Emphasing the Need for School Based Mental Health Programme with Few Case Studies

School plays an important part in the lives of children and adolescents and can potentially play a key role in helping to address the mental health needs of their students. In present scenario the school based mental health programme has been recognized and initiated in many schools though mainly by the management or non-governmental organizations not through the government. Objectives: a) to identify commonest factors associated with scholastic problems, b) to develop Case studies, c) to utilize the intervention provide by the psychiatric Social worker and referral service in managing the academic and mental health problems in the school context. Methods: A psychiatric Social worker delivered the intervention using mainly the principles of case work and applied behavioural analysis with 23 case studies. Results: Faulty learning Strategies , peer related adjustment problems, uncongenial family environment , core psychiatric disorders, borderline intelligence or pervasive developmental problems and poor teaching strategies or class room environment  were the major contributors of academic problems. Conclusion: Most of the problems leading not only the scholastic and behavioural problems, but also to strengthen their coping skills through interventions. Case vignettes will help teachers and parents to know more about their wards and also to deal with the children’s problems effectively. Keywords: School mental health, interventions and referral servic

EVOLUTION OF PROTEIN COMPLEXES IN BACTERIAL SPECIES

Protein complexes are composed of two or more associated polypeptide chains that may have different functions. Protein complexes play a critical role for all processes in life and are considered as highly conserved in evolution. In previous studies, protein complexes from E. coli or Mycoplasma pneumoniae have been characterized experimentally, revealing that a typical bacterial cell has on the order of 500 protein complexes. Using gene homology (orthology), these experimentally-observed complexes can be used to predict protein complexes across many species of bacteria. Surprisingly, the majority of protein complexes is not conserved, demonstrating an unexpected evolutionary flexibility. The current research investigates the evolution of 174 well-characterized (“reference”) protein complexes from E. coli that have three or more subunits. More specifically, we study the evolutionary flexibility by using evidence and patterns of the presence or absence of the subunits across a range of 894 bacterial species and to interpret whether the evolution is due to the loss or gain of a subunit in the protein complex. The purpose of this study is to determine how the presence or absence of a subunit affects the protein complexes’ functionality. We discuss the functional changes observed in a protein complex due to the presence or absence of a particular subunit by using a statistical approach and by confirming its significance.https://scholarscompass.vcu.edu/uresposters/1253/thumbnail.jp

BIOMASS AND LIPID PRODUCTION FROM HETEROTROPHIC AND MIXOTROPHIC FED-BATCH CULTIVATIONS OF MICROALGAE \u3ci\u3eChlorella\u3c/i\u3e \u3ci\u3eprotothecoides\u3c/i\u3e USING GLYCEROL

Chlorella protothecoides is a microalga that can grow both photo-autotrophically and/or heterotrophically under different culture and environmental conditions. In this study both the heterotrophic growth and mixotrophic growth have been conducted. The heterotrophic experiments were conducted completely in the dark while the mixotrophic experiments had the dark cycles with periodic light exposure. The aim of the study was to independently understand the effect of each mode on biomass and lipid yields. For the heterotrophic experiments, glycerol was used as an external organic carbon source while yeast extract was used as the nitrogen source. The carbon and nitrogen source were added to a defined culture medium. Three different grades of glycerol were evaluated for their effect on the biomass and lipid yields in the heterotrophic experiments, with the 65% crude glycerol proving best giving an average biomass concentration of 22.13 ± 0.17 g/L and average lipid concentration of 9.75 ± 0.02 g/L at the end of an eight-day fed-batch fermentation. The average biomass concentrations did not increase after the eighth day of fermentation. The pH was maintained at a constant value of 6.8 and temperature at 280C. As the experiments were carried out in fed-batch mode, addition of the culture medium was done every 24 hours to maintain the carbon and nitrogen sources at 30g/L and 4g/L respectively till the eighth day. Yeast extract was found to be a good nitrogen source, as it also provides vitamins, amino acids and important growth factors as oppose to some other sources like ammonia and urea (Shi et al., 2000; Gonzalez-Bashan et al., 2000; Illman et al., 2000; Chen et al., 2006). The mixotrophic experiments were aimed to expose the algae to alternating light and dark cycles to enhance biomass accumulation during light cycle and lipid accumulation during dark cycles. The light cycle help to assimilate CO2 and produce energy via photosynthesis, which comprises the catabolic reaction, while the switch to the dark cycle allows anabolic reactions where accumulation of lipids and production of other compounds occur. Here, the algae were exposed to light for 8 hours and dark for 16 hours each day for eight days. The 65% crude glycerol was supplemented as the external carbon source to be utilized by the algae during the dark cycles while yeast extract was used as the nitrogen source. Here the average maximum biomass concentration of 28.95 ± 0.26 g/L and the average lipid concentration of 13.14 ± 0.01 g/L were obtained which were found to be higher than the heterotrophic results. With intermittent light exposure, the lipid yields were found to increase from a maximum of 0.44 ± 0.004 gram lipid/gram biomass for heterotrophic experiments to 0.46 ± 0.004 gram lipid/gram biomass for mixotrophic experiments. The mixotrophic experiments also provided an increase in the average maximum overall biomass concentration from 22.13 ± 0.17 g/L in heterotrophic to 28.95 ± 0.26 g/L in mixotrophic experiments

Global Business Trends Depending On Skill Enhancement Of Youth In View Of Lockdown Situation For Sustainability

The outbreak of a pandemic disease caused by the novel Coronavirus has severely affected the lives and the wellbeing of all people globally and so naturally the global trends of business has gone down slightly in view of lock down situations. Youths are experiencing major interruptions in their career and assessments. Still youth power is responding positively by utilizing the lockdown period to enhance their skills and creativity, this has indirectly given a boost to E- learning in India. The E-learning industry in India is a prolific one, witnessing a steady growth rate of 25 per cent year-on-year and is projected to be a $1.96 billion industry by 2021. Many youths have come forward with prudent to explore learning opportunities in digital classrooms, which are otherwise not feasible during work days. Several institutes and web portals are offering digital courses across disciplines that can be looked at for skill enhancement. From business development to IT, software to design and photography, there are a plethora of options. E-Learning also helps to utilize time effectively and learn a few new skills to gain that extra edge. This paper highlights the significance of skill enhancement and the role of E -Learning Portals in skill enhancement of youths during Pandemic Covid 19 crisis. An analysis was done with the help of youths of Dakshina Kannada District on skill enhancement such as Job skills, Aptitude skills, Soft skills and Technical skills (JAST), through e-learning, which in turn also improves their creativity and become the most sought after in their field. This paper describes the ways and means of enhancing the skills via online and thereby the global business trends can be brought to a sustainable level in view of lock down situations, through the role of digital transformation

Application of jute fiber in soil stabilization

Abstract: This research focuses on the use of jute fibers as a soil stabilizer to stabilize the soil. Stabilization is the process of changing the properties of a soil to improve its engineering performance, and it is used in a range of engineering projects. This study investigates the potential of jute fiber as a soil stabilizer when cutting in lengths of approximately 30 mm. Various percentages of jute fiber pieces have been used and combined with soil, including 0.5%, 1%, 1.5% and 2%. To observe the change in the technical properties of the soil, laboratory tests such as the California Bearing Ratio (CBR) test, modified compaction tests and direct shear strength tests were performed. Based on the results of the experiments, it can be concluded that stabilizing the soil with 30mm pieces of jute as a stabilizer improves the strength properties of the soil, allowing it to be used as a reinforcement material for road construction, parking lots, land development projects, airports and many other applications where basements are not suitable for building

Bilateral high division of sciatic nerve

Sciatic nerve is the thickest nerve in the body formed by the sacral plexus from L4 to S3 in the lesser pelvis. It emerges through the greater sciatic foramen below the piriformis and enter the gluteal region. Then the nerve passes on the back of the thigh and at the level of superior angle of popliteal fossa it terminates by dividing into tibial and common peroneal nerve. The knowledge of anatomical variations in the division of nerve is important for various surgical and anaesthetic procedures. During routine dissection in the department of anatomy, Mysore Medical College & Research Institute, Mysore, a rare bilateral high division of sciatic nerve was observed in a female cadaver aged about 40 years. In the present case there was bilateral high division of sciatic nerve. The nerve was seen dividing into two branches before it emerges through the greater sciatic foramen. The tibial nerve was entering the gluteal region below the piriformis muscle and common peroneal nerve was entering by piercing the piriformis. The knowledge of this variation is important as the nerve may get compressed with surrounding anatomical structures resulting in non discogenic sciatica. The awareness of variations is important for surgeons during various procedures like fracture, posterior dislocation of hip joint and hip joint replacement. The anatomical variations are important during deep intramuscular injections in gluteal region and also for anaesthetists during sciatic nerve block

Indoor Outdoor Scene Classification in Digital Images

In this paper, we present a method to classify real-world digital images into indoor and outdoor scenes. Indoor class consists of four groups: bedroom, kitchen, laboratory and library. Outdoor class consists of four groups: landscape, roads, buildings and garden. Application considers real-time system and has a dedicated data-set. Input images are pre-processed and converted into gray-scale and is re-sized to “128x128” dimensions. Pre-processed images are sent to “Gabor filters”, which pre-computes filter transfer functions, which are performed on Fourier domain. The processed signal is finally sent to GIST feature extraction and the images are classified using “kNN classifier”. Most of the techniques have been based on the use of texture and color space features. As of date, we have been able to achieve 80% accuracy with respect to image classification

Carbamazepine induced anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome

Anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome (AHS) is a potentially fatal drug-induced, multi-organ syndrome. The syndrome has been reported with anticonvulsants such as carbamazepine, phenytoin, phenobarbitone, and lamotrigine. A 17-year-old female who presented with papules and desquamation all over was diagnosed with AHS. She gave a history of fever, earache, peripheral edema, and erythematous papular eruptions 3 days prior. She gave a history of carbamazepine treatment since 15 days for generalized tonic-clonic seizures. On examination, there was cervical lymph node enlargement without tenderness. Investigations revealed elevated absolute eosinophil count at 550/mm3 and positive C-reactive protein tests. Carbamazepine was immediately withdrawn. Symptomatic treatment was administered, and resolution of the symptoms was observed. In this case, causalty assessment using Naranjo adverse drug reaction probability scale showed that carbamazepine was a probable cause for the AHS (Score - 7)