Effect of IAYT (Integrated Approach of Yoga Therapy) on motor nerve conductivity in spastic hemiplegic men

BACKGROUND: Hemiplegia, or paralysis of one side of the body, is caused by injury or illness (for example, a stroke), and leads to other disabilities. People with hemiplegia are limited physically in their daily activities. This limitation affects their social well-being and thus can lead to depression. This study was planned to evaluate the effect of IAYT on the changes in motor conductivity in spastic hemiplegic men. METHODS: A total of seventy-five subjects, mean aged (48.04±11.28) were randomly assigned into two groups after satisfying the inclusion and exclusion criteria. Experimental group (EG, n=40) and Control group (CG, n=35). Both groups were assessed at baseline and after 56 days for MNC. During these 56 days the experimental group practiced Sushma Vyayama, Nadishuddhi pranayama, AUM chanting and DRT once daily and no intervention for control group. Finally experimental group (n=33) and control group (n=31) completed the study. RESULTS: The Experiment group showed significantly improvement in the Median Nerve Conductivity (p 0.05) in the Motor Nerve Conductivity of Median and Deep-peroneal nerve, in the control group. Yoga group patients showed a significant (p < 0.05) reduction in the resting cardiovascular parameters such as SBP from 122.1±14.53 to 117.6±10.23 mmHg, RPP from 9525±1160 to 9178±835 bpm-mmHg and DoP from 5403±1832 to 4748±1137 bpm- mmHg. INTERPRETATION AND CONCLUSION: 56 days practice of IAYT in Spastic Hemiplegic men showed dominance of parasympathetic activity and suppression of sympathetic activity

The effect of baseline serum luteinizing hormone levels on follicular development, ovulation, conception and pregnancy outcome in infertile patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome

Background: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disorder in infertile women. Raised tonic levels of luteinizing hormone (LH) is one of the main endocrinological disturbances in PCOS patients. Objective of present study was to evaluate the effect of baseline serum luteinizing hormone levels on follicular development, ovulation and conception and pregnancy outcome in infertile patients with PCOS.Methods: This is a prospective study conducted on 50 consecutive infertile patients with PCOS. Baseline Day 2 serum luteinizing hormone concentration was done in selected patients. Ovulation induction was done with clomiphene citrate 100 mg from Day 3 to Day 7 of the cycle. Then patients were monitored for follicular development, ovulation, conception and early pregnancy loss.Results: The mean age of the patients is 25±3.6 yrs. The average duration of infertility is 5.4 yrs (2-10). The mean basal serum LH concentration in patients who ovulated was significantly low (5.6 IU) in comparison with patients who did not ovulate (10.1 IU).  The mean basal serum LH concentration in patients who conceived was 3.9 IU in comparison with patients who did not conceive (5.9 IU) which was statistically significant (p=0.04).  Out of 15 patients who conceived, 3 patients (20%) had early pregnancy loss.Conclusions: Tonic hyper secretion of LH results in premature oocyte maturation, causing the problems with fertilization and miscarriage. Inappropriately raised LH appears to have deleterious effects on the pregnancy outcome

ONE INTERESTING FAMILY OF 3-TUPLE

This paper concerns with the study of constructing a special family of 3-tuples (a,b,c) such that the product of any two elements of the set added with their sum is a Perfect square

Physiological protection of probiotic microcapsules by coatings

Nowadays, food and nutrition have a greater impact in people's concerns, with the awareness that nutrition have a direct impact in health and wellbeing. Probiotics have an important role in this topic and consumers are starting to really understand their potential in health, leading to an increasing interest of the companies to their commercial use in foods. However, there are several limitations to the use of probiotics in foods and beverages, being one of them their efficiency (directly associated to their survival rate) upon ingestion. This work is focused in microencapsulation techniques that have been used to increase probiotics efficiency. More specifically, this work reviews the most recent and relevant research about the production and coating techniques of probiotic-loaded microcapsules, providing an insight in the effect of these coatings in probiotics survival during the gastrointestinal phase. This review shows that coatings with the better performances in probiotics protection, against the harsh conditions of digestion, are chitosan, alginate, poly-L-lysine and whey protein. Chitosan presented an interesting performance in probiotics protection being able to maintain the initial concentration of viable probiotics during a digestive test. The analyses of different works also showed that the utilization of several coatings does not guarantee a better protection in comparison with monocoated microcapsules.The author Philippe E. Ramos is recipient of fellowships from the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, POPH-QREN and FSE (FCT, Portugal) through the grant SFRH/BD/80800/2012. This study was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the scope of the strategic funding of UID/BIO/04469/2013 unit and COMPETE 2020 (POCI-01-0145-FEDER-006684). RECI Project (Until December of 2017): This study was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) under the scope of the Project RECI/BBBEBI/0179/2012 (FCOMP-01-0124-FEDER-027462).info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Proceedings of International Conference On Global Innovations In Computing Technology (ICGICT&apos;14) Design of Hybrid Multicasting Network for Authentication

ABSTRACT---Wireless Ad Hoc Network is a collection of wireless hosts that can be rapidly deployed as a multi hop packet radio network without the aid of any established infrastructure or centralized organization. The cost reduction and fast progress experienced by wireless communication technologies have made them suitable for a wide spectrum of applications; one of edging is multicasting Networks. Multicasting system aim at on condition that a platform for various applications that can improve safety and efficient group of announcement. This proposed asynchronous key verification technique as a part of the protocol poses a significant diminution in the communication holdup

Sonochemical degradation of organic dyes using sulphate radicals activated by immobilized iron

280-284Sonochemical decolourisation of two categories of dyes namely anionic Acid Red 2 and cationic Rhodamine B has been investigated using sulphate radicals activated by immobilized iron. The influence of operating variables, such as pH, persulphate dose, catalyst dose and contact time in the ultrasonication assisted decolourisation of dyes has been studied and optimized in bath type ultrasonicator. The decolourisation efficiency of bath type and horn type sonication is studied under optimized conditions. In bath type, the decolourisation efficiencies of Acid Red 2 and Rhodamine B are found to be 69% and 95% in 90 min and 15 min, whereas in horn type it is 83% and 96% in 10 min and 3 min respectively. The effect of passing aeration with bath type sonication is also studied, in which Rhodamine B is found to decolourise at a faster rate on comparing the sonication alone. Studies on the leachability and reusability of catalyst are also conducted for each process. Among the processes, horn type sonication is found to be more effective than the bath type sonication-coupled-aeration and bath type sonication

The effect of baseline serum luteinizing hormone levels on follicular development, ovulation, conception and pregnancy outcome in infertile patients with polycystic ovarian syndrome

Background: Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) is the most common endocrine disorder in infertile women. Raised tonic levels of luteinizing hormone (LH) is one of the main endocrinological disturbances in PCOS patients. Objective of present study was to evaluate the effect of baseline serum luteinizing hormone levels on follicular development, ovulation and conception and pregnancy outcome in infertile patients with PCOS.Methods: This is a prospective study conducted on 50 consecutive infertile patients with PCOS. Baseline Day 2 serum luteinizing hormone concentration was done in selected patients. Ovulation induction was done with clomiphene citrate 100 mg from Day 3 to Day 7 of the cycle. Then patients were monitored for follicular development, ovulation, conception and early pregnancy loss.Results: The mean age of the patients is 25±3.6 yrs. The average duration of infertility is 5.4 yrs (2-10). The mean basal serum LH concentration in patients who ovulated was significantly low (5.6 IU) in comparison with patients who did not ovulate (10.1 IU).  The mean basal serum LH concentration in patients who conceived was 3.9 IU in comparison with patients who did not conceive (5.9 IU) which was statistically significant (p=0.04).  Out of 15 patients who conceived, 3 patients (20%) had early pregnancy loss.Conclusions: Tonic hyper secretion of LH results in premature oocyte maturation, causing the problems with fertilization and miscarriage. Inappropriately raised LH appears to have deleterious effects on the pregnancy outcome