V. Nithya and A. Kumudha.
Grasping Buyer Behavior is what a Marketer has to do. No wonder, the study of buyer behavior has become very vital now. So there is need to identify the dimensions of the buyer and decode the consumer behavior. This study attempts to provide a view towards buyer behaviour. A sample of 82 female cosmetic users was selected. The results confirm with what has been largely theoretical ideas of linkages between the buyer characteristics and the importance that they place on different criteria during the decision-making process. The results are supported with the analysis that has been made with the data gathered during the study.
Erick Kibai, Dinda Victor, Charles Mutai and John Arudo.
Despite the important advances in perinatal care in the past decades, asphyxia remains a severe condition leading to significant mortality and morbidity. Perinatal asphyxia has an incidence of 1 to 6 per 1,000 live full-term births, and represents the third most common cause of neonatal death (23%) after preterm birth (28%) and severe infections (26%). The objective of this study was to determine the risk factors associated with Birth asphyxia in order to develop preventive interventions to reduce neonatal morbidity and mortality. This was retrospective institutional based study which involved all neonates born at term diagnosed with and without birth asphyxia. Systematic sampling was utilized as the researcher was interested in neonates with and without birth asphyxia. Data for analysis was captured via SPSS version 19 and summaries such as means, percentages and standard deviations were generate. Out of total 422 neonates, 123 (29.1%) had birth asphyxia and rest 299 (70.9%) were normal. Significant socio-demographic risk factors were maternal age (OR 3.0 CI 95% 1.9 ? 4.9, <0.0001), education level (OR 3.8259; CI 95% p-value <.0001) and parity (OR 1.81; CI 95% 1.08-3.02; p-value=0.0226). There are numerous risk factors that can be linked to sequence of birth asphyxia and they may vary from one context to another. Socio-demographic: risk factors of birth asphyxia included mother?s age, education level and parity. The study recommendations that more care to be given to younger mothers at the time of delivery because they are thrice at risk of birth asphyxia compared to older mothers. In addition, community health workers should be trained for emergency obstetric care, basic newborn care including preliminary resuscitation measures to provide skilled birth attendance and encourage early recognition and referral for early interventions.
Sourav Mahato, Tapas Karmakar, Abhijit Paul and Manoj Kumar Mahato.
As stated by NCTE (1998), ?The teacher is the most important element in any educational programme. It is the teacher who is mainly responsible for implementation of the educational process at any stage.? The National Curriculum Framework, 2005 places demands and expectations on the teacher, which need to be addressed by both initial and continuing teacher education. Teacher education is a programme that is related to the development of teacher proficiency and competence that would enable and empower the teacher to meet the requirements of the profession and face the challenges therein. There are two types of teacher education-- pre-service and in-service teacher education. Dl.Ed, B.Ed., M.Ed. and such other programmes are pre-service teacher education. Other hand orientation, refresher course and such other programmes are considered as in-service teacher education. Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) is the under graduation professional course where as Master of Education (M.Ed.) is the post graduation professional course of teacher education in India. Especially, Master of Education (M.Ed.) is the teacher education programme for the will be teachers of B.Ed. colleges. Also the passed out M.Ed. candidates can teach the students of B.A./B.Sc. in Education, M.A./M.Sc. in Education and M.Ed. students in colleges and universities. But the curriculum of the Master of Education (M.Ed.) includes only the theories of education and research works. There is no scope of practical teaching practices for the teacher-students in this programme. Therefore when they go to teach the students of graduation and master, they face problems to teach. Sometimes they try to use the skills learned in B.Ed. course. But it is wrong operation or not right operation, because the level of the college and university students is different from the level of school students. For this problem, may be, many M.Ed. holder teachers are not successful in job and the quality of bachelor degrees and post graduation degrees in education are not satisfactory. This issue is attempted in this study. The M.Ed. programme has been compared with the current B.Ed. programme of India. Also the M.Ed. programme has been compared with the other different teacher education programmes of different countries. Then it is discussed that
Opara I. J, Ossi C. D and OkoUdu C. O
A more versatile and relatively cheap method of bonding virtually all materials together is by the use of adhesives. Among all the means of fastening, adhesive is the most suitable method because no damage is done to the adherends (as in nailing) and stress is more uniformly distributed. In this research work, various adhesives were produced from cassava which is a locally available natural raw material. The cassava starch was chemically modified to obtain oxidized, hydrolyzed and dexrinized from which the various adhesives were produced by incorporating other chemicals such as plasticizers and tackifiers. Generally, these adhesives were found have good bonding strength on wood, cardboard, paper and leather materials. However, adhesives produced from hydrolyzed and oxidized starch showed exceptionally good adhesive properties.
Shobha Yadav.
Background: Significant effect of mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) therapy has been demonstrated on depression. Although MBSR are effective and highly valued, but all the patients do not shows interest due to extensive time and cost involvement. Brief interventions (e.g., body scans) may be used by individuals, at a lower cost and with little training to reduce the depression.
Aim: To study the effect of body scan meditation in reducing depression in alcohol dependence patients.
Method: The present study was conducted on patients with alcohol dependence in Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi. The study samples were collected from 30 in-patients with alcohol dependence syndrome (ADS) using a self-rating scale. After that the subjects who were randomly assigned to receiving body scan meditation underwent 45 minutes guided meditation and 15 minutes discussion for one week. Subjects assigned to control group, did not receive body scan meditation. However, both the groups received pharmacological treatment as usual. After the intervention, subjects in both of the groups were revaluated.
Results: Patients in experimental group had significantly less severe dependence on alcohol and showed significant reduction in depression after one week intervention of body scan meditation.
Conclusion: There is significant reduction in depressive symptoms after receiving one week of mindfulness based body scan meditation therapy in alcohol dependence patients.
Soumeya ISSELMOU, Eby Mohamedou, Brahim Ahmed DICK, Hassan CHAAIR, Khalid digua, A. Kader Mahmoud, Med lemine Fajel, A.M. Yahya, KHERICI-BOUSNOUBRA Houria, DJEDAOUNE Amel and I. Youm.
Dans le but de suivre la qualit? physico-chimique de l?Eau de la zone entre Nouakchott et Boulenoir en Mauritanie qui joue un r?le tr?s important comme source principale d?eau souterraine en Mauritanie, Nous avons effectu? deux pr?l?vements mensuels au niveau de dix sites (forages) dans la zone d??tude entre Avril et septembre 2015.Nous avons effectu? au total 120 ?chantillons d?eau pour l?analyse physico-chimique.
Les r?sultats physicochimiques montrent que le pH est proche de la neutralit? 7,71. Les valeurs moyennes de la duret?, des ions calcium, magn?sium, sodium et le potassium, sulfates sont respectivement 6,35 m?q/l, 0,490 m?q/L, 1,202 m?q/L, 2,202 m?q/L et 0,096 m?q/L, 0,931m?q/l. les valeurs moyennes du chlorure, sulfates et des carbonates sont respectivement 2,54 m?q/l, 0,93m?q/l et 7,19m?q/l. La min?ralisation est moyenne. La conductivit? moyenne enregistr?e au niveau des diff?rents sites est de 764 μS/cm qui traduisent le degr? de min?ralisation globale, elle nous renseigne sur le taux de salinit?. Les mesures de la conductivit? de l?ensemble des ?chantillons montrent qu?elles sont comprises entre 425 μS/cm et 1283 μS/cm et avec une valeur moyenne 764 μS/cm. On observe de tr?s faibles variations entre les diff?rents points de pr?l?vement. Il a ?t? constat? que la conductivit? diminue sensiblement avec l?augmentation du niveau de la nappe. On remarque que la conductivit? dans la session s?che est plus ?lev?e que la session de pluie. On pourrait penser ? un ph?nom?ne de dilution du la nappe due ? l?augmentation du volume d?eau.
En ce qui concerne les compos?s azot?s, les teneurs en nitrates, nitrites et ammonium sont respectivement 23,90 mg/l, 0,006 mg/L et 0,016 mg/l c?est valeur sont nettement inf?rieur aux valeurs moyen de la norme de l?OMS de l?eau potable.
En ce qui concerne les param?tres de pollutions, tel que la turbidit?, et le phosphores sont tr?s faibles et, sont respectivement 0,15 NTU, et 0,72mg/l.
Cette ?tude montre que tous les param?tres physicochimiques ?tudi?s sont compatibles avec les normes des eaux d?alimentation et montre que cette eau est moyennement dure.
Les valeurs du param?tres analyses montre que a les eaux de la zone d??tude placent ce dernier dans la classe excellente ? bonne des eaux de souterraines.
Amal A. Hassan, Mohammed H. Aly, Hani A. Faida, Salem M. Alamri and Alaa M. Alorabie.
The histopathological pattern of pulmonary diseases were determined based on age, gender, and nationality of tertiary hospital in holly Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
A cohort retrospective study all histopathological diagnosed cases of lung diseases between January 2003 and December 2012 through a computerized database search of the anatomic pathology archives. Out of 419 case studies, the most common histopathological diagnosed pulmonary diseases were pulmonary infections 218 (52%), followed by lung tumors 112 (26.7%), restrictive and obstructive lung diseases 18 cases for each (4.3%), and congenital pulmonary airway malformation 11 (2.6%). The percentage of in sufficient and unsatisfactory biopsies was 8.2% , 2% showed no pathological diagnosis on histological examination.
Out of 218 cases (52%) of pulmonary infections, 139 (33.2%) were bacterial infections, and 36 cases (8.66%) were tuberculosis, and pulmonary bullae came 3rth with 18 cases (4.3%). In the other hand, out of 26.7% lung tumors, 98.8% were malignant and 95.9% of them were primary. Bacterial infection was the most common pulmonary disease identified histopathological in every age group, while lung cancer came 2nd in patients of 40 years and above.
We concluded that pulmonary infections are the most common form of histopathological diagnosed lung diseases followed by lung tumors.
Pr. Lalla Latifa Alaoui and Jihad Ouddida.
The paper at hand discusses findings from an analysis about investments in the agriculture in rural areas.The approach on this study took into consideration the need to touch on what actions impact the micro-economic and social development of rural areas in order to promote these environments.
In theory, it seems that investments in agriculture will meet and respond to a major expectation: thepromotion of a rural area is only achieved through the mobilization of an integrated marketing strategydriven mainly by actions in the agriculture sector. Offers and opportunities in agriculture are limited compared to other industries, hence the need for short- and medium-term plans of actions in order to convince relevant parties of the attractiveness of the rural areas to be promoted. The objective of this study is to highlight to what extent rural marketing can impact and develop investments in agriculture. Wepropose an empirical study on the BENI MELLAL - KHENIFRA area.
Usama Hellal, Nabila Fayed, Rehab Elsharkawy and Mostafa Abd Elrahmen.
Introduction: Maxillary protrusion correction is usually by anterior maxillary segmental osteotomies. Evaluation of Changes occurring in facial soft tissues after anterior maxillary segmental osteotomy without mandibular surgery is needed. In this systematic review, we analyzed soft tissue changes and soft-to-hard tissue ratios regarding anterior maxillary segmental osteotomy.
Methods: electronic databases were used for collecting the articles that meet the inclusion and exclusion criteria and its references searched manually for additional relevant articles. The details and outcome data from each study were collected for comparison with each other using spreadsheets. The methodological quality of each study was assessed.
Results: three studies and two additional article were found in the reference that met the inclusion and exclusion criteria were collected. A reduction of the labial prominence with an increase in the nasolabial angle was noticed subsequent to anterior maxillary segmental osteotomies in all studies.
Conclusion: The magnitude of the reported soft tissue changes and their ratios corresponding to the osseous movements varied among studies. To predict the soft tissue changes in response to anterior maxillary segmental osteotomies, more prospective studies with sound methodology, larger samples and three dimensional evaluation are required with considering confounding factors such as age, sex, race and osteotomy technique.
Shiferaw Mekonen, Fekadu Gurmu and Tesfaye Tadesse.
Sweetpotato is commonly grown in the south, south western and eastern parts of Ethiopia. The production trend of sweetpotato in Ethiopia is increasing in terms of area and volume of production and the country has very suitable climatic and edaphic conditions for its production. However, the productivity of the crops is very low as compared to its potential. Sweetpotato virus disease (SPVD) is one of the major problems which limit sweetpotato production and productivity, particularly in southern Ethiopia. Although different sweetpotato varieties have been released in Ethiopia, there is no variety which is resistant to the disease. Therefore, field experiment was conducted to identify SPVD resistant sweetpotato varieties under field conditions at Hawassa, Dilla and Halaba districts in southern Ethiopia during 2014-2015 cropping seasons. Eleven elite genotypes advanced from previous screening trial, two previously released varieties, one currently released variety (Mae), a susceptible variety (Guntute) and one local check were evaluated using a randomized complete block design with three replications. Variety Guntute was used as inoculum source and disease spreader during the study. Through visual assessment and serological test, only four genotypes have showed resistant reaction to the common SPVDs. The remaining 12 genotypes were infected with at least one of the major virus types (sweetpotato feathery mottle virus or sweetpotato chlorotic stunt virus). The four sweetpotato genotypes that were identified as resistant to SPVD were TIS-8250-1, TIS-70357-2, CN-1754-5, and CN-1752-6. These genotypes yielded 49.2, 45.3, 46.8 and 46.6 t ha-1, respectively, with yield advantage of 262.4 to 283.3% over the local check and 43 to 56% over the standard check. The genotypes are promising for registration as a variety after verification and can be recommended for direct production as well as donor parents for breeding program aiming at development of sweetpotato varieties resistant to SPVD.
Shanin Sultana, Khayrul Islam Sumon, Husna Parvin Noor, Walliullah Md. Ajmotgir, Khabir Uddin Sarker and Rashed Hasan.
This research involves the synthesis of cross-linked sodium polyacrylate hydrogels by solution polymerization technique. Three products were selected from different types of synthesized cross-linked sodium polyacrylate polymers to investigate the physico-mechanical properties of sodium polyacrylate hydrogels. Reaction parameters such as time, temperature, concentration of initiators, concentration of activator, concentration of sodium acrylate solution and concentration of cross-linking agents were investigated for cross-linked sodium polyacrylate hydrogels. FT-IR spectroscopic analysis was done for the synthesized hydrogel and the results showed the evidence of positive reactions. Density, viscosity, solubility test, solid content and melting point were measured for all products. Polymer films of the synthesized polymers were made by solution casting method and the mechanical properties were studied. Mechanical properties (ultimate tensile strength, tensile modulus and elongation at break) were measured for all synthesized cross-linked sodium polyacrylate polymers. Swelling properties of cross-linked sodium polyacrylate hydrogels were measured in distilled water, tap water and aqueous sodium chloride solution respectively. Water absorbencies results indicate that this polymer was water-swellable but not water-soluble like super absorbent polymers.
Lestari Sainuddin, Abdul Maasba Magassing, Iin Karita Sakharina and Handar Subhandi Bakhtiar.
Terrorism that occurred in Indonesia and some existing countries, is considered as an extraordinary crime that disturbs the public and makes the State becomes chaotic and insecure. Many societies are incorporated in these schools of terrorism and consider those outside their stream as enemies to be annihilated. Therefore, to overcome the occurrence of terrorism it is necessary to do some prevention to terrorism is not growing and can be eradicated or eliminated one of them is by freezing the terrorist funds so that their actions can be stopped.
Aarthi Pugazhendi and D. Sathish Sekar.
Aloe barbadensis from Xanthorrhoeaceae is an ancient medicinal plant containing traditional and folk medicinal properties for several diseases. Various parts of Aloe vera plant have been in the field of Therapeutics, Cosmetics and Pharmaceuticals. Aloe vera comprises of 200 and more molecule types in it which are solely responsible for the release of phytochemicals. This species involved in the key actions of healing wounds and stimulates secretions of bile. Aloe is laxative. Out of the 22 amino acids required for the human body, 8 essential amino acids are found in Aloe vera. The external source vitamins namely A, B1, B2, B6, B12, C and E are predominantly available in Aloe vera itself. Despite of tremendous uses of Aloe vera, poor natural propagation by means of axillary shoots and the presence of male sterility becomes the major barriers in rapid propagation of Aloe vera. Large scale propagation can be standardized through Tissue culture where the yield is more and the produced plants are disease free. In this study, the review on Aloe vera was studied along with the development of the plant through tissue culture in order to increase productivity for making use of the applications.
Kapil Mukesh, Kusum Harjai and Sanjay Chhibber.
Klebsiella pneumoniae is one of the most frequently isolated bacterial pathogen from cases of nosocomial and community acquired infections. In the present study, 50 clinical strains (Burn wound and urological isolates) along with two standard strains of K. pneumoniae were screened for the presence of recognised quorum sensing system. Although all the isolates were found to be positive for AHL production but the burn wound isolates showed higher AHL production. The clinical isolates showed variable type of signal production therefore bioassay guided expression of quorum sensing signal molecules (AI-1) was employed for qualitative estimation of C12-HSL, C8-HSL, C6-HSL and C4-HSL production by employing A. tumefaciens A-136 (pDSK519) E. coli MG4 (pKDT17), E. coli MG4 (λ1.4), P. aeruginosa PAO-JP2 (pECP61.5), C. violaceum CV026 as their reporters respectively. 100% of the strains of K. pneumoniae were found to produce AHLs, the quorum sensing signal molecule which was subsequently confirmed by HPLC. These results confirm that K. pneumoniae is an avid producer of AI-1 quorum sensing signal molecule.
Mahmood Hasan Al-khazaali.
Human frailty is concerned with the new aspirations that appeared during the Renaissance that often showed how an individual was shaped by his weakness such as uncontrolled ambition, passion and a limitless need to know, to rule, to have revenge and to love. Such ideas occupied the minds of many playwrights at that time. This paper is mainly concerned with the treatment of these ideas in William Shakespeare?s King Lear, chosen because this play represents the emergence of human weakness during that conflicting period leading man to his downfall, the embodiment of tyrannical power, King Lear, is a tragedy of a protagonist who falls because of his weakness. In King Lear, the main idea is how a man of a royal position foolishly wastes. And the tragedy of a king who over trusted his daughters as he divides his own kingdom. He has doomed accordingly.
Sheuli Sen.
Objectives: - (i) To assess the patient satisfaction with quality of `nursing Care. (ii) To identify relationship between satisfaction of patient with selected variables.
Method: - In this study descriptive survey approach was used. Purposive sampling technique was used and study sample was 50 adult patients who admitted in the Neuro MICU (Medical Intensive Care Unit) and Neuro Medical ward of SGT Hospital. The total period of sample collection was from January 2016 to April 2016.The data collection tool used for the study was a modified form of Dr. Laschinger?s -?Patient satisfaction with quality nursing care questionnaire? [PSNCQQ], translated to vernacular language Hindi.
Result:-The total number of sample was 50. The mean age of sample was 44.7 yrs. Majority of the samples 70% were reported good, 30% were reported excellent and no one reported poor. In this study there is no significant relation between patient satisfactions with quality of nursing care by different variables. There was statistically significant relation between age and satisfaction of patient (p-0.031) and no relation between other variables.
Abdul Wahed Taher and Jahed Ahmad Nabil.
Background: In developing countries a large number of women are dying due to factors related to pregnancy and child birth. Implementing and assuring utilization of maternal health care services is potentially one of the most effective health interventions for preventing maternal morbidity and mortality. However, in Afghanistan the utilization of maternal health care is low.
Methods: A cross-sectional retrospective study was conducted from July to December 2016 in North region, Afghanistan, to assess to determine the proportion visit for ANC & subsequence visits of mentioned ARCS clinics. The data were collected through their monthly HMIS report and use as secondary data collection. Data were collected from a sample of 10 clinics
Results: The study revealed that 82% of the women had at least one antenatal visit during their last pregnancy. Among the antenatal service users, 41% had less than four antenatal visits. More than half of the antenatal care (ANC) attendants made their first visit during their second and third trimester of pregnancy although WHO recommended ANC should be started at the first trimester of the pregnancy. Attitude towards pregnancy, knowledge on danger signs of pregnancy and presence of husband approval on ANC. The study also revealed that about 3.07% of the women had given birth in the health institutions. Parity, literacy status of women, average monthly family income, media exposure, decision where to give birth, perception of distance to health institutions (HI) and ANC attendance were found to be significantly associated with delivery care (DC) attendance.
Conclusions: The utilization of ANC and DC service is inadequate in the catchment area. The utilization of ANC and DC were influenced by demographic, socio-economic and health related factors. Improving the status of women by expanding educational opportunities, strengthening promotion of antenatal and delivery care by enhancing community awareness about the importance of ANC and DC are recommended.
P. Eddy Sanusi Silitonga and Djoko Setyo Widodo.
This study aims to analyze the influence of organizational commitment and competence on job satisfaction and organizational performance either partially or simultaneously on the City Government of Bekasi. The population of this research is all the Regional Device Work Unit in Bekasi City Government, Head of Department, Head of Agency and Head of Division who occupy essay II and III in Bekasi City Government which amounted to 208 people consist of 36 echelon II and 172 persons Echelon III officials. The sample size in this study using Slovin formula with α size used is 5%, thus the sample size is 137 people. Quantitative analysis method using path analysis, followed by determination analysis (R Square), partial hypothesis testing (t test) and simultaneous (F test) with alpha 5 percent (0,05). Before the first analysis is done first test the normality. Analytical tool using SPSS version 21.0 for windows. The result of the research shows that organizational commitment and competency partially and simultaneously have a positive and significant influence on job satisfaction and organizational performance, as well as job satisfaction have an influence on organizational performance in Bekasi City Government.
Dhea M. Sh. Ahmad.
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy proved to be the gold standard in the treatment of cholelithiasis and is replacing open cholecystectomy. The rate of conversion from laparoscopic cholecystectomy to open cholecystectomy range from 5-10 %, that\'s why it is necessary to study the predictive factors for difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy. 115 patients were all subjected to ultrasonographic examination. The patients confirmed by US examination are evaluated with following factors: age, sex, BMI, h/o previous hospitalization, h/o previous abdominal surgeries, h/o acute cholecystitis. Ultrasonographic findings were Gall bladder wall thickness (> or < 4mm), pericholecystic fluid collection, number (solitary versus multiple) and liver texture (normal, fatty infiltration or fibrosis). Following evaluation the patients were subjected to laparoscopic cholecystectomy and the following operative parameters were assessed: access to peritoneal cavity (easy, difficult), bleeding during surgery (normal, abnormal), gall bladder bed dissection (easy, difficult), injury to duct/artery, and conversion to open surgery. In the present study, BMI > 30, history of cholecystitis, gall bladder wall thickness > 4mm, palpable gall bladder, pericholecystic fluid collection, impacted stone were significant predictive factors for difficult laparoscopic cholecystectomy .
Edi Sumarwanto.
If a patient feels aggrieved by the practice of medicine can make a complaint to the Indonesian Medical Disciplinary Board. Complaints to the Indonesian Medical Disciplinary Board do not diminish the patient\'s right to report the physician for alleged criminal acts to the authorities and or to sue for civil injury to the court. Giving sanctions to the medical profession is not considered to meet the value of justice. Reconstruction of several Articles in Law number 29 of 2004 on Medical Practice is indispensable, among others: Article 3 a Medical Practice Law and Article 66 paragraph (3) of Medical Practice Law and Article 69 paragraph (3) of Medical Practice Law. In article 66 paragraph (3) explains that any violation of the medical profession must first be terminated through Indonesian Medical Disciplinary Board institution. The process of complaint is the author called \"One Door Court.\" In order for the theory of one-door justice can run effectively then required Indonesian Medical Disciplinary Board provincial and district throughout Indonesia. Reconstruction type of sanction (Article 69 paragraph (3)) intended for the implementation of sanctioning the medical profession always mengedapankan prophetic justice that is justice based on Belief in God Almighty.
narendrasinh thakor, nilesh jethva and hemant Toshikhane.
Bhagandara (fistula in ano) in modern parlance is a common ano rectal condition prevalent in the populations worldwide and its prevalence is second highest after arsha (haemorrhoids). Kshara Sutra is a chief modality in the management of Bhagandara in Ayurvedic science. Exploration of the new plants for the preparation of Kshara as a better substitute of Apamarga Kshara is the need of the hour.
Ali Anok Najum and Rima N. Hasan.
Present study aimed to identify the V.cholera in Sawa lake cause there is rare study about contamination of Sawa lake . A total of 10 water samples were collected from Sawa lake in different period , one sample every month from March to December 2016 .Samples were cultured directly on specific medium (Alkaline peptone water , TcBs) bacteria was identified according to cultural characteristics , biochemical tests (Api 20 , serotyping and antibiotic sensivity test .
Results showed that 5 (50%) of samples were positive for isolation of Vibrio cholera after further identification for isolated found 1 isolate was positive for V. cholera O1 Ogawa serotypes in November . Our isolates (V. cholera O1)was resistant 100% for Chloramphenicol ,Sulfa, Trimethoprim , Clindamycin and Linezolid , while sensitive 100% for Ampicillin , Cefotaxime , Ceftriaxone , Erythromycin , Tetracyclin , Nitrofurantin and Gentamycin.
Eduardo Jos? Burgos-Valencia, Jos? Alberto Narv?ez-Zapata, Guadalupe L?pez-Puc, Manuel Octavio Ram?rez-Sucre and Ingrid Mayanin Rodr?guez-Buenfil.
Bioethanol is an alternative energy source used as fossil fuel complement. It can be obtained from microbial fermentation of sugars. Efficient fermentations require microorganisms capable of use all the carbohydrates present in raw materials but most of them have different preferences for its assimilation. Mixed cultures are an alternative to perform carbohydrate fermentations due the synergistic combination of different metabolic capacities. In this work the carbohydrate assimilation profile of two Candida glabrata strains (code T1 and LR2) isolated from termite gut and bovine ruminal fluid, respectively, was studied in single and mixed cultures on sugar mixtures. A minimal medium based on nitrogen with 120 g/l of carbohydrates (in proportions similar to those found in citric residues) was inoculated with 2.0 x 107 cell/ml. In mixed cultures (code MC1 and MC2), strains were inoculated at proportion 50:50 with the same inoculum concentration. Fermentations were made during ten days at 35?C (by T1 single culture and MC1) and 40?C (by LR2 single culture and MC2) at 200 rpm. LR2 had higher cellular population and biomass and T1 had better growth rate and doubling time. All the cultures assimilate all sugars. MC1 had the best assimilation of glucose (94.81?0.12%), fructose (83.83?0.60%) and arabinose (62.12?0.42%). T1 single culture had the best assimilation of galactose (52.64?0.71%) and xylose (56.75?0.66%). T1 and MC1 had the best ethanol production (24.28 ?0.78 g/l and 24.32 ?1.00 g/l, respectively). MC2 had the highest maximum productivity (6.98 ? 0.73 g/l?day) and alcohol production rate (0.128?0.004 g/lh).
Hanan Al- Radhi.
This study aimed to explore Arab spring\'s consequences that prevailed in Bahrain after 2010-2011 as reflected by AJE\'s online news article released in its website 2013. The current study\'s main aim is to unveil AJE\'s hidden ideologies about Arab spring upheaval in Bahrain investigating its \'\'Self\'\' and \'\'Other\'\' discoursal-ideological representations. In order to achieve this goal, the researcher utilized the following theories: 1) van Dijk\'s theory of Semantic Macrostructure (1980); to examine macro and micro structures of AJE\'s online news article, 2) van Dijk\'s theory of Ideological Square (1998c); to examine AJE\'s ideologies embedded within its online news article and 3) Wodak\'s Discourse- Historical Approach; to endorse linguistic and ideological analysis of AJE\'s online news article. Fairclough\'s three-dimensional Approach was utilized, as well, to organize the process of analysis of the study\'s text. Within the linguistic analysis, macro and micro structures of AJE\'s online news article were analyzed. At the macro level, the semantic macrostructure was outlined to determine its global meaning. At the micro level, the syntactic, lexical and rhetorical structures were examined to determine their local meaning. Within the ideological analysis, the AJE\'s online news article was analyzed to determine its ideological positive \'\'Self\'\' (in-group) and negative \'\'Other\'\' (out-group) presentations. The findings revealed that AJE\'s ideological orientations towards Bahrain were different. Thus, it presented the Bahraini popular opposition as the positive \"Self\" identities, drawn positively, while the Bahraini royal authority as the negative \"Other\'\' identities, drawn negatively.
Dr. J. Shanthi.
Today?s construction professionals face a highly competitive global engineering and construction environment that requires a fundamental understanding of management, technology, and finance, as well as business and legal principles. Talented managers know how to avoid costly delays, how to maximize existing budgets, and how to control a project?s scope, among other valuable skills. Construction managers plan, coordinate, budget, and supervise construction projects from development to completion. Construction manager will succeed in their job if they can adequately lead their workers to complete the job correctly. By possessing traits such as multitasking abilities, timeliness and good problem solving skills, the construction manager will be able to complete their daily job tasks quickly and efficiently. Construction industry faces many challenges, stemming from a variety of sources. These challenges can have an impact on project success. CMs must be keenly aware of the risks and implications of these challenges. Many of these challenges are a direct result of construction operations, while others are a result of indirect, peripheral activities. Construction issues include workforce considerations, safety, time constraints, and the changing nature of the work itself. Non-construction challenges that CMs face that are part of the business landscape include legal issues, government regulations, environmental concerns, and socio-political pressures. The construction manager will plan, direct and budget a construction project as well as handle any issues which arise during the job. He is the most critical resource in implementation phase of the project. He is supposed to discharge basic functions like organizing, staffing, directing, planning and controlling. A good performance of construction manager is necessary for the growth, development and success of Construction Company. So, this study helps to understand the role of construction manager and the challenges faced by him in the construction industry.
Noel B. Manarpiis.
The study used quantitative methodology and cross-sectional approach to determine cohesive devices used in English and Pilipino expository essays by Filipino college freshmen. These were correlated with raw scores they obtained. It revealed the cohesive devices they were supposed to use and those they frequently use or misuse. It found out why they ignored certain cohesive device. Instruments were used to elicit substantial results. Percentage, Pearson r and one-factor ANOVA were used for analysis. The outputs were correlated using t-test for dependent or correlated means. Cohesives used were mostly definite articles, pronoun references and place and time markers, transitions, with support/evidence and cause and effect types. Cohesives were misused and abused only in the English essay. Cohesives used were those only known to them or what they only remembered. There was a very high positive correlation between the number of words used and the reference cohesion in the essays; a moderately small positive correlation between the total words used over the transitions; a moderately small positive correlation between the total words used to the raw score; and significant effect of reference cohesion, transition and raw scores. T-test showed a negative difference between students? English and Pilipino essays.
Deepanshu Solanki.
Soil is the basic earths toppest layer which support the structure and also the sub base and base course in the pavements. The existing soil at a particular location may not be suitable for the construction due to poor bearing capacity and higher compressibility or due to excessive swelling in case of expansive soils. The improvement of soil at a site is indispensable due to rising cost of the land. In that case the properties of soil can be improved by soil stabilization. soil stabilization a general term for any physical, chemical, biological, or combined method of changing a natural soil to meet an engineering purpose. Improvements include increasing the weight bearing capabilities and performance of in-situ subsoils, sands and other waste materials in order to strengthen road surfaces
Hakim Singh.
Origin of MGNREGA Act, 2005 is a revolutionary step to the process of policy implementation in India. It has immensely affected the socio-economic security of rural citizens as it provides 100 days of guaranteed employment to every household whose adult members is willing to do unskilled manual work at fixed minimum wages. The scheme (MGNREGA) in Kishtwar region (then a tehsil of erstwhile Doda) was implemented in the first phase. For instance, the district at that time being a tehsil was covered under the scheme in the year 2006-07. So with this background the present study was an attempt to study the implementation of MGNREGA-performance and its role in developing the rural infrastructure (Assets) in district Kishtwar. It also explored the various trends in implementing the scheme in the District.
Abdul Manan.
Tarekat (the order of Islamic mysticism) had significant role upon the Islamic life of the people in Indonesia. In certain area, tarekat became an interesting phenomenon since the mursyid (guiding teacher) and several of its followers possessed certain authorities as the member on official governance or even the leader of a region. This research studied the influence of Tarekat Syattariyah (the order of Islamic mysticism of Syattariyah) toward political and social aspects in Nagan Raya. This study describe the participation of Tarekat Syatariah on the regional election in Nagan Raya along with its triumph during the period of 2002-2006, 2006-2012, an 2012-2017, and factors causing fails in the election in 2017 that was considered as the beginning of fall it in the governance. This research was conducted by using qualitative approach as an ethnographic study that employed three data collecting technics: interview, observation, and document study. The result indicated that the Tarekat Syattariyah was actively involved in the political activities in the Nagan Raya Regency and had significant influence on legislative and executive governance. Since the establishment of this regency in 2002 until 2017, Nagan Raya was led by regent who closely related to the Tarekat Syattariyah. The regent even led Nagan Raya for three periods respectively. However, in 2017, this Tarekat failed winning the regional election since it had lost the people?s reliance due to nepotism, which had been done during the era of their governance.
Fadhil Mohammed Dhahir and Ali Mecki Mohammed Hasan.
Dissipation of energy of the flow by using of weirs can be accomplish in many ways, depending basically on the type of weir. The concept of through and overflow for porous weirs can be use purposively to explain many phenomena such as, dissipating the energy of incoming flow which the flowing of water through the body of the weir contributes in considerable percentage of it, and using of another concepts to represent the dissipated energy in the downstream side of the weir as criterions for energy dissipation. This paper aims to study the dissipated amount of energy for gravel gabion weir by choosing of the difference in energy between upstream and downstream sides of the weir, and the distance of formation of the hydraulic jump as criterions to represent the energy dissipation. The general conclusion shows that both criterions are directly proportional with each other for all series of test runs, while every parameter, fixed of measured, such as length of the weir and diameter of gravel sample has an undular effect on both criterions.
Hakadeini Challam and Pulak Deb.
Objective: The aim of the present research is to formulate and evaluate matrix tablet of Nifedipine by using hydrophobic and hydrophilic polymer.
Method: The Nifedipine matrix tablets were prepared by wet granulation method. Formulated tablets were characterized by parameters like hardness, friability, content uniformity, weight variation and in- vitro release studies. In vitro drug release studies were carried in dissolution apparatus using 900 ml of 0.1N HCL (pH 1.2 buffer) for first 2 hours and remaining 12 hours in phosphate buffer (pH 6.8) containing 1% w/v sodium lauryl sulfate as dissolution medium. The amount of drug released was determined spectrophotometrically at 235 nm.
Result: The results of the present study based on the in- vitro dissolution studies showed that formulation F5 was shown drug release upto 92.53% at 14 hours was selected as the best formulation from Nifedipine formulations. All the formulated tablets were evaluated for various physical parameters such as hardness, thickness, friability weight variation and drug content was found to be within the limit. In selected formulation, the calculated regression coefficients for drug release kinetics follows the Korsemayer-peppas and drug transport mechanism follow anomalous transport and non- fickian diffusion mechanism release.
Conclusion: The result of the study demonstrated that combination of both hydrophilic and hydrophobic polymers could be successfully employed for formulating sustained-release matrix tablets of nifedipine.
Debdoot Basu, Devang B. Sheth, Bhagyashree Patel and N. J. Meghani.
Background: Migraine is chronic neurovascular disorder which affects the quality of life. Design: It was single centric, parallel, randomised, single blinded, placebo-controlled clinical trial conducted on patients of migraine. Experimental work: 130 patients were enrolled in the study. By randomised technique 65 patients were placed in placebo group and 65 patients were placed in treatment group.The study was conducted for 4 months at Meghani Homeopathy Hospital, Rajkot. Demographic data, Improvement in Quality of Life in the two groups were compared. Statistical analysis used: Based on the normality of data, unpaired t test or Mann Whitney U test was used for comparison of changes in SF-36 scores for Quality of Life. Result and discussion: Female in gender, working age of people and common migraine (unilateral side) was found to most prevalent in Rajkot region. Comparison of 0 and 120 days showed marked decrease in frequency, duration and intensity of attack significantly. SF-36 scale showed significant increase in treatment group after 120th day treatment from placebo group. These scales differences were statistical significant (P <0.05) except the mental health as compared to placebo group. PCS (Physical Component Summary) and MCS (Mental Component Summary) both were found to increase in treatment group 48.49?0.68 and 46.18?0.685 as compared to placebo group 30.3?1.02 and 42.60?0.69(120 days). The increase in PCS and MCS was significant statistically (P < 0.05). Conclusion: Arnica- 30c a homeopathic formulation at the end of 120 days was found to improve Quality of Life in patients of migraine.
Pallavi Rai and Harbans Kaur Kehri.
The present study has been undertaken to see the effect of fly ash application on the physiological parameters of Cowpea plant like Chlorophyll content and Proline content of plant. Photosynthetic pigments (Chlorophyll a, Chlorophyll b) content increased with addition of 10% fly ash, while decreased with addition of fly ash, without any amendment while Carotenoids content increased with addition of 30% fly ash, without any amended. It was also observed that Proline accumulation was more in 20% and 30% fly ash series as well as in combination with Cynodon in comparison to control. All other series showed a significant decrease in the Proline content. However the minimum Proline content was recorded in a series where soil was amended with Cynodon, 10% fly ash and inoculated with VAM fungi, PSF and nitrogen fixer (Rhizobium).
Ihssane Bentebbaa, Jalal Hamid, Leila Bendriss and Ali Khatouri.
L?association hypertension art?rielle (HTA) et diab?te est fr?quente. Elle potentialise le risque de d?c?s et de complications cardio-vasculaires. De ce fait, un bon diagnostic d?HTA et son contr?le sont d?une importance capitale. Le but de notre ?tude est de montrer l?apport de la mesure ambulatoire de la pression art?rielle et les particularit?s chez les diab?tiques hypertendus. Il s?agit d?une ?tude prospective sur une p?riode d?un an, ayant concern? 100 patients hypertendus diab?tiques, et 100 patients hypertendus non diab?tiques, suivis en consultation de cardiologie ? l?H?pital Militaire AVICENE de Marrakech. L??ge moyen de nos patients diab?tiques ?tait de 57,79 ? 7,9 ans, avec un sexe ratio de 1,08.Contre 49,60 ? 10,8 ans, et un sexe ratio de 1,43 pour les patients non diab?tiques. La MAPA a permis d?objectiver une HTA mal ?quilibr? chez 66 patients diab?tiques, contre 80 patients mal ?quilibr?s par la mesure clinique, et 16 patients ?quilibr?s par MAPA contre 20 patients estim?s ?quilibr?s par mesure clinique, avec un taux de concordance entre MAPA et mesure clinique de 80 %, coefficient kappa de 0,77. Alors que dans le groupe des patients non diab?tiques, la MAPA a montr? que 72 patients ?taient mal ?quilibr?s contre 74 selon la mesure clinique, et 28 patients ?quilibr?s selon la MAPA contre 26 selon la mesure clinique, avec un taux de concordance de 72 % et un coefficient kappa de 0,55. L\'apport consid?rable de la MAPA lui a permis d\'occuper une place pr?pond?rante dans la prise en charge de l\'hypertension art?rielle chez le diab?tique ou non. En d?pit du co?t de cette technique, son utilisation devrait ?tre de pratique courante.
Ms. Yogita Sanas.
Objectives: To document the frequency of anemia in all patients specifically women who reported to veterinary pathology lab in Fortis hospital in Kalyan city and to find the frequency of various grades of anemia in male and female patients.
Methodology: This hospital based study was conducted in veterinary pathology lab in Fortis hospital in Kalyan city. A total of 4834 ?full blood count? reports of 3022 male patients and 1812 female patients were reviewed for this study which were performed from 1st September 2016 to 30th November 2016. Haemoglobin level < 13 mg/dL for males and < 12 mg/dL for females was considered as anemic.
Results: Out of total 4834 patients, 62.20% (n = 3007) were found to be anemic while 37.80% (n = 1827) patients had normal haemoglobin levels. There were 1712 (56.65%) male and 1295 (71.47%) female which were found to be anemic. Moderate anemia and severe anemia were more common in female patients as compared to male patients (34.83% Vs. 30.26%) and (9.80% Vs. 8.99%) respectively while mild anemia were more common in male patients (60.75%) than female patients (55.37%). Agewise distribution of anemic patients was also given in this research paper.
Conclusion: Percentage of anemia was high in female patients compared to male patients reported to veterinary pathology lab in Fortis hospital in Kalyan city.
Sanjib Ghoshal.
One new species of genus Cunexa was reported by the author from Sajnekhali Tiger Reserve, within Sundarban Biosphere Reserve, 24-Paraganas (South). The species was collected from Terminalia arjuna. The species was belonging to Cunaxidae family. The species is close to Cunaxa potchensis Den Heyer (1979) but differs in having setae D4 and D5 smooth and not stipulate as well as in Chaetotaxy of palp. It also differs from Cunaxa setirostris (Hermann) in lacking long seta on palptarsus and lacking strong spine like seta on palp genu. Males are not reported by the author.
Biology of the species was studied in the laboratory condition on the leaves of Terminalia arjuna. As because the males are not found during the present study, parthenogenetic life cycle was studied in the laboratory condition. It was found that the mean incubation period was 3.45 ? 0.72 (n=10) days. The percentage of hatching was 94.45 ? 0.76 (n=10). The mean duration of Protonymphal stage was 2.46 ? 0.92 days (n=10). The mean duration of deutonymphal stage was 3.06 ? 0.27 days (n=10). The mean egg to adult period was 7.76 ? 0.26 (n=10) days. It was also observed that the percentage of mortality was 31.62 ? 0.42 (n=10). The mean pre-oviposition period was 3.06 ? 0.35 days (n=10). The fecundity in the present study was found to be 17.76? 0.54 eggs. The mean postoviposition period in the present study was 8.22 ? 0.62 (n=10) days. The average adult longevity in female was found to be 14.39 ? 0.76 days (n=10). The Male : Female ratio was found to be 1 : 1.44.
Shweta Bhardwaj and Rajnish Ranjan Prasad.
It is important to understand the challenges faced in effective implementation of WHO Framework convention on tobacco control (FCTC) in India, for reducing tobacco epidemic and its future health and financial consequences. To accomplish this task, the literature review was performed by using an extensive and wide ranging peer review (in four bibliographic databases) literature, policy documents and reports. The main challenges to effective implementation of WHO FCTC are: (a) Ineffective tobacco control enforcement, weak capacity and limited resources for implementation in states, (b) Pattern of tobacco consumption with high prevalence and availability of smokeless forms of tobacco and, (c) Opposition by industry to tobacco control legislation resulting in delay and dilution of the provisions under WHO FCTC in India. Thus, there is a need for increased financial and human resources for tobacco control, sustained advocacy and capacity building for enforcement, and strengthening of monitoring and enforcement mechanisms for WHO FCTC in India.
Anam Sayeed, Sameer Chandra and Jaspal Singh.
The purpose of given study was to analyze ground water quality of Moradabad industrial city. In a progressive country like India,with the economic development as it one of the important aim. This leads to increase in industrial discharge and a wide range of pollutants reaching to water bodies. Water sample were collected from Moradabad city from five different sites viz. studied for Alkalinity, Hardness, Total suspended solid (TSS), Total dissolve Solid (TDS), Iron, Calcium, Chloride, Electrical conductivity (EC) and Dissolve oxygen (DO) during the pre and post rainy season.All Parameters were found within the permissible limits given by WHO (1984) and IS (1993). The study revealed that studied ground water of Moradabad industrial area is suitable for drinking purpose.
Amitha Bachan K.H and A. K. Pradeep.
Osbeckia walkeri Arn. (Melastomataceae) reported for the first time from India. The species was considered endemic to Sri Lanka and this report from Parambikulam, Anamalai part of Southern Western Ghats, Kerala, India extents its distribution to the Southern Western Ghats. This was collected during an exploration to study riparian and streamside flora of the Chalakkudy River Basin within Anamalais. The herbarium specimens were prepared and deposited at Calicut University Herbarium (CALI). Detailed description, illustration and relevant note on the species are provided.
Rashmi Sharma and Ajay M. Chaturvedi.
Microwave assisted synthesis of chalcones under solvent-free conditions resulted in a ?green chemistry? procedure for the preparation of 2-pyrazoline derivatives in very good yields. 1-Thiocarbamoyl-3,5-diphenyl-2-pyrazoline was synthesized by the MWI of a mixture of corresponding chalcone, thiosemicarbazide and NaOH in ethanol in modified domestic microwave oven and characterized on the basis of elemental analysis, molecular weight determination and spectral data like 1H-NMR, IR. These compounds were screened for their antibacterial activity against gram positive and gram negative bacteria.
Manisha Aba Sardar, V. K. Hazarey and S. M. Ganvir.
Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the application of AgNOR in various benign and malignant salivary gland tumors by quantitative analysis of AgNOR and to determine its relation to histopathologic findings. As well as compare with normal salivary gland tissue as a control.
Study design: Forty- cases of benign and malignant salivary gland tumors were retrieved and the mean AgNOR count was calculated for all cases.
Results: Mean AgNOR counts were 1.72+_0.29, 2.76+_0.75, and 1.3+_ 0.86 in benign, malignant and normal salivary gland tissue respectively .Unpaired ?t? test and ANOVA test was applied to test significance. A significant difference was observed in the mean AgNOR counts among the3 groups (P < 0.001). But among benign and malignant group there was no significant difference.
Conclusion:It can be suggested that the AgNOR technique can be applied on routine histological samples to assess the growth potential of salivary gland tumors. However, its prognostic value should be validated with clinical studies and survival analyses.
Harshajit Singha and Ramesh Athe.
A consumer?s buying behavior is influenced by cultural, social, personal and psychological factors. Most of the purchases are done by youth specially students. This study carried out for the behavior of youth and which has reflected in interesting results towards the strength of rupee in the market. University life is a challenging period especially for students who have to leave their familiar surroundings and settle in a new environment. Assess the current purchasing behavior/patterns of products among youngsters of Tezpur University students at various courses. The unfamiliar environment may have an impact on their personality, attitudes and behaviour. The survey consisted of questions directly related to purchasing habits. The students were sampled by using convenience sampling method and we administered a self-reported questionnaire. A total of 366 participants PG students took part in the study. Out of 366 participants 221 (60.2%) Male candidates, 145 (39.5%) Female candidates were considered. We considered 15% dropout rate for our analysis. Descriptive statistics such as frequencies and percentage were used. Pearson Chi-Square was performed to compare the different associations between variables. All reported probability values were compared to a significant level of 0.05. We observed that there is significant association for reason for selecting brand, company, commodities and source of information and rest of them insignificant. Data entry and statistical analysis was performed with the IBM SPSS, Version 22.
Pramod Pal, Abhilash Acharya and Hemanta Kumar Sahu.
Birds are distributed all over the world occupying various habitats. Birds are important bio-indicators of nature so monitoring bird population is important. India?s biodiversity is very rich with many types of rare flora and fauna. The present study has been conducted to record the avifaunal diversity in and around the Bhaskel Dam reservoir in the Nabarangpur district of Odisha. Though many varieties of birds are seen in and around the dam no study has been conducted so far on the bird diversity of the area. After a study of about one year a total of 3,633 birds belonging to 150 species, 115 genera, 56 families and 19 orders were recorded. The Shanon-Weiner?s diversity index was found to be 4.724 and the Simpson?s diversity index was found to be 0.99 which signifies a good avifaunal diversity in the study area.
Ayam Victor Singh.
Nagaon District, Assam near Kaziranga National Park is rich in biodiversity and contributes a lot to the total biodiversity of the state. The area is inhabited by various ethnic groups having a rich knowledge of natural products. A survey was conducted during 2014-2015 within the Karbi community on the use of natural dye yielding plants. A total of 25 plants were enumerated during the study, along with their botanical names, families, plant parts used and the colours produced.
Osuafor, Ogonna O. and Nwankwo, Temple N.
There has been a drive on the part of consumers, producers, researchers and policy makers for a transition toward a new phase of agriculture. Diversifying income among farm households is critical to this drive. This study therefore investigated the on-farm income diversification decisions of rural farm households in Anambra State. The descriptive survey involved 235 farm households randomly selected from three agricultural zones in Enugu State, Nigeria. Three research questions were posed to guide the conduct of the study. A 23-item structured questionnaire which had a reliability co-efficient of 0.78 was used to collect data. Data were analysed using mean, frequency and exploratory factor analysis. Results showed that forty-two percent of the household heads were within the productive age range of 41-50 years. Farming was the major occupation of the respondents with majority having a household size of not more than two hectares. Average annual on-farm income was N158,000.00, N132,000.00 and N215,000.00 for crop farming, livestock farming and mixed farming respectively. The constraints in raising income from the various sources of farm income were institutional, financial and infrastructural constraints. Based on these findings, some recommendations were made that include farmers should include highly valued agricultural products in their farm activities which will boost diversification selection and therefore increase farm income. Youths should be encouraged to participate in on-farm income diversification since they are better positioned to diversify farming activities.
Richa Kaushal, D. S. Thakur and Arjun Kumar.
The Kotgarh valley is the apple heartland of Himachal; also known as the apple bowl of India. It is located at about 6,500 feet above sea level. The study is aimed to analyze the growth and contribution of horticulture crops (Apple, Pear, Plum and Almond) in this region of Himachal Pradesh. A data set of 140 samples of horticulture farmers (marginal, small, semi-medium and medium farmers) in year 2016-2017 has been used in this study. The results showed the total cost of horticulture cultivation is ? 2,45,124.79 per hectare for all marginal, small, semi-medium and medium farmers; which is highest (? 3,45,110.55) for marginal farmers and minimum (? 1,80,924.52) for medium farmers. The different costs have been studied. The overall C3 cost is ? 4,30,863.77. The average yield is ? 8,86,258.29 per hectare. It ranged from ? 9,86,313.35 on medium farms to ? 7,70,226.50 on small farms. Net gain over different costs per hectare is also studied. The farm business income (FBI), family labour income (FLI), farm investment income (FII) and net income over cost C3 are ? 3,96,008.71, ? 3,96,008.71, ? 3,66,593.74 and ? 2,10,269.70 respectively. To study the elasticity of different input variables, the log linear type Cobb-Douglas production function has been applied. Functional analysis of horticulture crops revealed that, cultivated human labour, plucking & carriage charge/harvesting Charging, value of packing material, freight charges, transportation charges and marketing charges i.e. -3.0166, 3.0071, 0.1717, 0.2595, 0.1882 and 0.3256 respectively. These coefficients are significant with >95% confidence, which indicated that if expenses made on these resources, then it will gives profitable returns.
Edward Kurnia Setiawan L, Teguh Prasetyo SH. M. Si and H. Jawade Hafidz S. H. M. H.
Reconstruction on regulations and implementation of the regulations on the setting up and running of the integrated clinic laboratory (klinik dalam klinik) in this research is based on the virtue of justice which reflecting the Pancasila as the spirit of the Indonesian people (Volksgeist) revolved mainy in the ministerial regulations. The result of the reconstruction has found, that in the Pancasila Legal System the implementation of the regulations governing the setting up and running of the integrated clinic laboratory is to some extend in accordance with the laws. That is according to the Ministery of Health Regulation Number 9 of 2014; the Ministery of Health Regulation Number 411/MENKES/PER/X/2010 regarding Clinic Laboratory and the Ministery of Health Regulation Number 43 of 2013 on the Good Running of Clinic Laboratory. All of the Ministery of Health Regulations have stated rules governing a standardized clinic laboratory on aspects such as facilities and infrastuctures, manpower, management, and procedures to set up and run the clinic laboratory.
Muchdie.
This paper calculated spatial multipliers, flow-on effects and linkages in Indonesian economy that can be used for planning, evaluation and control purposes for both at national and regional development. Using hybrid procedure, inter-island input-output model for Indonesia has been constructed. Spatial multipliers, flow-on effects and spatial linkages were then calculated. The results show that, firstly, all measures of spatial-specific multipliers (output, income and output) indicated that the percentage of multipliers that occurred in the own-region is significantly high. For the island of Sumatra and Java the percentage of output, income and employment multipliers that occurred in the own region were about 90 per cent indicating that the two islands were relatively spatially independent. Only a small proportion of inputs from the rest of the country were required in producing goods and services in those islands. For other three groups of islands, the Kalimantan Island, the islands of Nusa Tenggara and Other islands, the percentage of multiplier effects in own-region ranged from 70 to 80 per cent of total multiplier effects. Secondly, the flow-on effects, by which the net-impact of change in final demand is measured, provides more accurate measures than that of total. On the lists of the ten largest ranking spatial sectors, the same sectors as those in output multipliers also emerged in output flow-on rank order. Finally, the spatial linkage analysis consistently confirms that the island of Sumatra and the island of Java were more independent with weak spatial linkages. A large proportion of multipliers or flow-on effects would occur in the own-region if the changes of final demand occurred in those islands. Focusing economic activities on these islands would increase the economic growth of the country, but at the same time would make the economic distribution among regions worse.
Anchit Bansal and Priyanka Goel.
Routing Protocols play a major role in today?s internet era. The term routing is used for selecting a path for traffic in a network, or between or across multiple networks. Routers need routing protocols so that the routers become aware of all the possible routes and add them to their routing table, so that the routing process can forward (route) routable protocols such as IP. An efficient routing protocol forwards router update packets from a source node to a destination node through an optimal path and at the same time does not send many routing update packets thus maintaining the convergence of the network. In this paper we have shown how routing is done using an EIGRP based routing protocol. A network model of Cisco routers has been employed in a network simulation software ?packet tracer?. The results are verified using ping command. The paper also explains the process of assigning ip addresses and their configuration in routers as well as in pc?s.
Ravinder Kumar, S.S.Paliyal and Sanjay Kumar Sharma.
To study the soil physical properties of cold arid zone of different land uses in North -Western Himalayas, H.P, Global positioning system (GPS) 71 representative surface (0-15cm) and subsurface (15-30 cm) soil samples were collected randomly from cultivated and pasture lands using stainless steel spatula, shovel and spade. The surface, sub surface were analysed for physical properties viz. Soil pH, soil texture, bulk density, water holding capacity, The soils were found sandy loam to sandy clay loam in texture and slightly alkaline in their reaction (pH 7.7-8.1). Sand increased with increase in soil depth whereas silt and clay decreased with increasing soil depths. Pasture lands were found to have comparatively lower WHC as compared to cultivated lands (annual crops) because of higher clay and organic matter content in cultivated lands (annual crops).
J. Radhakrishna Rao, V. Gireesh Kumar, T. Madhava Rao, D. Pramod Kumar, K. Chandra Shekar Reddy and K.B.P. Raghavender.
In this study Tie-in pin configuration technique was employed in the stabilization of 5 femoral fractures and 1 bilateral humeral fracture in dogs. Immediate postoperative radiographs revealed good alignment and apposition of the fracture fragments in all the dogs. The mean time of sufficient callus formation was 43.16 ? 4.46 days. Postoperative radiographs showed restitution of cortico-medullary continuity by 45th to 55th postoperative day in all the dogs. The complete weight bearing was ranging from 32nd - 90th postoperative day. The fixator was found rigid and stable till the completion of bone healing in all the dogs. The mean time of the fixator removal was 43.16 ? 4.46 days. Pin tract infection with appearance of granulation tissue in one dog was seen at the intramedullary pin exit site. Tie-in pin configuration technique was well suited for the repair of femoral and humeral diaphyseal fractures in dogs with a few negligible minor complications
Ravinder Kumar, S.S. Paliyal and Sanjay Kumar Sharma.
Some important physico-chemical parameters of surface and groundwater of Spiti Valley of Lahaul & Spiti Districts were evaluated for the criteria of irrigation water quality. Fifty water samples were collected in the monsoon season (July- August) from different areas of Spiti Valley. The study revealed that temperature, pH, electrical conductivity (EC), higher average value of EC suggests the enrichment of salt due to evaporation effect. Ca2+ is an essential nutritional element for humans and helps in maintaining the structure of plant cells and soils. The higher contribution of Na+ than that of the contribution of Ca2+ to the total cations is expected due to influence of ion exchange. The higher concentration of Na+ among the cationic concentrations reflects a rock weathering and/ or dissolution of soil salts stored by the influence of evaporation and also indicates its higher solubility behaviour, while the lower concentration of K+ is because of its fixation on clay minerals. Any initiative for surface and groundwater development for planned irrigation practices is highly encouraged.
Smritirekha and Jagatshreya Satapathy.
This study was designed to investigate the impact of five pillars of development on social development of a preschool child in order to determine if these five pillars of development i.e concrete preparation, cognitive challenge, meta cognitive orientation, social construction and bridging promote the development of social skills in preschool children. It was hypothesized that there was no relationship between the concrete preparation, cognitive challenge, social construction, meta cognition and bridging with the development of social skills of a preschool child. The central constructs were assessed through ABAB Design Experiment and the methods adopted for this purpose was intervention of activities and observation of the social skills in child. The sample consisted of only one child of 3 years of age. For the study, the child was assessed for social skills before the start of the course, after he completed the course, and at follow-up period. Results indicated that there is a relationship exists between the five pillars of development and the social development of the child. The study provides an empirical support for the theoretical link between the five pillars of development and the social development of children.
Smritirekha and Jagatshreya Satapathy.
Since birth, children learn different skills which help them to participate in and explore their environment. Each phase of cognitive, language and social development helps in establishing the foundation for further learning and to solve problems in their lives. Skill acquisition enhances healthy development of children. Vygotsky?s scaffolding plays a vital role in overall development of children. Therefore, scaffolding has been an important and frequently studied concept. Various studies and discussions exist with regard to its conceptualizations, appearances, and effectiveness. The present article is to show the role played by parents in children?s lives for cognitive and social development. An overview is presented with numerous descriptive studies which provides evidences on the appearances of parenting (as a part of scaffolding) and classifications of parenting styles (scaffolding strategies). Their parenting styles differ in scaffolding means and intentions. And hence the social and cognitive development of children differs from each other due to different parenting styles, scaffolding means and intentions. According to Robertson, there are five components which can help in better development of children both mentally and socially. The present article highlights the five components which can be adopted by the parents in order to enhance cognitive and social entry skills of children in a positive way.
Neena Mishra.
Dengue fever (DF) is known as one of the most important arthropod-borne viral diseases affecting humans. Over the past several decades, major outbreaks of DF have occurred in many countries including India, causing significant morbidity and mortality. The magnitude of the DF issue remains alarming. The virus has been spreading its geographic reach partly due to increased urbanization and partly due to climate change. With increasing dengue threat, comes an accelerated effort to combat and control the virus. In addition to studies on preventing the transmission of the virus, progress on vaccine development has been made. Because there is currently no effective vaccine against dengue and no specific treatment for the disease, controlling and preventing dengue fever outbreaks are essential steps for keeping people healthy. The World Health Organisation (WHO) classifies dengue as a disease important in public health. The epidemiology and ecology of dengue infections are strongly associated with human habits and activities. Preventing or reducing dengue virus transmission depends entirely in controlling the mosquito vectors or interruption of human?vector contact. WHO promotes the strategic approach known as Integrated Vector Management (IVM) to control mosquito vectors, including those of dengue.
D. N. Sahi, Roopama Gandotra, PawandeepKaur and Sakshi Koul.
The present study on clutch characteristics and egg diametrics of Indian Pond Heron (Ardeola grayii) was conducted for three consecutive years i.e., 2013, 2014 and 2015 in five different stations viz., station I (Haripur), station II (Mansar), station III (Gharana), station IV (Kalyana) and station V (Gho Manhasa) during the breeding season which commenced from May up to September. The overall mean clutch size was recorded to be 3.71?1.06 varying from 1 to 5. The clutch size was found to vary among different stations viz., 3.73? 0.76 (n=41) at station I, 4.07? 0.73 (n=14) at station II, 3.68? 0.88 (n=38) at station III, 3.71? 0.85 (n= 32) at station IV and 3.64? 1.02 (n=17) at station V. The eggs were recorded to be oval with greenish blue coloration and without any markings. Overall mean values of egg dimensions were recorded to be egg length (3.90?0.16 cm), egg breadth (2.78?0.19cm), egg volume (15.57?2.41 cm3), egg shape index (71.45?4.95) and egg weight (17.93?2.71gm). A statistically significant correlation was registered between egg length and egg volume (r= 0.4852) as well as between egg breadth and egg volume ( r= 0.8274).
Santosh Thoudam and Chhetry G. K. N.
The experiment was carried out in a rice field located at Mayang Imphal under Imphal West district of Manipur, during June-July for two consecutive years (2011 and 2012) and pest and disease parameters were recorded. During the experiment, treatments used for each plot (4m2) with a spacing of 20x15cm includes 3 green manure levels (2.5 tons/ha, 5 tons/ha and 7.5 tons/ha of Colocasiaesculenta Linn., 3 decomposed cow dung manure levels (2.5 tons/ha, 5 tons/ha and 7.5 tons/ha) and a control check (100-40-30kgNPK/ha). The results of this experiment indicated that the population of stem borer and case worm on the chemical fertilizer treatments exhibited the severe outbreak more than in the treatments of green manure crops and decomposed cow dung manure. Also, the disease incidence of blast and brown spot was also reduced in the respective plots as compared to the control check. The experimental results suggest that certain traditional knowledge based organic manure are quite effective in controlling the menace of pests and diseases of rice crops.
Swapan kumar Ghosh.
Application of chemical fungicides and fertilizer in agrifield for protection and growth enhancement is now serious concerns for sustainable agriculture and environmental monitoring as these two items are creating health hazards and environmental pollution. There are many soil fungi and they play an important role in soil formulation, soil fertility, soil structure, soil improvement and crop protection. In this experiment, three soil fungi namely Trichoderma viride, T harzianum and Beauveria bassiana were applied in brinjal (Solanum melongena) for combating dangerous brinjal disease Phomopsis fruit rot of brinjal and growth enhancement of this vegetable. Their efficacy was compared with blitox 50 fungicide. In lab. condition by incised method, Phomopsis vexans along with T. viride inoculated fruits showed 20 PDI while Phomopsis vexans inoculated fruits 100 PDI. Phomopsis vexans with T. harzianum and Phomopsis vaxans with B. bassiana inoculated fruits show 30 and 50 PDI respectively. T.viride gave maximum crop protection followed by T. harzianum and B. bassiana respectively. The three years field trial indicated that continuous three years (2014-2016), PDI is lesser (30.25, 35.00 and 28.75 respectively ) in the treatment of T. viride in comparison with other treatments ( T. harzianum and Blitox 50) and untreated. It also showed that the height, the dry weight, no. of leaves and no. of leaf area of the brinjal plant, treated with T. viride (spore suspension 1x 107 per ml) gave better result in comparison to control (untreated) brinjal plant. It reflects the potentially of plant growth promotion. The recommendation is to avoid fungicides and chemical fertilizer; farmers may alternatively apply T.viride spore suspension (107 spore / ml) during seedling treatment and four consecutive spraying of this suspension at the interval of fifteen days after initiation of fruits.
Swapan Kumar Ghoshand Agniv Nandi.
Rediscovering of natural therapeutics to treat the ruinous diseases became a major concern of the researchers for its outrageous need. Diabetes mellitus (DM) is such an almost incurable disease with enormous secondary complications. In today?s fast paced life style DM is the overriding origin of a switch back from life. As the death rate of diabetic patient is increasing the demand of substitute therapies are also increasing hence the use of medicinal plants. Zeroing the secondary complications of chemical treatment is the key factor of using medicinal plants. Carica papaya is one such highly prospective anti diabetic tropical plant has been used worldwide as a nutritive food. Thus the different parts of this plant in different formulations have been used to treat diabetes. This review is concerned with the role of C. papaya as an antidiabetic agent and the individual investigation of potentiality for different parts of the plant and to highlight the major gaps of the researches.
Ahmed Mohamed Mze, Fatimata Mbaye, Binta Keneme and Mbacke Sembene.
The International Cancer Centre (CIRC) stated that there is an important increase of breast cancer throughout the world. In Senegal, breast cancer is known as the malicious tumour more developed among women. From thirty (30) Senegalese women were tested, the notice is that a mitochondrial (Cytochrome b) and a nuclear (Beta-fibrinogen) gene evaluated the level of genetic diversity, genetic differentiation and demographic evolution. Our results showed a real diversity of Cytochrome b compared to Beta-fibrinogen. A significant difference has been found between normal tissues and cancerous ones within Cytochrome b. these results showed an implication of mitochondrial DNA compared to nuclear DNA.
L. D. Lozhkin, О. V. Osipov, A. A. Voronoy and A. A. Soldatov.
The paper discusses on the development of strictly equal-contrast color scale. It is known that in the CIE 1931 (x, y) thresholds for color discrimination are represented by ellipses, which are used to characterize the equal-contrast of a color system. Different color systems are described by different values of ellipticity (the size of the MacAdam ellipses). The paper proposes a new approach to the creation of strictly equal-contrast color systems based on similar concepts of ?the color horizon? in the colorimetry and ?the event horizon? in general relativity (GR). It is proposed to use an equation similar to Einstein?s field equations for the transformation of ellipses in a two-dimensional color pattern into circles and ellipsoids of rotation in three-dimensional model ? in equal diameter balls. It is introduced a concept of a curvature of a color discrimination space and a tensor of a ?color power?. It is obtained a matrix equation from which the coefficients of transformation into strictly equal-contrast color system are determined.
I Made Putrawan.
One of the teachers competencies is personality which is uneasy to measure. Comparing to other teachers competencies, pedagogy, social. and professional, this personality competence is rather more difficult to measure. That is why. for this purpose, it has been scientifically developed teachers personality instrument by applying big-five personality (Colquitt. et. al.. 2017) concepts and try to relate it to teachers moral behaviour based on gender. Considering research objectives, survey method used by involving around 91 teachers selected randomly. Personality instrument developed based on five factors; Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism/Emotional stability, with five scale, from most accurate to less accurate (20 items). Some indicators for measuring teachers moral behaviour was also developed (32 items). Research results revealed that all personality items have high validity and only 11 items measuring moral behaviour were omitted, because its low validity. Reliability, however, for both instruments were high. .452 for personality and .802 for moral behaviour. There was no means difference between male and female teachers personality and moral behaviour. Moreover. there was no eigen-values and factor loading differences between male and female teachers personality. Its construct validity has been confirmed by empirical finding where all factors loading were > .30 (Hair. et. al.. 2010). Teachers moral behaviour. Moreover, was not significantly determined by personality. Therefore, it could be concluded that teachers personality instrument might be validated based on gender and extraversion factor could be an indicator that gender did not affect teachers personality instrument development based on big-five personality dimensions.
Piyush Thukral.
With the dawn of new era in banking, innovation has been a constant endeavor of the bankers as well as their central inspiration driving present day forms of banking and banking products. Foundation of payments bank is a creative stride towards accomplishing the much sought after goal of financial inclusion in the Indian economy. This paper aims at reflecting the fundamentals of payments banks, objectives of their establishment and challenges faced by them.
Kavaldeep Dixit, Tanjul Saxena and Bharti Sharma.
The exploratory case details the growth of Coral Group, a progressive multi-venture Jaipur-based activity group engaged in diverse businesses including Real estate, Paper and Tyre industries. The case primarily focuses on the strategies adopted by the group with reference to residential real estate sector.
The group diversified into residential constructions in the year 2000 and is presently backed with about 40 high-end residential projects with the motto ?Creating structures, Spreading Smiles?. The group is using proprietary products, services, design and technology to provide value to the stakeholders. The case attempts to collate the group?s Business Model with focus on customer value proposition, customer relations, target segments, key processes, activities, resources, cost structure and revenues.
Ir. Adrian Permana, Arsono Laksmana and Lena Ellitan.
Rapid change on business environment requires the business practitioner to prepare in order to stay exist and keep efficient. The company with good quality will be able to take an advantage when compete with other companies. SMEs in Indonesia influences national economic growth. SMEs have been proved as a resilience entity when face the global crisis. Also, SMEs contribute positively to the society. This study was conducted on SMEs in Surabaya to assess the effect on dynamic capabilities when faced the external environmental changes which are frequently uncontrollable and unpredictable. The research sample is 114 SMEs in Surabaya area. The data will be analyzed by structural equation modeling. The study found that environmental dynamism, dynamic managerial capabilities, and deliberate organizational learning gave a considerable effect on dynamic capability, however these variables did not prove a significant effect on firm performance. The dynamic capability variable mediated the relationship between environmental dynamism, dynamic managerial capabilities and deliberate organizational learning towards firm performance.
Tawseef Mushtaq And Mehraj-Ud-Din Dar.
There is a common perception among different scholars and historians that the arrival of British resulted into drain of wealth, de-industrialization, backwardness, poverty and other negative impact wherever they went. But this paper highlights how intervention of British into the affairs of Kashmir not only provided sigh of relief to the poverty stricken people but also resulted into the development of those important sectors which at presently are taken as indicators of development. Both in short-run as well as well as in long-run British intervention not only benefited the state but the common man was blessed by their arrival and it was by dint of their intervention that Kashmir was taken on the path of modernization.
A. Kalaiarasi and V. Joseph raj.
Operation Research problems (OR) have been solved by operation research technique efficiently for a long time. Graph theory techniques are competent with OR techniques in some area like transport problem. Identification of a better technique to solve the OR problem is very important. In this paper, the better performance of Big M method on transport network with non ? integer edge capacities is reported. The redundant constraints removal in Big M method improve its performance.
Ruhi Patrawala, Ria Odakayi, Sankalpa Palkar, Cyd Rodricks, Algamary Benny, Vivien Amonkar and Pampi Chakraborty.
Environmental pollution is an issue of global concern and feather waste which is a byproduct of the growing poultry processing industry is an example of a pollutant not easily degraded by common proteolytic enzymes. However, feathers when acted upon by keratinolytic microbes are degraded to smaller peptides and amino acids which can be used as dietary supplements in animal feed. In the present study, feather degrading microorganisms isolated from poultry farm soil were initially screened for proteolytic activity of the organism on skim milk agar plates. The selected organism was subsequently grown on feather meal medium and biochemically, genotypically characterized and identified to be a Bacillus species. Significant keratinase activity was observed over a wide range of pH for six days, using the keratinase assay. The organism showed good bioremediation activity in broth as well as in soil with the crude feather. Further, it was confirmed that the organism can also degrade feathers using table sugar as a cheap carbon source. Optimum conditions for amino acid production were determined by the quantitative ninhydrin method which confirmed significant amino acid production, under both shaker and static conditions, after 96 hours of incubation at room temperature.
Shiromani Mishra and M. C. Sharma.
The Amla berry is a traditional food and medicine having many known nutritional and medicinal benefits and uses. It is a natural, efficacious an antioxidant with the richest natural source of Vitamin C. Numerous studies conducted on Amla fruit suggest that it has antibacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal, antioxidant, cardioprotective, Gastroprotective, anti-Helicobacter pylori and antistress activity. Regular use of Amla improves immunity, fight against chronic diseases like hypertension, Diabetes, influenza, high Cholesterol, Chronic cough and cold, chronic infections, chronic fatigue and chronic inflammatory conditions. In Ayurvedic classics it describes as one of the best herbs for Diabetes, bleeding disorders, strength and stamina promoter. Perusal of history reveals the earliest description regarding Amla is found in Vedic literature. In modern texts also related to Ayurveda or medicinal plants, detailed description regarding Amalaki can be seen.
Chioma Okore, Linda Nwaehiri, Ogechukwu Mbanefo, Toochukwu Ogbulie, Assumpta Ugenyi, Ifeanyi Ogbuka, Agunna Ejele and Ikechukwu Okwujiako.
Biosurfactant are produced by some micro organisms. Kerosene was used as substrate to enhance the production of biosurfactant by Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus sp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Proteus sp. and Corynebacteriumsp. Staphylococcus aureus produced the highest 0.5 g, Bacillus sp., Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Proteus sp. 0.2 g, Corynebacterium sp. the least 0.1 g. The biosurfactant demonstrated antibacterial activity against the test bacteria (Staphylococcus sp. and Pseudomonas aeruginosa). The biosurfactant produced by Pseudomonas aeruginosa gave the highest zone of inhibition against Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus sp., Corynebacteriumsp., (25 mm). The biosurfactant produced by Staphylococcus aureus gave the highest zone of inhibition against Pseudomonas aeruginosa (39 mm), Corynebacteriumsp., and Proteus sp. (30 mm), Bacillus sp. the least zone (25 mm). The production of biosurfactantand antibacterial efficacy can thus be promising for use in medical, therapeutics, pharmaceuticals, cosmetcs, food and beverages for treatment and control of diseases caused by micro organisms.
Bhavya K Bairy and Laxminarayana K Bairy.
Depression is one of the common health problem in elderly population. It significantly affects patients, families, and communities. A knowledge of predisposing and precipitating factors can help identify patients in need of treatment using tools such as the Geriatric Depression Scale. Proper medication and regular follow up are the two important aspects of management of depression in the elderly. Choice of an antidepressant drug should be based on best side effect profile and lowest risk of drug-drug interaction. The altered pharmacokinetics of antidepressants in the elderly should be borne in mind while selecting the drug and its dose. Electroconvulsive therapy is recommended in severe, psychotic, or refractory depression in the elderly.
Lena Ellitan and Ninuk Muljani.
Currently the Indonesian companies face much more challenges in increasingly critical consumers in needs and desires. Therefore, companies need to create superior customer value and competitive advantage by providing products at the right time and place. Therefore, the companies have to develop a network of cooperation with partner companies in the provision of goods and services for consumers efficiently by managing of supply chain management. Information sharing plays an important role in the implementation of supply chain management due to the availability of data in a timely manner and can be distributed along the supply chain can help companies to respond the changing needs and desires of consumers faster. Whereas the information quality what, when, how, and with whom the information is shared. The study found that there are impacts of antecedent factors (environmental uncertainty, intra-organizational factors, and factors of inter-organizational) on information sharing and information quality in supply chain management.
D. Gopinath, S. Rafi Ahamed and P. Srinivasan.
The metal coordinated complex of 2-aminopyridinium copper acetate (2APC) crystals was grown by slow evaporation solution growth method from the solvent ultrapure water. The Single crystal X-ray diffraction studies for 2APC crystal confirm the grown crystal belongs to the monoclinic crystal with the space group of P21/c in centrosymmetric system. Powder X-ray diffraction studies reveal2 the crystal perfection of as grown 2APC crystals. FTIR analysis was performed to confirm the presence of functional groups in 2APC crystal. The optical UV-Visible studies were carried out for the grown 2APC crystal. Thermal behavior of the 2APC crystal has been investigated by TG-DTA analyses. The dielectric study shows the grown crystal has low dielectric constant and dielectric loss values at high frequency region. The NMR studies shown that shifts are due to metal?ligand coordination complex. The magnetization values for 2APC crystal are the Saturation magnetization (Ms) is 0.229 x 10-3 emu/g, the retentivity (Mr) is 4.595x10-6 emu/g and coercivity (Hc) is 444.95 G. The material referred to as soft magnetic materials.
Knhei Charan Tudu, S. Soni and Anuradha Pradhan.
Aims:- The aim of this study is to find out the clinical profile and management of all patients presenting with dry eye disease attending the Ophthalmology Department in a tertiary health care centre in western Odisha. Materials And Methods:- A subset of 60 patients (120 eyes ) of dry eye symptoms attending the Ophthalmology Department of VSS Medical College, Burla, Sambalpur over a period of two years were included. Results:- Out of 60 patients Female:Male ratio is 1.3:1. Ocular pain and fatigue are the most common symptoms (53.33%). There were decreased in blink rate 78.33% cases, tear film break up time 76.66% cases, tear meniscus height 86.66% cases and Schirmer?s test 81.66% cases, Rose Bengal staining was positive in 73.33% cases. Keratoconjunctivitis Sicca (KCS) affecting 20% of patients, vitamin A deficiency accounts for 28.3%, Stevens Johnsons Syndrome (SJS) 11.66%. Allergic conjunctivitis, Blepharitis and computer users 13.33% each, aging 3.33%, hormonal imbalance 5% and dry eyes associated with systemic disease account for 5% only. 48 cases (80%) responded well to 6 weeks medical therapy with significant improvement of their symptoms and signs. Out of 12 cases (20%) not responded to medical therapy, 10 cases (16.6%) underwent different surgical procedures of which 4 cases (6.66%) underwent punctal occlusion, 3 cases (5% underwent amniotic membrane graft (AMG), 2 cases (3.33%) ) underwent separation of symblepharon with placement of symblepharon shell and 1 case underwent tarrsorrhaphy. After 6 weeks of surgical therapy 8 case showed improvement in their symptoms and signs. Only 2 cases of SJS showed poor response. Conclusion:- Dry eye syndrome are of multifactorial in its aetiology affecting all age groups. Kerato conjunctivitis sicca commonly affect elderly of more than 40 years of age. The dry eye disease should be diagnosed early and managed with lot of care and skill.
Neelofer Agwan and kushal sign mehta.
Tae Wan Kim.
A large amount of pork has been imported in South Korea according to conclusion of FTA with many countries. Therefore, analysis on determinants in production of domestic pork (PDP) plays a critical role as an indicator for decision making of producer and distributor of pork. As a result of this study, the independent variables to explain PDP were selected by 7 and 4 variables through variance inflation factor and stepwise selection method, respectively. The consumption of domestic pork and beginning stocks of domestic pork played an important role to determine PDP (P<0.01). In addition, Hanwoo beef and chicken, which is recognized as an alternative to pork, were a weak but played a role as a substitute material. However, Pork in South Korea to clearly maintain four seasons exhibited seasonally contradictory characteristics due to supply quantity depending on biological characteristics and specific consumption culture. Therefore, we suggest that producer and distributor are economically important to control marketing volume in response to biological characteristics of pig, and seasonal demand and supply situations of pork market. In other words, it is necessary that producer and distributor carry out rearing and inventory managements, respectively, to supply the summer market increasing consumption.
Hicham Kachkach, Youssef Saydi, Khalid Rabbani, Youssef Narjis, Abdelouahed Louzi, Ridouan Benomar Benelkhaiat and Benasser Finech.
Primary hepatic actinomycosis is one of the chronic abscess-forming infections of the liver. Its diagnosis is frequently delayed due to its indolent course and nonspecific clinical and radiological manifestations. This article reports a 23 years old man presented with a 2-week history of right upper quadrant pain with fever. Ultrasonography and abdominal CT scan sowed a voluminous multilocular lesion between IV, V, VI liver segments. The postoperative pathological examination found multifocal actinomycetes in the hepatic parenchyma. Large doses of sodium penicillin were administered postoperatively as anti-infective therapy. This case suggests that primary hepatic actinomycosis should be considered as one of the extensive causes for liver abscess.
Amanulla shaik, P. Rabbani begum, s. Arshiya banu and k. Siddiq.
Incisional hernia is a common complication of abdominal surgery and an important source of morbidity. It may be repaired using anatomical, mesh or laparoscopic methods. This study analyses the age and sex incidence, etiopathogenesis, modes of presentation, modalities of treatment like anatomical, mesh repair.
Methods: one hundred patients with incisional hernia who got admitted at rims medical college & hospital, kadapa in the department of surgery were enrolled in this study based upon the inclusion and exclusion criteria between march 2015 to february 2017. The data was collected and analyzed.
Results: data regarding age and sex incidence, clinical presentation, site of incisional hernia, previous surgery, time of occurrence after previous surgery, risk factors, size of hernial defect, type of operation, post operative complications were studied. We found that incisional hernia was more common in middle-aged patients (31-50 yrs) and in females. Majority of hernias have occurred within one year (75%) of previous surgery. Commonest risk factors were midline infra-umbilical incision (59%), post operative infection (38%) and obesity. Seroma formation was the most common post operative complication seen. There were no recurrences found in our study.
Conclusion: incisional hernia was found more commonly between 3rd and 5th decade of life with female preponderance. Most common presenting complaint was midline infra-umbilical swelling with cough impulse and reducibility positive. Majority of hernias have occurred within one year of previous surgery. Onlay reinforced primary repair using prolene mesh has given good results and prolene mesh appears to be best tolerated by body tissues.
K. K. Sheema, M. Dorai and Dilna Paul.
Microorganisms are present ubiquitously, that play an important role in all the stages of aquaponic production. They may be pathogens, growth promoters or biocontrol agents with specific tasks on nitrification and mineralization of solid wastes. The effects of microbes in aquaponics need to be evaluated to optimize systems performance. The present work was carried out to understand aquaponics, with special reference to aquatic microfungi and find out the principles as beneficial micro-organisms, regarding plant growth and to test fungal infections in aquaponic environments. Experiments were conducted during the period from November 2015 to December 2016 from three different water sources with five various sites. Aquatic fungi were identified from the biofilm and water of aquaponic systems. The most common among them were Aspergillus sp, candida sp, Penicillium sp. ,Fusarium sp., and Trichoderma. No fish death was recorded and none of them were infected with fungal diseases.
Kirti.
Individuals in this globalisation era are inclined to believe that women are affected by conflict negatively and have difficulty working with one another this thought makes ?Woman Employees and Workplace conflict? an emerging issues in Women empowerment. This research aims to understand the behaviour of women employees when they are in a conflict situation. The study reveals that rather to confront the situation they avoid the situation as to protect their self-image to be judged by colleagues. This research also contributes to the body of existing literature; specifically, it will inspire the women employees to understand and manage conflict in the organisations. A survey of 60 employees of NTPC, Patna (ER-HQ1) a Public Sector Company was made to test the hypothesis. The results of this study suggest that woman employees get affected by conflict leading to stress, tension and further it was found that male observers are inclined to problematize conflict among women at work relative to conflict among women and leading to the tendency of thought that might be partly responsible for perception that women have difficulty working with one another. This research provides empirical evidence to support this notion and for this purpose the review of literature was made on workplace conflict among women and suggestions are made to address the problems faced by women employees in the context of conflict study.
Sugata Das, Anandi Bagchi, Somnath Gangopadhyay and Subrata Ghosh.
Background: Modernization and industrialization have paved a good path to the construction industry. As per Census 2011, the total number of female workers in India is 149.8 million.
Objectives: To identify different health problems amongst workers working in the construction industry in West Bengal, to assess health status of these female construction workers with respect to their occupational hazards and hormonal dysfunctions and recommend some low cost easily available supplement in controlling or preventing these potentially damaging reactions of these construction female workers.
Materials and Methods: The study was a double-blind study with intervention conducted in different construction sites of Howrah, Hooghly, and 24 parganas of West Bengal amongst 123 female construction workers. All general physical parameters, reproductive hormonal parameters, oxidative stress parameter, 25OH Vitamin D were performed in pre and post intervention condition by standardised procedure. Workers were asked to take antioxidant multivitamin capsule (Lycopene), raw turmeric and one piece of raw garlic in the morning in empty stomach and tomatoes, spinach and onions were included in their daily food.
Result: Workers showed raised Vit D, GSH, progesterone-estrogen ratio, cortisol status (p<0.05) after1 month intervention study.
Conclusion: Due to stressful job routine, female construction workers faced abnormal level of reproductive hormone and oxidative stress hormonal parameters. Use of multivitamin capsule, raw turmeric, raw garlic, green leafy food, tomatoes, spinach etc balances all hormonal levels moderately
D. Srinivasa Kumar.
Working capital Management assumes a significance part in the success of business organizations, as a result of its impact on profitability of organizations. The reason for this examination is looking at the relationship between working capital management practices and profitability of listed pharmaceutical firms in India. In this investigation utilized secondary data collected from all the 10 listed pharmaceutical firms in India covering the period from 2011-2016. Working capital of a firm includes on current assets. Current Assets are cash and equivalents, accounts receivable, and inventory items of a firm. Working capital Management is applying investment and financing decision to current assets. The greater part of the researchers discovered positive effect of working capital management choices on profitability of organizations. It specifically influences the liquidly and profitability of firm. In this paper 12 research articles of various researchers have been studied and compared. The outcomes showed impact of working capital on profitability and supported the suggestions.
Andrea Margini, Gaetano Cutrona and Cesare Fantuzzi.
The paper collects together and describes the main and most known Agile methodologies. Those methodologies are then compared in order to assess their fit in the context of highly innovative non-software companies. In particular, the focus is on a full system supplier for food processing and packaging equipment, packaging material and services. The fit between the Agile methodologies and the company is performed considering the innovation and development processes in place into the Research and Development department of the company itself. By doing so the paper aims at contributing to the theme of Agile application in non-software industries. Moreover, it will support in the choice of which method or framework suits better having clear the needs and characteristics of that specific context. Finally, the paper provides also a suggestion about how to approach this kind of choices.
Minju Saji, Lida Elizabeth Raju, Sagy P Thomas, P. K. Manna., S. Ramesh and Saravanan. S.
Background: Asthma is a condition in which a persons airways become inflamed,narrow and swell and produce extra mucus, which makes it difficult to breathe.
Aim and Objective: This study aims on describing the drug prescribing pattern,medication adherence,quality of life,handling of inhalers,lung function test and cost of illness in 110 paediatric bronchial asthma patients in a tertiary care hospital for duration of six months.
Results: Overall 110 patients were enrolled in the study and its found that male patients (60.90%) are more prone to asthmatic attacks than female patients (39.10%). β-agonists (Salbutamol,) was the most commonly used bronchodialator followed by corticosteroids(82.72%), antibiotics(56.36%),anti-histamines(30%)anti inflammatory(29.9%),anti-tussives(23.63%) and methylxanthines(11.81%). Drugs used in RMMCH were compared to various EDL (Essential drug list) which complied with national EDL.The FVC and FEV were assessed among the patients during their admission and discharge time.The statistical analysis of the data of the two groups (baseline and discharge) for FVC(P=<0.001) and FEV(p=<0.008) shows its significance.20.9%.61.81%.80.9% of the patients has shown correct usage of inhalers during baseline,after first and second counseling.A significant improvement in quality of life was assessed during pre and post counseling using Mann-Whitney rank sum test.The score of low(55.45%) medium(32.72%) and high(11.81%)medication adherence patients was found on pre-counseling and on post-counseling low(17.27%),medium(55.45%) and high(28.18%) medication adherence was observed.Hospitalization charges are accounting for 39.3% and medical charges are accounting for 24.21%on an average of 6 days of admission in the hospital.
Conclusion: Patient counseling aided and had a positive impact on patients understanding of their illness and the role of medications in its treatment,improved medication adherence and improved quality of life for the patients.
Jeevalakshmi. A, Sathya. C and Murugaian. P.
In the present study, chicory root powder (CRP) and inulin as growth promoter at 50mg and 100mg levels was supplemented in Japanese quail diet to investigate the growth performance, biochemical and intestinal micro flora concentration. Two hundred, one-day-old Japanese quail were used in a completely randomized design (CRD) with 5 treatments. At the end of each period, feed intake (FI), weight gain (WG), and feed conversion ratio (FCR) were measured. At the end of experiment (day 42), one bird per replicate was sacrificed for carcass weight, inedible organ weight and count the intestinal microflora. The FI increased by 100mg/kg of CRP in the 6th week of period (p < 0.01). The percentage of WG significantly increased at 100mg/kg of CRP (p < 0.05). The FCR increased in all treatment group compared to control (p < 0.05). The carcass weight and inedible percentage increased at 100mg CRP (p < 0.05). The biochemical analysis of serum glucose, protein, albumin, globulin, triglyceride cholesterol, calcium, phosphorus, as well as enzyme of GOT, GPT, alkaline phosphate, acid phosphate, creatinine and uric acid were non-significant (p>0.05) changes in all treated group. The supplementation with inulin 100mg/kg resulted significantly lower (p < 0.01) amount of E. coli in ileal content when compared to control. In conclusion, chicory root powder and inulin can improve growth performance in Japanese quail by enhancing food digestion and absorption through microflora.
B. B. Bahule, S. B. Kalaskar , R. P. Yadav and A. A. Purohit.
This paper deals with the preparation of nickel complexes of Schiff bases derived from m-nitro aniline or p-nitro aniline and aromatic aldehydes. Chemical composition of these complexes was determined using FT-IR and Atomic Absorption Spectroscopy. The antibacterial activity of the Nickel complexes prove that metal containing Schiff bases show good inhibitory activity against various species of bacteria.
Kanhei Charan Tudu and Nisha Jha.
Purpose- To know the clinical profile and distribution of various subtypes of glaucoma in patients who presented to V.S.S Institute of Medical Sciences And Research.
Methods- All the patients attending the Ophthalmology department, V.S.S. Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Burla from November 2014 to November 2016 with a history and ocular examinations suggestive of glaucoma were included in the study.
Results- A total of 280 cases were studied. Out of these males constituted 153 (54.64%) of total cases and the females were 127 (45.35%) of the study. Primary glaucoma was more common than secondary glaucoma. Among primary glaucoma, primary open angle glaucoma (38.92%) was more common than primary angle closure glaucoma (37.5%). Mean age of POAG patients was 58.22?8.95 years, mean age of PACG patients was 61.67?9.13 years and the mean age of NTG patients was 60.38?9.89 years. Hypertension (22.5%) and diabetes (12.1%) were found in large numbers compared to other systemic condition.
Conclusion- The goal should be to atleast diagnose and manage the clear cut cases of glaucoma with established functional loss. This is possible only when we adopt comprehensive eye examinations such as IOP measurement, optic disc evaluation and gonioscopy as a routine.
Godswill N. Anyasor and Adesola J. Ajagunna.
This study was designed to investigate the in vitro antioxidant activities and inhibitory effects of G. kola stem bark ethanolic extract (EEGK) and triterpenoid fraction (TFGK) on arsenic-induced liver and kidney mitochondrial membrane permeability transitions (MMPTs). DPPH (1-1-diphenyl 2-picryl hydrazyl), hydrogen peroxide scavenging (HPSA), hydroxyl radical scavenging (HRSA) and total antioxidant capacity (TAC) assays were performed to determine antioxidant activity in vitro. Rat liver and kidney mitochondrial fractions were isolated using differential centrifugation technique while MMPT assay was performed using spectrophotometric method. Results showed that EEGK had a significantly (P<0.05) high DPPH, HPSA, HRSA and TAC scavenging activity than TFGK. However, 30 μg/mL TFGK significantly (P<0.05) inhibited arsenic-induced liver and kidney MMPT by 92.59% and 88.89% when compared with EEGK (70.37% and 66.67%) and standard spermine (81.48% and 77.78%). Thus, data from this study indicated that ethanolic extract of G. kola stem bark exhibited higher antioxidant activity in vitro while TFGK substantially inhibited arsenic-induced liver and kidney mitochondrial membrane permeability transitions.
Gousia Qayoom Mir, Bashir Ahmad Ganai, Shariq Rashid Masoodi, Shagufta Sheikh and Akbar Masood.
TPO gene is pivotal for the normal functioning of the thyroid gland. A mutation in this gene is associated with several disorders of thyroid hormonogenesis including hypothyroidism. In this study, we investigated the role of TPO codon T2229C genetic variants in hypothyroidism. Blood samples were taken from a total of 445 participants (220 cases and 225 healthy subjects), aged 16-70 years, which were randomly selected from among the Kashmiri population. All the necessary information on the thyroid disease and other lifestyle and environmental exposure were gathered by questionnaire and the patient\'s endocrinologist or general practitioner verified the diagnosis. The polymorphism of the codon T2229C of the TPO gene was identified by polymerase chain reaction-based restriction analysis and direct sequencing.
Statistical analysis suggested a single nucleotide polymorphism that is a C-to-T substitution at codon 2229 of the TPO gene. The frequency of its variant genotype T (combined CT and TT genotype) as noted in cases was associated with a borderline increased risk of hypothyroidism (OR = 1.62; 95% CI = 1.07-2.43; P = 0.02) as compared to healthy subjects.
Our study also observed a positive association of the TPO gene polymorphism with certain environmental exposures, lifestyle changes, smoking habits and in subjects with high basal metabolic Index (BMI). This observation suggests a possible role of this polymorphism in the etiology of hypothyroidism in Kashmir.
Kirti Negi, Harminder Pal Singh, Daizy R. Batish, Anu sharma and Savita Kumari.
Sangla Valley in district Kinnaur of Himachal Pradesh is known for its rich diversity of plants owing to its unique geographical position and edapho-climatic factors. However, due to heavy snowfall, the area remains cut off from the surroundings making movement of the people from one place to other difficult. People of the area especially the tribal have to rely on the traditional health care system involving use of medicinal and aromatic plants. Thus, the traditional healers (Amchi) have in-depth knowledge about the medicinal plants required for the treatment of various ailments. Unfortunately, this knowledge of the people is vanishing fast and also there is a lack of proper documentation of medicinal and aromatic plants of the area. In order to preserve their vast treasure of traditional knowledge, a study was undertaken where in various medicinal and aromatic plants of the Sangla Valley were inventoried and the Ethno-botanical knowledge with respect to their use was collected.
Priyanka and Chandrawati Jee.
Resistance to Drug in various pathogenic and non pathogenic bacteria has been found to be increasing. To overcome this problem there is a dire need to search for new antibacterial compounds from various sources. With this perspective in mind bacterial isolates from four different sites of Indo-gangetic plain soils were tested. These bacterial cultures were isolated and assayed for their antibacterial compounds produced and tested their efficacy on three test system (Escherichia. coli, Staphylococcus aureus and Klebsiella pneumonia). The sonicated sample of the isolates as well as supernatant was used for this purpose to evaluate antibacterial property. Mass cultures of isolates were centrifuged to get the bacterial cell pellet and supernatant. Out of ten selected bacterial isolates, nine exhibited inhibitory activity against the test organisms. The zone of inhibition generated during this study has been noticed in the range of 0.9 cm to 1.6 cm on Klebsiella pneumonia, 1.2 cm to 1.5 cm on Escherichia coli and 0.95 to 1.3 on Staphylococcus aureus. Therefore, it is suggestive that Indo gangetic soil could be an interesting source to explore bacteria having unique feature of producing antibacterial compounds and this may be utilized for commercial value.
Rattan Singh and Shikha Dhiman.
All human beings are the creature of God and therefore all should be treated equally irrespective of their caste, color, sex, gender identity and sexual orientation. Transgenders are the human beings and we need to respect them with full dignity. We are no one to discard them or disrespect them in any form. No doubt transgenders are given full right to life and personal liberty but in actual these rights get restricted in one way or the other. Constitution of India guarantees the rights and freedom to all persons including transgenders but the reality is different. Such people are not treated with respect and human dignity. Just because of the infringement of rights of transgenders, the issue is taken up before the Apex Court which pronounced a landmark judgment in this regard. Supreme Court was very firm in its decision as to provide equality of status and opportunity to transgenders living in society. Also, there are many organizations in India who give new face to transgender community by fighting for their rights. Transgenders achieved victory in 2014, when Supreme Court of India declared the ?Transgender? as ?Third Gender? and held that non-recognition of third gender for civil rights is violative of Fundamental Rights guaranteed under Part III of our Constitution of India.
Jose Manuel Gonzalez Freire.
Many women in Mexico are every day since, I achieved important status and both private enterprise and relevant institutions. The ability of organization and management that have been shown to be equal or better able than men in positions of significant responsibility, both rectories of universities, in the chamber of deputies and senators in the state governments and other institutions or companies.
Chaitra K N, Anjan Kumar B S and H N Suresh.
In digital signal processing techniques, the first step is the pattern recognition problem, which is essentially solved using recognition system based on speaker method. This method is based on the individual information of the utterer(speaker) stored in the form of speech waves and recognizes the speaker automatically based on the information available. It is important to process the uttered signal for fast and accurate speaker recognition system. It involves authentication of a speaker from a large ensemble of possible speakers. In this paper we implemented feature extraction of speech signal using Mel Frequency Cepstral analysis (MFCC) and the result of MFCC analysis are a series of vector characteristics, used to build Vector Quantization (VQ) codebook.
N.Sirisha.
Stock exchange is that place where trading of shares is done in terms of sales and purchase.The purpose of our project is to create a software that analyze the previous stock data of certain companies with the help of certain software like java, visual basics .Net etc.., The procedure after obtaining different stock market analysis based upon different factors like inflation, dollar, other economic factors etc.., we need to apply different data obtaining algorithms to check which data mining algorithms is efficient. The tool that is used is Hadoop. It is concluded from the study that in order to improve the index value of books, it is necessary to manage macroeconomics factors effectively. The government, banks must always keep an eye on this factor because this factors influence the price return of NSE NIFTY.
Yadrian Arnaldo Garcia Pulido, Alberto Arnaldo Medina Leon, Roberto Argelio Frias Jimenez and Rebeca Milenys Jaquinet Espinosa and Leonardo Manuel Cuetara Sanchez.
The knowledge of food safety and innocuousness is indispensable when it is referred to foods and drinks production. For its management, it is required a previous guarantee of hygienic requirements fulfilment. This subject constituted the objective of this research, whose purpose was the proposal of an instrument to evaluate the hygienic prerequisites in gastronomic services. The index proposed was validated in a study object. The instrument was based on the importance of selected criteria?s and its fulfilment according to a checklist. This first analysis it is complemented with a calculation base which contribute to the quantitative character of the method. The proposed instrument shows up automated for a better application. Like main results were obtained an Index proposal of hygienic prerequisites fulfilment (IGHSm), a manual drives for the application of the IGHSm and the proposal of 11 improving actions for the innocuousness management in the study object.
Ritu Saini, Harnek Singh Saini, Anjali Dahiya and Sunita Jain.
In the present investigation, iron content changes in root and shoot tissues of six rice genotypes (Govind, Super, HKR120, Pusa1121, HBC19 and Palman579) differing in grain iron concentration (35- 400 ?g/g) were studied in response to varied iron concentrations at vegetative and reproductive stages. Plants were grown in pots in the net house and treated twice with Yoshida solution containing different iron concentrations (0, 0.1 mM, 0.5 mM EDTA-Fe II). Fe content in roots, shoots and grains increased with increase in Fe concentration. Roots of HBC19 and Palman579 contained higher iron while the per centage increase in iron uptake was higher in roots of Govind and Super. Lower and upper shoots of PUSA1121 showed highest iron. Highest iron in dehusked grains was recorded in Palman579 followed by HBC19, PUSA1121, HKR120, Super and Govind. Thus, with increase iron in medium the iron content was consistently increase in all tissues and soil but the per cent increase depends on genotypic variation.
Nadia Maher Ibrahim Moawad and Sherine Mostafa El Shoura.
The paper shows the contemporary debate surrounding multiculturalism. Actually, multiculturalism transfers from national identity to social cohesion and leads to political correctness instead of cultural friction. The paper shows a balanced assessment of the meaning of multiculturalism. It is a hotly debated and has covered a wide range of policies. For this purpose, the paper depends upon two key elements: diversity and culture.
M. A. Kashem, Taisir Shahriar, Hashmi Sina, Md. Akramuzzaman, Md. Touhidul Islam and Sadia Afrin.
Considerable numbers of early gastric cancers can be missed or misdiagnosed with conventional white light imaging endoscopy (WLI), thus advanced endoscopic imaging modalities have been applied to overcome the issue. High definition endoscopy can improve diagnostic accuracy, but still misses 20e25% of early gastric cancer. Magnifying endoscopy combined with narrow bandImaging (NBI) allows for very high accuracy, with sensitivity and specificity of over 95%. The algorithm for magnifying endoscopy diagnosis of gastric cancer is composed of 1) presence of demarcation line, and 2) presence of irregular microsurface and/or microvascular pattern. Ultra-high magnification of 400 times with endocytoscopy (ECS) can produce images reflecting structural and cellular atypia. Using high grade ECS atypia as the diagnostic criteria for gastric cancer, ECS achieves a high diagnostic accuracy (86% of sensitivity, 100% of specificity) although approximately 10 % of target lesions are not assessable because of poor dye staining.
M. N Gururaja and A. S Devaraja.
The prediction of elastic modulus of the Kevlar/Glass hybrid composites had been investigated through Rule of hybrid mixtures (RoHM) equation. Hybrid composition were studied with different fiber percentage and the relative glass fiber contents were varied up to 100 %. The experimental and predicted values were evaluated and found excellent agreement with each other.
Raya Kamal Mohammed Salih, Najat Abdulrazzaq Hasan and Rafid Bashir Hashim.
Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVDs) are diseases that affect the heart or vessels. Coronary artery disease (CAD) and peripheral (PAD) are types of CVD. PON1 is a HDL-associated lipolactonase is considered to be atheroprotective by preventing LDL and cell membranes oxidation. A common polymorphism due to an amino acid substitution (Glutamine Arginine) at codon 192 is considered to be a major determinant of variation in serum PON1 activity. Recent studies have suggested that the PON1192 polymorphism is an independent risk factor for CVD
Objectives: The effect of the PON1 activity and PON1 Q192R (rs662) polymorphisms on the CVD include patients with PAD and CAD.
Subject and Methods: This case control study consisted of 180 subjects were divided into 100 patients with CVD (50 patients with PAD and 50 patients with CAD), and 80 healthy controls. Serum levels for lipid profile and PON1 enzyme were measured by spectrophotometer using paraoxon as a substrate. The genetic polymorphism of PON1 was detected by TaqMan-based allele discrimination RT- PCR
Results: The means ?SEM of serum PON1 activity were highly significantly decreased in PAD and CAD as compared to control group. The heterozygote (Q192R) genotype of PON1 polymorphism is abundant among all of the studied groups (68%for PAD, 56% for CAD and 65%for control, respectively) . The CAD patients carry the high risk RR genotyping (odd ratio of 2.69, with the confidence interval of (1.12-6.47; p=0.02).The PAD who carry the RR genotype have a risk ratio 1.57 at confidence interval of 0.61- 4.02.
Conclusion: Reduction of PON1 activity is one of the risk factor of development of CVD . Patients who carry the RR genotyping were at high risk to develop CVD. Our results indicate that controversial relationships regarding the PON1 rs 662 (Q192R) polymorphism and CVD. Serum PON1 activity is more informative than the PON1 genotype in evaluating the severity and extent of cardiovascular disease in Iraqi patients.
Manabendra Rabha and Bipul Nath.
Objective: The objective of the proposed work was to investigate the method for the efficient encapsulation of highly water soluble venlafaxine hydrochloride into poly-e-caprolactone microspheres by water-in-oil-in-oil and water-in-oil-in water double emulsification technique and comparison for its controlled release properties.
Method: The Venlafaxine loaded microspheres are prepared by water-in-oil-in-oil (w/o/w) and water-in-oil-in water (w/o/o) double emulsification technique. The compatibility study of drug with polymer was performed by Differential scanning caloriemetry (DSC) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). The prepared microspheres are studied for their particle size, drug entrapment efficiency. The microspheres are characterised by SEM and in-vitro release of Venlafaxine was studied in phosphate buffer pH 1.2 for 12 hours and further studied for kinetic modeling.
Result: The precentage yield of Venlafaxine loaded microspheres of all the formulations were found better by w/o/w method(92.21% for F 3). The particle size was found in a range of 130-135 μm and 120-125 μm for both W/O/W and W/O/O formulations. The entrapment efficiency was found in F 5 formulation prepared by W/O/O method. While the in-vitro release of Venlafaxine showed a drug release below 60% after 12 h of study whereas the marketed formulation released above 90% within 6 h and the mechanism was found to be fickian type.
Conclusion: The prepared poly-ε-caprolactone microsphere is capable of delivering Venlafaxine HCl over prolonged periods, making it a potential candidate for controlled drug delivery.
Aleksandar Trenevski.
If crimes against sexual freedom and morality, as an important issue of a specific region or country, are taken into account it would enable us to seriously understand the problem which carries the crime itself. This would provoke the start of an appropriate treatment for prevention of this type of crime with the aim of helping the victims overcome the survived traumatic events much easier. The criminal legal protection of sexual freedom and morality is provided by the Criminal Code of the Republic of Macedonia, in Chapter XIX (article.186 to 194). The prevention and reduction of the number of crimes against sexual freedom and morality, and the provision of funds for the implementation of assistance and protection of sexually abused people as well as the establishment and promotion of a coordinated system of cooperation between the competent institutions and local authorities of the Shtip?s appellate region, including all the areas that cover this issue partially or completely inevitable. The goal is to take prevention measures and sensibilise the general public about these negative phenomena.
The restriction of sexual freedom leads to humiliation and violation of the victim?s dignity and violation of human freedom and human morality that can leave permanent consequences which can be even fatal for the victim.
Individual characteristics of the offenders indicate that they are uneducated, single, with no property and are alcohol addicts.
The proportional representation of crimes against sexual freedom and morality in the Stip appellate region in proportion to the overall representation of this crime at the level of the Republic of Macedonia indicates that in this area the number of such crimes is very small compared to the total number of sex crimes in the Republic of Macedonia.
M. R. Naveen kumar and T. Rathakrishnan.
A Farmer Interest Group (FIG) is a self-managed, independent group of farmers with a shared goal and interest, their activities shall be limited only by the needs and motivation of group members? itself. FIGs have the power to create a socio ? economic resolution in the rural areas of our country by producing tangible social assets. Due to its? long implementation period and gaining importance of group approaches, now it is opt time to perform a investigative study on strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges of FIG. This study was conducted in Dindigul district. Five villages namely Old ayakudi, Vaeppanvalasu, Eramanayackanpatty, TKN pudhur and Rookvarpatty were selected deliberately due to the well-functioning of FIGs in and around. A total of one hundred respondents were selected at the rate of ten members from each group using simple random sampling technique. The open-ended empathical questions on their own perception on FIG were inquired and the responses were recorded and classified on it?s form under the labels of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and challenges (SWOC) for the existing FIG. The major strength, weakness, opportunity and challenge are found as good rapport building among members of FIG (55%), lack of record maintenance and skill regarding organizing meetings (52%), vast scope of implementation of value addition units like pulp industry and guava powder plants (48%) and organizing producers at the operational time of FIG activities (33%) and raising seed money among FIG members (25%) respectively.
Bhuvan, R M Belokar and Shishir Bansal.
The Quality Management System provides the environment within which related tools, techniques and procedures can be deployed effectively leading to operational success for a construction project. Top management commitment towards quality management system is generally perceived as one of the key factors in determining its success. The purpose of this research paper was to understand role of top management in connection with implementation of ISO 9001:2015. Extra high quality assurance has been followed for construction of bridge which enabled to set up third party quality assurance consultancy (Lloyd?s Register Asia (LRA)). The author worked with the QA company and the state department (DTTDC) to perform various quality assurance checks and helped in implementation of quality management system ISO 9001:2015 (clause 5.1). The problem faced by the top management at was to keep track of the various activities at site for e.g. bolt testing which also includes documentation of joints of steel girder that are QA passed. Gantt charts were used to depict the data collected by performing the given set of procedure to check the quality like Bolt tightness and perform various other quality checks related to bolt that helped in successful implementation of ISO 9001:2015.
Clifton Addison, Brenda Campbell Jenkins, Donna Antoine-LaVigne, Sherry Stephens-Gibson, James Kelley, Robert Hughes, Milton Dawkins and Marinelle Payton.
Background: The objective of this study was to describe the perceptions of community members from three counties in central Mississippi, Hinds, Madison, and Rankin, regarding selected risk factors for cardiovascular disease and prevalence based on proximity to liquor stores/fast food restaurants.
Methods: The study interviewed 118 selected participants of Jackson Heart Study Community Health Advisory Network (JHS CHAN) along with some other community members. We then used the survey data to plot the distribution map of self-reported obesity, diabetes, and overweight of three areas. The plot was then compared with the map from the Jackson Heart Study. We also plotted distribution maps of liquor stores and fast food stores.
Results: The pattern of disparities with the selected measures was similar to the pattern observed in the Jackson Heart Study cohort. The data illustrate areas where liquor stores and fast foods are concentrated posing accelerated risks for residents within the three counties.
Conclusions: Understanding geographic variation in cardiovascular health is an important component of any plan to facilitate capacity building in African American communities, and the collection of data in neighborhood regional context is an important step in initiating health promotion and prevention and intervention strategies as communities strive to gain a better understanding of the prevalence of risk factors and disease. Recognizing certain community characteristics may help public health advocates better focus their preventative efforts.
jalpa h. jani and kapil Pandya.
Arka Kalpana is now days famous Kalpana among the Ayurvedic procedures. It is introduced in pharmacy of Ayurveda in later part of development, which is very specific in its mode of preparation and due to virtue of this particularity; it may have all volatile active substances in effective form in its final product. It is more palatable form of Ayurvedic dosage forms in comparison to Swarasa, kalka, kwath etc.In Arka Prakash various kinds of Procedures and heating are mentioned for preparing Arka from different type of Dravya. Arka Kalpana is correlated with Distillation in modern pharmaceutics practices.
Karzan Wakil, Didar Muhamad, Kizhan Sardar and Soz Jalal.
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in education is widely promoted to have a positive impact on enhancing student learning. Different models for learning technology are defined, especially in basic schools. In Kurdistan Region and Iraq learning technology for basic school is a new subject called ICT. The problem is we do not know how effective this subject could be to improve the education system. To solve this issue, we arranged a questionnaire form between 120 students and 30 teachers in Slemani city, and then we highlighted two basic schools, one of them studied ICT subject and the other one, didn?t. As a result, the students that studied ICT, used technology better for learning and were more intelligent compared to the students that didnt studied ICT. Moreover teachers confirmed the student answers. As a conclusion, our result showed that studing and learning ICT, is more affective for education system, and helps students to improve their knowledge in other subjects.
Edilberto Z. Andal.
This study assessed the quality and impact of research and extension (RDE) programs of the College of Teacher Education (CTE) at Laguna State Polytechnic University (LSPU) on the development of the clientele and communities. Specifically, it sought answers the profile of respondent; extent of compliance for quality research and extension programs; the differences on respondents? perceptions; and which variables taken singly or in combination significantly influence the quality of research and extension programs. Descriptive design was utilized with deans, directors, faculty, and staffs directly involved in RDE programs as respondents. Structured questionnaire adopted from AACCUP accreditation survey instruments with modifications was used. Mean, standard deviation, ANOVA, and multiple regression analysis were the statistical tools used. Majority of the respondents were 51 to 60 years of age, female; married; MA and Ed.D./Ph.D. holders. Their competence and commitment were rated very high; excellent work attitude, funding and resources components; while implementation, monitoring, evaluation, utilization of research results/outputs; publication and dissemination; priorities and relevance; planning; fund sourcing, community involvement and participation were rated high. Respondents perceived differently the quality of RDE programs and they concluded that respondents? profile and institution-related variables significantly influenced it; hence RDE quality and impact are felt by the stakeholders.
Abodunrin Olugbemiga L, Ojo Olufemi R, Onifade Bolatito T and Ojofeitimi Ebenezer O.
Introduction: It is estimated that almost one half of hypertensive patients drop out entirely from treatment within one year for various reasons. A major factor accounting for inadequate treatment of hypertension is poor adherence to both drugs treatment and nutritional diet as instructed by the physicians.
Methodology: This descriptive cross sectional study was carried out in Osogbo Local Government Area. A systematic random sampling procedure was used to select the 375 respondents who were interviewed using a semi-structured self developed questionnaire. Statistical Package for Social Sciences 22 was used for analysis
Result: Mean age of respondents was 56.34?14.34years. More than 80% reported good adherence to various dietary counselling such as reduction in salty, starchy and fatty food as well as alcohol. Others found it difficult to change their habits. Good adherence to medication and clinic appointments were found among 207 (55.9%) though 291(78.0%) claimed they were aware of the complications. Reasons for non-adherence were forgetfulness 101(93.5%) and financial constraints 97(89.8%). Age, sex, marital status, occupation, place of living, monthly income and religion were found to be significantly associated with adherence to nutritional counselling. The study also reveals that only the use of herbal medicine was significantly associated with adherence to medication.
Conclusion: Studies that may show importance of support group to improve adherence is necessary as in other chronic illnesses such as HIV and Tuberculosis. Health personnel should adhere to standards of providing adequate information through counselling as need be. Patients should take responsibility of their health and adhere to health instructions.
S. Panda.
Taking into account the color-electrostatic and magnetic energies due to one gluon exchange(OGE) interaction, along with that due to the residual quark-pion coupling arising out of the requirement of the chiral symmetry and due to necessary centre-of?mass(c.m) motion and the interactions between the constituent quarks arising out of Goldstone-Boson exchange(GBE), which are considered to play an important contributing to the energy of the Baryon core, were not taken into account in our earlier works, the baryon resonance spectra are calculated in a chiral symmetric ?Potential Model of independent quarks?. The effective potential representing Phenomenologically the non-perturbative gluon interactions including gluon self-couplings, is chosen with equally mixed scalar and vector parts in a linear form. The calculated values of baryon resonance spectra are found to agree reasonably well with the experiment .It is found that OGE corrections require a value of quark gluon coupling constant α_c=0.50 which is consistent with the idea of treating OGE effects in low order perturbation.
Y. N. Vaidyanath, K. G. Ashamanjari, K. R. Vishnu Mahesh, M. Mylarappa, M. S. Bhargava Ramu, S. C. Prashantha, H. P. Nagaswarupa, N. Raghavendra and D. M. K. Siddeswara.
In this present study, the Titanium phosphates (TiP2O7) and Lithium titanium phosphate (LiTiP2O7) materials were synthesized by using soft hydrothermal method at moderate pressure and temperature conditions. The resultant materials were characterized by using P-XRD, SEM, EDAX, FTIR, TGA, DSC and Electrochemical impedance spectra (EIS). From P-XRD, confirms the well crystalline rhombohedral phase and was found to be in the range below 100 nm. FTIR spectra indicated that there is an increase in the degree of splitting and stretching of the vibration bands, whereas the splitting of vibration bands and polymerization of [PO4] decreased as the Ti ions. The TGA/DSC studies revealed that, these materials display endothermic reactions due to the liberation of ligands and diffusion. Thermal stability of the materials improved and the dielectric constant decreases. AC conductivity measurements for both the samples were carried and results are plotted. From AC conductivity studies, it is observed that the ionic conductivity of dc conductance of sample was measured show the frequency dependence dc capacitance of LiTiP2O7 material. The frequency response dc capacitance also depends on doping with titanium.
Karim Houmanat, Hamid Mazouz, Mohamed El Fechtali and Abdelghani Nabloussi.
Safflower (Carthamustinctorius L.) is a minor hardy crop well adapted to semi-arid conditions, which could be considered as alternative oilseed crop in climate change context. Evaluation of broad genetic base germplasm under such particular conditions is a crucial phase in breeding program. During 2013-2014, a total of 62 accessions from different origins of the world were evaluated in the INRA experimental station, at Douyet, for morphological, agronomic, pathological and technological traits. Results showed large variability among these accessions for spinelessness level, earliness, leaf rust resistance, thousand seed weight, seed yield per plant and seed oil content. Seed oil content ranged from 22.10 to 38.77%, with an average of 28.26%. Average seed yield is about 2 t/ha, and the highest seed yield ever observed was 4.490 t/ha. Presence of high genetic variability for agro-morphological, pathological and technological traits would ensure the effectiveness of breeding and selecting performant safflower varieties. The accessions studied were grouped into six groups based on desired traits: seed yield per plant, seed oil content, spineless, flowering earliness, resistance to leaf rust and resistance to broomrape. These groups will be considered as genetic pools and selected genotypes from each pool will be used as elite parents in our safflower hybridization program. The findings of this research would be useful for safflower breeding programs in Morocco as well as in other countries of the world.
El Hadri Sanae, Chahbi Zakaria, Lahoussine Abainou, Bassit Nassifa, Kaddouri Sa?d, Qacif Hassan, Med Zyani and Ba?zri Hicham.
Type 2 diabetes and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection are two of the most important problems of public health in the world. A relationship between these two diseases has been discussed by several teams in the literature. However, risk factors for this association remain unsolved. The main purpose of our study was to estimate the prevalence of HCV in the population with type 2 diabetes. The present study is an observational descriptive transversal study conducted between June 2012 and December 2012 in the department of Endocrinology- Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases in the Military Hospital Avicenna of Marrakesh. After explaining the objectives of our study to patients, who had to express by writing their consent, we collected information about the demographic data, socio-economic data, family antecedents of type 2 diabetes and risk factors for HCV infection. Then, all patients underwent a complete clinical examination. The search for anti-VHC Antibodies, the assessment of liver function and glycemic balance were performed on all patients. Research and quantification of viral RNA were routinely done to patients with anti-VHC antibodies. Nine patients with type 2 diabetes in 200 (4,5%) were found to be infected with HCV. The mean age of patients was 55 years with a sex ratio of 1,08. The majority of patients had an unbalanced type 2 diabetes, with a mean age of 6 and a half years and a mean HbA1c of 8,22%. Genotype 1 was the most frequent (77,8%). A positive correlation was observed between the prevalence of HCV infection and type 2 diabetes in our study population. This increase in prevalence is an important factor, enabling precocious detection and better management of VHC infection within patients with type 2 diabetes.
Rini Ariani Said.
A person\'s right to demand compensation for unlawful arrest is a basic right guaranteed by the law. This basic right is owned by every citizen and guaranteed by the government. This research aims to analyze the compensation mechanisms for unlawful arrest victims. The method used in this research is sociological jurisprudence, a study based on library research as well as field research. The outcome of the research indicates that Government Regulation No. 92 of 2015 has been present as a legal protection for unlawful arrest victims with significant changes in the amount of compensation but unfortunately until now it has not complemented with rules on payment mechanism of compensation. The Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia should immediately review Indonesian Regulation on the Payment Mechanism of Compensation because it is no longer applicable in accordance with some other rules in Indonesia.
S. Keerthana.
The active role of siddha medicine in combating diseases is being widely recognized nowadays. In that way I have a taken a condition called PCOS which in Tamil commonly known as Sinaipai Neerkatti and Karbakandhi Ennai is the drug that I have taken for the study from the literature Anubhava Siddha Vaidhya Muraigal which has been indicated for infertility. In this pilot study 10 patients were recruited from NIS, Sool Magalir Maruthuvam OPD for the study and given the treatment for three menstrual cycles along with some food restrictions and lifestyle modifications.
Anni. U. Gupta, M. S. Wagh and P. A. Patil.
The speech emotion recognition technology has a potential to provide considerable benefits to the national, international industry and society in general. Speech Emotion Recognition is a vital part of efficient human interaction and has become a new challenge to speech processing. In this paper speech emotion recognition system has been reviewed. Also Features and classifier for recognition of speech has been discussed.
M. Ztati, L. Bendriss and A. Elkhatouri.
Introduction It has been established that the volume of left atrium (LA) is a marker of alteration of the diastolic function of the left ventricle. The aim of this study is to determine the relationship between left atrium remodeling and left ventricle diastolic dysfunction in hypertensive patients with preserved systolic function and The repercussions of high blood pressure (HTA) on size and function LA
Materials and methods: A prospective study of 200 hypertensive patients In the cardiology department of the Avicenne military hospital in Marrakech during the period from July 2015 to July 2016,
R?sultats: The average age of hypertensive patients was 52 ? 5 years, 80 men, whose data were all evaluated by echocardiography measuring left atrium volumes during the reservoir, conduit and pump phases. Standard indices reflecting left ventricular filling were also assessed.
Medium left atrium volume indexed for body surface was significantly higher in hypertensive patients 32.1 ? 4.6 ml/m2 vs 21.72 (2.52) mL/m?. When compared to normal subjects, patients with mild diastolic dysfunction had lower corrected passive emptying volumes ( p < 0.001) and higher corrected active emptying volumes, thus leading to similar corrected total emptying volumes ( p < 0.001). However, patients with moderate diastolic dysfunction had smaller active emptying volumes, but higher passive and total emptying volumes when compared to normal controls and patients with mild diastolic dysfunction.
Conclusion: The HTA induces an increase in the pump function and the reservoir function and an alteration of the function of the LA; These changes appear to be related to left ventricular hypertrophy and the degree of left ventricular diastolic dysfunction.
Kavyachand yalamudi.
Background: Obesity, physical inactivity, and altered estrogen levels play an important role in contributing to disease risk profile and autonomic dysfunction in healthy postmenopausal women. This study was conducted to test the correlation between autonomic dysfunction and dyslipidemia in healthy postmenopausal women.
Materials and Methods: This study was carried out on sixty healthy postmenopausal women before the age of 65 years, without any gross systemic disease. The following five autonomic functional tests were performed on the study group: heart rate response to deep breathing, heart rate response to Valsalva maneuver, heart rate response to standing up from supine position, blood pressure response to sustained
hand grip, and blood pressure response to standing up from supine position. Fasting lipid profile of the study group was tested.
Results and Conclusion: In the present study, autonomic dysfunction was found in 67% of healthy postmenopausal women. Among the sixty female healthy postmenopausal women included in the study, 68% were found to have dyslipidemia. In our study, there is a statistically significant correlation between autonomic dysfunction and dyslipidemia in healthy postmenopausal women. In these healthy postmenopausal women with increased serum cholesterol, serum low-density lipoprotein, and serum triglycerides, there was autonomic dysfunction which is statistically significant. There is no statistical significance on comparing serum high-density lipoprotein cholesterol with autonomic dysfunction in healthy postmenopausal women.
Kiran.
Document examination has always been an important part of forensic examination. Incidents of forgery have increased tremendously and to alter these documents pens are widely used. Additions, alterations, obliterations play an important role in document examination. During a forensic document examination a major question which arises in the mind of examiner is: when was a particular ink entry made on the document? Immense numbers of documents are written, printed and copied each year and so are the suspect documents. Identification of suspected documents has become common subject for forensic document examination. Five brands of blue ballpoint pen which are widely used in India were taken (Two models from each brand). Ink entries were prepared by writing ?INK? word on paper. The analysis of writing ink (Blue ball point pen ink) by planar chromatography was done using paper chromatography and thin layer chromatography.
This study is aimed to determine the separation of ink within brands of blue ballpoint pen and results were compared with the acquired reference sample. The blue ballpoint ink is separated in order to find out the composition of ink and its separation within their brands, model and batches and also to find out that which technique of chromatography is best and also to find out which solvent system is best to perform ink analysis. Blue ink was not separated by paper chromatography but it was separated and differentiated by thin layer chromatography. Although both techniques are destructive in nature but Thin Layer Chromatography is best and reliable technique than paper chromatography.
MD. Khizer Razak, Deepika Meena and G L Meena.
Background: Urinary tract stones are common, with a lifetime incidence of up to 12% and recurrence rates of up to 50%.
Methods: This study was performed in Department of Radiology in sardar patel medical college,bikaner, in the period ranged (August 2016- December 2016), included 50 subjects (36 male and 14 female) with age range between from 17 to 70.
Results: 44% of renal stone cases detected by USG.8% of ureter stone case detected by USG.
Conclusion: U/S were found to be good modalities for depicting renal stones, U/S are the first line of choice in diagnosis of renal calculi.
Nidhi Gujar, Shaishavee Saini, Preeti Chandurkar, Tanuja Murab, Anjali Choudhary and Nidhi Tripathi.
In the present study, root nodule bacteria (RNB) were studied for their plant growth promoting (PGP) properties. For recovery of RNB wild leguminous plants viz., Abrus precatorious (A. precatorious), Crotolaria retusa (C. retusa), Crotolaria turnesia (C. turnesia), Desmodium sp. Gliricidia sp and Mimosa pudica (M. pudica) were collected from different areas of Bhopal. A total of 31 isolates (7 from A. precatorious, 3 from C. retusa, 4 from C. turnesia, 15 from Desmodium sp., 1 from Gliricidia sp. and 1 from M. pudica) were recovered and were studied for PGP activities viz., siderophore production, phosphate solubilization (P.solubilization), Indole acetic acid (IAA) production and ACC deaminase activity. 45.1% of the recovered isolates were positive for siderophore production with isolate DM1e showing maximum production i.e. 72.6 ?g ml-1. About 22.5% of the isolates produced IAA with isolate DM1f showing the maximum production of 10 ?g ml-1. P. solubilization and ACC deaminase activity was recorded in 54.8 and 87% isolates respectively. Further study on nitrogen fixation is underway. RNB such as rhizobia are known to promote plant growth by fixing nitrogen within root nodules and provide it to the plant for nutrition. Multifaceted beneficial effects can be obtained on plant growth and health by such RNB if they possess additional PGP properties as worked out in this study. Moreover, benefits can be obtained even if they fail to nodulate the plant (a constraint for rhizobia) but colonize the rhizosphere and compete with indigenous microbial population. Such microbes with multiple PGP properties could be developed as bioinoculants and have the potential to fetch the profit in growing biotechnology sector of India.
Radhey Shyam, Manjunath BC, Adarsh kumar, Ridhi Narang, Mamta Ghanghas and Geeta Rani.
Dental caries is known as a major public health problem worldwide effecting individuals. Effective caries-preventive methods have been developed and refined since the introduction of community water fluoridation in the 1940s. The various topical fluorides which have shown maximum beneficial effect include fluoride varnishes. Among the food groups, dairy products have been recognized as exhibiting anticaries activity i.e milk, milk concentrates and cheeses. Dairy products have been shown to be anticariogenic in animal and human in situ caries models. The bovine milk phosphoprotein, casein, is considered to be largely responsible for this anticariogenic property. The anitcariogenic effect of CPP-ACP has been attributed to the multiphosphoseryl-containing sequences of casein. CPP can stabilize the level of ACP in saliva as it act as reservoir of calcium and stabilizes the level of calcium. We should shift our ways of caries prevention to include products such as CPP-ACP in our prevention schemes for patients through remineralization of enamel and application of minimal invasive approaches in dentistry.
Ahmadwali Aminee.
Background: Severe Acute Malnutrition among children 0-59 months of age is a serious public health problem in Afghanistan, the 2013 National Nutrition Survey data reviled high wasting rates of 9.5 % (WHZ<-2) (4% of them are severely wasted WHZ<-3) among children under five at the national level, while the data at provincial level is fluctuating for higher and lower than national figures, which is the leading causes of mortality and morbidity among children under five years of age. This study was conducted in three Therapeutic Feeding Unites located in two tertiary hospital of Kabul city (Indira Gandhi Child Health and Miwand Hospitals) and one provincial hospital in Parwan province of Afghanistan. The objective of the study was to identify the risk factors contributing to severe acute malnutrition among children 0-59 months of age.
Method: This cross-sectional hospital based study was conducted on 301 children with severe acute malnutrition hospitalized in three mentioned therapeutic feeding unites during 4 month (March-June 2017) period. The WHO classifications for severe acute malnutrition (weight for height <-3 z-score or bilateral petting edema) were used to identify children 0-59 months of age with severe acute malnutrition.
Results: out of 301 children under five years with severe acute malnutrition 53.8 % (n= 162) were boys and 46.2 % (n= 139) were girls. Most of the children (40 %) were with the age of =<6 month, and 60.1% (n=184) of them were delivered at home. About 46.2 % (n=139) of children had birth weight less than 2500 grams which indicting low birthweight, about 84.1 % of children (n= 253) were wasted (severe acute malnutrition with weight for height <-3 ZScore), while only 15.9 % of them (n=48) with bilateral petting edema (which is more severe than the first one). 88.4% (n=266) of children were breastfed during the first 6 months of age (any time) and 11.6 % (n=35) were reported never breastfeed. Over all 44.5 % (n= 134 ) children reported start complementary feeding during the first 3 month of age , 26.9 % (n= 81) started between 4-5 months ,8.6%(n=26) between 9-12 months, and only 19.9 %(n=60) of children started complementary feeding with the age of 6-8 months which is appropriate time. About 16.3 % had diarrhea, 5.3 % Pneumonia and 1 % Congenital Heart Disease.
60.5 % (n=182) of mothers reported had not completed expected child routine vaccinations. About 34.2 %( n=103) of mothers had young age (less than 21 year old), and about 83.1 % (n=250) of mothers were illiterate. 72.8% (n= 219) of mothers had less than 3 or no antenatal visits at all during her pregnancy with the current hospitalized child. The mother knowledge about health and nutrition topics were very low, among all only 17.3% (n=52) of mothers had information /education about diarrhea, 21.9 %( n=66) about breastfeeding and.13.3 % (n=40) about healthy eating. 25% (n=75) of mothers reported their household income source is from regular wage /salary, and 49.2 % (n=148) of mothers reported their household monthly income were between 6001-10000 Afs( 89 - 150 USD). Out of 301 mothers interviewed, 44.2 % (n=133) reported 7-9 family members depended on the monthly income in the household, while 14 %( n=42) reported 10-12 people are dependent in the household monthly income. Around 29.6 % (n=89) mothers reported using stream water for drinking and preparing of foods.
Conclusion: according to the finding of study, mother?s education level, access to health care services, mother?s knowledge on breastfeeding and starting timely complementary feeding and family income may be the main risk factors contributing on development of severe acute malnutrition among children less than 5 years of age.
Divya Shaji.
Monocarboxylate transporter-8 (MCT8) is a specific thyroid hormone transporter, necessary for the uptake of thyroid hormone into target tissues. Mutations in the MCT8 gene lead to a syndrome named Allan?Herndon?Dudley syndrome (AHDS), also known as MCT8 deficiency. At present, no treatment is available for Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome (AHDS). Knowledge of protein three-dimensional structure (3D) is essential for understanding the mechanism of protein function, and it is crucial for the development of target-specific drugs. Unfortunately, protein structure determination using experimental methods is time consuming and not successful with all proteins, especially membrane proteins. The three-dimensional structure (3D) of MCT8 protein is unavailable in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). In the absence of 3D structures, computational methods are used for the structure prediction of proteins. Availability of 3D-model of MCT8 protein would significantly improve the development of new drugs for Allan?Herndon?Dudley syndrome (AHDS). In this study, multi-template homology modeling was used to predict the 3D structure of MCT8 protein. Picking the right set of templates for homology modeling is a difficult problem. This study identified the most suitable templates for the 3D structure prediction of MCT8. Moreover, a good quality 3D model of MCT8 was predicted based on multiple templates using MODELLERv9.17.
H. Hemanta and H. Basantakumar Sharma.
The ferromagnetic material of bismuth ferrite and cobalt ferrite are synthesized by using the sol gel auto-combustion method. The different composites of bismuth and cobalt ferrite are prepared (1-x) BiFeO3-xCoFe2O4 (x=0.0, 0.2, 0.5, 0.8, 1). The samples are characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and impedance spectroscopy. XRD pattern of bismuth ferrite and cobalt ferrite shows the rhombohedral and cubic spinel structure respectively. All the samples showed dispersion relation with frequency. The pure BFO sample shows the weak ferromagnetic properties with coercivity Hc= 209.51Oe and magnetization of Ms= 4.723 emu/g at room temperature. All the samples show the ferromagnetic nature and there is increase in both saturation magnetization and remanence magnetization with decrease in bismuth ferrite contents in the composite samples. However there is variation in coercivity and is found to be maximum for the composite sample with x=0.8. The current ? voltage (I-V) characteristic of BFO sample shows the non-ohmic nature while cobalt ferrite shows ohmic nature.
Dunka H. I, Buba D. M, Gurumyen Y. G, Oragwa A. O, Oziegbe S. D and Patrobas M. N.
Meat consumption demand is increasing with the growing population; however, livestock foetal wastage in the abattoirs/slaughter slabs in Nigeria is being documented. The trend of slaughtering pregnant animals is against the existing meat edict of 1968 and this accounts for a decrease in livestock production and huge financial losses which invariably affects the livestock economy. Hence, a 5-year retrospective study (2012-2016) was conducted to assess the level of economic implication of foetal wastages in cattle and goats slaughtered in Jos abattoir. The data collected were analyzed using Microsoft Excel, tables, and a graph chart. The total number of cattle and goat slaughtered and their foetuses were reported as documented. A total of 26,242 cattle and 4,612 goats were slaughtered, representing a yearly 5,250 and 922, monthly 437 and 77, and daily15 and 2.6 averages respectively. Out of these a total of 1,346 (4.5%) and 1,044 (22.6%) fetuses were wasted representing a yearly 269 and 209, monthly 22 and 17 and daily0.75 and 0.6for cattle and goats respectively. The economic loss associated with the total foetal wastages for cattle and goats in the present study was estimated at ₦174,980,000 ($571,830.07) and ₦10,044,000 ($328,235.29) respectively. The annual averages of cattle and goat fetal wastage are ₦34,970,000 ($114,281.06) and ₦2,090,000 ($6,830.07) respectively. It is, therefore, necessary to implement the law prohibiting the slaughter of pregnant animals through thorough antemortem inspection which will consequently improve the nation?s livestock economy.
Anastasios Anastasiadis A A, George Dimitriadis G D, Konstantinos Gkagkalidis K G, Steve Leung S L, Ioannis Vakalopoulos I V and Jean de la Rosette J D.
Hypothesis / aims of study: It is well recognized that endothelial dysfunction is strongly related to lower urogenital problems such as erectile dysfunction, which shortly precedes clinical coronary arterial occlusion. The study aims to investigate the potential correlation of systemic vascular endothelial dysfunction and coronary artery disease (CAD) with bladder outlet obstruction (BOO).
Study design, materials and methods: Thirty men age 50 years and older (mean=62.7 years ?14.6) with mild to severe LUTS were enrolled and gave written consent. All patients underwent pressure flow study and simultaneous non-invasive recording of detrusor tissue oxygenation and hemodynamics with Near Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS). Systemic endothelial integrity was assessed by measurement of inflammatory and endothelial-prothrombotic markers such as Endothelin-1 (ET-1), Interleukin-6 (IL-6), Asymmetric Dimethylarginine (ADMA) and N-terminal C-type natriuretic peptide (NT-pro CNP). CAD, defined as occlusion of coronary arteries, was also recorded. IBM-SPSS ver. 22 was used for the statistical analysis.
Results:- Logistic regression model was applied to examine whether BOO ? as diagnosed properly with the standard Pressure Flow study and also by estimation of detrusor muscle oxygenation with the NIRS technique ? correlates with vascular lesions. Elevated values of ΕΤ-1 and IL-6 were found, but they were not statistically significant. NIRS showed a specificity of 88% and a sensitivity of 79% in diagnosing BOO. Also, a sevenfold increase was found in the likelihood of BOO in patients with CAD.
Interpretation of Results: Elevated biochemical markers of endothelial dysfunction such as ΕΤ-1, and IL-6 as well as by the sevenfold increase in the likelihood of BOO in coronary patients suggest that there may be a correlation between lower urinary tract dysfunction and vascular occlusion. With the limitation of the small sample size, a common pathophysiological background may exist such as impaired blood perfusion of the bladder and/or prostate. This is also supported by the use of NIRS that assesses obstruction through detrusor oxygenation impairment.
Concluding Message: Bladder outlet obstruction may be related to endothelial dysfunction and coronary artery disease. Also, NIRS may be a good alternative for non-invasive urodynamic studies in the assessment of bladder outlet obstruction.
Zineb Rhandour, Meriem Tarbaoui, Mina Oumam, Belkassem El Amraoui, Ahmed Bennamara and Abdelmjid Abourriche.
In this work, activated carbon was prepared from the by-product of marine sponges. The objective of this study is summarized in the development of an adsorbent material with a very interesting adsorption capacity, hence the interest to control the parameters influencing the functioning of the development process by exploiting it The screening plan \"Factoriel Complet\". This technique minimizes the experiments and allows detecting the factors influencing the quality and the quantity which are: temperature, time and mass. Then the next step in this study was devoted to the optimization of the process of elaboration, using the response surface methodology ?Composite centered plan?. The optimal conditions with 55% of methylene blue adsorption capacity are obtained with 180.9?C as activation temperature, 118.9 min as activation time and 7.33g for the mass of the raw material.
Heena Agarwal, Mohit Mangla, Lily Rajput, Madan Mohan Niranjan, Pankaj Kukreja and Sanjeev Kumar.
Introduction: Infection control is a major issue in medicine and dentistry because of concern over communicable diseases transmitted in health care settings. Both dental personnel and patients are always at risk of communicating diseases during treatment. The use of effective infection control procedures in the dental office will prevent cross contamination that may extend to dentist, dental staff, dental technician and patients. The current study evaluated the effectiveness of different techniques for Pre-sterilization of burs used in a Hospital-based Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery department. In material and method, four groups A, B, C, and D were made and sterilization of drill bits was done by mechanical scrubbing in group A, 2% glutaraldehyde in group B, 5 % phenol in group C and autoclaving in group D. After which microbiological evaluation of the drill bits are done in Blood Agar media and the microbial colony were counted in each group. Result: The result showed that for Group A the mean bacterial colony count is 62.10 ? 4.17, 72.80 ? 4.61 and 81.30 ? 5.35 at 24, 48 and 72 hours respectively. For group B the mean bacterial colony count was 4.50 ? 0.52, 5.70 ? 0.48 and 6.20 ? 0.91 at 24, 48 and 72 hours respectively. For group C the mean bacterial colony count was 2.80 ?0.78, 3.50 ? 0.52 and 3.80 ? 0.63 at 24, 48 and 72 hours respectively. For group D mean bacterial colony count was zero at all three intervals. Conclusion: Autoclave was highly effective in sterilization of drill bits followed by 5% phenol and 2% glutaraldehyde and manual scrubbing was not an effective method for sterilization of drill bits.
Dr. Vandana Singh.
The task of providing justice to all the sections of the society is an essential so as to ensure that the faith of all citizens in the welfare state stays intact. it is also the responsibility of the state to ensure that fair and impartial justice is made available at the door steps of the poor and economically weaker sections irrespective of their caste, creed, religion, geographical position at free of cost. The system of Legal Aid at present we are having in our society is contributed majorly by Late Justice P.N. Bhagwati. The present paper is an attempt to highlight the contribution of Justice Bhagwati in the promotion of Legal Aid in India.
Khushal Patel, Chaitanya Joshi and Anju Kunjadiya.
Mastitis is an inflammation of mammary gland caused by major etiological agent Staphylococcus sp. mainly antibiotic resistant strains. In this study, antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus spp. were isolated, characterized and confirmed by molecular techniques from a total of 120 lactating cows including 30 buffaloes (480 quarter milk samples). They were screened for mastitis using Somatic Cell Count (SCC) and California Mastitis Test (CMT). Isolation and identification of Staphylococcus spp. was done using standard microbiological methods by species specific media as well as various biochemical tests. Antibiotic susceptibility tests (ABST) were performed to screen resistant isolates. Genotypic identification was confirmed using 23S rRNA amplification and 16S rDNA sequencing. A total of 193 non-duplicated Staphylococcus spp. were isolated having higher than 500 somatic cells/μl and CMT score was 1 or 2. Methicillin resistance in 31 and other multidrug resistivity in 17 Staphylococcus spp. were observed. Multidrug resistant strains were identified using Sanger sequencing and assigned accession number KX821621 to KX821638 for 11 Staphylococcus aureus and 7 coagulase negative Staphylococcus spp. These findings suggested that milk represents a potential infection risk threat of multidrug-resistant S. aureus in India due to neglected hygienic practices during lactation and maintenance of herd.
Hyacinth Anucha.
Effective infusion of computer technology into the education system requires capacity building and national policy that are contextualized in reflective communicative interaction. This paper delineated the Nigerian national policy statements to integrate computer information technology into the school system. Through the study of multiple research perspectives, the article presented significant benefits of infusion of technology into the school system to encourage and enable students amplify their opportunities for life-long learning in the 21st century. The article declared that capacity building and critical national policy are essential for infusion of technology into the education system, and affirmed that the current Nigerian technology policy is weak and insufficient to positively influence technology integration outcomes.
Syeda Hina Kauser, Shoeiba Tasneem and Rafath Yasmeen.
Toxicity assessment of aqueous extracts of dried leaf and seeds of Annona squamosa to common carp ? Cyprinus carpio. It?s a plant well known for its insecticidal and pesticidal efficacy. The 96hr Lc50 value of aqueous leaf and seed extracts obtained was 300ppm and 70ppm respectively. 1/10th of the Lc50 value i.e., 30ppm and 7ppm respectively for leaf and seed extracts was taken as sub-lethal concentrations. Fishes were exposed to the respective sub-lethal concentrations for the period of 14 days. At the end of 7th day and 14th day of exposure the gill and intestine were collected from exposed and control fishes. The tissues were processed and sectioned at 4?m, stained with Haematoxylin-Eosin and finally the obtained slides were observed under light microscope at 40x magnification and photographed. The pathological changes in gills of exposed fishes include fused gill lamellae, inflammatory cells and distortions in the primary and secondary gill lamellae. The changes in intestine are occurrence of lesions, disruption of villi epithelium, infiltration of inflammatory cells through the villi and necrosis. The histological changes observed were mild in leaf extract exposed tissues but severe alterations occurred in fish tissues on exposure to Annona seed extract.
Mohammad Osman Zaki PHARM and Ajmal Yadgari.
Rational: The public-sector pharmaceutical supply system in Afghanistan has been a collective effort of the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH) and international and national partners to ensure an uninterrupted supply of good-quality, essential medicines to health facilities providing the Basic Package for Health Services (BPHS) and Essential Package for Hospital Services (EPHS). Supplier performance is critical to the procurement process. Monitoring suppliers? performance is one of the World Health Organization?s (WHO?s) recommended procedures to achieve its strategic objectives of pharmaceutical procurement.
Objective: The objectives of the paper was to apply the identified common criteria for Measuring Pharmaceutical Suppliers? Performance at BPHS/EPHS implementers and Hospitals in Afghanistan.
Method: This study was a cross-sectional survey. In total, 34 organizations were selected for the survey, including 13 government entities, 13 National hospital, 9 INGO, 8 NGO and 1 public private partnership.
Population: The target respondents were the staff in charge of pharmaceutical procurement in all the BPHS/EPHS implementers, government entities, and national hospitals that carry out pharmaceutical procurement.
Time Frame: The study took 24 weeks from the start to the preparation of the first draft report.
Results: In total, 34 organizations were selected for the survey, and 29 (85%) responded to the questionnaire. All 29 organizations (100%) purchased pharmaceuticals from the local market; in particular, from importers. Of them, four (14%) also purchased directly from the international market. Twenty organizations (69%) monitored the performance of their suppliers. Eight (40%) of those organizations monitoring the performance of their suppliers did so at regular intervals.
Of a total of 61 suppliers, 57 (93%) local suppliers were registered in Afghanistan, and four (7%) international suppliers were registered in other countries: one in Ireland, one in Netherlands, and two in India. Fifty-five (90%) of the 61 suppliers are local importers. Of the 61
Prarthana J and Maruthi KR.
Algae are very important component of aquatic ecosystem, known for producing several biologically active compounds with antiviral, antibacterial, antifungal, and anticancer activities. In the present investigation, the effect of different solvents, including methanol, acetone, petroleum ether, benzene, chloroform, hexane, diethyl ether, ethanol, ethyl acetate were done on Spirogyra sp. Dried algal powder after identification were cold extracted & screened for glycosides,alkaloids,saponins,flavanoids,tannins,terpenoids,phenolics,anthraquinones,cardiac glycosides, etc. The extracts showing good phenolic content were tested for antibacterial activity against pure cultures of fish pathogens namely Aeromonashydrophila,. The GC-MS analysis of the extracts revealed the presence of several antimicrobial bioactive constituents in the extracts.
Jagtap J. D. and N. S. Suryawanshi.
Onion (Allium cepa L.) is commonly called ?queen of kitchen? which is belongs to the family Alliaceae. It is grown over an area of 1173.36 ha with total production of 18928.3 MT (Source NHRDF.2014-15) in Maharashtra. Green leaves or onion bulbs is used as salad and pickling. An economic value of onion is considered to undertake to increase shelf life of post harvesting onion using homeopathic medicines. Basal rot of onion (BRO) is caused by Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cepae the severe pathogen in field and storage condition due to this 30-40 percentage loss of onion. Objectives of this investigation is reduced the use of fungicide and increases the uses of homoeopathic medicines in controlling of basal rot disease. Total, thirty isolates were isolated from infected onions collected from various localities of Nasik district. Total nineteen homoeopathic medicines were used for the management of thiophanate methyl resistant mutant (Foc-EMS-10) of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cepae. Homoeopathic medicines are inhibitory against thiophanate methyl resistant mutant of F. oxysporum f. sp. cepae (Foc-EMS-10). Nux vomica (48.66) was highly effective against F. oxysporum f. sp. cepae at @ 200 Potency PCE (48.66) individually while Tuberculinum (25.66), Chelidonium majus (23.00) showed lowest PCE values and Sulphur (52.33) homoeopathic medicine @ 30 potency as compared with individual thiophanate methyl (38.66) PCE value. In case of mixture ,the Nux vomica mix with thiophanate methyl the PCE was increased up to (73.33) at @ 200 potency while Sulphur was more effective @ 30 potency, PCE (79.00) more fruitful whereas Borax (57.67) PCE was least effective against resistant mutant of F. oxysporum f.sp.cepae.
Fatima Habti, Soumia Belouafa, Ahmed Bennamara, Mustapha Tarhy, Noureddine Fatini, Abdelmjid Bahloul And Abdelmjid Abourriche.
Polychlorinated biphenyls have been determined in bivalve molluscs collected from OUALIDIA region in Morocco. It is a popular seaside resort of Moroccans, it is located 70 km south of El Jadida in the direction of Safi. Her Celebrity is due to its lagoon and oyster parks in September 2016.
High-performance analytical techniques are required for the identification and quantification of these persistent organic pollutants. The objective of this study is to develop a multi-residual analysis method for polychlorinated biphenyls in bivalves by gas chromatography coupled with quadrupole triple mass spectrometry. A global protocol comprising a QuECHERS version of the extraction step followed by a step of purifying the extract obtained on a mixture of the adsorbents was carried out. The developed method allows the quantification of 7 polychlorinated biphenyls in \"Oyster\" bivalves. Linearity (R ≥ 0.995), specificity and selectivity, having an average efficiency greater than 70%, repeatability, reproducibility, accuracy, are checked. As a result, the potential of the developed method has been demonstrated.
Garakanidze Sopio, Elisio Costa, Elsa Bronze-Rocha, Alice Santos-Silva, Nikolaishvili Giorgi, Glonti Salome, Kakauridze Nona and Koridze Marina.
Thrombosis plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis of acute myocardial infarction, stroke and venous thrombosis. Factor V Leiden (FVL) and prothrombin (PT) G20210A polymorphisms are the most frequent causes of inherited thrombophilia. In this work, we aimed to evaluate the prevalence of FVL and PT G20210A polymorphisms in a Georgian cohort of patients and healthy individuals, and its association with arterial thrombosis.
This study involved 214 individuals, 101 arterial thrombosis patients (71.3% males; 66.3 +/- 12.1 years old) and 113 healthy control subjects (67.3% males; 56.6 +/-11.3 years old). Genomic DNA was extracted from a dry blood spot on Whatman paper. Polymerase chain reaction was performed in order to determine the two genetic markers of thrombosis risk: FVL (G1691A) and PT G20210A polymorphisms.
The frequency of FVL allele polymorphism in the control group was 0.9%, which corresponds to a heterozygous stage frequency of 1.8%. In the patient group, an allelic frequency of 2% was found, which corresponds to the presence of 4% of heterozygous individuals. The frequency of heterozygosity for the PT G20210A polymorphism was 4.4% in the control group, which corresponds to an estimated allelic frequency of 2.2%. In the patient group, a frequency of heterozygosity of 3% was found, which corresponds to an estimated allelic frequency of 1.5%. Homozygosity for FVL and PT G20210A polymorphisms was not found in either group.
Our results suggests that FVL could be associated with arterial thrombosis as a double prevalence was found in the patient group when compared with the control group, although no significant differences were found. Moreover, our results also showed that the PTG20210A polymorphism seems to not be associated with arterial thrombosis in the Georgian population. More studies are required with a bigger sample in order to draw definitive conclusions.
Jayalakshmi Rajendran, Anbarasu Govindharaji, Chozhanathmisra Manickam and *Rajavel Rangappan.
A series of homo-binuclear Cu(II), Co(II), Ni(II) and Mn(II) metal complexes of Schiff base which was derived from 2,6-diaminopyridine and glyoxal have been synthesized. The plausible geometry of Schiff base and its binucleating metal complexes were examined by means of elemental and thermal analysis, molar conductance, 1HNMR, UV?Vis, IR, ESR and mass spectra. From the spectral studies, a six coordinate environment around the metal dimers was confirmed. Both of the Schiff base and its metal complexes were tested for their in vitro antimicrobial activities against some bacterial and fungal strains. Schiff base and its metal complexes were also investigated for its cytotoxic effect against human breast cancer (MCF7) cell lines and it was observed that homo-binuclear Cu(II) and Co(II) complexes showed a good antitumor activity. The antioxidant activity was measured by DPPH method and the result showed that few metal complexes have been more potential activity.
Anirban Roy Chowdhury, Sudipa Chakravarty and Amit Chakravarty.
Though several genetic, non-genetic and pharmacological factors reported to influence the Trans-Resveratrol response in different early studies, the response to Trans-Resveratrol is significantly different among good, moderate and non-responders irrespective of the IVS I-5 (GC), the common beta mutation here and even among other β0 or β+thalassaemia mutations. Here we study whether HbF level has any relation to beta variants responding to Trans-Resveratrol therapy, it has been shown that even among good responders in some cases (8.39 %) patients are not showing high HbF values ( < 20% HbF values are taken).
In our study (among 220 patients), Trans-Resveratrol therapy completely replace blood transfusion in as expected in this Eastern part of India, the predominant β-thalassemia defect is the IVSI-5(GC), the most frequent β0-thal mutation in the area. This mutation is found in 87.66% of the CR patients and in 86.66% of the PR / NR patients. The next represented defects are the β+-thalassemia mutations like Cod 8/9, Fr. 41/42, Cod 15, Cod 30 etc. The common IVSI-5 (GC) mutation in beta thalassemia patients (either in homozygous or heterozygous form) is present in 31.5% among the good responders (CR) while it is present in 66.66% among PR / NR (the moderate responders / non-responders) and in HbE-beta patients present in 73.28% among good responders (CR) while in 33.33% among moderate / non responders (PR / NR).
Mohamad Sajid Bazaz and Nuzhat Tabasum.
Introduction and Objective: To evaluate the role of immediate uroflowmetry in patients of benign prostatic hyperplasia following transurethral resection of prostate.Methods:100 patients were included in our study who underwent TURP at our centre. Complete preoperative evaluation was done which included usg prostate, uroflometry and IPSS scoring. Uroflometry was done immediately at the time of catheter removal and after one and three month of surgery. Qmax, IPSS scoring were compared before and after TURP.
Result: The mean patient age in study was 64.52 years. Mean Qmax, AFR and prostate weight were 8.30 ? 3.26 ml/sec, 4.82 ? 1.72ml/sec and 46.62 ? 31.10 gms respectively. Of the 100 patients, 75% patients were having immediate Qmax >15ml/sec and 25% were having <15 ml/sec. On comparing the mean value of different parameters between these two groups it was found that the difference between parameters were not statistically significant. Sensitivity and specificity of
immediate uroflowmetry (Immediate Qmax ) were 91.3% and 61.3 % respectively. Positive predictive value of this test was 84% and the
negative predictive value was 76%. Conclusion: Based on our
experience, we conclude that immediate uroflowmetry after TURP
can be used as a tool to predict the outcome of TURP up to three
months after surgery with good accuracy but can these results be
reciprocated on longer follow up need to be evaluated and can
immediate uroflowmetry be used as a tool to differentiate those
patients which are more likely to get re operated in the future need to be studied. For answering these questions further studies in the same
direction with longer follow up period needed to be done.
Aadil Ashraf, Touseef ahmad Mir, Ahmad Wajeed Yousuf, Gazzanfar Ali, Javed Khan and Irfan Gul.
Background: The interest in cardiac conduction system has focused primarily on its role as a predictor of mortality and coexistent cardiovascular diseases particularly hospitalised patients.
Objectives: The study was undertaken to study the association of cardiac conduction defects with underlying cardiovascular diseases and various risk factors.
Methodology: The study was conducted from 1st March 2012 to 31st august 2013 and included cases >20yrs of age presenting to OPD or admitted in SMHS hospital and showing some form of cardiac conduction defect on a standard 12 lead ECG. A total of 1710 cases were studied. A thorough medical history and meticulous physical examination was done and relevant investigations ordered to find out the presence of underlying cardiovascular diseases and risk factors
Results: Of the 1710 cases, 990(57.9%) were males and 720(42.1%) were females. Most of cases were seen in the age group of 70-79yrs (25.7%). Risk factors including Hypertension was found in 1095(64%) cases, Coronary Artery Disease(CAD) in 445(26%), dyslipidemia in 429(25%), diabetes in 410(23.9%) and gout in 51(2.9%) cases. 1270(74%) cases were smokers, 632(36.9%) were having sedentary life style and 496(29%) cases were obese/overweight.
Conclusion: Hypertension, smoking, CAD, obesity and sedentary life style are the major risk factors.
Bhuvaneswari Devi C and Kiran Kumari, K.
Acute exposure to moderately high concentrations of freshly generated cadmium oxide fumes (200-500 ?g cadmium/m3) may cause symptoms like the metal fume fever. The present study addressed the effect of Cadmium (Cd) on Oxidative Stress in rat brain. The three months rats were exposed to Cd intraperitonially at concentrations of low dose (1.5mg/kg bw) and high dose (3mg/kg bw) for a period of three weeks. A separate batch of low dose and high dose of Cd exposed rats received Vitamin-E intraperitonially for a week. In this study, we have examined the Glutathione peroxidase (GPX) activity, Glutathione reductase (GR) activity, Glutathione-s-transferase (GST) activity, Xanthine oxidase (XO) activity levels and Lipid peroxidation (LP) in three brain regions, Cerebral Cortex, Cerebellum, and Hippocampus. We assessed the biochemical end points indicative of oxidative Stress in these three brain regions. The GPX, GR, and XO activity levels showed significant decrease and the GST activity, LP levels showed significant increase over control rats in dose dependent manner. The exposure to Vitamin-E however to low and high dose of Cd showed recovery, the GPX, GR, and XO activity levels were increased and decreased GST activity, Lipid Peroxidation were observed. The results may be attributed to the reason that the Cd exposure disrupts the functioning of brain which resulted in oxidative deficits. The Vitamin-E lessened the Cd burden in the brain as effective chelating agent decreasing the oxidative stress.
Shameem Hassainar, Thimmiah U. K, Chetan G. B, Shashwath M. S, Veena S, Kiran Kumar K, Smitha P .
Background: Elastomeric chains are commonly used in orthodontics. Force decay in these materials poses clinical problems. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of three different mouthwashes on the force decay of orthodontic chains.
Materials and Methods: In this experimental study, Elastomeric chain of clear continuous type was used .The media used for the study was grouped into 3 groups.
The first group (Group A)served as Control group (Deionised water). Second group (Group B) consisted of three alcohol containing mouthwashes of varying alcohol content from 21.6% to 6 % alcohol. The Third group (Group C) consisted of three non alcoholic mouthwashes .The Control group (Group A) consisted of Deionized (DI) water.
The specimens were then stretched to 23 mm and mounted between the rows of the stainless steel pins on the acrylic jig. The elastomeric chains belonging to each sample groups were pre-stretched (? 2 times)(100%) and (150%) in Sample-A and Sample-B respectively in Jig-B of the initial length of elastomeric chain prior to mounting on the pins in Jig-A.
Results: Comparisons were made between the Groups both Intra-Group and Inter-Group. The Inter-Group comparison of force decay was done within the groups namely Sample A and Sample B respectively. The Inter-Group comparison of force decay was done within the groups of each sample test groups.
Conclusion: The force decay patterns of Control Deionsed water group and Non Alcoholic Mouth rinses group in 150% pre-stretched e-chain was comparable and prescription of Non Alcoholic mouthwashes seems optimum for hygiene maintenance as compared to Alcoholic mouth rinses in order to have the least effect on force decay of elastomeric chains.
Manoj Kumar Panda, Rabi Narayan Pradhan and U. R. Acharya.
Chromic acid, a hexavalent compound of chromium is known to induce reproductive dysfunctions in male laboratory animals and humans. Reduced semen quality, formation of morphologically abnormal sperm population and significant reduction in sperm count are the chief reproductive deformities resulted due to significantly higher oxidative stress accompanied with marked decrease in antioxidant enzymes in the testes of Cr-exposed individuals. In the present study, an attempt has been taken to investigate the Protective/Potentiate effect of caffeine, a plant product, in reducing Chromium induced testicular cytotoxicity in chromium treated Swiss mice. In this contest, three sub-lethal doses of CAF 25, 50 & 100 mg/kg body weight were tested in mouse followed by Chromic acid injection. Results indicate that CAF pretreatment in 25 mg/kg potentially reduced oxidative stress in terms of lipid peroxidation (LPP), marked increase in sperm count and significant decline in abnormal sperm population. Contrarily, Cr- treated mice pretreated with 100 mg of CAF reflected in higher LPP compared to controls. Also, population of aberrant sperm was significantly higher with a significant decrease in sperm count compared to controls. Furthermore, the efficacy of CAF is also compared with other antioxidant vitamins like Vit-C &Vit-E. It is also inferred that lower dose of CAF is comparable to VIT-E rather that Vit-C in ameliorating the Cr-induced testicular dysfunction in mice.
Jothi sundaram md og, and d. s. kavitha md og.
Congenital anomalies are also known as birth defects, congenital disorders or congenital malformations. Congenital anomalies can be defined as structural or functional anomalies that occur during intrauterine life and can be identified prenatally, at birth, or sometimes may only be detected later in infancy, such as hearing defects.Congenital anomalies are an important cause of neonatal mortality both in developed and developing countries. It accounts for 8-15% of perinatal deaths and 13-16% of neonatal deaths in India.It is not only a leading cause of fetal loss, but also contributes significantly to preterm birth, childhood and adult morbidity along with considerable repercussion on the mothers and their families.
Aim:- To study the incidence of congenital anomalies and the associated risk factors in Department of obstertrics and gynecology at GovtRajaji Hospital, attached to Madurai medical college , Madurai.
Method:- This study was conducted between OCTOBER 2016 to JANUARY 2017 , among 3088 mothers attending AN op were screened for congenital anomalies Relevant information regarding maternal age, gestational age, sex, birth order and consanguinity was documented. Significant antenatal history like maternal illness, ingestion of drugs, exposure to radiation was recorded. Antenatal ultrasonography (USG) findings were noted, there were 74 babies with congenital anomalies , overall incidence of congenital anomalies was 2.39
Geeti Sharma and Kavaldeep Dixit.
Financial environment has become more susceptible because of financial revolution and the increasing intricacy of financial markets. The need for making correct financial decisions at correct time is the requirement of the time today. This paper tried to identify the factors which impacted financial decision making of an individual. To determine the factors, the technique of factor analysis was applied. Six factors were identified which affect financial decision making of an individual. The extracted variables were tested using cronbac?s alpha which signified construct validity of the factors affecting financial decision making.
Ratanraj, Deepak Verma, Poojan M Purohit, Kshitij, Himanshu and Manoj Seervi.
Background-Peritonitis due to peptic ulcer perforation is one of the common causes of gastrointestinal tract perforation. Recently a trend has been observed towards a shift from older to younger population. In this study recent incidence of peptic perforation was carried out with below mentioned statistics.
Method-It is a prospective study design of patients admitted in emergency and diagnosed as having peptic perforation either gastric or duodenal intra-operatively in age group of 15-35 year from August 2014-August 2015.
Results- Out of the total 135 patients 50 were in the age group of 15-35 years. 80% of the young patients were males with male: female ratio being 4:1. 30% of the patients had previous history of peptic ulcer disease. Anterior duodenal perforation was the most common finding noted in about 90% of patients. Common etiological factors were H.pylori, NSAID use along with stress and alcoholism. Mortality rate due to peptic ulcer perforation was about 2% which was quite less as compared to older population due to good physiological reserves.
Conclusion-Peptic ulcer perforation is more commin in younger age group with male preponderance.
Mounira M. Ahmed, Magda Abd El Aziz, Sobhy H. M., Azer W. Z and El Nawawy M. A.
The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect of using natural stirred yoghurt (A), stirred yoghurt fortified with oats (5%) and mango (15 %) (B) and stirred yoghurt fortified with calcium silicate and mango (C) on ovariectomy (OVX) rats.
Female Wister rats aged 8?10 weeks were divided into three groups: healthy (control), OVX, and OVX with therapy (1 ml Fosamax drug). Each group subdivided into four groups; three groups treated with oral administration of 7 ml stirred yoghurt (A) , (B) ,(C) and compared with untreated groups for five weeks experimental period. Serum calcium (Ca), phosphorous (P), alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and bone mineral density (BMD) were measured.
The results revealed that no significant difference in serum Ca, P and ALP of healthy group with administration of stirred yoghurt treatments. Also, data showed that no significant change in Ca and P concentration of OVX rats, while very highly significant decreasing in serum ALP and BMD compared with healthy group. It was found that Fosamax drug decreased significant ALP activity and increased BMD in OVX group. Similar results were observed with administration of stirred yoghurt (A), (B) and (C).
The improvements of BMD in OVX groups treated with A, B and C were significantly high compared with OVX treated with Fosamax alone. However, it was found that BMD in OVX treated with B and C yoghurt was the highest compared with A. It concluded that fortified stirred yoghurt (A, B, C) may be contribute in preventing osteoporosis disease. While, fortified stirred yoghurt (B) and (C) enhanced the results with the best result in treatment (B).
Eswari Beeram, Kamala Katepogu and Divya Bysani.
Chromatin condensation involves folding to highly ordered structures which can be assembled and disassembled during gene expression. Aniline blue staining was performed in both fresh and frozen tissues of testis during which RNase protection of collapsed chromatin was observed, and collapsed chromatin was mainly due to apoptosis, that is known from the previous records. .
Manav Manchanda M, Hariharan Munganda H, Kumari M, Uma Rani R and Shilpa Gupta S.
Introduction: coccidioidomycosis commonly known as ?valley fever? is a dimorphic soil dwelling fungus of genus coccidiodes and exists in two species c.immitis and c.posadasii.it is endemic to American continent including USA, mexico,brazil,argentina and Colombia.
Case Details: A 33 years Indian male who is welder by occupation came from Mexico to our hospital with chief complaints high grade fever,persistent dry cough ,3 episodes of blood tinged sputum for about 10 days which increased in last 4 days.He developed all these symptoms there only and when not relieved with medication came back to India.There was no weight loss .No H/o TB/COPD/asthma. No pets exposure, No pallor/lymph nodes/cyanosis, No skin rash/arthralgia/urticarial No sneezing/headache Occasional H/o forest trekking was present.No relevant past history ,No occupational exposure of dust ,fumes.Vitals at the time of admission were , BP 110/80mm Hg,Pulse 78/min, Temp 100F, Spo2 99% room air. Positive findings on examination were bronchial sound with crackales on left side chest in infrascapular area.
On investigations TLC 11600 esr 31 RBS 128,HBA1C 6.1 , HIV 1 & 2 negative ,mantoux test negative , chest x ray showed left lower zone consolidation with cavity .His sputum sample was not available because the patient is having persistent dry cough so CECT chest was done which showed left lower lobe cavity with paratracheal and subcarinal lymphadenopathy without necrosis and calcification,and mild thick walled cavitary lesion of 45 x 35 mm involving laterobasal segment of left lower lobe lung with associated ground glass haze and air spaces infiltrates ?findings consistent of infective etiology. Bronchoscopy showed normal anatomy on both sides.BAL fluid microscopy on cytospin smear showed reactive columnar and squamous epithelial cells ,alveolar macrophages ,few neutrophils,lymphocytes and mucoid cells and no frank malignant cell. His BAL culture ,AFB ,nocardia negative,gene expert and BAL fungal culture were negative, USG chest showed minimal left pleural effusion (non tappable).
He was treated with iv antibiotics and other supportive measures and discharged when symptomatically better and followed regularly in OPD for 5-10 days. But patient was having persistent chest pain and left lower zone consolidation in chest x ray. So,In view of negative culture reports, CT guided lung biopsy was done and tissue sample was sent for HPE which showed coccidiomycosis in the lesion. He was again admitted for iv liposomal amphotericin B. After 7 days, lesions started resolving ,after 2 weeks cavity vanished and he was symptomatically better ,pain and cough decreased.Patient was discharged with fluconazole 200mg bd per orally and was improved. chest x ray cavity completely resolved.
Conclusion: Coccidioidomycosis is commonly misdiagnosed as community acquired bacterial pneumonia .Health care providers should consider coccidioidomycosis when evaluating persons with pneumonia who live in or have travelled to endemic areas.
Ali Hadadi, Obaid Almeshal, Manal Alzaid and Reem Aljehani.
Background: Oncoplastic reduction mammoplasty (ORM) had expanding the role of breast conserving surgery (BCS). However, concerns regarding the oncological safety of this procedure have been expressed. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety of (ORM) surgery in King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC).
Methods: Breast cancer patients treated with ORM between 2010 and 2015 were included. Patients? demographics and clinical outcomes including, the location and histological characteristic of breast cancer, types of breast reduction techniques, tumor margin positivity and history characteristics were queried.
Results: The study included fifteen patients the mean age was 47 years with SD 9.1. There were no mortalities or major complications other than positive margin after the surgery. Right breast cancer was the most common 67%. Invasive Ductal Carcinoma (IDC) was the commonest type 80%. The pathological stage ypT1N0Mx was the most common 46 % and the pathological Grade 3 was the most common grade overall 67%. The tumor size range from 4 mm to 50 mm with mean 26.41 mm and SD 17.15. The inferior pedicle breast reduction was the most common technique account for 67%. The majority of patients (87%) did not require any further breast surgery. However, two patients (13%) of all cases required further breast surgery after the ORM.
Conclusions: Our experience with ORM showed that it is a safe and reliable procedure with better cosmetic outcome in our population. Further multicenter study including larger sample size in Saudi Arabia is necessary.
Pooja Walia and Puneet Walia.
Mathematical creativity is the process of producing more than one response of mathematical problem. Researcher framed some items to assess the mathematical creativity of eighth grade students. This MCT followed one criterion?s of mathematical creativity i.e. divergent thinking having three dimensions: Fluency, Flexibility and Originality. Items were formulated and selected by following required steps. The test was standardized by establishing reliability and validity of items. Split- half reliability was calculated and it was found 0.89 which is significant. Content validity of the test was determined by the teachers from different schools. Product moment co-relation was used to determine Concurrent validity. It was found 0.50 which is significant.
Dimcho Zahariev.
Chepan Mountain is located in Western Bulgaria. It is part of Balkan Mountains on the territory of Balkan Peninsula in Southern Europe. As a result of this study in Chepan Mountain on the territory of only 25 km2 were found 784 species of wild vascular plants from 378 genera and 84 families. Such amazing biodiversity can be found in Southern Europe only. The floristic analysis indicates that the most of the families and the genera are represented by a small number of inferior taxa. The hemicryptophytes dominate among the life forms with 53.32%. The biological types are represented mainly by perennial herbaceous plants (59.57%). In the flora of the Mountain there are 49 floristic elements. The most of the species are European-Asiatic floristic elements (14.54%), followed by European-Mediterranean floristic elements (13.78%) and subMediterranean floristic elements (13.52%). Among the vascular plants, there are 26 Balkan endemic species, 4 Bulgarian endemic species and 26 relic species. The species with protection statute are 66 species. The anthropophytes among the vascular plants are 390 species (49.74%). The information about invasive alien plants species in the mountain is published for the first time.
Johnson Egbemudia Dudu and Imongan Ernest Omokhoa.
Objective: The Niger Delta area of Nigeria for decades after oil exploration still remained one of the least developed regions in the country. Several attempts have been made by the Federal Government of the nation to bring about peace in the region. Despites the various developmental initiatives put in place by the Federal Government and the oil companies, restiveness and agitations by the people in the area have continued unabated. Thus, this study critically examined the indigenous opinions for achieving justice and enduring peace in the Niger Delta, Nigeria.
Design: The study was carried out using in-depth interviews and focus group discussions to generate relevant data for the research with 75 persons as participants in the in-depth interview and 40 participants who took part in the focus group discussions in four Local Government Areas of Bayelsa State, Nigeria.
Result: Results from the study revealed that the desired expectations of the people in the region which will bring about justice and peace include: institutional/constitutional economic/inclusiveness participation demands; Infrastructural demands and Oil companies/Federal Government behavioral Change demands.
Recommendations: The paper recommends that in order to achieve enduring peace in the region, demands of the people should be taken seriously by the Federal Government of Nigeria and the International Oil Companies with an action plan immediately put in place to addressing the aspirations of the people of Niger Delta if justice and peace is to be part of the region
Dina Mohamed Ahmed Elawady, Amal Fathy Kaddah, Ahmed Yaseen Alqutaibi and Reham B Osman.
Purpose: The current systematic review evaluated influence of implant number on peri-implant marginal bone loss (MBL) and number of implant failures in mandibular implant overdentures (MIODs).
Methods: A literature search of electronic databases (PubMed and Cochrane) was performed up to March 2016. The electronic search was complemented by hand search.
Results: nine publications were included for quality assessment and meta-analysis. Pooled data revealed that there is significant difference in the MBL and on number of implant failures when single and 2-implants ODs were compared. On the other hand, there was no significant difference in MBL and number of implant failures when 2 versus 4-implants ODs were compared.
Conclusion: Based on the findings of this meta-analysis, no recommendations could be made with regards of implant number for completely edentulous patients with MIODs. Though single implant was found to be better in terms of MBL and number of implant failures, this result should be interpreted with cautious due to limited number of analysed studies with different loading protocols and limited follow-up period.
Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Wasim and Naureen Riaz.
This article introduces a new family of lifetime distributions called the exponentiated moment exponential power series (EMEPS) which generalizes the moment exponential power series (MEPS) proposed by Sadaf (2013). This new family is obtained by compounding the exponentiated moment exponential and truncated power series distributions, where the compounding procedure follows same way that was previously carried out by Adamidis and Loukas (1998). The new family contains some new distributions such as exponentiated moment exponential geometric distribution, exponentiated moment exponential Poisson distribution, exponentiated moment exponential logarithmic distribution and exponentiated moment exponential binomial distribution. Some former works derived by Sadaf 2014 such as moment exponential geometric and moment exponential Poisson distributions are special cases of the new EMEPS family. We obtain several properties of EMEPS family, among them; quantile function, order statistics, moments and entropy. Some special models in the exponentiated moment exponential power series family of distributions are provided. Maximum likelihood (ML) method is applied to obtain parameter estimates of the EMEPS family. A simulation study is carried out to check the consistency of the ML estimators of the parameters. Two real data sets are used to validate the distributions and the results demonstrate that the sub-models from the family can be considered as suitable models under several real situations.
Vincent Jeyaraj. D, Malarvizhi. D and Sivakumar. V. P. R.
OBJECTIVE: The aim of the study is to find the balance among the different age groups. METHODS: study type ? one time observational study, sampling method- convenient method, no of samples-30, group a age 45-55= 10 samples, group b age 56-65= 10 samples, group c age above 65= 10 samples. The balance where assessed using the berg balance scale. RESULTS: The statistical results shows that there is a significant difference of p<0.05 in the the age group of above 65. Hence the balance decreases as age progresses. CONCLUSION: The results of this study on ?comparison on berg balance scale in different age groups? is used to identify the area of impairment and the effects of the impairment on function of the individual. The study in three different age groups (i.e) 45 ? 55 years, 56 ? 65 years & above 65 years and the end of the study we observe that the balance declines as age progresses & more balance difference in last age group i.e above 65 years. The results that will restore the patients balance and mobility and also for identifying specific interventions to prevent falls in patients.
Daniah M. Hamid.
The objective of the present study is to detect of toxoplasmosis infected patients compared with cancer patients attending the Unit of Tumors in the Medical City, in compared with together healthy individuals as a control group. Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay ELIZA was used to investigate the anti- Toxoplasma gondii antibodies, type IgM and IgG. However, the tumor antibody in serum and its relationship with other affecting factors was detected by Ca19-9 test. The study involved 148 are cancer patients, while 59 are apparently healthy individuals (control group) and 59 are infected with Toxoplasma gondii. Blood specimens were taken from all studied individuals from the period 1st January 2016 to 30th December 2016. Results of this study revealed that 52.24% of cancer patients and 30.5% of the control group had chronic toxoplasmosis disease. 15.73% of cancer patients had acute Toxoplasma infection. However, 33.89% of toxoplasmosis patients had a cute infection. There have been no cases of the control group showed results of the study; also there were no significant differences at the level of probability of P <0.001.
Manar M. Nasr, Wael Abdulghaffar and Ahmad Yassin.
Objective: To evaluate the role of diffusion weighted MRI in the detection of non-palpable undescended testes.
Materials and methods: Twenty nine boys with undescended testes underwent abdominal and pelvic MRI to identify the location of the testes. MRI was performed using the following sequences: T2-weighted half-Fourier single-shot turbo spin-echo (HASTE), 3-D gradient-echo T1-weighted, 2-D gradient-echo T1 in-phase and out-of-phase, respiratory-triggered, turbo spin-echo T2-weighted sequence with fat saturation and free-breathing diffusion-weighted imaging (DWI) with b values of 50, 400, and 800 s/mm2.
Results: In our study, we had 38 non-palpable undescended testicles detected in 29 patients. 17 testes were intracanalicular and 21 testes were intra-abdominal. All 17 intracanalicular testicles and 18 intra-abdominal testicles were identified by preoperative conventional MRI and DWI. The sensitivity and specificity values for the MRI with addition of DWI versus laparoscopic findings were 94.6%, and 100% respectively. The overall prediction accuracy was 94.7%.
Conclusion: DWI is easy to obtain and easy to evaluate in short time. DWI yields information that complements conventional MRI findings, improving identification and location of nonpalpable undescended testes. We recommend the use of DWI in addition to conventional MRI to increase the preoperative sensitivity and accuracy of identifying and locating nonpalpable testes.
H. Ratnani, MN. Ihsan, G. Ciptadi and S. Suyadi.
Processing semen needs appropriate technology to produce high quality of sperm for successful artificial insemination (AI) program. Quick freezing in this study is alternatif method of sperm cryopreservation processes that can be used to produce frozen semen in a large number, besides not required an expensive equipment, it is not time consuming with shorter time compared than ussual method of frozen semen. The present study was conducted to evaluate the effect usage quick freezing method and suplementation alpha tocopherol to egg yolk tris-aminomethan extender on sperm motility and plasma membrane integrity. Quick freezing of semen performed with diluted of fresh semen in extender and suplemented with 0.0 mM (P0); 0.5 mM (P1); 1 mM (P2) and 1.5mM (P3) alpha tocopherol, respectively, then loaded into 0.25 ml straw and referigerated for 30 min. Before plunging into liquid nitrogen (LN2), the straw containing sperm was placed 5 cm above liquid nitrogen surface for equilibration to nitrogen vapour temperature for 5 min before direct plunged into liquid nitrogen. The sperm was evaluated for motility and membrane integrity by hypo-osmotic swelling test (HOST) before freezing (50C) and after freezing. The results showed that sperm motility before freezing were 54.00 ? 3.94%, 56.00 ? 3.94%, 61.00 ? 2.11% and 56.00 ? 5.16% (P>0.05) for Control, P1, P2 and P3 groups, respectively. Plasma membrane integrity (PMI) were 58.80 ? 1.87%, 60.10 ? 3.78%, 67.00 ? 2.04%, 60.05 ? 3.28% for the respective groups (P>0.05) (P3). After quick freezing respectively, sperm motility were 32.00 ? 4.22% (control), 34.00 ? 5.16% (P1), 42.00 ? 4.22% (P2), 36.00 ? 5.16% (P3); and plasma membrane integrity were 51.05 ? 1.30% (control), 52.75 ? 4.01% (P1), 60.50 ? 2.02% (P2), 52.45 ? 1.10% (P3). Sperm motility and plasma membrane integrity before quick freezing no significantly (p≥ 0.05) improved at all treatment, while after quick freezing P2 (1mM) significantly (p≤0.p05) improved. In conclusion, semen quick freezing with suplemntation α-tocopherol to egg yolk tris aminomethan extender resulted beneficial effect on sperm motility and plasma membrane in Madurans bull cattle.
R. Priyadarsini, L. Santhanalakshmi, K. Kanchana and P. Shanmugapriya.
Background: Refractive errors are one of the major causes of correctable blindness.
Aim: To find the association between watching television and vision of school children aged 10-14 years.
Methods: A cross sectional school based study with 600 students of age 10-14 years. Prior informed consent for participation in the study was obtained from their parents. Visual acuity was tested using Snellen?s E chart. Using retinoscopy and subjective refraction, refractive error was categorized as myopia, hypermetropia and astigmatism A standardized questionnaire prepared in their local language was used to collect data on their age, sex and duration of watching television. Data was analyzed by Pearson?s Chi Square test using SPSS software.
Results: Prevalence of refractive errors in school children was 16.2 %. Watching television for more than five years was significantly associated with development of refractive errors. ( p = 0.009)
Conclusion: A longitudinal follow up of all the children with analysis of various risk factors may be required to give a clearer picture.
Robelita Negradas -Varona, RN, RM, MAN, Daryne Aya H. Bolla, RM, Maria S. Bolinget, RM and Hosea D. Illab, RM.
Natural disasters like typhoons and earthquakes are now frequently occurring in the country. The Philippine government had increased its efforts to implement the disaster risk reduction management (DRRM) program as its answer to the frequent occurrence. The program is supported by two laws Republic Act 10121 or the Philippine Risk Reduction Management Act and Presidential Decree No. 1566, Strengthening the Philippine Disaster Control Capability and Establishing the National Program of Disaster Preparedness. With these laws, it is believed that the impact of disaster is minimal and the Filipinos are more safe and resilient. The laws emphasize the role of the local government officials from governors, to mayors and barangay officials to be responsible and take the lead in their respective areas on matters related to Disaster Risk Reduction and Management. This study mainly aims to assess the knowledge, attitude and practices on disaster risk reduction and management of the barangay officials of the thirteen barangays of Baler, Aurora, Philippines considering that this province is prone to natural disasters because of its geographic location. A total of 118 respondents participated in this study. Descriptive-correlational research design was employed. Statistical tests employed were frequencies, percentages and Chi-square test. Results showed that barangay officials were knowledgeable about disaster risk reduction and management, they have a positive attitude to this and almost all activities of this program have been practiced by the barangay officials. It is being recommended that these strengths of the respondents be sustained by continuously conducting information, education, communication (IEC) campaign on DRRM, trainings and drills related to its programs and guidelines by collaborating with government and non-government agencies. On matters wherein they have less information and training like the psychological care of people who have been traumatized by the disaster?s impact it?s paramount that they coordinate with other agencies who have expertise on this aspect.
Tasnova Tasnim and Monirul Hasan.
The objective of the present study was to evaluate and compare between nine different brands of Olmesartan medoxomil 40mg which are commercially available in Bangladeshi market. We chose nine popular brands, coded them from O1 to O9 and purchased them from local private pharmacies .The physicochemical equivalence of nine brands were determined through the evaluation of both official and non-official standards according to the USP pharmacopoeia including uniformity of weight, thickness, diameter, friability, hardness, disintegration, dissolution rate and drug content. All the tested brands conformed to the official tests for weight variation, friability, disintegration and dissolution tests. The friability test was within the specified limit (except for Brand O2). All formulations disintegrated within 15-30min. The percentage content of active ingredient of almost all brands of Olmesartan medoxomil tablets showed values within the monograph specifications (95-105%). The dissolution profiles showed inter and intra brand variability but all samples attained 75% dissolution within 45mins and complied with USP monograph. The nine brands evaluated in this study could be considered biopharmaceutically and chemically equivalent and it had been determined calculating difference factor and similarity factors. Moreover, the result of all these parameters of different brands were in the pharmacopoeia limits. So it could be concluded that marketed pharmaceutical tablets of Olmesartan medoxomil of these brands are safe, effective and efficacious as well as satisfy quality control limits of pharmacopoeia.. Therefore, patients can safely shift from one brand to another.
Sumanta Nayek, Imranul Haque Choudhury and Suprakash Roy.
The present study focused on thecomparative study and assessment of water quality of two constructed lakes, Aritarlake (East Sikkim) and Chaya Taal Lake (West Sikkim) during the dry period i.e. winter and summer season. The study showed that pH values of Aritar lake water was just below the neutral level (6.45), with higher dissolved oxygen (DO) content (2.3 mg/L) as compared to Chaya Taal (pH=7.7 , DO=1.6 mg/L). Aritar lake water samples exhibited higher concentrations of total dissolved solids (TDS), total hardness (TH), chloride (Cl-), sulphate (SO42-), phosphate (PO43-), nitrate (NO3-)and soluble iron (Fe) content in comparison to water samples collected from Chaya Taal lake. This situation can be linked to higher density of visitors and increased recreation/human activity in and around the lake area. Except EC and TDS, remaining parameters of examined lakes water samples exhibited lower values in winter season. The values of water parameters from these two lakes were very much under the acceptable range for surface water standards (IS:2296) during winter and summer season, therefore not tend to have any effect/threat on biotic components of lake ecosystem.
Jaqueline Guadalupe Guerrero Ceh, Luz Virginia Pacheco Quijano, Miriam Fajardo, Axel Dzib Garc?a, Ana Rosa Can Valle, Luis Armando P?rez Dzul and Mar?a de la Luz Romero Orozco.
Mexico is living a demographic bonus, being vital the decision making that allow concrete actions to lay the foundations on the subject of the conscience of aging. This study allows the identification of student perception levels in ten high school public schools in the City of San Francisco de Campeche, Mexico. A questionnaire on the perception of aging was applied to a population of 698 study subjects. The research focus is cuantitative, with a descriptive scope and non-experimental transectional design. The main results obtained are: 42% of the students live with their grandmothers every day; 83% say that when they are old, they would look like their grandmothers; 62% affirm that when they are old they will enjoy life; 51% perceive that in their old age their health will be healthy, however when asked their opinion about old age, 80% express a negative perception. It is evident that when they speak of their old age they perceive it in a positive way and when asking their opinion of how they perceive old age, they express negative comments.
Djoko Setyo Widodo and P. Eddy Sanusi Silitonga.
This study aims to analyze the influence of transformational leadership style and servant leadership style of service to organizational learning and organizational performance either partially or simultaneously on the government of DKI Jakarta. Population in this research is Head of Department and Head of Agency along with all Head of Division on all Work Unit of Regional Area of Jakarta Provincial Government amounting to163 people. Sampling method is done by census technique. Quantitative analysis method using path analysis, followed by determination analysis (R Square), partial hypothesis testing (t test) and simultaneous (F test) with alpha 5 percent (0,05). Prior to further analysis, the requirements analysis test is performed. Analytical tool using SPSS version 21.0 for windows. The result of the research shows that the transformational leadership style and servant leadership style of service are partially and simultaneously have positive and significant effect on organizational learning and organizational performance, as well as organizational learning has an influence on organizational performance in DKI Jakarta Government.
Sanjib Ghoshal.
The Darke fish (Esomus danricus) is a freshwater fish. It is one of the most commonly kept aquarium fish. Inland water bodies are subjected to heavy stress due to enormous addition of domestic waste water. The 96 hours static bioassay studies showed LC5-LC90 values ranging from 23.60-67.89% and 25.67 ? 76.46% respectively. Exposure to three different dilutions (5%, 50%, 90%) of domestic sewage effluents for 100 days resulted in significant changes (P<0.05)on fecundity, survivality and GSI of the fish as compared to control. Among physicochemical parameters, significant alterations were noticed in dissolved oxygen (DO), of bottom sediment. The data indicated higher number of fecal coliform and aerobic nitrogen fixers (ANF) and also high heterotrophic bacterial density.
Kwong Fook Wen, Norazman Mohamad Nor, Jegak Uli, Lee Lai Soon and Endry Nixon.
Measuring combat readiness in an armed force involves the measures of tangible and intangible elements of combat power. However, the mathematical models and formulae used for the measure are focused mainly on either the tangible or the intangible elements. The purpose of this research is to provide an integrative model that provides a comprehensive measure of the combat readiness depicting its status of capability and operability by incorporating the tangible and intangible elements of combat power. The research adopted a quantitative approach using post-positivism paradigm philosophy and quantitative method design. The survey method research design looked into the variables causal effect of capability, morale and quality of life on combat readiness through a non-experimental correlation design survey questionnaire. Probability proportionate stratified random sampling technique was used for data collection. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used for the statistical treatment as it catered for the multiple regression analyses of factors to predict the combat readiness of an armed force. The result of the research provides a model that an armed force could use to predict the function of combat readiness or any of its variables by using the formula Y = β1X1 + β2X2 + β3X3 whereby the tangible and intangible elements of combat power contribute towards the measure of combat readiness with regression weights of the independent variables capability (β1), morale (β2) and quality of life (β3). The minimum for the model is achieved in reaching a convergent solution by yielding a Chi-square goodness-of-fit indices of good-fit values. The results enable an armed force to use the combat readiness measurement model in prioritizing the allocation of resources for its tangible and intangible elements of combat power during its policy-setting and decision making process. As such, the integrative model can be used to address shortfalls and augment its combat readiness.
H. Moubachir, H. El Jabri, W. El Khattabi and M. H. Afif.
Urachal cancer is rare. Its evolution remains for a long time occult and aggressive [1]. We report a case with metastatic adenocarcinoma of the Urachus to lung and scalp, and insisting through this observation on the interest of Abdomino-pelvic ultrasound for diagnosis.
Qadrie ZL, Humaira A and Anandan R.
Purpose: To evaluate the activity of Nephrolithic of the aqueous and ethanolic extracts of Benincasa hispida (Thunb.)COGN seeds against ethylene glycol induced Nephrolithiasis in albino rats.
Methods: Nephrolithiasis was induced by oral administration of ethylene glycol (0.75 % v/v) in male albino rats for 28 days. The ethanolic and aqueous extracts of seeds of Benincasa hispida (250 & 500 mg/kg) were administered orally from the 28 days as a curative regimen urine analysis; serum analysis and histopathological study were performed.
Results: The body weight changes were noted EG treated animals shown marked weight loss when compared to control. Treated groups like cystone at dose level of 750 mg/kg body weight, EESBH and Aq. ESBH at dose levels of 250 and 500 mg/kg body weight showed marked recovery in weight loss when compared to EG treated group. The urine volume, urine were decreased as well as oxalates, calcium, phosphorus, sodium and potassium excretion in urine, serum urea, uric acid, creatinine and BUN contents were increased in lithiatic group as compared to normal control group. Treatment with both ethanolic and aqueous seed extracts restored urine volume, oxalates, calcium, phosphorus, sodium and potassium levels. Histopathological examination revealed tubular degeneration, dilatation, presence of CaOx crystals in the lumen of renal tubules and intense interstitial mononuclear cell infiltration in the lithiatic control group. These histopathological alterations were markedly regressed in other treated groups.
Conclusions: The results demonstrate that the ethanolic and aqueous extracts of Benincasa hispida seeds have potent anti-nephrolithiatic activity against nephrolithiasis induced by ethylene glycol in wistar albino rats.
Sayed Murtaza Sadaat, Pharm D.
Background: For largely historical reasons of development in a post- or ongoing conflict situation, the current essential medicines importation mechanisms in Afghanistan are characterized by multiple funding sources and a large number of active players, giving rise to fragmented and, currently, largely uncoordinated service from multiple, vertical importation streams of varying efficiency.at present there is no formal platform to coordinate these activities.
Method: The Medicine Importation Process Assessment was jointly carried out by the General Directorate of Pharmaceutical Affairs. The study is cross sectional study which questionnaires made and data collected from stakeholders through direct interview and email. The questionnaire made based on best practices in pharmaceutical importation system in Afghanistan.
Result: Lack of coordination and absence of a coordination platform within the Ministry of Public Health is a big
issues to be consider in the future , the importers didn?t hire technical staff to deal with documentation process technically, the importers submitting incomplete or non-original / fake documents for General Directorate of Pharmaceutical Affairs and Quality Control laboratory for analysis process, most of them bring incomplete information in the proforma ; the importers who import narcotic and controlled medicine didn?t submit consumption reports for narcotics and General Directorate of Pharmaceutical Affairs will not prove the next shipment documents till not receiving the consumption report . Some challenges are still exist in the processing of the importers documentation and some steps are redundant in the whole importation process like: Bureaucracy in General Directorate of Pharmaceutical Affairs, existence of Licensed Medicine List, short sampling, submitting incomplete or non-original documents to Quality Control laboratory by General Directorate of Pharmaceutical Affairs therefore most documents rejected by Quality Control laboratory, General Directorate of Pharmaceutical Affairs: poor storage conditions during sampling delivery to QC lab which there is no standards for chain of custody, time consuming in QC lab for analyzing of the medicine samples, in Drug Regulation Committee of ministry of counter narcotics time consuming this committee works parallel to MoPH, Tariff coding system and poor storage condition for the pharmaceuticals are a big challenge in the Afghanistan customs. The above mentioned challenges are need to consider and make a coordination body among all stakeholders and active players in Afghanistan.
Conclusion The people and the pharmaceutical system harm from dis coordination, there is need for a formal platform to coordinate activities among several ministries.
Safwat A Okasha, Fawzia M K Takadom and Mohamed K Hassan.
The ability of Zizyphus spina Christi fruit extract when combined with Hyperthermia to improve the histopathological features associated with Ehrlish ascites carcinoma (EAC) stress in experimental mice was assessed. EAC loading mice treated with hyperthermia or ZSC fruit extract doses (100, 300 mg/ Kg B.W) or with combination between them once/ two days alternatively, for 14 days. Loading mice with EAC affect functions of vital organs specially Liver & Kidney. Liver and kidney tissues come in direct touch with the ascites, cancer cell accumulated on the surface of Organs Hepatocytes and kidney tissues are severely damaged in the animals with EAC cells. Combination treatment of ZSC fruit extract and hyperthermia significantly improve the damage.
EAC load had increased the activities of serum GOT and GPT but decreased the concentration of albumin and total protein. Different treatment with hyperthermia or ZSC fruit extract or combination reduced the level of sGPT and sGOT but not significantly. Where increase the level of Albumin and Total protein not significantly too.
Moreover, levels of the renal biomarkers, creatinine and urea were highly elevated in EAC-bearing mice, urea level increase after different treatments not significantly where creatinine level had slight affect except in high dose combination treated group.
Taken together, results from this study suggest that addition of ZSC fruit extract to Hyperthermia reduce the hepatic and renal damage induced by EAC load in experimental animals.
Korra Rajender, Bylla Prasad, Gulab Khan Rohela, Sreenu Pendli1 and T. Christopher Reuben.
In vitro shoots proliferated from shoot tip explants on MS medium supplemented with various concentrations of BAP, KN & TDZ and rooting of individual shoots occurred on MS medium supplemented with various concentration of IBA, IAA & NAA in Stachytarpheta jamaicensis L. Vahl. Maximum number of shoots & longest shoot length (cm) (1.96 0.17) & (2.34 0.16) respectively, were produced on MS + TDZ (0.5mg/L), after 4 weeks of culture. Maximum number of roots and longest root length (cm) (2.67 0.88) & (3.33 0.33) respectively, were produced on MS + IBA (0.5 mg/L), after 4 weeks of culture. The rooted plantlets (R1) were acclimatized in green house for 4 weeks and then transferred to field conditions with 69% survivability. RAPD primer OPE-20 banding pattern of R1 plantlets was similar to that of mother plant.
Romi Singh.
Mushrooms are the macro fungi group which has many valuable properties, like antitumor, ant cancerous, antibacterial, antifungal etc. We use these fungi for the treatment of various diseases. Researchers showed antimicrobial activity of several mushrooms. Most of the Mushrooms extracts are widely used as traditional medicinal ingredients for the treatment of various diseases and related health problem. The mushroom Termitomyces was selected for in-vitro studies against selected pathogenic micro organism to investigate the efficacy of their different (methanolic, ethanolic, aqueous) extracts. The antifungal activity of various solvent extracts of Termitomyces was tested against five species of fungus Aspergillus flavus, Aspergillus niger, Candida albicans, Penicillium notatum, Muco rracemous. The different extracts showed wide spectrum of a fungal activity. The highest antifungal inhibitory activity (4.95mm) was recorded with the extract of methanolic extract of Termitomyces against Penicillium notatum.
Ubaidullah Dawoodzada.
Rational: Unhygienic living condition, poor sanitation, over crowed rooms, low level of knowledge of disease prevention, and poor sanitation puts more than 1300 madrasa students at risk of Scabies who are living as group in a dormitory. Student from Helmand and neighboring provinces are enrolled in this madrasa and are staying in dormitory for more than one year. The point prevalence rate of scabies in this school is 15%. This issues need attention/follow up and have great public health importance and to plan for improvement.
Objective: The objective of this study was to explore the knowledge, attitudes and practices about scabies in religious school (Madrasa) of Helmand province Afghanistan.
Method: A descriptive cross-sectional study was performed. Specifically designed KAP questionnaire used. Consent letter signed with participants. Questionnaire was translated into local language. Ms. Excel used for data entry/analysis. Double entry of data completed. 10% of data cross checked for accuracy. The surveyors were trained on interview, data collection methods. 433 students randomly selected (33.3% of total).
Results: More than 80% participants aged 10-20 years. 44% reported that they are informed about scabies, 56% do not know about scabies. 62.9% got the knowledge through mass media and 37.1% reported are informed through medical professional, family and friends. Scabies is serious (16%) not serious (24%) did not know about the seriousness (39%). Diseases spread through sharing cloth and blankets (44%).
Conclusions: Low level of knowledge about the diseases (44%), public health workers should give priority to health education, media play good role in dissemination of information. Proper communication on scabies prevention through Radio (available in school and villages). Health workers to develop good network for support with the madrasa and communities in similar situations. People with scabies should be encouraged to seek medical help and avoid sharing cloths and blankets.
Tuhina Verma.
The occurrence of chromate tolerant and biosurfactant producing bacteria with an ability to bioremediate Cr(VI) through bioreduction was investigated in the soil of waste dumping site of battery manufacturing industry. Two bacterial strains TB9 and TB10 showed high Cr(VI) MIC values of 1350 and 1400 ?g/ml, respectively, and also reduced 83% and 90.0% of chromate after 20 h of growth. Interestingly, both the strains were capable to produce biosurfactant in significant amount which was confirmed by methylene blue plate assay, blood hemolysis test, emulsification test and oil displacement activity. The TB9 strain showed highest emulsification index (E24) after 24 hours of incubation for sunflower oil (74?1.60) followed by kerosene (72?0.5) and olive oil (65?0.3), whereas, strain TB10 showed highest E24 value for olive oil (74?1.2) followed by sunflower oil (70?0.29) and kerosene (68?0.19) after the same period of exposure. Results for oil spreading test of the kerosene oil revealed that TB9 and TB10 caused the spreading of the oil at the rate of 6 and 5 minutes with a diameter of 2.7 cm and 3.3 cm, respectively. Based on the results of concomitant biosurfactant production efficiency and chromate reduction potential, strains TB9 and TB10 seems to be most efficient strains that can be potentially be used for Cr(VI) bioremediation and were identified as Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Bacillus cereus, respectively.
Abdel Karim. M., Ayda A. and Khalid M.S..
Foeniculum vulgare seed oil was studied by GC-MS. The oil was also assessed for antimicrobial activity. Thirty two components were detected by GC-MS analysis. Main constituents are: 9-octadecenoic acid methyl ester(48.54%), 9,12-octadecadienoic acid methyl ester(28.50%), γ-terpinene(4.98%), and β-pinene(3.51%).The antibacterial activity of the oil was evaluated via the diffusion assay against five standard human pathogens(Gram positive: Staphylococcus aureus and Bacillus subtilis; Gram negative : Escherichia coli and Pseudomonasa aeruginosa and the fungus Candida albicans ) . Foeniculum vulgae oil showed excellent activity against Staphylococcus aureus in the concentration range : 100-25mg/ml. It also exhibited significant activity against the yeast Candida albicans at 100mg/ml..It seems that the oil is a lead for further optimization.
Mohit Mangla, Preeti Sharma, Nikhil Srivastava, Monis Raza, Nida Nafees and Ankit Negi.
Oral health is an integral part of general health and a valuable asset for any individual. Oral health has always remained a neglected entity. People have underestimated consequences of bad oral health, which have led to bigger problems which later on become difficult to treat. Unawareness regarding our oro‑dental health highly depends on one?s educational level. Preventive oral health education is in a transition stage in India. Despite the current emphasis on prevention in dental education, and although there have been some studies of the attitude, habits, and awareness among dental students and dentist, very few studies have focused on the orientation of the attitude, knowledge and awareness among professions other than dental like Medical, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Pharmacy, Engineering and MBA.
To our knowledge, no study exists on the attitude, habits, and awareness towards oral and dental health care among different professionals like Dental, Medical, Nursing, Physiotherapy, Pharmacy, Engineering and MBA in Meerut city.
The article assessing the attitude, habits, and awareness about oral and dental health care amongst professional students is sparse. Hence, this study was conducted to assess the level oral and dental health attitude, habits and awareness amongst different professional students in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh during the academic year 2014-15.
S. Shek Dhavud and J. Thomas Joseph Prakash.
Undoped and 0.5 mol% of L-aspartic acid (LA-C4H7NO4) and L-threonine (LT-C4H9NO3) doped sodium acid phthalate (NaAP) single crystals were successfully grown from aqueous solution by slow evaporation solution growth technique. Single X-ray diffraction revealed that the grown crystals possess orthorhombic crystal structure and revealed lattice distortion due to impurities. The crystallinity nature of the grown crystals was analyzed by powder X-ray diffraction analysis. Functional groups and the modes of vibrations were identified by FT-IR spectral analysis. Optical transmittance shows that L-threonine doped NaAP crystal possesses higher transparency compared to undoped NaAP and L- aspartic acid doped NaAP and the band gap energy values of the grown crystals were calculated. The photoluminescence properties of the grown crystals were investigated. The mechanical strength of the grown crystals was estimated by microhardness studies. The second harmonic generation of the grown crystals was confirmed by the Kurtz and Perry technique. Antibacterial activity of the title compounds against Streptococcus pneumoniae, Escherichia coli, and Klebsiella pneumonia strains was studied.
Namita Gupta, Shiv Kumar Dwivedi and Dalip Kumar Upreti.
The present study deals with an analysis of inorganic pollutants, their possible sources and effect on naturally growing Pyxine cocoes (Sw.) Nyl., a foliose lichen and Rinodina sophodes (Ach.) A. Massal., a crustose lichens around Panki Thermal Power Plant, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh. The east direction of the thermal power plant which experiences heavy traffic activity showed complete absence of lichens while west side has the maximum number of lichen thalli.
The result indicated that correlation analysis revealed that chlorophyll a, b, total chlorophyll, carotenoid, chlorophyll degradation was significantly correlated with each other whereas protein content showed negative correlation with chlorophyll a (-0.981), chlorophyll b (-0.97), total chlorophyll (-0.976), carotenoid (-0.935) and chlorophyll degradation (-0.994) in R. sophodes. All metals studied for both the species showed positive correlation matrix between the metals. The highest concentration of Fe, Mn, Zn and Pb were found at highly polluted areas with heavy traffic and road construction. The present study has established the utility of crustose and foliose growth forms of lichens in monitoring of environmental pollution in an area
Zeinab Mhanna and Radwan Al-Ammar.
The aim of this study is to determine the effect of bank characteristics on the financial performance of Islamic banks in Syria for the period (2009_2015). The financial performance (Dependent variable) is measured by return on assets (ROA), and return on equity (ROE). On the other hand, the independent variables are capital adequacy, liquidity, deposits, efficiency, bank size and Syrian crisis. The study used the methods of Panel Data through estimating fixed effects model.
The empirical analysis shows that bank size has a positive and significant impact on ROA and ROE. While efficiency has a negative and significant impact on ROA and ROE. Also, capital adequacy and liquidity have a significant impact on ROA at 10% significance level ,but have no significant impact on ROE. However, the variables (deposits and crisis) have no significant impact on ROA and ROE.
S. Jayakumar and R. Meganathan.
Scheduling has become one of the major fields within Operations Research with several hundred papers published in every year. In this paper we are considering the open shop scheduling problem with release dates for the objective of minimizing makespan and resource idleness of machines for the hypothetical situation when some jobs need not processed on some machines. Here pre-emption is not allowed. In 2014, we developed an algorithm for the OSSP problem with release dates to minimize makespan and now we tested weather the same algorithm performs well for the objective of resource idleness of the machines for the hypothetical case also. It was found that the proposed algorithm performs better than the existing algorithm with respect to both the objectives.
Ida Naziera Ngahdiman, Rika Terano, Zainalabidin Mohamed and Juwaidah Sharifuddin.
Urban farming is becoming an important activity among the urban dwellers in most developing countries. It is not only to ensure full utilization of the available space for agriculture, but also for sustaining the need of food among the urban dwellers. Since the related campaign and concept of urban agriculture are quite new in Malaysia, the objective of this study is to investigate the intention of urban dwellers towards practicing urban agriculture especially among the strata households. A multistage sampling technique involving stratified sampling was used to select the respondents. A face-to-face interview was carried out using structured questionnaires distributed to 400 respondents. The descriptive analysis, factor analysis, and binary logistic analysis were applied to analyze the data. The results of the study show that respondents have positive perceptions on urban agriculture and most of them have intentions to practice urban agriculture in the future. Factor analysis generated four latent factors that prescribe respondents intention to practice urban agriculture. These factors were positive attitude towards urban agriculture concept, confidence in practicing urban agriculture, societal environment and role model influences. A binary logistic analysis model was used to determine the socio demographic characteristics, and the extracted factors from factor analysis influenced the urban dwellers to practice urban agriculture. The results indicate that age, gender, educational level, and household size with the four latent factors mentioned previously were the likely factors that will influence urban dwellers to have intention to practice urban agriculture.
Purshottam and Vanita Dhingra.
Tribal community in India has been the most vulnerable community. Their fundamental human rights are violated in every step of life. Tribals are backward and poor, living in naturally isolated regional inhabitant. Tribals in remote areas are still devoid of common infrastructure facilities of road and communication, health and education and safe drinking water and sanitation, which do not allow them to absorb technological and financial help provided by government. Scheduled tribes are indications of primitive traits, distinctive culture, geographical isolation, shyness of contact with the community at large, and backwardness. The tribal population of the country is 10.43 crore, constituting 8.61% of the total population. Madhya Pradesh has the largest number of ST?s contributing 14.69% to the total percentage of ST population of India.The paper tries to understand the different aspects of Indian tribal life, like distribution of tribes in India, history of tribes, etc. The paper highlighted the major issues like, social, religious, educational, health related problems and many more. The researcher also recommended some suggestions regarding the issues or challenges of tribes.
Gomaa F. Salma, El-Sherbiny M. Ibrahium.
Recently, the applications of nanoparticles (NPs) in nanomedicine have gained a lot of interest. They can be used for biological labeling, biosensors and as therapeutic agents. As a result, there is an urgent need to develop synthesize techniques that can result in more biocompatible Nps, suitable for biomedical applications . Chemical methods for the preparation of NPs are simple, easy to perform and very variable. However, their main disadvantages is the use of toxic chemicals [2, 3]. In the search of better pathway for synthesizing metal Nps that can overcome these limitations, researchers have turned to biological systems. Biosynthetic (biogenic) techniques employ proteins, microbes or plant extract for nanoparticles production. The target is to implement safer and biocompatible synthetic methods that eliminate using harmful chemical reagents, thus has no/less harmful impact on human beings. Photosynthesis of NPs using plant extracts have been extensively investigated. Plant extract contains intrinsic phytochemicals such as saponins, terpenoids, proteins, polyphenols and flavonoids, having the properties of stabilizers/ emulsifiers. It can be used for the synthesis of biocompatible, monodisperesd NPs of minimum particle size. In comparison to other biological synthesis techniques, Nps synthesized using plants are more stable and the synthesis rates are more rapid. Problems associated with complex treatments (e.g. microbial isolation, culturing, maintenance) are resolved in the case of photosynthesis. Furthermore, the controlled flexibility in the size and morphology of obtained NPs are considered higher in case of photosynthesis due to the diverse candidates of plants. This review provides an overview of recent trends in the photosynthesis of NPs, expected mechanism for the biosynthesis process, and their potential advantage in the field of drug delivery.
Philip Umman, Joyal Jose and Nigel Varghese.
Breast cancer is the commonest cancer affecting women across all age groups. Surgery for breast cancer has evolved from radical intent and extent to wide local excision and breast conservation. Breast conservation surgery is the standard of care in the treatment of early breast cancer. However, there is very less acceptability of the same among both patients and health care professionals, especially in the Indian subcontinent. We aim to assess the quality of life in patients who underwent surgery for carcinoma breast and see the difference in quality of life, if any, between breast conservation surgery(BCS) and modified radical mastectomy (MRM) and the feasibility of the same.
Pankaj Rajvanshi.
Mala represent the third member of the trinity of the living body. Purish is the faeces and it is also known as \"vit\" and \"mala\". It represents in part, the undigested residue left over after the nutrient fraction of the-food has been separated and absorbed. The study reviews the scattered literature on the Guda marma, pureesh waha srotas and related contemporary anatomy and physiology books for the anatomical and physiological understanding of rectum to provide their scientific evidences for considering pureesh waha srotas as Rectum. As per the review, one portion of rectum is used for the formation of purisha (pakvashaya) and other portion is used to help in defecation by receiving the defecation signals from rectum (sthool antra) to be used in initiation of defecation reflex (guda and sthoola guda) So it can be concluded that one portion of purishvaha srotas is involved in the formation of purish and other portion is involved in defecation process for the expulsion of flatus and faeces. Hence the present study can be used in understanding sroto viddha lakshana and other sroto dusthi symptoms and their management with reference to rectum.
K.Biswas, A. K. Nayek, J.Basu, A. Ghosh and P. Giri.
As a cascading effect of electronic revolution and modernization of civilization use of cell phones and related other accessory gadgets emitting low frequency microwaves are increasing day by day. Though many reports are available on the effect of electromagnetic radiation of such kind on animal and plant system but its effect on microbial system is to some extent bewildering. In this article using E. coli as a model organism the effect of mobile waves of different frequencies on the growth has been tested. The aim of this experiment is to prove whether the mobile frequencies are actually harmful or risk-free to microbes using E. coli as a case study.
Rahul Tiwari, Heena Dixit, Mayank Jangid and Pranoti Hiralkar.
Bell?s palsy is defined as an idiopathic paresis or paralysis of the facial nerve. The name was ascribed to Sir Charles Bell, who in 1821, demonstrated the separation of the motor and sensory innervation of the face. The incidence ranges from 15 to 40 cases per 100,000, with an equal distribution between the sexes. There is no racial predilection and advancing age may be a risk factor, although this remains controversial. The disease involves the right and left nerves in equal proportions and is recurrent in approximately 10% of cases it occurs bilaterally less than 1% of the time. About 8% of patients report a positive family history of Bell?s palsy, with a higher incidence in those with bilateral disease
Mohit Sharma, Ketul puj, Hemkant verma and Shashank J. Pandya.
Background; Post operative pancreatic fistula (POPF) is a major concern after pancreaiticoduodenectomy(PD). In this sudy we presented our experience of pancreaticogastrostomy(PG) with our technique after pancreaicoduodenecomy.This technique is simple and effective in reducing chances of post operative pancreatic fistula(POPF).
Material And Method: We performed PG with this alternative technique on 36 patients of pancreatic cancers operated in Gujarat Cancer And Research Institute between January 2014 to December 2016.We described a different technique of pancreaticogastrostomy without anterior gastroatomy.PG was done by taking multiple interrupted sutures between pancreatic parenchyma and posterior wall of stomach after delivering pancreatic remanent through posterior wall of stomach.
Results: Out of 36 patients 18(50%) were of pancreatic head cancers.There was no perioperative mortality in this study.No patient developed significant POPF.
Conclusion: Our technique of PG is simple,easy to perform and effective in controlling life threatening complications such as POPF.
Satish Tunga and Jayadevappa D.
Conventional content-based image retrieval schemes may suffer from practical applications. Image databases are often composed of several groups of images and span very different scales in the space of low-level visual descriptors the interactive retrieval of such image classes is then very difficult. To address this challenge, we propose the support vector machine (SVM) algorithm with contourlet transform coefficients distribution. SVM is used to find out the optimal result and to evaluate the generalization ability under the limited training samples. It gives faster result as compared to other. An SVM classifier can be learned from training data of relevance images and irrelevance images marked by users. Features of the face image are extracted in the spectrum domain using contourlet Transform and this transform addresses the problem of representing the images with smooth contours in different directions by providing two additional properties which are directionality and anisotropy. This method will overcome the introduction of the noisy examples by the users. In the proposed technique, multiple feature distances are combined to obtain image similarity. The extensive experiments are performed on two different image data bases to validate the superiority of the proposed method.
Zabihullah abid.
Research Abstract/Summary
Rational: The ultimate goal of health sector is to provide quality services and reduce maternal and infant mortality rates. Afghanistan has been recognized as one of the highest levels of maternal mortality in the neighboring countries. It has been estimated that 40% to 50% of women’s deaths during the childbearing years are related to complications during pregnancy and childbirth .
Objective: The study objectives was to identify factors associated with low utilization of postnatal care (PNC) among mothers in Wardak and Laghman provincial hospitals
Method: A cross sectional qualitative and quantitative study design was chosen in order to give a detailed description of factors that influence women to attend or not attend postnatal care services. Quantitative data was obtained from maternal and child registers. The qualitative data was collected through individual interviews of mothers and focus group discussions (FGDs). Total six FDGs and twenty individual’ interviews with mothers (3 FDGs in 10 interview in each hospital) were conducted in two provinces.
Population: Target population were mothers delivered at two provincial hospitals in Laghman and Wardak
Time Frame: The data has been collected between Feb to May 2017. Total
Results: The quantitative data indicated that first postnatal care coverage received within first six hours of delivery was 98 % at Laghman Provincial Hospital and 89 % at Wardak Provincial Hospital. While the PNC 2 visit recorded at two hospitals were between 2 % to 11 % and PNC coverage 3 and PNC 4 were between 0 % to 1 %. The qualitative data showed that low community awareness, lower level of education among pregnant mothers, unavailability of transport facilities, socio- economic disparities, fragile insecurity situation, poor hospital staff behavior, wrong traditional practices, lack of empowerment and limited autonomy of women in decision making and poor medical records and record keeping standards were major factors behind low utilization of PNC services.
Conclusion and Recommendation: The study highlighted that the prevalence of the postnatal care coverage at two provincial hospitals are extremely low especially PNC 2, PNC 3 and PNC 4. In order to increase the PNC coverage, reduce pregnancy related mortalities and improve mother and child health , the policy makers and health care providers need to come up with a sustainable and long term policies and measures to improve overall maternal and child health care and develop a framework that will aid in improving postnatal care coverage in Afghanistan.
R. Dulanja Ruwan Kumara.
This specific study titled ?Amplification of the gross motor skill amelioration of toddlers in Gampaha Divisional Secretariat, Colombo District, Sri Lanka?. This study was methodically undertaken by the researcher by focusing on the problem how physical growth of children who are studying in kindergarten level is differ through gross motor skill. There were three objectives set to be achieved by this study, which include a key objective namely to determine the physical development level of children in Gampaha GN Division. Researcher carried out an extensive literature review to deliver a conceptual background of the study and to formulate hypotheses for this study. The stratified random sampling method was employed using 400 nursery children in this study. The researcher used ages and stages questionnaire (ASQ) which was recommended by the American Academy of Neurology, and the child Neurology to collect data. Data were analyzed with the association of SPSS 21.0 version and certain conclusions were made from the study after carrying out detailed scientific analysis of data using appropriate statistical tools. The result shows that there was significant percentage of nurseries? Gross motor development level appears to be on schedule.
Shri Prakash Yadav, Sonia Yadav and B. L. Sharma.
Sugarcane is cultivated under wide range of climatic conditions viz., hot weather during summer and very low temperature during winter with different agroclimatic zones in U.P. state of subtropical region. Hot and dry summer months followed by cool, wet and few days of frost in winter month are mainly concern with growth and quality of sugarcane crop. The Indian sugar industry, second largest in the world, is a key driver of rural development, supporting India?s economic growth. The industry is inherently supporting over 6 million farmers and their families, along with workers and entrepreneurs of over 550 sugarmills, apart from a host of wholesalers and distributors spread across the country. Contribution of sugarcane to the national GDP is 1.1% which is significant considering that the crop is grown only in 2.57% of the gross cropped area. The industry produces 350 ? 365 million tonnes cane, 25-27 mt white sugar and 6-8 mtjaggery and khandsari every year. India occupies better position in the world in area and production after Brazil but the cane yield/ha is generally lower (70 t/ha) than several other countries like Peru (120t/ha), Australia (100t/ha), and Brazil (80t/ha) etc. Uttar Pradesh rank first in the country with regards to cane area (2.1 mha) and also in sugar production (8.75 mt).
Therefore, the northern state particularly Uttar Pradesh plays important role in improving national sugarcane productivity is obvious. Now days improvement in crop yield (72.37 t/ha) and sugar recovery (10.61%) in U.P. stagnation in the factor productivity have needs further improvement for sustainability of crop yield level reached during green revolution period. In order to maintain crop sustainability, applied researches are being conducted in different disciplines and research finding?s as well as exercises such as crop rotation, integrated nutrients management strategy and green cane harvesting have been resulted to increase irrigation and drainage efficiency, improvement in organic matter and its better effect on soil properties and sugarcane nutrition. In this aspect an experimental result at sugarcane Research Institute of U.P. Council of Sugarcane Research Shahjahanpur (U.P.) showed that integration of 10t/ha Farm Yard manure + inorganic fertilizer N, P2O5 and K2O on soil test basis
+ biofertilizers (Azotobactorand phosphorus solubilizing bacteria (PSB)) each @ 10kg/ha gave significantly better cane yield of plant and also in their sub ? sequent ratoons with trash mulching at the starting of ratoon management.
Naba Jyoti Saikia.
Malaria is one of the common diseases in Upper Assam, particularly in the Lakhimpur district. It is influenced by various climatic and host factors. It is regarded as one of the major epidemics in Assam. The annual reports provide evidence that the magnitude of malaria across Assam is high and varies with location. It contributes more than 5% of the total cases recorded in the country annually. The study primarily deals with malaria disease and the scenario of malaria in Lakhimpur district. Both Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax occur in abundance, but Plasmodium vivax was the major parasite in the district. Amongst PHCs of Lakhimpur district, the Boginadi PHC, which is a tribal dominated and forest fringed area, was worst affected by malaria incidence.
Akinnifesi T. A., Asubiojo F.O., Ogunfowokan A.O., Okonkwo O. J., Ololade I. A and Oladoja N. A.
This study investigates the concentration levels of the free fatty acids (which are also important organic pollutants) in surface waters (rivers, streams and lakes) of South-Western Nigeria that are devoid of adequate information. The standard methods based on lipid extraction and isolation and methylation of the free fatty acids were modified and used for the analysis of the free fatty acids in the water samples. BF3-Methanol was used as the methylation reagent. Gas chromatography based on flame ionization detector was used for quantitative analysis of the complex mixtures of the free fatty acids. The average concentration levels of FFAs observed in all the surface (river) water samples of the dry and wet seasons are 24.1431.73 ?g/L and 23.6825.67 ?g/L respectively while those of tap waters samples are 21.42?5.77?g/L and 34.30?4.61?g/L for dry and wet seasons respectively. These represent the baseline data on which further studies on FFAs in surface waters and tap waters of Nigeria could be based. It is concluded that most of the FFAs in the surface waters circulated into the treated drinking waters and that the water treatment plants in the study area have minimal effect on the removal of FFAs (trace organics) from the raw surface waters of Nigeria.
Ahlam A. Othman, Hesham A. Katamish and Atef Shaker.
To evaluate the effect of implant platform/abutment design/ crown material combinations on the stress distribution around implant-supported dental restorations. A literature search was made in three databases including PubMed, Cochrane and Web of Science. Inclusion criteria were in vitro studies, switched implant platform versus regular implant platform, titanium implants, internal hex connection and stress values of bone. Two review authors independently screened the articles for inclusion. This was followed by handsearching in the reference lists of all eligible studies for additional studies. Results: the search resulted in 16 eligible studies concerning the effect of platform switching on peri-implant bone stress, however no papers were found studying the effect of different implant platform/ abutment design /crown material complexes on bone stress. From the included studies, platform switching concept can replace conventional platform designs to improve implant survival rate, provided it should be used within its indications.
Ekta Srivastava and Nisha Agarwal.
In order to survive and succeed in the fast changing competitive environment, banks need to organize, develop and manage their human resources effectively. The major responsibility of banks in this regard is to build up a right mix of skills, attitude and conceptual understanding amongst their employees. For achieving this, a continuous process of training interventions in banks is a must. Purpose of this study is to determine the impact of training effectiveness on employee performance in banks of Mordabad (Uttar Pradesh) district. Based on review of literature a theoretical model was framed and structured questionnaire was constructed. Data from a sample of 200 bank employees, working with public and private sector banks of Moradabad district, was collected. Data was analysed using SPSS-19 and AMSO-20. Findings of the study reveal that employee performance (latent construct) is highly determined by salary received by the employee (.850) and effectively designed training has the maximum impact on overall training & development activity. Employee commitment has poor correlation with employee performance hence future studies can be carried out to explore this construct.
Dr. Noohi Khan.
To evaluate the effect of implant platform/abutment design/ crown material combinations on the stress distribution around implant-supported dental restorations. A literature search was made in three databases including PubMed, Cochrane and Web of Science. Inclusion criteria were in vitro studies, switched implant platform versus regular implant platform, titanium implants, internal hex connection and stress values of bone. Two review authors independently screened the articles for inclusion. This was followed by hand searching in the reference lists of all eligible studies for additional studies. Results: the search resulted in 16 eligible studies concerning the effect of platform switching on peri-implant bone stress, however no papers were found studying the effect of different implant platform/ abutment design /crown material complexes on bone stress. From the included studies, platform switching concept can replace conventional platform designs to improve implant survival rate, provided it should be used within its indications.
Geoffery James Gerusu and Nur Bazilah Ismail.
Assessment of physico-chemical water quality of Long Banga upper catchment in Heart of Borneo area, Sarawak, Malaysia was conducted during Scientific Expedition 2016. The purpose was to ascertain the water quality level within these highland catchments. The results were compared with Malaysia Interim National Water Quality Standards (INWQS) standard for water quality. Results showed positive levels to aquatic life in general, with high dissolved oxygen concentrations with an average of 7.1 mg/l and also less conductivity, TDS and TSS in all sampling points. Water samples results from Sg. Ano revealed slight variation of high concentration of COD which fall under Class III of water quality standards compared to other streams. High concentration of COD might be attributed to production of organic acids during breakdown of organic matter. Generally, the results obtained indicated that physio-chemical properties of all 27 sampling points within Long Banga catchment was characterized as unpolluted and conserved in its natural state.
Narsimha Kota, Girija Pamu, Ravi Sanatana and M.Suresh.
India is one among the largest irrigators of the world but, there is an increasing concern over low crop productivity, low water use efficiency and the gap between Irrigation potential created and Irrigation potential utilized. The Kadem, Nizamsagar and Sriram sagar projects located at Adilabad, Nizamabad ,Karimnagar and Warangal districts, in South Telangana, This is constructed the Godavari River basin. Remote Sensing & GIS tools were effectively employed to assess irrigated crop acreage information right up to Distributary/ Off Take(OT) level. Topography analysis is used for separation of cultivable command area (CCA) and uncommand areas. Landsat ? 8 and IRS P6 - LISS III, satellite data before construction of the Reservoir (2009-10, 2010-11) and after Construction of the Reservoir (2014-15 & 2015-16) is processed for classification of Wet & Dry crops irrigated under canal and that irrigated by other sources such as Tanks and Groundwater.
The prime objective is to evaluate the cropping pattern in the command areas using satellite remote sensing techniques supplemented with field data during Rabi season of 2015 -16. It is observed that, due to the influence of urban development in some distributaries and conversion of wet crops and fallow land to ID crops there is decrease of wet crops and increase of ID crops. It is observed that GIS and RS techniques of evaluating the project performance are useful for decision making regarding the water management issues.
Saravana Selvi C and K. S. Pushpa.
Women constitute almost half of the total population in India but they are not enjoying their freedoms, equalities, privileges, on part with their male counterparts. Since implementation of planning in India, several policies and approaches were made to reduce inequalities between women and men. As a result a shift from ?welfare? to ?development? to ?empowerment? to ?human development? approaches has taken place to change the position and status of women. The status of women in India is a matter of serious concern. The violence and crime against women has been ever on increase, since independence. And so has been the perpetuation of structural and cultural inequality practiced in various forms despite the consti-tutional and legal guarantees aimed at equality and against discrimination in any form. This paper investigate - whether the Women?s in Kerala are having same status and rights as we are claiming regarding Equality , Education , Health , Labour , Employment , Marriage and Family life. It gives importance on the position of women in various fields like family life, social life and work situation. It highlights on literacy level of women, Health status of women, and women?s role in decision making. This paper also gives emphasis on number of women in total workforce and their wage rates. Women in Kerala are a valuable, healthy and educated resource; and can contribute effectively in all aspects of development of the state. An attitudinal change can be brought about by highlighting successful endeavours of women and by providing support systems for the multiple tasks they take up.
Vincenzo Napolitano, Claudia Mazzarella, Augusta Moccia, Manuela Avellino, Melania D?Anna, Giuseppe Perruolo, Giuseppe Portella and Daniela Terracciano.
Pancreatic cystic lesions are discovered frequently on modern imaging, posing a clinical problem because they might lead to ductal adenocarcinoma. The evaluation of cystic fluid carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) concentration and cytology have low sensitivity in distinguishing mucinous from non-mucinous cysts.
Recently, some authors reported that circulating HE4 (Human epididymis protein 4) levels were higher in subjects with pancreatic adenocarcinoma than in the controls.
We reported here the observation of elevated HE4 levels in pancreatic cyst fluid of malignant origin encountered in our laboratory medicine practice.
The sample showed high HE4 cyst fluid levels and low serum HE4 values. The high fluid/serum ratio value in this patient was associated with malignant lesion. Interestingly, the same patient showed high CEA cyst fluid/serum ratio. This patient had mucinous cystadenomas and developed lung and liver metastasis in less than 3 years, Both HE4 and CEA cystic fluid/serum ratios are high. This preliminary observation suggested the need to perform further studies on large population to assess whether cystic fluid/serum ratio of HE4, as well as CEA, might perform as cancer-specific biomarker for pancreatic cystic lesions.
Itır Tarı Comert, Seda Ugras and Emel H?lya Y?kseloglu.
The aim of the research is to reveal the affecting factors that the internet addiction of university students in Turkey. The sample of the research consists of 1203 students and 677 of them are female and 518 are male students and 8 of them missing. Two private two state university in Istanbul and Gaziantep. According to the findings of the first question of the research; the prevalence of internet addiction of university students in Turkey is medium level. Regarding the frequency of internet use, 61 (20.9%) students stated they use internet daily, 89 (30.5%) 2 or 3 days per week, 80 (27.7%) once a week, and 88 (30.1%) once a month. The students spent time as online 5.8 hours per week. Online activities of the students were checking e-mail 75.3%, playing online games 51.7%, chatting 51.7%, educational information searching 51.4%, purposeless web surfing 42.8%, and others 6.8%. Additionally, 30.5% of participants had more than 3 years of internet experience.
Shalini Gupta.
Banking was a thriving industry in ancient India. Initially, the Industrial houses pioneered banks with a view to generating funds for productive activities and at the same time offered considerable security, liquidity and fair returns to the depositors.
This study attempts to evaluate Motivation level of bank employees in Gorakhpur UP. It focuses on the relative importance of causes of employee motivational factors and their impacts on the overall service. It also investigates the impacts of age, and Income, education toward employee motivation. A questionnaire has been prepared including different reasons of low motivation and various measures to make an increment in the motivation level which would have been practiced in the Organization of banking sector. The study is the outcome of the primary data only. The requisite primary data namely, opinions on the determinants of motivational level, their importance and impact were collected through the help of a structured questionnaire using direct interview and also observation methods
In a way, banking continued to be a traditional industry till 1969. When major banks were taken over by the Government of India. With the nationalization, banks ceased to be funding agencies only for industrial sector and became a vivacious instrument of social change more statistical data are available in support of the preposition that there is a phenomenal growth of banking industry.
H. Teman Koesmono.
The research is aimed to find out the influence of personality, leadership, and organizational culture towards the performance of Islamic General Hospital Nursing Staff in Surabaya with work motivation and job satisfaction as the mediating variable. The result of the research describes that personality, leadership, and organizational culture give positive and significant influence to the work motivation and job satisfaction and it also gives influence to the performance of Islamic General Hospital Nursing Staff in Surabaya.
S. Shobha Christila and S. Sathya Sampath.
The main aim of the paper is to successfully set up two unique, redundant methods of measuring both body fat and hydration and compare these measurements to a commercial device.With two variables each for body fat and hydration we hope to obtain a highly precise measurement of both body fat and hydration measurements. An accurate and precise hydration in particular could prove to be very valuable for athletes such as marathon runners, and patients who are suffering from hydration or otherwise need this vital to be closely monitored.
Jasmer Singh, Saha K and GL Pahuja.
In this paper, a CANARY based Dynamic Voltage Scaling (DVS) technique is applied on a 17-bit Multiplier Accumulator (MAC) Unit in 0.55- nm technology to critically analyze the voltage safety margins and energy efficiency during the worst case of Process, Voltage and Temperature (PVT) conditions. The CANARY based DVS technique incorporates an inherent in situ error prediction feature, with a mechanism to prevent the errors to impact the Design under Test (DUT). In CANARY based DVS technique, the supply voltage is reduced automatically. Error prediction and prevention mechanism ensures correct operation and lesser voltage supply. Supply voltage is intentionally scaled down till the first failure point of MAC unit to reach at an optimal tradeoff [17] between voltage supply and energy consumption. It is observed from the simulation results that the energy savings up to 38.5% is achieved with CANARY based adaptive DVS as compared to classical DVS technique over the wide spectrum of functional frequency range. The SPICE platform is used for the detailed analysis and step by step implementation of CANARY based DVS technique.
Lidiya Thampi and Varghese Paul.
Medical Imaging is an important keystone of modern healthcare and will continue to play a role of ever increasing importance at all levels of the healthcare system due to advances in imaging technology (US,CT, MR and Molecular Imaging). Since the medical image data is increasing day by day, compression is needed to achieve efficient transmission and storage. Different compression techniques are compared and applied to diverse ultrasound images. Clinicians who are using ultrasound transducer or probe for diagnosis needs a better quality image for better observation so that they can analyze the disorder of structure and steer medication. From the results it is observed that Wavelet based compression offers better image appearance with Gamma and Log compression techniques.
S. Haritha and P. Suresh.
World wars were an enormous loss, because it collapsed and shook the entire world upside down. As a consequence, people lost their identity, there were lack of food, they were homeless and hopeless, everything seen as barren, alienation, emptiness and absurdity, survival become a big puzzle for them. This study is an attempt to show the obstacles faced by the people in the first half of Twentieth Century with reference to the novels of Earnest Hemingway?s The Old Man and the Sea, Daniel Defoe?s Robinson Crusoe, Saul bellow?s Dangling Man and Seize the Day. These are well known works that depicts the effects caused by the world wars. However, the style of writing may differ to one another; but their only intension of writing is to show the confused state of world after the wars.
Montaser. A. Mohamed , Shahat. A. Saber, AlShaimaa. S. Assem and Salma. F. Gomaa.
In this study, the effect of a novel antioxidants composite has been evaluated during deep frying and the shelf life of fried food. The composite is a synergetic blend of synthetic and vitamin-based antioxidants, with effective chelators to obtain the highest oxidative stability impact during deep frying. The frying processes were carried at 180 ᴼC for sliced potato chips. Sensory evaluation of the fried potato has been conducted under accelerated storage conditions to determine the effect of oil oxidative stability on the shelf life of fried food. The oxidative degradation of the oil was evaluated by measuring the induction period. Also, the fried oil samples were analyzed for their respective peroxide value, free fatty acid %, content of conjugated dienes, P-anisidine value, induction period (IP) and color. The (%) of oil absorption in the potato chips was also measured. Results showed that the composite has better stability against thermal oxidation when compared to TBHQ after multiple frying (P≤0.05). Furthermore, sensory evaluation of the fried potatoes indicated that improving the frying oil oxidative stability has a positive impact on the sensory acceptance of final product. Consequently, the proposed composite is a synergetic ingredient that can improve the frying oil stability, and prolong final product self-life.
Pradeepika.
Agriculture is undoubtedly risky, and the risk of a bad year discourages farmers from investing in high-yielding activities. By building resilience, agricultural insurance can help farmers improve their productivity and provide food security. The Indian government has therefore implemented a new agricultural insurance scheme, the Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY). Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana (PMFBY) is the new crop insurance scheme launched by Central Government. PMFBY will replace the existing two schemes National Agricultural Insurance Scheme as well as Modified NAIS which have had some inherent drawbacks. Pradhan Mantri Fasal Bima Yojana implemented in every state of India, with association with the respective State Governments. The present study is an attempt to understand the different issues and strategies related to implementation of Pradhan mantra fasal bima yojna in Haryana state. The study concludes with the recommendations that there is a strong need of the hour to educate rural people with regards to Insurance as a concept and as a product for effective implementation of this new crop insurance scheme.
P. Uday Kumar, S. G. N. V. Sai Ram, Vignesh. U and P. Kumaran.
Due to the stringent emission norms, the reduction of emissions from the engines has become necessary. Diesel engines produce less carbon emissions when compared but it is necessary to reduce NOx emissions in the diesel engines. this project is focused on urea-SCR system as De-NOx system the urea in the form of Adblue solution is injected into the exhaust system by using a ?decomposer? separated from the exhaust tail pipe. Urea is injected into the decomposer in the form of Adblue (aqueous solution of 32.5% urea) which is also known as diesel exhaust fluid. Decomposer is where the Adblue solution decomposes into ammonia and CO2. Adblue solution is injected into the decomposer by using a pump and an injector. A blower is inserted into the decomposer for the atomization of the urea droplets. Urea reacts with the exhaust gases in the exhaust line to form nitrogen gas (N2) and CO2. The decomposer and the injector is designed in ?CATIA? the analysis of flow of exhaust gases are carried out in CFD. The experiment is conducted for different loads at different conditions and results are calculated.
Karthik Saravanan M, Rakesh Kumar Seervi D, Godson S and Kumaran. P.
The carbon emissions from the diesel engines is not so high but after the reduction of NOX emissions the pollutants present in the exhaust gas is carbon and particulate matter. The stringent emission norms lead to maximum possibility of reduction of pollutants in exhaust gas so activated charcoal or activated carbon is used to adsorb the carbon emissions from the engine. Activated charcoal is grained into fine pieces they should be the size that they could not pass through the metal mesh fixed at the both the ends of the carbon container. The activated charcoal particulates should be heavy that they should not be carried away by the exhaust flow. The particulate matter or HC emissions are reduced at the catalytic converter so the exhaust emissions are mostly reduced and exhaust gasses are free from pollutants. The engine is operated for different load conditions like 100%, 75%, 50%, 25%, and 0% and the different emissions like CO, HC, CO2 and NOx. The activated carbon is linked with the catalytic converter to further reduce the emissions from the engine. The surface area of the activated carbon also plays a major role in reducing carbon emissions by allowing better adsorption of carbon.
B. G. Dudhe, R.T. Badwaik, and A.S. Bhore.
Aims:-To evaluate the effect of flupirtine in maximal electroshock seizures (MES) induced seizures in rats and study the interactions of flupirtine with some antiepileptic drugs, by using subtherapeutic doses.
Methods and Material:-The effects were assessed by methods of MES.
Results:-Flupirtine alone showed protection against electroshock seizures. Combined treatment of flupirtine and antiepileptic drugs exerted a much stronger protective effect against electroshock seizures than either drug alone or addition of their effect. This was highly significant for a combination of flupirtine with diazepam, sodium valproate, phenobarbitone, and phenytoin.
Conclusions:-Flupirtine has anticonvulsant activity and has synergistic activity with antiepileptic drugs in MES model. Extrapolation of these combinations in clinical practice may suggest its utility in grandmal epilepsy as add-on drug.
Sagargouda S. Patil, Dinesha H A and Ekta Badiger.
In each association there is dependably a need of meeting and gathering corridors. It is discovered that there is one gathering corridor in each association. Diverse divisions need to share the single meeting lobby for leading its occasion. Be that as it may, there is probability of the lobby being reserved by at least two offices around the same time and time which will be known just when the day of the occasion has come to, past the point of no return for exchange game plan. Thus an effective and easy to understand framework is required to save the corridor previously and make the data accessible to others to check the constant status of the lobby before booking. The framework will be created as an Android application, since many individuals today utilize Android, practically around 95% of the population.
Suman Sharma and P. Vijaya.
Cadmium is a highly toxic heavy metal, since it causes deleterious effects in organisms at low levels of exposure. The present study has been undertaken to evaluate the protective efficacy of garlic extract on cadmium induced toxicity in brain and kidney of albino mice. Albino mice were divided into three groups. Group I mice were kept as control. Group II animals were administered a single dose of cadmium chloride (6 mg/kg bw) orally. Group III animals were given a single dose of CdCl2 followed by a chronic dose of garlic extract (100 mg/kg bw) orally. Autopsies were done at the intervals of 15 and 45 days post treatment. A significant elevation in LPO levels with decreased activity levels of SOD, CAT and GST were observed during Cd intoxication at 15 and 45 days post treatment. With garlic supplementation, a significant reversal in the oxidative stress enzymes was observed and also restored the biochemical changes in brain and kidney tissue. It was concluded that garlic prevented the Cd induced toxicity and this might be due to the antioxidant activity of its constituents.
Anamika Sharma and Himani Sharma.
With the advancement in the field of periodontology various techniques have been evolved to minimize the post-operative discomfort and morbidity occurring after periodontal surgical procedures. Periodontal diseases are a heterogeneous group of diseases, which are multifactorial and are characterized by inflammation and the subsequent destruction of the tooth supporting structures. Conventional periodontal regenerative procedures involved reflection of large periodontal flaps for access to achieve improved clinical outcomes of periodontally compromised teeth. However, minimally invasive surgical techniques utilizes magnification devices to advanced surgical instruments and modified procedures, to make the surgical procedures effortless and causing minimal soft tissue trauma thus, proving to be advantageous over the conventional therapy. This article reviews various minimally invasive procedures and highlights the advantages of minimally invasive surgical and non-surgical therapy.
Arvind Kumar Singh and Karan Veer Singh.
India is a federal country where Indirect Tax is levied by Federal and State Government. Value AddedTax is levied by State Governments Starting with understanding tax. Tax is a compulsory contribution to state revenue, levied by the government on workers\' income and business profits, or added to the cost of some goods, services, and transactions. There are 2 taxation system in India i.e. directand indirect tax. Amidst economic crisis across the globe, India has posed as a beacon of hope with ambitious growth targets, supported by slew of strategic missions like ?Make in India?, ?Digital India?, etc. now the time has come from 1, July 2017 Goods and Services Tax (GST) is going to apply in throughout the nation. GST is expected to provide the much needed stimulant for economic growth in India by transforming the existing basis of indirect taxation towards free flow of goods and services within the economy and also eliminating the cascading effect of tax on tax. GST is a reform in theindirect tax system. Indirect taxes are levied onmanufacturing of goods provision of serviceand consumption. The indirect tax is domain of Central Government. There willbe a standard rate of GST across various goodsand services, which could broadly be in linewith international rates. World over, GST hasbeen implemented in over 150 countries.Goods and Service tax bill is officially knownas the constitution (one hundred and twentysecond amendment) bill, 2014. The GSTimplementation in India is Dual in nature, i.e.it would consist of two components: onelevied by Centre (CGST) and another leviedby States and Union Territories (SGST). GSTwas first introduced by France in 1954. Mostof the countries followed unified GST whilesome countries like Brazil, Canada follow adual GST system. The present research paper is an attempt to study the concept of Goods and Service tax over the current taxation system in India also we find recent changes and tax slabs under it and we also came to know that what pros and cons are available with this tax system and their impact on Indian economy.
Geetika Ranjan.
Bhoksa is a tribe inhabiting areas of the states of Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh in India. Every tribe has a name. The present paper attempted to understand the myths and views of the Bhoksa people as well as the explorations of scholars about how did the Bhoksa get their name and also about their antecedents. The antiquity of the Bhoksa got unfolded through the stories and tales related to their origin. Diversity in the views about their origin and antecedents , on one hand made the ambiguity around their name quite clear, and , on the other hand , they also in a way answer the queries about the origin of the Bhoksa. Views on the name \\\\\\\"Bhoksa\\\\\\\" inform to a large extent about the oral history of the Bhoksa and this information is very useful amidst the existing dearth of official records about the Bhoksa.
Ali Mahmood Khan, Javeria Sahib Din, Faiza Farooq, Ashraf Farooq Arain, Mohammad Mustafa Ahmed, Shanila Shagufta and Abdul Mohit.
This is a case of a 50 year old male with multiple psychiatric admissions and medication non-adherence with past psychiatric diagnosis of schizoaffective disorder. The patient presented with being disorganized and psychotic, aggressive towards family members and having side effects to medication which were agranulocytosis crisis, drooling and akinesia. Patient was admitted to the unit from out-patient department and was started on Clozapine 100mg per-oral in the morning and 300 mg per-oral at bedtime, Depakote 1000mg per-oral in the morning and 1500mg per-oral bedtime and Prolxin 5mg per-oral BID.Over the course of time the patient developed constipation due to clozapine, which led to him having small bowel obstruction and eventually exploratory laparotomy. Patient had no previous history of abdominal surgery.
Jayalakshmi, P. Vadivukkarasi Ramanadin and Anjali N Prajapati.
Background: Technology is strongly influencing the today?s world. Health care field also much persuaded by the evolving technology. Hence all the health care professionals should have up-to-date knowledge with current advancement. Knowledge develops when nurses combine & identify the relationship between different pieces of information.
Aim: The study was conducted to assess perception and attitude on Electronic Health Record Monitoring & computer application in Health care among the staff nurses.
Methods: Quantitative approach with descriptive research design was used. Non- Probability convenient sampling technique was used to select 70 staff nurses working in Shri Vinoba Bhave Civil Hospital, Silvassa. Self administered semi structured questionnaire which consists of five sections. It includes socio-demographic variables, perception & preference on EHRM & Attitude by PATCH Scale. Results: Findings show that 27 of them had very low positive attitude, 12 of them had low positive attitude, 12 of them had very low negative attitude & 19 of them had low negative attitude. According to PATCH Scale 3 of them had uneasiness to use computers in health care, 30 of them got limited awareness, 35 of them got realistic view & only 2 of them had enthusiastic view.
Conclusion: Present study shows that majority of the staff nurses are not having positive attitude towards EHRM. They are more comfortable with Case sheet method. This view can be changed by various method example in-service education programme on EHRM.
Davies Phiri and Wanga W. Chakanika.
This study was a product of a Mixed methods Design. The universe population comprised all of the following: students that were enrolled in the UNZA extension education credit course in all the extension education centres within Lusaka District in the 2014/2015 academic year; the extension education centres within Lusaka District; and the graduates from the aforementioned courses and centres from the year 2013 to 2014. The study had a total sample of 130 in which 115 were students who were selected using convenient sampling procedure and 15 were graduates who were traced through snow ball sampling procedure. 2 out of 11 extension education centres within Lusaka District were purposively selected and all respondents were from these same centres. A semi-structured questionnaire and an interview guide were used to collect data from 115 sand 15 graduates respectively.
The findings of this study elucidated that despite tutors in the UNZA extension education programme using a repertoire of different pedagogical strategies from both the teacher-centred and the student-centred approaches to teaching, instructor-centred (i.e. lecture and dictation) teaching techniques were the most dominant. It was also established that both learner-centred and teacher-centred teaching techniques were preferred by some students but most students preferred active teaching techniques more than the passive ones.
This study therefore, recommended that the University of Zambia (UNZA), through the Department of Adult Education and Extension Studies (DAEES) should start providing refresher courses to tutors in extension education on adult education teaching techniques.
Lindsay Murray M Sangma and Nirupama Prakash.
Addiction is a family problem and is a major source of stress for family members. Children are more at risk of child abuse, neglect, and behavioral problems. Children of alcoholics develop poor self-image, face disturbance in their studies resulting in low marks, become school dropouts, and are more likely to become alcoholics themselves. Life skill intervention can serve as a remedy for the problems as it will help the adolescents to lead a better life and handle the situation in a positive way. Present Study was an attempt to provide intervention programme in the form of Life Skills for rural adolescents living with alcoholic parents in Shillong, Meghalaya, India. The Objectives of the study were, to provide intervention programme for the rural adolescents who are living with alcoholic parents, to study the impact of life skills programme among rural adolescents before and after the intervention. The instruments used for measurement were demographic profile, Children of Alcoholics Screening Test (CAST), (Pilat & Jones, 1985), Life Skills Assessment Scale (LSAS), (Nair, Subasree & Ranjan, 2010). The hypothesis is there will be no significant differences among rural adolescents on the basis of life skill intervention. The researcher has selected a descriptive research design in phase 1 and in phase 2 pre experimental research design was used and Purposive sampling was applied. The result of the present study revealed that the intervention was very effective among the adolescents in enhancing their level of awareness and positive improvement seen in life skills such as self-awareness skills, effective communication and critical thinking skills.
Davies Phiri, Wanga Weluzani Chakanika, Nyondwa Zulu and Tiwonge M. Zyambo.
Predicting the future direction of Extension Education, offered by the University of Zambia, is neither a simple nor a straightforward topic, yet it is the focus of this article. The article reveals existing literature and draws such projections main from literature that focused on University of Zambia Extension Programmes. It is argued, in this article, that global pressure will lead to continuous alignment of University of Zambia extension education curriculum to meet the international standard. It assumes that University of Zambia will face stiff competition from mushrooming private universities in terms of quality and accessibility. The articles also presupposes that technology will impact on extension education in the future by creating, on one hand, easy access to literature and information by extension education stakeholders, and on the other hand, eroding extension curricular that are based on the cultural values of a specific locality. It is argued also in this article that changes in the employment sector will lead to changing learner needs which will result into increased partnerships between universities and industrial organizations. The article also highlights that University of Zambia, specifically the Department of Adult Education and Extension Studies (DAEES), will shift enrollment criteria to fit the needs of the current generation. This article also predicts a possible change in the original ideals to which extension education at the University of Zambia was founded.
Ganesh Prasad Panda and Santosh Kumar Panda.
It is universally accepted that the goal of financial management is to maximize the shareholder?s value. In recent years, Economic Value Added (EVA) framework is gradually replacing the traditional measures of financial performance on account of its robustness and its immunity from creative accounting. Following this global trend, several companies in India are focusing on shareholders? value creation. The main objectives of this study were: to examine whether the sample companies has been able to generate value for its shareholders; to analyze the effectiveness of EVA over the conventional measures of corporate performance, and to indicate whether the significant differences exists between the values of EVA and other profitability measures of the sampled companies. Moreover, it also seeks to examine the value-creation strategies of selected Indian Automobile companies by analysing whether EVA better represents the market-value of companies in comparison to conventional performance measures. In this regards, EVA and the conventional measures of corporate performance are analysed. Moreover, various statistical tools like ANOVA, trend analysis and regression analysis are used for analysing the data.
Sidra Shehzadi.
In present study that focused the coverage of minority issues by Pakistani electronic media, objectively the issue of Kot Radha Kishan Lahore and said the survey questionnaire from the audience. Study having research questions of whether media sensationalized that incident, and leading news channels reporting supportive to national integrity. Research also measured the response of public regarding that issue. Most people agreed that media objectively covered that incident, and channels gave importance to minority issues with an ethnic tilt. Fifty percent people approved that media channels fueled conflict between Muslims and non-Muslims by reporting minority issues.
Banyaladzi D. Paphane, Ruth Gontse, Thapelo Francis and Kethabile Sonno.
Energy demand is increasing due to the expanding population growth in Botswana and the world at large. It has become apparent that biodiesel is destined to make a substantial contribution to the future energy demands of the domestic and industrial economies. Non-edible plant oils which are known as the second generation feed-stocks can be considered as promising substitutions for traditional edible food crops for the production of bio-diesel. The use of non-edible plant oils is very significant because of the tremendous demand for edible oils as food source. Moreover, edible oils? feedstock costs are far expensive to be used as fuel. Therefore, production of bio-diesel from non-edible oils is an effective way to overcome all the associated problems with edible oils. However, the potential of converting non-edible oil into bio-diesel must be well examined as the physical and chemical properties might differ from that of edible oils, hence the need for this research.
Shreya R. Patel, Sapna D. Gupta, Kamlesh P. Patel and Supriya D. Malhotra.
Tuberculosis has a high prevalence in India but pulmonary embolism is rarely reported in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection. We describe a case series of pulmonary embolism associated with severe pulmonary tuberculosis. In our first case pulmonary embolism (PE) occurred within 6months of pulmonary tuberculosis diagnosis.Patient took ATT for 6 months and after being diagnosed as a case of PE, low-molecular-weight heparin was prescribed for 3 days and after that he was given Tab. warfarin (5mg) OD. Our second case diagnosed as a case of PE after taking 9months of ATT and he also prescribed Tab.Warfarin and low molecular weight heparin. The association between tuberculosis and pulmonary embolism is rare. Tuberculosis, the disease can itself lead to hypercoagulability, increased venous stasis, and endothelial dysfunction, thus increasing the susceptibility to venous thromboembolism (VTE) particularlyin those with severe pulmonary or disseminated tuberculosis. Among the ATT drugs, most commonly associated with thromboembolic events is Rifampicin, an enzyme inducer, and may alter the balance of anticoagulant and coagulant proteins produced by the liver. But it should be in detailed investigation should be done by respiratory physicians to rule out etiology whether it is due to drug or disease itself.
Hanane BASR, Rachida SAOUAB, Brahim AITBIHI, Mohamed MAHI and Fedoua ROUIBAA.
Introduction: Acute pancreatitis is one of the rare complications of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization with an incidence ranging from 2% (clinical pancreatitis) to 40% (biological pancreatitis). It may result from the development of ischemia caused by regurgitation of embolic materials into the vessels supplying the pancreas. This complication has a significant morbidity and mortality potential when it is associated with other complications.
Case report: We report a case of acute pancreatitis in a 58 year-old North African male, developed within 24h after a first selective chemoembolization proposed as locoregional bridge therapy for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma before liver transplantation. In this case, the first possible etiology of acute pancreatitis was transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, because there were no other causes of acute pancreatitis, the chronology was compatible and the vascular opacification has showed a regurgitation of embolic materials during the procedure .Through this case and review of literature, we focused on the mechanisms and diagnosis difficulties of acute pancreatitis following chemoembolization.
Conclusion: Acute pancreatitis is a rare complication of transcatheter arterial chemoembolization, and may clinically mimic a postembolization syndrome at the early stage. The knowledge of this complication must lead to a systematic monitoring of serum pancreatic enzymes in cases of abdominal pain after chemoembolization.
Sunil Kumar Tiwari and S SDhuria.
Variability studies in different seed sources of Dalbergiasissoowith respect to seed, pod, germination and seedling traits were under taken at Deparmentalnursery,glasshouse.Five provenances namely Bilaspur, Bastar, Korba, Raigarh and Sarguja of Chhattisgarh,India were used in the study. The study revealed that highly significant differences among provenances in all studied parameters except pod thickness. Highest variation among provenances in seed traits was observed in seed weight and seed length while seed thickness had the lowest variation. Overall mean germination among provenances was 70.2% varying from 32.7 to 93.3%. Most of the traits showed significant correlation with geographical factors viz. longitude, latitude and altitude. The observed variation will enable selection of provenances with desired traits for tree improvement and recommendation of specific provenances for different sites.
Umesh Chandra Kapri.
Satisfaction is the biggest thing in our life. The person, who is satisfied with his/her life, is a successful person. Satisfaction does not mean to have too much money or to have too much material things but it deals with feeling of harmony with life. Job satisfaction is the state of feelings towards the job undertaken by an employee either positively or negatively. Job Satisfaction is often seen as involving Teachers with salary, promotion in job, school environment and co-ordination and co-operation among teachers and among teachers and students. Descriptive survey method was used to conduct a pilot study to determine the level of job satisfaction amongst teachers working at self-financed Teacher Education Colleges located at Faridabad district of Haryana state in India. The population of the present study comprised of the 120 Teachers working in self-financed Teacher Education Colleges located at Faridabad district. Meera Dixit?s Job Satisfaction Questionnaire was used to collect data. The findings of the study show that majority of teachers of Self-financed Teacher Education Colleges were found at average and at below average level of job satisfaction. A significant difference was found between the male and the female teachers of self-financed Teacher Education Colleges with respect to their job satisfaction. The female teachers of self-financed Teacher Education Colleges were found to be more satisfied with their jobs in comparison to their counterpart, the male teachers of self-financed Teacher Education Colleges.
Divanshu seervi, tarun gehlot and peeyush chowdhary.
Fiber reinforced concrete (FRC) is a new structural material which is gaining increasing importance. Addition of fiber reinforcement in discrete form improves many engineering properties of concrete. The objective of this research investigation was to study the flexure and spilt tensile strength behavior of steel fibre reinforced concrete using Round straight fibres with aspect ratio of 75 Specimens were cast without fibres and with fibres of 0.5%, 1%, 1.5% and 2 %. split tensile tests and Flexural Strength were conducted on cylinder and beam specimens respectively
Pitojo Tri Juwono, Widandi Soetopo and Bambang Pramujo.
Selorejo Dam is located in Pandansari Village, Ngantang District, Malang Regency. The exact spot is at Konto River, a tributary of Brantas River. This dam has very important functions such as for electric generation and irrigation. It is very old dam with construction completed in 1970 but now subjected to shallowing due to a high sedimentation rate. The decreasing reservoir volume of the dam has impacted dam function, and therefore, it is necessary to formulate a better plan for reservoir operational pattern to manage properly the existing water volume. Recently, in planning the operational pattern of the reservoir, Perum Jasa Tirta I (PJT-I) as the manager of Selorejo Dam uses feasible debit to predict debit inflow. In this study, debit inflow is predicted using ARIMA method from also which new operational pattern of the reservoir can be established. This study uses 10-years data of 10-days debit inflow. Of these data, 9-years data are used to generate ARIMA model while 1-year data are used for calibration. The best ARIMA model in predicting debit inflow is ARIMA (1,1,1)(2,1,1)36. Compared to other methods recently used, ARIMA has been proved as able to predict debit inflow in better way with smaller Relative Error (KR) than realized debit (Model?s KR is 5.5 and Operator?s (PJT-I) KR is 17.5)
R. Sreedevi, Kumar N. Anil, Agrawal Anchala, T. Anand and D. Gunjan.
Odontomes are the most common odontogenic tumors, slow growing and asymptomatic in nature. They frequently interfere with the eruption of teeth. This is an unusual case report of a complex odontoma in a 17 year old boy, which resulted in pain and failure of eruption of permanent left maxillary molars. Periapical radiograph revealed large dense calcified mass with impacted left maxillary first molar. A final diagnosis of complex odontoma was made. Later on odontoma was enucleated, sinus polyp was surgically removed. Routine follow-up was done for 6 months. No recurrence was observed. This article reports a unique co-existence of complex odontoma, sinusitis and sinus polyp.
Mohammad Zaini, Zaenal Fanani and Mohammad Soleh.
Solidity is a condition (or a character). The root of this word is ?solid? meaning as sturdy or been fully-loaded. The solidity of soldiers, therefore, describes a condition where soldiers have sturdiness and are fully-loaded with required capacities in military organization. For dealing with problems and heavy challenges in the future, therefore, solidity, cohesiveness and corp spirit of Indonesia National Army of Ground Force (TNI-AD) must be increased. Integrity is a key character of a certain soldier based on its rank level. Integrity is a first condition in choosing leader, and then followed by intelectual and managerial capabilities of TNI-AD.
The objective of research is to analyze the effect of solidity and integrity on professionalism and the impact of professionalism on integrity leadership of TNI-AD; and also to investigate the model with the dominant effect of solidity and integrity on professionalism, and the impact of professionalism on integrity leadership of TNI-AD. The location of research is at Pusdik Arhanud addressed at Karangploso Road, Malang Regency. Time of research begins from 18 January 2017 to 21 March 2017, or lasting for 3 months. Type of research is quantitative with field survey. The sample of research includes 150 persons, and data analysis is using Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with Software WarpPLS 5.0.
Result of research explains that solidity and integrity have an effect of 71.2% on professionalism. Solidity is represented by feeling as having similar fate and profession. Moreover, the effect of professionalism on integrity leadership is rated for 81%. Normative integrity has the highest load, meaning that it has positive and significant effect. The form of integrity in this paper is soldiers? sense of authority. Integrity represented by soldiers? sense of authority has a positive effect on charismatic integrity leadership. The effect of professionalism would increase integrity leadership where the increase of their self-identity and their chance to develop among TNI-AD soldiers may go along with the increase of integrity leadership. It is suggested that activities supporting the solidity must be closely related to the integrity of leader because it is needed to avoid polemic that occurs in the information age. It may help to change soldiers? mindset that is previously unmanaged. This change covers attitude, mentality, and behavior of soldiers to produce new culture that may influence their conduct of duty. Soldiers? attitude toward leader may change the existing ethic and norm professed by TNI-AD soldiers.
Brantas Suharyo G, Zaenal Fanani and Mohammad Soleh.
Leadership is a central point of success because leadership can multiply the possibility of success of military units. Successful leadership in military environment is measured using four aspects, such as morality, discipline, loyalty and competence. Each aspect has certain parameter and method to measure leadership success across different aspects, including morality and discipline aspects. Indonesia National Army (TNI), especially Ground Force, has attempted to excavate, to adopt, to explore, and to apply, as well as to develop the proper sciences and theories of leadership. All of these are important because it helps TNI to identify leaders based on their strata and rank in pursuant with President Decree No.10/2010 about Organizational Structure of TNI.
The objective of research includes to understand the effect of transformational leadership, capability, and commitment on motivation; to examine the impact of motivation on performance of members at the Command Unit of Military District 0807 Tulungagung; and to investigate the dominant effect that influences motivation and performance of soldiers at the Command Unit of Military District 0807 Tulungagung. Research location is the Command Unit of Military District 0807 Tulungagung addressed at MT. Haryono Road No.37-38 Tulungagung. Meanwhile, time of research starts from 22 January 2017 to 02 March 2017, in which this research will last for 3 months. The sample of research is 120 soldiers. Data analysis technique uses Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) with Software WarpPLS 5.0.
Result of research indicates that the commitment of soldiers at the Command Unit of Military District 0807 Tulungagung has an effect of 50% to membership motivation, while the motivation of soldiers at the Command Unit of Military District 0807 Tulungagung remains influential for 75.7% to soldiers? performance. Normative commitment has the highest load, and provides a positive and very significant effect on creating a responsibility for soldiers to establish a motivation. Soldiers? motivation has the highest load which then gives positive and very significant effect on their authority of responsibility. Periodic evaluation on soldiers? motivation and performance must be done once in 3 months to recognize the parameters for successful effect of leadership transformation, capability, and commitment on soldiers? motivation and performance.
Abdul Hanan, Zaenal Fanani and Mohammad Soleh.
Leadership issue is always interesting topic. Some literatures of leadership have explained what someone must do to be a good leader. Attitude and style of leader must be set in compliance with leadership situation or precondition of a good leader. Organization may fail or success mostly because of leadership. An expression said that it was a leader who must take responsibility for the failure of certain work. It means that a leader would sit on the important position in the organization. Leader would take account for leadership. Speaking about leadership, it is like an attractive scenery for highlight. Over times, leadership is a center of human being. There is an expression that leadership has been old as human history. Leadership is needed by human because human needs a strength and wants to restrain a weakness. Leadership character can influence soldiers? performance. One factor improving soldiers? work achievement is organizational commitment. However, it is still problematic because soldiers? performance is affected by leadership character.
This research is attempting to analyze the effect of leadership character on soldiers? motivation, to examine the effect of soldiers? motivation in the environment at Kodam V Brawijaya on commitment, and to recognize factor with the most dominant effect on soldiers? motivation in the environment at Kodam V Brawijaya. Research lasts for 3 months from 18 January 2017 to 21 March 2017 at Kodam V Brawijaya. Type of research is survey using questionnaire. Data are processed with statistic tool. Therefore, this research applies quantitative data through Structural Equation Model with Software WarpPLS 5.0.
Result of research gives several indications. (1) Leadership character at Kodam V Brawijaya is represented by directive leadership character. It is a character in which commanders are willing to understand soldiers? aspiration; always giving direction to the soldiers; and delegating soldiers in proper manner. All of these give positive effect on soldiers? intrinsic motivation. Strong motivation from leader is indeed influential to soldiers by intrinsic or extrinsic ways. Soldiers? extrinsic motivation, related to creating conducive organizational environment, will improve soldiers? commitment through a recognition given to the soldiers for their performance. (2) The dominant factors influencing organizational commitment at Kodam V Brawijaya environment is directive leadership character, strong motivation to lead, and extrinsic motivation with conducive work environment.
Mohamed Rachid Bensalah, Reda Ouazzaa, Azzelarabe Bennis, Omar Zadoug, Mohamed Benchekroun, Ali Zine, Mansour Tanane and Abdelouahab Jaafar.
Madelung disease is a distortion of the wrist due to atrophy of the medial part of the distal radius cartilage. This results in an antero-medial subluxation of the carpus, limiting joint amplitudes. This bone dysplasia is rare and represents 1.7% of congenital anomalies. The authors report a bilateral case in a 19-year-old boy and intend to discuss it on the basis of data from the literature.
Amanthi Ganapathi and Gheena.
Aim: To evaluate the prevalence of oral and maxillofacial lesions in pediatric patients attending Saveetha dental college & hospitals.
Objective:To interpret the prevalence of oral and maxillofacial lesions in pediatric patients attending Saveetha Dental college & Hospitals.
Method and Material: Prevalence of oral and maxillofacial lesions in pediatric patients were evaluated through a standardized self-explanatory questionnaire distributed in saveetha Dental college & hospitals(Chennai, Tamil Nadu).The questionnaires were handed to the dentists during their dental examination total of 110 subjects were taken in which 23 patients were positive for oral lesion.
Result: Out of 110 cases, 23 affected pediatric patients with a higher incidence in those with 8-16years old. Similarly prevalence was observed in female patients (3.34%) than in male patients(1.46%).salivary gland disease (2.50%) was the most common group of lesions, followed by mucous pathology(1.04%) and odontogeic cyst(0.62%).In odontogenic cyst (0.41%),radicular cyst was found to be higher, followed by glandular cyst. In odontogenic tumor ameloblastomas was found to be higher.
Conclusion: This study shows a similar trend to that reported in previous studies on the most
Frequent oral and maxillofacial lesions found in the pediatric population. The majority of
Lesions detected were salivary gland disease, and was noted it was more prevalent in female patients. Lesions were diagnosed in a very low number of patients.
Eyisi Adanma Sabina and Titus Freeman Ifeanyi.
We explored a comparative analysis of the causal relationship between drop in oil price, FDI and inflation using India and Nigeria as case net importer of oil and net exporter of oil respectively. Granger Causality Test analytical method was employed using a regression model. Findings revealed that drop in oil price has not significantly caused the increase in consumer spending in India and Nigeria and that drop in oil price has not significantly caused the drop in foreign cash inflow in India while it was found to have caused a drop in foreign cash inflow in Nigeria. It was recommended that Nigeria as a mono-product economy should start adjusting to exploit other natural resources in the nation to cushion the economic hassle overdependence on oil have forced it into
Mohamed Rachid Bensalah and Reda Ouazza
Benson D. M. and Nwachukw E. O.
Peeled fruits each of Watermelon (Citrulus lunatus), Pawpaw (Carica papaya), and Pineapple ( Ananas comosus) were bought from street vendors in Creek Road Market, Mile 1 Market, Mile 3 Market, Borokiri and Lagos Bus Stop all in Port Harcourt Town, Rivers State to investigate the fungi associated with these fruits and the possible implications associated with their consumption using the Standard Blotter Method and the Acidified Potato Dextrose Agar Method. Four major species were isolated from these fruits. They include-Rhizopus stolonifer, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus flavus, Fusarium sp and Penicillium oxalicum. The fruits bought from Creek Road Market revealed the highest % incidence occurrence while those in Mile 1 Market had a lower % incidence occurrence. Aspergillus niger was observed to have had the highest percentage incidence in all the areas sampled and all the fruits used, followed by Rhizopus stolonifer and Fusarium sp. Penicillium oxalium was only observed in Pineapple ( Ananas comosus) in all the sampled locations while Aspergillus flavus was only observed in Pawpaw (Carica papaya) and it had the least percentage incidence occurrence in all the sampled locations. The inherent hazards associated with the consumption of fruits on display at these markets are discussed and suggestions on how to prevent the likelihood of fruit-borne infections, including improved sanitary conditions in the markets are discussed.
Murilo Abud Bichuette, Alvimar Jos? da Costa, Ane Pamela Capucci Torres, Gl?ucio Lu?s Mata Mattos, Guadalupe Sampaio Ferreira, Lucas Vin?cius Costa Gomes, Willian Marinho Dourado Coelho and Katia Denise Saraiva Bresciani.
In this literature review, we compiled information on the behavioral changes induced by toxoplasmosis in animals and humans. Pathologies due to toxoplasmic infection have been widely studied, but the chronic effects and modulation of the parasite-host interaction remain uncertain. In experimental infections of small rodents, behavioral changes have been investigated mainly through leakage parameters, assessment of motor sensory cognitive functions, as well as dopamine activity and release. Chimpanzees also showed behavioral changes, a phenomenon characterized, even, by specific aversion to their only predators. In adult humans, it has been proposed that tissue cysts exert behavioral changes in their hosts, either directly or through the release of metabolic products. Thus, chronic infection with Toxoplasma gondii has been associated with reduced motor reflex, increasing the risk of traffic accidents, as well as the inversion in personality, resulting in a lower score in the intelligence quotient (IQ), reduction in attainment Higher stages of schooling and, in the elderly, impairment of memory. Finally, it has been considered the hypothesis that dopamine may be involved in this process, since the psychomotor performance is lower in the infected individuals, still related chronic infection to Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Parkinson\'s disease, suicide attempts, Autism, schizophrenia, Bipolar and Anxiety Disorders. Therefore, in this analysis, we demonstrate reports of scientific evidence of behavioral changes induced by both animal and human toxoplasmosis.
Hilmi Karim, Makaoui Ahmed, Ettahiri Omar, Idrissi Mohammed, Larissi Jamila, Abdellaoui Benyounes, El Ouehabi Zineb and et Orbi Abdellatif.
The hydrodynamic functionning of Oualidia lagoon, located on the Atlantic coast of Morocco (32?45?N-9?30?W), is investigated by tide, current, temperature-salinity observations during summer /autumn 2005 and hydrodynamic 2D model, before the installation of the sediment trap located upstream of the lagoon. The observed tide is semi-diurnal tide (mainly M2) of 0.97m amplitude, asymetric and, propagating outside the inlets to upstream of the lagoon (artificial dam), its phase?s delay is around of 3h. The tidal currents are very intense (>1 m.s-1) near the inlets of the lagoon with flood?s dominance and are less intense (<0.5m.s-1) upstream of the lagoon. Water temperature and salinity observed at different stations located in the main channel indicate a clear influence of marine water downstream and the salinity is reduced upstream of the lagoon, due to several underground freshwater seepages in the lagoon. The local renewal time (LRT) is varying between 1 day near the inlets of the lagoon to around 30 days at its artificial dam. The integral renewal time (IRT) of Oualidia lagoon is 15 days in mean (Koutitonsky et al., 2007).
Mohmmad Rafi Bhat, Kounser Iqbal and Shugufta Akhtar.
When normal outlets of human expression remain choked, catharsis finds its likely way - either through slogans or rocks or violent other means. There are reasons why despite the establishment of a ?democratic? political order in Jammu & Kashmir, the anger on its streets remains. The fundamental reason is political. There is a feeling of political and economic disempowerment. Kashmiri youth, faced with a strong state and its security apparatus, also nurse feelings of helplessness and powerlessness. Dissent, peaceful or otherwise, has almost always meant persecution. The cumulative result is accumulated anger. The fourth generation of Kashmiris is today doing what the first generation did some 60-70 years ago; they are venting their anger and frustration with the political system through street resistance. Having no platform for expressing their political opinion, they resort to hurling stones. The paper is based on field study in Srinagar. where stone pelting is frequent.
Abhisek Mishra.
Poverty reduction has remained the central concern in India. The trend of introduction of self-employment programmes as a policy tool to fight against poverty is found in India. This paper critically reviews different self-employment programmes introduced in India. It covers Integrated Rural Development Programme (IRDP), Swarnajayanti Gram Swarozgar Yojana (SGSY) and National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM). The paper further explains how the approaches of the Government have changed across the time (explaining merits and demerits of each programme) to fight against poverty. The paper concludes how the current self-employment programme is better in comparison to previous programmes.
Balwinder Singh.
The institution of a marriage is an oldest social institution and provides a foundation on which whole super structure of civilization and prosperity is built. Different personal laws have given different meanings to the concept of marriage ranging from sacramental to contractual union. As far as position in India is concerned, India is still looked by the world as a country where marriage occupies a sacramental position both philosophically and practically. But with the change in the modern setup the traditional concept of marriage has changed and now-a- days a change is visible in our society from arranged marriages to love marriages and now to ?live-in-relationships as well as gay marriages?. Despite all these developments and even granting a level of legal legitimacy to the live-in relationship or gay relationships, it is still largely perceived to be an immoral relationship in our society. In the absence of legislation to deal particularly on live-in relationship as well as gay relationships in India, the partners in these types of relationships often face hardships. At last, the judiciary is looked upon as the last resort to deal with such issues. Here an attempt is made to look into recent developments in the attitude of the Courts in granting various rights to live-in couples as well as gay relationships in India.
Rinku V. Patel, Krishna Y. Pandya, R.T. Jasrai and Nayana Brahmbhatt.
Biofertilizers offer a new eco-friendly technology which would overcome short comings of the conventional chemical based farming. Biofertilizers showed positive influence on both soil sustainability and plant growth. Biofertilizers are not only the alternative to chemical fertilizers but also tend to increase the soil fertility and plant productivity which discuss in present review study. Seaweed plays an important and vital role in the marine ecosystem and growing in large amount in the sea. Seaweed can be regarded as a potential source of bio-fertilizer in of dried or fresh form; it helps to enhance biochemical constituents like carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, fibers, ash, phenol, dietary fiber etc in plant. The seaweed also good source of micro & macro elements required for plant nutrition. Seaweed extract is effective for improves the quality of produce and soil conditioner. This technology can be implemented in form of organic farming for sustainable agriculture which is better solution for eco friendly approach.
Ahmed Makaoui, Aziz Agouzouk, Tarik Baibai, Mohammed Idrissi, Jamila Larissi, Ismail Bessa, Soukaina Obad, Omar Ettahiri and AlMustafa Ait Chattou et Karim Hilmi.
The South Atlantic region of Morocco Dakhla-Oued Eddahab is characterized by a permanent upwelling favouring an abundance of fishery resources and the presence of the Bay of Cintra favourable to aquaculture development. The proximity of these two systems allows them to be permanently influenced by the spatial variability of their marine hydrodynamics.
The South zone is a retention area for mineral enriched waters allowing for high primary productivity of its marine ecosystem. However, intakes of dissolved oxygen-deficient hot water from the south occur exceptionally from one year to the next due to the effect of global warming of the oceans and may have an impact on the ecosystem state of this area. The marine waters of the Atlantic coast are located at the entrance to the Bay of Cintra and can approach the coast at the heart of the bay and to the south by the tidal currents favouring the entry of mineral-rich waters producing an important planktonic richness of the bay.
Thus, the Bay of Cintra is described as a highly potential site for aquaculture regarding its important marine hydrodynamics on the one hand and its enrichment by very productive waters of the Moroccan South Atlantic zone.
Hanan Obaidallah Alharbi.
Background: The wife abuse is considered as an abnormal behavior but in certain countries its prevalence reaches 59%.
Objectives: To study the prevalence of physical wife abuse among teachers of intermediate schools in KSA.
Methods: A community based study among female teachers of KSA.A questionnaire was distributed among 322 female teachers of intermediate schools that consists of two parts including socioeconomic status and the issue of wife beating through questions about the methods, tools and causes of the beat.
Results: The majority of abused women were divorced, widowed, their husbands have more than one wife and living with husband only. The duration of marriage was 10.1?5.7 in abused group and 11.4?6 years in non-abused group. The overall prevalence of physical abuse was 21.6% with higher prevalence during the first year of marriage. The most common factors for physical abuse is jealous, followed by taking his mother opinion. About 51% of abused women thought that abuse is a way for improving the wife behavior. Most of subjects in both groups thought that abuse is pushing for divorce in 97.1% of abused group and 91.2% of non-abused group.
Conclusion: The overall prevalence of physical wives abuse was 21.6% indicating a sizable prevalence especially during the first year of marriage. The abuse was significantly associated with being educated, divorced, working or living with husband alone in addition to low education of husband. Also, being jealous was the most common factor for being abused. The women perception about divorce after abuse was very high.
Aman Arora, Viram Upadhyaya, Divya Malik and Kirti Rohilla.
Edentulism is a major health problem that not only affects the oral functions but also the social life, day to day activities, thereby, demeaning the overall quality of life. Therefore, all preventive measures possible should be taken to preserve any remaining tooth and efforts should be directed to return an individual to an idealized state of oral being. In this article, two such case reports are discussed where special technique sensitive denture fabrication is done to conserve the remaining teeth and surrounding alveolar bone, thereby increasing patient satisfaction.
Medhat M. Menshawy, Mohamed A. El Raey, Abdel Hamid A. Hamdy and Abdel Razik H. Farrag.
Background/Aim: Gastric ulcer is one of the most widespread gastrointestinal disorders resulting from weakness of a gastric mucosal defense. Several drugs are available to address ulcer; however, these drugs are associated with several side effects. Previous studies have confirmed the efficacy of herbal plants extracts for possible treatment of this disease. This research aims to evaluate the antiulcer properties of Terminalia laxiflora extracts. Methods: Water and its fractions, total methanol, dichloromethane, ethyl acetate, butanol extracts from the leaves of Terminalia laxiflora were evaluated for their antiulcer activity using aspirin as ulcerogen in rats. All administration was given one hour prior to aspirin. Macroscopic, hisopathological and histochemical examinations were performed the effect of these extracts on ulcer. Results: All extracts showed significant inhibitory activity. The percentages of inhibition for the different extracts equal to 54.21, 64.86, 61.71, 76.84, 75.92, 79.47, and 86.05 % for water 1, water 2, methanol, DCM, ethyl acetate, and butanol as compared to non-pretreated aspirin group. Butanol extract was found to possess remarkable ulcer-protective properties at 50 mg/kg when compare to other the other extracts. The effect of ulcer protection 86.05 % was produced and standard drug, Ranitidine, gave 81.57% of ulcer protection, respectively. Conclusion: We conclude that Terminalia laxiflora extracts are potential sources of new antiulcer agents.
Gollamudi Subbarao.
The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between perceived stress and coping strategies of secondary school students. Random sample of 198 government secondary school students were selected for the study. Psychometrically sound instruments to measure perceived stress scale developed by Cohen, Kamarck & Mermelstein (1983) and Coping strategies scale developed by Srivastava (2001). A correlational research design was used in the study. Results revealed that there is a positive and significant relationship between perceived stress and coping strategies of secondary school students. The study found perceived stress to be having a significant predictor and correlate of coping strategies of secondary school students. The results of the present study suggest that higher the level of perceived stress, the better the level of coping strategies.
Sanae El hadri, Lahoussaine Abainou and Hicham Baizri.
Les tumeurs malignes de la surrénale sont soit des tumeurs primitives : carcinomes corticosurrénaliens et phéochromocytomes malins, soit des tumeurs secondaires : localisations métastatiques surrénaliennes. Nous rapportons le cas d’une patiente ayant présenté un carcinome surrénalien associé à un carcinome mammaire. Ne pas prendre toute masse extra-surrénalienne en présence d’une tumeur maligne de la surrénale pour lésion secondaire, d’où l’intérêt d’une preuve histologique.
Subhash Sinhmar.
The present study was carried out to know the socio-economic profile of Scheduled Castes PRI\'s members in rural area of Haryana. With the help of stratified random sampling method 572 respondents (409 Panches, 69 Sarpanches, 72 Block Samities Members and 22 Zila Parishad Members were selected from the universe of the study. All the respondents are PRI\'s elected members, belongs to nine castes (Chamar, Ravidasiya Sikh, Majhabi Sikh, Balmiki, Dhanak, Odd, Sainsi, Bazigar, Kabir Panthi) of SC\'s. Chamar out of nine castes have high percentage of elected members as panch (35.3%), Sarpanch (5.4%), Block Samities (6.3%) and Zila Parishad (2.4%) in PRI\'s. In age group 40 to 49 years the respondents belong to the Chamar (13.5%), Balmiki (4.4%), Dhanak (1.9%), Ramdasiya Sikh (1.7%), Sainsi (1.6%) are in maximum numbers and Kabir Panthi (.7%) and Odd (.3%) are in minimum numbers. Chamar (2.1%) are highly UG passed and Odd (.3%), Ramdasiya Sikh, Balmiki (.2%) each are numerically low UG passed. Chamar (1.2%), Majhabi Sikh and Kabir Panthi (.2%) each having 8 to above agriculture land. Chamar (33.9%), Balmiki (14.3%), Ramdasiya Sikh ( 6.8%), Dhanak (4.7%), Sainsi (3.7%), and Kabir Panthi (.9%) have no agriculture land. No one have from the Caste Odd (.0%) having income up to 60000rs. In the income group 4 lakh and above, Chamar (2.4%) are the maximum and Dhanak, Kabir Panthi (.0%) each have no percentage in this group. Majority of the respondents i.e. approximately 50% were lived in Pakka house with separate toilet, bathroom and RCC roof in each castes from the selected sample. Chamar (1.6%) have TV, Freeze, Car, Bike, Ac in maximum numbers and Kabir Panthi have .2% minimum numbers. Ramdasiya Sikh, Majhabi Sikh, and Kabir Panthi have no one such these goodies in their home.
Zaddoug, Elgazoui, Bensaleh, Bnbouha, Ouzaa, Bennis, Benchekroun, Zine, Tanan and Jaafar.
Osteoidosteomais a benignbonetumor. A few cases of metacarpalosteoidosteoma have been reported, but the phalanges are the mostfrequent sites in the hand, followed by the carpalbones. We report a case of an osteoidosteoma of the right first metacarpalbone in a 32-year-old woman. The clinical and radiographicfindingsalongwith the pathologyresults are presented. At the 1 yearfollow-up therewasno evidence of recurrence. Finally, Osteoidosteoma of the metacarpalbonesshouldbeconsidered in the diagnosis of chronic pain in the hand of a young patient, presentingwith or without a history of previousinjury.
Y. Bhagyasri, N. Vinay reddy, M. Dattatrya, K. Divya and N. Siva Subramanian.
In this study, our focus is to evaluate the role of bioactive molecule present in the essential oil of Tridax procumbens L fresh leaves against bacterial and fungal species. The essential oil and flavonoids of Tridax procumbens L.? has a number of properties that are beneficial to human health and well being. It may be used in the pharmaceutical and cosmetic industries for the development of new drug formulation for treating bacterial and fungal infections and also for treating inflammation related diseases in a cheaper rate with fewer side effects. The results of study have shown that the ethyl acetate and ethanolic extracts obtained from the Tridax procumbens were active against at least one of the opportunistic fungi the results of this study have shown that the leaf and whole plant extraction of Tridax procumbens L.? Have great potential as antibacterial agents in the treatment of infectious organism. Further, detailed investigation of the active compounds of the plant for the extract mechanism of action will contribute greatly to the development new pharmaceuticals.
Ibrahima Diedhiou, Roger Bayala, Moustapha Diere Sagna and Papa Madiallacke Diedhiou.
Jatropha curcas is the priority species for biofuel promotion in Senegal. However the lack of knowledge on floral biology and fruiting of this plant remains a problem to increase its yield and improve farmers? adoption. The objectives of this study were to assess seasonal changes on flowering and fruiting of six accessions of J curcas in semi-arid area in Senegal. In this study the total number of inflorescences, flowers and fruits were evaluated during six months on four years old plants, installed in the Agricultural Engineering School of Thies. The results showed significant effect of factors (season, accession) and interaction between them on floral and fruiting traits of J. curcas. Due to more favorable climatic conditions, the performance of flowering is better in wet season. During this season, the number of male and female flowers ranged, respectively from 107.47?191.60 and from 2.47?11.87 per inflorescence. Consequently, ripe fruits production was higher in wet season and varied between 66 and 97% of the total production. Two peaks of flowering were observed; the first one occurred in dry season and the second, with the highest number of inflorescences, arrived in wet season. Fruiting patterns had highest concentration between September 15th and October 3rd. For biofuel production in semi-arid areas of Senegal, three accessions were identified due to high seed yields.
Nawaf M. O. S. Ali.
A paper explores properties, structure and characteristics of collagen. The molecule of this protein is an important part of connective tissues, bones, skin and the walls of blood vessel. The types of collagen and their structure are also discussed. Diseases and genetic defects that are connected with the problems of collagen synthesis in the human body are examined. Special attention is paid to the Marfan\'s syndrome as one of the most common diseases connected with collagen synthesis.
K. Iyyapparajan and P. Chinnadurai.
The level of knowledge and skills of the existing manpower and their level of commitment towards achieving corporate goals is the measure of critical distinctive competence of a firm. According to Thang (2009) human resource capital is a basic source to achieve competitive advantage. Human capital is neither duplicated nor bought in the market. Training can provide abilities, knowledge and skills that enhance individual performance and it ultimately leads towards organisational performance. Inadequate training policy may frustrate employees from meeting job expectations and encourage them to look for alternatives that foster employee development and success. In this connection, a research study has been undertaken to study the perception of the IOB officers towards training programmes offered by their bank. The research are discussed here.
T. R. Sobha, Ummukulsoom O. P and T. P Shabana.
Cassava, Manihot esculenta is primarily grown for its storage roots, which is edible. It is an important source of carbohydrate in the world. Beyond as a food source, cassava root can be used in various industries like production of plywood, bioethanol, paper, liquid glucose, sago flour etc. A study on the seasonal fluctuation in the population density of vegetable spider mite, Tetranychus neocaledonicus on the cassava was carried out from April, 2016 to March,2017 in Puthuparamba , Malappuram district of Kerala. Result of the study indicated that feeding injury of the spider mite to the cassava leaf was marked by appearance of chlorotic spots. Latter large chlorotic patches are formed by fusion of this spots. There by reducing the vigor of the plant. The population density of these mites was showing a rapid decline from April to June. Then from july onwards a gradual rise was observed. The average number of spider mites present per 1cm2 area of M. esculenta was 20.8. The effect of temperature, relative humidity, and rain fall on the population density of this mites were discussed in this paper. Temperature showed a positive correlation r = 0.944) with the population density of spider mites. Whereas relative humidity showed a negative correlation (r = -0.94). Rain fall also exerted a negative impact on population density of spider mite (r = -0.419).
Alshehri Shaker Hassan S, Alshehri and Hanan Hassan S.
Background: Osteoporosis is considered as a major worldwide health problem. Little is known about its definition, risk factors and prevalence in KSA.
Objectives: Evaluation of the knowledge and practice pattern of patients attending to orthopedic department in primary health care (PHC) centers in Riyadh.
Methods: This was a randomized descriptive study. A reliable questionnaire was distributed among 531 patients attending 40 PHC centers in Riyadh from January 2017 to March 2017.
Results: Sixty patients were rated as suffering from osteoporosis. The majority of them had college degree and were employed. Most of subjects had low knowledge score (68.7%). The practice score was good in only 31.5% of subjects with a high association between good knowledge and suffering from osteoporosis.
Conclusion: A substantial level of poor knowledge and practice was found among included subjects however good knowledge was associated with female gender and young age. Educational programs should be adopted allover KSA as the low KAP levels would result in improper application of preventive programs.
A. George maria selvam, R. Dhineshbabu and S. Britto jacob.
This paper investigates the dynamical behavior of a Fractional order Prey ? Predator interaction model. A discretization process is applied to obtain its discrete version. The fixed points are obtained and the stability properties are discussed.
Anamika Malav and Prahlad Dube.
Malnutrition is a big problem in India and other parts of the world. We can use various microbes for production of single cell protein to solve malnutrition problem. The scientists are trying this problem by using various microbes such as algae, bacteria, fungi and yeast. In the present paper, literature is surveyed and critically examined regarding SCP production.
Sri Sarjana, Dwi Kartini, Popy Rufaidah and Yunizar.
Competitive advantage as the impact of the implementation company operation strategy in creating value creation on the products and services produced. Cost leadership and differentiation for products or services into a strategic part in achieving competitive advantage. Competitive strategy becomes part of the corporate strategy led to increased productivity and performance. Resource-Based View is a part of the company\'s capability in encouraging superior competing. This study empirically investigates whether there is an effect resources based view, competitive strategy and competitive advantage. The results showed that resources based view are effective and positive direct effect on competitive strategy. Competitive strategy has effective and positive direct effect on competitive advantage. Moreover, this study demonstrated that the effect of competitive advantage is mediated by competitive strategy. This finding integrates insights competitive strategy framework into a generalization of the competitive advantage in industries. Furthermore, this research is expected to support for industry have valuable suggestions to effectiveness in competitive strategy and achieved the company?s goal especially in competitive advantage.
Farah Jabeen, Farha Aziz and Husan Afroz Rizvi.
The enormous majority of complex life on earth requires oxygen for its survival. Oxygen is an extremely reactive molecule that damages living organisms by producing reactive oxygen species leading to oxidative stress. Oxidative stress arrived from increasing amount of ROS or as a consequence of increased levels of lipid peroxides and free-radical intermediates, as well as the reduced total antioxidant capacity that may cause the reduction of molecular oxygen or oxidation of water to leads to the formation of free radicals that could damage cellular lipids, membranes, proteins and DNA (Rains et al, 2011). Living organisms have a complex network of antioxidant metabolites and enzymes that work mutually to prevent oxidative damage to cellular components Ido et al, 1997). Advanced oxidative stress and alterations in antioxidant potential, observed in both clinical and investigational diabetes mellitus. Alteration in oxidative stress biomarkers, including Catalase, superoxide dismutase, glutathione, glutathione reductase, glutathione peroxidase, antioxidant vitamins, lipid peroxidation, non enzymatic glycosylated proteins, are helpful in identifying the risk of developing vascular complications in diabetics.
Raju Bhowmik and Ajita Pathak.
Modern greenhouse environment monitoring application require wireless sensor nodes to monitor the parameters like temperature, humidity, soil moisture etc. These sensor nodes are embedded with limited power backup and equipped with limited computing and radio communication capabilities. Therefore it is necessary to reduce the energy consumption of these nodes and requirement of power efficient routing protocols arises. When a proper energy efficient protocol is applied to the wireless sensor network, the power consumption of these nodes can be reduced. In order to fulfill this purpose we have simulated the WSN model using QualNet with the help of AODV routing protocol and Time Division Multiplexing Access (TDMA) based MAC protocol, which is energy efficient as compared to other existing protocols.
Divya jyothi P, Praneetha P and Swaroopa Rani V.
Cadmium (Cd) is one of the most common heavy metal pollutant. It is accumulated particularly in liver and kidney. The aim of this work was to study the protective role of combined Selenium and methanolic extract of whole plant of Trichuriella monsoniae against Cd-induced liver toxicity. Male wister albino rats were divided into 9 groups of 4 each and route of administration selected for the study was oral daily for 21 days. Liver damage was induced by administration of Cadmium(5mg/kg CdCl2) and the hepatoprotective activity of the extract and Selenium was assessed on the basis of improvement in the altered levels of various serum biochemical parameters (alanine aminotransferase (ALT), aspartate aminotransferase (AST) alkaline phasphatase (ALP), Gamma-glutamyl transferase (GGT), total bilirubin (TB), direct bilirubin (DB), Cholesterol (CHOL), total proteins (TP) and albumin (ALB) and in the changes occurred in the histology of liver of rats taking Silymarin(100 mg/kg) as standard. Among all the 9 groups tested , the group treated with METM 250 mg/kg in combination with Selenium was found to be effective. The study revealed that the extract in combination with Selenium has shown better activity then the extract alone against Cd induced heptotoxicity in rats which may be attributed to the antioxidant activity of Selenium.
Lalitha R and Vidya R Chandavar.
The molecular study of mitochondrial 16S rRNA gene is the first comparative report showing molecular variations of the target gene between two freshwater terrapins- Lissemys punctata and Melanochelys trijuga. Partial 16S rRNA gene amplification was performed by hotstart PCR and sequences were acquired by bidirectional Sanger sequencing after column purification of amplicons. Interspecies comparison after sequence alignment of database species from two families along with query sequences revealed 54% (total 918 sites) conserved regions between the families and only 44% showed variations. Intraspecies conserved/variable regions were 1359/84 and 1404/42 sites out of 1696 total positions considered respectively. The presence of consensus regions among different species indicates the scope for developing universal primers to amplify the region in various species of turtles belonging to these families. Our results highlight that 16S rRNA sequences were successful in identifying and evaluating the species into their respective family Trionychidae and Geoemydidae. Hence, it is recommended to conduct similar study on these species in large numbers concentrating various geographical locations of Karnataka, India to curb wildlife crimes and conserve these species in the ecosystem.
V. Hemanth Kumar and P. V. Krishna.
Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei is one the most intensively cultivated shrimp in India as well as world. The recent experience in the development of large scale aquaculture venture has given rise to the opinion that the key to success in not the availability of adequate technology, but also efficient management. The present study reported that Litopenaeus vannamei in the brackish water shrimp ponds in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India. The study was conducted in three culture ponds (without probiotics) P1, P2, P3 and ponds (with probiotics) P1p, P2p and P3p of same size i.e. 0.5ha. The control ponds fed with experimental feed F1, F2 and F3 and the experimental ponds with soil, water and feed probiotics respectively. Feeding was done four times a day. The physico-chemical parameters were analyzed using standard methods. The rate of survival was better recorded in the probiotics treated ponds 84.5%, 80.4% and 79.8% than that of the non-probiotic ponds it is 73.4%, 69.8% and 67.5% only. The study observed the increased level of growth, production, survival and feed conversion ratio during the culture period. The results of the present study also revealed that the total haemocyte count and the total haemolymph protein were higher in probiotic fed Litopenaeus vannamei compared to without probiotic fed shrimp.
Prafull Patil and Prashant.M Pawar.
The present work deals with the effect of orientation on tensile, compression and impact properties on sisal fibers oriented composite. Tensile, Compression and impact tests are conducted for the composite and the results exhibit an enhancement in the structural property.in this work we will Develop the sisal fibers composite material like Box, Rod, and panels which are then used for low cost Hosing material as roof . By using epoxy chemical in fabrication of sisal fibers composite we get the hardness in that particular panel
N. Swathi.
Failure of a system may occur due to certain type of stresses acting on them. If these stresses do not exceed a certain threshold value the system may work for a long period. On the other hand, if the stresses exceed the threshold they may fail within no time. There is uncertainty about stress and strength random variables at any instant of time and also about the behavior of the variables with respect to time and cycles. Time dependent stress- strength models are considered with repeated application of stress and also the change of the strength with time. Reliability of time dependent stress- strength system is carried out by considering stress is random independent and strength is random- fixed . In this paper to find the reliability of finite mixture model where strength follow finite mixture of exponential distribution and stress follows exponential distribution.
Chanderjeet.
The reason of this study is to explore the procedures of organizational development and procedures of responsiveness as useful for executives of banking industry. Another reason of this study is to find out the perceptions of different employees about Organizational development .The organizational atmosphere is people?s observation and approach about the organization - whether it is good or bad place to work. Data was collected through personally administered questionnaires.
Mohamed Rachid Bensalah and Azelarab Bennis.
We report a case of a giant cell tumor (GCT) of rare localization, Developed at the expense of the tendon sheath of the long fibular tendon In a 45-year-old woman Who consults for a painful swelling below the cuboid bone. Treated with surgical excision, the diagnosis was confirmed by histology.
R. S. Wali, Basayya B. Mathad and Nirani Laxmi.
The authors introduced semi-regular weakly closed sets and semi-regular weakly open sets in topological spaces and established their relationships with some generalized sets in topological spaces. The purpose of this paper is to introduce semi-regular weakly continuous (briefly srw-continuous), semi-regular weakly irresolute (briefly srw-irresolute), perfectly semi-regular weakly continuous (briefly perfectly srw-continuous) and strongly semi-regular weakly continuous (briefly strongly srw-continuous) functions by using srw-closed and srw-open sets properties and also we discuss their basic properties.
Nibedita Samal, Monalisa Pattnaik and Patitapaban Mohanty.
Introduction: Impairments in the upper extremity in CP may include muscle tone abnormality, imbalance between agonist and antagonist group of muscles, spasticity, alignment problem, decreased strength and impaired motor control. The combination of these primary impairments has been targeted for various rehabilitation strategies in Physical therapy. Aim of the study is to find out the effect of neuromuscular electrical stimulation on wrist extensors to improve hand function in spastic cerebral palsy children.
Methodology: The selected subjects were randomly assigned in to experimental and control groups with 15 subjects each. Experimental group received task oriented exercises along with neuromuscular electrical stimulation on wrist extensors for 6 weeks. The control group received only task oriented exercises. Total duration of treatment is 30 minutes per day given 5 days in a week for 6 weeks.
Results: Result of the study showed that both the control and experimental group improved their hand function. However the experimental group showed better changes as compared to the control group.
Conclusion: The study demonstrated that the combined effect of neuromuscular electrical stimulation along with task oriented exercises are beneficial for improving hand function in spastic cerebral palsy children.
Zachariah Thomas.
Background: Autopsy is an important tool in the investigation of maternal death. It provides valuable information about pathophysiological changes in various organs which may be important in the delineation of the sequence of events leading to maternal death.The present study was conducted at Department of forensic medicine, Government Medical College, Thiruvananthapuram,Kerala during 1995 January to April 2003.The circumstances which lead to medico legal autopsy in maternal deaths were , cases either brought dead to casualty , referred due to obstetrical complications from distant hospitals, and allegations of medical negligence in the care and management by relatives which later turn into a medico legal case..
Aim:
1. To detect the spectrum of causes leading to maternal death subjected to medico legal autopsy
2. To identify the direct causes of maternal deaths
3. To suggest measures to prevent maternal deaths
Materials and methods: Sixty-five cases brought for Medico legal autopsy during the period from January1995 to April 2003 were included in the present retrospective/ prospective study.
Result: 31 cases (48%) of
DOI: 10.21474/IJAR01/4686