Regular inspection of railway track health is crucial for maintaining safe and reliable train operations. Factors, such as cracks, ballast issues, rail discontinuity, loose nuts and bolts, burnt wheels, superelevation, and misalignment developed on the rails due to non-maintenance, pre-emptive investigations and delayed detection, pose a grave danger and threats to the safe operation of rail transport. The traditional procedure of manually inspecting the rail track using a railway cart is both inefficient and prone to human error and biases. In a country like Pakistan where train accidents have taken many lives, it is not unusual to automate such approaches to avoid such accidents and save countless lives. This study aims at enhancing the traditional railway cart system to address these issues by introducing an automatic railway track fault detection system using acoustic analysis. In this regard, this study makes two important contributions: data collection on Pakistan railway tracks using acoustic signals and the application of various classification techniques to the collected data. Initially, three types of tracks are considered, including normal track, wheel burnt and superelevation, due to their common occurrence. Several well-known machine learning algorithms are applied such as support vector machines, logistic regression, random forest and decision tree classifier, in addition to deep learning models like multilayer perceptron and convolutional neural networks. Results suggest that acoustic data can help determine the track faults successfully. Results indicate that the best results are obtained by RF and DT with an accuracy of 97%.

Heart Disease as cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women. It is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in present society. Therefore, researchers are working to help health care professionals in diagnosing process by using data mining techniques. Although the health care industry is richer in the database this data is not properly mined in order to discover hidden patterns and can able to make decisions based on these patterns. The major goal of this learning refers the extraction of hidden layers by applying numerous data mining techniques that probably give remarkable results in order to ensure the presence of cardiovascular disease among peoples. Data mining classification techniques are used to discover these patterns for research in medical industry. The dataset containing 13 attributes has analyzed for prediction system. The dataset contains some commonly used medical terms like blood pressure, cholesterol level, chest pain and 11 other attributes used to predict cardiovascular disease. The most common and effective classification techniques that are used in mining process are Verdict Tree commonly known as Decision Tree, Extra Trees Classifier, Random Forest, Support Vector Machine, Naive Bays and Logistic Regression has analyzed in this paper. Diagnosing and controlling ratio of deaths from cardiovascular disease Extra classifier trees consider is the best approach. We evaluate these prediction models by using evaluation parameters which are Accuracy, Precision, Recall, and F1-score. As per our experimental results shows accuracy of Extra trees classifier, Logistic Model tree classifier, support vector machine, and naive bays classifiers are 90%, 88%, 87%, 86% respectively. So as per our experiment analysis Extra Tree classifier with highest accuracy considered best approach for predication cardiovascular disease.

Microblogging websites and social media platforms serve as a potential source for mining public opinions and sentiments on a variety of subjects including the prevailing situations in war-afflicted countries. In particular, Twitter has a large number of geotagged tweets that make the analysis of sentiments across time and space possible. This study performs volume analysis and sentiment analysis using LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) and text mining over two datasets collected for different periods. To increase the adequacy and efficacy of the sentiment analysis, a hybrid feature engineering approach is proposed that elevates the performance of machine learning models. Geotagged tweets are used for volume analysis indicating that the highest number of tweets is originated from India, the US, the UK, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. Analysis of positive and negative tweets reveals that negative tweets are mostly originated from India and the US. On the contrary, positive tweets belong to Pakistan and Afghanistan. LDA is used for topic modeling on two datasets containing tweets about the current situation after the Taliban take control of Afghanistan. Topics extracted through LDA suggest that majority of the Afghanistan people seem satisfied with the Taliban's takeover while the topics from negative tweets reveal that issues discussed in negative tweets are related to the US concerns in Afghanistan. Sentiment analysis over two different datasets indicates that the trend of the sentiments has been shifted positively over three weeks.

With the multitude of companies that flourish today, job seekers want to join companies with highly satisfied employees. So, job satisfaction prediction is an important task that helps companies in sustaining or redesigning employee policies. Such predictions not only help in reducing employee attrition but also affect the goodwill and reputation of a company. The higher satisfaction level of current employees attracts potential new employees and confirms the positive policies of a company toward its employees. Job satisfaction prediction can be performed using employee reviews either manually or via automated machine learning algorithms. This study first evaluates four widely used machine learning algorithms, that is, random forest, logistic regression, support vector classifier, and gradient boosting, and then proposes a deep learning model to predict employee job satisfaction level. Experiments are carried out on a dataset that contains text reviews from the employees of Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft, and Apple. Three feature extraction methods are analyzed as well including term frequency-inverse document frequency (TF-IDF), bag-of-words (BOW), and global vector for word representation (GloVe). Performance is evaluated using accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, as well as, macro average precision, and weighted average.Furqan Rustam and Imran Ashraf contributed equally to this study.

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