Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private university located in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India. Founded in 1984, as Vellore Engineering College, the institution offers 20 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate, four integrated and four research programs. It has campuses in Vellore, Amravati, Bhopal and Chennai.

VIT is one of the top ranked private universities in India according to NIRF, THE and QS Rankings.&nbsp;Govt. of India has recognized&nbsp;VIT, Vellore as an&nbsp;Institution of Eminence. This has allowed VIT to take independent quality initiatives and move up in world ranking.

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VIT University

Department of Commerce

Abstract: Machine learning is used as an effective support system in health diagnosis which contains large volume of data. More commonly, analyzing such a large volume of data consumes more resources and execution time. In addition, all the features present in the dataset do not support in achieving the solution of the given problem. Hence, there is a need to use an effective feature selection algorithm for finding the more important features that contribute more in diagnosing the diseases. The Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is one of the metaheuristic algorithms to find the best solution with less time. Nowadays, PSO algorithm is not only used to select the more significant features but also removes the irrelevant and redundant features present in the dataset. However, the traditional PSO algorithm has an issue in selecting the optimal weight to update the velocity and position of the particles. To overcome this issue, this paper presents a novel function for identifying optimal weights on the basis of population diversity function and tuning function. We have also proposed a novel fitness function for PSO with the help of Support Vector Machine (SVM). The objective of the fitness function is to minimize the number of attributes and increase the accuracy. The performance of the proposed PSO-SVM is compared with the various existing feature selection algorithms such as Info gain, Chi-squared, One attribute based, Consistency subset, Relief, CFS, Filtered subset, Filtered attribute, Gain ratio and PSO algorithm. The SVM classifier is also compared with several classifiers such as Naive Bayes, Random forest and MLP. © 2018, Pleiades Publishing, Ltd.

School of Social Sciences & Languages

Vellore Campus

Department of Software Systems

School of Computer Science and Engineering

Programming and Computer Software

A Machine Learning Framework for Feature Selection in Heart Disease Classification Using Improved Particle Swarm Optimization with Support Vector Machine Classifier

Purpose: To identify the influential factors and areas of improvement with regard to job satisfaction of engineering faculty members in a private University. Methodology: This research article moves towards an understanding of the overall factors influencing job satisfaction and the effect of demographic factors affecting job satisfaction. The researchers begin with the job satisfaction literature and then have explored the influential factors of job satisfaction. Hence, a study was done to explore the level of job satisfaction among teaching members in engineering domain working in a private university. The study was conducted in a private university at Chennai, Tamil Nadu. The respondents were selected on the basis of convenience sampling technique. Latest SPSS version software was used for the study and statistical tools like frequency distribution, chi-square, One-way ANOVA and regression analysis are used to interpret the data. Theoretical contributions: The world destiny is determined only in the class rooms and thereby teaching profession has a great impact on the growth, development and well -being of the students, society, environment and nation. If the engineering teaching fraternities are not contented with the culture, relationship, nature of job and compensation then it will affect the technical teaching-learning process. New results/Implications: Faculty members should be consulted before implementing any change in the academic activities. The promotion norms should be transparent if not; it may also lead to dissatisfaction towards the job. Management should constitute a committee to redress the grievances of their employees as soon as possible. Job security should be assured in the private university. Hence, this paper addresses the influential factors of job satisfaction for faculty members, say culture, relationship, nature of the job, pay and perquisites. © IAEME Publication.

Department of Information Technology

School of Information Technology and Engineering

World University root node

International Journal of Mechanical Engineering and Technology

Job satisfaction of engineering faculty members in a private university, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

The agricultural production in India or any part of the world is depending on various factors like availability of arable land, water resources, climatic and diseasefree conditions etc. To overcome all these issues, plant genetic engineering is playing a vital role and it is considered as second green revolution and wide range of genetically modified organisms (GMO) and genetically modified products (GM products) are available today. Those kinds of modified products are made by the introduction of desired foreign genes to plants resulting in solving problems that could not be solved through classical methods. However, the licit behind the growth of biotechnology in terms of genetically modified crops needs to be addressed, to the world of critics, in perceiving the enduring deliberation on GM crops. The major stigma associated with genetically modified products is that it poses a great danger to the society in a number of ways. The social media created new horizon of people's fantasy and they could be triggered for anything. This study deals with the safety issues and legal aspects of genetically modified organisms and their products. © 2018 World Research Association. All rights reserved.

Research Journal of Chemistry and Environment

Legal and safety issues of genetically modified plants: Environmental concern

This paper presents a decision making algorithm using Bipolar valued Q-fuzzy set and focusses its application in civil engineering for the selection of cement with its influenced characters. It can be applied for other such scenarios. The Bipolar valued Q-fuzzy takes the positive and negative values for each and every object in the selected set with respect to the constraints. The opinion of the experts in the optimal selection of the cement is analyzed in this study using Comprehensive Index of a Bipolar Valued fuzzy number. © IAEME Publication.

International Journal of Civil Engineering and Technology

Bipolar valued Q-fuzzy application in building sciences

Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS) has higher reputation in rural development program. Because 500 rural development program in India MGNREGS is best rural development program. The study area focuses on Vellore District of Tamil Nadu because Vellore district is one of the drought affected area. More than 3, 29,357 employees are working under the Scheme. This is the highest population when compared to other District and also women have higher empowerment after implementation of the MGNREGS in Vellore District. Major findings of the study are awareness level of the Scheme is very less and so government tries to conducts awareness program in Vellore district. And also appoints one supervisor for each gram panchayat in Vellore district to monitor work place for better result. © IAEME Publication.

Awareness level of mgnregs beneficiaries in Vellore district of Tamil nadu: An empirical study

Here has been rising enthusiasm for secure structure that must be attempted and genuine and smart respond for the organizations and companions. RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is one of the consistent and speedy techniques for perceive the material dissent. In the long-back the institutionalized distinguishing pieces of proof are more perfect when stood out from RFID because of their cost yet now day by day's RFID are viably open and are more beneficial to use. Research has revealed some exceptional enhancements which make its programming significantly shorter and less requesting is an immediate consequence of supplanting microcontroller with Arduino. Arduino makes the circuit and programming a significant measure easier to get it. Paper relies upon security access and control system using RFID and Arduino with GSM module. A segment of the sensors are used like PIR, LPG for spillage area. Security get to system is astoundingly beneficial to use at home, office and business structures. © 2006-2018 Asian Research Publishing Network (ARPN).

ARPN Journal of Engineering and Applied Sciences

Rfid based automated gate security system

Protein–protein interaction (PPI) helps in maintaining the cellular homeostasis. In particular, the homodimeric proteins play a crucial role as cell regulators. Studying the critical functions of each PPI on the living system is very challenging. The mutations in the PPIs have given birth to various diseases including many types of cancers and it has soon become the target for drug discovery. The mutations in IDH1, an asymmetric homodimer in the cytoplasm, leads to various diseases including gliomas. In this study, we have used extensive computational approaches to identify the impact of missense mutations (R132C, R132G, R132H, R132L, R132S, and V178I) occurring in the interacting region of the IDH1 homodimer. By in silico pathogenicity analysis, all the mutations occurring at the positions 132 and 178 were found to be pathogenic and neutral respectively. Furthermore, the mutants R132C and R132G were found to be responsible for increasing the stability, whereas the mutants R132H, R132L, and R132S were found to be responsible for the decrease in stability by stability analysis. R132H, R132L, and R132S mutants exhibited higher destabilization when compared to the structures of R132C and R132G mutants by molecular docking and molecular dynamics analysis. © 2018 Elsevier Inc.

Department of Integrative Biology

School of Bio Sciences and Technology

VIT Unitversity

Advances in Protein Chemistry and Structural Biology Protein-Protein Interactions in Human Disease, Part B

Investigating the Influence of Hotspot Mutations in Protein–Protein Interaction of IDH1 Homodimer Protein: A Computational Approach

The reality called ‘poverty’ has taken its toll on artisanal fishermen. It is high time that the society heard their problems. This article is an effort to gather all the past literature that is relevant on this topic. The article has been divided into two thematic concentrations. The first theme is based on the poverty condition of artisanal fishermen at the fishing industry level. The second theme follows the first theme. Based on the problems found in the first theme, the second theme associates the domestic issues that have happened in the fishing households. Finally, a slew of solutions have been presented and the article concludes with the trends of the studies that have taken place in the past. © IAEME Publication.

Poverty condition of artisanal fishermen during lean season - A review

DETERMINATION: The foregoing clause of insurance industry may introduce the new innovations among the insurers. The Indian online insurance market is characterized by numerous opportunities for the aggregation websites and Insurance companies to capitalize and grow. The purpose of this research study is to study the factors influencing the trusting by using online insurance services and to know the TAM model. STRATEGY/METHODOLOGY/STYLE: The study is based on questionnaire survey of 150 respondents in Vellore district. The statistical tools used for this study is t-test. FINDINGS: The research study contributes by developing the model for understanding the factors which affect customers’ attitudes and intentions towards online interactions in the insurance industry. Digitalization to lead growth, challenges for Indian insurance, says IRDA chief (TS VIJAYAN). By highlighting Technology-service-trust related factors, it would probably be possible to explain factors that affect trust. RESEARCH LIMITATION: This research paper is conceptual and also need to be tested empirically. CREATIVITY/ASSESSMENT: The findings of this research study is to study the factors influencing the trusting by using online insurance services and how the Technology Acceptance Model used in this paper and to identify the customers intention to use online insurance services. © IAEME Publication.

A study on customer intention to use and trust in life insurance corporation of India using tam model in Vellore district

Having subject knowledge is not the sufficient for an engineering student especially in the recent economic status of the country. Students are expected to require skills such as problem-solving, communication skills, dealing with information and abilities to ensure their employability in future. Nowadays most of the graduates are interested in starting a business of their own. Moreover, entrepreneurs are one among the important factors for the economic growth in a country. Knowing about entrepreneurship includes management, marketing skills, and finance. In addition, knowledge about financial management is also required for learners to know the commercial opportunities to face the business issues. Apart from this, creating a mindset for engineering students to involve in business should also be considered. The present article observes the role of engineering students in sustaining the Economic Development and their awareness about the financial systems of the country. The paper deals with the issue that how far teaching about the economic aspects is taking place in engineering classes. Since engineers play a prominent role in developing financial status of the country much emphasis is not given to teaching economic and financial knowledge for engineering students. Therefore the paper suggest that knowledge about economic aspects of the country has to be imparted in engineering classes to show that engineers are also responsible for development of the country. © IAEME Publication.