TRADITIONAL HEALING WITH ANIMALS (ZOOTHERAPY) BY THE MAJOR ETHNIC GROUP OF KARBI ANGLONG DISTRICT OF ASSAM, INDIA

Objective: To survey and document the traditional knowledge related to medicinal uses of animals among the ethnic groups in Karbi Anglong district of Assam. Methods: A long term field survey was conducted from July 2008 to October 2009 by performing personal interviews through structured questionnaire with more than 500 respondents, who provided information regarding the use of different animals and their products in their traditional medicine. Most of the information on the use of various animals in traditional medicine by them was provided by elderly people in the age groups of more than 50 years. Results: A total of 48 different animals were recorded to be used for different ethno-medical purposes against various diseases, including tuberculosis, asthma, cancer, paralysis, jaundice, leprosy, toothache, rabies, dysentery, baldness, rheumatism, arthritis, weakness, piles etc. The highest percentage of animals used for traditional treatment is mammals (about 40%) followed by insects (about 21%) and birds (about 19%). Conclusion: The findings reveal a rich traditional knowledge of indigenous people of Karbi Anglong about the use of animals and their product in traditional medicine. It is suggested that this kind of traditional knowledge should be included into the scientific literature for the conservation and management of medicinal faunistic resources

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs for treating symptomatic uncomplicated urinary tract infections in non-pregnant adult women

This is a protocol for a Cochrane Review (intervention). The objectives are as follows: This review aims to investigate the benefits and risks associated with the use of NSAIDs in the treatment of symptomatic uncomplicated UTIs in non‐pregnant adult women

Intrusion of Supraerupted Maxillary First Molar Using Modified TPA and TAD's - A Simple, Clinically Efficient Approach.

The orthodontist treating adult patients often encounters a dentition that was neglected after premature loss of posterior teeth. The adjacent teeth tend to tilt and rotate, and the occluding tooth can supraerupt. This early loss of posterior teeth and a delay in replacing the missing teeth results in over eruption of antagonist teeth. Overextrusion of maxillary molars usually results from early loss of antagonistic teeth. The elongated dentoalveolar process may induce problems such as functional disturbances and occlusal interference and cause great difficulty during prosthetic reconstruction.                    This case report demonstrates the efficient use of TAD's along with modified TPA in a patient with an supraerupted maxillary first molar in a 23-year-old girl. Treatment objective was to intrude the maxillary 1st molar to facilitate prosthetic replacement of lower 1st molar. The treatment mechanics involved: 0.022 x 0.028 MBT appliance for initial leveling & aligning followed by modified TPA with soldered hook for intrusion of first maxillary left molar. A section of Elastomeric chain was stretched from the mini-implant placed in the left buccal 1st molar region to the soldered hook on the Transpalatal Arch. Activation was done every 21 days. We preferred 150 g force to intrude the molar in this study.                    Intrusion was finished when tooth was leveled with the neighboring teeth. Amount of intrusion achieved was 3 mm in a span of 6 months and to avoid root resorption, intrusive force levels was kept optimal

Emotion-guided Cross-domain Fake News Detection using Adversarial Domain Adaptation

Recent works on fake news detection have shown the efficacy of using emotions as a feature or emotions-based features for improved performance. However, the impact of these emotion-guided features for fake news detection in cross-domain settings, where we face the problem of domain shift, is still largely unexplored. In this work, we evaluate the impact of emotion-guided features for cross-domain fake news detection, and further propose an emotion-guided, domain-adaptive approach using adversarial learning. We prove the efficacy of emotion-guided models in cross-domain settings for various combinations of source and target datasets from FakeNewsAMT, Celeb, Politifact and Gossipcop datasets.Comment: Accepted as a Short Paper in the 19th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON) 202

Comparative Studies of Tomato and Cherry Tomatoes Different Varieties under Poly House Condition

Research was carried out at Vegetable Research Farm, Department of horticulture, SHUATS, Prayagraj (U.P.) during winter season of 2020 - 2021, to evaluate different varieties of poly house condition traits of 7 Hybrids, with three replications in Randomized Block Design (RBD). Analysis of variance in the present investigation indicated that the genotypes evaluated differed significantly among all the treatment for all Thirteen traits. The hybrids Arka rakshak (887.01 kg) yield/hac and Total cost of cultivation (INR ha-1) 72,250.00. Cost Benefit Ratio of different varieties of tomato, Variable cost and total cost of cultivation of different varieties, Economics of cherry tomato and tomatos, Yield per hectare & plant height (cm). View Article DOI: 10.47856/ijaast.2021.v08i8.02

Risk, Benefit, and Cost Thresholds for Emergency Department Testing: A Cross‐sectional, Scenario‐based Study

BackgroundWhile diagnostic testing is common in the emergency department, the value of some testing is questionable. The purpose of this study was to assess how varying levels of benefit, risk, and costs influenced an individual’s desire to have diagnostic testing.MethodsA survey through Amazon Mechanical Turk presented hypothetical clinical situations: low‐risk chest pain and minor traumatic brain injury. Each scenario included three given variables (benefit, risk, and cost), that was independently randomly varied over four possible values (0.1, 1, 5, and 10% for benefit and risk and $0,$100, $500, and$1,000 for the individual’s personal cost for receiving the test). Benefit was defined as the probability of finding the target disease (traumatic intracranial hemorrhage or acute coronary syndrome).ResultsOne‐thousand unique respondents completed the survey. With an increased benefit from 0.1% to 10%, the percentage of respondents who accepted a diagnostic test went from 28.4% to 53.1%. (odds ratio [OR] = 3.42; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.57–4.54). As risk increased from 0.1% to 10%, this number decreased from 52.5% to 28.5%. (OR = 0.33; 95% CI = 0.25–0.44). Increasing cost from $0 to$1,000 had the greatest change of those accepting the test from 61.1% to 21.4%, respectively (OR = 0.15; 95% CI = 0.11–0.2).ConclusionsThe desire for testing was strongly sensitive to the benefits, risks, and costs. Many participants wanted a test when there was no added cost, regardless of benefit or risk levels, but far fewer elected to receive the test as cost increased incrementally. This suggests that out‐of‐pocket costs may deter patients from undergoing diagnostic testing with low potential benefit.Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/137417/1/acem13148_am.pdfhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/137417/2/acem13148.pd