Mapping Causes and Implications of India’s Skewed Sex Ratio and Poverty problem using Fuzzy & Neutrosophic Relational Maps

This paper employs a new soft computing based methodology for identifying and analyzing the relationships among the causes and implications of the two challenging problems in India: unbalanced sex ratio and poverty

Clinico-epidemiological profile and predictors of in-hospital outcome of acute poisoning cases in children of Northern India

Background: Childhood poisoning is a common but preventable problem worldwide with incidence varying from 0.3% to 7.6%. Demography, socioeconomic status, education, local belief and customs, occupation, religious, and cultural influences determine the cause of poisoning. Aim: This study was conducted to understand the recent changes increasing urbanization and rapid socioeconomic development in India during the past decade and to find out the change in pediatric due to poisoning profile. Materials and Methods: This study was conducted in a pediatric ward of a tertiary care hospital in North India during the period of January 2016–December 2016. A total of 174 children admitted with acute poisoning in the hospital during the study tenure were enrolled for the study. Clinical and demographic data were recorded in a predesigned proforma and results were compared with the previous studies from the region. Results: Mean age at presentation was 3.7 years, wherein males outnumbered females. Accidental mode (97%) was the most common mode of poisoning while ingestion (99%) was the most common route of exposure. The common agents incriminated in decreasing order of frequency were corrosives (24.71%), pyrethroids (12.64%), and kerosene (9.77%). Majority of patients belongs to lower middle class (57%) and urban areas (61%). Most children present with mild symptoms, of them vomiting was the most common (65%) and 12.6% developed complications. Mean duration of hospital stay was 2.5±1.91 days with a mortality of 2.16%. Conclusion: There is changing pattern in acute poisoning in children with decline in incidence of kerosene and pesticide poisoning while increase in corrosives and parathyroid poisoning. Low Glasgow Coma Scale and time lapse between poisoning and presentation to the hospital can be a predictor of high mortality

Mining Big Data: Future Forecast of Weather

Climate gauging is a shot by meteorologists to anticipate the state of the air at some future time and expecting the atmosphere conditions. Climate gauging is the single 'most' imperative pragmatic purpose that meteorology exist as a science. Learning of climate information or atmosphere information in a locale is basic for business, society, agribusiness and vitality; utilized for both residential and business purposes .The estimate can advise a rancher the best time to sow the seeds for germination, it also helps to select the relevant data which has to be send to the airplane and also helps to determine that at what time the airplane has to take off or arrive. It acts lucrative for the occupants of the waterfront districts too, making them mindful of the events of storms. Climate information is considered utilizing information digging method for example 'The Clustering Technique'. By utilizing this procedure, we can locate the shrouded designs in the extensive dataset gathered and after that change the recovered data into the usable data for expectation of the climatic conditions. An assortment of information mining instruments and strategies are accessible in the business, however with a restricted use in the meteorological business

Pathogenesis and Nomenclature of Odontogenic Carcinomas: Revisited

Odontogenic carcinoma is rare group of malignant epithelial odontogenic neoplasms with characteristic clinical behavior and histological features, which requires an aggressive surgical approach. The pathogenesis of this rare group remains still controversial and there have been many varied opinions over the classification of this rare group of lesions. As there have not been many reviews on odontogenic carcinoma, the existing knowledge is mostly derived from the published case reports. This review is discussing the pathogenetic mechanisms and is updating the knowledge on nomenclature system of less explored odontogenic carcinomas. This review might throw light on the pathogenesis and nomenclature system of odontogenic carcinoma and this knowledge may be applied therapeutically

Process intensification for the small footprint compact heat transfer device

Process intensification for the development of compact heat exchanger with small footprint is greatest challenge of the heat exchanger technology today. In the present study, a heat transfer device, coiled flow inverter (CFI) is revamped for the better heat transfer efficiency with a smaller footprint. The proposed small foot-print coiled flow inverter (SFCFI) is fabricated by bending of helical coil at 90° with equal arm lengths before and after the bend with variable curvature radius. In integration to the improved centrifugal force due to variable curvature, the SFCFI additionally offers a complete 90 flow inversion caused by each 90 bend, which results in higher radial mixing and heat transfer. The velocity and temperature flow fields depict the improved radial mixing under the laminar flow regime for the Dean number ranges from 8 to 1581. The performance of existing CFI of same heat transfer area (0.17 m2) was studied and compared with the novel SFCFI device. The results suggest, the proposed SFCFI device provides three-fold heat transfer enhancement as compared to the straight tube of same heat transfer area at Dean number 400. Additionally, heat transfer coefficient in SFCFI enhanced by 48 % as compared to helical coil. Furthermore, SFCFI provides 18 % higher value of Nusselt number as compared to the CFI. The reason for improved heat transfer may be the enhanced centrifugal force due to additional curvature effect provided in each arm of SFCFI in the plane of vortex formation. It was interesting to note that the proposed device provides 11 % lower pressure drop as compared to the CFI. The present study may aids to the development of a novel design of compact coiled and small footprint heat transfer device.Papers presented at the 13th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Portoroz, Slovenia on 17-19 July 2017 .International centre for heat and mass transfer.American society of thermal and fluids engineers

Neutrosophic Rough Soft Set – A Decision Making Approach to Appendicitis Problem

Classification based on fuzzy logic techniques can handle uncertainty to a certain extent as it provides only the fuzzy membership of an element in a set. This paper implements the extension of fuzzy logic: Neutrosophic logic to handle indeterminacy, uncertainty effectively. Classification is done on various techniques based on Neutrosophic logic i.e. Neutrosophic soft set, rough Neutrosophic set, Neutrosophic ontology to provide better results in comparison to fuzzy logic based techniques. It is proved that rough neutrosophic soft set will handle indeterminacy effectively that exists in the medical domain as it provides the minimum and maximum degree of truth, indeterminacy, falsity for every element

An unusual case of multifocal central serous chorioretinopathy with low serum cortisol managed using eplerenone

In this report, we describe a rare case of a 44-year-old Asian male with acute central serous chorioretinopathy (CSC) with bullous exudative retinal detachment. Endocrinology evaluation revealed hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal axis suppression with low serum cortisol. Furthermore, neuroimaging revealed the presence of a pituitary microadenoma. He was treated with systemic eplerenone and hydrocortisone. After 12 weeks, bullous detachment completely resolved. Our case is a unique description of acute CSC with underlying low serum cortisol levels that responded to treatment with mineralocorticoid antagonist. This case highlights the various endocrine abnormalities other than the raised serum cortisol that can occur in patients with CSC