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    Born to Die

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    Moral Principles of Women Poets in Purananuru

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    Purananuru is a book that can be regarded as the historical treasury of Tamil literature.  The culture, tradition, knowledge and commerce of the Tamils have been gathered together and become a literary ark. Women also excelled in the Sangam period because it was a time of emphasis on women's education. Women poets of the Sangam era have gained equal rights to men as a writer and have expressed their personality and ideas in a dignified way. These women did not hesitate to teach virtues to people through communal ideas. The purpose of this article is to bring out the moral principles of female poets in Purananuru from a social point of view. The personality of women poets in Purananuru, their hospitality, their modesty, their tendency to tell about the shortcomings of kings without hesitation, their courage, participating in the development of the country, and the heroic spirit of women poets are recorded in this article

    Indentifing Risk Factor for Low OutCome in General Surgical Practice using Portsmouth Possum Scoring System

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    BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: The aim of the present study was to compare the outcome of various surgical modalities using the Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enumeration of Mortality and morbidity (POSSUM) and its modification the Portsmouth POSSUM. It should be quick and easy to use and should be applicable to all general surgical procedure in both the emergency and elective situation. It should be of use in all type of hospital and should provide educational information. In this prospective study, the validity of P-POSSUM was test in patient undergoing for major surgery and identifying the risk factor for low out come were noted. METHODS: Prospective study on 75 patients undergoing major surgeries both in emergency and elective sitting .The disease severity was assessed in all patient using P-POOSUM scoring system. Predicted post operative mortality rates was calculated using the P-POSSUM equation by linear analysis method. It was then compared with the actual out comes and also the risk factors as scored in the possum criteria were noted. RESULTS: By Applying linear analysis, an observed to expected ratio of 0.96 was obtained this indicating a significant fit for predicting the post operative adverse outcome. There was no significant difference between the observed and predicted mortality rates (x2 = 1.667, 9 d.f.,P = 0.9957). It was found to be comparable to other studies. In all the risk factors studied, a positive correlation was found between deaths and higher POSSUM scores. INTERPRETATION AND CONCLUSION: To conclude, the present study suggest that the out come of surgical patients is reasonably good. Portsmouth POSSUM scoring system serves as a good predictor of post operative outcome in major general surgical procedures and was applicable even in our setup and be used for comparing various treatment modalities and assessing the quality of care provided

    The Doctrine of Aesthetics in Purananuru

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    Sangam literature occupies a unique place in classical literature and is a mirror that accurately reflects the lives of the people. Both the books, Ettuthozhi and Pathupaattu, are called "Sangam literature." This is also known as the "Pathinenmerkanakku." "Kanakku" means song. "Merkanakku" means a song having a lot of lines. The total number of lines in Sangam literature is 26,350. Agam (1862) and Puram (519) are two of the 2381 songs known from literary histories. The songs on love and war were compiled and named "Sangam literature," which remained extinct in the ocean planet, termite, and time flood. Of the eight volumes of Sangam literature, the book Purananooru contains four hundred (400) verses on external subject matters such as the greeting of God. This book shows the virtues of aesthetics through traditions, governance, way of life, historical elements, mythological stories, warfare, the superiority of friendship, the king’s bravery, and the skill of women

    Value of endometrial aspiration cytology in assessing the endometrial status in symptomatic peri and postmenopausal women and its histological correlation with fractional curettage

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    Background: Abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB) is associated with a wide variety of endometrium. Endometrial interpretation is valuable not only to find the etiology of AUB but also to rule out any organic cause for abnormal uterine bleeding. Fractional curettage is one of the most reliable and commonly performed diagnostic techniques used in the investigation of AUB. To evaluate the efficacy of endometrial aspiration cytology in the diagnosis of abnormal uterine bleeding by correlating it with histopathology.Methods: This comparative study to be conducted in100 patients attending antenatal clinic at Department of OBG, Tirunelveli Government medical college hospital from January 2018– July 2019. (17) months. Specific investigations like abdominal ultrasonography, thyroid profile, platelet count, bleeding time, clotting time, prothrombin time, etc were done whenever required. Informed consent was taken from all the study patients. Prior to Fractional curettage, endometrial aspiration was done using plastic disposable pipelines of 3 mm diameter.Results: The sensitivity of the cytology in detecting carcinoma of the endometrium was 83.3%. The specificity of cytology is 100%. Hence the test is highly specific in diagnosis. The positive predictive value is also 100% and the negative predictive value is 99%.Conclusions: It can also detect a few of the endometrial pathologies like endometrial hyperplasia, atrophy, and atypia. It is office Procedure. reduction in associated surgical risks, expense, post-operative pain, and need for operative anesthesia as seen in fractional curettage

    Bioremediation of petroleum refinery effluent by Planococcus halophilus

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    In the present investigation, Planococcus halophilus was screened for hydrocarbon degradation and bioremediation of refinery effluent. The test organism, P. halophilus, showed the capability to utilize kerosene as carbon source in minimal medium. Biological treatment of the refinery effluent with P. halophilus reduced the oil and grease and sulphide content to about 91.2 and 28%, respectively, on the 4th day of the incubation. The present work defined that the test organism P. halophilus can be exploited for bioremediation of sites contaminated with hydrocarbons and industrial effluents polluted with hydrocarbons even under adverse conditions.Key words: Kerosene, Planococcus halophilus, bioremediation, parameters, hydrocarbon

    Culture in Aatrupadai

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    Our Tamil language is rich in virtues that are not found in other languages all around the world. It is special to acquire grammatical and literary resources to such an extent that it is even impossible to say with certainty the period of the Tamil language. Tamil language excels as an unrivaled language in all aspects like culture and art. Man is a part of society. so the language he speaks, food he eats, dress he wears, his lifestyle, work and thoughts reveal the culture of the society where he lives in. Every human society has a culture. The habits practiced by man in his life are usually formed by the change of time and this practice has become a culture over time. Thus culture created huan society and good human beings. "Culture cannot be seen" is the opinion of William Haviland. Culture has been defined by the Chancellor of Madras University as "the natural goodness of others". Culture is subjective. It has life-like energy. It has higher purpose. Culture flourished from the root word 'culture'. Culture means refinement. 'He who is called noble, is virtuous. To know the antiquity of the Tamil culture, the grammar book Tolkappiyam and the Sangha literature are very helpful. Therefore, the purpose of this article is to study the superiority of culture in Aatrupadai literature, which is half the size of Sangam literature

    Wavelet-Based Analysis of Physical Activity and Sleep Movement Data from Wearable Sensors among Obese Adults

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    Decreased physical activity in obese individuals is associated with a prevalence of cardiovascular and metabolic disorders. Physicians usually recommend that obese individuals change their lifestyle, specifically changes in diet, exercise, and other physical activities for obesity management. Therefore, understanding physical activity and sleep behavior is an essential aspect of obesity management. With innovations in mobile and electronic health care technologies, wearable inertial sensors have been used extensively over the past decade for monitoring human activities. Despite significant progress with the wearable inertial sensing technology, there is a knowledge gap among researchers regarding how to analyze longitudinal multi-day inertial sensor data to explore activities of daily living (ADL) and sleep behavior. The purpose of this study was to explore new clinically relevant metrics using movement amplitude and frequency from longitudinal wearable sensor data in obese and non-obese young adults. We utilized wavelet analysis to determine movement frequencies on longitudinal multi-day wearable sensor data. In this study, we recruited 10 obese and 10 non-obese young subjects. We found that obese participants performed more low-frequency (0.1 Hz) movements and fewer movements of high frequency (1.1–1.4 Hz) compared to non-obese counterparts. Both obese and non-obese subjects were active during the 00:00–06:00 time interval. In addition, obesity affected sleep with significantly fewer transitions, and obese individuals showed low values of root mean square transition accelerations throughout the night. This study is critical for obesity management to prevent unhealthy weight gain by the recommendations of physical activity based on our results. Longitudinal multi-day monitoring using wearable sensors has great potential to be integrated into routine health care checkups to prevent obesity and promote physical activities

    Energy Management Strategy Using ANFIS Approach for Hybrid Power System

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    Renewable Energy Sources are the promising hopes of upcoming years as they are abundant in nature and available free of cost. In addition to this, these sources are pollution-free which makes them a perfect substitute for fossil fuels. A Hybrid Power System (HPS) is one that has multiple power generating sources like Photo Voltaic (PV) system, Wind turbine, Fuel cell, etc. interconnected to supply electric power for varying demand requirements with / without energy storage backup. This paper concentrates on the automation for control and integration of Renewable energy systems Viz. PV system, Solid Oxide Fuel Cell (SOFC) with Nickel-Metal-Hydride (Ni-MH) battery together with a variable load. The Proposed HPS mainly focuses on the use of PV which is 100% clean in nature with no toxic emissions on power generation. Here, the solar photovoltaic system with power extracting maximum by algorithm used as the major supply contributor in the HPS to meet with variable load demands. If there is a deficit of power supply from PV, the power from the Ni-MH battery / SOFC is utilized to meet the varying load demands. On the other hand, if there is excess supply from PV system, the excess energy will be stored in the Ni-MH battery. For efficient supply-demand balance, the HPS makes use of various control strategies namely Proportional Integral (PI) and Adaptive Neuro Fuzzy Inference System (ANFIS)
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