Effect of Substrate Temperature on Structural, Optical and Surface Morphological Properties of Spray Deposited V 2 O 5 Thin Film

ABSTRACT Vanadium pentoxide (V 2 O 5 ) thin films have been prepared by spray pyrolysis technique on glass substrate. The films were prepared at 200°C, 225°C, and 250°C. X-ray diffraction analysis revealed orthorhombic crystalline structures of all the film with a preferential orientation along (0 0 1) plane. The effect of substrate temperature on crystallite size and band gap were analyzed and reported

A Novel Approach for Text Classification

Abstract Text Classification (TC) is the process of associating text documents with the classes considered most appropriate, thereby distinguishing topics such as particle physics from optical physics. A lot of research work has been done in this field but there is a need to categorize a collection of text documents into mutually exclusive categories by extracting the concepts or features using supervised learning paradigm and different classification algorithms. In this paper, a new Fuzzy Similarity Based Concept Mining Model (FSCMM) is proposed to classify a set of text documents into pre -defined Category Groups (CG) by providing them training and preparing on the sentence, document and integrated corpora levels along with feature reduction, ambiguity removal on each level to achieve high system performance. Fuzzy Feature Category Similarity Analyzer (FFCSA) is used to analyze each extracted feature of Integrated Corpora Feature Vector (ICFV) with the corresponding categories or classes. This model uses Support Vector Machine Classifier (SVMC) to classify correctly the training data patterns into two groups; i. e., + 1 and -1, thereby producing accurate and correct results. The proposed model works efficiently and effectively with great performance and high -accuracy results

Mussel culture experiments in Ennore estuary, Chennai

The present paper gives a detailed account on experiments of mussel culture carried out by the Institute in 1996 in association with fishermen of Ennore in an estuarine environment by adopting the long-line and rack culture methods

Identification of Escherichia coli from broiler chickens in Jordan, their antimicrobial resistance, gene characterization and the associated risk factors

Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) is the principle cause of colibacillosis affecting poultry. The main challenge to the poultry industry is antimicrobial resistance and the emergence of multidrug resistant bacteria that threaten the safety of the food chain. Risk factors associated with emergence of antimicrobial resistance among avian pathogenic E. coli were correlated with the inappropriate use of antimicrobials along with inadequate hygienic practices, which encourages the selection pressure of antimicrobial resistant APEC. The aim of this study was to isolate, identify, serogroup and genotype APEC from broilers, assess their antibiotic resistance profile, expressed genes and the associated risk factors

ANISOTROPIC STRATEGY TO ACHIEVE THE DECREASE IN BLUR AND IMPROVE IN EDGE INFORMATION

The anisotropic weighting model is made to catch more details in horizontal than vertical directions. The filter-based compensation methodology features a Palladian and spatial sharpening filters that are designed to enhance the edge information and lower the blurring effect. Additionally, the hardware cost was effectively reduced by hardware discussing and reconfigurable design techniques. Within this paper, a minimal-complexity color interpolation formula is suggested for that VLSI implementation in tangible-time applications. The suggested novel formula includes an advantage detector, an anisotropic weighting model along with a filter-based compensator. The VLSI architecture from the suggested design achieves 200 MHz with 5.2 K gate counts, and it is core area synthesized with a CMOS process. In contrast to the prior low-complexity techniques, the work not just reduces gate counts or power consumption, but additionally increases the average CPSNR quality by greater than 1.6 dB. By analyzing the parameters of those three eco-friendly color interpolation models, it's clearly the sign of the compensation for eco-friendly color is really a spatial sharpening filter

Effects of N-acetyl-seryl-asparyl-lysyl-proline on blood pressure, renal damage, and mortality in systemic lupus erythematosus

Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease with a high prevalence of hypertension. NZBWF1 (SLE-Hyp) mice develop hypertension that can be prevented by modulating T cells. The peptide N-acetyl-seryl-aspartyl-lysyl-proline (Ac-SDKP) decreases renal damage and improves renal function in a model of SLE without hypertension (MRL/lpr). However, it is not known whether Ac-SDKP prevents hypertension in NZBWF1 mice. We hypothesized that in SLE-Hyp, Ac-SDKP prevents hypertension and renal damage by modulating T cells. Animals were divided into four groups: (1) control + vehicle, (2) control + Ac-SDKP, (3) SLE + vehicle, and (4) SLE + Ac-SDKP Systolic blood pressure (SBP), albuminuria, renal fibrosis, and T-cell phenotype were analyzed. SBP was higher in SLE compared to control mice and was not decreased by Ac-SDKP treatment. Half of SLE mice developed an acute and severe form of hypertension accompanied by albuminuria followed by death. Ac-SDKP delayed development of severe hypertension, albuminuria, and early mortality, but this delay did not reach statistical significance. Ac-SDKP prevented glomerulosclerosis, but not interstitial fibrosis in SLE-Hyp mice. SLE-Hyp mice showed a decrease in helper and cytotoxic T cells as well as an increase in double negative lymphocytes and T helper 17 cells, but these cells were unaffected by Ac-SDKP In conclusion, Ac-SDKP prevents kidney damage, without affecting blood pressure in an SLE animal model. However, during the acute relapse of SLE, Ac-SDKP might also delay the manifestation of an acute and severe form of hypertension leading to early mortality. Ac-SDKP is a potential tool to treat renal damage in SLE-Hyp mice

Environmental impact assessment in the shrimp farming areas of Nagapattinam Quaid-E-Milleth district, Tamil Nadu

To assess the effects of shrimp farming on the environment and on the coastal population, a study was undertaken by a team of scientific and technical staff of CMFRl in Nagapattinam Quaid-e-Milleth district, Tamil Nadu in September, 1995. Several small and large farms and corporate farms in nine coastal places, where a number of farms are located were covered in the study. With the help of the mobile laboratory of the CMFR Institute, the team collected and aneilysed soil, water and plankton samples in the inlet and outlet of the farm areas, shrimp ponds and from the wells of the nearby villages. Estimations on hydrological parameters, nutrients and total and differential counts of bacteria in the water and soil samples were made following standard procedures