Investigations on Anti-Diabetic Medicinal Plants Used by Tribal Inhabitants of Nalamankadai, Chitteri Reserve Forest, Dharmapuri, India

An ethnobotanical survey was conducted to collect information about medicinal plants used for the treatment of diabetics and associated complications by tribals in Nalamankadai village of Chitteri Hills, Dharmapuri District. The indigenous knowledge of local traditional healers and native plants used for the treatment of diabetics related health disorders were collected through questionnaire and personal interviews. A total of 10 informants with in the age group of 50 to 68 were interviewed, among them two were tribal practitioners. The investigation revealed that, the traditional healers and the inhabitants use 29 species of plants distributed in 28 genera belonging to 22 families to treat diabetics and related complications. Results depict that fresh plant materials were invariably preferred for the treatment of long term complications associated with diabetics. Anti-diabetic medicinal plants used by Malayali’s in Chitteri have been listed along with plant parts used

Left and Right Censoring for Expected Time to Seroconversion – A Shock Model Approach

The time to cross-antigenic threshold of the infected person’s is a vital event. Once the accumulated number of events exists from the persons which as a certain threshold level, it could be viewed as a “Break down pointâ€Â. The important characteristic for the antigenic diversity threshold for a person is the time to attain the break down point. In this paper, a shock model approach is proposed to obtain the expectation time to attain the threshold level. Attempt to find patients censoring value is also seen. Graphical illustrations are provided for the use of the model

Effect of microstructure and texture on the magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of the melt-spun rare earth intermetallic compound DyNi

Magnetization measurements have been carried out on the melt-spun ribbon sample of the rare earth intermetallic compound DyNi (Orthorhombic, FeB-type, Space group Pnma) and its magnetic and magnetocaloric properties are compared with those of the arc-melted analog. The arc-melted DyNi orders ferromagnetically at around 61 K (T-C) whereas the melt-spun DyNi orders ferromagnetically at about 47 K. The maximum isothermal magnetic entropy change, Delta S-III(max), near T-C of the arc-melted and the melt spun DyNi is found to be -32.7 J/kg K and -22.4 J/kg K, respectively, for a field change of 140 kOe. For low magnetic field changes of similar to 20 kOe, the relative cooling power (RCP) is similar to 660 J/kg for the arc melted DyNi and similar to 460 J/kg for the melt-spun ribbon. The reduction in T-C and magnetocaloric effect may be attributed to the microstructure-induced anisotropy developed during the melt-spinning process. (C) 2016 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved151sciescopu