The use of digital medical images is increasing with advanced computational power that has immensely contributed to developing more sophisticated machine learning techniques. Determination of age and gender of individuals was manually performed by forensic experts by their professional skills, which may take a few days to generate results. A fully automated system was developed that identifies the gender of humans and age based on digital images of teeth. Since teeth are a strong and unique part of the human body that exhibits least subject to risk in natural structure and remains unchanged for a longer duration, the process of identification of gender- and age-related information from human beings is systematically carried out by analyzing OPG (orthopantomogram) images. A total of 1142 digital X-ray images of teeth were obtained from dental colleges from the population of the middle-east part of Karnataka state in India. 80% of the digital images were considered for training purposes, and the remaining 20% of teeth images were for the testing cases. The proposed gender and age determination system finds its application widely in the forensic field to predict results quickly and accurately. The prediction system was carried out using Multiclass SVM (MSVM) classifier algorithm for age estimation and LIBSVM classifier for gender prediction, and 96% of accuracy was achieved from the system.

Cloud technology is a business strategy that aims to provide the necessary material to customers depending on their needs. Individuals and cloud businesses alike have embraced the cloud storage service, which has become the most widely used service. The industries outsource their data to cloud storage space to relieve themselves of the load of dealing with redundant data contents. This must be protected to prevent the theft of personal belongings, and privacy must be improved as well. Different research projects have been suggested to ensure the safe management of the information included within the data content. The security of current research projects, on the contrary, still needs improvement. As a result, this method has been suggested to address the security concerns associated with cloud computing. The primary goal of this study effort is to offer a safe environment for cloud users while also increasing the profit of cloud resource providers by managing and securely delivering data contents to the cloud users. The bulk of sectors, including business, finance, military, and healthcare industry, do not store data in cloud-based storage systems. This technique is used to attract these kinds of customers. Increasing public acceptance, medical researchers are drawn to cloud computing because it allows them to store their study material in a centralized location and distribute and access it in a more flexible manner. They were collected from numerous individuals who were being evaluated for medical care at the time. Scalable and enhanced key aggregate cryptosystem is a protected data protection method that provides highly effective security in the healthcare industry. When parties interested in a dispute disagree on the outflow of sensitive information, this technique manages the disputes and ensures the data security deployment of a cloud-based intelligent health monitoring system for the parties involved. The encrypted data structure of medical and healthcare prescriptions is recorded as they move through the hands of patients and healthcare facilities, according to the technique recommended. The double encryption approach is used in order to raise the overall degree of security. An encryption class is created by referring to the Ciphertext ID during the encryption procedure. The keyholder is a master secret key that facilitates in the recovery of the secret keys of various monsters and creatures by acting as a conduit between them. It is transferred and stored as a single aggregate for the benefit of the patient or customer in order to make decryption more convenient and efficient. A safe connection between cloud-based intelligent health monitoring systems and healthcare organizations and their patients may be established via the use of a key aggregation cryptosystem and a double encryption approach, according to the researchers. Because of this, when compared to earlier techniques, the findings reveal that the research methodology provides high levels of security in terms of confidentiality and integrity, in addition to excellent scalability.

Spatial configuration and technology strategy of China's green coal-electricity system J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 4, 031806 (2012) CO2 solvation free energy using quasi-chemical theory J. Chem. Phys. 134, 224506 (2011) Nonintrusive system for road traffic detection and characterization Rev. Sci. Instrum. 82, 025113 (2011) Financing the transition to a low-carbon society Black carbon (BC) emissions have increased over South Asia and more persistent winter fogs are common during last decade. However, a physical mechanism connecting these two is still unknown. A significant fraction of BC is known to be in the form of carbon-nanotube (CNT). We have investigated the effects of two different sets of fog condensation nuclei, viz., inorganic salts (sodium chloride and ammonium sulphate) and BC (graphite and CNT) on the dissipation of chamber generated fog under dark and halogen lamp illuminated conditions at a controlled temperature, relative humidity, and fog condensation nuclei distribution. We found that, for inorganic salts, fog dissipates at a faster rate under illumination than in dark conditions showing similar trends for both sodium chloride and ammonium chloride. On the contrary, fog is found to be more persistent, for illuminated conditions, in the case of BC. Moreover, fog persistence is found to be more than twice for CNT compared to graphite in illuminated conditions. CNT is known to be an extremely effective absorber of light which leads to microscopic heating and subsequent evaporation which inhibits droplet growth. Small droplets have large residence time leading to longer fog persistence. This hitherto unknown mechanism may be responsible for persistent fog in India during last decade.

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