Edge-of-things computing framework for cost-effective provisioning of healthcare data

Alam, Md. Golam Rabiul,Munir, Md. Shirajum,Uddin, Md. Zia,Alam, Mohammed Shamsul,Dang, Tri Nguyen,Hong, Choong Seon Elsevier 2019 Journal of parallel and distributed computing Vol.123 No.-

<P><B>Abstract</B></P> <P>Edge-of-Things (EoT)-based healthcare services are forthcoming patient-care amenities related to autonomic and persuasive healthcare, where an EoT broker usually works as a middleman between the Healthcare Service Consumers (HSC) and Computing Service Providers (CSP). The computing service providers are the edge computing service providers (ECSP) and cloud computing service provider (CCSP). Sensor observations from a patient’s body area networks (BAN) and patients’ medical and genetic historical data are very sensitive and have a high degree of interdependency. It follows that EoT based patient monitoring systems or applications are tightly coupled and require obstinate synchronization. Therefore, this paper proposes a portfolio optimization solution for the selection of virtual machines (VMs) of edge and/or cloud computing service providers. The dynamic pricing for an EoT computation service is considered by the EoT broker for optimal VM provisioning in an EoT environment. The proposed portfolio optimization solution is compared with the traditional certainty equivalent approach. As the portfolio optimization is a centralized solution approach, this paper also proposes an alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) based distributed provisioning method for the healthcare data in the EoT computing environment. A comparative study shows the cost-effective provisioning for the healthcare data through portfolio optimization and ADMM methods over the traditional certainty equivalent and greedy approach, respectively.</P> <P><B>Highlights</B></P> <P> <UL> <LI> Edge-of-Things (EoT) computation framework for healthcare service provisioning. </LI> <LI> Portfolio optimization approach for cost-effective healthcare data provisioning. </LI> <LI> Alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) for healthcare data offloading. </LI> </UL> </P>

The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Canada's Demand for Imports : 1971-1982

Alam, A. K. M. Shamsul,Shamsuddin, A. F. M. 세종대학교 국제경제연구소 1988 Journal of Economic Integration Vol.3 No.2

In this paper we include a "foreign ownership" variable in the traditional and partial adjustment import demand function and examine the role of "foreign direct investment" in Canada's demand for imports. We examine the stochastic process generating the error structure of the estimated models and adopt appropriate techniques for estimation purposes. The extent to which the adjustment between actual and long run demand for imports occurs in both models is also examined. In the process, we comapre the relative performance of the two models in explaining the demand for imports in Canada over the sample period 1971-1982. The results provide strong support for the partial adjustment model and suggest a positive and significant role of the "foreign control variable" in the Canadian demand for improts.

ON SOME SPECIAL CONDITIONS OF n-TH ORDER NON-OSCILLATORY NONLINEAR SYSTEMS

Alam, M.-Shamsul,Hossain, M.B. Korean Mathematical Society 2003 대한수학회논문집 Vol.18 No.4

Krylov-Bogoliubov-Mitropolskii method has been extended to obtain asymptotic solution of n-th order nonlinear differential system characterized by certain non-oscillatory processes. The damping force is considered in such a manner that one of the characteristic roots of the linear system becomes small and others are in integral multiple. The method is illustrated by an example. The solutions for different initial conditions show a good agreement with those obtained by numerical method.

Interregional Canadian Manufacturing Trade : An Empirical Analysis Of The Demand-Side Of the Factor Proportions Model

Alam, A.K.M. Shamsul,Kamath, Shyam J. 세종대학교 국제경제연구소 1987 Journal of Economic Integration Vol.2 No.2

This paper investigates a number of hypotheses regarding the homotheticity of consumer preferences and the importance of demand conditions in explaining the volume and direction of Canadian inter-regional manufacturing trade using Canadian two-digit S.I.T.C. code data on eight manufacturing industries. The period covered is 1961-76 and the investigation uses data on the two largest Canadian provinces, Ontario and Quebec. The results indicate that the implications of the homotheticity of consumer preferences are not borne out with respect to inter-regional trade in a multicommodity situation. The tests conducted also reveal that the direction of trade can be explained from a knowledge of consumer preferences given that the supply side of the model explains the locational aspect of production. The results fill a gap in the Factor Proportion model literature in international trade by investigating the role of the demand side with specific tests and throw considerable light on the conflicting results identified in the Leontief Paradox literature by indi ating that these results may be attributed to the existence of demand bias.

Phenotypic Characterization of Aseel Chicken of Bangladesh

Md. Jonaed Alam Sarker,Mohammad Shamsul Alam Bhuiyan,Md. Omar Faruque,Md. Ashraf Ali,Jun Heon Lee 韓國家禽學會 2012 韓國家禽學會誌 Vol.39 No.1

The aim of this study was to investigate phenotypic characteristics, morphometric measurements, reproduction and production performances of Aseel chicken of Bangladesh. The dominant feather color of neck/hackles was red in both males (56.14%) and females (54.16%) while the sickle feather color was mostly black in both chickens (71.93% vs. 54.17%). The predominant saddle and breast feather colors were red (40.35%) and black (64.91%), respectively, in male whereas most frequent observed color was pale brown in female (58.33 and 50.0%, respectively). The predominant feather color of wing bow and wing bay was found black (68.42 and 80.70%, respectively) in male but only pale brown color was observed in females (62.5 and 54.17%, respectively) for these two characters. Different phenotypic measurements such as the average shank length and circumference were 12.79 ± 0.13 and 7.8 ± 0.08 cm, respectively, in male and 10.21 ± 0.25 and 5.81 ± 0.21 cm, respectively, in female. Keel length was 14.39 ± 0.19 cm in male and 10.79 ± 0.23 cm in female. The average adult live weight in male was measured 3749.12 ± 83.44 g while in female it was 2062.50 ± 105.26 g. The age of 1st lay was found to be 28.86 weeks. Total number of eggs laid per year ranged between 24~48, number of clutch/hen/year varied from 2 to 4 and number of eggs/clutch/hen was found to be 10~12. The average live weight of Aseel chicken at 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16 and 17 weeks of age were recorded as 31.14 ± 0.55, 48.63 ± 3.99, 116.57 ± 5.72, 138.40 ± 5.91, 212.88 ± 4.82, 361.00 ± 9.72, 577.50 ± 42.86, 743.75 ± 24.65, 1086.00 ± 26.02, 1402.00 ± 24.54 and 1432.00 ± 27.00 g respectively. Finally, this phenotypic characterization as well as productive and reproductive performances of Aseel chicken will give the baseline information to researcher for further study and for planning any on-ward conservation and implement strategy.

단일 및 다중 라이시안 페이딩 채널에서 M-PSK 변조기술에서의 BER 유도

S.M. Shamsul Alam,최광석(GoangSeog Choi) 大韓電子工學會 2012 電子工學會論文誌-TC (Telecommunications) Vol.49 No.4

무선통신에서 페이딩은 피할 수 없는 문제이다. 그러므로 전송신호에 있어서는 BER 형태의 오류개념이 도입된다. 다른 페이딩 채널들 상에서 이러한 오류들의 동작을 인식하는 것이 필요하다. Coherent MPSK의 평균 BER에 대한 수학적인 해법을 얻기 위해서 몇 가지 기법들을 제안한다. 본 논문에서, 느리고 평탄한 라이시안 페이딩 채널 상에 diversity의 영향도 또한 분석되어진다. 여기서, 변조 지표 값 M은 변화하고 이 변화의 효과들 또한 묘사되어진다. 다양한 diversity 값과 페이딩 파라미터에 따른 성능 곡선들은 믿을 수 있는 통신 시스템을 위하여 무선 채널을 설계하고 평가하는데 유용하다. In wireless communication system, fading is an unavoidable problem. Hence, errors in form of BER are introduced with the transmitted signal. It is necessary to recognize the behavior of these errors in different fading channels. To obtain the mathematical solution for the average bit error rate(BER) of coherent MPSK, some techniques are presented. In this paper, the impact of diversity is also analyzed over slow and flat Rician fading channel. In here, the value of modulation index, M is varied and the effects of its variation are also depicted. So, these performance curves with different diversity values and fading parameter are useful to design and evaluate the radio channel for faithful communication system.

Phenotypic Characterization of Aseel Chicken of Bangladesh

Sarker, Md. Jonaed Alam,Bhuiyan, Mohammad Shamsul Alam,Faruque, Md. Omar,Ali, Md. Ashraf,Lee, Jun-Heon The Korean Society of Poultry Science 2012 韓國家禽學會誌 Vol.39 No.1

The aim of this study was to investigate phenotypic characteristics, morphometric measurements, reproduction and production performances of Aseel chicken of Bangladesh. The dominant feather color of neck/hackles was red in both males (56.14%) and females (54.16%) while the sickle feather color was mostly black in both chickens (71.93% vs. 54.17%). The predominant saddle and breast feather colors were red (40.35%) and black (64.91%), respectively, in male whereas most frequent observed color was pale brown in female (58.33 and 50.0%, respectively). The predominant feather color of wing bow and wing bay was found black (68.42 and 80.70%, respectively) in male but only pale brown color was observed in females (62.5 and 54.17%, respectively) for these two characters. Different phenotypic measurements such as the average shank length and circumference were $12.79{\pm}0.13$ and $7.8{\pm}0.08$ cm, respectively, in male and $10.21{\pm}0.25$ and $5.81{\pm}0.21$ cm, respectively, in female. Keel length was $14.39{\pm}0.19$ cm in male and $10.79{\pm}0.23$ cm in female. The average adult live weight in male was measured $3749.12{\pm}83.44$ g while in female it was $2062.50{\pm}105.26$ g. The age of 1st lay was found to be 28.86 weeks. Total number of eggs laid per year ranged between 24~48, number of clutch/hen/year varied from 2 to 4 and number of eggs/clutch/hen was found to be 10~12. The average live weight of Aseel chicken at 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16 and 17 weeks of age were recorded as $31.14{\pm}0.55$, $48.63{\pm}3.99$, $116.57{\pm}5.72$, $138.40{\pm}5.91$, $212.88{\pm}4.82$, $361.00{\pm}9.72$, $577.50{\pm}42.86$, $743.75{\pm}24.65$, $1086.00{\pm}26.02$, $1402.00{\pm}24.54$ and $1432.00{\pm}27.00$ g respectively. Finally, this phenotypic characterization as well as productive and reproductive performances of Aseel chicken will give the baseline information to researcher for further study and for planning any on-ward conservation and implement strategy.

Articles : The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in Canada`s Demand for Imports: 1971-1982

( A. K. M. Shamsul Alam ),( A. F. M. Shamsuddin ) 세종대학교 경제통합연구소 1988 Journal of Economic Integration Vol.3 No.2

In this paper we include a "foreign ownership" variable in the traditional and partial adjustment import demand functions and examine the role of "foreign direct investment" in Canada`s demand for imports. We examine the stochastic process generating the error structure of the estimated models and adopt appropriate techniques for estimation purposes. The extent to which the adjustment between actual and long run demand for imports occurs in both models is also examined, In the process, we comapre the relative performance of the two models in explaining the demand for imports in Canada over the sample period 1971-1982. The results provide strong support for the partial adjustment model and suggest a positive and significant role of the "foreign control variable" in the Canadian demand Jar improts.

Articles : Interregional Canadian Manufacturing Trade: An Empirical Analysis Of The Demand-Side Of The Factor Proportions Model

( A. K. M. Shamsul Alam ),( Shyam J. Kamath ) 세종대학교 경제통합연구소 1987 Journal of Economic Integration Vol.2 No.2

Genetic Diversity Analysis of South and East Asian Duck Populations Using Highly Polymorphic Microsatellite Markers

Seo, Dongwon,Bhuiyan, Md. Shamsul Alam,Sultana, Hasina,Heo, Jung Min,Lee, Jun Heon Asian Australasian Association of Animal Productio 2016 Animal Bioscience Vol.29 No.4

Native duck populations have lower productivity, and have not been developed as much as commercials duck breeds. However, native ducks have more importance in terms of genetic diversity and potentially valuable economic traits. For this reason, population discriminable genetic markers are needed for conservation and development of native ducks. In this study, 24 highly polymorphic microsatellite (MS) markers were investigated using commercial ducks and native East and South Asian ducks. The average polymorphic information content (PIC) value for all MS markers was 0.584, indicating high discrimination power. All populations were discriminated using 14 highly polymorphic MS markers by genetic distance and phylogenetic analysis. The results indicated that there were close genetic relationships among populations. In the structure analysis, East Asian ducks shared more haplotypes with commercial ducks than South Asian ducks, and they had more independent haplotypes than others did. These results will provide useful information for genetic diversity studies in ducks and for the development of duck traceability systems in the market.