સૌરાષ્ટ્ર વિસ્તારની જિલ્લા મધ્યસ્થ સહકારી બેંકોની ઉત્પાદકતા અને નફાકારકતાનો તુલનાત્મક અભ્યાસ

ભારત આઝાદ થયા બાદ ઝડપી આર્થિક વિકાસ સાધવા માટે અને અર્થતંત્રને વધારે ગતિશીલ બનાવવા માટે આયોજનબધ્ધ વિકાસની વ્યવસ્થા કરવામાં આવેલ છે. સમાજવાદી સમાજરચનાનું સર્જન કરવાનાં અનેકવિધ પગલાઓમાં “સહકારી પ્રવૃત્તિનો વિકાસ”ને એક મહત્વના સાધન તરીકે સ્વીકારેલ છે. ગ્રામીણ કક્ષાએ રહેલા સમાજના નિમ્નસ્તરનાં લોકોમાં ક્રાંતિ લાવવી હશે તો સહકારનો સ્વીકાર અનિવાર્ય બને છે. આ મહાનિબંધમાં સહકારી પ્રવૃત્તિનાં ઉદ્ભવની સાથે સાથે વિવિધ તબક્કાઓ દરમ્યાન થયેલ વિકાસ, આયોજનકાળ દરમ્યાન થયેલ વિકાસ, ભારત સરકારે નિમેલ વિવિધ સમિતિઓએ કરેલા સૂચનો અને સહકારી બેંકોનું માળખું, કાર્યો, હેતુઓ, તેમજ સંશોધનના અનુસંધાને થયેલા પુરોગામી સંશોધનોને ટૂંકમાં સમાવવામાં આવ્યા છે. દેશની સહકારી પ્રવૃત્તિની સાથે તેનો પરિચય આપવાનો પ્રયત્ન કરવામાં આવ્યો છે. પ્રસ્તુત અભ્યાસમાં સૌરાષ્ટ્ર વિસ્તારની છ જિલ્લા મધ્યસ્થ સહકારી બેંકોના નાણાકીય પત્રકોની વિસ્તૃત છણાવટ કરવામાં આવી છે. આ ઉપરાંત સહકારના સિધ્ધાંતો અને તેના અમલીકરણમાં રહેલી મુશ્કેલીઓ બેંકના સંદર્ભે જાણવાનો પ્રયાસ થયેલ છે. આ સમગ્ર અભ્યાસ દ્વારા કેટલીક રસપ્રદ માહિતીઓ જાણવા મળી છે

Morphometric analysis of the mandibular ramus and its clinical and medicolegal significance

Background: During natural calamities entire skeleton of single person could not be found. In such case, determination of sex with fragments of the bone available required range of data with proven accuracy. Hence this study is aimed at to provide range of data for minimum number of parameters of the ramus of the mandible.Methods: Three hundred dry mandibles of known sexes and bearing all teeth or intact alveolar margin were included in the study. Vertical height; maximum and minimum breadths of the ramus of the mandible were measured. All the data were analyzed for significance of the occurrence in relation to sex and laterality by means of paired t-test.Results: On the basis of all the three parameters together, we got 95% accuracy in determination of sex. Statistically significant differences were found in all parameters between male and female mandibles. The laterality distributions for all the parameters were found to be insignificant.Conclusions: Accurate determination of sex from the available bone fragments such as the ramus of the mandible required wide number of data from the least parameters that could be utilized medicolegally

Corticosteroid injections for non-spinal musculoskeletal conditions: consideration of local and systemic adverse drug reactions and side effects

Following specialist training, physiotherapists in some countries, such as the United Kingdom and Norway perform landmark, and ultrasound guided, soft tissue and joint injections for a wide range of musculoskeletal conditions. Whether they inject or not, physiotherapists may wish to recommend injections, and people requiring care commonly seek physiotherapist’s opinions on injection therapy. Globally, there has been a substantial increase in the use of corticosteroid injections to treat musculoskeletal conditions. Those performing injections or providing advice need be cognisant of the possible harms of the procedures and communicate this information sensitively to those considering the procedures. This review synthesises evidence for local and systemic adverse reactions and side effects related to corticosteroid injections in the treatment of non-spinal musculoskeletal conditions. Multiple databases including PubMed, Medline, PEDro, Cinahl were searched, and all levels of evidence were included if they added to the review. Serious adverse events appear to be rare, possibly in part, due to under-reporting of side effects. Where available, suggestions for minimising risk and aftercare have been made. As substantial gaps in the evidence were found, areas for further research are suggested and a decision-making tool is included to facilitate whether to proceed to injection, proceed with precaution or no injection

Evaluation of Assisted Fluidization of Nanoagglomerates by Monitoring Moisture in the Gas Phase and the Influence of Gas Viscosity

We have previously reported that the fluidization of nanoparticle agglomerates can be enhanced by the addition of external force fields such as vibration, acoustic waves, centrifugal force, and magnetic particles. The criteria usually used to evaluate the enhancement in fluidization quality are the fluidized bed expansion, pressure drop, and visual appearance of the fluidized bed to determine the presence of bubbles, large heavy agglomerates and/or channeling and spouting. Here we introduce a different approach based on measuring the rate of absorption/desorption of moisture (humidification/drying) of hydrophilic fluidized nanopowders. The fluidizing gas was humidified in a controlled manner, and the amount of moisture in the gas phase was measured before and after the fluidized bed by humidity sensors. The experiments show that the amount of moisture adsorbed or desorbed by the bed of powder is larger when the fluidized bed was assisted by vibration or moving magnetic particles than when the bed was conventionally fluidized. In addition, the effect of high temperature gas on the fluidization of nanopowders was studied by using neon as a fluidizing gas at room temperature. It is shown that due to the increase in gas viscosity, the minimum bubbling velocity is increased, bubbling is reduced and a smoother fluidization is obtained

RESOURCE-CENTRIC AND CONTEXT AWARE ENHANCED METRIC COLLECTION FOR ENRICHED APPLICATION PERFORMANCE VISIBILITY

In many cloud computing environments, cloud-native applications can be decoupled from the underlying hardware that operates such applications. Presented herein are techniques through which capabilities and metrics collected from a virtual/physical compute resource can be used to identify the presence of different accelerators and their capabilities in real time. The metrics that can be collected from within an application can be extended to include execution context awareness, which may be used to suggest a resource profile for the application. Further, holistic visualization of various metrics can be provided in some instances based on the accelerator from where a service is being executed

DYNAMIC RESOURCE PROFILE-BASED CONTAINER AND SERVERLESS CONSTRUCT FOR COMPOSABLE OBSERVABILITY TRACING

As a result of recent industry attention towards full-stack observability, there are various application performance monitoring (AMP) tools, runtime application self-protection (RASP) tools, and distributed tracing modules (such as OpenTelemetry (OTel), the Distributed Application Runtime (Dapr), etc.) available for different programming languages which may be injected as instrumentation code into an actual application to support a very detailed trace or log collection for subsequent analysis. Using a no- or low-code construct, the observability instrumentation code and the application code may be dynamically bundled together to create the function that is required to execute the relevant transactions. Techniques are presented herein that support a new dynamic, traffic-aware Composable Function that leverages an inbound traffic request (comprising metadata and various attributes with, for example, the relevant tracing context header, custom Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) header, or OTel header with baggage) to identify and determine whether a function bundle should be composed with observability, APM, or RASP tools for the efficient utilization of the resource. Such a dynamically composed function may, in turn, be hosted as one or more containers within a pod or as a serverless function to provide more flexibility across different application and cluster environments

Pull-off force of coated fine powders under small consolidation

In this paper, a three-dimensional model taking into account the contact deformation and surface area coverage (SAC) of nanoadditives is proposed to predict the force required to separate two contacting particles (the pull-off force) under consolidation stress up to 10 KPa, for cornstarch, a Geldart group C powder, sparsely and densely dry-coated with nanosilica. The experimental pull-off force measurement is conducted in a Seville powder tester. Comparison of the predicted results with the experimental results indicates (1) that the pull-off force of sparsely coated cornstarch is larger than that of densely coated cornstarch due to the greater hardness and small particle radius of fumed silica; (2) there is not a continuous variation in the pull-off force with the coverage of silica; on the contrary, values of the pull-off force of sparsely coated samples are grouped in similar range, while the values of the pull-off force of densely coated samples are grouped in another range of lower values.(3) Within a range, the SAC does not have a big effect on the pull-off force for sparsely coated samples and only a slight effect for densely coated samples (4) the pull-off force increases with increasing consolidation force due to larger deformation in the contact area; (5) under consolidation stresses up to 10 KPa, the deformation of the cornstarch particles is not large enough to fully embed the nanosized silica