A Study on the Improvement of Data Collection in Data Centers and Its Analysis on Deep Learning-based Applications

Big data are usually stored in data center networks for processing and analysis through various cloud applications. Such applications are a collection of data-intensive jobs which often involve many parallel flows and are network bound in the distributed environment. The recent networking abstraction, coflow, for data parallel programming paradigm to express the communication requirements has opened new opportunities to network scheduling for such applications. Therefore, I propose coflow based network scheduling algorithm, Coflourish, to enhance the job completion time for such data-parallel applications, in the presence of the increased background traffic to mimic the cloud environment infrastructure. It outperforms Varys, the state-of-the-art coflow scheduling technique, by 75.5% under various workload conditions. However, such technique often requires customized operating systems, customized computing frameworks or external proprietary software-defined networking (SDN) switches. Consequently, in order to achieve the minimal application completion time, through coflow scheduling, coflow routing, and per-rate per-flow scheduling paradigm with minimum customization to the hosts and switches, I propose another scheduling technique, MinCOF which exploits the OpenFlow SDN. MinCOF provides faster deployability and no proprietary system requirements. It also decreases the average coflow completion time by 12.94% compared to the latest OpenFlow-based coflow scheduling and routing framework. Although the challenges related to analysis and processing of big data can be handled effectively through addressing the network issues. Sometimes, there are also challenges to analyze data effectively due to the limited data size. To further analyze such collected data, I use various deep learning approaches. Specifically, I design a framework to collect Twitter data during natural disaster events and then deploy deep learning model to detect the fake news spreading during such crisis situations. The wide-spread of fake news during disaster events disrupts the rescue missions and recovery activities, costing human lives and delayed response. My deep learning model classifies such fake events with 91.47% accuracy and F1 score of 90.89 to help the emergency managers during crisis. Therefore, this study focuses on providing network solutions to decrease the application completion time in the cloud environment, in addition to analyze the data collected using the deployed network framework to further use it to solve the real-world problems using the various deep learning approaches

Attitude of Farmers Towards Improved Soybean Production Technology in Indore District of Madhya Pradesh

The present investigation was conducted in Indore block of Indore district, Madhya Pradesh. One hundred twenty respondents were selected randomly from 12 villages which were selected purposively. The primary data were gathered by the researcher itself through pre-structured interview schedule. Appropriate statistical tools were used to interpret the collected data to draw logical conclusion. The finding inferred that majority of farmers were having medium level of attitude towards improved soybean production technology. Age, Education, land holding, Mass media exposure, Extension contacts, Economic motivation were observed positive and significant correlation with their attitude level. View Article DOI: 10.47856/ijaast.2021.v08i7.01

Molecular and functional diversity in Capsicum landraces of Andaman Islands

The present study analyzed the diversity in 26 landraces of Capsicum from Andaman Islands using 20 morphological, 16 biochemical and 10 DNA markers. Significant differences were observed in tested landraces and 16 reference genotypes from mainland India. Biochemical markers grouped all the genotypes into eight clusters with inter-cluster distance of 0.5 to 1.9 while seven quantified morphological traits divided the test genotypes into three major clusters and seven sub-clusters with 0.1 to 1.6 inter-cluster distance value. The random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) and inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers assured the genetic nature of diversity in landraces. The similarity matrix from RAPD and ISSR markers revealed 48% diversity among 42 genotypes with polymorphism information content (PIC) values of 0.43 and 0.41, respectively. The correspondence in morphological and biochemical markers indicates their interdependence for observed traits. However, poor correlation between DNA profiles and functional markers suggest further screening of more number of markers.The study identified phytochemical rich landraces CA-334, SPG-7, CARI-1 and CCB-2. The information will be useful in chemo-taxonomic foot-printing of Capsicum landraces and devising apposite conservation and utilization strategies.Keywords: Capsicum, landraces, functional diversity, chemo-taxonomic diversity, DNA markersAfrican Journal of Biotechnology Vol. 12(39), pp. 5729-573

Comparison between isobaric levobupivacaine 0.5% and hyperbaric bupivacaine 0.5% in spinal anesthesia in lower limb surgeries and lower abdominal surgeries in adult patients

 Background: The aim of our study was to compare sensory and motor block characteristics and hemodynamic changes following intrathecal hyperbaric bupivacaine (0.5%) and isobaric levobupivacaine (0.5%) in elective lower limb and lower abdominal surgeries.Methods: 60 patients of either sex, aged 18-60 years, ASA grade I or II scheduled for elective lower abdominal and lower limb surgeries were randomized into two groups, group B (n=30) and group L (n=30) and received either 3 ml of intrathecal hyperbaric bupivacaine or isobaric levobupivacaine intrathecally.Results: The mean time of onset of sensory block at shin of tibia in both the groups was comparable i.e. levobupivacaine (1.19±0.2 minutes) and bupivacaine (1.1+0.2 minutes). The mean time for total duration of sensory block was 211.1±8.2 minutes in group L, while 193.13±13.7 minutes in group B. Time for total duration of motor block in group L was 198.76±8.428 minutes and in group B was 182.6±13.989 minutes. Statistically significant difference was observed in total duration of sensory and motor block in both levobupivaciane and bupivacaine group (p<0.0001). Patients in group L were hemodynamically more stable with significantly less decrease in pulse rate, systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure as compared to group B.Conclusions: We observed that 0.5% isobaric levobupivacaine provided better hemodynamic stability, longer duration of sensory and motor block as compared to bupivacaine.

Standardization of zygotic embryo culture from Nerium oleander L. and comparative analysis of biosynthesized cardiac glycosides within in vitro and acclimatized plants

The primary result of our experiment revealed that the germination percentage of N. oleander mature seeds is only 30%. From this observation, the concept of protocol standardization for zygotic embryo culture of this plant was originated. Zygotic embryo culture was proved an efficient in vitro multiplication system of N. oleander. The maximum germination percentage (96%) of zygotic embryos was observed on ¼ MS medium with 15 gm/L sucrose, whereas the best growth medium was optimized as ½ B5 with same sucrose concentration. The second part of this study was aimed to find out the cardiac glycoside accumulation pattern in both in vitro and acclimatized plants. For this purpose, one-month-old in vitro plantlets and acclimatized plants were subjected to LC-MS analysis and 09 cardiac glycosides were detected and quantified in both the systems. Most of the cardiac glycosides including odoroside A (32.71 mg/gm DW), odoroside H (4.69 mg/gm DW) and oleandrin (0.52 mg/gm DW) were found to be accumulated at maximum level within in vitro plantlets. CG 840b (1.89 mg/gm DW) is the only cardiac glycoside, which was maximally accumulated in acclimatized plants. From this study, it can be concluded that, zygotic embryo culture is a better choice for in vitro multiplication of N. oleander when compared to matured seeds and in vitro grown plantlets of this species favor cardiac glycosides biosynthesis in comparison to acclimatized plants. Therefore, all future research on the enrichment of cardiac glycosides from this plant may be conducted on zygotic embryos derived in vitro grown plantlets or cultures

Synthesis and antibacterial activity of some 2,4,6-trisubstituted-1,3,5-triazines

A series of 2,4-bis(substitutedphenyl)-6-(4-(4-substitutedphenyl)thiazol-2-yl)-1,3,5-triazine- 2,4,6-triamine were synthesised, characterised by FT-IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR, mass and elemental analysis and evaluated for in vitro antibacterial activity against three gram positive and gram negative bacteria by disk diffusion test and agar dilution technique with reference to streptomycin as standard. The antibacterial data revealed that compounds 2,4-bis(substitutedphenyl)-6-(4-(4-nitrophenyl)thiazol-2-yl)-1,3,5-triazine- 2,4,6-triamine had significant activity against the tested gram negative organism in reference to standard. However, these were nearly inactive against gram positive organisms.Colegio de Farmacéuticos de la Provincia de Buenos Aire

Galvanostatic optimization of polyaniline coating on mild steel in tartrate medium for corrosion protection

82-87Optimization of polyaniline (PANI) coating on mild steel (MS) surface has been studied in 0.3 M aniline + 0.2 M sodium potassium tartrate (Na-K Tartrate) by galvanostatic polarization. The current densities of 0.5, 0.75. 1 and 2 mA cm-2 are used for the electrodeposition of PANI on MS. The obtained PANI coatings have been characterized for its morphology using an optical microscope and corrosion performance by using potentiodynamic polarization in 0.4 M Na2SO3 solution simulating an industrial environment. The results reveal a sequential process of dissolution of MS, passivation of MS by forming tartrate salt followed by oxidation of aniline monomer and subsequential nucleation and growth of PANI coating. It is found that the PANI coating obtained at 0.5 mA cm-2 results in better coating producing corrosion inhibition efficiency (IE) of approximately 90% compared to IE of about 75% for coating obtained at 2 mA cm-2

Synthesis and antibacterial activity of some 2,4,6-trisubstituted-1,3,5-triazines

A series of 2,4-bis(substitutedphenyl)-6-(4-(4-substitutedphenyl)thiazol-2-yl)-1,3,5-triazine- 2,4,6-triamine were synthesised, characterised by FT-IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR, mass and elemental analysis and evaluated for in vitro antibacterial activity against three gram positive and gram negative bacteria by disk diffusion test and agar dilution technique with reference to streptomycin as standard. The antibacterial data revealed that compounds 2,4-bis(substitutedphenyl)-6-(4-(4-nitrophenyl)thiazol-2-yl)-1,3,5-triazine- 2,4,6-triamine had significant activity against the tested gram negative organism in reference to standard. However, these were nearly inactive against gram positive organisms.Colegio de Farmacéuticos de la Provincia de Buenos Aire

Alcoholic Extract of Eclipta alba

As per WHO estimates, 80% of people around the world use medicinal plants for the cure and prevention of various diseases including cancer owing to their easy availability and cost effectiveness. Eclipta alba has long been used in Ayurveda to treat liver diseases, eye ailments, and hair related disorders. The promising medicinal value of E. alba prompted us to study the antioxidant, nontoxic, and anticancer potential of its alcoholic extract. In the current study, we evaluated the in vitro cytotoxic and antioxidant effect of the alcoholic extract of Eclipta alba (AEEA) in multiple cancer cell lines along with control. We have also evaluated its effect on different in vivo toxicity parameters. Here, we found that AEEA was found to be most active in most of the cancer cell lines but it significantly induced apoptosis in human breast cancer cell lines by disrupting mitochondrial membrane potential and DNA damage. Moreover, AEEA treatment inhibited migration in both MCF 7 and MDA-MB-231 cells in a dose dependent manner. Further, AEEA possesses robust in vitro antioxidant activity along with high total phenolic and flavonoid contents. In summary, our results indicate that Eclipta alba has enormous potential in complementary and alternative medicine for the treatment of cancer

Synthesis, characterization and antimalarial activity of hybrid 4-aminoquinoline-1,3,5-triazine derivatives

AbstractA novel series of hybrid 4-aminoquinolines-1,3,5-triazine were synthesized by means of aromatic nucleophilic displacement of chlorine atoms of 2,4,6-trichloro-1,3,5-triazine. Afforded title analogs were subsequently characterised by elemental analysis, FT-IR, 1H NMR, 13C NMR and mass spectroscopy and subjected to screening against chloroquine sensitive RKL2 strain of Plasmodium falciparum in 96 well-microtitre plates. However, synthesized derivatives exhibit mild to moderate antimalarial activity and acute toxicity studies of the most active (6a and 6g) compounds were shown to have no significant change in body insight and toxic sign