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Papers by Manish Joshi

ArXiv, 2015

Analysis and prediction of network traffic has applications in wide comprehensive set of areas an... more Analysis and prediction of network traffic has applications in wide comprehensive set of areas and has newly attracted significant number of studies. Different kinds of experiments are conducted and summarized to identify various problems in existing computer network applications. Network traffic analysis and prediction is a proactive approach to ensure secure, reliable and qualitative network communication. Various techniques are proposed and experimented for analyzing network traffic including neural network based techniques to data mining techniques. Similarly, various Linear and non-linear models are proposed for network traffic prediction. Several interesting combinations of network analysis and prediction techniques are implemented to attain efficient and effective results. This paper presents a survey on various such network analysis and traffic prediction techniques. The uniqueness and rules of previous studies are investigated. Moreover, various accomplished areas of analys...

We explore the use of fractal compression using ICA for the coding of color images, considering t... more We explore the use of fractal compression using ICA for the coding of color images, considering the proximity to dissimilar scales. The philosophy suggested by Jacquien is really versatile, which allows us to improve the various phases associated with related figure. We note that the selection of the objectivity used to evaluate the own-equivalence between a square range R and a square range detected R is fundamental for the estimation. Believe it or not, the choice of estimate chooses the perfect parameters of relative change. In our valuation, we assume the imperialist theory and take a look at their shows. We have also developed a direct rapid detangling plan, significant for irrefutable utilization. Given article monitors the alteration of fractal compression estimation to color imaging evaluations using DCT and ICA. We have assess the performance of proposed algorithm on some picture databases (color images). An evaluation with JPEG evaluation represents significant progress to...

Karnataka Anaesthesia Journal, 2016

We describe a patient with postpoliomyelitis residual paralysis with thoracolumbar kyphoscoliosis... more We describe a patient with postpoliomyelitis residual paralysis with thoracolumbar kyphoscoliosis who presented for an emergency endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and interval laparoscopic cholecystectomy. This case report emphasizes on the adequate perioperative optimization and the meticulous anesthetic management of a long-standing kyphoscoliotic patient with respiratory compromise.

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 2014

Environmental Earth Sciences, 2015

Measurement of radium (226 Ra) and thorium (232 Th) content, and exhalation rate of radon (222 Rn... more Measurement of radium (226 Ra) and thorium (232 Th) content, and exhalation rate of radon (222 Rn) and thoron (220 Rn) from soil and building materials are important in the context of modeling indoor radon and thoron concentration. In this study, exhalation rates of radon and thoron from commonly used building materials in India were measured using active measurement techniques. Also the activity concentrations of 226 Ra, 232 Th and potassium (40 K) in building materials were measured by HPGe gamma spectrometric technique. The activity concentration of 226 Ra, 232 Th and 40 K varied from 16.4 ± 4.4 to 114.7 ± 3.4, 13.3 ± 1.5 to 153.9 ± 16.6 and below detection limit to 1,007 ± 40 Bq/kg with arithmetic mean 40.3, 61.9 and 822 Bq/kg, respectively, for the examined building material samples. The radon exhalation rates from the building materials varied from 0.5 ± 0.01 to 62.9 ± 12.5 mBq/kg/h for powder samples, 73 ± 5 to 6,000 ± 310 mBq/m 2 /h for structural building materials while the thoron exhalation rates varied from 0.07 ± 0.27 to 15.03 ± 2.1 mBq/kg/h for samples in powder form. Radium equivalent activity calculated for coarse aggregate and brick powder samples ranged between 73 and 343 Bq/ kg.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010

Abstract. With the gaining popularity of rough clustering, soft com-puting research community is ... more Abstract. With the gaining popularity of rough clustering, soft com-puting research community is studying relationships between rough and fuzzy clustering as well as their relative advantages. Both rough and fuzzy clustering are less restrictive than conventional ...

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009

Researchers have proposed several Genetic Algorithms (GA) based clustering algorithms for crisp a... more Researchers have proposed several Genetic Algorithms (GA) based clustering algorithms for crisp and rough clustering. In this two part series of papers, we compare the effect of GA optimization on resulting cluster quality of K-means, GA K-means, rough K-means, GA rough K-means and GA rough K-medoid algorithms. In this first part, we present the theoretical foundation of the transformation of the crisp clustering K-means and K-medoid algorithms into rough and evolutionary clustering algorithms. The second part of the paper will present experiments with a real world data set, and a standard data set.

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009

... Presentations by Vijay Raghavan (USA), Sush-mita Mitra (India), Sonajharia Minz (India), Pawa... more ... Presentations by Vijay Raghavan (USA), Sush-mita Mitra (India), Sonajharia Minz (India), Pawan Lingras (Canada), Dominik Ślęzak (Poland), Yiyu Yao (Canada), and Georg Peters (Germany) described fundamental rough set concepts, as well as their usage in academic ...

CHEST Journal, 2013

INTRODUCTION: Mycobacterium Scrofulaceum is a non tuberculous acid fast scotocromogen with its re... more INTRODUCTION: Mycobacterium Scrofulaceum is a non tuberculous acid fast scotocromogen with its reservoir in the soil and water. It usually causes cervical lymphadenopathy in children and lung parenchymal infections in immunocompromised hosts, especially with Interferon gamma deficiency. Pulmonary infection with mycobacterium scrofulaceum is uncommon in immunocompetent hosts and thus no treatment guidelines exist to treat these infections(1). We present two cases of mycobacterium scrofulaceum infection in immunocompetent hosts who were successfully treated.

American Journal of Transplantation, 2003

The cellular and molecular mechanisms of cold storage-ATN are not well characterized. In our earl... more The cellular and molecular mechanisms of cold storage-ATN are not well characterized. In our earlier studies, cold storage caused necrosis of human proximal tubular epithelial (RPTE) cells, whereas apoptosis was prominent during rewarming. An intriguing finding was the pronounced swelling of the mitochondria in the cold, which promoted us to further characterize its role in rewarming-associated apoptosis. Human proximal tubular epithelial cells were cold stored in University of Wisconsin (UW) solution for 48 h followed by 24 h of rewarming in regular cell culture medium. During the cold storage, there was no significant change in the Bcl-2 to Bax protein ratio, mitochondrial location of cytochrome C or caspse-3 activity. However, during rewarming, the Bcl-2 to Bax ratio increased, cytochrome C was translocated to cytosol, and caspase-3 was activated: events and timing were consistent with the occurrence of apoptosis during rewarming. In a time-course experiment, mitochondrial swelling was discernable by electron microscopy as early as at 2 h. Cold storage of isolated-mitochondria for 2 h was attended by an increase in the opening of the permeability transition pores (PTP), suggesting PTP opening as an early mechanism for mitochondrial swelling. Addition of antioxidants (deferoxamine or 2-methyaminochroman) to the storage solution suppressed mitochondrial pore opening and swelling, Bcl-2 to Bax ratio increase, cytochrome C translocation, caspase-3 activation as well as rewarming-induced apoptosis. Our data demonstrate for the first time that apoptosis following cold storage and rewarming of human renal tubular cells is accompanied by specific mitochondrial events, and that these events and apoptosis can be suppressed by adding antioxidants to the cold storage solution.

AJP: Renal Physiology, 2008

Erythropoietin (Epo) induces erythrocytosis by suppressing erythroid progenitor cell apoptosis th... more Erythropoietin (Epo) induces erythrocytosis by suppressing erythroid progenitor cell apoptosis through the Janus-activated kinase-signal transducers and activators of transcription (JAK-STAT) pathway. Since apoptosis contributes to cisplatin (CP)-induced nephrotoxicity and Epo receptors (EpoR) are expressed in the kidney, we examined the role of antiapoptosis in recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEpo)-mediated renal protection. In human renal proximal tubular epithelial (RPTE) cells in culture, rHuEpo, but not inactive rHuEpo (I-rHuEpo), the receptor-binding sites of which are mutated, caused a significant reduction in CP-induced apoptosis at ≥100 U/ml. rHuEpo, but not I-rHuEpo, increased STAT5 and Akt/PKB phosphorylation, demonstrating functional EpoR expression on RPTE cells. Furthermore, the JAK2 inhibitor tyrphostin AG-490 attenuated rHuEpo protection, suggesting a role of the JAK-STAT pathway in rHuEpo-mediated antiapoptosis. In rats, intravenous administration of 5,000 U/kg ...

Proceedings of the CUBE International Information Technology Conference on - CUBE '12, 2012

ABSTRACT BharataNatyam (BN) like any other Indian classical dance comprises of a sequence of poss... more ABSTRACT BharataNatyam (BN) like any other Indian classical dance comprises of a sequence of possible and legitimate dance steps. It is estimated that using the main body parts namely head, neck, hand and leg itself, more than 5 lakh dance steps can be generated for a single beat. Choreographers and even dancers usually repeat their favorite dance steps or the conventional casual dance steps taught by their teacher while performing for multiple beats. As a result several valid and many other significant non-traditional dance steps remain unexplored. Hence, we propose to have an auto enumeration followed by auto classification of significant BN dance steps that can be used in dance performance and choreography. In short, we try to transform sheer art into a System Modelled art i.e. ‘Art to SMart’. The foremost and most challenging task is to have a computational model that represents different BN dance poses. In this paper, we have proposed a computational model to represent BN dance steps and have presented the detailed description of formulation of a dance position vector that comprises of thirty explicitly identified attributes to capture and represent all variations of a BN dance step. We have named it as a SMart system for modelling BN steps, where SMart stands for System Modelled art .We have also demonstrated sample dance steps and their corresponding representations with appropriate dance step images.

ArXiv, 2015

Analysis and prediction of network traffic has applications in wide comprehensive set of areas an... more Analysis and prediction of network traffic has applications in wide comprehensive set of areas and has newly attracted significant number of studies. Different kinds of experiments are conducted and summarized to identify various problems in existing computer network applications. Network traffic analysis and prediction is a proactive approach to ensure secure, reliable and qualitative network communication. Various techniques are proposed and experimented for analyzing network traffic including neural network based techniques to data mining techniques. Similarly, various Linear and non-linear models are proposed for network traffic prediction. Several interesting combinations of network analysis and prediction techniques are implemented to attain efficient and effective results. This paper presents a survey on various such network analysis and traffic prediction techniques. The uniqueness and rules of previous studies are investigated. Moreover, various accomplished areas of analys...

We explore the use of fractal compression using ICA for the coding of color images, considering t... more We explore the use of fractal compression using ICA for the coding of color images, considering the proximity to dissimilar scales. The philosophy suggested by Jacquien is really versatile, which allows us to improve the various phases associated with related figure. We note that the selection of the objectivity used to evaluate the own-equivalence between a square range R and a square range detected R is fundamental for the estimation. Believe it or not, the choice of estimate chooses the perfect parameters of relative change. In our valuation, we assume the imperialist theory and take a look at their shows. We have also developed a direct rapid detangling plan, significant for irrefutable utilization. Given article monitors the alteration of fractal compression estimation to color imaging evaluations using DCT and ICA. We have assess the performance of proposed algorithm on some picture databases (color images). An evaluation with JPEG evaluation represents significant progress to...

Karnataka Anaesthesia Journal, 2016

We describe a patient with postpoliomyelitis residual paralysis with thoracolumbar kyphoscoliosis... more We describe a patient with postpoliomyelitis residual paralysis with thoracolumbar kyphoscoliosis who presented for an emergency endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography and interval laparoscopic cholecystectomy. This case report emphasizes on the adequate perioperative optimization and the meticulous anesthetic management of a long-standing kyphoscoliotic patient with respiratory compromise.

Journal of Environmental Radioactivity, 2014

Environmental Earth Sciences, 2015

Measurement of radium (226 Ra) and thorium (232 Th) content, and exhalation rate of radon (222 Rn... more Measurement of radium (226 Ra) and thorium (232 Th) content, and exhalation rate of radon (222 Rn) and thoron (220 Rn) from soil and building materials are important in the context of modeling indoor radon and thoron concentration. In this study, exhalation rates of radon and thoron from commonly used building materials in India were measured using active measurement techniques. Also the activity concentrations of 226 Ra, 232 Th and potassium (40 K) in building materials were measured by HPGe gamma spectrometric technique. The activity concentration of 226 Ra, 232 Th and 40 K varied from 16.4 ± 4.4 to 114.7 ± 3.4, 13.3 ± 1.5 to 153.9 ± 16.6 and below detection limit to 1,007 ± 40 Bq/kg with arithmetic mean 40.3, 61.9 and 822 Bq/kg, respectively, for the examined building material samples. The radon exhalation rates from the building materials varied from 0.5 ± 0.01 to 62.9 ± 12.5 mBq/kg/h for powder samples, 73 ± 5 to 6,000 ± 310 mBq/m 2 /h for structural building materials while the thoron exhalation rates varied from 0.07 ± 0.27 to 15.03 ± 2.1 mBq/kg/h for samples in powder form. Radium equivalent activity calculated for coarse aggregate and brick powder samples ranged between 73 and 343 Bq/ kg.

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2010

Abstract. With the gaining popularity of rough clustering, soft com-puting research community is ... more Abstract. With the gaining popularity of rough clustering, soft com-puting research community is studying relationships between rough and fuzzy clustering as well as their relative advantages. Both rough and fuzzy clustering are less restrictive than conventional ...

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009

Researchers have proposed several Genetic Algorithms (GA) based clustering algorithms for crisp a... more Researchers have proposed several Genetic Algorithms (GA) based clustering algorithms for crisp and rough clustering. In this two part series of papers, we compare the effect of GA optimization on resulting cluster quality of K-means, GA K-means, rough K-means, GA rough K-means and GA rough K-medoid algorithms. In this first part, we present the theoretical foundation of the transformation of the crisp clustering K-means and K-medoid algorithms into rough and evolutionary clustering algorithms. The second part of the paper will present experiments with a real world data set, and a standard data set.

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems, 2011

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2009

... Presentations by Vijay Raghavan (USA), Sush-mita Mitra (India), Sonajharia Minz (India), Pawa... more ... Presentations by Vijay Raghavan (USA), Sush-mita Mitra (India), Sonajharia Minz (India), Pawan Lingras (Canada), Dominik Ślęzak (Poland), Yiyu Yao (Canada), and Georg Peters (Germany) described fundamental rough set concepts, as well as their usage in academic ...

CHEST Journal, 2013

INTRODUCTION: Mycobacterium Scrofulaceum is a non tuberculous acid fast scotocromogen with its re... more INTRODUCTION: Mycobacterium Scrofulaceum is a non tuberculous acid fast scotocromogen with its reservoir in the soil and water. It usually causes cervical lymphadenopathy in children and lung parenchymal infections in immunocompromised hosts, especially with Interferon gamma deficiency. Pulmonary infection with mycobacterium scrofulaceum is uncommon in immunocompetent hosts and thus no treatment guidelines exist to treat these infections(1). We present two cases of mycobacterium scrofulaceum infection in immunocompetent hosts who were successfully treated.

American Journal of Transplantation, 2003

The cellular and molecular mechanisms of cold storage-ATN are not well characterized. In our earl... more The cellular and molecular mechanisms of cold storage-ATN are not well characterized. In our earlier studies, cold storage caused necrosis of human proximal tubular epithelial (RPTE) cells, whereas apoptosis was prominent during rewarming. An intriguing finding was the pronounced swelling of the mitochondria in the cold, which promoted us to further characterize its role in rewarming-associated apoptosis. Human proximal tubular epithelial cells were cold stored in University of Wisconsin (UW) solution for 48 h followed by 24 h of rewarming in regular cell culture medium. During the cold storage, there was no significant change in the Bcl-2 to Bax protein ratio, mitochondrial location of cytochrome C or caspse-3 activity. However, during rewarming, the Bcl-2 to Bax ratio increased, cytochrome C was translocated to cytosol, and caspase-3 was activated: events and timing were consistent with the occurrence of apoptosis during rewarming. In a time-course experiment, mitochondrial swelling was discernable by electron microscopy as early as at 2 h. Cold storage of isolated-mitochondria for 2 h was attended by an increase in the opening of the permeability transition pores (PTP), suggesting PTP opening as an early mechanism for mitochondrial swelling. Addition of antioxidants (deferoxamine or 2-methyaminochroman) to the storage solution suppressed mitochondrial pore opening and swelling, Bcl-2 to Bax ratio increase, cytochrome C translocation, caspase-3 activation as well as rewarming-induced apoptosis. Our data demonstrate for the first time that apoptosis following cold storage and rewarming of human renal tubular cells is accompanied by specific mitochondrial events, and that these events and apoptosis can be suppressed by adding antioxidants to the cold storage solution.

AJP: Renal Physiology, 2008

Erythropoietin (Epo) induces erythrocytosis by suppressing erythroid progenitor cell apoptosis th... more Erythropoietin (Epo) induces erythrocytosis by suppressing erythroid progenitor cell apoptosis through the Janus-activated kinase-signal transducers and activators of transcription (JAK-STAT) pathway. Since apoptosis contributes to cisplatin (CP)-induced nephrotoxicity and Epo receptors (EpoR) are expressed in the kidney, we examined the role of antiapoptosis in recombinant human erythropoietin (rHuEpo)-mediated renal protection. In human renal proximal tubular epithelial (RPTE) cells in culture, rHuEpo, but not inactive rHuEpo (I-rHuEpo), the receptor-binding sites of which are mutated, caused a significant reduction in CP-induced apoptosis at ≥100 U/ml. rHuEpo, but not I-rHuEpo, increased STAT5 and Akt/PKB phosphorylation, demonstrating functional EpoR expression on RPTE cells. Furthermore, the JAK2 inhibitor tyrphostin AG-490 attenuated rHuEpo protection, suggesting a role of the JAK-STAT pathway in rHuEpo-mediated antiapoptosis. In rats, intravenous administration of 5,000 U/kg ...

Proceedings of the CUBE International Information Technology Conference on - CUBE '12, 2012

ABSTRACT BharataNatyam (BN) like any other Indian classical dance comprises of a sequence of poss... more ABSTRACT BharataNatyam (BN) like any other Indian classical dance comprises of a sequence of possible and legitimate dance steps. It is estimated that using the main body parts namely head, neck, hand and leg itself, more than 5 lakh dance steps can be generated for a single beat. Choreographers and even dancers usually repeat their favorite dance steps or the conventional casual dance steps taught by their teacher while performing for multiple beats. As a result several valid and many other significant non-traditional dance steps remain unexplored. Hence, we propose to have an auto enumeration followed by auto classification of significant BN dance steps that can be used in dance performance and choreography. In short, we try to transform sheer art into a System Modelled art i.e. ‘Art to SMart’. The foremost and most challenging task is to have a computational model that represents different BN dance poses. In this paper, we have proposed a computational model to represent BN dance steps and have presented the detailed description of formulation of a dance position vector that comprises of thirty explicitly identified attributes to capture and represent all variations of a BN dance step. We have named it as a SMart system for modelling BN steps, where SMart stands for System Modelled art .We have also demonstrated sample dance steps and their corresponding representations with appropriate dance step images.