Implementation of Artificial Neural Network Method for Estimating Connected Power and Electric Energy Consumption

Abstract—Electricity is vital for modern society’s welfare. Daily electricity usage depended on the customers’ type. Hence, there was a difference between the connected power with consumption. Therefore, there needed an estimation method for long-term connected power and energy consumption to improve the safety of energy management and operation plan for the generator. This research used the Artificial Neural Network method with a backpropagation algorithm model to estimate the connected power and electricity consumption. This method has the advantage of following past patterns after the training process. This research used data such as total population, Gross Regional Domestic Product, total customers, produced energy, remaining energy, distribution loss, total transformer, peak load, and load factor as the independent data. The energy consumption and connected power served as the dependent data. The data was taken from Srengat Network Service Unit, East Java, for ten years, which started in 2008. This research used literature study, information and data collection, information and data process, data estimation and analysis, and conclusion as the procedures. Based on the results, the best network structure was 9-9-2 with the 10-6 goal, 0.9 momentum value, and 0.15 learning rate to produce the smallest Mean Squared Error of 0.00442 in 2015, Mean Absolute Percentage Error of 7.88% for the connected power, and 11.27% on electricity consumption target

Attitude of football fans

Title: The attitude of football fans towards cases in Czech football Objectives: The main aim of this bachelor thesis is to find out knowledge of football fans in theme of corruption cases in Czech football and then find out what kind of impact it has on individual segment of football in eyes of football fans. Methods: Research in this bachelor thesis was done by questionnaire. Questionnaire was constructed on website www.vyplnto.cz and after that it has been distributed to personal contacts. Theoretical part is based on research of literature. Results: The results of research shows that football public knows a quite a few informations about corruption cases in Czech football. Fans see corruption as one of the crucial factors in questions of lowering quality and attractiveness of Czech football. Also fans see corruption as problem why Czech football cannot get on higher level. According to fans, corruption has been connected to Czech football association Keywords: attitude, corruption, football, image, fans, caseNázev: Postoj fotbalových fanoušků ke kauzám v českém fotbalu Cíle: Hlavním cílem této práce je zjistit jaké je povědomí o korupční činnosti v českém fotbalu a jaký dopad má korupce na vnímání jednotlivých segmentů tohoto sportu v očích fanoušků. Metody: Výzkumná metoda, která byla použita při zjišťování dat bylo dotazníkové šetření. Dotazník byl vytvořen na internetovém serveru www.vyplnto.cz a posléze byl distribuován v elektronické formě pomocí soukromých kontaktů. Teoretická část vychází z rešerše literatury. Výsledky: Z výsledků šetření vyplývá, že obecné povědomí fotbalové veřejnosti o korupčních kauzách je poměrně široké. Dále je z výsledků patrné, že korupce je brána jako jeden z klíčových faktorů, který snižuje kvalitu a atraktivitu českého fotbalu a také jako určitá překážka v posunutí českého fotbalu na vyšší úroveň. Korupce také bývá spojována s Fotbalovou asociací České republiky, což je hlavní instituce českého fotbalu a celkově má tedy negativní dopad na image českého fotbalu. Klíčová slova: postoj, korupce, fotbal, image, fanoušci, kauzaKinantropologieFakulta tělesné výchovy a sportuFaculty of Physical Education and Spor

Clinical and demographic profile of patients treated with electro convulsive therapy from a tertiary care psychiatry hospital in North India

Background: Electro-convulsive therapy (ECT) refers to the electrical stimulation of the brain to produce seizures for therapeutic purpose. This study was undertaken with the aim of exploring the clinical and demographic profile of patients treated with ECT from a tertiary care psychiatry hospital in north India.Methods: It was a retrospective descriptive study of patients who were treated with ECT after admission in the inpatient psychiatry unit of Institute of mental health and neurosciences Kashmir during a period of one year (March 2017 to February 2018).Results: A total of 70 patients received ECT during the course of one year. About 72.85% of the patients belonged to 20-39 years age group. Female patients constituted more than half of the subjects (55.71%). Review of diagnostic profile showed that majority of patients receiving ECT were suffering from Schizophrenia (35.71%), followed by bipolar affective disorder (28.57%), depressive disorder (28.57%), schizoaffective disorder (4.28%) and substance induced mood/psychotic disorders (2.85%). A significant majority of subjects (57.13%) received about 7-9 ECT sessions. No any major complications were noted during ECT treatment.Conclusions: This study suggests that ECT, use as a treatment modality is common in adults between 20 to 39 years of age and females with Schizophrenia being the most common indications

Comparison of psychiatric co-morbidity in patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures and epilepsy at a tertiary care hospital in Kashmir

Background: objective of the study was to describe and compare frequency of psychiatric disorders in two groups of patients, one with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNESs) and other with epilepsy.Methods: We studied 64 patients in which 32 belonged to the group with PNESs and 32 belonged to group with Epilepsy, admitted in a video-EEG unit of tertiary care hospital in Kashmir in order to confirm epileptic diagnosis. This study was conducted from March 2019 to August 2019 in neurology department and the patients underwent neurological evaluation, inter ictal EEG, MRI, neuropsychological assessment and psychiatric diagnosis codified in DSM-5.Results: Depression was found to be the most common diagnosis in the group with epilepsy-40% versus 15.75% of those with PNES, while as personality disorder (21.88%) was the common psychiatric disorder in group with PNES. Anxiety disorder was found to be the second leading psychiatric disorder and was almost common in both the groups, 13.33% in group with epilepsy and 18.75% in the group with PNES. It was also cited that Psychotic disorder (13.33%) was found only in the group with Epilepsy, while Personality disorder and PTSD was found only in the group with PNES. Bipolar disorder was more prevalent in group with epilepsy (13.33%) than in the group with PNES (3.13%). Somatic symptom disorder, dissociation and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) was also found in both the groups.Conclusions: Psychiatric disorder is more common in PNES than in epilepsy

A study of laser processed intermetallics

The effects of laser processing of Ni₃Al, TiAl, Fe₃Al, and Ni₃Si on microstructure and phase composition were characterized using optical and scanning electron microscopy and X-ray diffraction analysis. It was found that laser processing resulted in melt zones of ordered phases with fine grains and microstructures. The effects of heat treating for 1, 3, and 10 hours at 900C on both microstructure and phase composition were also analyzed. All non-equilibrium phases disappeared after one hour of heat treatment. After 10 hours of heat treatment order phases were retained in the laser processed regions but non-equilibrium microstructures remained

Prevalence and clinical correlates of psychiatric morbidity among caregivers of patients attending a psychiatric hospital in North India

Background: Consequent to the high prevalence of psychiatric disorders in present day world, their caregivers form an important group in the public health. Research on the physical and psychological well-being of caregivers is being carried worldwide with varied results. Psychological health of these caregivers is usually ignored both by these persons themselves and the health-care providers. The objective of the study was to screen for psychiatric morbidity among caregivers of patients attending a psychiatric hospital in North India, and to study the clinical correlates of the same.Methods: A total of 205 patients and their caregivers were consecutively recruited over a one month period. Sociodemographic and clinical information of patients was obtained either from the hospital records or from the caregiver. Scoring of the patient’s global assessment of functioning (GAF) was done by clinicians. The caregivers were administered a sociodemographic questionnaire, general health questionnaire (GHQ-12) and Zarit Burden interview. The presence of psychiatric morbidity was confirmed by a consultant psychiatrist.Results: Among the caregivers, 32.2% had GHQ scores of 3 and above. Majority of caregivers in this study were females (59.0%) while as majority of the patients were males (61.9%). Factors associated with psychiatric morbidity among caregivers include the high level of subjective burden of care, low level of functioning, and comorbid medical and psychiatric conditions.Conclusions: The study reveals a high level of psychiatric morbidity among the caregivers of patients with mental health problems

Effect of ketamine infusion in treatment resistant depression and in depressive patients with active suicidal ideations: a study from North India

Background: Treatment resistant depression can be a life-threatening condition as it leads to an increase of suicide attempts by two to three folds. It has been estimated that nearly 1 million people die due to suicide every year, and more than two-third of these cases occur when the person is undergoing a major depressive episode. Ketamine is an NMDA receptor antagonist, an anesthetic agent that is short acting and has recently been used as an antidepressant and anti-suicidal agent. It has been seen that a single intravenous infusion of ketamine at a lower dose. i.e., subanesthetic dose of 0.5 mg/kg over a period of 40 minutes produces antidepressant effect which lasts for about a week and various studies have proved that repeated infusions of ketamine can prolong the duration of the antidepressant response. Methods: It was an observational/descriptive study done in the ketamine clinic/ECT suite of institute of mental health and neurosciences Kashmir (an associate hospital of government medical college Srinagar) which runs once a week. In this study, patients satisfying the criteria of TRD and depressive patients with active suicidal ideations, visiting the ketamine clinic who had given a valid informed consent for ketamine infusion enrolled and observed for ketamine efficacy by using specific scales. The study done over a period of 18 months from January 2020 till July 2021. Results: The response rate of ketamine in our study for treatment resistant depression was 70.27%. The response rate of ketamine for suicidality in our study was 63.16%. Our study showed a rapid onset of action for ketamine, two hours after ketamine infusion. Conclusions: A significant fraction of patients suffering from major depressive disorder do not respond to antidepressants and have a poor psychosocial functioning and an increased risk of suicide attempts making their condition life threatening. These patients therefore require special attention to address their underlying condition as well as suicidality to improve their outcome. In this context we studied the role of intravenous ketamine infusion in these patients in improving the psychosocial outcome as well as preventing the suicidal ideation.

Health Outcome Predictive Evaluation for COVID 19 international registry (HOPE COVID-19), rationale and design

The disease produced by the new coronavirus known as SARS-CoV-2 (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2), named COVID-19 (Coronavirus Disease-2019) has recently been classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO). However, scarce clinical data is available and generally limited to the Chinese population due to the first cases were identified in Wuhan (Hubei, China).This article describes the rationale and design of the HOPE COVID-19 (Health Outcome Predictive Evaluation for COVID 19) registry (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT04334291). With an ambispective cohort design, eligible patients are those discharged, deceased or alive, from any hospital center with a confirmed diagnosis or a COVID-19 high suspicion. With a current recruitment of more than 7000 cases, in 46 hospitals in 8 countries, since it is not possible to estimate the sample size based on literature reports, the investigators will try to get the maximum numbers of patients possible. The study primary objective is all cause mortality and aims to characterize the clinical profile of patients infected in order to develop a prognostic clinical score allowing, rapid logistic decision making. As secondary objectives, the analysis of other clinical events, the risk-adjusted influence of treatments and previous comorbidities of patients infected with the disease will be performed.The results of HOPE COVID-19 will contribute to a better understanding of this condition. We aim to describe the management of this condition as well as the outcomes in relation to the therapy chosen, in order to gain insight into improving patient care in the coming months. Clinical Trial registration: ClinicalTrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT04334291

Association of Beta-Blockers with Survival on Patients Presenting with ACS Treated with PCI: A Propensity Score Analysis from the BleeMACS Registry

Purpose: The aim was to evaluate prognostic value of beta-blocker (BB) administration in acute coronary syndromes (ACS) patients in the percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) era. Methods and Results: The BleeMACS project is a multicenter, observational, retrospective registry enrolling patients with ACS worldwide in 15 hospitals. Patients discharged with BB therapy were compared to those discharged without a BB before and after propensity score with matching. The primary endpoint was all-cause mortality at 1 year. Secondary endpoints included in-hospital reinfarction, in-hospital heart failure, 1-year myocardial infarction, 1-year bleeding and 1-year composite of death and recurrent myocardial infarction. After matching, 2935 patients for each group were enrolled. The primary endpoint of 1-year death was significantly lower in the group on BB therapy (4.5 vs 7%, p < 0.05), while only a trend was noted for recurrent acute myocardial infarction (4.5 vs 4.9%, p = 0.54). These results were consistent for patients older than 80 years of age, for ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients, and for those discharged with complete versus incomplete revascularization, but not for non-STEMI/unstable angina patients. Conclusions: BB therapy was related to 1-year lower risk of all-cause mortality, independently from completeness of revascularization, admission diagnosis, age and ejection fraction. Randomized controlled trials for patients treated with PCI for ACS should be performed