ADVERTISEMENT-FREE MEDIA CONTENT WHILE DRIVING

A streaming system provides media content without advertisements to a user’s electronic device while the user is driving. The system may determine that the user is driving if location coordinates of one or more electronic devices associated with the user change above a predetermined threshold speed. When the system determines that the user is driving, the system presents the media content (e.g., songs, videos, or podcast) without advertisements to the user

Research Paper on Content Management Systems (CMS): Problems in the Traditional Model and Advantages of CMS in Managing Corporate Websites

This research paper is on the problem companies faces with the existing traditional model of website management and the advantages or improvement that Content Management System brings to them. Web content management is the discipline of collecting, organizing, categorizing, and structuring information that is to be delivered on a website. CMSs support a distributed content model by separating the content from the presentation and giving the content provider an easy to use interface for adding content. The purpose of this study is twofold. First, it is aimed to observe how business users manages the contents directly without depending on technical personnel. Secondly, what are their perceptions of using the system? Many industry people have voluntarily participated in this qualitative study. The data was gathered through server statistics, personal interviews, and an open-ended questionnaire. The analyses included descriptive statistics for quantitative and content analysis for the qualitative data. The findings indicate that participants embraced the notion of leveraging the potential of content management

Progress Of Informal Sector Workers In Gudiyatham Taluk Of Vellore District In Tamil Nadu

The Indian economy is characterized by the existence of a vast majority of informal sector labour employment. The total employment in the country was of 46.5 crore comprising around 2.8 crore in the organised and the remaining 43.7 crore workers in the informal sector or unorganized sector. Out of these workers in the informal sector , there are 24.6 crore workers employed in agricultural sector, about 4.4 crore in informal sector workers and remaining in manufacturing and service. Informal Sector refers to economic activities such as production and distribution of goods and services by the operating units of the households which essentially differ from the formal sector in terms of technology, economies of scale, use of labour intensive processes, and virtual absence of the well maintained accounts. It embraces a widely dispersed multitude of operating units with high rates of birth and death and substantial mobility. It is informal in the sense that they are not regulated by government under any statute. Because of its contribution to the economy, which is quite visible and its strength in absorbing a huge portion of unemployed persons to whom the State is unable to provide adequate employment. It becomes the duty of the policy makers to device such policies which can take core of the problems faced by the informal sector workforce. Hence, there is need to monitor the size and structure of this sector and its performance over time for framing appropriate policies. In this paper an attempt to identify status and survival of the informal sector workers in Gudiyathamtaluk of Vellore district in Tamil Nadu

Supravesical hernia – A rare cause of intestinal obstruction

AbstractSupravesical hernia is an unusual type of hernia. It is of two types: internal and external [Skandalakis JE, Gray SW, Burns WB, Sangmalee U, Sorg JL. Internal and external supravesical hernia. Am Surg 1976 Feb;42(2):142–6]. We are reporting a case of internal supravesical hernia, in a 62-year-old gentleman to call attention to the entity, as a rare cause of intestinal obstruction

A Better Engineering Design: Low Cost Assistance Kit for Manual Wheelchair Users with Enhanced Obstacle Detection

This paper proposes a better engineering design of an assistance kit for manual wheelchair users. The design is aimed  to enhance the detection of obstacles in the travelling path of the wheelchair  user at low cost. This is facilitated by microcontroller and sensor technologies. The proposed design provides the intended user with obstacle detection, light detection, a light emitting diode (LED) emergency light system, and an emergency alarm system. The microcontroller is the main controller that receives input from the sensors and produces output to the light crystal display (LCD) screen, the LED emergency light system, and the emergency alarm system. An ultrasonic sensor is used to detect the presence of obstacles directly behind the wheelchair. If any obstacle exists behind the wheelchair within a set range, the system will alert the wheelchair user through different alarm sounds. In the case of absence of light, the LED emergency light system is activated and turns on a light source, which is attached to the wheelchair to provide a bright and clear path for the user. The distance between the obstacle and the wheelchair, and the status of the LED emergency light system are displayed on the LCD screen

Comparison of haematological parameters between alcoholics and non-alcoholics

Background: Alcohol being one of the most commonly used drug, whose consequences include changes of CBC. The main causes leading to changes of CBC (complete blood count) are: myelosuppression that is accompanying with slight reduction in all blood cells, blood loss from gastrointestinal tract, malnutrition etc. Alcoholics may suffer from moderate anemia, characterized by enlarged, structurally abnormal RBC’s; mildly reduced numbers of WBC’s, especially of neutrophils; and moderately to severely reduced numbers of platelets. The objective of the study was to study the haematological manifestation among alcoholics based on the quantity and duration of alcohol intake and compare them with non-alcoholics.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted for a period of one year in our medical college hospital in medicine OPD with the collaboration of department of pathology and bio-chemistry. The study was started after getting the approval from the institutional ethical committee. A total of 150 study subjects were included in the study in which 50 were non-alcoholics, 50 were moderate alcoholics (less than or equal to two drinks per day for men and less than or equal to one drink per day for women) and the remaining 50 were severe alcoholics (more than 7 drinks a week in women and more than 14 drinks in a week in men). Blood investigations such as CBC, prothrombin time, liver function test, renal function test, folic acid levels and vitamin B12 levels were measured and the levels were compared between alcoholics and non-alcoholics.Results: Mean RBC count, mean MCH, MCHC were normal among the non-alcoholic group and it started decreasing among moderate alcoholics and more so with severe alcoholics and a similar type of result was also seen with total count and platelet count and the difference was found to be statistically significant. LFT, RFT, prothrombin time and vitamin B12 levels were found to be high and folate levels were decreased among alcoholics group when compared to non-alcoholics and the difference was statistically significant.Conclusions: Detection of hematological changes in chronic alcoholics and giving psychiatric counseling and treatment for alcohol dependence will decrease the future complications like cirrhosis liver, cardiac and renal disease, cerebellar degeneration, neuropathy, pancreatitis, etc. and reduce the morbidity and mortality in alcoholics

Influence of endometrial thickness and embryo placement distance from fundus in in-vitro fertilization treatment

Background: In-vitro fertilization–embryo transfer (IVF-ET) has become progressively popular as a treatment for different type of infertility issues. Implantation of the embryo is an essential step and depends on various factors that play pivotal role in influencing the pregnancy outcomes in IVF cycle. It directly impacts on the efficiency of embryo transfer procedure, site of embryo deposition, catheter loading technique, embryo placement distance from the fundus and thickness of endometrium.Methods: In the present retrospective study, data from IVF-ET treatment cycles conducted at Srushti Fertility Centre and Women’s Hospital, Chennai, for a period between October 2021 and February 2022 were analysed. Women were divided into four groups according to embryo placement distance from fundus post embryo transfer group 1: 10 to 15 to 20 mm. According to endometrial thickness they were divided into two groups, group A: 6-10 mm and group B: 10-14 mm. Clinical pregnancy were assessed between the groups.Results: Clinical pregnancy rates were higher in groups 2 and 3 when compared to embryo placement distance from fundus 62.3% and 82.2%, distance of 10 mm and 20 mm and endometrial thickness of more than 10 mm (group B) had higher clinical pregnancy rates 66.3% than (group A) 43.5%.Conclusion: Ideal ET depth and optimum endometrial thickness were found to influence the clinical pregnancy rates. Embryo placement at 10-20 mm from fundus and endometrial thickness of more than 10 mm is recommended for optimal clinical pregnancy outcomes

Ovarian torsion in infertility treatment

Ovarian torsion, a rare problem in women can lead to serious consequences if not diagnosed and treated at the earliest. It is one of the complications that needs to be included in the differential diagnosis of any girl with abdominal pain or a pelvic or abdominal mass as the symptoms and signs are nonspecific and it can be related to other clinical causes. A 29-year-old woman who was under ovulation induction was diagnosed with ovarian torsion which was treated by performing laparoscopy. Investigations for ovarian torsion should be carried out for all the patients treated for infertility presenting with abdominal pain to minimize the risk before it is too late

Benchmarked simulation of antineutrino source terms for light water reactors during normal operation and diversion scenarios

Detection of reactor antineutrinos for non-proliferation applications has been researched extensively across the globe and is considered as a potential technology to remotely monitor reactor operations without any intrusions to reactor components. Reactor antineutrino detection experiments have been conducted in the past and have proven successful in detecting the changes in antineutrino source terms due to power level changes and to the changes due to fuel depletion within the core. However, the detector technology is still in its primitive stage to be successfully deployed for non-proliferation purposes. Simulation of reactor antineutrino signatures is vital to verify the experimental measurements. They also provide an insight into detector configurations required to monitor different reactor types and potential fuel diversion scenarios. In this thesis, the simulation of antineutrino signatures of light water reactors (LWRs) using industry standard reactor simulation tools, CASMO-4 and SIMULATE-3, is studied. Three different LWR reactors have been modeled and different diversion scenarios involving uranium di-oxide (UO₂) and mixed oxide (MOX) fuel have been simulated. The simulation results are also benchmarked with the antineutrino counts measured by the SONGS1 antineutrino detector that was used to monitor the operation of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), unit 2, cycle-13 during the period 2004-2005. A three-dimensional simulation of the reactor cores has been performed for improved accuracy of the detector response. Further, full core simulation allows reactor modeling without detailed information about the power histories of individual fuel assemblies, which was the case in previous research

Application of Advanced Hybrid Transport Methods for Nonproliferation Test Problems

The implementation of advanced hybrid (Monte Carlo/Deterministic) transport methods for realistic test problems has been a challenge due to the overhead efforts associated with interfacing a solution generated by a deterministic solver with a Monte Carlo based radiation transport code. In this work, with the help of Transpire, Inc., a hybrid methods workbench that consists of a multigroup Monte Carlo code has been developed within the framework of Attila™, a commercial deterministic tool for radiation transport problems. This workbench is used to test two advanced variance reduction techniques, the LIFT method and the VVR method on source-detector type test problems that are of interest for nonproliferation research. Further, the more common weight windows and source biasing based variance reduction techniques are also implemented based on the CADIS methodology. The performance of the hybrid methods has been analyzed on two photon test problems and one neutron test problem, both individually and when applied together. The behavior of the methods for different configurations of the problems have been studied and the limitations of the methods when applied to complex problem has been analyzed. From these observations, the possible research directions to improve the test bench as well as the methods itself are presented