Individual Psychology in Novelist Thilagavathi’s Award Winning Novels

This article that is entitled "Individual Psychology in Award-Winning Novels" deals with novelist Thilagavathi and other personal behaviors such as the rise of love, greed, and self-confidence. Writer Thilagavathi has created a name for herself in the world of Tamil literature; she has given new ideas through Modern Tamil literature to protect the welfare of the people. Her works are mostly women-centric and explore their social issues. When researching them from a psychological perspective, the mentality of the creator and the mentality of the characters are evident. Generally, individual problems may naturally arise at works. In this way, this article examines the behavior of the individual based on the events of personal thoughts, actions, and depictions of inner memories found in Thilagavathi's novels 'Pathini Pen' (The Virtuous Woman) and 'Kalmaram' (The Stone Tree)

Hybrid Ventilation System and Soft-Sensors for Maintaining Indoor Air Quality and Thermal Comfort in Buildings

Maintaining both indoor air quality (IAQ) and thermal comfort in buildings along with optimized energy consumption is a challenging problem. This investigation presents a novel design for hybrid ventilation system enabled by predictive control and soft-sensors to achieve both IAQ and thermal comfort by combining predictive control with demand controlled ventilation (DCV). First, we show that the problem of maintaining IAQ, thermal comfort and optimal energy is a multi-objective optimization problem with competing objectives, and a predictive control approach is required to smartly control the system. This leads to many implementation challenges which are addressed by designing a hybrid ventilation scheme supported by predictive control and soft-sensors. The main idea of the hybrid ventilation system is to achieve thermal comfort by varying the ON/OFF times of the air conditioners to maintain the temperature within user-defined bands using a predictive control and IAQ is maintained using Healthbox 3.0, a DCV device. Furthermore, this study also designs soft-sensors by combining the Internet of Things (IoT)-based sensors with deep-learning tools. The hardware realization of the control and IoT prototype is also discussed. The proposed novel hybrid ventilation system and the soft-sensors are demonstrated in a real research laboratory, i.e., Center for Research in Automatic Control Engineering (C-RACE) located at Kalasalingam University, India. Our results show the perceived benefits of hybrid ventilation, predictive control, and soft-sensors

Automated Teller Machine (ATM)- A “Pathogen City” – A surveillance Report from Locations in and around Madurai City, Tamil Nadu, India

ATM is used by millions of people in a day. It is meant to be a public utility device.Hence the microorganism’s plays a major role in accommodating the safer place, ATM.Hence to this account an elaborate survey was taken for complete assessment of microbiology in and around Madurai city. Swabs were collected from each ATM screen, buttons, floor, user’s hand, exposure of plates and also extended the work in relation with microorganisms prevalent in ladies toilet the samples collected from ATM were plated in nutrient agar plates. The results showed the presence of increased bacterial count subsequently, most pathogens on characterization extended revealed the genus of the particular organism E-coli, Pseudomonas, Staphylococcus aures, Klebsiella, Micrococcus, Salmonella, Serratia and fungal species included Aspergillus sp, Mucor sp and Fusarium. Antibiogram study of bacteria also provides us information about the antibiotic resistance pattern of the bacterial isolates.

In vitro Studies on Stimulation of Gymnemic Acid Production using Fungal Elicitor in Suspension and Bioreactor based Cell Cultures of Gymnema sylvestre R.Br.

Gymnemic acids have become a valuable drug in diabetes treatment due to their potent antidiabetic activity. These compounds are extracted commercially from large quantities of Gymnema sylvestre. Since the intact plant contains low concentrations of active compound, plant cell cultures have employed as an alternative to produce large amounts of these secondary metabolites. Moreover using a bioelicitor the secondary metabolite production can be increased. The objective of this study was to develop a rapid system for the enhanced production of gymnemic acid. Aspergillus niger cell extract was used as an elicitor to stimulate the production of secondary metabolite. Comparatively 9 fold increase of gymnemic acid yield was obtained in elicited cultures

A Study on Raktha Moolam

INTRODUCTION : “Sound mind in a sound body is a sound maxim” and it is a well known proverb regarding good maintenance of one’s good health. The internal factors include constitutional rhogas occurring due to the disturbance of the three humours, the seven thathus, the three Gunas and the Malas the secretive and excretive wastes. The external factors include seasonal changes or climatic variations or unlikable things like drug abusing and external stress ending in psycho somatic disorders. Coming to the examination and investigation points of view, application of pulse reading in the diagnosis of a disease is a top most aspect of the siddha system of medicine which formed through the disturbed thathu either individually or in combination with one or two of the remaining thathus. AIM AND OBJECTIVES : Now-a-days Moolam is an common ailment prevalent in the world, affecting the Mankind because of their improper life style and diet. According to Yugi there are 21 types of Moolam, each and every type of Moolam has different causes for their occurrence. Through this dissertation more an attempt is made to evaluate the proper cause for Raktha Moolam. Raktha Moolam is one of those diseases which cause severe bleeding through the anus. It affects the patients both physically and mentally. The topic is discussed with following sub topics

Development of a Real-time PCR assay for Pneumocystis jirovecii on the Luminex ARIES® Platform

Pneumocystis pneumonia (PCP) is an opportunistic infection caused by the fungus Pneumocystis jirovecii. Infection with P. jirovecii can result in serious illness in patients with a weakened immune system, and can lead to death if it is not properly diagnosed and treated. Direct detection of P. jirovecii in lower respiratory tract specimens such as bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) is preferred for rapid diagnosis, a laboratory service currently not available locally. We report here the development of a diagnostic real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) assay using BAL specimens to detect P. jirovecii. By targeting the multi-copy mitochondrial large subunit ribosomal RNA gene (mtLSU rRNA) of P. jirovecii, assay sensitivity is increased. Primer pairs were designed to include a fluorescent reporter dye-labeled primer with a unique MultiCode® base pair isoC on the 5’end and one unlabeled primer. The performance characteristics were determined on the Luminex ARIES® instrument, combining DNA extraction, amplification and detection into a one-step process. The cassette contains the reagents needed to perform all of the steps including extraction, purification, amplification, and detection, plus a sample processing control. Accuracy, precision, sensitivity, specificity and stability studies were conducted to validate the assay to meet CLIA requirements. The analytical sensitivity was 89.1%, and the analytical specificity was 100%. The assay could reliably detect 200 organisms/mL, crossing thresholds (Ct) and melt temperatures (Tm) were consistent, and no cross-reactivity was observed with other pathogens known to cause respiratory infections. The results demonstrated that these primers are specific to Pneumocystis jirovecii. The real-time PCR method using the ARIES® system allowed for rapid and sensitive detection of Pneumocystis pneumonia infections with P. jirovecii using clinical respiratory specimens