Analysis of Anti HBs Titres in Health Care Workers of Clinical Laboratory at RL Jalappa Hospital

A retrospective analysis of antiHbs titres among health care personnel working in clinical laboratory which includes Microbiology, Pathology, Biochemistry and phlebotomy will be done. The data obtained following blood collection and ELISA for quantitation of their antibody titers was analyzed. A total of 56 samples were collected. Antibiotics titers were measured by ELISA. Titers of 10mIU/ml was considered protective. Out of the 56 samples collected, 50(90.9%) had antibody titers more than 10mIU/ml. 11(19.56%) of them were not immunized against Hepatitis B

Indoor radon and thoron levels in some residences of Sri Renga Narayana Puram Village, Tirunelveli, India, using solid-state nuclear track detectors

The indoor radon and thoron measurements were carried out at Sri Renga Narayana Puram village, Tirunelveli district, Tamil Nadu, which is located nearer to the Nuclear Power Plant, Kudankulam. The survey was performed using a single-entry pin-hole dosimeter with a solid-state nuclear track detector for a period of 90 days. In the present study, the radon and thoron levels have been measured initially for 10 residences using LR-115 Type II films as a detector. The dose assessment due to radon and thoron is calculated. The effective dose of radon and thoron in the corresponding residences has been found to vary from 0.516 to 0.660 mSvy−1 and 0.010 to 0.144 mSvy−1. The total effective dose due to radon and thoron has been calculated which found to vary from 0.545 to 0.791 mSvy−1 with an average value of 0.655 mSvy−1

Recognizing Proxemics in Personal Photos

Proxemics is the study of how people interact. We present a computational formulation of visual proxemics by attempting to label each pair of people in an image with a subset of physically-based “touch codes. ” A baseline approach would be to first perform pose estimation and then detect the touch codes based on the estimated joint locations. We found that this sequential approach does not perform well because pose estimation step is too unreliable for images of interacting people, due to difficulties with occlusion and limb ambiguities. Instead, we propose a direct approach where we build an articulated model tuned for each touch code. Each such model contains two people, connected in an appropriate manner for the touch code in question. We fit this model to the image and then base classification on the fitting error. Experiments show that this approach significantly outperforms the sequential baseline as well as other related approches. 1

THE PERSONAL ATTENTION OF PRACTICING TELEMEDICINE: STABILITY, DEPENDABILITY, AND PATIENT FOCUSED TELEMEDICINE SOLUTIONS

<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p><p>As we are living in an internet-enabled society, many organizations have lost the human touch in conducting day-to-day operations. Many internet users of so-called apps are concerned about the privacy and security of their most confidential data especially in relation to healthcare. This paper addresses the need for healthcare professionals in giving personal attention to healthcare recipients when practicing telemedicine and the security, patient privacy and patient centric nature that promotes the human touch through technology from a physician's perspective.</p&gt

Occupational Blood Exposures in Health Care Workers at a Tertiary Teaching Hospital: Incidence, Characteristics and Transmission of Blood Borne Pathogens

Health care workers (HCW) are at risk of contracting Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C and Human immunodeficiency viruses through Occupational Blood Exposure (OBE). Information on the incidence rate, epidemiological characteristics and transmission rate are essential to formulate effective preventive measures and management of OBE. From June-2016 to May-2018, OBE among HCW were captured systematically in EPINet (Exposure prevention information network) Register through Self reporting system. Data on number of in-patient days was collected. Incidence rate, epidemiological characteristics and transmission rate were analyzed and evaluated. Sixty seven OBE incidents were reported by HCWs accounting to an incidence rate of 0.2/1000 in-patient days. Of these, 94% were Needle stick injuries and 6% were Blood and body fluid exposures. OBE incidents occurred mainly in wards, emergency department and operation theatre with a rate of 38.8%, 35.8% and 14.9% respectively. Exposures were encountered mainly by Interns (32.8%), staff-nurses (22.4%), Post-graduate students (14.9%) and Nursing students (14.9%). Recapping of the needle was the activity which led to OBE in 37.3% and improper disposal of sharps in 22.38 % of the incidents. In addition, 19.4% and 8.95% of the incidents were due to accidental and patient factors respectively. None of the followed-up HCWs at the end of 6 months were infected by these exposures. The study brings out the epidemiological characteristics of OBE and throws a light on the target population among HCW who require more awareness and training to prevent OBE

Analysis of Low Power, Area and High Speed Multipliers for DSP Applications

Abstract — Multipliers are plays an important role in today’s digital world. Usually multipliers have different types of methods like Braun’s multiplier, Booth multiplier, Wallace Tree multiplier, Systolic Array multiplier. In this project, various methods of Multipliers are analyzed to understand which is suitable for various DSP Applications. The comparison report has been very useful, realizes varies parameter of the multiplier. Multipliers are designed in VHDL, implemented in Xilinx and the performances are obtained by SYNOPSIS

Seroprevalence of diphtheria IgG antibodies among 5–20 years old in diphtheria affected regions during 2018–19: Evidence in support of the revised National Vaccine Policy for diphtheria in India

Background: Diphtheria continues to be a public health problem in India as it is re-emerging in several regions of the country. In recent times, apart from preschool-aged children, diphtheria outbreaks are seen to affect older children and adults. The present study was conducted to determine the immunity against diphtheria among the 5–20 years age group in a population from diphtheria-affected regions of Kolar. Methods: This facility-based cross-sectional study was conducted in six diphtheria-affected regions of Kolar district, Karnataka, India among the population aged between five and 20 years from June 2018 to December 2019. A total of 337 participants who sought health care from the primary health centres were included in the study and the IgG antibody titres against diphtheria were estimated by using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Chi-square test was done to see the association of variables with antibody titres to diphtheria. Results: In the present study, among the 337 study participants; 53.7 % of the participants had full protection, 35.6 % had basic protection and 10.7 % did not have any protection and were susceptible to diphtheria. None of the study participants had reliable long-term protection against diphtheria (>1.0 IU/ML). Conclusion: About half of the study participants from the diphtheria-affected regions belonged to the susceptible category and the basic protection category. Only 53.7 % of the participants showed full protection against diphtheria. This strongly advocates for the changes made in the National Vaccine Policy in India for the adoption of booster doses of vaccination against diphtheria in the population

AutoCaption: Automatic caption generation for personal photos

AutoCaption is a system that helps a smartphone user generate a caption for their photos. It operates by upload-ing the photo to a cloud service where a number of par-allel modules are applied to recognize a variety of entities and relations. The outputs of the modules are combined to generate a large set of candidate captions, which are re-turned to the phone. The phone client includes a convenient user interface that allows users to select their favorite cap-tion, reorder, add, or delete words to obtain the grammati-cal style they prefer. The user can also select from multiple candidates returned by the recognition modules. 1

Oxygen Vacancy-Induced Structural, Optical, and Enhanced Supercapacitive Performance of Zinc Oxide Anchored Graphitic Carbon Nanofiber Hybrid Electrodes

Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles (NPs) anchored to carbon nanofiber (CNF) hybrids were synthesized using a facile coprecipitation method. This report demonstrates an effective strategy to intrinsically improve the conductivity and supercapacitive performance of the hybrids by inducing oxygen vacancies. Oxygen deficiency-related defect analyses were performed qualitatively as well as quantitatively using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy, and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. All of the analyses clearly indicate an increase in oxygen deficiencies in the hybrids with an increase in the vacuum-annealing temperature. The nonstoichiometric oxygen vacancy is mainly induced via the migration of the lattice oxygen into interstitial sites at elevated temperature (300 °C), followed by diffusion into the gaseous phase with further increase in the annealing temperature (600 °C) in an oxygen-deficient atmosphere. This induction of oxygen vacancy is corroborated by diffuse reflectance spectroscopy, which depicts the oxygen-vacancy-induced bandgap narrowing of the ZnO NPs within the hybrids. At a current density of 3 A g^–1, the hybrid electrode exhibited higher energy density (119.85 Wh kg^–1) and power density (19.225 kW kg^–1) compared to a control ZnO electrode (48.01 Wh kg^–1 and 17.687 kW kg^–1). The enhanced supercapacitive performance is mainly ascribed to the good interfacial contact between CNF and ZnO, high oxygen deficiency, and fewer defects in the hybrid. Our results are expected to provide new insights into improving the electrochemical properties of various composites/hybrids