COMPARATIVE STUDY OF EFFECT OF CHAIN YOGIC EXERCISE (YOGASANA) AND YOGIC THERAPY (AGNISAR KRIYA) FOR REHABILITATION OF TYPE 2 DIABETES MELLITUS (T2D)

The motive of this study was to find out the effect of Chain Yogic Exercise (Yogasana), Yogic Therapy (Agnisar Kriya) on Diabetes Mellitus (T2D). For the purpose of this study 200 subjects were selected and divided into two groups from Delhi, India. Both groups are experimental groups. In each group, 100:100 Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM) subjects were distributed. There were 50 females and 50 males in each group i.e. half of the each group was female. The subjects’ age ranged between 35-45 years. One group was engaged in Chain Yogic Exercise (Yogasana) and the other group was perform Yogic Therapy (Agnisar Kriya), This process was for 90 days (30-30-30 days). The data was collected on the first day (dated 16th September 2020) of 1st round as pre-test and on the last day (dated 16th October 2020) of 1st round as post-test. For statistical analysis and interpretation of data, paired t-Test was employed. The level of significance had been taken 0.05 and 0.01. The study found Chain Yogic Exercise (Yogasana), Yogic Therapy (Agnisar Kriya) both has a significant effect to control Diabetes Mellitus (T2D). The study also found that Yogic Therapy (Agnisar Kriya) had much better effect to control Diabetes Mellitus (T2D) than Chain Yogic Exercise (Yogasana). Article visualizations

STR-866: NON LINEAR FINITE ELEMENT MODEL FOR POST-EARTHQUAKE FIRE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF STEEL PORTAL FRAMES

Post-earthquake fires (PEF) especially in densely populated urban areas have been catastrophic in recent seismic events. It appears to be an important design load which has not been considered critical by most design standards. Moreover, current performance-based seismic design philosophy permits certain level of damage to a structure based on the assumed design seismic hazard. These damaged structures are extremely vulnerable to post-earthquake fires. Even after the outbreak of fire, the structural integrity of the damaged structure must be intact for sufficient duration enabling the firefighters to evacuate and extinguish the fire in the affected building. The recent performance-based design, necessitates evaluation of the fire resistance level of earthquake damaged building with or without the outbreak of post-earthquake fire. In this study an integrated seismic and thermal analysis model was developed using the sequential thermal–structural analysis scheme using the finite element program, ABAQUS. A simple portal frame was considered to investigate the global behaviour of the frame and determine post-earthquake fire resistance. A 2D transient heat transfer analysis was conducted and the transient nodal temperatures across the structural elements cross sections were stored for subsequent thermal structural analyses. The state of earthquake inflicted damage, corresponding to desired performance level was realized using pushover analysis. The results of the simplified 2D model matched reasonably well with that of 3D finite element model considered for validation study. The developed model is being used for subsequent study to investigate the multi-story moment resisting frames with fire scenarios resulting in asymmetric heating of the frame

A comparative study of clinical and radiological outcome between cages and morselized bone graft in transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion surgery: a hospital-based study

Background: Degenerative spinal diseases resulting in neuropathic backache are managed by nerve root decompression with instrumented interbody fusion is the treatment of choice for these groups of patients when not managed conservatively.Methods: Hospital based, comparative, retrospective study was carried out in such patients who underwent transforaminal lumbar interbody fusion (TLIF) with either cage with bone graft or stand-alone autologous morselized bone graft. The clinical and radiological outcomes were compared in these two methods of interbody fusion to assess any significant difference between them. A total of 20 patients with lumbar canal stenosis and degenerative grade 1/2 spondylolisthesis who failed conservative management were operated by TLIF approach and were evaluated for post-operative improvement in Oswestry disability index (ODI) and interbody fusion on imaging at 6 months and 1 year postoperatively. Vertebral level of surgical intervention, intra-operative blood loss and duration of surgery were recorded for each patient along with complications, if any.Results: In our study there was no significant difference in the clinical and radiological outcome between the two methods of interbody fusion. Although the group which was offered morselized bone graft with cage showed slightly better clinical outcome at 6 months of follow up, both showed no significant difference in ODI at 1 year of follow up.Conclusions: With this study, we can conclude that both the methods have similar clinical and radiological outcome with similar patient satisfaction and can be interchangeably employed for interbody fusion according to surgeon’s and patient’s preferences

Analysis of small nucleolar RNAs reveals unique genetic features in malaria parasites

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Ribosome biogenesis is an energy consuming and stringently controlled process that involves hundreds of trans-acting factors. Small nucleolar RNAs (snoRNAs), important components of ribosome biogenesis are non-coding guide RNAs involved in rRNA processing, nucleotide modifications like 2'-O-ribose methylation, pseudouridylation and possibly gene regulation. snoRNAs are ubiquitous and are diverse in their genomic organization, mechanism of transcription and process of maturation. In vertebrates, most snoRNAs are present in introns of protein coding genes and are processed by exonucleolytic cleavage, while in plants they are transcribed as polycistronic transcripts.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>This is a comprehensive analysis of malaria parasite snoRNA genes and proteins that have a role in ribosomal biogenesis. Computational and experimental approaches have been used to identify several box C/D snoRNAs from different species of <it>Plasmodium </it>and confirm their expression. Our analyses reveal that the gene for endoribonuclease Rnt1 is absent from <it>Plasmodium falciparum </it>genome, which indicates the existence of alternative pre-rRNA processing pathways. The structural features of box C/D snoRNAs are highly conserved in <it>Plasmodium </it>genus; however, unlike other organisms most parasite snoRNAs are present in single copy. The genomic localization of parasite snoRNAs shows mixed patterns of those observed in plants, yeast and vertebrates. We have localized parasite snoRNAs in untranslated regions (UTR) of mRNAs, and this is an unprecedented and novel genetic feature. Akin to mammalian snoRNAs, those in <it>Plasmodium </it>may also behave as mobile genetic elements.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>This study provides a comprehensive overview on trans-acting genes involved in ribosome biogenesis and also a genetic insight into malaria parasite snoRNA genes.</p

A SURVEY ON OPPORTUNITY, SCOPE AND POSSIBILITIES OF YOGA INTERVENTION IN MODERN CHINA

The purpose of this study was to find out the scope, facilities and possibilities of Yoga intervention in China. For the purpose of this study, 201 samples i.e. yoga instructors (22); yoga studio owners (7); yoga instructors plus yoga studio owners (8) yoga practitioners (113) yoga lovers (50) and others (1) from various provinces and cities from China were randomly selected. The subjects’ age ranged between 60+ to 90+ years. To find out the scope, facilities and possibilities of Yoga intervention in China, a questionnaire made by “Vivekananda Cultural Communication (Shanghai) Co. Ltd.” based on “Daily Yoga Courses and Training Content in China” were introduced. For statistical analysis and interpretation of data, descriptive statistics of selected variables and descriptive statement analysis method were conducted. Interestingly this study found a very high level of scope, facilities and realistic possibilities of Yoga intervention in China which directly or indirectly might be help to develop yoga industries in China and also can better understand the need and interest of yoga for health and wellbeing among Chines population in new era.   Article visualizations

Multi-processor Scheduling to Minimize Flow Time with epsilon Resource Augmentation

We investigate the problem of online scheduling of jobs to minimize flow time and stretch on m identical machines. We consider the case where the algorithm is given either (1 + ε)m machines or m machines of speed (1 + ε), for arbitrarily small ε \u3e 0. We show that simple randomized and deterministic load balancing algorithms, coupled with simple single machine scheduling strategies such as SRPT (shortest remaining processing time) and SJF (shortest job first), are O(poly(1/ε))-competitive for both flow time and stretch. These are the first results which prove constant factor competitive ratios for flow time or stretch with arbitrarily small resource augmentation. Both the randomized and the deterministic load balancing algorithms are non- migratory and do immediate dispatch of jobs. The randomized algorithm just allocates each incoming job to a random machine. Hence this algorithm is non- clairvoyant, and coupled with SETF (shortest elapsed time first), yields the first non-clairvoyant algorithm which is con- stant competitive for minimizing flow time with arbitrarily small resource augmentation. The deterministic algorithm that we analyze is due to Avrahami and Azar. For this algorithm, we show O(1/ε)-competitiveness for total flow time and stretch, and also for their Lp norms, for any fixed p ≥ 1