August 2015

  1. Seema Puri and Deepika Anand
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    This paper analyses the level of malnutrition among women and children from disadvantaged groups in India. In India, economic productivity has increased and impressive efforts have been made in nutrition interventions, but significant improvement in nutritional status has not accompanied these advances. While aggregate levels of undernutrition are shockingly high, the picture is further exacerbated by the significant inequalities across states and socioeconomic groups – girls, rural areas, the poorest and scheduled tribes and castes are the worst affected –and these inequalities appear to be increasing. Often it is found and reported that people belonging to schedule caste, schedule tribes or other backward classes fall prey to “social exclusion” which prevents them to gain access to government services and programmes. This further worsens their health and nutritional status. The paper thus, analyses the magnitude of problem and highlights policy recommendations to address the discrimination and promote “social inclusion” in nutrition programmes.

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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    294
  2. Dr. Puguh Riyanto, Dr. Prasetyowati Subchan and Rosa Lelyana and MsiMed
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    Background: Acne vulgaris (AV) is a skin disorder that most often encountered, nearly 80% of teenagers and young adults had suffered from AV, its pathogenesis is not clear, but some studies have shown that dihydrotestosterone (DHT) is the androgen that is most responsible, especially in women, there is a correlation between DHT by the number of lesions. Soy tempeh contains soy isoflavones with the active component genistein, daidzein and glycitein, consumption in Asian countries four times more than in western countries, with the average of 24-45 mg per day. Soy isoflavones play a role in the metabolism of androgens, which inhibit the enzyme 3SS-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (3SS-HSD), 17ß-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (17ß-HSD) and 5α-reductase, whereas as antiinflammatory, which inhibits pro-inflammatory cytokines. The purpose of this study demonstrate the effect of soy tempeh on AV lesions in female patients. Methods: This study is a clinical study design with randomized pretest-posttest control group design, with 25 samples were randomized into 5 groups: soy tempeh 100 gr, 200 gr, 300 gr, 400 gr, and placebo, for 4 weeks, conducted a double-blind manner. Results: The study found differences in the mean total AV lesions before treatment among the five groups (p : 0.259) or not significant (p>0.05), whereas after treatment (p : 0.001) or significant (p<0.05). Differences decrease in the mean total AV lesion before and after the inter-group obtained soy tempeh 400 gr group (p < 0.05 ), while the placebo, 100 gr, 200 gr, 300 gr not significant (p>0.05), and the difference in total lesion AV delta (p:0.001) or significant (p<0.05). Conclusion: This study of soy tempeh supplementation 400 gr/day can lower total AV lesion.

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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    296
  3. Ahmed A. Torad, Wadida H. Abd El Kader, Marwa S. Saleh, Mona M. Torad
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    Objective: To test the validity and reliability of arabic-language version of the knee injury and osteoarthritis outcome score physical function short form to measure the physical function in knee osteoarthritic patients. Method: Sixty nine patients with knee osteoarthritis (bilateral osteoarthritis considered 2 cases) were recruited and 150 sheets (test and retest sheets) were filled out and three expert panels (each consists of ten experts) participated in this study, forward translation, development of preliminary initially translated version, backward translation, development of the pre-final version and testing of pre-final version using experts then testing of the final version on patients was done. Clarity index, expert proportion of clearance, index of content validity, expert proportion of relevance, descriptive statistics, missed item index, Cronbach’s alpha and Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient were used for statistical analysis. Results: The study showed that scale index of clarity equals 100%, scale-level clarity index universal agreement equals 100%, scale index of content validity equals 97.14%, scale-level content validity index universal agreement equals 71%, the scale items were filled by 99.4% in all sheets, the scale needed less than five minutes to answer in about 99% all sheets, Cronbach's alpha equals 0.848 (0.789, 0.896) and all Spearman’s correlations between test and retest results were statistically significant. Conclusion: Arabic-language version of the knee injury and osteoarthritis outcome score physical function short form is valid and reliable enough to measure the physical function in knee osteoarthritic patients.

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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  4. VENODHA, P. M.
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    Cities need to become smarter by becoming more sustainable, more efficient and more livable. Information technology is helpful in making the city smarter. Smart cities are based on eight pillars comprises of buildings, energy, water, recycling, healthcare, mobility, services and finance. This paper focuses mainly on energy, environment and infrastructure which include all the eight pillars. The key drivers in smart city in terms of energies are maintaining grids reliability and stability, improving energy efficiency across the value chain, integrating intermittent CO2 free energy and intelligent energy storage. Smart infrastructure in smart cities are sensor networks, digital management of water and waste management, resources awareness, green buildings, renewable energy integration, intelligent building management. Environment of smart cities must have smart education, smart mobility, smart health care, smart governance, smart citizens and technology. Smart water for smart cities i.e.) water sustainability which means ability to manage and provide good quantity and quality of water for smart citizens These concepts all together helps in asset management of large urban system, optimal management of resources, safety improvement, develop innovation and technologies for quality of life [1]. The safety and convenience as well as environment are considered in the concept of infrastructure.

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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    311
  5. James Mountstephens and Balvinder Kaur Kler
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    This paper describes early progress in novel, interdisciplinary work that applies concepts and methods from Computer Vision to the development of a visual model of restorative scenes. Such a model has the potential to both enhance Attention Restoration Theory (ART) and to find numerous practical applications in the design and synthesis of living spaces and visual artefacts. To explore the feasibility of a visual model of restorative scenes, a comparison between known human gaze patterns and an exclusively bottom-up computational model of attention was performed. Similarities were found, providing evidence for a key claim of ART. Visual Models were then developed with 3 different motivations: i) biological plausibility, ii) a concern for model interpretability, and iii) a hypothesis that more abstract scene properties such as complexity and information content are responsible for fascination and restoration. Image datasets rated by humans for restorative potential were developed and used to construct and test these models and encouraging results were found. This work is the first to combine Computer Vision and Environmental Psychology and it is hoped that further collaborations are inspired.

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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    314
  6. Swapnil Shrivastava
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    Nowadays tourism is a sustainable means for economic prosperity in macro and micro levels all over the world. Moreover, tourism produces benefits i.e. small and medium-sized enterprises development, creation of new jobs, improvement of infrastructure etc. An area of study related to cultural tourism and the role of festivals in the creation of opportunities for community orientated events and festivals is focusing for the literature research. Tourism can positively contribute to the maintenance of a natural environment by protecting, creating or maintaining national parks or other protected areas. This paper focuses on the tourism sector and its impacts on the economy, environment, politics and the socio-cultural being of the host community. The well-organized and managed economic impacts by host communities on the host community are the main aim of this research to highlight.

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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    316
  7. Laxminadh, M. GSVRK Choudary, Dr. Padmaja Rani, G., Ch Sivasankara Rao, and Ravi Kumar, G.
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    The selection of suitable chelating agent for particular ferrite composition becomes critical in attaining an optimum particle size with a precise control. Since the increase in viscosity and prevention of cation segregation due to addition of chelating agent and the nature of cat-ions play crucial role in controlling the particle size. In this view nano crystalline Ni0.65Zn0.35Fe2O4 ferrites have been synthesized by sol-gel technique using PVA and PEG as chelating agents at different annealing temperatures. The heat treated samples were characterized by X-ray diffraction, FT IR spectra, transmission electron microscopy and VSM. The impact of chelating agents on the crystallite size, particle size, and saturation magnetization at different annealing temperatures has been studied as part of investigation. FT IR spectra reveal the presence of PVA and PEG in the ferrite samples up to 6000C.

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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    318
  8. Mayilvaganan, M. and Vanitha, P.
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    The aim of this research work, focus meteorological data to analyses the monsoon seasons between twelve months to cluster the weather data based on Longitudinal and Latitudinal which can be used to analyze by the collection of Temperature, Humidity, Rainfall and Cyclone. In this research, Naïve Bayes Classification can be predicted the Meteorological condition of the region based on the cyclone and the humidity level in seasonally. It provides specific services for assessment of pollution impacts from various industries and thermal power plants. The atmospheric correlations play a significant role in determining the climate trends which are crucial in understanding the short and long-term trends in climate.

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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    319
  9. Roja, E. and Dr. Suresh
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    An acrylic model of upper left anterior teeth(11,12,13),lower anterior(41,42,31), lower right posterior teeth (44,45,46)and lower left posterior(34,35,36) was prepared in typhodont with the standard set of burs which is suitable for ceramic preparation was used to achieve the controlled tooth substance removal.The preparation featured a 1.5mm occlusal height reduction, a 1mm of chamfer ended margin and an axial reduction of 1.5mm SPRAYING AND DIGITILIZATION: A totally 12 prepared tooth placed in the typhodont with the normal adjacent teeth and the typhodont mounted on the fantam head after mounting, sparying were done in all surface of tooth (labial,lingual,mesial,distal) including occulsal surface and tooth were equally sectioned in two halves in a horizontal direction using cardamom disc. After dissection sony digital SLR camera are choosen to take photos of sparyed tooth of each surfaces and this RGB images are converted into grayscale by using gray scale photo effect generator .After converting the image where thickened spray areas were appeared dark and thinner portions of the spray appear lighter so those converted images are kept at constant 66.7% magnification and measured as inches using klonk image measurement application.and thereby measuring pixel density of the thinner and thicker portions of the prepared tooth surface using pixel density calculator .Calculating the diagonal resolution in pixels using the Pythagorean theorem:

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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    321
  10. Asokan, C. and Shehu, S.
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    The BC3H1 smooth muscle cells of mice brain, BC3H1 is a permanent cell line derived from a mouse brain tumor. When these cells become quiescent, they express the muscle form of creatine phosphokinase, myokinase, the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, as well as smooth muscle a-actin, all indicative of a muscle phenotype. This is important in relation to the activity of membrane proteins, because losing the activity of such systems will ultimately lead to malfunction or death of the cell. The interactions of Serum Amyloid A (SAA) and Serum Amyloid A protofibrils with BC3H1 cells of the mouse are dealt with in detail to study the binding of SAA protofibrils in various onditions. The induced fluorescence, induced circular dichroism, FACScan and MTT assay results have shown the SAA and SAA prototfibrils binding and cell toxicity with the BC3H1 cells with different concentrations of alphaB-Crystallin 0.15-15 nM. Specifically, cells were incubated with 1.25-6.25 M SAA-FITC and SAA protofibrils-FITC assayed. The 50% viable BC3H1 cells at 4–6 M with an LD50 of 3.5 M. The interaction of serum amyloid A fibrils with a cell surface binding site/receptor might alter the local environment to cause cellular dysfunction and to be more favorable for amyloid formation. In the present study, concluding that the SAA fibrils and SAA protein binding and cell cytotoxicity was reduced in the presence of alphaB-Crystallin.

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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    323
  11. Regha, S. and Dr. Manimekalai, M.
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    Due to the advent of new technologies, devices, and communication means like social networking sites, the amount of data produced by mankind is growing rapidly every year. The amount of data produced by us from the beginning of time till 2003 was 5 billion gigabytes. If you pile up the data in the form of disks it may fill an entire football field. The same amount was created in every two days in 2011, and in every ten minutes in 2013. This rate is still growing enormously. Though all this information produced is meaningful and can be useful when processed, it is being neglected.90% of the world’s data was generated in the last few years. Big data means really a big data, it is a collection of large datasets that cannot be processed using traditional computing techniques. Big data is not merely a data, rather it has become a complete subject, which involves various tools, technqiues and frameworks.Hadoop is an open-source framework that allows to store and process big data in a distributed environment across clusters of computers using simple programming models. It is designed to scale up from single servers to thousands of machines, each offering local computation and storage.

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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    326
  12. Ar. Ashish Sharma
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    In modern days the infrastructure of a country defines its true development, thus making construction sector more prominent. Countries like India are thus solemnly dependent on its construction sector for its rapid development. World-wide there are various building evaluation tools that focus on different areas of sustainable development and are designed for different types of projects. This research attempts to understand the various Green building rating system assessment criteria that need to be considered during comparison. Finally based on comparative study an attempt is made to recommend one unique rating system which will cover each and every aspect required for assessment and certification for any green building. This system would be comparatively less complex and able to provide the necessary perception about the project with ease. The construction industries are known to be the pioneer of a country’s development. In 21st century, one of the major challenges faced by mankind is that of global climate change, which has highly alerted to the concern for conservation of nature. In a way, making environmental sustainability to be of much more importance in actual execution of work is the focus.

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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    329
  13. Siva Prasad, P., Dr. MadhusudhanaRao, D. and Srinivasa Rao, G.
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    In this paper we made a study on prime po-radicals in partially ordered ternary semiring and characterized these ideals. Mathematics Subject Classification: 16Y30, 16Y99.

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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    337
  14. Asifa Qureshi, Smita Pal, Saheli Ghosh, Atya Kapley and Hemant J Purohit
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    Antifouling refers to the process of control of fouling which occurs on liquid-solid surfaces. The term ‘fouling’ indicates an undesirable natural succession process during biofilm formation, in which a submerged surface or membranes becomes encrusted with material from the surrounding environment. It mainly involves microorganisms and their by-products developed on the surface by conditioning, attachment, biofilm formation followed by colonization. The accumulation of micro and macrofoulers on immersed structures results in economic as well as environmental losses. It is one of the major vulnerable problems currently disturbing many ecological niches as well as in shipping and other industrial aquatic processes. The existence of natural antifouling agents or biomaterials provides sustainable eco-friendly control and hence remains a challenge for future researchers. The use of biological tools for control of fouling is gaining importance day by day.

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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    341
  15. David Joseph and Sandeep Rana
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    Measurement and control of surface roughness are important in many fields, such as magnetic media, semiconductor processing and optics. Typical roughness measurements are performed using stylus profilers, non-contact optical profilers, or scanning probe microscopes (SPM).An experimental approach for surface roughness evaluation based on the speckle pattern imaging has been attempted in this work by a simple configuration of setup consisting of laser, laboratory spectrometer, Beam Expander and CCD camera. The speckle image is processed by imageJ software and the surface parameters like skewness, kurtosis, histogram and correlation has been determined. The technique reported here has a great potential for precise and non-contact optical measurement of rough surfaces. (Akinoro Mouri et al., 2002). The present study focuses on diffuse scattering and the corresponding speckle patterns obtained at different angles in the range 820 to 870 with an increment of one degree. Standard glass slides used as surfaces were imprinted with and without fingerprints in an attempt to study the influence of patterns. A correlation function (R) is defined for values of skewness, Kurtois and standard Deviations with and without finger prints for the same angles.

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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    347
  16. Dr. Tanna, J.A., Dr. Patil, V.R. and Dr. Rana, N.M.
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    Knowledge of normal organ weights gives the doctors idea about of whether the organ is normal or not. So, it is very important for autopsy surgeons to know the organ weights. But, Organ weights probably depend on part on body weight of the individual. So, current study was undertaken at Mortuary complex of S.S.G. Hospital, Baroda during 1st July 2013 to 30th June 2015. Total 200 cases based on inclusion and exclusion criteria were selected and subjected to statistical analysis. Results obtained were compared with earlier studies. Right lung weight and Left Lung weight was noted to be 0.89% – 0.68% and 0.86% – 0.65% of body weight respectively, which is lower than the textbooks. This type of variations demands another research.

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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    348
  17. Hariharasudhan, S. and Kalaiarasu, S.
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    The performance of salt tolerant mutant BGR CN-6M was better than BGR CN-7M and their wild parents and also reference strain, BGR AU-1 in acid soil. The inoculation of BGR CN-6M to blackgram in acid soil significantly increased the growth parameters such as plant height and dry matter production and yield parameters such as number of branches plant-1, number of pods plan-1, number of dusters plant-1, test weight and grain yield at all levels of N tested. The acid tolerant mutant rhizobial BGR CN-6M can be used as a potential biofertilizer for blackgram grown in salt soil of Cuddalore and Nagapattinam districts of Tamil Nadu under rainfed condition with moderate level of nitrogen i.e. 10 kg N ha-1 which is 50 % of recommended dose. The application of rhizobial biofertilizer helps inreducing the fertilizer by 50 % (10 kg N ha1) and the input cost by nearly 20 per cent. Besides the yield ofblackgram significantly improved in salt soil.

    Pub. Date: August 31, 2015
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    10578
  18. Muruganandam, C.
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    An investigation was conducted to study the effect of graded levels of nitrogen and Azospiriilum on growth and yield of Ashgourd (Benincasa hispida cogn.) cv.CO-1" was taken up in a new area, vegetable unit, Annamalai University, Annamalainagar during 2014- 2016. The mineral nutrient nitrogen was applied at 5 levels viz., 30, 45, 60, 75 and 90 kg ha"1 and Azospiriilum was applied in two levels [with Azospiriilum (At and without Azospiriilum (Ao)] and totally there were ten treatment combinations in three replications and the experiment was laid out in Randomized block design (RBD). The results of this experiment revealed that the plots that received combined application of nitrogen 75 kg ha-1 along with of Azospirillum -@ 2 kg ha-1 of soil evinced better performance on the growth attributes like, vine length, number of primary Branches, number of leaves per vine, leaf area, leaf area index, days to first female flowering, number of female flowers per vine, sex ratio, number of fruits per vine, fruit length, fruit girth, fruit weight, fruit yield

    Pub. Date: August 30, 2015
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