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ANTIBACTERIAL EFFECT OF LEMONGRASS OIL ON ORAL MICROORGANISMS: AN IN VITRO STUDY

Aim of the study was to know antibacterial effect of lemongrass oil on oral microorganisms : Streptococcus mutans, Prevotella intermedia and Porphyromonas gingivalis . The disc diffusion test for the Streptococcus mutans , was carried out at various concentrations of lemongrass oil as neat, 1:2, 1:5, 1:10, 1:20 and 1: 25. The punch hole diffusion technique was used for Prevotella intermedia and Porhyromonas gingivalis at various concentrations of lemongrass oil as n eat, 1:2, 1:5, 1:10, 1:20 and 1:25. The disc diffusion test for Streptococcus mutans showed the zone of inhibition of >40mm, >40mm, >20mm, 14mm,14mm at the concentration of neat, 1:2, 1:5, 1:10, 1:20 respectively. The punch hole diffusion technique used fo r Prevotella intermedia and Porhyromonas gingivalis showed Zone of inhibition of >30mm, >20mm, >10mm at the concentrations of neat, 1:2, 1:5, and 1:10 respectively. The study has demonstrated that essential oil of lemongrass has significant antimicrobial p otential against oral microorganisms S.mutans, P. intermedia and P. gingivalis .
Protective Effects of Extract from Dates (Phoenix Dactylifera L.) and Ascorbic Acid on Thioacetamide-Induced Hepatotoxicity in Rats

The ameliorative activity of aqueous extract of the flesh of dates ( Phoenix dactylifera L.) and ascorbic acid on thioacetamide-induced hepatotoxicity was studied in rats. Sixty male rats were divided into six equal groups of 10. Two groups were controls, one treated with thioacetamide and one with only distilled water. Two groups received extract of flesh Phoenix dactylifera and intraperitoneal (IP) thioacetamide (400 mg/kg) either before or after administration of flesh extract. Two groups received ascorbic acid and intraperitoneal (IP) thioacetamide (400 mg/kg b.wt.) either before or after administration of ascorbic acid. Liver damage was assessed by estimation of plasma concentration of bilirubin and enzymes activities of aspartate aminotransferase (AST), alanine aminotransferase ( ALT), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), γ glutamyl transferase and alkaline phosphatase and serum alpha fetoprotein and serum total testosterone. Treatment with aqueous extract of date flesh or by ascorbic acid significantly reduced thioacetamide-induced elevation in plasma bilirubin concentration and enzymes. This study suggests that thioacetamide-induced liver damage in rats can be ameliorated by administration of extract of date flesh and ascorbic acid.
Geodynamic evolution of the SW Variscides: Orogenic collapse shown by new tectonometamorphic and isotopic data from western Ossa‐Morena Zone, SW Iberia

The pre‐Mesozoic geodynamic evolution of SW Iberia has been investigated on the basis of detailed structural analysis, isotope dating, and petrologic study of high‐pressure (HP) rocks, revealing the superposition of several tectonometamorphic events: (1) An HP event older than circa 358 Ma is recorded in basic rocks preserved inside marbles, which suggests subduction of a continental margin. The deformation associated with this stage is recorded by a refractory graphite fabric and noncoaxial mesoscopic structures found within the host metasediments. The sense of shear is top to south, revealing thrusting synthetic with subduction (underthrusting) to the north. (2) Recrystallization before circa 358 Ma is due to a regional‐scale thermal episode and magmatism. (3) Noncoaxial deformation with top to north sense of shear in northward dipping large‐scale shear zones is associated with pervasive hydration and metamorphic retrogression under mostly greenschist facies. This indicates exhumation by normal faulting in a detachment zone confined to the top to north and north dipping shear zones during postorogenic collapse soon after 358 Ma ago (inversion of earlier top to south thrusts). (4) Static recrystallization at circa 318 Ma is due to regional‐scale granitic intrusions.
1 Sensor Localization and Location-Aware Services 2 . 1 . 1 Smart Home

WSN’s have transformed into a champion amongst the most interesting scopes of investigation in the past couple of years. It made out of different wireless sensor nodes which outline a sensor field and a sink. These tremendous amounts of nodes, having the abilities to sense their surroundings, perform limited retribution and confer remotely shape the wireless sensor networks. Late advances in remote and electronic headways have engaged a far reaching mixed bag of exercises of wireless sensor networks in military, movement observation, Traffic, focus taking after, environment watching, healthcare, and whatnot. There are various new challenges that have surfaced for the originators of wireless sensor networks with a particular finished objective to meet the requirements of distinctive applications like identified sums, size of nodes, and its self-sufficiency. Hence, updates in the present developments and better responses for these challenges are required. The future enhancements in sensor nodes must convey successful and economical contraptions, so that they may be brought into play as a piece of usage like submerged acoustic sensor systems, distinguishing based cyber-physical structures, time-critical applications, cognitive recognizing and management of spectrum, and security and assurance services.
A Survey on Discrimination Prevention in Data Mining

Data mining is an essential engineering for concentrating valuable learning covered up in vast accumulations of information. Protection is a fundamental issue in Data mining. Consequently, privacy preserving data mining has been acquainted with exchange of the utility of the information for ensuring individual security. Alongside discrimination is an extremely essential issue when considering the legitimate and moral parts of data mining, where people are treated on the basis of their background for grouping principle mining have secured the best approach to settling on mechanized choices, in the same way as credit allowing, protection premium reckoning and so many. For this basic, anti-discrimination strategies including discrimination disclosure and prevention have been proposed in data mining. To take care of such issues there are a few calculations exhibited by different creators around the world. The essential objective of this overview paper is to include the current techniques of discovering prevention procedures and to accomplish effectiveness.
Food Consumption Patterns of Adult Population in Rural and Urban Areas of Faizabad District of Uttar Pradesh, India

Background: Poor dietary habit is widely recognized as an important risk factor in development of noncommunicable disease (NCDs). This study was to provide a data on food consumption pattern existing among the adult population of Faizabad district, which has either negative or positive implication for nutritional deficiencies and NCDs. Methods: This study was a cross – sectional descriptive survey carried out in rural and urban area of Faizabad District. Total 400 respondents aged above 18 years were selected by simple random sampling. Two eligible participants of both sexes in each of the selected household were interviewed with a modified version of WHO stepwise questionnaires to obtain information on demographic and socioeconomic characteristics as well as food consumption patterns. Results: The mean age of the respondents were 35 years. Majority of urban populations (28.5%)were businessman, while the participants from rural areas were predominantly farmers (47.5). 78.5% and 60% of both rural and urban respondents were belonging to vegetarian category respectively. Cereals consumption in rural and urban areas was quite similer in a month, it included mainly wheat and rice only, While the consumption of coarse grains was very low (2-3 days in a month). Consumption of pulses included red gram and green gram dhal had taking by rural population by 15-20 days in a month, while in urban population it was 10-15 days in a month. Only seasonal and low cost fruits were consumed by rural population while all type of fruits was consumed by urban population, but it was below 5 serving in a day. Consumption of leafy vegetables was 5-10 days in a month for both urban and rural population. The study revealed that low cost, easily available and staple foods was frequently consumed by rural population. Mustard oil was the commonest type of oil used in cooking food in rural area, while refined oil and soybean oil was frequently consumed by urban population. On other hand consumption of foods considered as less healthy such as fast foods/pastries, sweets, chocolates, soft-drinks were frequently consumed by urban population. Conclusions: Clearly focused nutrition education efforts should aimed to strengthening the positive trends and combating the negative ones can go a long way in improving the dietary intake, lifestyles and nutritional status of the population.
Reveal IP Spoofers Location from Route Backscatter and Passive IP Traceback

: Information science savoir-faire is used to hide the location s of the cyber-terrorist, spoofed. To identify the true spot of the spoofers Maturation of IP vestige back chemical mechanisms is used. Because of no common IP Traceback mechanism was adopted, Exact spoofers location was not identified till now. We implement Passive voice IP Traceback (Hell) mechanism to overcome the difficulties of the earlier technique itinerary backscatter messages (ICMP messages) generated by intermediate Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun device in the network and traceback the spoofers using topology get detected by PIT. To identify the positioning of the spoofers, we apply Pit on path backscatter data set. the geographical location details of routing device near to IP spoofers are found, by employing the TTL field in IP packets.
A Non-Gaussian Ensemble Filter Update for Data Assimilation

Abstract A deterministic square root ensemble Kalman filter and a stochastic perturbed observation ensemble Kalman filter are used for data assimilation in both linear and nonlinear single variable dynamical systems. For the linear system, the deterministic filter is simply a method for computing the Kalman filter and is optimal while the stochastic filter has suboptimal performance due to sampling error. For the nonlinear system, the deterministic filter has increasing error as ensemble size increases because all ensemble members but one become tightly clustered. In this case, the stochastic filter performs better for sufficiently large ensembles. A new method for computing ensemble increments in observation space is proposed that does not suffer from the pathological behavior of the deterministic filter while avoiding much of the sampling error of the stochastic filter. This filter uses the order statistics of the prior observation space ensemble to create an approximate continuous prior probability dis.
Growth dynamics and bioactivity variation of the Mediterranean demosponges Agelas oroides (Agelasida, Agelasidae) and Petrosia ficiformis (Haplosclerida, Petrosiidae)

Growth dynamics and bioactivity variation of the Mediterranean demosponges Agelas oroides and Petrosia ficiformis were investigated over 15 months at Parag- gi and Colombara within the Marine Reserve of Portofino Promontory (Medi- terranean Sea, Ligurian Sea, Italy). For both species, growth rates varied between individuals and were unaffected by initial sponge size. The two species showed a different trend in growth pattern: A. oroides did not vary significantly between seasons, sites and depths; in contrast, some individuals of P. ficiformis showed a seasonal pattern, shrinking during winter as water temperature decreased and growing during summer when water temperature increased. Dif- ferences in growth between the two species may result from different reproduc- tive cycles, food availability, species-specific thermophily and patterns of spatial competition. Moreover, spatial competition probably induced sponges to pro- duce bioactive secondary molecules. Spatial and temporal variation of bioactiv- ity of both species was examined for the first time by studying its effect on human neuroblastoma cells. The bioactivity of A. oroides extracts differed significantly between seasons, sites and depths, whereas the cytotoxicity of P. ficiformis differed significantly between seasons and depths (differences for sites were not determined). These results suggest the possible influence of environmental factors on bioactive metabolite biosynthesis.
On Classifying Complex Networks by their Topological Features

The study of complex networks pervades all of the sciences. Characterizing complex network’s structure is a key to understand any unifying principles underlying their topology. Previous works have shown that many topological properties can vary for different types of system. However these works generally focus only on a few characteristics at time. In this work we present methods and results for an extensive analysis of 20 global and local graph topological features of 1245 publicly available networks. The raw networks can have orders ranging from a few hundred nodes (e.g., some small biological and small ego-centered examples) to hundred of thousand nodes (e.g., roads and large ego-centered examples). In order to perform the classification task, we sample them into five sets of different graph orders, assigning each of them to one of following four classes: technological networks, information networks, biological networks, and social networks. We then perform a comprehensive classification analysis, using several supervised and unsupervised methods, and one-vs.-all/one-vs.-one approaches. As a result, we are able to report remarkable testing set accuracies larger than 90% for the majority of the approaches and set configurations. Additionally, we confidently identify whose are the key topological features for complex network classification.
Local Optical Absorption by Confined Excitons in Single and Coupled Quantum Dots

We investigate optical near-field spectra of single and coupled semiconductor quantum dots. An enhanced role for the Coulomb correlations is predicted, and it is shown that the spectra depend crucially on the spatial resolution of the local probe. The intensity of certain optical peaks as a function of the resolution exhibits an unexpected non-monotonic behavior, which is identified as a fingerprint of Coulomb interactions in zero-dimensional nanostructures.
The Industrialization of Nigeria

What does it J! 1ean to industrialize? Obviously the replacement of hand tools by machme and power tools is the sine qua non of an industrialized society. But industrialization a)so involves vast economic and lWCial changes, e.g., a tendency toward urbanization, a growlng body ot wag~ earners, increased technical and advanced education. By studying these and other concomitants, one can detect the sign of incipient industrialization in Nigeria.
ICTALURI DIETARY ADMINISTRATION OF THE PROBIOTIC ENHANCED INNATE IMMUNE RESPONSES AND DISEASE RESISTANCE OF THE STRIPED CATFISH AGAINST EDWARDSIELLA ICTALURI

Antagonistic activity of Bacillus circulans B3 (B3), Bacillus subtilis N26.3 (N26.3), Pediococcus acidilactici LA61 (LA61) with Edwardsiella ictaluri were evaluated, and nonspecific immune parameters of the striped catfish (Pangasianodon hypophthalmus), and its susceptibility to Edwardsiella ictaluri Gly09M were determined when the fish fed diets containing single strains of B3, N26.3, LA61, and mixed strains (B3, N26.3, LA61) at 1x10 cfu/g of feed for 4 weeks. The results showed that B3, N26.3, and LA61 bacteria inhibited to E. ictaluri with the clear zone 22.5 ± 0.7mm, 20.3 ± 0.6 mm, , and 17.7 ± 1.5 mm, respectively. Fish fed a diet containing LA61 and mixed strains at 10 cfu g had significantly higher survival rates than those fed the control diet after challenge with E. ictaluri Gly09M, causing increases in the survival rates of 22.2% and 42,2%, respectively, compared to the control group. The phagocytic activity (PA) and respiratory burst of head kidney leucocytes of fish fed single strain diets and mixed strain diet at 10 cfu g were significantly higher than those of fish fed the control diet after 4 weeks of feeding. However, phagocytic index (PI) had no significant difference between groups. Lysozyme activity of fish serum of fish fed LA61 and mixed strain diet at 10 cfu/g significantly increased compared to those of fish fed control diet, and had increased by 1,6and 2,3-fold, respectively compared to control group. We therefore recommend dietary administration of mixed strains (B3, N26.3, and LA61) at 10 cfu g to enhance innate immunity and disease resistance of Pagasianodon hypophthalmus against Bacillary Necrosis of Pangasius (BNP) causing by E. ictaluri.
Design Trends of a Low Power Successive Approximation Register Analog-to-Digital Converter

It is a well-known fact that Analog-to-Digital Converters (ADCs) consume around 30% of the total power of the analog front end of a device. Hence, reducing the power consumption is the key step towards Low and Ultra Low power applications. One typical ADC that has been gaining attention for its capability of low power operation is Successive Approximation Register (SAR) ADC. In this paper, a survey of the state-of-theart experimental and the commercially available Successive Approximation Register (SAR) as a low power Analog to Digital Converter has been presented. This paper also discusses the various design techniques proposed till date to achieve this goal while keeping a close eye on their effect on the performance parameters of ADC. It is observed that there is a trade-off between power, area, resolution and sampling rate depending upon the design specifications and application required. Index Terms – ADC, SAR, Low Power, Sampling Rate, Resolution, Figure of Merit, ENOB
The Role of Janus Kinase 2 (JAK2) in the Pathologenesis of Myeloproliferative Disorders@@@دور التايروسين كاينيز في تطور سرطان الدم المزمن

The myeloproliferative disorders, polycythemia vera, essential thombocythemia, and primary myelofibrosis are clonal disorders of multipotent hematopoietic progenitors. The genetic cause of these diseases was not known until 2005, when several independent groups demonstrated that most patients with PV, ET and PMF acquired a single point mutation in the cytoplasmic tyrosine kinase, such as JAK2 (JAK2 V617F). These discoveries have changed the landscape for diagnosis and classification of PV, ET and PMF, and have shown the ability of genomic technologies to identify new molecular targets in human malignancies with pathogenetic, diagnostic and therapeutic significance.
Reinforcement Learning for Demand Response of Domestic Household Appliances

With today’s electricity grid being penetrated with more and more intermittent energy sources, the need arises to match demand for electricity with electricity generation, in order to maintain the stability of the grid. Demand response has been proposed as a mechanism that aims to solve this problem, by stimulating the shift of electricity demand towards production peaks. In previous work individual devices were trained using fitted-Q iteration to shift the consumption of electrical energy towards low-price periods, while still guaranteeing user comfort. This paper shows that controlling multiple devices with one independent agent per device is more cost-effective compared to a centralized agent. The paper expands the setting with an energy consumption constraint on the level of the household. The objective is to spread the energy consumption of the devices during low price periods as much as possible in order to avoid overloading the grid. Preliminary results for both centralized and independent learners show that these agents are capable of reducing the amount of constraint violations minimally but fail to reduce violations to zero.
Unoriented D‐brane instantons

We give a pedagogical introduction to D‐brane instanton effects in vacuum configurations with open and unoriented strings. We focus on quiver gauge theories for unoriented D‐branes at orbifold singularities and describe in some detail the ℤ3 case, where both ‘gauge’ and ‘exotic’ instantons can generate non‐perturbative super potentials, and the ℤ5 case, where supersymmetry breaking may arise from the combined effect of ‘gauge’ instantons and a FI D‐term.
Species turnover and geographic distance in an urban river network

Understanding the relationships between species turnover, environmental features and the geographic distance between sites can provide important insights into the processes driving species diversity. This is particularly relevant where the effective distance between sites may be a function of the habitat or topographic features of the landscape and the means of dispersal of the organism. River networks, in particular in human‐modified landscapes, are a striking example of such a situation. Here, we use data for both aquatic and terrestrial organisms across an urban river network to examine patterns of species turnover and to determine whether these patterns differ between different taxonomic groups.
INVITED REVIEW TUNGIASIS

Tungiasis is a neglected parasitic skin disease caused by the permanent penetration of the female sand flea (also called jigger flea) Tunga penetrans into the skin of its host. After penetration, most commonly on the feet, the flea undergoes an impressing hypertrophy, and some days later the abdominal segments of the flea have enlarged up to the size of about 1 cm. The flea infestation is associated with poverty and occurs in many resource-poor communities in the Caribbean, South America and Africa. In this review, a historical overview on tungiasis is given. The natural history, pathology, epidemiology, diagnosis, therapy and control of the parasitic skin disease are discussed. It is concluded that tungiasis is an important parasitosis causing considerable morbidity in affected populations. Future studies are needed to increase the knowledge on the biology, pathophysiology, epidemiology, therapy and control of the ectoparasite.
ANALYSIS OF FACTORS INFLUENCING IMMUNOGLOBULIN G CONCENTRATION IN MILK OF DAIRY COWS

In this study, the purpose was to estimate immunoglobulins G (IgG) concentration in milk depending on cows’ breed, number of lactations and somatic cell count (SCC). Twenty cows of different breeds (Lithuanian Blackand-White, Dutch Black-and-White, and German Black-and-White) and lactations (from 1 to 6) were used in the study. The research material was split into four groups according to SCC detected in the milk samples: 1 group – SCC up to 100 x10/ml; 2 group – 101– 400 x10/ml; 3 group – 401 – 1,000 x10/ml and 4 group – 1,001 x10/ml. Samples of fresh milk were analysed for SCC performed by the heavy-duty counter-measurer Somascope. The contents of IgG were determined by the enzymatic method ELISA based on the competition between marked antigen-antibodies. The mean value for IgG concentration obtained from all the samples was 0.29±0.14 mg/ml. Milk IgG content increased with the increment of SCC. The relation between SCC and IgG content correlated significantly rp=0.931, rs=0.854 (P<0.0001). It was determined that IgG concentration varied from 0.26±0.15 mg/ml (1-2 lactations) to 0.41±0.11 mg/ml (5–6 lactations). IgG concentration in milk was not significantly different among numbers of lactations and breeds of cows (P>0.05).