Polygala idukkiana (Polygalaceae), una especie nueva del sur de los Ghats Occidentales, India

Polygala idukkiana (Polygalaceae) is described as a new species from the Idukki district of Kerala in the southern Western Ghats. Detailed description along with colour photographs, distribution map, and key to the identification of Polygala species occurring in Kerala are provided. The new species is compared with the morphologically allied P. sibirica, P. rosmarinifolia, and P. chinensis. The conservation status of the new species is assessed provisionally as Data Deficient (DD) according to IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.Se describe Polygala idukkiana (Polygalaceae) como una nueva especie del distrito de Idukki de Kerala en el sur de los Ghats occidentales. Se proporciona una descripción detallada junto con fotografías en color, un mapa de distribución y una clave para la identificación de las especies de Polygala presentes en Kerala. La nueva especie se compara con las especies morfológicamente afines P. sibirica, P. rosmarinifolia y P. chinensis. El estado de conservación de la nueva especie se evalúa provisionalmente como Datos Insuficientes (DD) de acuerdo con las Categorías y Criterios de la Lista Roja de la UICN

Henckelia khasiana, una nueva especie de Gesneriaceae de la India

A new species of Henckelia (Gesneriaceae) is here described and illustrated. It is morphologically most similar to H. oblongifolia but differs in having lanceolate calyx lobes, two prominent longitudinal flaps on the inner surface of the corolla tube, bilobed stigma and tomentose capsules. A detailed description of the new species with colour photographs, affinities and a comparison with related species is given. Based on the present data, the new species is provisionally assessed as Critically Endangered (CR) according to IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.Se describe e ilustra una nueva especie de Henckelia (Gesneriaceae). Esta nueva especie es similar a H. oblongifolia, de la que se diferencia por tener lóbulos del cáliz lanceolados, dos láminas longitudinales prominentes en la superficie interna del tubo de la corola, estigma bilobulado y cápsulas tomentosas. Se proporciona una descripción detallada de la nueva especie y fotografías en color de sus principales órganos. Sobre la base de los datos actuales, se evalúa provisionalmente como en Peligro Crítico (CR) de acuerdo con las categorías y criterios de la Lista Roja de la IUCN

The effect of nutritional status on the response to highly active antiretroviral therapy in human immunodeficiency virus-infected children at regional antiretroviral therapy centre in Northern India

Background: Effect of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) on growth in children is well established but influence of prior nutritional status on the response to HAART is not well known. Objective: To determine the influence of prior nutritional status on the response to HAART in terms of growth and CD4 counts. Methods: It was a retrospective record review based study conducted at a regional ART centre at a tertiary care, teaching hospital in Northern India. Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) positive children who were naïve to antiretroviral therapy and were initiated on treatment from January 2006 to December 2007 were included in this study. Age, weight, height and CD4 cell counts were recorded at the initiation of HAART and after 24 months of therapy. Data was analyzed using paired t-tests within the groups, Chi-square tests, and one-way analysis of variance. Results: Seventy-nine HIV positive children were included in the study. At baseline, 29% of children were normal weight, 27% moderately underweight and 44% severely underweight with mean CD4 counts 243.30±178.50, 282.95±173.69 and 215.11±85.71 respectively. After 24 months of HAART, mean CD4 cell counts as well as weight for age z scores increased significantly in all 3 groups with mean CD4 counts being 913.61±401.46, 931.24±363.54 and 775.31±424.43 respectively in the groups. There were no significant differences in CD4 counts in the groups both pre and post ART. Conclusion: Underlying malnutrition does not adversely affect growth and immunologic response (increase in CD4 count) to HAART in HIV-infected children

Polygala idukkiana (Polygalaceae), a new species from the southern Western Ghats, India

Polygala idukkiana (Polygalaceae) is described as a new species from the Idukki district of Kerala in the southern Western Ghats. Detailed description along with colour photographs, distribution map, and key to the identification of Polygala species occurring in Kerala are provided. The new species is compared with the morphologically allied P. sibirica, P. rosmarinifolia, and P. chinensis. The conservation status of the new species is assessed provisionally as Data Deficient (DD) according to IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria

Investigation on the consequential features of Southwest Monsoon-2007 Onset and Super cyclone "Gonu" using Satellite, Model and Ground-based data

Onset features of the Summer monsoon-2007 were analyzed using data from five different sources, namely,the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) 3-hourly rainfall, National Centers for Environmental Prediction/National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCEP/NCAR) wind reanalysis data set, NOAA Outgoing Longwave Radiation (OLR), cloud imageries from the meteosat satellite,cloud base height and cloud occurrence frequency from a ground-based Vaisala Laser Ceilometer at Thiruvananthapuram. On the day of onset, 33 mm of rainfall was registered by TRMM satellite over south Kerala region with 80% cloud frequency and an averaged cloud base height of 2 km. On the next day, the formation of ‘Gonu’ super cyclone as a consequence of the convergence of monsoon onset surge in the Arabian Sea has caused the dissipation of cloud bands in the Arabian Sea and in the Bay of Bengal, except over the region of the system. This caused a lull situation for about ten days after the India Meteorological Department (IMD) declared monsoon onset. In fact, the remarkable characteristics of onset, such as deepening of westerlies and strengthening of low level jet streams were observed only after two weeks of IMD declared monsoon onset. Another unique behavior of 2007 monsoon onset was that the Arabian Sea branch of monsoon onset surge has advanced faster than the Bay of Bengal branch in the early stage

Study on mass concentration and morphology of SMAW fume particles with a new covered electrode using nano-CaTiO3 as an arc stabilizer

Advances in manufacturing emphasize on the development of sustainable and green manufacturing processes. Welding is a popular manufacturing process practiced worldwide. The paper presented here describes a new covered electrode for a shielded metal arc welding (SMAW) process wherein nano-sized calcium titanate (CaTiO3) powder was used as an arc stabilizer, replacing the conventional micro sized CaTiO3 in the flux. The effect of this flux modification on the mass concentration and morphology of welding fume particulates was systematically investigated. The mass concentration of coarse, fine and sub-micron sized fume particulates was measured by segregating the fumes in a four-stage personal cascade impactor. The particle mass distribution was estimated from the mass median aerodynamic diameter (MMAD) and geometric standard deviation (GSD) of the fume particulates. The morphology of fumes at each impactor stage was analysed using scanning electron microscopy and its count median diameter (CMD) was determined. The results indicated as much as 48 % reduction in total fumes and 54 % reduction in the breathing zone concentration of fumes when the entire CaTiO3 in the electrode flux was substituted with nano-CaTiO3. Morphological analysis indicated that a large fraction of the fumes from the conventional electrode were polydispersed particles, while the new electrodes predominantly contained monodispersed particles which have a relatively faster rate of removal from the lungs. Overall, the present work indicated that introducing nano sized CaTiO3 as an arc stabilizer to the flux covering of SMAW electrode could not only reduce the hazardous fume emissions but also reduce its biological activity and toxicity, thus making the process more sustainable and environment friendly.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Early detection of earthquake magnitude based on stacked ensemble model

A new machine learning model, named, EEWPEnsembleStack has been developed for predicting the magnitude of the earthquake from a few seconds of recorded ground motion after the arrival of the P phase. The testing and training dataset consists of 2360 and 591 strong-motion records from central Japan recorded by the Kyoshin Network. Eight parameters that are well correlated with the magnitude have been used for training and testing of the model. Feature ablation study using several models shows that a minimum mean absolute error of 0.42 has been obtained for the case when the model has been trained by using all parameters rather than by a single parameter. The model ablation study indicates that among all individually trained single models, the minimum error has been obtained for a Decision Tree regression model. However, the error is minimized when all machine learning models have been together utilized in the EEWPEnsembleStack model for the training purposes. The EEWPEnsembleStack model has been used to predict a 6.3 magnitude earthquake by using its 21 records from various stations that lie within 50 to 150 km epicentral distance. The predicted magnitude from the developed model using weighted magnitude prediction is obtained as 6.4, which is close to the actual magnitude. The comparison of the predicted magnitude of this earthquake from the developed model with that predicted by using popular τc and Pd methods clearly indicates the suitability of the developed machine learning model over other conventional models. © 202

Ayurvedic management of Myositis Ossificans of Vastus Lateralis Muscle (Urusthamba) - A Case Study

Myositis ossificansis characterized by heterotopic ossification (calcification) of muscle of various etiologies. It is most commonly affected in the quadriceps of the thighs. There are many tools available for diagnosis of Myositis ossificans, but lack of satisfactory treatment. So the development of a treatment protocol for Myositis ossificans is the need of today`s era. In Ayurveda, the same can be understood as Urusthamba. The present paper discusses a case of Myositis ossificans of right vastus lateralis muscle and its Ayurvedic treatment

Real-Time Detection of Motorcyclist without Helmet using Cascade of CNNs on Edge-device

The real-time detection of traffic rule violators in a city-wide surveillance network is a highly desirable but challenging task because it needs to perform computationally complex analytics on the live video streams from large number of cameras, simultaneously. In this paper, we propose an efficient framework using edge computing to deploy a system for automatic detection of bike-riders without helmet. First, we propose a novel robust and compact method for the detection of the motorcyclists without helmet using convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Then, we scale it for the real-time performance on an edge-device by dropping redundant filters and quantizing the model weights. To reduce the network latency, we place the detector module on edge-devices in the cameras. The edge-nodes send their detected alerts to a central alert database where the end users access these alerts through a web interface. To evaluate the proposed method, we collected two datasets of real traffic videos, namely, IITH-Helmet-1 which contains sparse traffic and IITH-Helmet-2 which contains dense traffic. The experimental results show that our method achieves a high detection accuracy of˜95% while maintaining the real-time processing speed of ˜22fps on NVIDIA-TXI. © 2020 IEEE