Iodine and Thyroid Cancer in Goa

There is a low papillary to follicular ratio in iodine deficient areas. A study of malignant thyroid tumors done over a period of 4 years in Goa shows that the ratio of papillary to follicular carcinoma in Goa conforms to a iodine deficient status of the population

Performance Comparison Of Bnp Scheduling Algorithms In Homogeneous Environment

Static Scheduling is the mapping of a program to the resources of a parallel system in order to minimize the execution time. This paper presents static scheduling algorithms that schedule an edge-weighted directed acyclic graph (DAG) to a set of homogeneous processors. The aim is to evaluate and compare the performance of different algorithms and select the best algorithm amongst them. Various BNP algorithms are analyzed and classified into four groups - Highest Level First Estimated Time (HLFET), Dynamic Level Scheduling (DLS), Modified Critical Path (MCP) and Earliest Time First (ETF). Based upon their performance considering various factors, best algorithm is determined

Survey on During Pandemic scenario: Domestic Retail Sales Forecasting of Passenger Vehicles in India using Time Delay Neural Network

Accurate sales forecast is crucial to plan the production process, especially in automotiveindustry, where a large number of factors –macro-economic, micro-economic and othersdynamically influence the demand.Forecasting in such a dynamic industry, especially with theonset of COVID, has become extremely important with the preference for personaltransportation on the increase. In this paper, a neural network model to forecast the domesticretail sales of passenger vehicles in India is formulated. A Time Delay Feed Forward NeuralNetwork with Back Propagation (TDNN)is used and the forecasting accuracies determined bycomparing the values of Mean Squared Error (MSE), Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE), MeanAbsolute Deviation (MAD) and Mean Absolute Percentage Error (MAPE). The macroeconomicindicators identified were Unemployment rate, GDP growth rate, Private FinalConsumption Expenditure (PFCE), Index of Industrial Production (IIP), Bank Lending Rate(BLR), Inflation Rate and Crude oil prices. The indicators were taken as the input variables andPassenger Vehicle Retail Sales was selected as the target variable to formulate the TDNNmodel. It was observed that the TDNN model was able to forecast the output with greataccuracy

Gendered Social Fabric and Identity Crisis in Mahesh Dattani's Tara

The history of Indian English Drama demonstrates the presence of individual talents and sporadic theatrical activity. The roots of the theatre in Indian Society are certainly very old and deep. Although plays about women have existed since the origin of drama yet feminist drama emerged as a theatrical genre in the sixties bringing the burning issues of gender discrimination as well as the tortures inflicted on the female. Tara is the tragedy of a feisty girl who falls a prey to the gender disparity prevalent in the Indian society and thereafter proves her mettle in the world of male supremacy. Tara is an ideal character of Mahesh Dattani which has been widely applauded by the audience and the readers alike. Dattani has tried to depict the feminine side which always has to come to terms with the society that favours only male viewpoint in a male-dominated world. The playwright is concerned not only with the issue of gender discrimination in Indian society but also with the contribution of the female to the injustice towards women. Throughout the play, Dattani shows his audience the difference between sex and gender indicating that women don't have their own status and identity in the society. The play effectively belies all the propagandas of equality between male and female

Aju Mukhopadhyay’s Short Stories: A Multicoloured World

Aju Mukhopadhyay is one of the brightest stars in the firmament of contemporary Indian English Literature. He is a magnificent literary artist, in fact a versatile genius. As a visionary poet he has enraptured the hearts and minds of millions of poetry lovers, both in India and abroad. He is a profound critic, and his insightful critical studies are highly valued in the literary world. His essays on various subjects have made a mark in every field. He is a great storyteller too, both in English and Bangla, and the range of his short stories has baffled the fiction lovers. Like his previous volumes of short stories, the present collection too offers a large variety of subjects and feeds the craving of every set of readers. Aju’s world is so vast that you cross the national boundaries many times to peep into a new world. You open the window to a new story and step into a different world altogether. “In the Company of William, Samuel and Dorothy”, Aju takes us to the Lake District of England to enjoy the company of the great Romantic poets, William Wordsworth, S. T. Coleridge and Dorothy Wordsworth. His description is so vivid that you really feel you are watching everything happening before your ‘fleshy eyes’. In the next story “They Came Down from the Roof of the World”, the writer takes you indeed to the roof of the world, Tibet and the Tibetan Cause. Tibet and New York come alive before you and you partake in the stormy scenes, the rebellion, the persecution, the great Dalai Lama escape and the aftermath

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ORAL MINOXIDIL AND FINASTERIDE IN THE TREATMENT OF ANDROGENETIC ALOPECIA: A SIX-MONTH DOUBLE-BLINDED STUDY

Androgenetic alopecia (AGA), or male pattern baldness, has a negative impact on people's quality of life. Although considerable study on the efficacy and safety of oral finasteride and oral minoxidil in treating androgenetic alopecia has not been conducted, they are both effective treatments. Materials and methodology: In a double-blind comparison trial, 28 participants received daily oral doses of minoxidil (2.5 mg) and finasteride (1 mg) for six months. Numerous factors, including the Norwood Hamilton scale, photographic assessments, trichoscopy measurements of hair count and shaft thickness, Patient Global Assessment (PGA), and Visual Analog Scale (VAS), were considered to determine effectiveness. To monitor safety, lab investigations and the documentation of negative events were used. Results: Both minoxidil and finasteride significantly increased hair growth and thickness. At the frontal and vertex sites, the minoxidil group showed an increase in the average hair count and improved hair shaft thickness. In comparison to minoxidil, the finasteride group demonstrated superior hair growth and greater hair counts. Finasteride had little negative side effects and no reported sexual adverse effects. Conclusion: Over a six-month period, oral finasteride (1 mg) and oral minoxidil (2.5 mg) both showed equivalent efficacy and tolerability in the treatment of AGA. Finasteride produced superior outcomes in terms of hair growth and thickness, whereas minoxidil was well tolerated and had few side effects. People can securely select either course of treatment, guaranteeing a notable improvement in AGA patients' hair growth

A review of Kala Virudh Ahaara in different seasons

The wellbeing of a person mainly depends on the food intake. Ayurveda emphasizes on different rules and regulations on diet. Although the quality of diet plays an important role in maintaining health of a person, but dietary strategies also influence body metabolism. The concept of Kala Virudh Ahaara (food incompatibility with respect to time) has been mentioned In Ayurvedic Literatures. The Intake of cold and dry foods items in winters and hot and pungent foods in summer is known as Kala Virudh Ahaara (incompatibility of food with respect to time). Seasonal variations affect metabolism in human body. The potent cause of various metabolic disorders is incompatible food intake. In present era, people suffer from various lifestyle disorders when climate fluctuates and seasons change. Such disorders may originate due to ignorance or negligence in following seasonal dietary regimens. The present article deals with a review of Kala Virudh Ahaara in terms of food incompatibilities in seasonal diet

A Study on Factors Influencing the Choice of Investors towards Mutual Funds

The study is based on a sample of 200 qualified respondents chosen using multistage random sampling to understand the influence of various factors on investment decision and choice of investment towards mutual funds. The article identifies association of attributes risk perception, investment pattern and risk taking ability with demographic factors. Study mainly focuses on the factors influencing the choice of investors towards mutual funds and the impact of demographic factors on risk perception, investment pattern and risk taking ability of mutual fund investors. 283 respondents contacted for getting 200 mutual funds investors. Chi-square & Henry Garret Rating techniques applied for analysis the data. Regular return on schemes has emerged to be the most important factor and less Procedure least important factor that affects the choice of the investors towards selecting mutual funds. Most of the demographic factors have no significant association with investment pattern, risk perception and risk taking ability

Aesthetics of Poetry and Postmodernist Poets: A Review

Postmodernism is a period in which multiple modes or versions of different poetries exist and flourish. Poetry produced in the postmodern era and has an extremely solid nearness in cafes, bars, and even clubs, fundamentally outperforming its more conventional settings and areas. Poetry is becoming ever more synonymous with testing in English schools. poetry is not by learning the rules of scansion, or studying prosody and other theoretical aspects of poetry, although this is important, but by imitation. And what the poet imitates in the poets that he admires is the sound of the poetry, its rhythms, rhyme schemes, patterns, etc., not the lexical meanings of the words. Using the same words as the poets one admires would constitute plagiarism, not imitation, although one may certainly make allusions to other poems by means of what is sometimes called “poetic license”. poetry is cast as unstable and unreliable but simultaneously inescapable; language is both captor and captive .Poetry study at GCSE level could become a limited and controlled experience, restricted to the confines of the classroom and the pages of exam board anthologies.  In this work, we have studied a theory of different poets in view of the aesthetic content of poetry. These poets are exceptionally dynamic and their poetries are different from the theories of art and all other poetries. The industriousness of the expository strategies of aesthetic formalism close by the more up to date scholarly apparatuses of basic hypothesis and social feedback has been examined. They are very active, leading tertulias, engaging with poetry readings and performances in literary and non-literary circles, and endorsing verse on the internet, with the result that the genre is now more open and available to the general public than ever before. For the Transcendentalists all true poets are “children of music”.&nbsp