Comparison of outcome of Modified Millard’s Incision and Delaire’s Functional Method in Primary Repair of Unilateral Cleft Lip.

Objective: To contrast results of two surgical methods for correction of Unilateral Cleft lip. Methodology: Prospective study was conducted from October 2018 to October 2019 after ethical approval from institute ethical board. Data was collected than arranged over Microsoft Excel 2007.Variables then formed or for further statistical results data was entered in SPSS version 15.0. Variables were assessed by using. . Standard Deviation and Mean was calculated and presented for quantitative data like age and weight. Frequency (percentages) were calculated and presented for qualitative data such as gender and outome variables. Post stratification statistical chi square test was used to see effect modification. P value ≤ 0.05 was considerable. Results: Out of 100% (n=66) unilateral cleft lip patients, 50% (n=33) patients each were operated with Modified Millard’s incision and Delaire’s functional method respectively. Various parameters were analyzed—white roll match, cupid bow, lip length and alar dome demonstrated favorable measurements in Millard’s group and the vermilion match, scar appearance, nostril symmetry and alar base was better in Delaire’s methods. All the differences in these parameters were not statistically significant, except lip length (p=0.023). Conclusion: Overall clinical outcomes like vermilion match, white roll, and cupid bow appearance was similarly effective in both techniques. Outcome related to lip length was considerable in incision by Millard’s technique. Similarly nasal symmetry was better in Delaire’s functional method. This leads to significance of one method over other. Keywords: Primary Repair, Modified Millard’s, Delaire’s Functional Method Unilateral Cleft Lip. DOI: 10.7176/JMPB/54-04 Publication date: April 30th 201

Internet of Things: Architectural Components, Protocols and Its Implementation for Ubiquitous Environment

Ubiquitous data processing of the sensing nodes has revolutionized the development of electronic industries manufacturing. The concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) is the connectivity of distributed sensing and processing nodes from anywhere rather than fixed computing. For the Implementation of Ubiquitous smart environment, anything and everything can be converted to smart IO Things, and where things have sensing and processing abilities for automation and analysis of environmental processes. Sensors, actuators, embedded processing systems, networking gateways, and IoT Cloud Services are the building blocks of IoT implementation. This paper presents a brief discussion on the connectivity of building blocks with various enabling technologies for the implementation of the Internet of Things. Moreover, many of data link standards and the internet of things data communication protocols will be in the discussion

Comparison between conventional and harmonic techniques in bleeding control during Thyroidectomy

Objective: The basic aim of this study is to find out comparison between conventional and harmonic techniques in bleeding control during Thyroidectomy. Methodology: This randomized control trial was conducted in Surgery Department, Bahawal Victoria Hospital Bahawalpur. This study was completed in 5 months (August 2018 to January 2019) and all the patients under trial were asked for informed consent. A total number of 100% (n=62) were taken in this trial and online source Openepi.com was used for calculating sample size. Patients were selected by lottery method. Computer software SPSS version 23.2 was used for complete data entry and analysis. All the descriptive variables like onset of action and age were presented as SD and mean. Statistical test ANOVA was applied to find the significance among all groups. Chi square test was applied for analysis of continuous stats among groups. P value 0.05 was to be considered as significant. Result: A total number of 100% (n=62) patients were included, divided into two equal groups, 31 in each i.e. harmonic scalpel and conventional knot groups. The mean age of the patients, in harmonic scalpel group, was 45.29±4.56 years. There were 64.5% (n=20) males and 35.5% (n=11) females. The mean age of the patients, in conventional knot, was 44.96±2.97 years. There were 74.2% (n=23) males and 25.8% (n=8) females. No significant difference was found for age (t=0.329, p=0.743) and gender (χ2=0.683, p=0.409) in groups. The main outcome variables of this study were the time of procedure (minutes) and blood loss volume (ml). The mean time of procedure was 98.80±16.52minutes and 119.81±9.95 minutes for the harmonic scalpel and conventional knot groups respectively. Significant difference was found for the time of procedure in groups (t=-6.060, p-value = 0.000). Conclusion: The whole study can be ended with this conclusion that the harmonic scalpel is more effective than the conventional method of ligation or knotting in thyroidectomy. Its use offer many clinical benefits including reduction in time of surgery and blood volume as well. Keywords: Thyroidectomy, Harmonic, Conventional and Bleeding control. DOI: 10.7176/JMPB/54-09 Publication date: April 30th 201

Large Scale Synthesis of Binary Composite Nanowires in the Mn2O3-SnO2 System with Improved Charge Storage Capabilities

Large scale production of electrochemical materials in non-conventional morphologies such as nanowires has been a challenging issue. Besides, functional materials for a given application do not often offer all properties required for ideal performance; therefore, a composite is the most sought remedy. In this paper, we report large scale production of a composite nanowire, viz. Mn2O3-SnO2, and their constituent binary nanowires by a large scale electrospinning pilot plant consisting of 100 needles. Electrochemical characterization of thus produced composite nanowires showed nearly threefold increase in the discharge capacity compared to their single component counterparts: Mn2O3-SnO2 ∼53 mA h g−1 (specific capacitance, CS ∼384 F g−1); Mn2O3 ∼18 mA h g−1 (CS ∼164 F g−1); and SnO2 ∼14 mA h g−1 (CS ∼128 F g−1) at 1 A g−1 in 6 M KOH. The EIS studies showed that the characteristic resistances and time of the composite electrode are appreciably lower than their constituents. Owing to the scalability of the synthesis processes and promising capacitive properties achieved would lead the composite material as a competitive low-cost and high-performance supercapacitor electrode

Two-stream deep learning architecture-based human action recognition

Human action recognition (HAR) based on Artificial intelligence reasoning is the most important research area in computer vision. Big breakthroughs in this field have been observed in the last few years; additionally, the interest in research in this field is evolving, such as understanding of actions and scenes, studying human joints, and human posture recognition. Many HAR techniques are introduced in the literature. Nonetheless, the challenge of redundant and irrelevant features reduces recognition accuracy. They also faced a few other challenges, such as differing perspectives, environmental conditions, and temporal variations, among others. In this work, a deep learning and improved whale optimization algorithm based framework is proposed for HAR. The proposed framework consists of a few core stages i.e., frames initial preprocessing, fine-tuned pre-trained deep learning models through transfer learning (TL), features fusion using modified serial based approach, and improved whale optimization based best features selection for final classification. Two pre-trained deep learning models such as InceptionV3 and Resnet101 are fine-tuned and TL is employed to train on action recognition datasets. The fusion process increases the length of feature vectors; therefore, improved whale optimization algorithm is proposed and selects the best features. The best selected features are finally classified using machine learning (ML) classifiers. Four publicly accessible datasets such as Ut-interaction, Hollywood, Free Viewpoint Action Recognition using Motion History Volumes (IXMAS), and centre of computer vision (UCF) Sports, are employed and achieved the testing accuracy of 100%, 99.9%, 99.1%, and 100% respectively. Comparison with state of the art techniques (SOTA), the proposed method showed the improved accuracy

Using Semantic Web to Enhance User Understandability for Online Shopping License Agreement

Abstract. Normally, a common user sign license agreement without understanding the agreement. License agreements are a form of information, which describes product's usage and its terms and conditions. Habitually, users agree with it but without understanding. In the today’s information age, there is no integration of license agreements with any current technology. The contents of license agreements are out of scope for search engines. Management of license agreements using Semantic Web is a multi-disciplinary challenge, involving categorization of common features and structuring the required information in such semantics that is easily extendable and fulfilling the requirements of common user. In this paper construction of Semantic Web model for Online Shopping license agreement is discussed. The user requirements facilitate the construction of License Ontological model. Moreover, rules are used to capture the complex statements of “terms and conditions”. Finally, an explicit semantic model for agreements is constructed that facilitates users ’ queries

Pseudocapacitive Charge Storage in Single-Step-Synthesized CoO-MnO2-MnCo2O4 Hybrid Nanowires in Aqueous Alkaline Electrolytes

A new pseudocapacitive combination, viz. CoOMnO2−MnCo2O4 hybrid nanowires (HNWs), is synthesized using a facile single-step hydrothermal process, and its properties are benchmarked with conventional battery-type flower-shaped MnCo2O4 obtained by similar processing. The HNWs showed high electrical conductivity and specific capacitance ( Cs) (1650 Fg −1 or 184 mA h g −1 at 1 A g−1) with high capacity retention, whereas MnCo2O4 nanoflower electrode showed only one-third conductivity and one-half of its capacitance (872 F g−1 or 96 mA hg −1 at 1 A g−1) when used as a supercapacitor electrode in 6 MKOH electrolyte. The structure −property relationship of the materials is deeply investigated and reported herein. Using the HNWs as a pseudocapacitive electrode and commercial activated carbon as a supercapacitive electrode we achieved battery-like specific energy ( Es) and supercapacitor-like specific power ( Ps) in aqueous alkaline asymmetric supercapacitors (ASCs). The HNWs ASCs have shown high Es (90 Wh kg−1) (volumetric energy density Ev ≈ 0.52 Wh cm −3) with Ps up to ∼104 W kg −1 (volumetric power density Pv ≈ 5 W cm −3) in 6 M KOH electrolyte, allowing the device to store an order of magnitude more energy than conventional supercapacitors

Critical Influence of Reduced Graphene Oxide Mediated Binding of M (M = Mg, Mn) with Co ions, Chemical Stability and Charge Storability Enhancements of Spinal-Type Hierarchical MCo2O4 Nanostructures

This paper reports that addition of reduced graphene oxide (rGO) in MgCo2O4 improves the binding of Mg with Co thereby minimizing magnesium dissolution in aqueous alkaline electrolytes and the resulting MgCo2O4/rGO electrodes offered impressive improvements in charge storage properties. An isostructural high performing material, MnCo2O4, is used as a benchmark material in this work. The Mg analogues stored >30% more charges than the Mn-analogues in the 3 M LiOH electrolyte despite the former's lower BET surface area; rGO modification further increased charge storage by >60% than the unmodified analogues. Electrochemical measurements show that a larger surface fraction of the Mg analogue is electrochemically active, irrespective of whether or not rGO is present, which arise from, typically for MgCo2O4/rGO, lower internal resistance, lower Warburg impedance, and lower charge transfer resistance than the other electrodes

Boron-Doped Reduced Graphene Oxide with Tunable Bandgap and Enhanced Surface Plasmon Resonance

Graphene and its hybrids are being employed as potential materials in light-sensing devices due to their high optical and electronic properties. However, the absence of a bandgap in graphene limits the realization of devices with high performance. In this work, a boron-doped reduced graphene oxide (B-rGO) is proposed to overcome the above problems. Boron doping enhances the conductivity of graphene oxide and creates several defect sites during the reduction process, which can play a vital role in achieving high-sensing performance of light-sensing devices. Initially, the B-rGO is synthesized using a modified microwave-assisted hydrothermal method and later analyzed using standard FESEM, FTIR, XPS, Raman, and XRD techniques. The content of boron in doped rGO was found to be 6.51 at.%. The B-rGO showed a tunable optical bandgap from 2.91 to 3.05 eV in the visible spectrum with an electrical conductivity of 0.816 S/cm. The optical constants obtained from UV-Vis absorption spectra suggested an enhanced surface plasmon resonance (SPR) response for B-rGO in the theoretical study, which was further verified by experimental investigations. The B-rGO with tunable bandgap and enhanced SPR could open up the solution for future high-performance optoelectronic and sensing applications

Pseudocapacitive Charge Storage in Single-Step-Synthesized CoO–MnO₂–MnCo₂O₄ Hybrid Nanowires in Aqueous Alkaline Electrolytes

A new pseudocapacitive combination, viz. CoO-MnO₂–MnCo₂O₄ hybrid nanowires (HNWs), is synthesized using a facile single-step hydrothermal process, and its properties are benchmarked with conventional battery-type flower-shaped MnCo₂O₄ obtained by similar processing. The HNWs showed high electrical conductivity and specific capacitance (<i>C</i> _s) (1650 F g^–1 or 184 mA h g^–1 at 1 A g^–1) with high capacity retention, whereas MnCo₂O₄ nanoflower electrode showed only one-third conductivity and one-half of its capacitance (872 F g^–1 or 96 mA h g^–1 at 1 A g^–1) when used as a supercapacitor electrode in 6 M KOH electrolyte. The structure–property relationship of the materials is deeply investigated and reported herein. Using the HNWs as a pseudocapacitive electrode and commercial activated carbon as a supercapacitive electrode we achieved battery-like specific energy (<i>E</i> _s) and supercapacitor-like specific power (<i>P</i> _s) in aqueous alkaline asymmetric supercapacitors (ASCs). The HNWs ASCs have shown high <i>E</i> _s (90 Wh kg^–1) (volumetric energy density <i>E</i> _v ≈ 0.52 Wh cm^–3) with <i>P</i> _s up to ∼10⁴ W kg^–1 (volumetric power density <i>P</i> _v ≈ 5 W cm^–3) in 6 M KOH electrolyte, allowing the device to store an order of magnitude more energy than conventional supercapacitors