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Invitro Antioxidant Activity of Siddha Herbomineral Formulation Muthu Parpam
No full textTraditional medicines are recently gaining worldwide acceptance due to its health promotive and rejuvenating approach, less side effects, cost effectiveness and easy availability. Muthu parpam is a Siddha Herbo mineral formulation derived from marine mollusc pinctada. The traditional way of describing an antioxidant is a holistic medicine which has the ability to arrest/ delay ageing and age-related disorders and rejuvenating or revitalizing the functional body systems as a whole. Muthu Parpam is one such formulation in traditional Siddha text Theran tharu and has also been indicated in Siddha formulary of India-Part-1 a compendium of Siddha formulations The gem pearl (Muthu) has been indicated for a variety of acute and chronic diseases like otorrhoea, otitis media, asthma, diabetes, eye diseases, piles and urinary diseases and various neuro muscular diseases. Since most diseases and its complications are free radicals mediated and various scientific papers confirm the fact that administration of pearl powder causes substantial increase in antioxidant levels and suppresses the lipid peroxidation products that causes diseases, we have evaluated the antioxidant activity of Muthu parpam, a calcined ash of pearl gem through our present study
Sea Cage Farming – Success Story: Muthu Manikam Puthukudi village Ramanathapuram
No full textSea Cage Farming – Success Story of Muthu Manikam in Puthukudi village, Ramanathapuram, Tamil Nad
Evaluation of the Water Footprint of the Use and Maintenance of Buildings. Application to Dwellings in Andalusia, Spain
No full textConstruction companies can both achieve financial success and reduce the environmental impacts of projects by carefully managing project budgets and simultaneously considering economic cost and environmental impacts. However, during their use and maintenance, buildings incur ramifications that go beyond their construction, which can be equally as significant. In this work, the water footprint (WF) of the maintenance-and-use stage of buildings is evaluated based on the information in the budgets of the construction projects. To this end, the computational tool PREDICE is employed. This tool forecasts indirect environmental impacts, by quantifying embodied impacts in construction materials and machinery from its life cycle analysis. This chapter also evaluates the direct impacts derived from the water consumption of the occupants based on reported data. This chapter explores residential building construction in Andalusia, Spain, using the construction cost database and work breakdown system of the region. The construction project, specifically its bill of quantities, is analysed to predict maintenance tasks throughout its life cycle. Ninety-five maintenance work units and their cost are defined and integrated in the PREDICE tool. Two actual projects are studied: a private single-family dwelling and a 10-storey multi-family building that provides social housing. The results demonstrate how the use of the tool makes it possible to locate the sources with the greatest impact throughout the life cycle, thereby facilitating decision-making regarding the reduction of economic and environmental costs. The WF of the dwellings consists of 80% direct consumption by dwellers while 20% is due to the water embodied in construction materials and energy production. Also, the embodied water in the energy production is significantly as high as the construction material footprint
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
sj-docx-1-pie-10.1177_09544089211043414 - Supplemental material for Hot corrosion performance of bare and pulsed current welded Fe-based A-286 alloy in chlorine and sulphur environment
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-pie-10.1177_09544089211043414 for Hot corrosion performance of bare and pulsed current welded Fe-based A-286 alloy in chlorine and sulphur environment by S M Muthu, R Dinek, P Mohan, K Jithesh and M Arivarasu in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part E: Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering</p
Evaluation Of Anti-Cataract Activity Of The Siddha Formulation Muthu Parpam Using Isolated Goat Lens Model
No full textSiddha system recommends a number of herbal and herbomineral ophthalmic formulations as both internal and external therapeutic measures. Muthu parpam (MPM) is one such therapeutic measure that has been indicated in several eye formulations as an ingredient. While Muthuchippi parpam (Calcined shell of pearl oyster)) has been previously evaluated for its antioxidant profile, till date no study has been performed on anticataract activity of Siddha formulation Muthu parpam (Calcined Pearl). In the present study, the Aldose reductase inhibitory activity of Muthu parpam (MPM) were studied along with their effect on sugar-induced cataractogenic changes in sheep lenses in vitro. Goat eye lenses were divided into 4 groups; Group I served as normal control, Group II as cataract control, Group III (100μg/ml of MPM) and Group IV(200 μg/ml of MPM). Group II, III and IV were incubated in 55 mM glucose in artificial aqueous humor to induce lens opacification. Freshly prepared aldoreductase enzyme was allowed to react with different volume of test drug at 100, 200,300, 400 and 500µg/and the formation of NADP was observed and the results were expressed as percentage inhibition and were calculated as follows. A dose dependent action of the drug was observed in two groups (III & IV) incubated with 100 μg and 200 μg of the test drug with a visibility scoring of 13.8 ± 3.34 and 22.2 ± 6.14 respectively. It was observed from the results of the present investigation that the Siddha formulation MPM shown significant inhibition of aldose reductase enzyme with the maximum inhibition of about 45.41± 1.761 % and the corresponding IC50 is 558.1 ± 29.79 μg /ml
"Closing the R&D Gap, Evaluating the Sources of R&D Spending"
No full textBoth spending and tax policies have been implemented in the United States with the goal of stimulating private sector research and development (R&D). Karier questions whether current R&D policy, especially the research and experimentation tax credit, can contribute to closing the gap between nondefense expenditures on R&D in the United States and such expenditures in other countries, such as Japan and Germany. He also explores possible changes to our current R&D policy to make it more effective.
A Study on Security and Privacy in Internet of Things
No full textIn the past decade, Internet of Things IOT has been attention of analysis. Security and privacy are the key problems for IOT applications, and still face some monumental challenges. So as to facilitate this rising domain, we tend to in short review the analysis progress of IoT, and listen to the protection. By suggests that of deeply analyzing the protection design and options, the protection necessities are given. On the idea of those, we tend to discuss the analysis standing of key technologies together with cryptography mechanism, communication security, protective device knowledge and scientific discipline algorithms, and in brief define the challenges. Muthu Lakshmi. R | Mrs. T. Sathiyabama "A Study on Security and Privacy in Internet of Things" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-6 , October 2018, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd18650.pd
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Letter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer, Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, October 2, 1942
No full textLetter from R. R. Zellick, Assistant Trust Officer at The Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco, to Joseph R. Goodman, regarding property owned by Dave Tatsuno. Zellick mentions a dispute between current tenants and Tatsuno, and that Tatsuno has asked Goodman to help locate trustworthy tenants.Personal correspondence, organizational records, government documents, publications, and other papers created or collected by Joseph R. Goodman documenting the forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, as well as organized resistance to incarceration. Included in the collection are records of the Japanese Young Men's Christian Association and the Japanese American Citizens' League in San Francisco, including papers of the Japanese YMCA's executive secretary Lincoln Kanai; Sakai family papers; Goodman's correspondence to and from Japanese American incarcerees, organizations opposing forced removal and incarceration of Japanese Americans, the War Relocation Authority, and others; publications, photographs, and ephemera from the Topaz Relocation Center, where Goodman taught high school; War Relocation Authority records and publications; and newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and reports about forced removal and incarceration created by various government, religious, and civic organizations, in California and nationwide
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