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Given they are two critical infrastructure areas, the security of electricity and gas networks is highly important due to potential multifaceted social and economic impacts. Unexpected errors or sabotage can lead to blackouts, causing a significant loss for the public, businesses, and governments. Climate change and an increasing number of consequent natural disasters (e.g., bushfires and floods) are other emerging network resilience challenges. In this paper, we used network science to examine the topological resilience of national energy networks with two case studies of Australian gas and electricity networks. To measure the fragility and resilience of these energy networks, we assessed various topological features and theories of percolation. We found that both networks follow the degree distribution of power-law and the characteristics of a scale-free network. Then, using these models, we conducted node and edge removal experiments. The analysis identified the most critical nodes that can trigger cascading failure within the network upon a fault. The analysis results can be used by the network operators to improve network resilience through various mitigation strategies implemented on the identified critical nodes.

A system for monitoring patients for the cold sweat symptom and giving instant signal if they break into sweat has been proposed in this work. A method was devised to create such a system for indicating profuse perspiration by continuous monitoring of Galvanic Skin Resistance. For this purpose a circuit was designed, an algorithm was created and certain steps were followed towards achieving the goal of detecting profuse perspiration. Finally, a system was created that would immediately notify if a person's skin gets moist. Special attention had been given to create the system with easily available components for use in technologically unadvanced nations.