An Investigative and Comprehensive Study about Deregulation (Restructuring) of Indian Power Market

This paper is a discussion about the introduction of restructuring and deregulation in Indian Power System. In modern era, deregulation has an important impact on power sector. In this paper, recent use of deregulation in Indian Power Sector has been described and measures to be taken in order to improve deregulation are also suggested

A Comprehensive Study of Various Techniques for Big Data Analytics in Healthcare

'Enormous information' is gigantic measures of data that can do something amazing. Different hotspots for massive data in the medical care business include emergency clinical assessment outcomes, clinic data, patient clinical records and IoT gadgets. Biomedical examination also generates a significant amount of substantial data that is useful to public health services. As a result, several businesses, including the medical care industry, are figuring out how to transform this potential into improved services and financial profits. Modern medical service associations may upset clinical therapies (treatments) and personalized medication with a robust blend of bio-medical and medical services information. Huge Data examination can work on understanding results, advance and customize care, further develop supplier associations with patients, and lessen clinical spending. This paper discuss analytic techniques used in Big Data healthcare

Seroprevalence of HIV in blood donors at tertiary care center, M.Y.H. Indore, India

Background: Transfusion of blood has become an important mode of transmission of infections such as human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis B to the recipients. Blood transfusion is a boon in medical era if properly screened. The aim of study was to determine the seroprevalence of HIV donors in blood bank at M.Y.H. Indore.Methods: The study was conducted in the blood bank, M.Y.H. Hospital, Indore. Total 115775 donors attending blood bank were included in the study. All the donor samples were screened for detection of antibodies for human immunodeficiency virus by microwell Enzyme Linked Immunosorption Assay (ELISA) method. The seroprevalence of HIV infection among the donors was determined over a period of five years since January 2013 to December 2017.Results: Total 115775 blood donors were recorded. Out of total 115775 blood donors included in the study, replacement donor were 10766 (9.29%) while voluntary donor were 105009 (90.70%). In the duration of five-year study period, total 80 cases (0.06%) were reactive to HIV. Out of total 115775 blood donors included in the study, maximum cases i.e. 22 (0.08%) cases were found to be positive for HIV infection in year 2017. Out of 10766 replacement donors included in the study, 64 cases (0.59%) were reactive to HIV infection. While out of 105009 voluntary donors, 16 cases (0.01%) were found to be reactive to HIV infection. Voluntary donors are more as compared to the replacement donors. Number of HIV positive patients were found to more in replacement donor as compared to the voluntary donors.Conclusions: The seroprevalence of HIV is low in this study and hence it is concluded that the more the number of voluntary donors, the less the number of HIV positive cases. Voluntary donors can be motivated by proper health education and high quality screening programs

Knowledge Regarding Post-Exposure Prophylaxis Of Hiv/Aids Infection And Perceived Threat Due To Needle Stick Injury Among Nursing Students Of Selected Nursing College At Jaipur ( Raj

Introduction: Needle stick injuries (NSI) has always been one of most important risk factors forhealthcare workers (HCWs) for transmission of various infections such as hepatitis B, hepatitis C andhuman immunodeficiency virus (HIV). As per 2008-2009 HIV estimates, there are an estimated 23.9lack people currently living with HIV/AIDS in India with an adult prevalence of 0.31% in 2009. Material and methods: It is a descriptive non-experimental study carried out among nursingstudents studying at teaching institutes in Jaipur city (Rajasthan). A study was conducted duringyear 2020 and 92 Bsc nursing students were selected by using total enumerative sampling techniquerespectively. The reliability of knowledge tool was conducted through Kuder and Richardson Formula20 (KR20) result was 0.84 and reliability of 5 point rating scale was analyzed by using Cronbach Alfamethod it was 0.92. Result: The level of knowledge of nursing students, in which (18) 22.5% hadpoor knowledge, (50) 62.50% had average knowledge and (12) 15% of them had good knowledgeregarding post-exposure of prophylaxis of HIV/AIDS infection. The level of perceived threat ofnursing students, in which (62) 77.5% had high level perceived threat, (17) 21.25% had moderatelevel perceived threat and (1) 1.25% of them had low level perceived threat due to needle stickinjury. It evidenced that for correlation between knowledge and level of perceived threat calculatedvalue of Karl Pearson's correlation coefficient is 0.76 and tabulated value of correlation coefficient is0.250 for df 78 at 0.05 level of significance. Conclusion: The present study reveals that majority ofnursing students had average knowledge regarding post-exposure prophylaxis of HIV/AIDS infectionand low level perceived threat due to needle stick injury

Plant growth promotion of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) by potassium solubilizing bacteria with multifarious plant growth promoting attributes

Potassium (K) is the foremost macronutrients for growth of plant, soil health and fertility. The huge application of NPK chemical fertilizers negatively impacts the economy and is a threat to environmental sustainability. The rapid depletion of K mineral in soil is due to the application of agrochemicals agricultural fields for the production of crops in India. In present investigation, K-solubilizing microbes (KSM) were isolated and enumerated from cereal crops growing in Sirmour Himachal Pradesh. A total 125 bacteria were isolated and screened for K- solubilization on Aleksandrov agar plates and found that 31 bacterial strains exhibited K-solubilization. These 31 K-solubilizing strains of bacteria were additionally screened for other plant growth promoting (PGP) potential including solubilization of minerals, production of siderophores, ammonia, hydrogen cyanide and indole acetic acids. The performance of an efficient K-solubilizer was evaluated for plant growth promoting ability in pot assay under in vitro conditions. The strain EU-LWNA-25 positively influenced shoot length, fresh weight, carotenoids and total sugar content than the full dose, half dose and control. The strain enhancing physiological and growth parameters was identified by BLASTn analysis as Pseudomonas gessardii EU-LWNA-25. K-solubilizing plant growth promoting bacteria could be suitable bioinoculants for Rabi seasonal crops and overcomes the challenges of sustainable agriculture in K-deficient soil

Forecasting Liver Disorders with Machine Learning Models

Liver disorders encompass a spectrum of ailments that impact the liver, a crucial organ responsible for a variety of vital bodily functions. These functions encompass metabolic processes, detoxification, protein synthesis, and the production of bile. Liver maladies can arise from various sources, such as viral infections (e.g., hepatitis), excessive alcohol consumption, conditions related to obesity (like non-alcoholic fatty liver disease), autoimmune conditions, genetic predisposition, or exposure to toxins. Common signs and symptoms may encompass fatigue, jaundice, abdominal discomfort, and digestive problems. In our study, we gather data and employ five distinct machine learning classification algorithms: Random Forest, Decision Tree, Naïve Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbor, and XG Boost. After constructing models and evaluating their performance, we observed that XG Boost achieved an impressive accuracy rate of 99.8%

A Comprehensive Review of Wearable Antenna Design for On-Body and Off-Body Communication

Today age of advancement one of the fastest growing fields of the technology is wearable electronics and device. In the recent advancement the wearable devices for on and off body communication is going expeditiously. For the wearable wireless communication, wearable antennas are mostly used due to its compact size, self powered, light weight, low profile, portable wireless communication and sensing. This paper throws light on wearable antennas for on body and off body communication including their applications, advantages and disadvantages. A comparative study is conducted on designing of different on body and off body wearable antennas and parameters of designed antenna such as their size, shape, gain, SAR have been compared and analyzed. In this paper also discussed the impact of the wearable antenna on human body and impact of human body on antenn

Knowledge about obstetric danger signs among pregnant women attending antenatal clinic in a tertiary care hospital of Delhi: a cross sectional study

Background: According to UNICEF, globally 800 million women die due to preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth; 20% of which occur in India. It is therefore imperative to understand the level of knowledge about danger signs among pregnant women to augment timely redressal of preventive obstetric causes of mortality.Methods: A hospital based, cross sectional study was conducted at the ANC Clinic in Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi from 2nd July to 27th July 2018. Convenient sampling was used to identify and interview 354 pregnant women, using a semi structured questionnaire. Data was entered and analysed with SPSSv21. Results were presented as frequencies and proportions. Chi square was used to test for association between qualitative variables, and p-value less than 0.05 was considered significant.Results: 48.3%, 35.6%, and 40.1% of pregnant women had knowledge about danger signs during pregnancy, labour and postpartum respectively. Majority of the women had knowledge about abdominal pain (58.4%) and severe fatigue (80.7%) as danger signs of pregnancy, while bleeding (82.5%) was the most common response as danger sign of labour. More than half had knowledge about heavy bleeding (59.9%) as danger sign of postpartum. The women lacked awareness about Convulsions (92.9%) as danger signs of pregnancy and labour, as well as smelly vaginal discharge (79.6%) in postpartum.Conclusions: Knowledge of obstetric danger signs among pregnant women is still lower. It needs further awareness as it can help in early diagnosis and referral of patients thus reducing maternal mortality and morbidity

Histopathological Changes in Kidneys of Developing Chick Embryo on Exposure to Lixisenatide

Chick embryo is one of the most commonly used animals to study the adverse effects of various drugs for research purpose. Currently, type 2 diabetes mellitus is treated using the medication lixisenatide. Therapeutically, is thought to be superior to other GLP1 receptor antagonists for the treatment of type 2 diabetes. To understand the adverse effects of lixisenatide on kidney of developing chick embryo