A cross sectional study to estimate prevalence of obesity and its risk factors in adolescent school children in Western Maharashtra, India

Background: There is an increase in prevalence of childhood obesity and its chronic health effects especially in developing countries like India in last 2-3 decades. This study is small effort to know prevalence and risk factors causing obesity. Aim of the study was to estimate prevalence of obesity and its risk factors in school students of age group 11 to 16 years.Methods: About 207 adolescent school children from selected school were enrolled in the study. Research tool comprised of questions about demographic characteristics, daily physical activity, frequency of having junk food intake etc. Height and weight were measured on calibrated scales. For statistical analysis MS Excel and SPSS 16 were used.Results: Among participants 58.9% were boys. 66.7% students were in the 13 to 14 years of age group. As per body mass index, 46.9% children were underweight and 8.7% were obese. 77.3% participants were eating junk food more than once in a week.Conclusions: Health education on dietary habits and physical activity is needed for adolescent children to prevent development of obesity and complications related to it

Detection of Topic Trend and Removal of Vulgar Words from User Data Streams

Nowadays, social media is becoming very much popular. More than 170 million people are using it to being connected to the world. Trend detection is nothing but to summarize the event which the world is discussing about. This paper explains about the system of detecting current events from user stream. Here, implemented the hybrid algorithm which will extract the subset of current event. The system will tell us which or about whom the crowd is discussing. Natural language processing is used for preprocessing and filtering. And bisect K-means is used for clustering. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.15074

Study of Factors Affecting Productivity of Pumped Concrete for Multistory Buildings

A study is made to find factors affecting the efficiency and productivity of the pumped concrete and utilization of pumping equipment resources in the cast in situ concreting of buildings. The study involved elaborating general information about pumped concrete, factors affecting productivity of concreting in high rise building, equipments and machineries required for pumping and requirements of pumped concrete. Other factors affection the placing rates have also been studied. Other factors affection the placing rates have also been studied. A relation between height of building and speed of concrete placing is derived using the observation, during the project the methodology adopted was to visit site and collect data and further analyze it to draw conclusion. The study is similar to project carried out in Hong Kong, Japan , with some addition about factors that cause loss of productivity of concrete pumping and the information about the pumping equipments . In Hong Kong, project the speed of placing of pumped concrete was found out

Energy Monitoring System

In new era, effective utilization of electrical energy is a major task for the power engineers. Energy Monitoring Systems such as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) system, Distributed Controlled System (DCS) etc may serve the purpose of monitoring the electrical energy generated and its availability for use to the consumers. Many power engineers proposed that, if 1 watt of energy saved at the consumer end is equal to 2 watts of energy available at the generation side. Energy monitoring typically involves- data collection and review, plant surveys and system measurements, observation and review of operating practices, data analysis. This research helps to study the run-time analysis of both renewable and non-renewable sources of electrical energy with the help of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) which controls the load in industry. The overall automation of the industry is monitored by SCADA software after interfacing with the PLC

Off-Grid Single Phase Micro-Inverter System

In most of the households appliances, AC electricity are mostly used. This electricity are easily available but renewable energy is increasing now a days as there is shortage of traditional fissile fuel and it also hazardous to the environment. Such form of electricity can be obtained by converting the DC electricity generated by the solar panels using power electronics devices. There are so many types of inverter configuration are available which can be used for such purpose. Dealing with hundreds of watts of energy, micro-Photovoltaic (PV) type inverters can convert solar energy of each PV panel to the utility individually, with significant improvement of overall system reliability and also have a several advantages over the other topology like tuning the output of each panel, less sensitive to overheating problems etc. This paper presents a case study of a single-phase micro-PV inverter. Circuit analysis and its parameters calculation are carried out in details and demonstrated through simulation based on MATLAB/Simulink. The result proves the analysis of the circuit and provides theoretical validation for further work in research. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.15085

Pharmaceutico Analytical Study of Kanakbindvarishta prepared by two different methods

Kanakbindvarishta is a self generated alcoholic preparation of Ayurveda. It is described in Charak Samhita in the context of Kushta Roga (skin disorders). Khadir (Acacia catechu) is a main ingredient in this formulation. It is used in condition like Kushta (mainly used in Kaphaja Kushta), Asthma, Cough, Fistula and Diabetes. In present study Kanakbindvarishta was prepared by two different methods, Pharmaceutical study was done along with analytical study. Analytical test of finished product like pH, specific gravity, refractive index, total solid content, viscosity, density, reducing sugar and alcohol content were done, LOD%, total Ash, pH and extractive value (water extractive, alcohol extractive) of raw material were also done. Two different type of Kanakbindvarishta compared with pharmaceutical as well as analytical aspect. As a result, slight changes were observed in both the preparations

ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY AND ANTIBACTERIAL SCREENING OF TUBERS OF AMORPHOPHALLUS KONKANENSIS AND AMORPHOPHALLUS BULBIFER (ARACEAE)

Objective: Antioxidant activity (AOA) and antibacterial screening of tubers of unexplored Amorphophallus konkanensis Hett., Yadav & Patil (AKT) and Amorphophallus bulbifer (Roxb.) Bl. (ABT). Methods: Antioxidant activity was evaluated by using ferric reducing antioxidant power (FRAP), 1 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) radical, hydroxyl (OH•) radical, nitric oxide (NO∙) radical scavenging activities. Phenolics were determined by total phenolic content (TPC) assay. Antibacterial screening of different solvent extracts of tubers was tested against Gram positive and Gram negative bacterial strains by using the agar diffusion method. HPLC analysis was carried out for active phenolic compounds. Results: Tubers were extracted with three different solvents (ethanol, acetone and water). Acetone extracts of AKT and ABT exhibited the highest phenolic content 29.37±0.83 and 20.62±1.04 mg GAE/g. The AKT and ABT acetone extracts possesses highest free radical scavenging activity towards FRAP (0.632 & 0.586 O. D), DPPH (85.78% & 82.68%), hydroxyl (OH∙) radical (82.43% & 80.26%), nitric oxide (NO∙) radical (81.34% & 80.8%). The phenolic compounds tannic acid, gallic acid, quercetin, p-coumaric acid, catechin were identified by the HPLC method in acetone extracts. Among the different extracts, acetone extract of both the species of Amorphophallus showed significant antibacterial activity against all Gram positive and Gram negative bacterial strains tested. Conclusion: The results indicated that AKT and ABT can be considered as good sources of natural antioxidant for medicinal, commercial, nutraceutical and functional food applications. Antibacterial efficacy shown by these plants provides a scientific basis for their traditional uses in remedies

Adsorption of CO on NaZSM-5 zeolite under moderate temperature and pressure conditions: an FTIR investigation

Adsorption of CO on NaZSM-5 zeolite was investigated at temperatures in the range 300-470 K and at pressures of 5-500 Torr using FTIR spectroscopy. The effect of exchanging the charge balancing cation in NaZSM-5 with a proton or calcium was evaluated. Data were also collected on NaY, CaY and CaX zeolites for comparison. We detected the development of six distinct CwO stretching bands with maxima at around 2111, 2130, 2146, 2160, 2176 and 2194 cm-1 during the adsorption of CO on NaZSM-5 zeolite at ambient temperatures. This was accompanied by the appearance of a prominent band at 2356 cm-1 and weak shoulder bands at frequencies around 2336, 2340, 2370 and 2380 cm-1 in the ν3 region of All the ν(CO) bands and CO2 . also the bands in the ν3 region of CO2 exhibited similar behaviour as a function of adsorbate pressure, evacuation, rise in sample temperature, and the exchange of charge balancing cation. For instance, the intensity of all the CwO stretching bands showed a similar growth behaviour with increasing adsorbate pressure, though the extent of this growth was di.erent for the individual IR bands. Similarly, these bands were removed simultaneously on evacuation. Furthermore, while all the vibrational bands in the v(CO) region showed a uniform isotopic shift corresponding to a frequency ratio ν(13C/12C) of ca. 0.977 and ν(18O/16O) of 0.976 for the adsorption of 13C16O and 12C18O, respectively, the bands in the ν3(CO2) region showed a red shift ?(13C/12C) of 0.972 with 13CO and an isotopic shift corresponding to 16O12C18O on 12C18O adsorption. No shift in ν(OH) bands was observed after CO adsorption under the conditions of this study. The results thus indicate that the individual zeolitic surface sites e.g., the Al3+ sites, Bronsted acid sites or the charge balancing cations, may not participate directly in the bonding of CO molecules at room temperature or above. Instead, the cage effect of zeolites plays an important role. The data are interpreted to suggest the formation of weakly bonded clusters of CO and CO2 molecules, occluded in the zeolitic cages and stabilized under the cationic field

FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF GLICLAZIDE NANOSPONGES

Objective: The objective of the present study was to develop and characterize an optimal stable nanosponges of Gliclazide (GLZ) by using the emulsion solvent diffusion method and aimed to increase its bioavailability and release the drug in sustained and controlled manner. Methods: The GLZ nanosponge was prepared by emulsion solvent diffusion method using different drug-polymer ratios (1:1 to 1:5) Eudragit S100 is used as a polymer. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) estimated the compatibility of GLZ with polymer. All formulations evaluated for production yield, entrapment efficiency, in vitro drug release, scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and stability studies. Results: The DSC and FTIR Studies revealed that no interaction between drug and polymer. The Production yield of all batches in the range of 73.8±0.30 to 85.6±0.32. Batch F3 showed the highest production yield, the entrapment efficiency of batch F3 70.6±0.77. The average particle size ranges from 303±2.36 to 680±2.50 nm. By the end of 10th hour F3 formulation shown highest drug release was found to be 94.40±1.12%. The release kinetics of the optimized formulation shows zero-order drug release. The stability study indicates no significant change in the in vitro dissolution profile of optimized formulation. Conclusion: The results of various evaluation parameters, revealed that GLZ nanosponges would be possible alternative delivery systems to conventional formulation to improve its bioavailability, the emulsion solvent diffusion method is best method for preparation of nanosponges and release the drug in sustained and controlled manner