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Interferon regulatory factor 1 protects against chikungunya virus-induced immunopathology by restricting infection in muscle cells
An introduction to Pythagorean fuzzy hyperideals in hypersemigroups
As the generalization of intuitionistic fuzzy set, Pythagorean fuzzy set was introduced. It is a pair of membership and non-membership grade where the sum of the squares of membership and non-membership grade should be less than or equal to 1. Pythagorean fuzzy set get more attention to deal with uncertainity. In this paper we apply Pythagorean fuzzy set in ideal theory of hypersemigroups. We introduce Pythagorean fuzzy left(right) hyperideals in hypersemigroups. We define t−level cut of Pythagorean fuzzy hyperideal is in hypersemigroup. Also we introduce Pythagorean fuzzy interior hyperideals in hypersemigroups and explain it with detailed example. Some theorems and results are also studied. Relation between Pythagorean fuzzy right(left) hyperideal, Pythagorean fuzzy subsemihypergroup and Pythagorean fuzzy interior hyperideal is given.Publisher's Versio
AN ETHNOBOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS IN MANAR BEAT, KARAMADAI RANGE, WESTERN GHATS, TAMIL NADU
Objectives: This investigation provides an ethnobotanical information that truly focused on the traditional medicinal plants used by Irula community inhaled in Manar beat to treat various human diseases. Ethnobotanical study about medicinal plants was carried out from January 2018 to December 2018 in Manar beat, Karamadai range, Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu.
Methods: The traditional in-depth knowledge of medicinal plants was collected during group discussion, interviews, and guided field walks along with tribe. All the traditional medicinal plants collected during the field visit were identified with local floras and the identity was authenticated by Botanical Survey of India.
Results: A total of 89 medicinally important endemic, threatened and endangered aromatic herbal plants distributed in 71 genera and 42 families were collected and identified. Among the surveyed plants, Fabaceae and Moraceae with eight species were the largest plant families, respectively. Leaves (35%) are most widely used plant part of reported plants and decoction forms are mostly used by Irulas. The surveyed plants were checked for conservation status in Red Data List formulated by the International Union for Conservation of Nature; around nine species were listed out.
Conclusion: The documentation of the medicinal herbal plants will be a good reference to all the young researches to carry out various conservation works
Conflicts among Street Children and their Parents: Incidence and Consequences
Street children by the nature of their work and lives are on their own largely unprotected by adults, and become vulnerable to many dangers and conflict at home and their workplace. This paper explores and analyses the various situations of conflicts and the reactions exhibited by street children after having conflict with their parents. The study was carried on 160 street children (9-12 years) equally distributed over gender. Data were collected by administering a Self-structured Interview Schedule to study the situations of conflict, consequences of conflicts, behavior and reactions exhibited by children after having conflict. Results revealed that children perceived parents as a fearful figure. A higher proportion of street children (56.87%) cited disobeying parents was the major cause of conflict with their parents and as a reaction a higher proportion of them (45.00%) started crying after having disturbing situations. More number of boys become indifferent, go to work as usual, reacted back verbally, becomes aggressive and think of running away whenever they had conflict with their parents while majority of the girls reported of seeking sympathy from friends/other family members, missing work on the particular day or crying for hours at end
E-Services Effectiveness: A Case of Companies Commission of Malaysia
E-Technology has become a reason for enabling more effective government through better access to services and the democratic process. Technology make both the public and private sector work more effectively by giving attention to the needs of customers while, at the same time, reducing costs, time and improving the quality of services. This paper, will discusses some of the key aspects of e-Service providing in Companies Commission of Malaysia (CCM) and the role of internal IT department and operational department to encourage the eservices in CCM to cater the drastically increasing application. Method undertaken in this study was throughinterviews with project sponsors and a number of other stakeholders and surveys of several focus groups of users. Data were collected using online questionnaire from CCM customers, employees and interview the stakeholders such as board of members. An online questionnaire survey of CCM employees was sent, accompanied by email imitating respondents to existing customer. This study will add more information on how to examine the value and the effectiveness of e-Services with a focus on three specific aspects of effectiveness such as the view of management and IT department; social, cultural and ethical implications; and the customers view of the usefulness and success of e-Service initiatives
ANATOMICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF MEDICINAL PLANTS USING FOLDSCOPE: A PAPER BASED ORIGAMI MICROSCOPE-(NEW DIAGNOSTIC TOOL)
Objective: This study mainly focussed how foldscope can be used as an efficient viewable tool to detect in morphological and anatomical investigation of various bioactive medicinal plants. Microscope provides a beneficial instrument for visualization of living cells. Its cost is very high which is not affordable for rural based educational institutes. Foldscope is the ultra-affordable and versatile, paper microscope designed to be extremely portable, durable and to give optical quality similar to conventional research microscopes.
Methods: For enhancing scientific temperament among rural children, Indian Born Scientist (Dr. Manu Prakash) has introduced an ultra-low-cost foldable origami-based approach for large-scale manufacturing of microscope, specifically demonstrating bright field, dark field and fluorescence microscopes. However, its potential as in research tool in the area of aromatic medicinal plants is still not known. The slides were prepared by own and were observed with the magnification power of 140X.
Results: The result of the present study reported that the Foldcsope images revealed viable stained areas in the respective plant parts like trichomes, stomata, pollen grains, stem and leaf of different medicinal plants and indicating their live activities.
Conclusion: Based on the attractive images captured from the Foldscope, the uses of foldscope were recommended to public. Previously we had organized some awareness cum demonstration programme regarding foldscope and its applications in the field of science education in the different educational institute of Erode District, Tamilnadu. Based on the clarity of images and easy handling of Foldscope the uses of origami microscope were recommended for higher studies
Emergence of multi-drug resistant strains among bacterial isolates in burn wound swabs in a tertiary care centre, Nanded, Maharashtra, India
Background: Infection is a major cause of morbidity and mortality among burn patients. The worldwide emergence of antimicrobial resistance among a wide variety of burn wound pathogens, particularly nosocomial isolates, limits the available therapeutic options for effective treatment of burn wound infections. The study was conducted in the department of Microbiology, Dr. S.C.G.M.C, Nanded, Maharashtra, India to determine aerobic bacterial isolates from burn wound swabs and describe their antibiogram.Methods: Two wound swabs were taken from 570 patients, cultured aerobically. The isolates were identified by standard microbiological methods and antibiotic sensitivity pattern was determined.Results: Among 570 patients, 434 (76.14%) were female and 136 (23.85%) were male. Out of the total swabs collected, 548 (96.14%) were culture positive and 36 (6.56%) were having 2 isolates. Pseudomonas aeruginosa (34.93%) was the commonest isolate followed by Staphylococcus aureus (22.77%), Klebsiella pneumoniae (13.87%), Escherichia coli (13.01%) and Coagulase negative staphylococcus (11.31%). Incidence of MRSA was 59.39% and ESBL producers were 61.46 %. Gram positive isolates were 100% sensitive to Vancomycin, Linezolid and Gram negative organisms to Imipenem.Conclusions: Routine periodic sampling of burn wounds would facilitate the selection of appropriate empirical therapy and reduce the incidence of multidrug resistant infections among burn patients
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