Shashi Tharoor as a Gentleman Politician

Shashi Tharoor is an outstanding politician ranked the best among the present day leaders.  His past UN career, his authoritative clout on every matter pertaining to India and his charismatic personality make him the most sought out among the political leaders of India. Entering the Indian political arena directly landing into the middle of the medley, he has been in the eye of many controversies that have projected him as a nonconformist and impractical outsider whose views and dreams for India are unrealistic. However, Shashi Tharoor has proved the cynics wrong and has manifested himself as an able leader and darling of his constituency who have chosen him two times consecutively.  He is among the first generation of techsavvy new generation political leaders to make full use of the internet and reach his followers instantaneously and continuously, thus demonstrating an elected public servant’s style of functioning could also be accountable and transparent. His stupendous academic achievements and outstanding literary works set him apart in the firmament of successful personalities of India holding a promise to the future of the country.  Even in his short term political career, Shashi Tharoor has proved himself to be a gentleman politician who is sincere and honest in his commitment to his voters and strives his best to fulfill his promises. Such dedicated politicians who are ready to serve the nation selflessly are the need of the hour in today’s India and Shashi Tharoor is a fine example of the proper role a true political leader can play in a disgraced democratic country like ours and serve as an instrument of change for bettering the miserable lives of millions of innocent trusting citizens of the country, at least in the coming century

Mycotoxic effect of Medicinal Plants Against Helminthosporium sativum and Aspergillus niger

hirty-nine extracts from 10 medicinal plants were tested against Helminthosporium sativum and Aspergillus niger for their fungitoxicity in vitro. Methanol leaves extracts of Lawsonia inermis, Withania somnifera, Datura metel, Datura stramonium and stem bark extract of Bauhinia racemosa significantly inhibited mycelia growth of both target fungi. Some extracts exhibited greater fungitoxicity than that of synthetic fungicide Dithane M-45

Synthesis and Characterization of New Mesomorphic Azo Compounds and Study their Photoluminesecence Properties

The preparation of a new Azo compounds of highly conjugated dimeric and polymeric liquid crystal to achieve the crystalline characteristics Which have structures assigned based on elemental analysis, IR 1HNMR and CHNS-O while mesogenic properties have been set for DSC and hot-stage polarizing optical microscopy. The compounds show enantiotropicnematic phase being displayed. The compounds show photoluminescence properties in the organic solution at room temperature, with the fluorescence band centered around 400 nm

Magnetoelectric effects in an organo-metallic quantum magnet

We observe a bilinear magnetic field-induced electric polarization of 50 $\mu C/m^2$ in single crystals of NiCl$_2$-4SC(NH$_2$)$_2$ (DTN). DTN forms a tetragonal structure that breaks inversion symmetry, with the highly polar thiourea molecules all tilted in the same direction along the c-axis. Application of a magnetic field between 2 and 12 T induces canted antiferromagnetism of the Ni spins and the resulting magnetization closely tracks the electric polarization. We speculate that the Ni magnetic forces acting on the soft organic lattice can create significant distortions and modify the angles of the thiourea molecules, thereby creating a magnetoelectric effect. This is an example of how magnetoelectric effects can be constructed in organo-metallic single crystals by combining magnetic ions with electrically polar organic elements.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figure

An investigation into interactional patterns for Alzheimer's Disease recognition in Natural dialogues

Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a complex neurodegenerative disorder characterized by memory loss, together with cognitive deficits affecting language, emotional affect, and interactional communication. Diagnosis and assessment of AD is formally based on the judgment of clinicians, commonly using semi-structured interviews in a clinical setting. Manual diagnosis is therefore slow, resource-heavy, and hard to access, so many people don't get diagnosed - and therefore using some kind of automatic method would help. Using the most recent advances in deep learning, machine learning, and natural language processing, this thesis empirically explores how content-free, interaction patterns are helpful in developing models capable of identifying AD from natural conversations with a focus on particular phenomena found useful in conversational analysis studies. The models presented in this thesis use lexical, disfluency, interactional, acoustic, and pause information to learn the symptoms of Alzheimer's disease from text and audio modalities. This thesis comprises two parts. In the first part, by studying a conversational corpus, we find there are certain phenomena that are really strongly indicative of differences between AD and Non-AD. This analysis shows that interaction patterns are different between an AD patient and a Non-AD patient, including types of questions asked from patients, their responses, delay in responses in the form of pauses, clarification questions, signaling non-understanding, and repetition of questions. Although it is a challenging problem due to the fact that these dialogue acts are so rare, we show that it is possible to develop models that can automatically detect these classes. The second part then shifts to look at AD diagnosis itself by looking into interactional features including pause information, disfluencies within patients speech, communication breakdowns at speaker changes in certain situations, Ngram dialogue act sequences. We found out that there are longer pauses within the AD patients utterances and more attributable silences in response to questions as compared to Non-AD patients. It also showed that using different fusion techniques with speech and text modality has maximise the combination and use of different feature sets showing that these features/techniques can give quite good accurate and effective AD diagnosis. These interaction patterns may serve as an index of internal cognitive processes that help in differentiating AD patients and Non-AD patients and may be used as an integral part of language assessment in clinical settings

Comparison of crestal bone level around one-piece and two-piece implants with immediate non-occlusal loading: A Split Mouth Design

INTRODUCTION: Long-term clinical documentation of two-piece implants is readily available, but similar data on one piece implants is limited. Since implant and abutment sections are manufactured as a single unit, loading of one piece implants after placement can be difficult to control. In contrast two piece implants undergo submerged healing transmucosally with a healing collar or after immediate loading if the primary stability is judged adequate. The question of how to manage one piece implants that lack adequate primary stability for immediate loading remains unanswered. Comparative long term clinical data on both one piece and two piece implants designs would benefit from evidence based treatment planning. AIM OF THE STUDY: The aim of this prospective study is to compare the crestal bone level changes around one piece and two piece implants placed with immediate non occlusal loading. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Ten patients with missing molars (36,46) were selected according to the inclusion criteria, after assessing the bone quality One-piece (OPI) and Two-piece (TPI) implants were placed, and sufficient primary stability was achieved. The implant was loaded within 48 hrs based on immediate non occlusal loading concept (INOL).The provisional restoration was kept out of centric and eccentric contacts. Radiographs were taken at baseline, 3 months, 6 months to assess the crestal bone loss at mesial and distal sites. Finally definitive restoration was placed after 4 months of complete osseointegration. RESULTS: Implant survival rate was 100 %.Radiographic evaluation of crestal bone level changes has been done around one piece and two piece implants. The mean difference in the bone level changes around one piece implant (T0-T2) was found to be 1.0179±0.398 .The mean difference in the crestal bone level changes around two piece implants (T0-T2) was found to be 0.8172±0.200.The mean difference in the crestal bone level changes between one piece and two piece implants was found to be 0.20075,with a P value of .224 which shows no significant difference in crestal bone loss between one piece and two piece implants. CONCLUSION: The six months follow up of this prospective study suggests that there is no significant differences in the bone loss between OPI and TPI placed in same patients and exposed to same clinical situations

Prevalence and factors associated with postpartum vaginal infection in the Khyber agency federally administered tribal areas, Pakistan

Objective: To estimate the prevalence and to identify the factors associated with vaginal infection among the married women between the ages of 15-49 years residing in the Khyber Agency (FATA), Pakistan.Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in the month of July 2005 on 1084 mothers by using random sampling strategy in Khyber Agency Pakistan by trained nurses. The descriptive and multivariate statistics were computed.Results: The multivariate analysis showed that the associated factors with vaginal infection were the use of unhygienic material to soak up the lochia [aOR=3.45, 95% CI (1.36, 8.75)], bathing after 40 days [aOR=2.10, 95% CI (1.55, 3.14)], and women who did not receive antenatal care [OR=3.87, 95% CI (1.93, 7.75)]. Also women who did not have medical facilities available [OR=2.45, 95% CI (1.23, 5.06)] reported of vaginal infection.Conclusions: This study concluded that there is considerable need for health education among women and the entire community for the maintenance of hygiene, safe delivery through medical personnel and improvement in the mobility of mothers and female education (JPMA 57:363:2007)

Material Characterization of 316L Stainless Steel After Being Subjected To Cryogenic Treatment

Post processing of materials is necessary to suit them for the intended requirements. The properties of stainless steel of grade 316L cannot be influenced with further processing such as hot working [1]. Thus the current study aims at investigating the properties of stainless steel of grade 316L after being subjected to deep cryogenic treatment. The specimens from both cryogenically treated and untreated conditions were subjected to Tensile Test, Charpy Impact Test, Rockwell Hardness Test, Microstructure and Percentage Shear Area Analysis and the results thus obtained are discussed in this paper. The results have shown that cryogenic treatment has improved the hardness and strength