A Note on the Use of Ethnomedicine in Treatment of Diabetes by Mishing Communities

Ethnomedicinal field survey was conducted in few places of Sonitpur district and near by areas of Lakhimpur district of Assam, where diverse ethnic groups are living since time immemorial. The ethnic groups have very rich tradition of herbal medicines used in the treatment of various ailments. Among the tribal communities, Mishings constitute the largest group along with Bodos. The ethnomedicinal information was collected on the basis of interview and field studies with local healers among those communities. The identification of medicinal plants collected with help of indigenous healers was done. Such medicines have been shown to have significant healing power, either in their natural state or as the source of new products processed by them. Generally these formulations of crude products are considered moderate in efficacy and thus less toxic than most pharmaceutical agents. Our study is mainly concentrated with plants used in relation to cure of diabetes. In our report detail note on the method of preparation of precise dose, the part/parts of plants used and method of application is given. Scientific name, vernacular names and family names of collected plants are also given in the report

Investigation of the STEWARD Expert system for the Lake Pittsfield watershed

"Prepared for the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency.""December 1998."Includes bibliographical references (p. 31-32)

Texture zeros of low-energy Majorana neutrino mass matrix in 3+1 scheme

In this work we revisit the zero textures in low energy Majorana neutrino mass matrix when the active neutrino sector is extended by a light sterile neutrino in the eV scale i.e., the 3+1 scheme. In 3+1 scenario, the low energy neutrino mass matrix ($m_\nu$) has ten independent elements. Thus in principle one can have minimum one-zero texture to maximum ten-zero texture. We summarize the previous results of one, two, three and four-zero textures which already exist in the literature and present our new results on five-zero textures. In our analysis we find that among six possible five-zero textures, only one is allowed by the present data. We discuss possible theoretical model which can explain the origin of the allowed five-zero texture and discuss other possible implications of such a scenario. Our results also concludes that in 3+1 scheme, one can not have more than five-zeros in $m_\nu$.Comment: 12 pages, 3 figures. Version published in PR

A Note on the use of Ethnomedicine in Treatment of Diabetes by Mishing Communities in Assam, India

Ethnomedicinal field surveys were conducted in several places of Sonitpur district and near by areas of Lakhimpur district in Assam, where diverse ethnic groups have lived since time immemorial. The ethnic groups have very rich tradition of herbal medicines used in the treatment of various ailments. Among the tribal communities, Mishings constitute the largest group along with Bodos. The ethnomedicinal information was collected on the basis of interview and field studies with local healers among those communities. Medicinal plants were collected and identified with help from indigenous healers. Such medicines have been shown to have significant healing power, either in their natural state or as the source of new products processed by them. Generally these formulations of crude products are considered moderate in efficacy and thus less toxic than most pharmaceutical agents. Our study is mainly concentrated with plants used in relation to cure of diabetes. In our report, detailed notes on the method of preparation, precise dosage, the part/parts of plants used and method of application is given. Scientific name, vernacular names and family names of the collected plants are also given in this report

Smooth Phase Interpolated Keying

Smooth phase interpolated keying (SPIK) is an improved method of computing smooth phase-modulation waveforms for radio communication systems that convey digital information. SPIK is applicable to a variety of phase-shift-keying (PSK) modulation schemes, including quaternary PSK (QPSK), octonary PSK (8PSK), and 16PSK. In comparison with a related prior method, SPIK offers advantages of better performance and less complexity of implementation. In a PSK scheme, the underlying information waveform that one seeks to convey consists of discrete rectangular steps, but the spectral width of such a waveform is excessive for practical radio communication. Therefore, the problem is to smooth the step phase waveform in such a manner as to maintain power and bandwidth efficiency without incurring an unacceptably large error rate and without introducing undesired variations in the amplitude of the affected radio signal. Although the ideal constellation of PSK phasor points does not cause amplitude variations, filtering of the modulation waveform (in which, typically, a rectangular pulse is converted to a square-root raised cosine pulse) causes amplitude fluctuations. If a power-efficient nonlinear amplifier is used in the radio communication system, the fluctuating-amplitude signal can undergo significant spectral regrowth, thus compromising the bandwidth efficiency of the system. In the related prior method, one seeks to solve the problem in a procedure that comprises two major steps: phase-value generation and phase interpolation. SPIK follows the two-step approach of the related prior method, but the details of the steps are different. In the phase-value-generation step, the phase values of symbols in the PSK constellation are determined by a phase function that is said to be maximally smooth and that is chosen to minimize the spectral spread of the modulated signal. In this step, the constellation is divided into two groups by assigning, to information symbols, phase values that result in equal numbers of clockwise and counter-clockwise phase rotations for equally likely symbols. The purpose served by assigning phase values in this way is to prevent unnecessary generation of spectral lines and prevent net shifts of the carrier signal. In the phase-interpolation step, the smooth phase values are interpolated over a number, n, of consecutive symbols (including the present symbol) by means of an unconventional spline curve fit

Performance Evaluation of \u3cem\u3eKharif\u3c/em\u3e and \u3cem\u3eRabi\u3c/em\u3e Fodder Sorghum in Namsai District of Arunachal Pradesh

Deficiency of feed and fodder accounts for half of the total loss in dairy farming therefore, forages are called as backbone of livestock industry. The scarcity of green forages and grazing resources in the country has made the livestock to suffer continuously with malnutrition resulting in their production potentiality at sub-optimum level as compared to many developed nations (Anonymous, 2012). Arunachal Pradesh is well known for its ever green vegetation and biodiversity under hilly ecosystem. Though, it is situated at remotest part of country but possess huge scope of livestock farming. Namsai district of Arunachal Pradesh is a bordering district of Assam and having huge potential of milk production and its marketing which may help to improve the economic condition and poverty eradication of rural people. Cow is a major dairy animal here, however, the milk production capacity is very low as compared to other parts of the country. Dairy cow are reared in century old traditional way therefore, there are several areas of dairy management which needs improvement. Scarcity of feed and fodder is one of the major bottleneck which needs to be addressed urgently. Namsai district has very limited number of fodder crop and farmers mainly depend on non-conventional, public grazing land and forest vegetation. KVK Lohit (Namsai district) has introduced fodder sorghum in rainy and winter season for the first time in the district purposefully to improve the fodder availability under organized dairy farming in Namsai district

An Analytical Approach of Computational Complexity for the Method of Multifluid Modeling

In this paper we deal the building blocks of the computer simulation of the multiphase flows. Whole simulation procedure can be viewed as two super procedures, the implementation of VOF method and the solution of Navier Stoke’s Equation, Moreover, a sequential code for a Navier Stoke’s solver has been studied. Keywords- SIMPLE algorithm,  Krylov Subspace, Bi-Conjugate Gradient Stabilized (Bi-CGSTAB), ILUT function, Preconditioner, multifluid flows

Hydrologic modeling of the Court Creek Watershed

"Contract Report 2000-04.""March 2000.""IDNR Contract number G99C0230.

Evaluation of serum ferritin in in type II diabetes mellitus: a hospital based observational study from Dibrugarh, Assam, India

Background: Increased serum ferritin, reflecting body iron overload, is often associated with insulin resistance. The role of iron in the pathogenesis of diabetes is suggested by an increased incidence of type 2 diabetes mellitus in diverse causes of iron overload, and reversal or improvement in glycemic control) with a reduction in iron load achieved using either phlebotomy or iron chelation therapy.Methods: This study was carried out to assess Serum Ferritin levels in Type 2 diabetes mellitus and to examine whether a correlation between Serum ferritin and HbA1c% and fasting blood glucose levels exists. 92 type 2 diabetes subjects (M:F - 52:40) were studied and compared with age and gender matched controls.Results: The study showed that serum ferritin levels was significantly increased in diagnosed cases of type 2 diabetes mellitus in comparison with the age and gender matched healthy individuals (p value<0.01). A strong positive correlation was found between HbA1c% and serum ferritin levels and the correlation was found to be statistically significant (p<0.01). A strong positive correlation was also found between serum ferritin and fasting blood glucose levelsConclusions: Therefore, the findings in the present study indicates that serum ferritin was increased in diabetes as long as glycemic control was not achieved and that this increase may contribute to the pathogenesis of this disease as well as in the development of complications. Thus, routine screening for serum ferritin concentration in pre-diabetes and diabetic patients can be done to assess the body iron stores