Prospective and Retrospective Analysis of Pelvic Ring and Acetabulum Fractures in Tertiary Care Centre

BACKGROUND: Pelvic injuries are the common outcome of high energy road traffic accidents and fall injuries and these mishaps are on the increase.. There is significant morbidity and mortality with pelvic ring injuries. The mortality may present early due to haemorrhage or associated injuries and late because of multi organ dysfunction or sepsis. Most of the pelvic ring disruptions are unstable injuries. Eventhough most of the injuries can be managed with non-operative techniques like pelvic belt, slings, skeletal and skin traction initially, mainly aiming to stabilize the fracture temporarily or establish haemostasis but conservative management in non-articular reduction of sacroiliac joint may lead to long standing pain and discomfort due to arthritis. Hence decision making in such complex injury place a crucial role in determining the functional outcome. METHODS: 40 patients were selected both prospectively and retrospectively, patients with iliac wing fracture , sacroiliac disruption and pubic diastasis were included along with pelvic injuries associated with other associated comorbidities.7 patients were treated conservatively while surgical intervention done in rest of patients. CT scan, X-rays were taken and results were analysed using MAJEED functional scoring system. OBSERVATION: Of the 40 cases, 20 patients had excellent, 9 patients have good results. All the excellent, good score patients went back to their original job functions. Fair and poor results were mostly due to associated injuries and delayed presentations. Two patients in our study had L5 nerve root palsy on admission which improved to motor power of 3+ in 9 months. Mean score for Tiles type B is more than type C which is statistically significant. CONCLUSION: Definitive skeletal stabilisation done in less than 3 weeks had excellent MFOS in our study when compare to patients with delayed presentation and operated after 3 weeks. Patients coming under Tiles type B and type C classification had shown that operative intervention ensures early return to their original job and excellent functional outcome in our study

Response time minimization in distributed query optimization.

In Distributed Database Systems, the principal objective is to find an execution strategy which minimizes the cost. To find the best strategy, the query processing strategies which are commonly used include joins, semijoins and improvement algorithms. Here, in this thesis, a semijoin query processing strategy is used to find the best execution strategy. In the AHY (Apers-Hevner-Yao) algorithms, the investigations only focus on reducing the amount of transmissions. They make the assumption that the cost to send the packets from any source to any destination is the same and they don\u27t take into consideration the differences in delays in the links on the network. The objective of this thesis is to develop a heuristic which will take the network load along with the size of the data to be transmitted and compare it to the AHY algorithm GENERAL (Response time version).Dept. of Mechanical, Automotive, and Materials Engineering. Paper copy at Leddy Library: Theses & Major Papers - Basement, West Bldg. / Call Number: Thesis1995 .B47. Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 34-06, page: 2394. Advisers: Subir Bandyopadhyaya; Joan Morrissey. Thesis (M.Sc.)--University of Windsor (Canada), 1996

Relationship between physiological traits and yield of rice (Oryza sativa L.) under modified system of rice intensification

A field experiment was conducted to study influence of high-density planting on physiological parameters and yield of rice during late Samba (September-January) season of 2018-19. The treatments comprised of T1 - 25 × 25 cm with 100% Recommended Dose of Fertilizer (RDF) (SRI), T2 - 25 × 20 cm with 100% RDF, T3 - 25 × 15 cm with 100% RDF, T4 - 25 × 15 cm with 125% RDF, T5 - 20 × 20 cm with 100% RDF, T6 - 20 × 15 cm with 100% RDF, T7 - 20 × 15 cm with 125% RDF and T8 - Conventional cultivation with 100% RDF. Physiological parameters were recorded at four critical stages (active tillering, panicle initiation, flowering and maturity stages) of rice. The results revealed that photosynthetic rate (µmol CO2/m2/s), transpiration rate (mmol H2O/m2/s), stomatal conductance (mol H2O/m2/s) and chlorophyll index were increased in rice planted at a row spacing of 25 cm (T1, T2 and T3) over other treatments in all the stages. Lower rates were noted in conventional method of planting (T8) followed by T6 and T7.  During 0600 hrs and 1000 hrs, closer spacing levels (T5, T6, T7 and T8) had higher leaf temperature, while during later at 1400 hrs and 1800 hrs, warmer leaf temperature (°C) was noted in wider spacing levels (T1 and T2) during all time of weekly observation. The grain yield of rice was higher with 20 × 20 cm spacing level compared to other closer and wider spacing levels with either 100% or 125% RDF. By correlation analysis, all parameter had a significant influence on yield

Waste Load Scheduling an Alternative Approach to Stream Water Quality Management

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From the Individual to the Historical: a Commentary on Amitav Ghosh as a Writer of Historical Fiction with Reference to the Glass Palace

Amitav Ghosh is widely known as a historical novelist in Indian Writing in English. He recreates the colonial past of the subcontinent from the colonized point of view. However, he is not one who merely recreates history. He is appreciated for writing history with life. He narrates the story of an individual who often turns out to be the representative of a community and its untold history. The Glass Palace is one such novel that recreates the history of the colonial past of India and Burma. The focus is mainly on the life of Rajkumar who is an Indian orphan struggling to survive in Burma after being unfortunately transported to the country by accident. This paper is an analysis of Ghosh's novel, The Glass Palace in order to show how the author recreates a lively history by narrating the life story of his protagonist

Spectroscopic Techniques and Their Application in Metabolic Profiling of Wood: A Minireview

GC/LC-MS and NMR spectroscopy have increasingly occupied a central position in the methodologies developed for metabolic analysis. This brief review deals with introduction of terminology used in metabolic analysis. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR) commonly used in metabolic analysis and metabolic profiling of wood and wood based material by spectroscopic techniques. Apart from the description of the different methods, this review will try to direct the reader to the main approaches for analysis of metabolites in wood science. Keywords: Metabolic profiling, Wood, GC/LC-MS, NMR Spectroscopy

Mitochondrial genetic homogeneity of South American leafminer, Tuta absoluta (Meyrick) (Lepidoptera: Gelechiidae) in Tamil Nadu, India

The South American leafminer, Tuta absoluta is an exotic devastative pest on solanaceous vegetables, including tomatoes, which leads to a cent per cent economic loss in India. The molecular markers assist in assessing gene flow, migratory frequencies, and genetic variety, as well as helping to evaluate the genetic makeup and diversification of an exotic species population to indigenous ones. With this, the present study aimed to investigate the genetic divergence of T. absoluta  in different districts of Tamil Nadu, India. The study depicted the examination of genetic divergence of T. absoluta by aiding amplified region of mitochondrial DNA encoding cytochrome oxidase I (COI) from the T. absoluta samples gathered from Coimbatore, Dharmapuri and Dindigul districts of Tamil Nadu. The  findings showed that the phylogenetic tree constructed from all sequences of T. absoluta acquired from the NCBI (National Center for Biotechnology Information)  and BOLD (The Barcode of Life Data System) databases exhibited 99 percent identity and aggregated together into a single clade. . 5Hence, the present study revealed the great genetic uniformity in T. absoluta populations in India and corroborates that most of the globe rely on the partial COI gene, evidenced by minimal nucleotide diversity

The Image of Super Woman: a Portrayal of Woman in Bernard Shaw\u27s Pygmalion and the Millionairess

Socialism and Feminism stand first in the list of factors that influenced Shaw in creating strong women characters that must have looked arrogant and brass to the Victorian audience who had assigned a gentile and soft gender role to women. Shaw not only has created assertive women characters but he has created men with an open mind to accept such a woman as part of their society. This creation of understanding and accommodating men has complemented Shaw\u27s women characters and has lent the space for them to move freely and interact with utmost liberty. If Shaw had created men who had narrower views on gender equality and who are confirmative, Shaw would not have created a truly explosive gender dynamics that has become the hallmark of his plays. It is the influence of socialism and socialists which empowered Shaw to create and present such advanced characters and environment in his plays

Mechanical harvesting in tea: A case study of Pasuparai estate

Tea cultivation is a highly labour intensive and more than 2.0 lakh people are directly or indirectly involved in south India. Normally, women workers are deployed to harvest the crop manually at an interval of 10-12 days. By the turn of the century, usage of hand held shears became inevitable to increase the labour productivity. An interval of 14-16 days is mandatory to obtain good quality and regular crop production when hand held shears are used. Employing more labour is not practically and economically viable and hence adoption of mechanical harvesting is the only option to achieve the sustainability of the crop. The case study deals with continuous mechanization over a period of 6 years and its impact on crop productivity besides the adoption of improved agronomic practices. Significant improvement in plucking average was recorded after the introduction of machines. Timely harvesting of the crop improved the quality parameters of made tea and reduced the cost of harvesting. Deliberate addition of a new tier of maintenance foliage was followed during January-March, every year after the machine harvesting. Furthermore, foliar application of micronutrients, plant growth regulators and potassium nitrate also given to minimize the ill effects of mechanization. Mechanization enabled to achieve sustained crop productivity, and the case study narrates the impact of mechanization and the importance of adopting good agronomic practices to sustain the productivity in south Indian tea plantations