Limp Wrists, Clenched Fists: An Analysis of Queer Performance Art as a Tool for Political Resistance

This paper explores the use of queer performance art as a tool for community mobilization and resistance to socio-legal oppressions. This essay is grounded in movements for queer liberation in the Global South, racialized working-class queer communities, and queer disability justice. As queer culture and aesthetics are often misappropriated for wider cisheteronormative audiences, this work reminds the revolutionary nature of queer performance art

A Hybrid Machine Learning Approach for Breast Cancer Detection

Now a day, cancer is one of most common and internecine disease among all disease present in the world. A cancer disease is classified into different types based on the body location like breast cancer, kidney cancer, liver cancer etc. but breast cancer is one of the most common cancer in woman and 8% of woman were diagnosed breast cancer in 2016. It is found that if the cancer is diagnosed in the early stage than the probability of the survival is higher. Now a day, Machine learning play a vital role in order to detect cancer in the early stage. Lots of work has been done previously which uses machine learning approach like support vector machine, Naïve Bayes, logistic regression etc. In this paper w proposed hybrid approach for detecting cancer in the early stage. This hybrid approach is the combination of Support vector machine and Naïve Bayes approach. In order to evaluate the performance of the proposed approach uses Wisconsin Breast Cancer (WBC) which is downloaded from the UCI machine learning repository. Performance of the proposed approach is measured in term of accuracy, F- value. Experiment results shows that proposed approach gives better result as compare to the competitive approach

An evidence based review on effect of oral motor therapy on feeding in preterm infants

Present study was done to know the effect of Oral Motor Therapy on preterm infants for feeding and related issues. Most preterm infants have low body weight, immature brain development, sucking and swallowing problems, and decreased oral motor ability, which affects infants' growth and normal development. Oral Motor Therapies are used to increase functional strength and control of movement for feeding, to promote the onset of oral feeding, and to improve oral feeding performance. The study started with the search articles on Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Cochrane and PubMed with keywords in range of year 2012-2023. 250 articles were found from the sources. 46 articles were studied which were related to aim of the study. From all of them 10 articles were selected on the basis of inclusion criteria. All the articles suggested improvement in all the post intervention outcomes which showed clinical significance of the Oral Motor Therapy. The study hereby concluded that Oral Motor Therapy is useful in preterm infants for feeding initiation and progression, weight gain as well as in dysphagia rehabilitation and reduced hospital stay

Transfer Learning for Low-Resource Part-of-Speech Tagging

Neural network approaches to Part-of-Speech tagging, like other supervised neural network tasks, benefit from larger quantities of labeled data. However, in the case of low-resource languages, additional methods are necessary to improve the performances of POS taggers. In this paper, we explore transfer learning approaches to improve POS tagging in Afrikaans using a neural network. We investigate the effect of transferring network weights that were originally trained for POS tagging in Dutch. We also test the use of pretrained word embeddings in our POS tagger, both independently and in conjunction with the transferred weights from a Dutch POS tagger. We find a marginal increase in performance due to transfer learning with the Dutch POS tagger, and a significant increase due to the use of either unaligned or aligned pretrained embeddings. Notably, there is little difference in performance when using either unaligned or aligned embeddings, even when utilizing cross-lingual transfer learning

Effect of an acute bout strength training on executive function among college students: a pilot study

Executive functions are built such as reasoning, problem solving and planning. Even mild form of executive dysfunction might hamper everyday activities depending on the work and situation, which requires various cognitive domains. Strength exercises are able to increase the anti-inflammatory balance with an increase in cognition and better physical performance. Aim of the study was to evaluate the acute bout effect of strength training on executive function among college students. 10 participants were divided into control and intervention group for experimental study performed at SPB physiotherapy college. Consent was taken from the participants. Only one session of 30 minutes was performed by intervention group. Intervention group performed 10 repetitions of 12 exercise per set and 2 sets per session. Warm up and cool down was performed by participants. Pre and post measures of trail making test B was recorded as outcome measure for executive function. Trail making test score was significantly improved immediately after strength training with p value <0.05 suggesting improvement in executive function. The study concluded that Strength training has greater immediate impact on executive function among college student

On sharp third Hankel determinant for certain starlike functions

In this paper, we provide an estimation for the sharp bound of the third Hankel determinant of starlike functions of order $\alpha$, where $\alpha$ ranges in the interval $[0, 1/6]\cup \{1/2\}$ and thereby extending the result of Rath et al. (Complex Anal Oper Theory: No. 65, 16(5), 8 pp 2022).Comment: The paper has been updated from the previous versio

Evaluation of echocardiographic systolic parameters in pre eclamptics and normotensives women

Background: Early detection of changes in cardiovascular echocardiographic systolic parameters and their comparison with normotensives women.Methods: This was a hospital based prospective case control study carried out in department of obstetrics and gynaecology in S.M.S Medical College, Jaipur during the period from February 2013 to December 2014. 100 women were enrolled in the study after applying inclusion and exclusion criteria. All women underwent two dimensional echocardiography at rest. Cardiac systolic parameters were recorded and studied.Results: Mean LVEDV in PIH group was 75.71 ± 4.8 ml v/s 71.08 ± 5.6 ml in control group and the difference was statistically significant. Mean stroke volume was higher in PIH group as compared to the control group and the difference was statistically significant (59.83 ± 7.4ml/min v/s 52.48 ± 6.4ml/min). Mean Aortic Root Diameter in PIH group was 2.188 ± 1.04 cm as compared to the 1.866 ± 1.06 cm in the control group which was statistically significant. Mean Left Ventricular outflow Tract diameter was slightly higher in the PIH group as compared to the controls although the P-value was not significant (2.37 ± 1.06 cm and 1.99 ± 1.08 cm). Mean Total Vascular Resistance in PIH group was found to be higher in PIH group as compared to the controls and the difference was statistically significant (1389 ± 57.04 dynes/sec/cm-5 v/s 1286 ± 45.01 dynes/sec/cm-5).Conclusions: Systolic parameters get worsened in pre eclamptics. Early detection of change in these parameters could help to identify high risk women who are prone to develop cardiovascular morbidity in later life

Review of Artificial Intelligence with Retailing Sector

This research service provides an original perspective on how artificial intelligence (AI) is making its way into the retail sector. Retail has entered a new era where ECommerce and technology bellwethers like Alibaba, Amazon, Apple, Baidu, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Tencent have raised consumers’ expectations. AI is enabling automated decision-making with accuracy and speed, based on data analytics, coupled with self- learning abilities. The retail sector has witnessed the dramatic evolution with the rapid digitalization of communication (i.e. Internet) and; smart phones and devices. Customer is no longer the same as they became more empowered by smart devices which has entirely prevailed their expectation, habits, style of shopping and investigating the shops. This article outlines the Significant innovation done in retails which helped them to evolve such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big data and Internet of Things (IoT), Chatbots, Robots. This article further also discusses the ideology of various author on how AI become more profitable and a close asset to customers and retailers

Development and impact of a telemedicine platform with a task-shifting digital assistant to support frontline health workers and its dissemination as a Digital Public Good

Telemedicine improves access for women and helps reduce the geographic, financial, and social barriers that women face in receiving the care they need. In this dissertation, I describe the design and development of an open-source telemedicine technology platform, Intelehealth, through a user-centered bioengineering innovation and design process. I describe the desiderata of a provider-to-provider telemedicine approach connecting rural frontline health workers with remote doctors to facilitate teleconsultations for patients. I describe the development of a digital assistant, called Ayu, to enable this health worker to doctor teleconsultation and task shift the process of collecting a comprehensive medical history and physical examination. Through an evaluation of the information retrieval ability of this digital assistant I show that a nurse using Ayu can capture 65% of patient history information and 42% of physical exam information that a doctor would collect. This information was deemed sufficient to arrive at the correct diagnosis in 68-74% of patient cases and a correct triage decision in 88% of cases. I demonstrate that health workers can successfully use the digital assistant and the telemedicine platform and that they have a high degree of acceptability towards its use. One of the key concerns in telemedicine is whether telemedicine-based care is comparable to in-person care for patients and whether it should be used in settings where in-person care delivery is not possible. I conducted a randomized crossover trial comparing telemedicine with face-to-face care and observed a 74% diagnostic concordance and an 80% concordance in the treatment plan between the two. Patients reported a 98% decrease in distance traveled and a 99% decrease in average spend. We also found that these benefits were higher for women who spend 1.5 times more than men to get health care services. Thus, telemedicine can provide comparable outcomes to in-person care at lower cost and greater convenience for patients, especially women. Finally, I present the Telemedicine Program Design Canvas - a framework to aid in the design of sustainable telemedicine programs and their implementation and present a telemedicine project case study through the eyes of a female community health worker in rural India

A comparative study of efficacy and safety of intramuscular carboprost and intravaginal misoprostol for cervical priming prior to first trimester surgical abortion

Background: MTP Act no 34 of 1971 has been defined as Legal termination of pregnancy before the age of viability of fetus that is 20 weeks of gestation. There is a need to find a medical agent which can help in the process of abortion by speeding it up, with minimal side effects. The objective of this study was to compare the efficacy of I.M carboprost and intravaginal Misoprostol and to evaluate the safety profile of I.M carboprost and Intravaginal Misoprostol. To compare the cervical dilatation caused by I.M carboprost and intravaginal Misoprostol and to compare the blood loss and adverse effects of I.M carboprost and Intravaginal Misoprostol.Methods: Prospective randomized experimental study including pregnant women up to 12 weeks of gestation opting for M.T.P. Study conducted on 200 patients selected from patients admitted in MGM Medical College and M.Y. Hospital, Indore and Kalyanmal Hospital, Indore during the period July 2014 to March 2015. They were randomly divided into 2 groups. Group A who received intramuscular injection of 250 mcg of caboprost or Group B,which received 400 mcg of vaginal Misoprostol 4 hours prior to suction evacuation.Results: Intravaginal misoprostol achieves better cervical dilatation compared I.M carboprost which is statistically significant. Misoprostol is associated with higher blood loss as compared to I.M carboprost which is associated with nausea/vomiting & more likelihood of loose stools and abdominal cramps which is proved statistically.Conclusions: Intravaginal misoprostol is associated with higher blood loss as compared to I.M carboprost which is significant but intravaginal misoprostol achieves more cervical dilatation and causes less adverse events than I.M carboprost which is statistically more significant and therefore intravaginal misoprostol is the drug of choice for cervical priming prior to surgical abortion in terms of both efficacy and safety