Research Notes: Potential of exotic soybeans in the sub-montane region of Himachal Pradesh (India)

Himachal Pradesh is a hilly state of Northern India , with its global location between 75°45\u27 - 79°04 \u27 E longitude and 30°22\u27 - 33°12\u27 N latitude. In this part of the country, soybean is indigenously grown as a rainy season crop up to an altitude of 1800 m above mean sea level . The indigenous soybean comprise small seeded, twining type low- yielding varieties

X-Ray determination of crystallite size and effect of lattice strain on the Debye-Waller factors of Ni nano powders usig high energy ball mill

The synthesis of Ni nanocrystalline powder by high-energy ball milling has been investigated. Ni  powders were ball milled in an argon inert atmosphere. The milled powders were characterized by X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy measurements. The high-energy ball milling of Ni after 12hours resulted in crystalline size of about 48 nm The lattice strains in nickel (Ni) powders produced by milling have been analyzed by X-ray powder diffraction. The lattice strain (e) and Debye-Waller factor (B) are determined from the half-widths and integrated intensities of the Bragg reflections. In Ni the Debye-Waller factor is found to increase with the lattice strain. From the correlation between the strain and effective Debye-Waller factor, the Debye-Waller factors for zero strain have been estimated for Ni. The variation of energy of vacancy formation as a function of lattice strain has been studied. Keywords: X-ray diffraction, lattice strain, crystallite size, Debye-Waller factor, vacancy formation energ

Reviewed Study on Novel Search Mechanism for Web Mining

There are many methodologies for finding patterns in the client's navigation. For instance, acquaints new calculations with retrieve taxonomy of a solitary web webpage from the snap floods of its clients. They have developed a framework to discover how the time influences the client conduct while surfing a web page. That is, they segment the logs of navigation of the clients in various time intervals; and after that they find what time intervals truly meddle with the client conduct

Evaluating the role of liver enzymes as predictors of severity of liver injury in patients with blunt abdominal trauma

Background: Liver is the 2nd most common organ affected in patients with blunt abdominal trauma (BAT). Computed tomography (CT) is the gold standard in the initial evaluation of the hemodynamically stable patient with suspected liver trauma. However, a challenge exists in centers devoid of CT scan, where an elevation in hepatic transaminases may provide guidance for the emergency physician in seeking further imaging and/or surgical consultation.Methods: In patients with suspected BAT blood samples were taken for estimation of liver enzymes (AST and ALT). All patients underwent contrast enhanced CT of the abdomen. Hemodynamically unstable patients were taken up for laparotomy and the findings were recorded. Based on imaging / surgery patients were subdivided into 2 groups (with and without liver injury). Liver injuries were graded according to organ injury scale by American Association of Surgery for Trauma.Results: ALT>100 units had 100% sensitivity and specificity improved to 83.78%. The mean level of ALT in patients without liver injury was around 64. This increased to 142 in grade 1 and upto 780 units in grade 4 injury. The same rising trend was seen when AST was evaluated against grade of Liver injury. This was statistically significant (p<0.01).Conclusions: ALT is the better of the transaminases in predicting liver injury. The rise in transaminases is directly proportional to grade of liver injury

Tuberculosis in North Arcot District of Tamil Nadu – a sample survey

A sample survey was carried out in the North Arcot district of Tamil Nadu with the objective of finding out the prevalence of bacteriologically positive and radiologically active pulmonary tuberculosis among persons aged 15 years and above using two screening methods viz.. elicitation of suggestive symptoms and chest X-ray examination. Another objective was to estimate the prevalence of tuberculosis infection in children aged below 10 years. A population of 1,05,339 persons was registered in a random sample of 35 villages from the rural areas and 102 town streets from the urban sector. All children aged 0-9 years were tuberculin tested with ITU RT23. Persons aged 15 years and above were screened for suggestive symptoms. and one-third of the sample was screened by X-ray of chest as well. Sputum specimens from the symptomatics and/or X-ray abnormals were subjected to bacteriological examination. The prevalence of infection among ‘below 10 years old’ children without BCG scar was 6.7%. The prevalence of disease by sputum smear and/or culture among symptomatics was 4.3 per thousand in population aged 15 years and above. The prevalence rate of bacteriological positives based on symptoms and X-ray screening, in the one-third sample was 7.9 per thousand. The prevalence of X-ray positive cases was 17.0 per 1000. Information available from similar other studies in the country has been reviewed