Text Mining Approach to Extract Associations Between Obesity and Arabic Herbal Plants

Abstract: Historical information on herbal medicines is underexploited and this is particularly true of the important resources of Arabic herbal medicines. Current research into Arabic medicinal plants as alternative medicine is limited and there is a lack of accurate translations and interpretations of herbal medicine texts. This research focuses on an investigation of Arabic herbal medicinal plants in relation to the problem of obesity. This paper demonstrates how text mining can help extract relevant concepts associated with Arabic herbal plants and obesity in order to discover associations between the herbal medicinal ingredients and obesity symptoms. Published in: book: The...

A Weighted TFIDF Technique for Inclusion of Reposting Engagement on Social Media

Text analysis is a field of study in data science that analyses human-generated textual data generated through books, articles, reviews, social media posts and discussions among other sources. Text is initially converted to numerical data using the well-known "term frequency-inverse document frequency" (TFIDF) technique. TFIDF measures the importance of each word in a document relative to other words in the document and the whole data corpus. Data generated from social media has a unique nature: In addition to the text itself, a post on social media can have different types of engagement such as likes, replies, and reposts.

Research papers published

Analgesic, anti-inflammatory and anti-pyretic activities of aqueous ethanolic extract of Tamarix aphylla L. (Saltcedar) in mice’ , Muhammad Imran Qadir, Khizar Abbas, Rahma Hamayun and Muhammad Ali, Pak. J. Pharm. Sci 2014; 27(6): 1985-1988. Knowledge and awareness of doctors about herbal drugs in the Northern Border Region of Saudi Arabia. Elhassan Hussein Eltom, Bandar Alenezi, Rahma Hamayun, Jawza Sulaiman Alenezi, Hajar Ghdab Alruwaili, Muhammad Akram Randhawa. Annals of Clinical and Analytical Medicine. Comparison between the effects of thymoquinone obtained from the seeds of Nigella sativa and verapamil on the volume and acidity of gastric acid secretion. Hamayun R, Jan M, Fazeel M...

An Optimal Transition-Based Recovery Policy for Controlling Deadlock Within Flexible Manufacturing Systems Using Graph Technique

Weighted Petri nets are common tools for modeling and validating discrete event systems involving resource allocation, such as flexible manufacturing systems (FMSs). A subclass of weighted Petri nets called a system of sequential systems with shared resources (S4R) has the power for modeling complex FMSs where the execution of an operation may require multiple resource types and multiple units of some resource types. Deadlock resolution is a crucial issue for the operation of an FMS. A direct and efficient policy is developed in this paper for detecting deadlock markings by extracting a weighted resource flow graph (WRFG) from an S4R and recovering them by synthesizing a recovery-transition...

Effect of Endotoxin on Colonic Motility in Conscious Rats

Background & Aims: Lipopolysaccharide-induced colonic dysmotility using an in vivo rat model was examined in this study. Methods: Six days prior to the experiment, force transducers were sutured to the proximal colons of the rats. On the day of the experiment, while monitoring colonic contractions, lipopolysaccharide (LPS)(1mg/kg) was given intravenously. Results: LPS injections induced abnormal high amplitude colonic contractions within 15 to 30 min in all the rats tested. After the period of these abnormal waves, motility gradually decreased. These high amplitude contractions were partly suppressed by atropine, a nonspecific cholinergic receptor antagonist. Conclusions: These results...