Wastewater treatment and reuse: an institutional analysis for Hyderabad, India

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A Rare Xanthogranulomatous Oophoritis Presenting as Ovarian Cancer

Xanthogranulomatous inflammation is an uncommon form of chronic inflammation that is destructive to affected organs; it is characterized by the presence of lipid-filled macrophages with admixed lymphocytes, plasma cells, and neutrophils. Only a few cases of xanthogranulomatous oophoritis have been reported to date. We describe a rare case of xanthogranulomatous oophoritis with involvement of omentum

A Study on Customer Satisfaction Towards in Health Drinks in Theni District

This research is mainly dealt with the mindset of the consumers buying health drinks. The study on the Brand Loyalty on Consumer Health Drink explains the Taste, Preference. Essential also of the consumers consuming health drinks in their day to day life. This research also focuses on the changing preference of the customers because, in today\u27s time, there are much more options in choosing the health drinks according to the consumers taste. To increase the customer\u27s satisfaction, marketers have developed various marketing programs

Performance Analysis of Genetic Algorithm with PSO for Data Clustering

Data clustering is widely used in several areas like machine learning, data mining, pattern recognition, image processing and bioinformatics. Clustering is the process of partitioning or grouping of a given set of data into disjoint cluster. Basically there are two types of clustering approaches, one is hierarchical and the other is partitioned. K-means clustering is one of the partitioned types and it suffers from the fact that that it may not be easy to clearly identify the initial K elements. To overcome the problems in K-means Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) techniques came into existence. A Genetic Algorithm (GA) is one of hierarchical approach and can be noted as an optimization technique whose algorithm is based on the mechanics of natural selection and genetics. Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) is also one of the hierarchical search methods whose mechanics are inspired by the swarming. The PSO algorithm is simple and can be developed in a few lines of code whereas GAs suffers from identifying a current solution but good at reaching a global region. Even though GA and PSO have their own set of strengths they have weaknesses too. So a hybrid approach (GA-PSO) which combines the advantages of GA and PSO are proposed to get a better performance. The hybrid method merges the standard velocity and modernizes rules of PSOs with the thoughts of selection, crossover and mutation from GAs. A comparative study is carried out by analyzing the results like fitness value and elapsed time of GA-PSO to the standard GA and PSO

Study on assessment of knowledge, attitude and practice towards prevention and screening of cervical cancer among couples

Background: Cervical cancer (CC) is caused by Human Papilloma Virus which is sexually transmitted. With the rise in its incidence, it is necessary to know if couple awareness is important to increase uptake of screening. Thus, this study was undertaken to analyze if knowledge, attitude and practice towards prevention and screening of CC in male partners has influence in female counterparts. Methodology: Questionnaire based cross sectional study from August 2022 to August 2023, done in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Sikkim Manipal Institute of Medical Sciences. 340 couples (680 participants), ≥18years of age, attending the outpatient department who consented for the study were enrolled. Results: Only 48% of the study population (142 couples) had heard about cervical cancer. There was no significant difference in the knowledge between males and females among couples who had heard about CC. However, there was significant difference in the female counterpart’s knowledge when males had or lacked knowledge on CC (p<0.00001). Assessment of preventive practice showed that only 17% women had done screening test and only 33% of couples used barrier contraception. More than 80 % couples had a positive attitude towards screening and vaccination against the disease. Conclusions: Though the population exhibited positive attitude towards CC prevention but the lack of knowledge led to less preventive practices. Male partner’s knowledge also showed influence on awareness about CC among females. Hence, to increase screening uptake, educational programs should include couples rather than females

ANABOLIC EFFECT OF 17- METHYLTESTOSTERONE HORMONE ON CERTAIN BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETERS OF FISH, TILAPIA MOSSAMBICA

One of the major sources of animal protein for human consumption is a fisheries resource. The demand for fishhas increased in recent years due to population growth and the constant search for a healthy diet. The present study was conducted to assess an anabolic impact of an androgenic hormone, 17-Methyltestosterone (MT) on Protein contentand RNA levels in certain tissues i.e. skeletal muscle, liver and gonad of fish, Tilapia mossambica. The hormone was incorporated in the feed and fed to the fish up to four weeks, in the form of three pelleted diets containing 4, 8 and 16 mg MT/ kg diet along with a fourth control group without hormone. The highest increment in tissue Protein content, RNA and DNA levels was observed under 16 mg MT/ kg diet followed by 8 mg MT/ kg diet and 4 mg MT/ kg diet in skeletal muscle, liver and gonad of fish. The more increase in Protein content, RNA and DNA levels was observed after 28 days of the 17-MT oral route of administration. Hence, it is clear that the anabolic hormones such as 17-MT hormone play an important role in enhancing the tissue protein content for nutritional purposes.There was not much change in DNA levels

Solution to Some Open Problems on E-super Vertex Magic Total Labeling of Graphs

Let G be a finite graph with p vertices and q edges. A vertex magic total labeling is a bijection f from V(G)∪E(G) to the consecutive integers 1, 2, ..., p+q with the property that for every u∈V(G) , f( u)+ ∑f(uv)=K for some constant k. Such a labeling is E-super if f :E(G)→{1, 2,..., q}. A graph G is called E-super vertex magic if it admits an E-super vertex magic labeling. In this paper, we solve two open problems given by Marimuthu, Suganya, Kalaivani and Balakrishnan (Marimuthu et al., 2015)

Kajian Pengeringan Jahe (Zingiber Officinale Rosc) Berdasarkan Perubahan Geometrik Dan Warna Menggunakan Metode Image Analysis

Purpose of this study was to determine change in geometric and color during the drying process using image analysis method. Method used in this study was experimental method. Tools and materials used were ginger, image acquisition box, digital cameras, and computers. Measured parameters included temperature, moisture content, mass of material, geometry and color changes. Results from this study showed that the lowest value of material mass was 1.91 gr of the lowest shelf and 3.21 gr of the upper shelf which directly proportional to the reduction of material moisture content at lowest shelf by 5.66%, due to the heating source placed near the shelf, therefore it will directly heat the material. While the highest value was showed by the highest shelf material of 13.93% moisture content. Actual measurement of surface shrinkage showed declining during 8-hour drying and result from image analysis ranged from 37,548 to 17,201 pixels, 27.77 cm2 to 10.07 cm2by using trapezoidal numerical integration of the highest shelf, and 27.3 cm2 to 10.37 cm2 by using Simpson methods. Based on this study, image analysis can be used to measure ginger color changes from yellowish white to brownish yellow and measure surfaces shrinkage. Keywords: geometric and color, ginger, drying &nbsp

Methyl 3-(4-fluoro­phen­yl)-1-methyl-1,2,3,3a,4,9b-hexa­hydro­chromeno[4,3-b]pyrrole-3a-carboxyl­ate

In the title compound, C20H20FNO3, the pyrrolidine and benzopyran rings adopt half chair and twisted half chair conformations, respectively. The carboxyl­ate group is almost perpendicular to the pyran ring [89.4 (1)°]

The dependence of the estimated luminosities of ULX on spectral models

Data from {\it Chandra} observations of thirty nearby galaxies were analyzed and 365 X-ray point sources were chosen whose spectra were not contaminated by excessive diffuse emission and not affected by photon pile up. The spectra of these sources were fitted using two spectral models (an absorbed power-law and a disk blackbody) to ascertain the dependence of estimated parameters on the spectral model used. It was found that the cumulative luminosity function depends on the choice of the spectral model, especially for luminosities $> 10^{40}$ ergs/s. In accordance with previous results, a large number ($\sim 80$) of the sources have luminosities $> 10^{39}$ ergs/s (Ultra-Luminous X-ray sources) with indistinguishable average spectral parameters (inner disk temperature $\sim 1$ keV and/or photon index $\Gamma \sim 2$) with those of the lower luminosities ones. After considering foreground stars and known background AGN,we identify four sources whose minimum luminosity exceed $10^{40}$ ergs/s, and call them Extremely Luminous X-ray sources (ELX). The spectra of these sources are in general better represented by the disk black body model than the power-law one. These ELX can be grouped into two distinct spectral classes. Two of them have an inner disk temperature of $< 0.5$ keV and hence are called ``supersoft'' ELX, while the other two have temperatures $\gtrsim 1.3$ keV and are called ``hard'' ELX. The estimated inner disk temperatures of the supersoft ELX are compatible with the hypothesis that they harbor intermediate size black holes, which are accreting at $\sim 0.5$ times their Eddington Luminosity. The radiative mechanism for hard ELX, seems to be Inverse Comptonization, which in contrast to standard black holes systems, is probably saturated.Comment: Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal. 9 pages. Complete long Tables 4 and 5 are given as tab4.tex and tab5.tex separatel