An Empirical Performance Analysis Of IaaS Clouds With CloudStone Web 2.0 Benchmarking Tool

Web 2.0 applications have become ubiquitous over the past few years because they provide useful features such as a rich, responsive graphical user interface that supports interactive and dynamic content. Social networking websites, blogs, auctions, online banking, online shopping and video sharing websites are noteworthy examples of Web 2.0 applications. The market for public cloud service providers is growing rapidly, and cloud providers offer an ever-growing list of services. As a result, developers and researchers find it challenging when deciding which public cloud service to use for deploying, experimenting or testing Web 2.0 applications. This study compares the scalability and performance of a social-events calendar application on two Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud services – Amazon EC2 and HP Cloud. This study captures and compares metrics on three different instance configurations for each cloud service such as the number of concurrent users (load), as well as response time and throughput (performance). Additionally, the total price of the three different instance configurations for each cloud service is calculated and compared. This comparison of the scalability, performance and price metrics provides developers and researchers with an insight into the scalability and performance characteristics of the three instance configurations for each cloud service, which simplifies the process of determining which cloud service and instance configuration to use for deploying their Web 2.0 applications. This study uses CloudStone – an open-source, three-tier web application benchmarking tool that simulates Web 2.0 application activities – as a realistic workload generator and to capture the intended metrics. The comparison of the collected metrics indicate that all of the tested Amazon EC2 instance configurations provide better scalability and lower latency at a lower cost than the respective HP Cloud instance configurations; however, the tested HP Cloud instance configurations provide a greater storage capacity than the Amazon EC2 instance configurations, which is an important consideration for data-intensive Web 2.0 applications

Kantaka Panchamoola : A Brief Review

Ayurveda has two main objectives to conserve health of a healthy individual and to treat a diseased person. To conserve health of a healthy individual, Ayurveda has described Ahara, Vihara, Dincharya, Ratricharya, Ritucharya etc. To accomplish objectives of Ayurveda many medicinal plants are also described. Ayurveda has mainly described about two types of medicines based on its origin, plant medicines and medicines prepared from metals and minerals. Plant based medicine uses plant stem, flower, seed, fruit, leaf, root etc. as source for medicinal preparations. Ayurveda explains about 5 types of Panchmoola. This article is an attempt to described identification, morphology and medicinal properties of contents of Kantaka Panchmool

Shothahara Mahakashaya - A Critical Review

Shothahara Mahakashaya denotes group of ten medicines which acts on Shotha Roga. Shotha is also known as Svayathu in Ayurveda. Swelling anywhere on body can be called as Shotha so Shotha Roga can be correlated with the term oedema / swelling of modern medicine. Acharya Charak has described Shothahara Mahakashaya in Sutrasthana as 38th Gana of the 50 Mahakashaya Gana. Patala, Agnimantha, Bilva, Shyonaka, Kashmariya, Kantakari, Brihati, Shalaparni, Prishaniparni, Goksura are included as ten ingredients under this category. These 10 plants which are effective individually, work together and results into enhanced output. These plants having Katu, Tikta, Kashaya Rasa, Ushna Virya, Katu Vipaka, Ruksha, Laghu Guna and Tridoshaghna properties. Due to these qualities, they cure Shotha. This article is an attempt to describe symptoms, pathogenesis and treatments of Shotha Roga through Shothahara Mahakashaya

Sequence motifs predictive of tissue-specific skipping

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2006.Includes bibliographical references (p. 53-55).Alternative splicing plays a major role in protein diversity and regulating gene expression. Motifs that regulate tissue-specific alternative splicing have been identified by groups studying small sets of genes. We introduce a tissue-specific skipping score for skipped exons using exon-exon junction microarray data. We compare these exons with known literature-verified EST skipped exons and exons predicted to be skipped in both human and mouse. After deriving tissue-specific skipped exon sets for brain, heart, muscle and testis, we find sequence features in the exon and flanking introns that distinguish these tissue-specific skipped exons from constitutive exons. Lastly, we use sequence-based scoring based on these features to predict tissue-specific skipped exons and compare these with EST data to demonstrate the tissue-specificity of the motifs.by Neha Soni.S.M

Endometrial stromal nodule: a rare entity presenting as fibroid polyp

Endometrial stromal sarcoma are rare malignant tumours of the uterus, mainly presenting in premenopausal women, make around 0.2% of all uterine malignancies. The annual incidence of ESS is 1-2 per million women. Diagnosis is usually made post operatively by pathological findings either in endometrial sample or in hysterectomy specimen done for some underlying pathology. Management is total hysterectomy with bilateral salpingo oophorectomy with hormone therapy in hormone sensitive cases. Ovaries can be preserved in young females with early-stage disease. We are presenting a case of endometrial stromal nodule in a 38 years old woman who presented to us with complaint of abnormal heavy uterine bleeding for one and half month.

Automated detection of Alzheimer disease using MRI images and deep neural networks- A review

Early detection of Alzheimer disease is crucial for deploying interventions and slowing the disease progression. A lot of machine learning and deep learning algorithms have been explored in the past decade with the aim of building an automated detection for Alzheimer. Advancements in data augmentation techniques and advanced deep learning architectures have opened up new frontiers in this field, and research is moving at a rapid speed. Hence, the purpose of this survey is to provide an overview of recent research on deep learning models for Alzheimer disease diagnosis. In addition to categorizing the numerous data sources, neural network architectures, and commonly used assessment measures, we also classify implementation and reproducibility. Our objective is to assist interested researchers in keeping up with the newest developments and in reproducing earlier investigations as benchmarks. In addition, we also indicate future research directions for this topic.Comment: 22 Pages, 5 Figures, 7 Table

Prevalence of smokeless tobacco use among school going adolescent students of Raipur city Chhattisgarh state, India

Background: Tobacco consumption in various forms in recent years is a proven risk factor and contributes substantially to the emerging epidemic. Increasing tobacco use and its impact on physical and psychosocial health is a worldwide public health concern affecting the early youth and whole life of the individuals. Tobacco is used in different forms and health effects are seen irrespective of the form in which it is used. Smokeless tobacco is found to be as addictive and harmful as smoking. Objectives: To assess the prevalence and factors influencing smokeless consumption among high school students in Raipur city.Methods: Study design: Cross-sectional, Study area: 16 selected high schools of Raipur city, in which 12 were government schools and 4 private schools. Study subjects: 1006 high-school students, Sampling technique: Two stage cluster sampling according to probability proportional to size, Study tool: Predesigned pretested questionnaire. Statistical analysis: Data was entered in Microsoft excel sheet and analyzed in Epi info 7 software.Results: The mean age of students in the study was 15 years. The prevalence of smokeless tobacco consumption was 10%. Majority male 80.9% were users, mean age of initiation was 13 years (SD 7.07), Peer pressure (76%) was the reason for initiation. Pocket money 57.1% found to be the major source of purchasing. Strong association of family member tobacco use and promotional advertisement were found.Conclusion: Study reflects smokeless tobacco use was prevalent among adolescent students and there is a need for targeted interventions to reduce the risk and deleterious consequences.

Sudden bradycardia and impending cardiac arrest by intra-myometrial vasopressin in laparoscopic myomectomy: a case report and review of literature

Vasopressin has long been used in myomectomy to decrease blood loss. Its efficacy is beyond doubt. But at the same time it is known to cause some of the serious cardiovascular side effects. We here report a case of severe bradycardia and impending cardiac arrest caused by intra-myometrial infiltration of 12 U of vasopressin and present a review of literature

Consent in Dental Practice: Are We Legally Safe?

Objective: Evaluation of awareness about the importance of “patient consent” among practicing and postgraduate endodontists all over India.Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted using a self-designed questionnaire containing 20 questions. A list of 120 practicing and postgraduate endodontists from all over India was prepared and the questionnaire was sent to them. Out of these, 100 responses were received, based upon which results were calculated and tables and charts were prepared accordingly.Results: It was found that the maximum number of cases for which consent was taken was for root canal treatments and periapical surgeries whereas other procedures like bleaching, veneering, etc., were neglected. Only 26% endodontists were taking written consent for the procedures being done on patients and 45.4% found taking written consent time consuming. The greatest barrier which prevented from taking consent was a lack of proper format and guidelines for written consent.Conclusions: There is a need for proper format and guidelines for written consent which should include all the information necessary to be given to the patient. Also, the importance of written consent and the laws under which the dental treatments come should be well understood and implemented by dentalpractitioners