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Sunil Patil ¹, Ankur Agarwal ²

Affiliations
1 Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management, Pune., IN
2 Tech Mahindra Ltd., Pune., IN

Abstract

The phenomenal growth in mobile subscribers over the last few years has created huge opportunities for the telecom infrastructure industry. The operators in developed markets have already moved on to advanced active infrastructure outsourcing, operators in developing markets are beginning to realize the potential of passive infrastructure outsourcing. The intense competition in the telecom industry forced all the operators to look for opportunities to reduce the cost of operations by outsourcing tower infrastructure management related activities which demand huge capital expenditure and operating expenditure. Thus the telecom tower industry is growing continuously to cut down cost and reducing the time-to-market. There are number of challenges and risks for incumbents and greenfield telecom operators in this working model. Today a telecom operator has outsourced various core and non-core functions and processes to multiple vendors which pose a major challenge for all the SI's to work together in a harmony to deliver end to end SLAs and quality service to the client. Though outsourcing tower component of the network to an SI seems to be a beneficial aspect for the operators, the tower outsourcing is a comparatively new concept in the telecommunication industry in India. The research presented in this paper primarily explores the tower management outsourcing challenges faced by system integrators (SI's) and actionable recommendations. Paper presents an extensive literature survey based on which select critical factors have been identified for creating a framework that could be used by telecom operators and SI's for successful implementation.

Keywords

System Integrators, Tower Management, Outsourcing, Framework

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Chintan Vadgama Vadgama ¹, Aditi Khutwad ¹, Madhavi Damle ¹, Sunil Patil ¹

Affiliations
1 Symbiosis International University’s, Symbiosis Institute of Telecom Management, Pune -412115, Maharashtra, IN

Abstract

With the advent of proposed Smart Cities for the issues like limited resource, population growth and climatic changes which will help India achieving the holistic development of the economy by achieving economic feasibility and sustainable growth through integration of design and technology. The proposed structure will help the Indian Economy to provide long term funding and employment opportunities in future. The rapid urbanization of Indian Economy will put immense pressure on the different facets of life such as infrastructure, managing finances, and quality of life which will lead to evolution of smart concepts and models. The proposed structure for smart cities will address four fundamental areas as organizational, infrastructure, social and economic aspects. The Government of India has allocated 70.6 billion (USD 1.2 billion) for Smart Cities in Budget 2014-15 for developing 100 smart cities over a period of 5 years. The Smart City Mission will be operated as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) and the Central Government proposes to give financial support to the Mission to the extent of Rs. 48,000 crores over five years i.e. on an average Rs. 100 crores per city per year. An equal amount, on a matching basis, will have to be contributed by the State/ULB; therefore, nearly Rupees one lakh crores of Government/ULB funds will be available for Smart Cities development. The paper proposes the various sources of funding available in the world economy and their feasibility considering the Indian Economy which can be adopted for generation of required funds. The paper focuses on evaluating the various funding options and their feasibility with reference to Indian perspective.

Keywords

Financial Innovation, Raising Funds, Smart Cities, Sustainable Development, Technology Innovations

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Tripti K. Karne ¹, Deepa D. Joshi ¹, Umesh Zile ¹, Sunil Patil ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Pediatrics, Dr. Vasantrao Pawar Medical College and Research Centre, Adgaon, Nashik - 422207, Maharashtra, IN
2 Department of Community Health and Medicine, Dr. Vasantrao Pawar Medical College and Research Centre, Adgaon, Nashik-422207, Maharashtra, IN

Abstract

Aims and Objectives: To correlate degree of thrombocytopenia and platelet indices with neonatal sepsis in our NICU set up. Materials and Methods: After taking approval from ethical committee of our institute, we studied total 150 cases over a span of 24 months, from August 2013 to August 2015. Peripheral blood was drawn from all the study subjects under aseptic precautions in EDTA bulb. A complete hemogram was performed using Beckman Coulter. Latex agglutination kit was used for CRP estimation. Different organisms were isolated by Bactecblood culture. Results: Out of 150 neonates 40(26%) cases were sepsis proven, 63 (42%) ases had suspected infection and 47(31%) cases were non infected. Male constituted 84(56%) cases and females constituted 66(44%) cases. 35(87.5%) cases out of proven sepsis were preterm neonates. Out of 40 sepsis proven cases CRP was increased in 31 (77.5%) neonates. Gram negative organisms were more common than gram positive organisms. Pseudomonas was most common organism, and was isolated in 16 (40%) cases. Staphylococcus organism isolated in 7 (17.5%) cases. 23 (57.5%) of sepsis proven cases showed severe degree of thrombocytopenia and was seen mainly with Pseudomonas organisms. In platelet indices PDW was significantly increased in newborns with sepsis. Whereas MPV was also increased in sepsis cases but was not significant. Conclusion: Variation in the degree of thrombocytopenia and platelet indices was seen in neonatal sepsis. Severe degree of thrombocytopenia associated with proven sepsis. PDW was significantly increased in newborns with sepsis. Gram negative organisms were common cause of neonatal sepsis.

Keywords

C Reactive Protein (CRP), Mean Platelet Volume (MPV), Platelet Distribution Width (PDW).

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N. V. Ratnalikar ¹, Sunil Patil ²

Affiliations
1 College of Engineering, Pune (COEP), IN
2 Indus Valley Technologies, Pune, IN

Abstract

There is a large number of Technological and Technical Universities in India but unfortunately none of their rank in global ranking with the exception of few premier institutes/universities. These universities are functioning under a highly regulated environment which restricts the level of freedom required for responding to the fast changes happening in the industry. The end result is the graduates passing out of these universities are not employable.

This scenario must be changed hence authors of this paper have investigated what ails the technical education system in India. Apart from excessive regulations, large number of colleges affiliated to a university, education treated as a business instead of places for academic excellence and research, and lack of innovations on the part of faculty and students, adoption of quality standards in research, teaching, and management is an absolute imperative to improve existing system.

Authors have proposed various programs to be designed and implemented to improve quality in engineering education. The regulatory agencies have also proposed few programs but implementation at the university and colleges/institute level remains questionable. These programs must be championed by the top management of these organizations and adequate funding must be allocated else the importance of these programs gets limited to showing documents and saying right things in front of accrediting agencies at the time of assessment.

Keywords

Technical Universities, Technological Universities, Quality Programs, Management.

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Sushama Dugad ¹, Pankaj Bhandare ², Gauri Kulkarni ¹, Sunil Patil ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Dr. Vasantrao Pawar Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre, Nashik - 422003, IN
2 Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Dr. Vasantrao Pawar Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre, Nashik – 422003, Maharashtra, IN
3 Department of Community Medicine, Dr. Vasantrao Pawar Medical College, Hospital and Research Centre, Nashik - 422003, IN

Abstract

A chillum consist a mixture of Cannabis and tobacco.Cannabis, also known as marijuana; it is a psychoactive drug from the Cannabis plant intended for medical or recreational use; nowadays widely being abused for getting high and temporary relaxation. Sputum examination of chillum smokers may indicate harmful effects of chillum smoking on lungs. Objectives of present study were to study the sputum characteristics and differential cell count of chillum smoking Sadhus of Kumbh Mela. Present descriptive observational study was conducted among fifty Sadhus of Kumbh Mela of Nashik. Participants were selected using purposive sampling method. In present study all sputum samples showed raised differential cell count and statistically significant association was observed between differential cell like Neutrophils, Lymphocytes and Macrophages with different content present in chillum.

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