39 research outputs found
THE PASSAGE: Enquiry into the Ephemeral Absence of Social Construct During Transitions
No full text“In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.” ― William Blake. This thesis support paper presents my artistic research on the ephemeral nature of absence in social constructs while relocating myself to new places. I am interrogating a fluid positionality that is continuously shifting, leading me to contextualise the research stance in the between and betwixt of Passage. I am examining the experience of passing from one place, condition, or stage to another and highlight the in-between space made visible through artwork produced with various methods and processes. Throughout, absence is indicated via aesthetics, materiality, and immateriality pointing to subtle boundaries between play and seriousness, the real and imaginary, the ephemeral and permanent. Themes of travel, constraint, absence, liminality, and human consciousness are explored through performative installations, architectural spaces, and different degrees of audience participation. The research generates a dialogue between performance, space, and time which involves bodily experience, live actions with mixed media installations, and time-based works. The choice of media and symbols revolve around various conceptual ideas inspired by academic and non-academic sources — contemporary art, spiritual texts, psychology, lucid visions while meditating — which become the artistic expression's metaphorical core. Anchoring in an auto-ethnographic methodology of resisting mastery, the research was conducted by allowing space for unknowns to reveal their contours through silent being and doing by not doing
Securing Communication in MANET through E-GAMAN Algorithm
No full textMANET consists of mobile nodes that are in radio reach of one. Each of the nodes has a wireless interface to correspond with one another. All networking functions, for example, routing and data transmission, are performed by nodes themselves in an organizing toward oneself way. Because of these reasons, securing communication in MANET is extremely difficult. In this study, we proposed an improved QoS routing algorithm for MANETs called E-GAMAN. The proposed methodology has two algorithms: SSRA and GAMAN. Simulation results show that E-GAMAN algorithm has a great execution and is a guaranteeing algorithm for QoS routing in MANET
The development of latent fingerprints by zinc oxide and tin oxide nanoparticles prepared by precipitation technique
No full textA prospective, randomized, open-label study to compare the efficacy and safety of metformin versus metformin and fluoxetine in patients of type 2 diabetes mellitus with mild depression
No full textBackground: Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and depression often occur together, increasing morbidity and mortality. While metformin shows potential antidepressant effects, its comparative efficacy and safety versus metformin-fluoxetine (MF) combination in T2DM patients with mild depression required further study.
Methods: This prospective, randomized, open-label study involved 60 patients (18-65 years) with T2DM and mild depression (HDRS 8-13) over 90 days. Group A received metformin 500 mg twice daily (n=30), while group B received metformin 500 mg twice daily plus fluoxetine 40 mg daily (n=30). Primary outcomes included glycemic parameters (FPG, HbA1c) and depression scores (HDRS, CGI). Safety, quality of life, and compliance were also assessed.
Results: Baseline parameters were comparable between groups. Both groups showed highly significant improvements (p<0.001) in glycemic control and depression scores. Over 60 days, group A showed 20% HDRS improvement versus group B’s 10%; CGI-I was 3.33% in A versus 0% in B. By 90 days, HDRS improvement was 100% in group A versus 93.33% in B, while CGI-S and CGI-I improvements were 100% for both groups. No significant intergroup differences were observed for efficacy (p>0.05). Expected adverse effects were lower with metformin (28.33%) versus fluoxetine therapy (66.67%), all mild. Both groups demonstrated highly significant (p<0.001) QOL improvement and good compliance (≥85%).
Conclusions: Both treatments effectively improved glycemic control and depression symptoms. Metformin monotherapy demonstrated comparable efficacy and safety to the combination therapy of metformin and fluoxetine for managing mild depression in T2DM patients
Psammocarcinoma of ovary with serous cystadenofibroma of contralateral ovary: a case report
No full textAbstract Introduction Psammocarcinoma of ovary is a rare serous neoplasm characterized by extensive formation of psammoma bodies, invasion of ovarian stroma, peritoneum or intraperitoneal viscera, and moderate cytological atypia. Extensive medlar search showed presence of only 28 cases of psammocarcinoma of ovary reported till date. Case presentation We herein report a case of psammocarcinoma of ovary with serous cystadenofibroma of contralateral ovary in a 55 year old Asian Indian female. Conclusion To the best of author's knowledge, ours is the rare case describing coexistence of this very rare malignant serous epithelial tumor with a benign serous cystadenofibroma of contralateral ovary.</p
Context Specific Lexicon for Hindi Reviews
No full textAbstractIn the era of social networking, immense amount of posts, comments and tweets generated every second are increasing the size of social database. The analysis of this voluminous data is necessary for exploring the orientation of people's opinion about a particular entity. Most of the online data are in English language, but due to increase in technology and improved awareness of people, the online data available in Indian languages are gradually increasing. Sentiment analysis of English language alone is not sufficient to know the inclination of people towards an entity, other Indian language sentiment analysis is a must, their contribution is also important for us. The available sentiment classification lexicon resources like Hindi SentiWordNet are generic in nature and hence results in average sentiment classification accuracy due to contextual dependency. To improve the sentiment classification accuracy, we present an improvised lexicon resource for Hindi language for Hotel and Movie domains. The improvised polarity lexicon has been built reflecting context sensitivity and to increase coverage it has been expanded used synonyms based approach. The built polarity lexicon resource showcases an improvement in accuracy of 42% and 78% in Movie and Hotel domain, respectively, compared to the existing Hindi SentiWordNet lexicon resource
Ensemble model using hybridization of angles and distances for emotion recognition (HADER)
No full text<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family: "Times New Roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-ansi-language: EN-IN;mso-fareast-language:EN-IN;mso-bidi-language:AR-SA" lang="EN-IN">Alcoholate derivatives of bimetallic [Sn(IV),Al(III)] -μ-oxoisopropoxy acetate and -μ-oxoisopropoxide</span>
No full text883-885<span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:
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font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-in;mso-fareast-language:en-in;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-IN">Bu2Sn(OAc)OAI(OPri)2[I] and Bu2SnO2AI2
(OPri)4 [II] has been carried out with cyclic
alcohols, viz., cyclopentanol (CyPH), cyclohexanol (CyHxH) and cycloheptanol
(CyHpH). The isopropoxy replacement reactions of these compounds I and <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:
normal">II with cyclic alcohol yield compounds of the type Bu2Sn(OAc)OAI(OPri)2-n Ln
(where n=1 or 2) and Bu2Sn(OAc)OAI(OPri)4-n Ln <span style="font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:" times="" new="" roman";mso-fareast-font-family:"times="" roman";="" mso-ansi-language:en-in;mso-fareast-language:en-in;mso-bidi-language:ar-sa"="" lang="EN-IN">(where
n= 1 to 3) (L= deprotonated anion of cyclic alcohol). The novel compounds have
been characterised on the bas is of IR. 1H NMR, 13C NMR, 119Sn
NMR and 27 AI NMR.</span
