An Analysis of Research Contributions Reflected in Pearl: A Journal of Library and Information Science

The present study investigates research trends in different disciplines of library of information of science field. The analysis indicates that 300 articles are published during 2007–2014. This study analyses the volume-wise distribution of research contributions, authorship pattern, author affiliation and country-wise distribution of research contributions

A prospective clinico‑hematological study in 100 cases of Pancytopenia in a tertiary care teaching hospital

Background: Pancytopenia is encountered regularly in haematology practice, yet there exist only few published assessments of the frequencies of various aetiologies and this exhibit substantial geographic variation. Pancytopenia is a manifestation of many life- threatening diseases with a wide range of differential diagnosis. Haematological investigation forms the bedrock in the detection and management of patients with pancytopenia.Methods: This study is a prospective study conducted in the Institute of pathology and haematology, Madras medical college and Rajiv Gandhi Government General Hospital, Chennai during the period from August 2015 to August 2016 on 100 cases. Case selection is based on clinical features and supported by laboratory evidence. Peripheral smear was obtained and stained by Leishman stain for all cases and examined in detail. Bone marrow aspiration /biopsy was subsequently carried out under aseptic precautions.Results: Among the 100 cases studied, age of the patients ranged from 13 to 80 years with a slight male predominance. Most of the patients presented with generalized weakness and fever. The commonest cause for pancytopenia was aplastic anaemia followed by megaloblastic anaemia. The other causes include acute myeloid leukaemia, myelodysplastic syndrome, myelofibrosis, multiple myeloma, malarial parasite, miliary tuberculosis and osteopetrosis.Conclusions: Pancytopenia can be diagnosed, and its etiological profile can be ascertained with the help of detailed clinical history, meticulous physical examination and haematological investigations. Every attempt should be done to establish the underlying cause so that treatable conditions are diagnosed without delay and prognosis is improved

Anatomical Variations of Medial Circumflex Femoral Artery – A Cadaveric Study

Introduction: The Profunda femoris artery is a large branch that arises from the lateral or posterolateral part of the femoral artery, about 3 to 5cm below the inguinal ligament. Profunda femoris artery [1,2,4] gives Medial circumflex femoral artery, Lateral circumflex femoral artery, and Perforating arteries and muscular branches. Medial circumflex femoral artery (MCFA) originates from the posteromedial aspect of the Profunda but may originate from the femoral artery. It gives three branches ascending and transverse, acetabular branches.  Aim & Objectives: To study the anatomical variations in source of origin, site of origin of MCFA. Methods: The present observational study was conducted on the dissection of 70 lower limbs of 35 adult cadavers (27 male & 8 female). Contents of the femoral triangle were dissected as per Cunningham’s manual. The source of origin distance of the origin of MCFA was noted. Collected data were analyzed statistically. Results: In the present study, MCFA from the P.F.A. in 85.71% (60/70) in both Right and Left lower limbs. The common source of Right MCFA from the Femoral Artery followed by a common stem with P.F.A. The following common source of Lt MCFA as a common stem with P.F.A. Distance of origin of MCFA from the P.F.A. was seen between 1-2cm in 34.29% of Right and 28.5% of Left Limbs in the present study. Conclusions: In most limbs (60/70 limbs), the MCFA was taking origin from P.F.A. in both Right & Left limbs (85.72%). Distance of origin of MCFA from the P.F.A. was seen between 1-2cm in 34.29% of Right and 28.5% of Left Limbs in the present study

An open clinical trial of siddha drug Akkini Chooranam (Internally) and Veera Mezhugu (Externally) in the treatment of "Kuthikaal Vaatham” (Plantar Fasciitis)

The Protocol of this study has been submitted to IEC of NIS on 26-8-2015 and then approval was got from IEC for conducting this clinical study. The IEC NO is NIS/IEC/9/2014-15/13. This study was registered in Clinical Trial Registry of India and the registration number of the Trial is CTRI/2017/06/008931. The 40 cases of Kuthikaal Vaatham were Screened and diagnosed clinically and treated in Outpatient and In-patient Department of Sirappu Maruthuvam in Ayothidoss Pandithar Hospital attached to National Institute of Siddha, Tamabaram Sanatorium and Chennai – 47. The various Siddha methods of examination of the disease were carried out and the data were recorded in the prescribed Proforma for the 40 selected cases. The day before starting treatment purgation was given with Meganatha Kuligai-2 pills in hot water at early morning. From the first day onwards Akkini Chooranam 1.5gm (twice a day) along with hotwater was given internally and Veeramezhugu (Q.S) for external use were given to the patients. During the period of treatment all the patients were put under Pathiyam (specific dietary regimen chat for the disease given to each patient. Laboratory investigations were done periodically for all the cases before and after treatment and radiological investigations were done for all the cases before treatment. The observations made during the clinical study showed that internal and external drugs were effective in relieving the pain in Kuthikaal vaatham patients. During the study period, there was no adverse event reported. As per the Siddha Literature and recent research articles, the ingredients of the trial drugs was found to have anti inflammatory, Immunomodulator, Anti- oxidant, Analgesic properties owing to the disease manifestations. Phytochemical analysis which indicates the presence of tannic acid, calcium, chloride has a role in strengthening the bone matrix. Based on the statistical significance, it was observed by the pain scale there is a reduction of heel pain reduced from 7.3±1.48 to 1.48±2.52 mean value with significant P value of <0.0001. Hence the trial medicine may effective for Kuthikaal Vaatham. Statistical analysis showed significant reduction in the pain score before and after treatment. The outcome of the trial medicine assessed by pain scale and the results were as follows: Good improvement - 27 patients (67.5%), Moderate improvement - 6 patients (15%), Mild improvement - 4 patients (10%), No improvement - 3 patients (7.5%). CONCLUSION: The clinical trial proves the efficacy of the trail drugs by reducing the clinical signs and symptoms like heel pain, early morning pain, restricted movements and provides better improvement. The study results show that 3 (7.5%) of them had no improvement, 4 (10%) of them had mild improvement, 6 (15%) of them had moderate improvement and 27 (67.5%) of them had good improvement. Hence these results revealed good relief from the disease after treatment. The trial Medicines were prepared from easily available ingredients and the palatability of medicine is better and the dosage is also convenient. In this study, there was no adverse effects were reported in clinical trial. Hence the trial drugs were proven for their safety. The clinical trial conducted in selected patients was satisfactory encouraging. Further studies may be taken up to establish the efficacy of the drugs

IoT Based Industrial Production Monitoring System Using Wireless Sensor Networks

The objective of the work is to monitoring the production lines in industry using wireless sensor networks. This work presents the benefits of an automated data collection and display system for production lines. It involves wireless sensor networks for monitoring the productions in industry. Condition monitoring reduces human inspection requirements through automated monitoring, reduces maintenance through detecting faults before they escalate and improves safety and reliability. This work can monitor productions using temperature, voltage and current sensors with support of microcontroller. The relay is acts like a switch to monitor the production lines. In this work, Global System for Mobile communication technique is used to transferring the collected data. The collection of data, it is transferred into computerize spreadsheet in the remote office by authorized personnel for reporting purpose. The system will generate an automated report which stays in place and the management only needs to act base on the results. This work is cost effective automatic data collection is the alternative to manual data collection. It significantly improves the accuracy of the valuable reports for the management. It also reduces the time for identifying the fault using this techniqu

Bio- Matric Intelligent ATM System

Now a day, peoples have multiple bank accounts so money transactions play a vital role in the nature of trade. Today, ATMs and Credit cards are used for this purpose, the authentication of these transactions are unsecure. To overcome this shortcoming of money transactions, we proposes the idea of using fingerprints of customers as login multiple banking password in place of traditional pin number. Here, if the fingerprint is recognized, then it display the multiple banking screen. Then we can choose the bank which we need for transaction. The remaining feature are same as i.e., a reference fingerprint of the nominee or a close family member of the customer can be used if the customer is not available in case of emergencies. This proposed business model helps the society, mainly the rural people, by enhancing the security using Fingerprint recognition in Digital image processing. As the fingerprint of every person is unique and unchangeable, this biometric feature is used over the others

PRIVACY PRESERVING POLICY UPDATE FOR BIG DATA ACCESS CONTROL IN THE CLOUD COMPUTING

Big data majorly associated with  the high volume and velocity , it is an effective option to store big data in the cloud, as the cloud has capabilities of storing big data and processing high volume of user access requests. Attribute-Based Encryption (ABE) is a promising technique to ensure the end-to-end security of big data in the cloud. However, the policy updating has always been a challenging issue when ABE is used to construct access control schemes. A trivial implementation is to let data owners retrieve the data and re-encrypt it under the new access policy, and then send it back to the cloud. This method, however, incurs a high communication overhead and heavy computation burden on data owners. A novel scheme is proposed that enable efficient access control with dynamic policy updating for big data in the cloud. Developing an outsourced policy updating method for ABE systems is focused. This method can avoid the transmission of encrypted data and minimize the computation work of data owners, by making use of the previously encrypted data with old access policies. Policy updating algorithms is proposed for different types of access policies. An efficient and secure method is proposed that allows data owner to check whether the cloud server has updated the ciphertexts correctly. The analysis shows that this policy updating outsourcing scheme is correct, complete, secure and efficient