Ayurvedic Management of Dry Eye Sydrome - A Case Study

Dry eye syndrome is a common condition that results from reduced tear production or excessive tear evaporation or an abnormality in the production of mucus or lipids normally found in the tear layer or combination of these. If blinking is decreased or if the eyelids cannot be closed, they may dry out leading to dry eye. It is accompanied by increased osmolarity of the tear film and inflammation on the surface of the eye may occur of left untreated leading to pain, ulcers or scars on the cornea and loss of vision. Prevalence of dry eye range from 5% to 35% worldwide while in India it is 29.25%. Tear substitute are the only treatment modality with modern medicine, only providing symptomatic relief. Ayurveda describes similar condition called Sushkakshi Paka and this patient was treated with Tarpana and Nasya with Jeevantyadi Ghrit

Design of Back-End of Recommendation Systems Using Collective Intelligence Social Tagging

Recommendation systems are the tools whose purpose is to suggest relevant products or services to the customers. In a movie business website, the recommendation system provides users with more options, classify movies under different types to assist in arriving at a decision. Although, with current e-commerce giants focusing on hybrid filtering approach, we have decided to explore the functionality of Content-based recommendation system. This research paper aims to delve deeper into the content-based recommendation system and adding tags to enhance its functionality. The content-based approach is more fit to the movie recommendation as it overcomes the ‘cold start’ issue faced by the collaborative filtering approach, meaning, even with no ratings for a movie, it can still be recommended. The proposed method is to solve the less ‘data categorization’ issue in content-based filtering. Collective Intelligence Social Tagging System (CIST) aims at making a significant difference in content-based recommendation system to enrich the item profile and provide more accurate suggestions. The main gist of CIST is to involve the users to contribute in tagging to build a more robust system in online movie businesses. Tags in the millennial world are the ‘go to’ words that everyone looks up to in an online world of E-commerce. It’s the easiest way of telling a story without actual long sentences. We recommended three main solutions for the concerns of CIST, (a) clustering of tags to avoid synonymous tag confusion and create a metadata for movies under same tags, (b) 5 criteria model to motivate and give the most amount of genuine information for end users to trust and eventually contribute in tagging, and (c) clear way of distinguishing and displaying tags to separate primary tags and secondary tags and give a chance to the users to assess whether the given tags reflect the relevant theme of the film

Designing a Cryptosystem by Implementing Reversible Sequential Switching M/C – A Symmetric Key Approach

This paper introduces an abstract model of reversible sequential machine in designing the cryptosystem based on the symmetric key approach. A reversible sequential machine is a one-to-one mapping old state and input to new state and output. Reversible computing machine is the mapping of old computational state to new computational state is oneto- one. The abstract model of the reversible sequential machine developed here for a cryptosystem is presented as a 4-tuple M(state, input, output, mapping-function) machine. In this machine, the mapping of present state and input to next state and output by residue number system

Confinement and Viscoelastic effects on Chain Closure Dynamics

Chemical reactions inside cells are typically subject to the effects both of the cell's confining surfaces and of the viscoelastic behavior of its contents. In this paper, we show how the outcome of one particular reaction of relevance to cellular biochemistry - the diffusion-limited cyclization of long chain polymers - is influenced by such confinement and crowding effects. More specifically, starting from the Rouse model of polymer dynamics, and invoking the Wilemski-Fixman approximation, we determine the scaling relationship between the mean closure time t_{c} of a flexible chain (no excluded volume or hydrodynamic interactions) and the length N of its contour under the following separate conditions: (a) confinement of the chain to a sphere of radius D, and (b) modulation of its dynamics by colored Gaussian noise. Among other results, we find that in case (a) when D is much smaller than the size of the chain, t_{c}\simND^{2}, and that in case (b), t_{c}\simN^{2/(2-2H)}, H being a number between 1/2 and 1 that characterizes the decay of the noise correlations. H is not known \`a priori, but values of about 0.7 have been used in the successful characterization of protein conformational dynamics. At this value of H (selected for purposes of illustration), t_{c}\simN^3.4, the high scaling exponent reflecting the slow relaxation of the chain in a viscoelastic medium

Transmisi Harga Jagung di Provinsi Lampung

Corn is one of the leading commodities in Lampung Province. The average corn price received by farmers (producers) from January 2009 to December 2014 amounted to Rp 1.820 per kilogram, while the average price of corn at the consumer level was at Rp 3.205 per kilogram. Corn prices at the consumer level are more volatile when compared with the price of corn at the producer level. The purpose of this study are to analyze the transmission of corn prices from the consumer level to the producer level in Lampung Province. The data used was a monthly time series data from January 2009 to December 2014 (72 month). Asymmetric Error Correction Model (AECM) developed by von Cramon-Taubadel and Loy (1996) was used to analyze corn price transmission from the consumer level to the producer level. Causality test results indicate that corn prices at the consumer level affect the formation of corn prices at the producer level. From AECM estimates obtained, the short run corn price transmission from the consumer level to the producer level was asymmetric. However, the long-run transmission of corn prices from the consumer level to the producer was symmetric. After the Wald test, results obtained showed that there was no prove of asymmetric price transmission from the consumer level to the producer level in the long run

Model Regresi Spasial Untuk Anak Tidak Bersekolah Usia Kurang 15 Tahun Di Kota Medan

Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk menentukan model anak tidak bersekolahusia kurang 15 tahun di kota Medan menggunakan regresi spasial, menganalisisfaktor-faktor yang mempengaruhinya serta mengkaji efektifitas metode regresispasial dalam menganalisis kasus tersebut. Analisis yang digunakan yaitu SpatialAutoregressive Model (SAR). Hasil analisis menunjukkan bahwa variabel prediktoryang mempengaruhi variabel respon adalah jumlah penduduk prasejahtera, jumlahsekolah SD, dan rasio antara anak yang bersekolah dengan anak tidak bersekolah(ATB) kurang 15 tahun. Nilai koefisien determinasi (R2) adalah 95.70 %

PENGARUH KEPEMIMPINAN DAN MOTIVASI TERHADAP KINERJA KARYAWAN PADA PT. JASA MANAJEMEN KONSTRUKSI PALEMBANG

Motivation and Leadership in combination then theoretically will affect the performance. For Motivation and Leadership will be very effective to improve the performance of subordinates, if he could give a boost to democracy and Persuasive manner. Because it is suspected there are positive influence between motivation and leadership together the Employee Performance.Without ruling out other factors, the authors saw that the factors Motivation and Leadership is a factor that needs serious attention in connection with efforts to improve employee performance. This is based on the fact that the factor of motivation and leadership is an aspect of humanity that is the mental attitude (behavior) people to use their skills and expertise to do the job for the achievement of high performance.  Keywords: Leadership, Motivation and Employee Performanc

A sustainable rice production technology: problems and prospects

The study has focused on problems and prospects perceived by farmers’ for growing rice in direct seeded cultivation mode i.e. Direct Seeded Rice (DSR) in Haryana (India). Overall adoption of DSR technology was low to moderate since 70 per cent respondents belonged to these categories. The method of sowing (weighted mean score 3.0), depth of sowing (2.93) and seed treatment (2.93) were highly adopted agronomic practices, whereas least adopted practices were like recommended seed rate (1.94), timely application of fertilizers (1.87) and their recommended doses (1.73), and ferrous sulphate use only at deficiency syndrome (1.19) not as per recommended schedule. Among constraints non-availability of quality seeds, fertilizers, weedicides and pesticides in required quantity and at proper time (1.64), high weed infestation in DSR in comparison to transplanting (2.88), wide fluctuation in prices (2.83) of basmati paddy due to lack of MSP, lack of storage facilities in villages (2.78), lack of proper knowledge of irrigation schedule (1.73), non-availability of extension personnel (1.64), lack of low credit facility (1.62), non-availability of agricultural magazines and literature in time in villages (2.78), lack of stable procurement policy for basmati rice (2.78) and lack of trained field staff to provide technical guidance during cultivation (2.02) process were serious constraints faced by farmers in adoption of DSR technology in Haryana. Since majority of respondent farmers agreed that DSR technology give better net returns in comparison to transplanting (2.95), less labour requirement (2.92) and best suited to climate change risks (2.66)

Cdc48/p97 promotes degradation of aberrant nascent polypeptides bound to the ribosome

Ubiquitin-dependent proteolysis can initiate at ribosomes for myriad reasons including misfolding of a nascent chain or stalling of the ribosome during translation of mRNA. Clearance of a stalled complex is required to recycle the ribosome for future use. Here we show that the ubiquitin (Ub) pathway segregase Cdc48/p97 and its adaptors Ufd1-Npl4 participate in ribosome-associated degradation (RAD) by mediating the clearance of ubiquitinated, tRNA-linked nascent peptides from ribosomes. Through characterization of both endogenously-generated and heterologous model substrates for the RAD pathway, we conclude that budding yeast Cdc48 functions downstream of the Ub ligases Ltn1 and Ubr1 to release nascent proteins from the ribosome so that they can be degraded by the proteasome. Defective RAD could contribute to the pathophysiology of human diseases caused by mutations in p97