Association of C- reactive protein level and lipid profile in periodontitis and ischemic heart disease in urban population of Malwa region

Background: Various studies have explored the relationship between periodontal disease and ischemic heart disease but their result is diverse. This review article is designed to update the relationship among periodontal disease and ischemic heart disease. Hence, the aim of the present study was to assess whether there is a link between periodontal and ischemic heart disease (IHD).Methods: This study includes 90 subjects, which were divided into 3 groups: 30 subjects -healthy individuals, 30 subjects- having Periodontitis, 30 subjects- suffering from ischemic heart diseases.Results: The mean OHI-S scores for group 1, 2 and 3 were 0.95±0.60, 2.91±0.90, 1.54±0.74 respectively. CRP level group 2 and 3 were significantly higher than group 1 (p=0.002 and 0.00 respectively) whereas difference between group 2 and 3 was not significantly significant. Lipid profiles, cholesterol, low density lipoprotein (LDL), triglycerides higher in group 2 as compare to 1 and 3. High density lipoprotein (HDL) levels between groups were not significantly different.Conclusions: Based on findings and other reports Periodontitis could be a predisposing factor for IHD and perhaps there can be an association among both the diseases

Improving freshwater monitoring frameworks for data and research management: report of user engagement initiative January 2018

The India-UK Water Centre (IUKWC) promotes cooperation and collaboration between the complementary priorities of NERC-MoES water security research. This report presents an overview of the joint India-UK scientific User Engagement Initiative held in Kochi from 23rd– 25th January, 2018. The event was convened by the India-UK Water Centre cocoordinators Dr A.K. Sahai (Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India) and Dr Harry Dixon (Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, UK). The initiative was organised by IUKWC Secretariat in collaboration with the Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK and Nansen Environmental Research Centre, Kochi. The event aimed to engage regional-level water policy and management bodies in discussions about how the latest India-UK scientific outputs could be used to help improve freshwater monitoring frameworks and data for research and management in the southern Indian region. The event was specifically focused towards addressing four key themes: Water Quality - Monitoring Pollution & Treatment; Monitoring Aquatic Ecosystems & Biodiversity; Irrigation - Monitoring Availability and Consumption; and Water Provision : Monitoring Supply & Consumption. The event was multi-sectoral and multi-stakeholder in nature. Representatives from organizations responsible for the development of water policy and the management of freshwater issues in Kerala, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Orissa attended. Amongst others, this included the Kerala Biodiversity Board, Kerala Water Resources Department, Karnataka State Biodiversity Board, Karnataka Water Resources Department, Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, Tamil Nadu Water Supply Board, and Orissa Pollution Control Board. Discussion focused on the theme of Improving Freshwater Monitoring Frameworks and Data for Research and Management. Scientists from UK and Indian institutions presented the state-of-the-art in joint India-UK water security research, in the areas of water supply and management, water quality, biodiversity and irrigation. Indian Institutions including the National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee, National Institute of Oceanography, Kochi, Central Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, Kochi, Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and Environment, Cochin University of Science & Technology, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, National Water Academy, amongst others, participated actively in the initiative. UK participants included experts from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, British Geological Survey, University of Stirling and University of Portsmouth. This report outlines the structure, participation, presentation and discussion sessions undertaken during the course of the event. The report is intended for the workshop participants, India-UK Water Centre members and stakeholders

Opportunities and challenges in food entrepreneurship: In-depth qualitative investigation of millet entrepreneurs

Consumer food preferences are undergoing a rapid transformation, and there has been a heightening of interest in eating healthy, sustainable foods. Food entrepreneurs are cashing in on the trend and are diversifying their existing offerings to include healthier options using alternate ingredients such as millets. However, these entrepreneurs face several challenges, and the actual growth of the market is lower than expected. The present study examines the opportunities and challenges faced by millet entrepreneurs. A total of 25 millet entrepreneurs were interviewed using a semi-structured qualitative design. Key opportunities include increased awareness of millets, people going back to their traditions, and informative food labels were the key opportunities, while a lack of awareness, lack of familiarity, preparation difficulty, sensory attributes, lack of affordability, inferior image, customer distrust, and millets’ longer gestational cycle were major challenges.publishedVersio

Impact of different musical nodes and vibrations on plant development

The effects of ambient environmental factors on physiological attributes of plants have been explored extensively. Among all the factors, impact of sound on the plants is an interesting aspect to study. This review attempts to comprehend the impact of sound waves on the development and behaviour of the plants. Musical nodes with healing energy have a certain impact on seeds germination. This can enhance overall plant health by improving growth and resistance, beyond chemical triggers.. In past, seed growth and germination behaviour, influenced by different pre-treatments has been studied for different plants. This review is an effort to provide an indication of the recent results, constraints, and prospective applications of sound wave therapy as a physical trigger for modulating physiological characteristics and giving plants an adaptive benefit. Sound wave therapy is now emerging as a fresh promotion for protecting crops from harmful circumstances and maintaining plant fitness

Learning video embedding space with Natural Language Supervision

The recent success of the CLIP model has shown its potential to be applied to a wide range of vision and language tasks. However this only establishes embedding space relationship of language to images, not to the video domain. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to map video embedding space to natural langugage. We propose a two-stage approach that first extracts visual features from each frame of a video using a pre-trained CNN, and then uses the CLIP model to encode the visual features for the video domain, along with the corresponding text descriptions. We evaluate our method on two benchmark datasets, UCF101 and HMDB51, and achieve state-of-the-art performance on both tasks

Review of the State of the Art of Transfer Learning for Plant Leaf Diseases Detection

Plant leaf diseases can have a significantly negative influence on the quantity and quality of agricultural cultivation, as well as the safety of food production. Plant leaf diseases could potentially entirely prevent the harvest of grains in some situations. Therefore, it is extremely important from a pragmatic standpoint to look for quick, automatic, cheap, and accurate ways to detect plant leaf diseases. One of the well-known plant leaf disease detection approaches is deep learning. Deep learning has several drawbacks as a result of the huge amount of data required to train the network. When a dataset has inadequate photographs, performance falls. An approach called "Transfer Learning" is an extensively used method for addressing the shortcomings of a small dataset, the length of the training process, and improving the performance of the model. In this study, we investigated transfer learning for deep CNNs to improve the learning capability to recognize leaf disease. This survey focuses on categorizing and analyzing the recent developments in transfer learning for Deep CNN situations to enhance learning performance by reducing the need for extensive training data collecting

Isolation and Screening of Potent Cellulolytic Soil Fungi from Raipur City of Chhattisgarh State, India

The current research focuses on the diversity of fungal isolates obtained from the soil and their ability to produce cellulolytic enzymes. Out of 76 colonies obtained, 11 fungal colonies were isolated viz. Aspergillus, Humicola and Rhizopus being the major genera of the isolates. From the 11 isolates, the identification of potent cellulase producing cultures was done using qualitative carboxy methyl cellulase screening test. Following the preliminary screening, five cultures viz., Aspergillus sydowii, Humicola sp-1, Aspergillus niger, Aspergillus ustus, Aspergillus flavus were identified to be potent with enzymatic indices ranging from 1.25 to 2.29. These were further selected for quantitative enzyme analysis. Aspergillus sydowii was found to have highest enzymatic activity and Aspergillus flavus was found to have the least enzymatic activity. Our findings revealed that Aspergillus sydowii appeared to be a promising candidate for cellulase production and can be utilized for waste recycling and other biotechnological applications

Epistaxis: the cause found beyond the nose

Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) is a malignant disease that is often diagnosed at a metastatic stage. The head and neck represent up to 3% of the metastatic RCC, and the paranasal sinus area is one of the least involved sites. Here, we introduce the case of a 74-year-old female patient who presented with a history of traumatic nasal bleed. A cranial computed tomography scan and magnetic resonance imaging showed a fronto-ethmoidal mass with pachymeningeal involvement. A nasal biopsy from the paranasal sinuses was taken. On histopathological examination, metastatic clear cell carcinoma was the main hypothesis, which later was confirmed to be RCC on immunohistochemistry. On further radiological examination, an exophytic mass was depicted in the kidney’s upper and middle pole. The patient had no renal complaints and was asymptomatic. Fronto-ethmoidal sinus is a rare site for metastatic RCC, especially in cases where the patient is asymptomatic. Early detection by keeping RCC metastasis as the differential diagnosis in such cases can lead to early treatment and improve the overall survival of the patient

SOLID DISPERSION OF NEBIVOLOL HYDROCHLORIDE IMPREGNATED BUCCAL PATCH: FORMULATION AND CHARACTERIZATION

Objective: The objective of the present investigation was to design and characterize a mucoadhesive buccal patch of Nebivolol hydrochloride in order to administer a small dose of a drug to treat hypertension effectively and thereby avoiding disadvantages such as patient noncompliance and low bioavailability. Methods: The buccal patches were prepared by solvent casting method. The polymers used to formulate patches were HPMC K 15 M, PVP K 30, and propylene glycol was used as plasticizer and ethanol as the solvent. The drug-polymer compatibility studied was conducted by FTIR. Results: All the developed Patches had good transparency and stability. All formulated patches showed pH in the range of 6.49 to 7.22, and drug content was more than 90%. The folding endurance value showed that the patches are flexible and non-brittle. The in vitro residence time was found to more than 30 min. Thickness, % moisture absorption, and % moisture loss values were in a normal range. The drug release study was conducted for 8 h, and it was found drug release was decreased with the increase in polymer concentration. The in vitro release profiles of the drug from all the formulations appeared to follow Korsmeyer Peppa's exponential model, and release exponent (n) was found to be more than 0.45 so that the release can be characterized by Non–Fickian (anomalous) diffusion. Conclusion: From the results, it was concluded that drug released from formulated buccal patches follows sustained release pattern, Hence can be used for the treatment of the hypertensive patient