Vehicle detection, tracking, and counting play a significant role in traffic surveillance and are... more Vehicle detection, tracking, and counting play a significant role in traffic surveillance and are principle applications of the Intelligent Transport System (ITS). Traffic congestion and accidents can be prevented with an adequate solution to problems. In this paper, we implemented different image processing techniques to detect and track the moving vehicle from the videos captured by a stationary camera and count the total number of vehicles passed by. The proposed approach consists of an optical flow method with a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to obtain an absolute shape of particular moving objects which improves the detection performance of moving targets.
This article examines the utilization of female Muslim factory workers, in a North Indian woodwor... more This article examines the utilization of female Muslim factory workers, in a North Indian woodworking industry, as domestic labour in the homes of their employers. The ethnography illustrates the importance of considering hidden forms of domestic-sector employment where workers are coopted into domestic tasks. The illumination of ‘coopted domestic labour’ has implications for understanding the breadth and scope of the sector and contributes to debates around its regulation, definition, growth and feminization. Female Muslim factory workers did not see ‘coopted domestic labour’ as a livelihood ‘choice’ but as exploitation enabled through employers’ tactics, such as the use of advance payments, forms of ‘neo-bondage’, and through structural continuity across domestic and industrial contexts which situated women at the bottom of the labour hierarchy. It also involved complex negotiations around reputation, character and practices of purdah (veiling) which, whilst already an issue for t...
This article examines the utilization of female Muslim factory workers, in a North Indian woodwor... more This article examines the utilization of female Muslim factory workers, in a North Indian woodworking industry, as domestic labour in the homes of their employers. The ethnography illustrates the importance of considering hidden forms of domestic-sector employment where workers are coopted into domestic tasks. The illumination of ‘coopted domestic labour’ has implications for understanding the breadth and scope of the sector and contributes to debates around its regulation, definition, growth and feminization. Female Muslim factory workers did not see ‘coopted domestic labour’ as a livelihood ‘choice’ but as exploitation enabled through employers’ tactics, such as the use of advance payments, forms of ‘neo-bondage’, and through structural continuity across domestic and industrial contexts which situated women at the bottom of the labour hierarchy. It also involved complex negotiations around reputation, character and practices of purdah (veiling) which, whilst already an issue for t...
This article examines the utilization of female Muslim factory workers, in a North Indian woodwor... more This article examines the utilization of female Muslim factory workers, in a North Indian woodworking industry, as domestic labour in the homes of their employers. The ethnography illustrates the importance of considering hidden forms of domestic-sector employment where workers are coopted into domestic tasks. The illumination of ‘coopted domestic labour’ has implications for understanding the breadth and scope of the sector and contributes to debates around its regulation, definition, growth and feminization. Female Muslim factory workers did not see ‘coopted domestic labour’ as a livelihood ‘choice’ but as exploitation enabled through employers’ tactics, such as the use of advance payments, forms of ‘neo-bondage’, and through structural continuity across domestic and industrial contexts which situated women at the bottom of the labour hierarchy. It also involved complex negotiations around reputation, character and practices of purdah (veiling) which, whilst already an issue for t...
International Journal of Medical Research and Review
Introduction: Timely diagnosis of malaria is a challenge in most endemic areas due to lack of res... more Introduction: Timely diagnosis of malaria is a challenge in most endemic areas due to lack of resources. The methods most commonly used are microscopy, regarded as the gold standard, and rapid dipstick tests (RDT) which detect antigens in blood. Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay (ELISA) based tests are fast and easy to perform especially when large number of samples have to be tested. p-LDH is a highly sensitive marker of malaria in blood The present study was done to assess the diagnostic performance of a p-LDH based ELISA on samples from clinically suspected malaria patients. Methods: We tested the sensitivity and specificity of a pLDH based, commercially available ELISA kit on both microscopy positive and negative samples. Microscopy was done for all suspected malaria patients and of these 146 samples (73 positive and 73 negative) were tested by the ErbaLisa PAN (LDH) malaria ELISA kit as well SD Bioline malaria antigen test (RDT) based on detection of both HRP-2 and p-LDH common to all four species. Results: The sensitivity of Elisa was 95.9% while specificity was 93.2% compared to gold standard microscopy while RDTs had 91.8% sensitivity and 86.3% specificity. All 67 samples positive by both microscopy and RDT were also positive by ELISA. Conclusion: p-LDH based ELISA promises to be a cost effective and reliable option for diagnosis of malaria in endemic areas like India.
Vehicle detection, tracking, and counting play a significant role in traffic surveillance and are... more Vehicle detection, tracking, and counting play a significant role in traffic surveillance and are principle applications of the Intelligent Transport System (ITS). Traffic congestion and accidents can be prevented with an adequate solution to problems. In this paper, we implemented different image processing techniques to detect and track the moving vehicle from the videos captured by a stationary camera and count the total number of vehicles passed by. The proposed approach consists of an optical flow method with a Gaussian mixture model (GMM) to obtain an absolute shape of particular moving objects which improves the detection performance of moving targets.
This article examines the utilization of female Muslim factory workers, in a North Indian woodwor... more This article examines the utilization of female Muslim factory workers, in a North Indian woodworking industry, as domestic labour in the homes of their employers. The ethnography illustrates the importance of considering hidden forms of domestic-sector employment where workers are coopted into domestic tasks. The illumination of ‘coopted domestic labour’ has implications for understanding the breadth and scope of the sector and contributes to debates around its regulation, definition, growth and feminization. Female Muslim factory workers did not see ‘coopted domestic labour’ as a livelihood ‘choice’ but as exploitation enabled through employers’ tactics, such as the use of advance payments, forms of ‘neo-bondage’, and through structural continuity across domestic and industrial contexts which situated women at the bottom of the labour hierarchy. It also involved complex negotiations around reputation, character and practices of purdah (veiling) which, whilst already an issue for t...
This article examines the utilization of female Muslim factory workers, in a North Indian woodwor... more This article examines the utilization of female Muslim factory workers, in a North Indian woodworking industry, as domestic labour in the homes of their employers. The ethnography illustrates the importance of considering hidden forms of domestic-sector employment where workers are coopted into domestic tasks. The illumination of ‘coopted domestic labour’ has implications for understanding the breadth and scope of the sector and contributes to debates around its regulation, definition, growth and feminization. Female Muslim factory workers did not see ‘coopted domestic labour’ as a livelihood ‘choice’ but as exploitation enabled through employers’ tactics, such as the use of advance payments, forms of ‘neo-bondage’, and through structural continuity across domestic and industrial contexts which situated women at the bottom of the labour hierarchy. It also involved complex negotiations around reputation, character and practices of purdah (veiling) which, whilst already an issue for t...
This article examines the utilization of female Muslim factory workers, in a North Indian woodwor... more This article examines the utilization of female Muslim factory workers, in a North Indian woodworking industry, as domestic labour in the homes of their employers. The ethnography illustrates the importance of considering hidden forms of domestic-sector employment where workers are coopted into domestic tasks. The illumination of ‘coopted domestic labour’ has implications for understanding the breadth and scope of the sector and contributes to debates around its regulation, definition, growth and feminization. Female Muslim factory workers did not see ‘coopted domestic labour’ as a livelihood ‘choice’ but as exploitation enabled through employers’ tactics, such as the use of advance payments, forms of ‘neo-bondage’, and through structural continuity across domestic and industrial contexts which situated women at the bottom of the labour hierarchy. It also involved complex negotiations around reputation, character and practices of purdah (veiling) which, whilst already an issue for t...
International Journal of Medical Research and Review
Introduction: Timely diagnosis of malaria is a challenge in most endemic areas due to lack of res... more Introduction: Timely diagnosis of malaria is a challenge in most endemic areas due to lack of resources. The methods most commonly used are microscopy, regarded as the gold standard, and rapid dipstick tests (RDT) which detect antigens in blood. Enzyme-Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay (ELISA) based tests are fast and easy to perform especially when large number of samples have to be tested. p-LDH is a highly sensitive marker of malaria in blood The present study was done to assess the diagnostic performance of a p-LDH based ELISA on samples from clinically suspected malaria patients. Methods: We tested the sensitivity and specificity of a pLDH based, commercially available ELISA kit on both microscopy positive and negative samples. Microscopy was done for all suspected malaria patients and of these 146 samples (73 positive and 73 negative) were tested by the ErbaLisa PAN (LDH) malaria ELISA kit as well SD Bioline malaria antigen test (RDT) based on detection of both HRP-2 and p-LDH common to all four species. Results: The sensitivity of Elisa was 95.9% while specificity was 93.2% compared to gold standard microscopy while RDTs had 91.8% sensitivity and 86.3% specificity. All 67 samples positive by both microscopy and RDT were also positive by ELISA. Conclusion: p-LDH based ELISA promises to be a cost effective and reliable option for diagnosis of malaria in endemic areas like India.
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