Mobile Robot for Object Detection Using Image Processing

This paper describes a robotic application that tracks a moving object by utilizing a mobile robot with sensors and image processing. The robotic platform uses a visual camera to sense the movement of the desired object and a range sensor to help the robot detect and then avoid obstacles in real time while continuing to detect and follow the desired object. In terms of real-time obstacle avoidance capacity, this paper also presents an algorithm for this robotic application specifically. Experimental results show that the robotic and intelligent system can fulfill the requirements for detecting an object and avoiding obstacles simultaneously

Discovering High Utility Itemsets using Hybrid Approach

Mining of high utility itemsets especially from the big transactional databases is time consuming task. For mining the high utility itemsets from large transactional datasets multiple methods are available and have some consequential limitations. In case of performance these methods need to be scrutinized under low memory based systems for mining high utility itemsets from transactional datasets as well as to address further measures. The proposed algorithm combines the High Utility Pattern Mining and Incremental Frequent Pattern Mining. Two algorithms used are Apriori and existing Parallel UP Growth for mining high utility itemsets using transactional databases. The information about high utility itemsets is maintained in a data structure called UP tree. These algorithms are not only used to scans the incremental database but also collects newly generated frequent itemsets support count. It provides fast execution because it includes new itemsets in tree and removes rare itemset from a utility pattern tree structure that reduces cost and time. From various Experimental analysis and results, this hybrid approach with existing Apriori and UP-Growth is proposed with aim of improving the performance

AWARENESS AND USE OF E-RESOURCES IN COLLEGE LIBRARIES: A SURVEY

Abstract: Present study is a base on the use of electronic resources by the teachers of various college libraries in Marathwada. This survey was particularly conducted to know the awareness and use of e-resources like E-Journals, E-Books, CD/DVDs, OPAC, E-Databases and Internet etc. in various college libraries of Marathwada. Primary data were collected from 210 respondents with the help of survey. The data were collected with the aid of a questionnaire and analyzed through the use of SSPS and Microsoft Excel. The results indicate that maximum 102 (48.57%) of respondents visited to the library in daily. It was also noticed that maximum 189 (24.60%) of respondents were using E-Journals. Maximum 145 (69.04%) of respondents had excellent knowledge of using e-resources. Majority of 198 (46.47%) respondents were using e-resources for research purpose. Majority 155 (47.11%) of respondents feels that low internet speed is the main problem to access the e-resources

Evaluation Of Knowledge, Attitude And Practice In Parents Regarding Paediatric Oral Health Care

Objective:  To assess the knowledge, attitude, and practise in parents regarding paediatric oral health care.       Design:  A cross sectional questionnaire survey of 500 parents visiting dental clinics for the first time at the Department of Paediatric and Preventive Dentistry for dental treatment of their child.  Outcome measures:  Responses were obtained for dental knowledge, attitudes and practise. Relating to the eruption and shedding of deciduous and permanent teeth, preventive aids in pedodontics, diseased conditions such as dental decay, gums swelling and crowding, frequency of consumption of refined food by their children and oral health practise.      Results:  Parents have approximately similar percentage of positive knowledge i.e.38.4% and 38.8% towards preventive oral health and oral disease respectively. In addition the positive attitude was also found to be 77.5% and 77.8% towards preventive oral health and oral disease respectively. Whereas only 11.41% showed a positive attitude towards practising the preventive oral health, in contrast with oral disease showing 35.6% parents positive practise. Conclusions:  Parents had positive attitude on the need to conserve natural teeth for their children, but they lacked adequate knowledge regarding preventive oral health and oral disease. And also very low utilization of dental services in spite of positive attitude towards dental treatments

A META-ANALYSIS OF THE EFFICACY AND SAFETY OF ADJUNCTIVE PERAMPANEL FOR THE TREATMENT OF REFRACTORY FOCAL-ONSET SEIZURES IN EPILEPTIC PATIENTS

The usage of anti-seizure medications (ASMs) has increased over the previous decade, yet the burden of treating drug-resistant epilepsy has not decreased. This meta-analysis was carried out to determine the best dose of Perampanel (PER) as a new adjunctive treatment for drug-resistant seizures. Method We examined through ScienceDirect, PubMed, and the Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) for research that had been published between their start and February 1, 2021. characteristics of the research, patients, and treatment regimen, concurrent ASMs, and clinical results were taken out. The practical result was a 50%, 75%, or 100% decrease in the frequency of convulsive seizures, and the safety result was the percentage of drug withdrawal and negative side effects. The inverse variance approach was used to estimate odds ratios (OR) for 95% confidence intervals (CI). Result Four trials totalled 2187 people (1569 in the PER group and 618 in the placebo group). Results revealed that 8 or 12 mg per day had the greatest impact on all three outcomes, with no statistically significant difference between 8 and 12 mg per day (seizure-free, 3.5% vs. 3.7%, P =.85); 50% reduction, 35.5% vs. 36.1%; 75% reduction, 17.8% vs. 19.1%). Additionally, a larger percentage of treatment-emergent adverse events (TEAE) that led to dosage reduction or discontinuation occurred with 12-mg PER compared to 8-mg (8.7% vs. 17.0%; P .00001). Dizziness, somnolence, weariness, and irritability were the reported adverse events (AEs) (significantly linked with adjunctive PER). Significance In patients with refractory epilepsy, adjunctive treatment with PER was related to a greater reduction in seizure frequency than placebo and a higher frequency of adverse events (AEs). For the majorityof research participants, PER at a dose of 8 mg per day appeared to have the best efficacy-to-tolerance ratio

Gingival Veneers: A Case Series for Treatment of Multiple Gingival Recession and Black Triangles

Abstract: Gingival and periodonta

Burden of disease scenarios for 204 countries and territories, 2022–2050: a forecasting analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Background: Future trends in disease burden and drivers of health are of great interest to policy makers and the public at large. This information can be used for policy and long-term health investment, planning, and prioritisation. We have expanded and improved upon previous forecasts produced as part of the Global Burden of Diseases, Injuries, and Risk Factors Study (GBD) and provide a reference forecast (the most likely future), and alternative scenarios assessing disease burden trajectories if selected sets of risk factors were eliminated from current levels by 2050. Methods: Using forecasts of major drivers of health such as the Socio-demographic Index (SDI; a composite measure of lag-distributed income per capita, mean years of education, and total fertility under 25 years of age) and the full set of risk factor exposures captured by GBD, we provide cause-specific forecasts of mortality, years of life lost (YLLs), years lived with disability (YLDs), and disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) by age and sex from 2022 to 2050 for 204 countries and territories, 21 GBD regions, seven super-regions, and the world. All analyses were done at the cause-specific level so that only risk factors deemed causal by the GBD comparative risk assessment influenced future trajectories of mortality for each disease. Cause-specific mortality was modelled using mixed-effects models with SDI and time as the main covariates, and the combined impact of causal risk factors as an offset in the model. At the all-cause mortality level, we captured unexplained variation by modelling residuals with an autoregressive integrated moving average model with drift attenuation. These all-cause forecasts constrained the cause-specific forecasts at successively deeper levels of the GBD cause hierarchy using cascading mortality models, thus ensuring a robust estimate of cause-specific mortality. For non-fatal measures (eg, low back pain), incidence and prevalence were forecasted from mixed-effects models with SDI as the main covariate, and YLDs were computed from the resulting prevalence forecasts and average disability weights from GBD. Alternative future scenarios were constructed by replacing appropriate reference trajectories for risk factors with hypothetical trajectories of gradual elimination of risk factor exposure from current levels to 2050. The scenarios were constructed from various sets of risk factors: environmental risks (Safer Environment scenario), risks associated with communicable, maternal, neonatal, and nutritional diseases (CMNNs; Improved Childhood Nutrition and Vaccination scenario), risks associated with major non-communicable diseases (NCDs; Improved Behavioural and Metabolic Risks scenario), and the combined effects of these three scenarios. Using the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways climate scenarios SSP2-4.5 as reference and SSP1-1.9 as an optimistic alternative in the Safer Environment scenario, we accounted for climate change impact on health by using the most recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change temperature forecasts and published trajectories of ambient air pollution for the same two scenarios. Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy were computed using standard methods. The forecasting framework includes computing the age-sex-specific future population for each location and separately for each scenario. 95% uncertainty intervals (UIs) for each individual future estimate were derived from the 2·5th and 97·5th percentiles of distributions generated from propagating 500 draws through the multistage computational pipeline. Findings: In the reference scenario forecast, global and super-regional life expectancy increased from 2022 to 2050, but improvement was at a slower pace than in the three decades preceding the COVID-19 pandemic (beginning in 2020). Gains in future life expectancy were forecasted to be greatest in super-regions with comparatively low life expectancies (such as sub-Saharan Africa) compared with super-regions with higher life expectancies (such as the high-income super-region), leading to a trend towards convergence in life expectancy across locations between now and 2050. At the super-region level, forecasted healthy life expectancy patterns were similar to those of life expectancies. Forecasts for the reference scenario found that health will improve in the coming decades, with all-cause age-standardised DALY rates decreasing in every GBD super-region. The total DALY burden measured in counts, however, will increase in every super-region, largely a function of population ageing and growth. We also forecasted that both DALY counts and age-standardised DALY rates will continue to shift from CMNNs to NCDs, with the most pronounced shifts occurring in sub-Saharan Africa (60·1% [95% UI 56·8–63·1] of DALYs were from CMNNs in 2022 compared with 35·8% [31·0–45·0] in 2050) and south Asia (31·7% [29·2–34·1] to 15·5% [13·7–17·5]). This shift is reflected in the leading global causes of DALYs, with the top four causes in 2050 being ischaemic heart disease, stroke, diabetes, and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, compared with 2022, with ischaemic heart disease, neonatal disorders, stroke, and lower respiratory infections at the top. The global proportion of DALYs due to YLDs likewise increased from 33·8% (27·4–40·3) to 41·1% (33·9–48·1) from 2022 to 2050, demonstrating an important shift in overall disease burden towards morbidity and away from premature death. The largest shift of this kind was forecasted for sub-Saharan Africa, from 20·1% (15·6–25·3) of DALYs due to YLDs in 2022 to 35·6% (26·5–43·0) in 2050. In the assessment of alternative future scenarios, the combined effects of the scenarios (Safer Environment, Improved Childhood Nutrition and Vaccination, and Improved Behavioural and Metabolic Risks scenarios) demonstrated an important decrease in the global burden of DALYs in 2050 of 15·4% (13·5–17·5) compared with the reference scenario, with decreases across super-regions ranging from 10·4% (9·7–11·3) in the high-income super-region to 23·9% (20·7–27·3) in north Africa and the Middle East. The Safer Environment scenario had its largest decrease in sub-Saharan Africa (5·2% [3·5–6·8]), the Improved Behavioural and Metabolic Risks scenario in north Africa and the Middle East (23·2% [20·2–26·5]), and the Improved Nutrition and Vaccination scenario in sub-Saharan Africa (2·0% [–0·6 to 3·6]). Interpretation: Globally, life expectancy and age-standardised disease burden were forecasted to improve between 2022 and 2050, with the majority of the burden continuing to shift from CMNNs to NCDs. That said, continued progress on reducing the CMNN disease burden will be dependent on maintaining investment in and policy emphasis on CMNN disease prevention and treatment. Mostly due to growth and ageing of populations, the number of deaths and DALYs due to all causes combined will generally increase. By constructing alternative future scenarios wherein certain risk exposures are eliminated by 2050, we have shown that opportunities exist to substantially improve health outcomes in the future through concerted efforts to prevent exposure to well established risk factors and to expand access to key health interventions

AWARENESS AND USE OF E-RESOURCES IN COLLEGE LIBRARIES: A SURVEY

Abstract: Present study is a base on the use of electronic resources by the teachers of various college libraries in Marathwada. This survey was particularly conducted to know the awareness and use of e-resources like E-Journals, E-Books, CD/DVDs, OPAC, E-Databases and Internet etc. in various college libraries of Marathwada. Primary data were collected from 210 respondents with the help of survey. The data were collected with the aid of a questionnaire and analyzed through the use of SSPS and Microsoft Excel. The results indicate that maximum 102 (48.57%) of respondents visited to the library in daily. It was also noticed that maximum 189 (24.60%) of respondents were using E-Journals. Maximum 145 (69.04%) of respondents had excellent knowledge of using e-resources. Majority of 198 (46.47%) respondents were using e-resources for research purpose. Majority 155 (47.11%) of respondents feels that low internet speed is the main problem to access the e-resources

Impact Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On The Productivity Cultures Of Indian And Foreign Multinational Companies

Impact Of The Covid-19 Pandemic On The Productivity Cultures Of Indian And Foreign Multinational Companie