Finding the unfound: Recovery of missing URLs through Internet Archive

The study investigated the accessibility and permanency of citations containing URLs in the articles published in DESIDOC Journal of Library and Information Technology journal during 2006-2015. A total of 2133 URL citations were identified out of which 823 were found to be incorrect or missing. HTTP-404 was the most common error message associated with the missing URLs. The study also tried to recover the incorrect or URL citations using Internet Archive and recovered a total of 484 (58.81%) missing URL citations

Impact of Reading habits on the Academic Achievements: A Survey

The present paper examines the impact of reading habits on the academic achievements of the students and faculty members in the universities of Karnataka state. The survey was conducted using a well design and structured questionnaire. A total of 2463 postgraduate students, research scholars and faculty members participated in the study. The study population consisted of an equal number of males (50.2%) and female (49.8%) and most of them (63%) are from rural areas. The study found that the majority of the respondents are from Science (48.8%) disciplines. The study found that almost all the respondents have reading habits and most of the them read at their home (69.1%), followed by university library (48.6%). It is very interesting to note that 57.7% of the respondents read books everyday. The study found that, most of the respondents preferred to read newspapers/magazines (69.5%), followed by books (58.9%). The study found that to a great extent, the majority of the respondents read various information sources, because they are interested in the topic of the study (53.2%). The study found that, the reading habit has made an impact on the academic achievements of the respondents. Further, it is found that reading habit has been acting as a channel for gaining real world of knowledge. Further, it also improved mental capacity and enhanced the reading skills in everyday life

Computer usage in teaching and learning among Indian Academics: Exploring the Gender disparity

This study aims to explore the gender disparity in Computer usage for teaching and learning among Indian academics. A total of 2463 samples were selected from 11 state universities in Karnataka, India. A well designed questionnaire was used to collect the data from the respondents. The result shows that, half of the male (50.2%) and female (49.8%) respondents used computer. Further, most of the male respondents used computer every day (58.0%) compared to female (42.0%) respondents. The present study found that majority of the respondents used computer for the research purpose (Male=55.6%, female=44.4%), followed by to read the e-books/e-journals, (Male=54.7%, female=45.3%) to prepare notes, to access Internet (Male=50.6%, female=49.4%), to prepare presentation slides (Male=50.1%, female=49.9%), to prepare class assignments (Male=49.1%, female=50.9%) and to improve typing skills (Male=51.8%, female=48.2%) and also to prepare project reports (Male=48.4%, female=51.6%)

Standardization Quality Control and Development of Poly Herbal Formulation for the Management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus

Herbal medicines are the oldest form of health care known to mankind. A number of traditional herbal medicinal practices have been adopted for the diagnostic prevention and treatment of various diseases. Based on the extensive review of literature, Six raw materials were selected for the formulated as polyherbal tablet and the antidiabetic potency was evaluated in cell line. The herbal raw materials were analyzed for identity, quality and purity as per the standards prescribed by WHO and Ayurvedic Pharmacopeia of India. The Physiochemical parameters like Loss on drying, ash values and extractive values were determined, which will help in preventing variation in quality of the drugs. Preliminary phytochemical investigation revealed the presence of various phytoconstituents such as alkaloid, steroids, glycosides, Flavonoids, Phenols, Tannins, and terpenoid in the raw materials. The safety of the raw materials was analysed by heavy metals the results found within the standard limits given by WHO. The extracts were dried by tray drying and used for the formulation. HPTLC fingerprinting of the polyherbal formulation was performed and the resultant chromatogram showed the presence of peaks as same in HPTLC fingerprint of extracts. The chromatogram can be used as an index for the qualitative analysis of the formulation. The dried polyherbal extract was optimized for its quality measures and its batch consistency by making nine different trial batches (Trial 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9). The trials were subjected to preformulation parameters to confirm the uniformity and quality. The result concludes that the trial 9 was excellent in all parameters and the values were found within the standard limits and it was used for formulate Polyherbal Tablet. The developed polyherbal Tablets were standardized for its Description, uniformity of weight, disintegration time, moisture content, pH, Physiochemical parameters, and phytochemical studies. Quantitative estimation of phytoconstituents was done for flavonoid, phenols, and tannins. The heavy metal analysis was carried out in polyherbal formulation as per the WHO Guidelines and found within the limits. In vitro anti-diabetic activity was done by using α-glucosidase inhibition assay method. It possesses significant antidiabetic activity as compared to standard Acarbose. 3T3-L1 cell line was performed. The formulation showed significant effect compared to the standard. The phytochemical study showed the presence of flavonoids. This may be responsible for the potent anti diabetic activity. Further studies are recommended for stability studies in the formulated polyherbal tablet and also clinical trials have to perform in future in Human Volunteers

Could homocysteine, angiotensin and alamandine be used as potential biomarkers in management of COVID-19?

The corona virus is now known as the severe acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Risk predictors and novel predictors associated with COVID-19 is required to enable the risk stratification, guide interventional studies to target patients at enhanced risk of developing severe disease risk and optimize the allocation of limited human and technical resources in the ongoing pandemic all over the globe. The present review focused on potential laboratory biomarkers associated with COVID-19. We carried out an electronic search in Medline (PubMed central), Scopus, Web of Science and using the keywords laboratory, biomarkers, novel biomarkers, corona virus 2019 or COVID-19. We observed that limited data were found that related to homocysteine and angiotensin II in COVID-19 patients. Hence original research on these novel biomarkers which associated with the complication of COVID-19 might be given new clues especially that mediate anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic effects leading to cardiovascular, renal-protective actions. The present review proposed by the available literature, these predictors might be the potent biomarkers to improve management of corona virus. Further, large cohort studies will be required to support conclusions of present review

Role of glucose in enhancing life and potency of Cirrhinus mrigala spermatozoa during cryopreservation

Cryopreservation of fish gametes is an emerging technology and breeding with cryopreserved gametes is advancement in fish seed production. Success of cryopreservation is evaluated by the post - thaw motility of the spermatozoa, an for which energy is required. Cryopreservation is known to cause changes in the seminal plasma that would alter the energy supply for the motility of the spermatozoa. Therefore, energy supplementation is found to be useful during cryopreservation. Cirrhinus mrigala spermatozoa were cryopreserved along with glucose as a co-cryoprotectant after 1:100 dilutions with 0.85% physiological saline as extender and Dimethyl Sulfoxide (DMSO) as cryoprotectant (85:15). The diluents contained glucose at four different concentrations, viz., T1 (0.25%), T2 (0.5%), T3 (0.75%) and T4 (1%). The diluted milt was equilibrated for 10 min at 5? C and loaded into 0.25 ml straws. The loaded straws were then frozen with LN2 vapour for 5 min and immersed in liquid nitrogen. Observations were made once in 7 days for 42 days on motility parameters based on which the duration, score, pattern and percentage were determined. The spermatozoa cryopreserved with glucose at 0.5% concentration showed the highest motility duration of 204±3.6 s whereas Control group showed motility duration of only 83.33± 4.5 s on 42nd day. The difference in motility duration was statistically significant (P>0.025).The present study revealed the benefits of adding glucose a t0.5% during cryopreservation as it could help in maintaining the motility duration and survival of spermatozoa

Active Cloud Valuing for Revenue Expansion

Cloud computing is an emerging computing paradigm in which resources of the computing infrastructure are provided as services over the Internet. Sharing data in a multiowner manner while preserving data and identity privacy from an untrusted cloud is still a challenging issue, due to the frequent change of the membership. To preserve data privacy, a basic solution is to encrypt data files, and then upload the encrypted data into the cloud. In this paper we are further extending the basic MONA by adding the reliability as well as improving the scalability by increasing the number of group managers dynamically. This paper proposes how user can access data after the time out. The storage overhead and encryption computation cost of our scheme are independent with the number of revoked users

Research productivity on COVID-19: A Bibliometric approach

The study aimed to explore the perspective of COVID-19 publications across the globe. Further, attempts were also made to find out the most productive country, author, and institute in publishing literature on COVID-19. The data related study was retrieved from SCOPUS database. Various search strategies were used to retrieve publications on COVID-19 published between 1st December 2019 and 22nd June 2020. A total of 19,991 publications on COVID-19 were retrieved from the Scopus database. Further, it was found that Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China has produced 422 publications and received 5624 citations with an average citation of 13.327 per publication. BMJ Clinical Research Ed published 534 (1.61%) articles. Among the most productive authors, Wiwanitkit, Viroj from Hainan Medical University, China stands in the first place with 73 publications followed by Mahase, E. from the British Medical Journal, UK (52 publications) and Iacobucci, Gareth (48 publications). The study provided a relatively objective reference for peer scientists, national regimes, and the global health system. The findings of the study will definitely help the institutions as well as authors to get an opportunity to collaborate with regional, national and international research institutions and scientists

Improvement and Optimization of Performance of Iron Ore Beneficiation Plant

JSW steel in an integrated steel plant of 2.5 Mtpa crude steel capacity and is being expanded to 10 Mtpa in phases. The plant facilities include 3 Mt Iron Ore Beneficiation Plant, 4.2 Mt Pellet Plant, 1.6 Mt Corex iron making, 0.9 Mt Blast Furnace, 2.5 Mt BOF — CCP and 2 Mt Hot Strip Mill. In order to control alumina in iron ore fines, the iron ore beneficiation plant was installed based on in-house developed process. During its operation of last two years, number of improvements and innovations have been introdu-ced to improve the reduction in alumina, improve yield and reduce moisture of concentrate