Changes in the protein content of Lamellidens marginalis from Jayakwadi dam at paithan during different seasons (M.S) India

In the present study, variation in the protein content in soft body tissues of Lamellidensmarginalis were collected from Jayakwadi dam, at Paithan near Aurangabad was observed during different seasons. As variation in the environmental conditions, it shown an effect on protein contents in the tissues like, mantle, hepatopancreas, gonad and foot. Protein content maximum found in gonads throughout all the three seasons, whereas mantle shows minimum values of protein. There are great fluctuations in the values of protein during different seasons

Hybrid RFID-Based System Using Active Two-Way Tags

Ultra High Frequency (UHF) Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is a promising technology that has experienced tremendous growth by revolutionizing a variety of industry sectors and applications, such as automated data management, the tracking of a specified object, highway toll collection, library inventory tracking, multi-level asset tracking, and airport baggage control. For many RFID applications, it is desired to maximize the operating distance or read range. This thesis proposes a design of an analog front-end architecture and the baseband controller for a Class-4 Active Two-Way (C4-ATW) RFID tag in order to maximize or increase the tracking range by implementing a tag-hopping technique. In tag-hopping, C4-ATW RFID tags power their own communication with other C4-ATW RFID tags and existing passive RFID tag while the reader\u27s functionality remains unchanged. The simulation results indicate that the C4-ATW RFID tag can detect a minimum incident RF input power of -20 dBm at a 120 Kbps data rate. For -20 dBm input power; the achieved read range between a reader and tag is 36.7 meters at 4 W of reader power and between two tags, the read range is 2.15 meters at 25 mW tag power. Combined, the analog front end and baseband controller consume 50.3 mW of power and the area of the chip, including pads, is 854 µm x 542 µm

A REVIEW OF SELF HEALING SMART GRIDS USING THE MULTIAGENT SYSTEM

This paper is trying review different techniques us ed for self healing of the smart grid network. A smart grid has taken a very high importance in th e last ten years or so. Then the advancement in smart grid has taken a major importance. One of the most important aspects in the field of smart grid is a self healing of fault,and this att racted the researchers. As described in many research papers,one of the main requirements of th e electrical grid is to maintain zero gap between generation and distribution [2,3,4]. Howe ver deregulation and decentralized generation has given with the information and communication te chnology (ICT). This paper will summarize latest available techniques for self healing smart grids. https://www.ijiert.org/paper-details?paper_id=14035

Cultivating Distress: Cotton, Caste and Farmer Suicides in India

Nearly 4,00,000 farmers committed suicide in India between 1995 and 2018. This translates into approximately 48 suicides every day. The majority of suicides were those from ‘backwarded’ castes including Dalit farmers. This ethnographic study on cotton farmer suicide reports narratives of surviving Dalit families. The results reveal that financial and moral debt when accrued within a web of family and caste-related relationships result in patterns of personal and familial humiliation, producing a profound sense of hopelessness in the Self. This loss of hope and pervasive humiliation is ‘cultivated’  by a cascade of decisions taken by others with little or no responsibility to the farmers and the land they hope to cultivate as they follow different cultural and financial logic. Suicide resolves the farmers’ humiliation and is a logical conclusion to the farmer’s distress, which results from a reconfiguration of agricultural spaces into socially toxic places, in turn framing a local panopticon. The current corona virus pandemic is likely to impact adversely on peoples who are culturally distanced

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF WELDED JOINTS

Fusion welding is one of the most used methods for joining metals. This method has largely been developed by experiments, i.e. trial and error. The problem of distortion and residual stresses of a structure is due to welding is important to control. Industry where the components are expensive and safety and quality are highly important issues. The aim of the work presented in this paper is to develop an efficient and reliable method for simulation of the welding process using the Finite Element Method. The method may then be used when designing and planning the manufacturer of a component, so that introduction of new components can be made with as little disturbance as possible. When creating a numerical model, the aim is to implement the physical behavior of the process into the model. However, it may be necessary to compromise between accuracy of the model and the required computational time. Different types of simplifications of the problem and more efficient computation methods are discussed. Simulations have been carried out in order to validate the models. Moving heat source and element death & birth technique is used to simulate Welding Process

Analysis of cooling capacity and optimization of compressor outlet pressure for KW class helium refrigerator/liquefier

The main components of a helium liquefier determines the performance for a given compressor flow rate are Turbine, HE and JT valve. Turbine and JT valve produces cooling effect by isentropic and isenthalpic expansion. For each configuration main components can have different operating process parameters leading to different performance of HRL. This project involves the analysis and optimization of compressor outlet pressure for a given configuration. JT valve is at the lowest temperature to get the highest liquefaction which depends on the performance of other components so optimization of process parameter of JT valve is not considered here. One of the different cycle configurations is analyzed and is often used in HRL. This configuration, planned to use for the indigenous helium plant, has 3 turbines and 8 HE which produces liquid helium at 4.5 K. 1st and 2nd turbines operates at warmer temperature compared to 3rd and those are connected in series. Helium stream coming out of the 1st turbine passes to HE which will reduce its temperature before entering the 2nd turbine. Helium flow rate supplied by the compressor system is 210 g/s at 14 bar and 310 k. Effects of compressor flow rate and pressure on the cooling capacity of the plant have been analyzed. A part of this flow rate passes through a 1st and 2nd turbine for isentropic expansion to 1.2 bar and then this low pressure helium stream comes back to compressor suction through different HE to transfer cooling effect to the hot stream coming from the compressor. 3rd turbine will expand to 4 bar and this stream further passes through a HE before entering the JT valve for liquid helium production. This work involves different practical factors and in efficiencies of main components. The analysis result for flow of 140 g/s at 14 bars is further compared with the performance of existing helium plant at IPR which has same compressor flow parameter. The results are also compared with that of the aspen tech software

Effectiveness of ursodeoxycholic acid therapy in intrahepatic cholestatsis of pregnancy

Background: Intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) is a pregnancy specific disorder and commonly presents with maternal pruritus, abnormal liver function tests and adverse maternal -foetal outcomes. ICP lacks protocol-based therapy as etiology is multifactorial and is based on symptomatic treatment. The overall incidence of ICP is variable from 0.1 to 15.6% worldwide. The aim of this study is to assess the effectiveness of UDCA in ICP with regards to reduction in pruritus, normalizing LFTs and maternal-foetal outcomes.Methods: This multicentric prospective study was performed from June 2017 to December 2019 in pregnant women with ICP attending the Antenatal clinic at INHS Patanjali, MH Dehradun, INHS Asvini, INHS Sandhani. In this study, 50 women with ICP. who satisfied the inclusion and exclusion criteria were started on UDCA therapy. The effectiveness of therapy was evaluated on the basis of normalization of LFT levels, reduction in pruritus, safe confinement, maternal-foetal outcomes and adverse effects if anyResults: The pregnant women with ICP on UDCA therapy showed marked improvement in pruritus, near normal LFT levels. After the UDCA therapy the frequency and intensity of pruritus was reduced in 50 (100%) of women. Safe confinement was achieved, with normal delivery in 45 (90%) women with no any major adverse effects and adverse maternal-foetal outcomes.Conclusions: This study shows the effectiveness of URCA therapy in reducing the ICP associated pruritus, normalizing LFTs and safe confinement without any major adverse effects. UDCA therapy is an effective and safe option in ICP

Robust Winsorized Shrinkage Estimators for Linear Regression Model

In multiple linear regression, the ordinary least squares estimator is very sensitive to the presence of multicollinearity and outliers in the response variable. To handle these problems in the data, Winsorized shrinkage estimators are proposed and the performance of these estimators is evaluated through mean square error sense

Study of maternal, fetal and neonatal outcomes in patients with gestational diabetes mellitus in a tertiary care hospital

Background: GDM is defined as carbohydrate intolerance of variable severity with onset or first recognition during pregnancy. Women with gestational diabetes are characterized by a relatively diminished insulin secretion and pregnancy induced insulin resistance primarily present in the skeletal muscle tissue. Normal pregnancy is a diabetogenic state characterized by exaggerated rate and amount of insulin release, associated with decreased sensitivity to insulin at cellular levels. The objective of the study was to study the maternal, the fetal and the neonatal outcomes of treated patients of GDM in present study.Methods: It was a hospital based clinical study. 1000 patients were enrolled between 24-28 weeks of gestation and DIPSI test was performed. Diagnosis of GDM was done using DIPSI criteria. 80 patients were diagnosed with GDM and followed till delivery to study the maternal, fetal and neonatal outcome.Results: Elderly patients, patients with previous history of GDM, patients with family history of diabetes, patients with high BMI and patients with polyhydramnios are at high risk for GDM.Conclusions: Hypertensive disorders and preterm birth are known to be higher with GDM are similar to the non-GDM group suggesting that early diagnosis and prompt treatment and maintaining strict glycemic control by patient may be beneficial. GDM can be managed well on MNT and lifestyle modifications, only few patients required insulin therapy. In spite of appropriate glycemic control, the incidence of macrosomia found to be high in GDM group. Sudden unexplained stillbirth can occur in spite of strict glycemic control. Neonatal complications have occurred despite well glycemic control

A Review on Cooperative transmission mechanism for MIMO Equipped mobile Ad-Hoc Network

Mobile ad-hoc network is a temporary network connection created for a specific purpose such as transferring data from one node to other. With the rapid growth of wireless communication infrastructure over the recent few years, new challenges have been proposed on the system and on analysis of wireless ad-hoc networking.  Implementing MIMO equipped a cooperative transmission mechanism   in such type of network is enhancing the packet transmission capabilities of    network based on energy performance of the network and minimizes the BER