10 research outputs found
Be Unconditionally Happy!
No full textJournal #39 from Media Rise's Quarantined Across Borders Collection by Anupkumar Shetty. From India. Quarantined in Texas.Staying busy practicing gratitude, mindful breathing, meditation, prayer, reading, writing and other activities you like are ways to be unconditionally happy and stress-free in life.Media Rise Publications. Quarantined Across Borders Collection. Edited by Dr. Srividya "Srivi" Ramasubramanian
Detection of Rotavirus and Adenovirus diarrhea in children below five years, in Dakshina Kannada District, a coastal region of Karnataka State, India
No full textContext: Diarrheal disease is the second largest cause of death of children under 5 years. Viral diarrhea is most common which is usually caused by Rotavirus followed by enteric Adenovirus. Rotaviruses are responsible for approximately 527,000 deaths mainly in low-income countries of Africa and Asia. There is limited number of studies done on viral diarrhea in this coastal belt. Aim: To determine the prevalence of Rotavirus and Adenovirus diarrhea among children below 5 years of age and its epidemiological importance in this coastal region of Karnataka State, India. The impact of factors like socio-economic status, drinking water, and Rotavirus immunization status that can contribute to the disease were also evaluated and recommendations are formulated for disease prevention. Materials and Methods: Children below 5 years of age with history of diarrhea, vomiting and fever of less than 3 days were included in this study. The sample size was 35. General physical examination, clinical findings and other details like socio-economic status, personal hygiene, growth milestones and family income were also recorded. A commercial Rotavirus and Adenovirus antigen detection kit was used to detect the presence of Rotavirus and Adenovirus antigen from the stool sample. Results: Out of 35 patients screened, 25 (71.43%) patients were negative for both Adenovirus and Rotavirus, 10 children (28.57%) were positive for Rotavirus and no patients were positive for Adenovirus. Severe dehydration, fever, loose stools and vomiting were the commonest symptoms seen in Rotavirus positive children. The highest incidence of infection with Rotavirus was seen among 7-12 months age group. Children whose stool was positive for Rotavirus used public water supply. Conclusions: Rotavirus is an important cause of diarrhea in children below 5 years in this coastal region. A simple, rapid immunochromatography test is useful and economical tool to simultaneously detect and screen Adenovirus and Rotavirus. Low socioeconomic state and unsafe water supply contributes to diarrheal disease
Effect of IMRT and three-dimensional conformal radiotherapy on oral Candida colonization: A comparative study
No full textSpectrum of anaerobes encountered in surgical infections in a tertiary care hospital in Mangalore, coastal Karnataka: A prospective study
No full textContext: Anaerobes are significant pathogens as well as normal flora in a variety of body sites. As the conventional anaerobic culture techniques are laborious, time-consuming and relatively expensive, the interest in anaerobes started narrowing down in the recent past. Objective: This study is aimed at the isolation of bacteria encountered in the surgical infections with an emphasis on anaerobes and to create an awareness among the clinicians regarding the potential role of these silent pathogens Materials and Methods: The present prospective study that was conducted for a period of 1 year, employed 393 specimens collected from various surgical infections. All the samples were subjected for the isolation of both aerobes and anaerobes. Results: Out of 393 specimens, 193 anaerobes and 311 aerobes were obtained. Majority of the cases (226) exhibited polymicrobial etiology. Among the anaerobes, more frequently isolated organisms were nonsporing gram-negative bacilli, such as Bacteroides fragilis group, Prevotella-Porphyromonas group and Fusobacterium, which constitute 68.91% of the cases. Conclusions: This study emphasizes the need to employ anaerobic culture techniques routinely in microbiology laboratories and to create an awareness among the clinicians regarding the potential role of anaerobes
Three Degrees of Freedom Robotic arm and its Digital Twin using Simulink – A Bibliometric Analysis
No full textThe 3-degree Digital Twin robotic arm for freedom can diagnose the joints off-board by placing a torque in the robotic arm joint. MATLAB, Simulink®, SimscapeTM, and Simscape Multibody were the basis of this model. Virtual space with a virtual robot arm was connected to a physical space that was a 3D printed replica of the virtual space and robot arm, built using Unity (a modern Game Engine). The arm in the Digital Twin model was created using the hardware prototype’s dimensions, which were then used to simulate a real-world situation. With its revolute joints, the arm has a certain degree of freedom. The relations between the different elements of the arm were explained through frame transformations. Simulink signal builder generates the inputs. Robotic arms are one of the most frequently used devices for manufacturing processes and can automate a range of tasks on the floor, for instance. However, for these devices to work, they must have AI that has been properly trained. It proposes a method for dealing with virtual learning to the real robot twin mapping. Considering the importance of Digital Twin, it is essential to study the research trends and research origin. Hence, in this article detailed and meticulous study of digital twin and its bibliometric analysis is carried out. Various aspects such as top research articles, funding resources, affiliations, document types, etc. are collected from the Scopus database. The bibliometric study is even extended to network analysis to understand co-author relations, and citation analysis is also presented
Bibliometric Analysis of Firefly Algorithm Applications in the Field of Wireless Sensor Networks
No full textWireless Sensor Network is a network of wireless sensor nodes that are capable of sensing information from their surroundings and transmit the sensed information to data collection point known as a base station. Applications of wireless sensor networks are large in number and forest fire detection, landslide monitoring, etc. are few applications to note. The research challenges in wireless sensor networks is the transmission of data from the sensor node to the base station in an energy-efficient manner and network life prolongation. Cluster-based routing techniques are extensively adopted to address this research challenge. Researchers have used different metaheuristic and soft computing techniques for designing such energy-efficient routing techniques. In the literature, a lot of survey article on cluster-based routing methods are available, but there is no bibliometric analysis conducted so far. Hence in this research article, bibliometric study with the focus on the firefly algorithm and its applications in wireless sensor network is undertaken. The purpose of this article is to explore the nature of research conducted concerning to authors, the connection between keywords, the importance of journals and scope for further research in soft computing based clustered routing methods. A detailed bibliometric analysis is carried out by collecting the details of published articles from the Scopus database. In this article, the collected data is articulated in terms of yearly document statistics, key affiliations of authors, contributing geographical locations, subject area statistics, author-keyword mapping, and many more essential aspects of bibliometric analysis. The conducted study helped in understanding that there is a vast scope for the research community to perform research work concerning firefly algorithm applications in the field of wireless sensor networks
