SNDT Women's University

About: SNDT Women's University is a education organization based out in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Routing protocol & Femtocell. The organization has 252 authors who have published 260 publications receiving 2609 citations. The organization is also known as: Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University.

Cloud computing security in multi-clouds using Shamir's secret sharing scheme

Abstract: In order to leverage a remote cloud based infrastructure, a company essentially gives away private data and information that might be sensitive and confidential to the service provider. Data Integrity and Confidentiality can be protected by using secret sharing schemes. To prevent service availability failure, multi-cloud data storage system can be implemented. In this paper, multimedia is protected using the Shamir's Secret Sharing in Multi-cloud Databases.

A Survey on Automatic Diabetic Retinopathy Screening

Abstract: Diabetes is a chronic disease caused due to the increase in the sugar level in the blood. Diabetes mainly affects heart, blood vessels, kidneys, eyes and nerves. There are mellitus type 1 and 2 diabetes, in which insulin is either not taken by the body or not created by the body. As per the statistics provided by WHO, about 422 million people worldwide are fighting with diabetes. Primary source of vision loss in the patients suffering from diabetes is diabetic retinopathy where the individual suffers from the damage and growth of abnormal blood veins in the retina. The disease is observed by ophthalmologist through identifying the presence of abnormalities starting from microaneurysms in the non-proliferative stage of DR and if these lesions’ presence is ignored and not detected then it leads to the neovascularization in the proliferative stage which leads to unavoidable vision loss. DR can be cured if detected at the beginning stage. Manual method takes lots of time for detection of DR hence it is important to develop computer-based diagnostic system for DR detection using artificial intelligence (AI) and advance image processing to help ophthalmologists for spotting early symptoms of DR in less time. This paper provides a descriptive study about recent trends and technologies used for automatic spotting and grading of DR.

Evaluation of the aqueous extract of Rotula aquatica roots in acute and chronic inflammatory conditions in rats.

Abstract: The aqueous extract of Rotula aquatica Lour (Boraginaceae) roots was investigated for its anti-inflammatory potential in acute and chronic inflammatory conditions in rats. The aqueous extract of the plant at doses 50, 100, and 200 mg kg−1, p.o., were screened against carrageenan-induced rat paw edema, cotton pellet-induced granuloma as well as crystal-induced inflammation in rats. The IL-6 levels in the exudates formed due to crystal-induced inflammation were also determined. The extract exhibited a statistically significant (p < 0.05) inhibition of rat paw edema as compared to the control group. With respect to crystal-induced inflammation, the extract demonstrated a statistically significant (p < 0.05) reduction in the neutrophil and monocyte count in the inflammatory exudates compared to the control group. The extract at a dose of 200 mg kg−1 also effectively inhibited IL-6 levels. The extract exhibited a statistically significant (p < 0.05) reduction in the weight of cotton pellet-induced granuloma at...

Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City:

Abstract: I draw on my experiences as an organizer with a waste-pickers collective, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat in Pune, India, to reflect on the power dynamics in control of public space. The Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC), a public body, has used public resources to facilitate and enable accumulation by private companies, who have not been able to produce what they had committed to in the processing of waste. The waste pickers, in alliance with affected village-based land agitation committees, have mobilized against the dumping that is ruining their way of life, environments, and health, and are fighting for their own integration into waste value chains. The article uses the frame of David Harvey's(1) "right to the city"; a key part of the mobilizing work with waste pickers has been Freirean conscientization methods to spread awareness of the economic importance, to the city and to the planet, of waste recycling.

Privacy and security in the digital age: contemporary challenges and future directions

Abstract: Privacy is at the core of civil rights from which all other human rights and freedoms flow. Since the twentieth century, and particularly since 9/11, rapid deployment of information and surveillance technologies in the name of national security has grave implications for individual privacy and human rights. This article reviews major strands in contemporary privacy-security debate, while critiquing existing conceptualisations of privacy that are inadequate in the context of multifaceted and ubiquitous surveillance technologies post 9/11. Further, this paper contends most privacy-security debate overlooks unequal consequences for targeted populations (e.g. people of Middle Eastern, Arab or South Asian descent and Muslims). Finally, the paper emphasises the need for more accountability on part of the watchers and more expansive notions of privacy and security to uphold the well-being of individuals, society and democracy.