agricultural products is increasing. LANDSAT 7 imagery is processed using ARC MAP 10.4 and classified using ERDAS IMAGINE 2014. By analyzing the results obtained through the process for decade 2009-2018 we concluded the percentage in area change for agricultural lands with crops and without crops, barren lands, urban areas, and water bodies. The study is to determine the drop in agricultural lands and its causes.

Published by: Thangaperumal S., T. Velan, J. Gnana Jeeva

Author: Thangaperumal S.

Paper ID: V5I2-1428

Paper Status: published

Published: March 23, 2019

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IoT based crack and pollution detection using Raspberry pi

The IoT integrate heterogeneous end system, which provides open access to a large selected set of information for the advancement of digital service. To surveil the safety of high rise buildings and the small deform of surroundings by contaminants are a pivotal task. We should ensure the fire safety, safety from excessive loads, vibrations, etc…. and it is essential to observe the strength of the clear-cut constructions in the event of infrastructures and we should ensure the environmental changes around us because of natural changes in the habitat. In recent years, a major consideration should be given to framework health monitoring technology to Diagnose condition of the framework using a sensor attached to them, and the number of research projects on the health monitoring of architectural structures is on the rise. If life-cycle cost is to be reduced for the building from fabrication to sustainment, much attention should be given to strength of the building. The detecting issues on the crack and pollution in the buildings play a major role in our project. Cracks can significantly increase the rate of gas and liquid transport into a structure. Although there is a general awareness that cracking can be caused when the building is not that much strength to face external issues. The cause of the cracking is important as it may have profound implications on the crack morphology, which can greatly influence the relative contribution to transport and the subsequent impact on overall performance. Prevention is better than cure, we need to be alert before the pollution level crosses the safer limits and to monitor the building before the arrival of distracts.

Published by: Jayachitra R., Kanusiya Devi T., Johned Blessy J., Harihara Sudan K., M. Vivekkumar

Author: Jayachitra R.

Paper ID: V5I2-1362

Paper Status: published

Published: March 23, 2019

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Land use and land cover change detection for Velachery using remote sensing and GIS techniques

The knowledge of land use/land cover changes is very important in understanding natural resources, their utilization, conservation, and management. Though urban growth is seen to be a worldwide phenomenon, in countries like India the rate of urbanization is very fast. India possessed a number of fast-growing cities. This paper presents the land use/land cover changes that have taken place in Velachery, from 2008 to 2018. To classify the urban land use and land cover supervised classification method has been employed. The GIS is used to prepare the different layers belonging to various land uses identified from remotely sensed data. The land use and land cover classification maps were prepared through Remote sensing and GIS technology. Nowadays in the analysis of temporal data at the district and city level, Remote sensing and Geographical Information System have gained great importance as vital tools in the analysis process. The results indicate that there was a significant increase in the built-up land decrease in the vegetation.

Published by: S. Thangaperumal, S. Aishwarya, H. Gowsalya

Author: S. Thangaperumal

Paper ID: V5I2-1397

Paper Status: published

Published: March 23, 2019

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Luminance-chrominance-gradient high dynamic range imaging with improved bitonic filter tone mapping technique

In this paper, we will discuss a new process for High-Dynamic-Range Imaging. In contrast to the traditional method, we are processing the High-Dynamic-Range imaging process in luminance-chrominance-gradient space rather than RGB space. The main motive is to get the more efficient technique and also to avoid color-distortion generating from three different color channels. We introduced a camera responsive function for luminance channel so that we can find out the HDR luminance. On the other hand, for chrominance channels, we introduced weighting in relation to the saturation level. Our technique produces more natural tone-mapped images with more information. Once the luminance, chrominance, and gradient values are extracted from the image, based on logarithmic of the luminance value, the tone mapping technique approximates the appearance of the HDR image. In local tone mapping, there is a detail loss, artifact and higher computation time because of the tone mapping technique. To increase the image quality and to increase the performance of tone mapping is the main idea of the research. Improved Bitonic Tone Mapping (IBTM) is a new technique proposed for efficient tone mapping. In this method, edges have high weights than flat surfaces and a weight factor is added to the bitonic filter. When compared to different tones mapping algorithms like Reinhard, Drago, Exposure, and Gamma, Local adoption etc. shows that from the proposed technique we can achieve higher performance.

Published by: Ravi Teja Sankuratri, B. Ravi Kiran, Mohan Teja Chitturi, Pavan Kumar Rudhramahanti, Samhita Revu

Author: Ravi Teja Sankuratri

Paper ID: V5I2-1439

Paper Status: published

Published: March 22, 2019

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