DIY Makers' Day

Inspire users to actively engage with reducing, reusing, and recycling by hosting a DIY Makers’ Day. Chapter describes how to create this hands-on event that is jam-packed with DIY projects featuring creative reuse and sustainable ingredients. Participants leave with goodies they’ve made and recipes and instructions so they can continue creating at home. This is a great event for showcasing your library’s and community’s green resources

See How Our Garden Grows: Cultivating Community through a Fruit and Veggie Exchange

Celebrate local food, community, and thebounty of harvest as library folks gather toshare fruits, vegetables, seeds, preserves, gardening and food publications, and their own knowledge. Promote sustainability and nurture a robust community by bringing coworkers together to share produce from their own gardens

It Takes a Village Sustainability Starter

We all believe in sustainability and work to be green as individuals, but there’s power insharing our knowledge and values and working together. Grow your sustainability efforts beyond single events by creating an advisory, education, and outreach group

Survey of Different Segmentation Method for Low Quality Fingerprint Image

In Computer Vision, Segmentation Refers to the Process of Portioning a Image into Multiple Segments (Sets of Pixels).The goal of Segmentation is to Simplify and change the Representation of an Image into Something that is More Meaningful and Easier to Analyze. Fingerprint Segmentation is an Important Pre-Processing step in Automatic Fingerprint Identification System. The task  of  a fingerprint  Segmentation Algorithm is to Decide Which Part of the Image belongs to the fore-ground, Originating from the Contact of a fingertip With the Sensor, and Which Part to the Background , Which is the Noisy area at the border of the Image. We Study Different Algorithm for the Segmentation of fingerprints is Presented and SVM (support vector machine) Classifier for fingerprint Image Classification. Segmentation and Classification are the Important Concepts of Digital Image processing (DIP

An Association of Efficient Mining by Compressed Database

Data mining can be viewed as a result of the natural evolution of information technology. The spread of computing has led to an explosion in the volume of data to be stored on hard disks and sent over the Internet. This growth has led to a need for data compression, that is, the ability to reduce the amount of storage or Internet bandwidth required to handle the data. This paper analysis the various data mining approaches which is used to compress the original database into a smaller one and perform the data mining process for compressed transaction such as M2TQT,PINCER-SEARCH algorithm, APRIORI & ID3 algorithm, TM algorithm, AIS & SETM, CT-Apriori algorithm, CBMine, CTITL algorithm, FIUT- Tree. Among the various  techniques M2TQT uses the relationship of transactions to merge related transactions and builds a quantification table to prune the candidate item sets which are impossible to become frequent in order to improve the performance of mining association rules. Thus M2TQT is observed to perform better than existing approaches

cn u hlp? Collaborative Chat Reference and Instruction

Not only has the use of chat reference created new learning spaces, studies have shown that instruction regularly occurs during the virtual interactions. However, these studies have focused on a single institution’s experience and do not address the additional challenges faced by a consortium of libraries. Ask a UC Librarian, staffed by seven of the ten University of California campuses, is an example of a consortium exploring this new learning space together. We will present the challenges, rewards, and what we have learned in building a supportive literacy learning environment that provides instruction to students via collaborative chat reference

Environmental Impacts of Mining on Bundelkhand Region of Uttar Pradesh, India

Surface mining creates more pollution in comparison to underground mining. This paper highlights the impact of mining on air, water and human health in and around the mining areas of Jhansi, Bundelkhand region, India. The possibility of leaching contaminants from the ore material kept in the open ground or from the wastages or degraded ore material produced during the mining processes may contaminate the groundwater in the study area. The mining activity comprising drilling, blasting, loading of waste, transport of overburden and crushing of ore is having considerable impacts on the air environment and well being of living organism. Mining either by opencast or by underground methods damages the water regime and thus causes a reduction in the overall availability of water in and around the mining areas. This study showed that the ground water and surface water was alkaline in nature. Mineral handling, mineral preparation and associated activities mainly contribute RSPM and SPM to the surrounding environment. The minimum and maximum value of RSPM and SPM was 173.1 mg m-3 to 212 mg m-3 and 462.4 mg m-3 to 521.3 mg m-3 respectively. High levels of suspended particulate matter increase respiratory diseases such as chronic bronchitis and asthma causing health hazards to the exposed population. Metals like Cd, Mn, Pb, Cu, Fe and Si concentrations were found to the above permissible limit at some places in different seasons and may cause health hazards in existing environment

Evolving Space: An Examination of Coffee Shops in Academic Libraries

This paper discusses the need for coffee shops in academic libraries. It reviews library literature to evaluate the current situation. Students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, and North Carolina State University were surveyed. Libraries at all three campuses provide or allow coffee in their buildings. A questionnaire was used to determine how students are using academic libraries. In addition, they were asked about their coffee drinking habits. After examining the findings, suggestions are made for libraries considering providing a coffee service for their users

Comparative study of induction of labour with dinoprostone gel versus mechanical dilatation in unfavorable cervix (low Bishops Score)

Background: Induction of labour is a common procedure in obstetrics, occurring in upto 30% of pregnancies. Objective of present study was to compare the efficacy of double balloon transcervical catheter to that of a PG vaginal insert among women undergoing labour induction in terms of singleton pregnancies of both nulliparous and multiparous women with an unfavorable cervix.Methods: Patient admitted for induction of labour were randomized to receive intravaginal dinoprostone or intracervical Foley’s catheter. Patient not entering active labour and having rupture membranes or arrest of dilatation received IV oxytocin.Results: 150 patients received dinoprostone gel (group A) and 150 patients received Foleys catheter no.18 (group B). The mean time until cervix ripening was less in group A group (0.0001-p value). The mean time until vaginal delivery was less in the Group A group (p value-0.010) among vaginal deliveries more patients in the Group A group delivered within 24 hours (0.0001-P value.). There was significant differences in cesarean delivery rates (8% vs 20.66%, P value-0.0001, sig). Oxytocins is required in both groups (73.33% vs. 78.66%).Conclusions: Group A was associated with more rapid cervical ripening, shorten induction to vaginal delivery interval and greater no. of vaginal deliveries within 24 hours

Bilateral cerebral oxygen saturation monitoring in carotid body tumour excision under general anaesthesia: a case report

Carotid Body tumour is an uncommon non-chromaffin paraganglioma arising from chemoreceptor cells at the external and internal carotid artery bifurcation. The reported incidence is 1-2 cases per 1,00,000 population. Surgical excision is extremely difficult and possess challenges to both surgeon and the anaesthetist. We report here a case of CBT excision with the use of cerebral oximetry to reduce the chances of intra-operative cerebral ischemia.