Constraints in the adoption of Indigenous farming practices

Indigenous farming is a production system, based on renewal of ecological processes and strengthening of ecological functions of farm ecosystem to produce safe, healthy and sustainable food. Indigenous agriculture is being adopted by the farmers of Kolli Hills in centre Tamil Nadu for different reasons. However, a lot of constraints prevent the farmers in adopting indigenous farming practices, that include poor yield, poor marketing facilities, higher production cost and urbanizatio

Wireless Pressure Measurement and Power Generation Using Sensor

This paper has implemented and designed for measurement of pressure using wireless and applied it for our day-to-day power requirements. The pressure acts between the skin surface and its supporting surface that humans experience during daily activities. Here, we prefer sensors to measure the pressure, voltage and angle. Piezoelectric sensors are used for measure the pressure & voltage through LCD. Micro-Electro Mechanical Sensor (MEMS) is used to measure the speed from the 3D angle values. The Controller is developed to interface the Micro-electromechanical (MEMS) sensors and piezoelectric sensors that have been designed for analysis the pressure and get power during the body movement. By using the zigbee module, the analyzed pressure is transmitted and stored in the PC. The great advantage of this project is that it doesn’t require any external power supply. Using the DC-DC booster it can increase the generated voltage and stored in battery. It provides power supply for this device and some electronic applications. Such device provides low power consumption, convenient and comfortable testing system

A rare case of iii cranial nerve palsy - mucormycosis involving the right maxillary and ethmoidal sinus

IIIrd Cranial nerve palsy, known as oculomotor nerve palsy, may result from various causes, however, the etiology remains unknown in some instances. This case report aims to present the authors' experience with a case of IIIrd cranial nerve palsy, together with a review of the literature. Many etiologies have been associated with isolated oculomotor nerve palsies. We report the case of a patient who presented with right maxillary and ethmoidal sinusitis with IIIrd cranial nerve palsy associated with mucormycosis. Careful examinations to rule out other causes must be done and then treatment with antifungals should be considered after early diagnosis

Low Complexity Multiplier-less Modified FRM Filter Bank using MPGBP Algorithm

The design of a low complexity multiplier-less narrow transition band filter bank for the channelizer of multi-standard software-defined radio (SDR) is investigated in this paper. To accomplish this, the modal filter and complementary filter in the upper and lower branches of the conventional Frequency Response Masking (FRM) architecture are replaced with two power-complementary and linear phase filter banks. Secondly, a new masking strategy is proposed to fully exploit the potential of the numerous spectra replicas produced by the interpolation of the modal filter, which was previously ignored in the existing FRM design. In this scheme, the two masking filters are appropriately modulated and alternately masked over the spectra replicas from 0 to 2$\pi$, to generate even and odd channels. This Alternate Masking Scheme (AMS) increases the potency of the Modified FRM (ModFRM) architecture for the design of a computationally efficient narrow transition band uniform filter bank (termed as ModFRM-FB). Finally, by combining the adjoining ModFRM-FB channels, Non-Uniform ModFRM-FB (NUModFRM-FB) for extracting different communication standards in the SDR channelizer is created. To reduce the total power consumption of the architecture, the coefficients of the proposed system are made multiplier-less using the Matching Pursuits Generalized Bit-Planes (MPGBP) algorithm. In this method, filter coefficients are successively approximated using a dictionary of vectors to give a sum-of-power-of-two (SOPOT) representation. In comparison to all other general optimization techniques, such as genetic algorithms, the suggested design method stands out for its ease of implementation, requiring no sophisticated optimization or exhaustive search schemes. Another notable feature of the suggested approach is that, in comparison to existing methods, the design time for approximation has been greatly reduced. To further bring down the complexity, adders are reused in recurrent SOPOT terms using the Common Sub-expression Elimination (CSE) technique without compromising the filter performance

Constraints Encountered in Participation of Women in ‘Kudumbashree’ Activities

In Kerala state of India, ‘Kudumbashree’ programme was introduced with the intention of uplifting and empowering women engaged in agriculture and allied activities. A study was conducted to analyse the constraints experienced by women in ‘kudumbashree’ activities in Alappuzha district of Kerala. Expost facto research design was followed with a sample size of 120 women. The results revealed that ‘overloading of work’, ‘delayed services of local government’, ‘lack of economic empowerment’, ‘health problems’ and ‘Unsustainable micro enterprises,’ were the major constraints

A Comparative study of Platelet Rich Plasma Versus Normal Saline Dressing in Diabetic Foot

In India the number of patient with diabetes increase in alarming rate. Non healing diabetic foot ulcer are common cause of amputation. characteristic pathological changes attributed to autonomic and sensory neuropathy, often combined with vascular diseases, lead to a high risk situation for the person with diabetes. Persons who have had such pathology and experience trauma or infection are at high risk for developing ulceration of the foot or ankle. Ppecoraro et al documented the causal pathway of an amputation and found that in 81%of cases faulty wound healing contributed to amputation .Health care practitioner should utilize wound treatments that can reduce the rate of faulty wound healing, thus preventing amputations. The rate of amputation for people with diabetesis 10 times higher than for people without diabetes. The goal of diabetic foot ulcer treatment is to obtain wound closure as expeditiously as possible Accepted therapeutic objectives and standards of care for diabetic foot ulcer include wound debridement pressure relief in the wound area, appropriate wound management, infection management, ischemia management, medical management of comorbidities, and surgical management as needed. Emerging cellular therapies such as platelet rich plasma(PRP)can have an adjunctive role in a standardized, quality treatment plan. Platelet releasates, including multiple growth factors, has been used to treat wounds since 1985.In vivo prospective controlled studies as well as retrospective and cost effectiveness studies documenting the effect of this therapy have been published. In 2001,Margolis published a retrospective study on use of platelet rich plasma(PRP)in diabetic foot. The result suggest that platelet rich plasma with standardized care was most effective than standard care alone

IN VITRO ANTIOXIDANT AND ANTICANCER ACTIVITY OF ULVA LACTUCA L.USING MOLT-3 CELL LINE

Objective: The aim of the present investigation was to determine the in vitro antioxidant and anticancer activity of the ethanol extract of Ulva lactuca L. Methods: The present study was to investigate the antioxidant and anticancer activity of U. lactuca L. The extract of U. lactuca L. was extracted by ethanol and subject to analysis. An in vitro antioxidant activity of the ethanol extract of U. lactuca L. was performed by 1, 1-diphenyl-2-picrylhydrazyl free radical scavenging assay. Simultaneously anticancer activity was also performed using blood cancer (MOLT-3) cell line, and the species showed a strong selective cell proliferation inhibition of the cancer cell line. Results: The scavenging activity was measured and determined to be 78.5%. This might be due to high polyphenolic compounds and flavonoid contents of the extract, which showed maximum growth inhibition of 74.4%. Conclusion: Thus, the study concludes that the constituents of seaweeds can act as potent in treating various diseases and can be used as an alternative for therapeutic treatment