AN EFFORT TO DETERMINE BLOOD GROUP AND GENDER FROM PATTERN OF FINGER PRINTS

ABSTRACT Introduction: Two person having identical fingerprints is about one in 64 thousand millions. A reliable personal identification is critical in the subject of forensics as is faced with many situations like civil, criminal, commercial and latest in financial transaction frauds, where the question of identification becomes a matter of paramount importance. In this study we have made an effort to "study a relationship between pattern of fingerprint, gender and blood group"

Genomic information retrieval through selective extraction and tagging by the ASU-BioAI group. 14th Text Retrieval Conference (TREC2005

In this paper we describe the approach used by the Arizona State University BioAI group for the ad-hoc retrieval task of the TREC Genomics Track 2005. We pre-process TREC query expression by adding the synonyms of genes, diseases, bio-processes, functions of organs, and selectively adding stemming verbs, nouns, and Mesh Heading categories. The pre-processed queries are used to perform initial search on the TREC Genomics collection of MEDLINE abstracts and produce a set of target abstracts using Apache Lucene. Tagging, anaphor resolution and fact extraction are performed on the target abstracts to refine the search results in terms of relevance. Finally, we rank the target abstracts according to the extracted facts, distance between terms an

Circulating Cytokines after Hip and Knee Arthroplasty: A Preliminary Study

Several studies show cytokine concentrations in the peripheral blood are associated with inflammatory activity and surgical trauma. Cytokine concentrations have more rapid increase and quicker return to normal values than either C-reactive protein or erythrocyte sedimentation rate – a matter of hours rather than weeks; some studies suggest they are better predictors of postoperative infection than C-reactive protein and erythrocyte sedimentation rate. Threshold levels of interleukin-6 after joint arthroplasty have been determined, but levels of other potentially useful cytokines (tumor necrosis factor-α, interleukin-8, interleukin-10, etc) are not known. We measured the serum levels of 25 different cytokines before and after hip and knee arthroplasties and identified those associated with surgical trauma. Peripheral venous blood samples (one preoperative and three postoperative) from 49 patients undergoing hip or knee arthroplasty were analyzed by laser chromatography. Three of the 25 cytokines had a relationship with postsurgical trauma, which included one deep infection. Serum levels of these three cytokines might be useful to identify periprosthetic infections during the early postoperative period when C-reactive protein and erythrocyte sedimentation rate remain elevated