Pulmonary tuberculosis with multi-drug resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a major cause of concern in many of the developing countries. The present study was carried out to study the prevalence of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) in clinical isolates at DR.PSIMS & RF general hospital in Gannavaram, which is a tertiary care hospital. Two hundred and fifty seven sputum samples were...

Mapping the spatial distribution of soil pollutants is essential for delineating contaminated areas. Currently, geostatistical interpolation, kriging, is increasingly used to estimate pollutant concentrations in soils. The kriging-based approach, indicator kriging (IK), may be used to model the uncertainty of mapping. However, a smoothing effect is usually produced when using kriging in polluta...

Tracking fish using implanted radio transmitters is an important part of studying and preserving native fish species. However, conventional methods for locating the fish after they are tagged can be time consuming and costly. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have been used in general radio localization applications and can possibly be used to locate fish quickly and effectively. However, the meth...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: Multi-scale digital terrain analysis Feature selection Spatial data mining Digital soil mapping ANOVA Principal components analysis Random subsets Decision trees Terrain attributes are the most widely used predictors in digital soil mapping. Nevertheless, discussion of techniques for addressing scale issues and feature selection has been limited. Therefore, we pr...

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