Misappropriation of Trade Secrets Under the Indian Legal Framework: An Analytical Study

The main purpose of this paper is to examine  the aspects of the misappropriation of trade secrets under the Indian legal framework, and how this can be prevented. The paper also tries  to understand the nature of trade secrets, the reasons for protecting them, and the practical challenges in identifying and protecting them as there is no legal framework in India to protect trade secrets from misappropriation. The  paper concludes by highlighting  the challenges to  the Indian legal framework, in handling and protecting the misappropriation of trade secrets

Effect of nicotine exposure during pregnancy on birth weight among beedi rolling women

Background: Exposure to nicotine can lead to increased morbidity and mortality among fetus and mothers. The objective was to study the effect of nicotine exposure on the birth weight of the babies.Methods: During the study period of one year, it was possible to recruit the total 144 subjects. 36 were women who were exposed to nicotine as they were bidi rollers. The exposure was confirmed by history. 36 women delivered during the study period and these newborns were included in the present study. Control group were 36 pregnant women who were not exposed to nicotine. They were asked about the exposure history, like anyone in their family is smoking inside the house any time and their occupation. Among these all (36) delivered during the study period and their newborns were included in the present study.Results: Both the groups were comparable in terms of age, hemoglobin, body mass index, gestational age. The mean birth weight of babies in the control group (whose mothers were not exposed) was 3.01kg with a standard deviation of 0.56 compared to mean birth weight of babies in the study group (whose mothers were not exposed) of 2.73kg with a standard deviation of 0.40. This difference in the mean birth weight of babies in the study group and the control group was found to be statistically significant (p<0.05). The mean serum cotinine value in study group mothers and babies was very high compared to zero value in mothers and babies of control group and statistically significant (p<0.05).Conclusions: Maternal nicotine exposure through beedi rolling is associated with reduced birth weight

Comparison of serum iron, TIBC, transferrin saturation and serum ferritin in anemia of chronic renal diseases

Background: In patients with CKD and diabetes combined, anemia may be relative or absolute. If the serum ferritin is more than or equal to 100ng/ml associated with reduced iron saturation, then it is defined as functional iron deficiency anemia. This type of anemia is very common in patients with CKD. To compare serum iron, TIBC, transferrin saturation and serum ferritin in anemia of chronic renal diseases with healthy controls.Methods: A hospital based comparative study was carried out among 30 known cases of chronic kidney disease with anemia. They were compared with 20 age and sex matched healthy control who were free from chronic kidney disease and anemia. The parameters like serum iron, TIBC, transferrin saturation and serum ferritin were compared between the two groups. Student’s t test and a two tailed p value were calculated and if the p value was less than 0.05, it was taken as statistically significant.Results: It was seen that the mean hemoglobin value was significantly less among CKD patients compared to healthy controls (p<0.05). Serum iron was also significantly less among CKD patients compared to healthy controls (p<0.05). TIBC as significantly high among CKD patients compared to healthy controls (p<0.05). This is because of low hemoglobin and low serum iron in CKD patients but again the transferrin saturation was significantly low among CKD patients compared to healthy controls (p<0.05).Conclusions: Anemia prevalence was very high in CKD patients. Hemoglobin, serum iron and transferrin saturation were significantly low and TIBC was significantly high

Secure and Efficient Utilization of Encrypted Cloud Data using Multi-Keyword Ranked Search

Cloud Computing is a technology that provides services to users such as software as a service, platform as a service and storage as a service. These services are provided based on Pay-per-Use basis so these services are cost effective and flexible. Due to this advantage of cloud computing, the individuals as well as the enterprises are getting motivated to shift their local sensitive and huge data management system to cloud storage. But the sensitive data has to be encrypted before outsourcing in order to provide security to the data. After the data has outsourced it has to be utilized efficiently without losing the originality as it was stored. In this paper we provide a mechanism called ”Multi-keyword Ranked Search over Encrypted cloud data” that gives better and efficient searched result over the encrypted data taking multiple keywords as query, which obsoletes the tradition searching scheme based on plain text search. And we use a “Coordinate Matching” technique to find as many matches as possible and use “inner product similarity” to retrieve relevance search results. So if user wants to retrieve the data stored on cloud, he can specify the multiple keywords and rank for relevance retrieval of results. Finally results the user with top ranked files. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.160415

A Freewill and Automated Information Housed Infrastructure of Cloud for E-Learning

The one of the most widely used and a prominent service on the internet is World Wide Web. It provides wide connectivity and promising features, that makes one being ease of access, and it has been treated as a common place of information. The Cloud services can be accessed only with the help of Internet. E-Learning System is one which allows the learner to learn the things according to his area of interest. And can be thought as the wonderful resource for learning regardless of the location. Main aim behind this E-learning system is to provide a user friendly environment, in which user is free to learn anything which he wants. Only the registered learners can make use of the features provided by the system, after the registered people chooses their interested subject/topic and go for starter test. This starter tests helps to establish incremental learning process depending upon his subject knowledge. In brief, e-Learning System gives connectivity throughout the world to the massive knowledge. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.15036

MANAGEMENT OF DEPRESSION IN TERMINALLY ILL PATIENTS – A CRITICAL REVIEW

Depression is a well-recognized risk factor for shortened life span from cancer. Depression is among the main causes of disability in the world leadingto increased suffering and mortality. As per research surveys over the years, prevalence among cancer patients varies widely from 3% to 38% formajor depression and 1.5-52% for depression spectrum syndromes. The need of the hour is to effectively treat depression in cancer patients so thatthe quality of life can be improved and thereby patient survival. Both psychological and pharmacological interventions and the combination of bothvery much effective in treating depression in cancer patients. A broad range of therapies now exist, and the art of such therapy is the strategic selectionof components from several models to best respond to the needs of the individual patient and his/her family in the specific circumstances, whetherclinical, psychological, spiritual, or social.Â

Similarity Solutions for MHD Visco-Elastic Flow over a Permeable and Non-Linearly Quadratic Stretching Sheet

A notable study on similarity solutions for visco-elastic (Walters liquid B’ model) fluid flow over a permeable and nonlinearly stretching sheet is investigated in the presence uniform magnetic field. Recently Raptis and Perdikis [1] studied the similarity solutions for boundary layer flow over an impermeable quadratic non-linear stretching sheet using a stream function of the kind......

Studies on the effect of post harvest treatments on shelf life and quality of mango [Mangifera indica l.] cv. Amrapali

he physicochemical characteristics and shelf life of mango[Mangifera indica L.] fruits treated with calci- um chloride (CaCl2-1%, 2%), calcium nitrate (Ca(NO3)2-1%, 2%), potassium nitrate (KNO3-1%, 2%) and carboxyl methyl cellulose (CMC - 0.5, 1%) were studied. Untreated fruits served as the control. All tested treatments indicated a significant delay in the change of weight loss (16.84%), ripening (51.66%), decaying percentage (46.66) and retained firmness (3.23 kg/cm2) of fruits and biochemical qualities viz., total soluble solids(22.33Brix), sugar accumulation (18.17%) and tritratable acidity on 16th day in mango fruits compared to control. The significant (5%) impact of treatment is found on the least decay percentage in the order of fruits treated with calcium nitrate (2%) followed by 1% Ca(NO3)2, 2% CaCl2 and 1% CaCl2. Hence, it could be concluded that post harvest chemical treatment with calcium nitrate, calcium chloride (1%, 2%) has the potential to control spoilage, prolong the storage life and preserve valuable attributes of post harvest quality of mango, presumably because of its effect on inhibition of ripening and senescence processes by lowering the respiration rate