460 research outputs found
A clinical study on Pandu Roga, iron deficiency anemia, with Trikatrayadi Lauha suspension in children
No full textContext: Nutritional iron deficiency is the most common cause of anemia in India. The nearest correlation of iron deficiency anemia (IDA) can be made with Pandu Roga in Ayurveda. As the IDA is a very common prevalent disease in the society and the side effects of oral allopathic iron preparations are very common, therefore to get a better alternative, an Ayurvedic herbomineral medicine, the Trikatrayadi Lauha, was subjected to a clinical trial in children suffering from IDA. Aim: Evaluation of safety and efficacy of the compound Trikatrayadi Lauha suspension in children with IDA. Settings and Design: Randomized, double-blind placebo-controlled clinical study. Materials and Methods: The study was conducted on 123 children of IDA for a period of 10 weeks. Clinical features and hematological parameters were documented before, during and after treatment. Statistical Analysis Used: Observations of the study were analyzed and findings were evaluated by using statistical methods (Student′s t test) Results: The present study shows that the trial drug Trikatrayadi Lauha suspension is effective to improve clinical features and hematological parameters significantly. The medicine is effective to increase the hemoglobin level 1.94 g/dL (8.52 -10.46 g/dL, P < 0.001) in 5 weeks and 3.33g/dL (8.52 -11.85g/dL, P < 0.001) in 10 weeks. No adverse effect of the trial drug was observed during the study. Conclusions: The results suggest that Trikatrayadi Lauha is significantly effective in the management of IDA in children
A.K.Chandra - An obituary
No full textAsish Kumar Chandra, the distinguished quantum chemist, passed away at his home due to a cardiac arrest on 30 October 1999.Chandra was born in Shibpur, West Bengal, in 1935. He had his early education in B. K. Pal High School, Shibpur and did his Intermediate at the Surendranath College, Calcutta. He took M.Sc. from the University College of Science at Calcutta and Ph D from the Calcutta University. He got his Ph D in 1961 under the supervision of Sadhan Basu
Experiments with Point Placement Algorithms and Recognition of Line Rigid Graphs
No full textThe point placement problem is to determine the position of n distinct points on a line, up to translation and reflection by fewest possible pairwise adversarial distance queries. This masters thesis focusses on two aspects of point placement problem. In one part we focusses on an experimental study of a number of deterministic point placement algorithms and an incremental randomized algorithm, with the goal of obtaining a greater insight into the behavior of these algorithms, particularly of the randomize algorithm. The pairwise distance queries in the point placement problem creates a type of graph, called point placement graph. A point placement graph G is dened as line rigid graph if and only if the vertices of G has unique placement on a line. The other part of this thesis focusses on recognizing line rigid graph of certain class based on structural property of an arbitrarily given graph. Layer graph drawing and rectangular drawing are used as key idea in recognizing line rigid graphs
The point placement problem in an inexact model and its applications
No full textIn the recent years, due to the advancement in computational tools and techniques to analyze the biological data, biologists have been actively engaged in conducting different experiments to study the arrangements of nucleotide sequence in a chromosome. This masters thesis focuses on the area of the computational methods for the genomic map problem. Though the probe location problem under consideration is known to be NP complete, it is possible to obtain approximate solutions. The distance geometry approach for achieving efficient and better results is shown here. This also solves the point placement problem when the available distance bounds on some probe pairs, correspond to adversarial responses to distance queries between some pairs of points. DGPL program has also been implemented to construct a probe map. Finally some chosen results from the experiments and their significance have been discussed. The screenshots of the working of DGPL algorithm have been attached for better understanding
A new idea for broad band reflector and tunable multichannel filter of one dimensional symmetric photonic crystal with magnetized cold plasma defects
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Kandha Women of Odisha: Mapping Social World and their Association with Forest
No full textCompensatory afforestation is the rehabilitation of forest to compensate for the loss of forestland that has been diverted for non-forest use. The Forest Conservation Act (FCA) 1980 defined compensatory afforestation as “afforestation done in lieu of the diversion of forest land for non-forest use”. In India, to use forest land for non-forest purposes like industrial establishment, mining, infrastructure facilities, and other development initiatives, the users must undertake compensatory afforestation in an equal area of non-forestland or twice the area in the degraded forestland. The user agencies have to pay the monetary cost of the “net present value (NVP” of diverted forest land and rehabilitation expenditures. The forest department determines the cost of the diverted forest land. A “compensatory afforestation fund management authority (CAMPA” receives and manages such funds and regulates forest regeneration activities under the supervision of the forest department. However, both the central and state governments have permitted enormous amounts of forest land for non-forest purposes over the years. In comparison, non-forest or degraded forest land is scarcely available to offset the provisions of compensatory afforestation. As a result, the forest department is intruding on Adivasi land to utilise the CAMPA fund. Such land includes Patta land, podu (shifting cultivation) land, pastureland, community land, common land, and potential CFR rights areas. These are the principal capitals of tribal communities in the hilly areas, and they are vital to their survival. A study was conducted in two tribal villages of the Kandhamal district to examine the effect of compensatory afforestation. Group discussions and unstructured interviews were conducted to collect the data. The compensatory afforestation has affected the villager’s livelihood and limited their access to the forest. Furthermore, it impacts the villager’s forest rights and subsistenc
Significance of gingers (Zingiberaceae) in Indian System of Medicine - Ayurveda: An overview
No full textBackground: Family Zingiberaceae consists of the large number of medicinal plants and is well-known for its use in ethnomedicine and play a major role in Indian System of Medicine, Ayurveda.
Objective: The aim of this study is the documentation of Zingiberaceous plants used in Ayurveda, adding information to the systematics, vernacular names and chemistry with experimental data.
Materials and Methods: The live plants were collected from wild and successfully conserved at Herbal Garden of Arya Vaidya Sala, Kottakkal. The experimental data of each species has been collected from the various sources. The photographs were taken and all relevant data documented.
Results and Conclusion: A total of 13 species belonging to 7 genera of Zingiberaceae were documented. The work will be useful to students and researchers as it provides an easy access to Zingiberaceous plants used in Ayurveda
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