University of Management and Technology, Lahore

About: University of Management and Technology, Lahore is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Computer science & Population. The organization has 1075 authors who have published 1761 publications receiving 14185 citations.

A Survey on the Role of IoT in Agriculture for the Implementation of Smart Farming

Abstract: Internet of things (IoT) is a promising technology which provides efficient and reliable solutions towards the modernization of several domains. IoT based solutions are being developed to automatically maintain and monitor agricultural farms with minimal human involvement. The article presents many aspects of technologies involved in the domain of IoT in agriculture. It explains the major components of IoT based smart farming. A rigorous discussion on network technologies used in IoT based agriculture has been presented, that involves network architecture and layers, network topologies used, and protocols. Furthermore, the connection of IoT based agriculture systems with relevant technologies including cloud computing, big data storage and analytics has also been presented. In addition, security issues in IoT agriculture have been highlighted. A list of smart phone based and sensor based applications developed for different aspects of farm management has also been presented. Lastly, the regulations and policies made by several countries to standardize IoT based agriculture have been presented along with few available success stories. In the end, some open research issues and challenges in IoT agriculture field have been presented.

Natural Products: Bioactivity, Biochemistry, and Biological Effects in Cancer and Disease Therapy

Abstract: The drug discovery for chemoprevention and chemotherapy remains a challenge. Natural products-derived extracts and compounds are frequently reported to discover therapeutic agents for disease and cancer. The overall scenario of this special issue of The Scientific World Journal presents the recent advances in biological function of selected natural products for cancer and disease therapy in terms of crude extracts and components. Some studies describe the bioinformatics tool to help to investigate the field of natural products. The papers by S. Guleria et al. and C.-C. Lee et al. provide the essential oil and/or extracts of herb Zanthoxylum alatum and Zingiber officinale for its antioxidant and antimicrobial properties, respectively. O. O. Igbinosa et al. and C.-C. Lee et al. provide the animal experiments using extractsfrom Jatropha curcas (Linn) leaf and from supercritical carbon dioxide extracted ginger, respectively. Three studies (F. M. Al-Jasass and M. S. Al-Jasser, X.-W. Chen et al., and C.-Y. Lo et al.) focus on biological functions of the compounds from Saudi Arabia herbs, Chinese herb Huang Lian (Rhizoma coptidis), and from Alpinia galangal, respectively. Further, C.-Y. Yen et al. provide the toxicological study for cardiotoxin III in growth inhibition of oral cancer. C.-Y. Lin et al. provide a review article for the chemoprevention of cytochrome P450 in oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs) patients in terms of betel quid metabolism. S.-S. Liang et al. introduce the novel technique for online monitoring oxidative products and metabolites of nicotine based on tandem mass spectrometry. Some papers introduce the bioinformatics methods or resources to study or review the natural products-related studies. L. Wang et al. introduce the gene ontology (GO) network for the systems-theoretical analysis of human hepatocellular carcinoma. Y.-C. Lin et al. provide the database (TIPdb) for anticancer, antiplatelet, and antituberculosis phytochemicals from indigenous plants in Taiwan. Three papers (W.-H. Huang et al. and J.-Y. Tang et al.) provide the drug discovery for cancer and disease therapy in terms of RNA editing, alternative splicing, and long noncoding RNAs as well as the summary for their bioinformatics resources. Hsueh-Wei Chang Li-Yeh Chuang Sanjay Guleria Sammia Yasmin

Handbook of maintenance management and engineering

Abstract: Maintenance Organization.- Maintenance Productivity and Performance Management.- Failure Statistics.- Failure Mode and Effect Analysis.- Maintenance Control.- Guidelines for Budgeting and Costing Planned Maintenance Services.- Simulation Based Approaches for Maintenance Strategies Optimization.- Maintenance Forecasting and Capacity Planning.- Integrated Spare Parts Management.- Turnaround Maintenance.- Maintenance Planning and Scheduling.- Models for Production and Maintenance Planning in Stochastic Manufacturing Systems.- Inspection Strategies for Randomly Failing Systems.- System Health Monitoring and Prognostics - A Review of Current Paradigms and Practices.- Applied Maintenance Models.- Reliability Centered Maintenance.- Total Productive Maintenance.- Warranty and Maintenance.- Delay Time Modeling for Optimized Inspection Intervals of Production Plant.- Integrated e-maintenance and Intelligent Maintenance Systems.- Maintainability & System Effectiveness.- Safety and Maintenance.- Maintenance Quality and Environmental Performance Improvement: An Integrated Approach.- Industrial Asset Maintenance and Sustainability Performance: Economic, Environmental, and Societal Implications.- Human Reliability and Error in Maintenance.- Human Error in Maintenance - A Design Perspective.