Webometric Analysis of Centres of Indian Statistical Institute in India

Websites have become an essential media of communication for every institution as they efficiently disseminate the information to their users. This paper investigates the Web presence of ISI centres in India. The study analyses the number of webpages, various links such as Inlinks, Self-links and External links of websites by collecting information from the internet using various search engines (like Exalead, Google and Bing). Also, it analyses the Web Impact Factor and WISER rank for each website used in this study. It also presents the link-network diagram of ISI centres using SocSciBot 4 Software

Social and Web presence of Cultural Heritage Organisations in India

The present study focuses on the Social and Web presence of 27 Cultural Heritage Organisations in India. The purpose of this study is to investigate the domain authority, number of webpages, links, calculate the web impact factors and link-mentions on Social Networking Sites of the websites of Cultural Heritage Organisations and rank them accordingly. Analysing the websites of the Cultural Heritage Organisations it was found that majority of them have \u27.gov.in\u27 domain name in their URLs. The study found that the highest domain authority (63) and page authority (51) was recorded by website of the Archaeological Survey of India. Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts ranked first in the global popularity ranking, with an Alexa rank of 289,037. Sahitya Akademi was first, with a bounce rate of 29.70 percent and the most average pages viewed by users per day (4.3). Lalit Kala Akademi ranked first in terms of estimated daily time spent on the site by visitors (06:14). With the highest number of in-links (646), Archaeological Survey of India ranked first. In WIF calculation, Archaeological Survey of India occupied first place with 7576.099 Simple Web Impact Factor. National Council of Science Museums with (0.865) Self-link Web Impact Factor holds the first position. External Web Impact Factor and Revised Link Web Impact Factor of North East Zone Cultural Centre with 1.137 EWIF and 0.549 RLWIF was found to be the highest. Sahitya Akademi (5,087) ranked first among all the Cultural Heritage Organisations under study, with the most link-mentions on Social Networking Sites (SNS)

Impact of awareness about hypertension on compliance to antihypertensive medication

Background: Hypertension, a common cardiovascular disorder accounts for 20-50% of all deaths. This risk can be greatly ameliorated by creating awareness about disease and its effective treatment alongside regular medical check-ups. Therapeutic failures result from patient non-compliance, manifested as intentional or unintentional errors in dosage or schedule, overuse or underuse of prescribed drugs and early termination of therapy. Adherence is helpful for management of hypertension and cost minimization. Non-adherence to the drug treatment is an important factor for uncontrolled hypertension and its complications.Methods: Patients were interviewed individually after taking informed consent, using pretested, predesigned, self- administered and closed ended questionnaire both before and 4 weeks after creating awareness about hypertension and its complications. Compliance measured by self-reporting in which knowledge of the patient about number of antihypertensive drugs being used, formulations of drugs, frequency of administration, duration of taking the drugs and knowledge of complications due to uncontrolled and untreated hypertension were assigned 1 score each. Patient having score of at least 4 out of total 5 was considered compliant.Results: No significant association of compliance with demographic and other variables like age, sex, marital status, economic status, education, urbanization, duration of treatment and drug procurement were noted. A significant increase in compliance in patients on antihypertensive medication was found 4 weeks after creating awareness about hypertension and its complication. A significant increase in compliance scores was also seen in non-compliant patients showing their shifting from non-compliance to compliance group. Overall compliance increased from 59.38% to 84.38%. A percentage decrease from 58.82% to 25% in patients having uncontrolled hypertension was also observed after the awareness about hypertension.Conclusions: Demographic variables, duration of hypertension and drug procurement have no significant effect on compliance to antihypertensive medication. There is persistence and improvement in compliance to antihypertensive medications after an education of the patients about hypertension and its complications

Synergistic Effect of Garcinol and Curcumin on Antiproliferative and Apoptotic Activity in Pancreatic Cancer Cells

Pancreatic cancer (PaCa) is a major health concern due to its aggressiveness and early metastasis. Current treatments for PaCa are limited by development of resistance against therapy. As an alternative strategy, we assessed the combinatorial effect of dietary compounds, garcinol and curcumin, on human PaCa cells (BxPC-3 and Panc-1). A significant (P < 0.05) dose-dependent reduction in cell viability and increase in apoptosis were observed in both cell lines as compared to untreated controls. A combination index (CI) value < 1, for a two-way comparison of curcumin and garcinol, suggests synergism. The potency (Dm) of the combination of garcinol and curcumin was 2 to 10 fold that of the individual agents. This indicates that curcumin and garcinol in combination exhibit a high level of synergism, with enhanced bioactivity, thereby reducing the required effective dose required for each individually. This combinatorial strategy may hold promise in future development of therapies against PaCa

On Circulant-Like Rhotrices over Finite Fields

Circulant matrices over finite fields are widely used in cryptographic hash functions, Lattice based cryptographic functions and Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). Maximum distance separable codes over finite field GF2 have vital a role for error control in both digital communication and storage systems whereas maximum distance separable matrices over finite field GF2 are used in block ciphers due to their properties of diffusion. Rhotrices are represented in the form of coupled matrices. In the present paper, we discuss the circulant- like rhotrices and then construct the maximum distance separable rhotrices over finite fields

Formulation and Evaluation of Anti-Acne Herbal Face Wash Gel

Acne is a chronic inflammatory disorder of pilosebaceous unit, which involves increased sebum production by sebaceous glands and abnormal desquamation of hair follicles occur in response to increasing androgen levels with the onset of puberty. Obstruction of follicles causes follicular distention which is often accompanied by the proliferation of the bacteria Propionibacterium acnes and the activation of an inflammatory response.&nbsp;The present work aimed to prepare the face wash gel containing Thai herbal extract.The plants have been reported in the literature having good anti-microbial, anti-oxidant and anti-inflammatory activity. Prepared formulation was evaluated for various parameters like colour, appearance, consistency, pH, viscosity, stability studies and consumer acceptance test.&nbsp;Results showed that the gels were non-irritant, stable and posses anti-acne activity. The efficacy when tested with a standard was almost same to that of polyherbal gel. Concluded that from this study, extract was proved to be stable and considered as an effective herbal formulation for acne treatment. Keywords: Acne vulgaris, Anti-acne activity, Anti-microbial, Inflammatory response

A Novel FIFO Design for Data transfer In Mixed Timing Systems

In the current scenario, with the increasing integration densities, most system-on-chip designs are partitioned into multiple clock domains .In this paper an asynchronous FIFO (First-in First-out pipeline) design is employed as a data transfer interface between two independent clock domains .Since the clocks on the either sides of the FIFO run at a different speed, the task to ensure the correct data transmission through this FIFO is manually performed. Firstly an existing asynchronous FIFO design is discussed and simulated. Gate-level simulation results depicted the flaw in existing design. In order to solve this problem, a novel modified asynchronous FIFO design is proposed. The results obtained from proposed design are in perfect accordance with theoretical expectations. The proposed asynchronous FIFO design outperforms the existing design in terms of accuracy and speed. In order to evaluate the performance of the FIFO designs presented in this paper, the circuits were implemented in 0.24µ TSMC CMOS technology and simulated at 2.5V using HSpice (© Avant ! Corporation).The layout design of the proposed FIFO is also presented

Formulation and Evaluation of Antifungal Herbal Gel Containing Ethanolic Extract of Senna Alata, Murraya Koenigii and Aloe Vera

Herbal medicines is still the mainstay of about 75-80% of the world’s population, mainly in developing countries, for primary health care because of better cultural acceptability, better compatibility with human body and lesser side effects. Herbal medicines consist of plant or its part to treat injuries, disease or illnesses and are used to prevent and treat diseases and ailments or to promote health and healing. it is a drug or preparation made from a plant or plants and used for any to such purpose. The aim of present study was to prepare herbal gel formulation containing ethanolic extract ofantifungal herbal gel containing ethanolic extract of senna alata, murraya koenigi iand aloevera. Topical gel formulation was designed by using ethanolic extract antifungal herbal gel containing ethanolic extract of senna alata, murraya koenigii and aloevera in varied concentrations. The gel was prepared by using carbopol 940(1%w/v),ethanol,propylene glycol, methyl paraben, propyl paraben, edta disodium, tri-ethanolamine and required amount of distilled water. the prepared gels were evaluated for physical appearance, ph, spread ability, drug content, swelling index, diffusion study, viscosity, homogeneity and grittiness. it was inferred from results that gel formulations were good in appearance and homogeneity. Antifungal herbal gel containing ethanolic extract of senna alata, murraya koenigii and aloevera based gel proved to the formula of choice, since it showed the highest percentage of extrudability, good spreadability and rheological properties. Keywords: Ethanolic extract, Optimization, Rheological properties, Anti fumgal activity