Evaluation of Co-existence of Helicobacter pylori and candida in the Oral Cavity of Dyspeptic patients

In our group comprising of 70 subjects, 60 patients presented with symptomatic gastritis and 10 were asymptomatic subjects who served as the control group. The symptomatic gastritis subjects had undergone endoscopy and gastric biopsy specimen was collected. Histopathologically, the biopsy specimen was observed for the presence of Helicobacter pylori. The subjects were divided into 3 groups. Group I comprised of 30 subjects with Helicobacter pylori in their gastric mucosa. Group II comprised of 30 subjects without Helicobacter pylori in their gastric mucosa. Group III comprised of 10 asymptomatic controls. • We found that there was a male predominance for gastritis in our study groups. The symptomatic gastritis was more commonly seen between the 3rd and 5th decade of life. • Our study findings conclude that subjects who are less than 30 years of age are more prone to have Candida in their saliva. • There was no difference in the mean CFU between the study groups and the mean CFU between the age groups did not show statistical difference. But, when stratified between gender, there was an increase in CFU with increasing age. • We found that oral candida carriage was more frequently seen in the younger age group and odd’s have shown that when compared to subjects above 50 years, symptomatic subjects less than 30 years have 7.5 times higher risk of getting salivary candidal carriage. • We found that there is no correlation between the presence or absence of salivary Helicobacter pylori and the presence or absence of Helicobacter pylori in the gastric mucosa. There was no correlation between salivary candida and the presence or absence of Helicobacter pylori in the gastric mucosa. • In our study, the patients with Candida and Helicobacter pylori in the saliva had 8 times more chance of having gastritis with Helicobacter pylori positivity in their gastric mucosa than in whom these organisms were not detected. • Further studies are needed to understand the relationship of Helicobacter pylori, Candida and gastritis

Effect of motor imagery with conventional physical therapy on upper extremity functions in hemiparetic stroke patients - An Experimental Study.

INTRODUCTION : Motor imagery is defined as “a dynamic state during which the representation of a specific motor action is internally reactivated within working memory without any overt motor output” and “occurring from the first person perspective.”15 A fast growing number of studies indicated that areas in brain engaged in the performance of movement are also active during motor imagery. Motor imagery might be used alongside physical rehabilitation in patients with neurological disorders and will probably be most effective in the reorganization of brain patterns is most prominent. AIM : To find out the effect of motor imagery with conventional physical therapy in upper extremity functions in hemiparetic stroke patients. OBJECTIVES : 1. To find out the effect of motor imagery with conventional physical therapy in upper extremity functions in hemiparetic stroke patients 2. To find out the effect of conventional physical therapy alone in upper extremity functions in hemiparetic stroke patients. 3. To compare the effects of motor imagery with conventional physical therapy and conventional physical therapy alone in improving upper extremity functions in hemiparetic stroke patients. Study design : Pre test post test experimental study design. Study population : Twenty ischemic MCA stroke patients with Movement imagery questionnaire-revised (MIQ-R) score more than 25 were taken into study. They were randomly assigned into group 1 and group 2 with ten patients in each group. Intervention : Patients in group 1 received motor imagery with conventional physical therapy. Patients in group 2 received conventional physical therapy alone. Motor imagery was given for about 1 hour a day, divided into two 20 min sessions with 10 min rest in between for 5 days a week. Conventional physical therapy was given for 1 to 1 ½ hours a day for 5 days a week. Treatment was given for 3 weeks duration. Outcome measures : The upper extremity section of Fugl-Meyer Assessment was used to assess the upper extremity function. RESULTS : After 3 weeks of intervention patients in group 1 showed greater improvement in upper extremity function than patients in group 2. CONCLUSION : Motor imagery is an effective tool and it can be incorporated into conventional physical therapy to improve upper extremity function

ECOSENSE: An Energy Consumption Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks

AbstractThis paper ‘ECOSENSE’ proposes a medium access protocol derived for wireless sensor networks. Energy is a precious resource for wireless sensor networks, as sensor nodes are powered by small batteries. Various approaches have been proposed so far, to increase the life of wireless sensor networks. With the goal of developing a practical, efficient energy consumption protocol for wireless sensor networks, we introduced a threshold policy for the nodes in the entire network, where the sensors are distributed activated, whenever they are required. We calculated the life period of sensors and using priority levels and threshold values, we prolong the lifespan of sensor nodes. Scheduling is done according to the remaining life period of sensor nodes. We compare our algorithm with the existing S-MAC protocol and found considerably better due to its reconfigurable activation policy

Effect of Curing Conditions and Freeze-Thaw Cycles on the Strength of an Expansive Soil Stabilized with a Combination of Lime, Jaggery, and Gallnut Powder

This investigation involved the utilization of the combination of lime, jaggery, and gallnut powder, adopted in South India traditionally. This combination of materials, used for the manufacture of lime-based mortars, was adopted in stabilization of an expansive soil. Three combinations of lime, jaggery, and gallnut powder (LJG) in the ratios of 8 : 2 : 2, 8 : 2 : 1, and 8 : 1 : 2 were put into use. The effect of subjecting the combinations to alternate cycles of freeze-thaw (up to 3 cycles) and three different curing conditions of air, moisture, and heat was also investigated. In addition, a mineralogical investigation for studying the reaction products was also carried out. The investigation proceeded with the determination of the unconfined compression strength (UCS) of stabilized specimens of dimensions 38 mm × 76 mm, cured for periods of 3, 7, 14, and 28 days. The results of the investigation revealed that the addition of LJG resulted in an increase in the strength of the stabilized soil. Freeze-thaw cycles resulted in a reduction in strength with LJG821 proving to be the most optimal combination developing the maximum strength and least strength loss due to freeze-thaw cycles. Thermal curing proved to be the most optimal curing condition out of all curing conditions evaluated

Human Cognition and Emotion using Physio Psychological Approach : A Survey

A soldier’s responsibility in the military includes his physical and mental attitudes which makes him to support the army in a full-fledged manner. This type of human dimension recognizes Soldier readiness from training proficiency to motivation for the Army’s future success. It introduces the concept of holistic fitness, a comprehensive combination of the whole person, including all components of the human dimension as a triad of moral, cognitive and physical components. The human dimension concept is directly related to the human mind and memory system. In this research, a system which will be capable of recognizing human emotions based on physiological parameters of a human body is discussed. The data from the system is fed to a computer where it is stored. Stored information regarding human parameters is retrieved and classified using support vector machine to generate a data set about the various emotions the human poses at a specific situation. The emotion, thus calculated is grouped to generate a grade for his present status. This grade is used to recommend the suitable working environment for the person

Design and Fabrication of Economic Motorized Wheelchair

Wheelchair is the device which is mainly used for physically challenged people. In the earlier day’s wheelchair were existed manually and dependent on other person for the mobility. In case a patient who has challenge in using their hands for mobility, then he/she needs another person help for mobility. In the world of Engineering, the Engineers play a vital role in the development of the society and provide comfort in their lifestyle. With this as primary objective our project had evolved the wheelchair with automatic control

Kulikovskiyia gen. nov. (Bacillariophyceae) from the lateritic rock pools of the Western Ghats, India and from Hainan Province, China

A new triundulate naviculoid diatom genus is described from the Western Ghats of Peninsular India and Hainan Province, China. The new taxon, Kulikovskiyia gen. nov. has robust conical spines along its margin and at the apices and the external valve face has longitudinally‐oriented siliceous slat system extending the length of the valve. The external distal raphe ends bifurcate and terminates on the valve face. There appear to be superficial similarities between this Asian genus and species and Playaensis, a genus comprised of two species found only in the western USA. The systematic position of Kulikovskiyia is discussed, and other than noting its similarities to other biraphid naviculoid diatoms due to symmetry features and the position of the raphe, we are uncertain about its systematic placement at finer levels of classification.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/153713/1/pre12400_am.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/153713/2/pre12400.pd

Self Controllable Health Care Monitoring Arrangement for Patient

In this undertaking is utilized to the Condition care monitoring system. Distributed Healthcare cloud computing arrangement considerably facilitates effectual patient treatment for health consultation by allocating confidential condition data amid healthcare providers. Though, it brings concerning the trial of keeping both the data confidentiality and patients’ individuality privacy simultaneously. Countless continuing admission manipulation and nameless authentication schemes cannot be straightforwardly exploited. The arrangement acts there are provider, doctor, patient and admin. The provider is list to website to consent staying to appeal dispatch to admin. Admin is Proved to in a particular provider it deeds to the present add to doctors and hospital divisions established. User or Patient is list to the site. Patient Login to present the deed booking the doctor appointment in situation patient to dispatch a feedback to that doctor treatment comments onward to admin. Doctors is add provider to dispatch a username and password .Doctor is login to think patient appointment features and checking the doctor is present patient or fake user to identified to dispatch to symptoms description upload files(x-ray).Admin is finished procedure is upheld in this system. Patient dispatch doctors feedback bad or wrong to particular doctors appointment annulled temporally. In this undertaking generally utilized for patient and hospital ,doctors features through online upheld for India astute established on card

Correlating Photoluminescence and Structural Properties of Uncapped and GaAs-Capped Epitaxial InGaAs Quantum Dots.

The understanding of the correlation between structural and photoluminescence (PL) properties of self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots (QDs), particularly InGaAs QDs grown on (001) GaAs substrates, is crucial for both fundamental research and optoelectronic device applications. So far structural and PL properties have been probed from two different epitaxial layers, namely top-capped and buried layers respectively. Here, we report for the first time both structural and PL measurements from an uncapped layer of InGaAs QDs to correlate directly composition, strain and shape of QDs with the optical properties. Synchrotron X-ray scattering measurements show migration of In atom from the apex of QDs giving systematic reduction of height and enlargement of QDs base in the capping process. The optical transitions show systematic reduction in the energy of ground state and the first excited state transition lines with increase in capping but the energy of the second excited state line remain unchanged. We also found that the excitons are confined at the base region of these elliptically shaped QDs showing an interesting volume-dependent confinement energy scaling of 0.3 instead of 0.67 expected for spherical dots. The presented method will help us tuning the growth of QDs to achieve desired optical properties