Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
A school-based survey of premenstrual dysphoric disorder-relationship with depression, anxiety, self-esteem and quality of life

Introduction: Premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) is a severe and debilitating form of Premenstrual syndrome (PMS) affecting women in their reproductive age. There is paucity of Indian research in this area among adolescents. Aims: To determine the prevalence of PMDD in adolescent school students, and to study relationship between PMDD and anxiety, depression, self-esteem and quality of life (QOL). Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted on 100 adolescent students of an urban school. The Premenstrual symptom screening tool for adolescents (PSST-A), Hamilton anxiety (HAM-A) and Depression (HAM-D) Scale, Rosenberg self esteem scale (RSES) and The women’s quality of life questionnaire were employed. Results: All participants reported at least one PMS symptom of minimal severity and 68% had at least one PMS symptom of moderate-severe intensity. Twenty five percent of the participants had ‘moderate-to severe’ PMS. None of the participants qualified for PMDD. Disruption of daily activities was reported by 35% while 22% missed school due to PMS. A statistically significant relationship was found between PSST scores and HAM-D score (p<0.005). No statistically significant relationship was found between PSST scores and HAM-A, RSES and Women’s QOL scores. Conclusion: Although PMS and PMDD pose a difficulty, majority of adolescents do not have significant anxiety, experience positive self-esteem and good quality of life. There is a need for multi-centric and multi-disciplinary research to further elucidate the factors associated with PMS and PMDD in this population.
COMPARISON OF IN VITRO NITRIC OXIDE ACTIVITY OF ARECA CATECHU LINN NUT BY SOXHLATION AND MICROWAVE EXTRACTION TECHNIQUE

The aim of the present study is to compare the in vitro nitric oxide activity of Areca catechu nut [unroasted, roasted and commercial sample from shop]by two different techniques of extraction viz., Soxhlation and Microwave extraction. Areca catechu nuts [unroasted, roasted and commercial sample from shop] were extracted separately in soxhlet and microwave extractor with methanol and distilled water. The study was carried out with 2 extracts prepared by both methods using in vitro nitric oxide scavenging activity. Ascorbic acid was used as standard. The study exhibited strong in vitro nitric oxide scavenging activity. The IC50 value were found to be 365.25,79.7;80.8,77.87 and 60.21,60.71 μg/ml by microwave assisted extraction and 84.06,191.9; 77.49,89.06 and 60.3,63.08 μg/ml by soxhlet method for unroasted methanol, unroasted water; roasted methanol, roasted water and commercial sample methanol and commercial sample water extracts respectively. The IC50 value for standard was found to be 38.9 μg/ml. This experiment has concluded the strong in vitro nitric oxide scavenging activity of nuts of A.catechu. Commercial sample showed the highest scavenging activity when compared all other extracts. There was difference in Microwave extraction technique and soxhlet technique only for unroasted nuts whereas both method yielded more or less same result in roasted and commercial sample.
Reaction Response of Citrus Reticulate to Six Concentration of Jujube Water Extraction Infected With Meloidogyne Incognita under Greenhouse Conditions

Greenhouse experiment was conducted to determined the effect of six concentrations of jujub leave water extract (5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 ml ̸ plant) on Meloidogyne incognita infecting common mandarin comparing with oxamyl under greenhouse conditions. The obtained results indicated that all tested materials improved all the plant growth criteria and diminished nematode parameters as well. On the other hand, using jujube water extract at 30 ml/ plant gave the maximum values of shoot and root lengths; shoot and root fresh weights shoot dry matter, leaves number/plant, and branches, whereas the concentration of 5 ml/ plant showed the minimum values in this respect. Oxamyl ranked first in percentage reduction values of the number of juveniles in soil (90.1%), galls (86.5%), eggmasses (93.9%) and eggs/egg mass number (63.33%) on roots, respectively.
Review on Intravascular Ultrasound ( IVUS ) Image Detection

Visualization of the blood vessels can provide valuable morphological information for diagnosis and therapy strategies for cardiovascular disease. Intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) is able to delineate internal structures of vessel wall with fine spatial resolution. In this paper, we review recently developed image processing methods for the detection of media–adventitia and luminal borders in IVUS images acquired with different transducers operating at frequencies ranging from 20 to 45 MHz. We discuss methodological challenges, lack of diversity in reported datasets, and weaknesses of quantification metrics that make IVUS segmentation still an open problem despite all efforts
Change Detection in SAR Images using Contourlet

— This paper presents an unsupervised approach based on contourlet image fusion and fuzzy clustering for change detection in sar images.In this novel approach image fusion is used to produce difference image from log ratio and mean ratio images.For an optimal difference image, it should retain the unchanged areas and enhance the changed areas.so contourlet based fusion is proposed to generate the difference image. To process the difference image is to discriminate changed regions from unchanged regions using fuzzy local information c means algorithum which is insensitive to noise.Experimental result shows that this approach provides better performance than its preexistences
FOLIAR APPENDAGES AND PHYTOCHEMICAL CONSTITUENTS OF LEUCOPHYLLUM FRUTESCENS ( Berl . )

Leaf epidermal morphology of Leucophyllum was studied. A detailed pharmacognostical and phytochemical evaluation was done. The study revealed several interesting characters such as, the trichomes are 110-160μm in height. The lateral spines are 100 μm long the cells of main axis are15μ m in height and 20μm breadth . Stomata occur only on the abaxial leaf surface; anisocytic stomatal complex. Mesophyll with calcium oxalate crystals. Others to be mentioned are TPM (Transcurrent Palisade Mesophyll). Thus the above-mentioned leaf features are of great taxonomic significance. Preliminary phytochemical tests revealed presence of alkaloids, steroids,tannin,terpenoids and saponins.This genus is sometimes placed in the family Myoporaceae, hence the present study. © 2016 Universal Research Publications. All rights reserved
A REVIEW ON HYPO HIDROTIC EFFECT OF SIDDHA FORMULATION –KUNGUMAPOO MATHIRAI S.P.Rajalakshmi1*, V.Srinivasan2, M.Ramamurthy2, S.Elansekaran2, G.J.Christian3

Hyperhidrosis is a condition present with excess sweating of palms on the hands, soles of the feet, forehead and axillae. This is socially embarrassing. There are few herbs to treat hyperhidrosis in Siddha system of medicine. The drug Kungumapoo Mathirai is being used in Siddha system of medicine for many years to treat hyperhidrosis. The ingredients used in the preparation of Kungumapoo Mathirai are Crocus sativus, Zingiberofficinale, Piper nigrum, Piper cubeba, Costus speciosus, Carum capticum, Piper longum, Syzygium aromaticu, Elettaria cardomom, Korosanai (Oxbile), Vengaram (Sodium biborate), Lingam (Red sulphide of mercury), Sambrani poo (Dry powder of Styrax benzoin). This article reviews the hypo hydration effect of the drug Kungumapoo Mathirai and its ingredients. This review will help to get much information on hypohydrosis effect of the chemical constituents of the drug. The antioxidant properties of the ingredients which is acting as hypo hydrating agent and their mechanism in controlling the nervous excitement by reducing the action potential in detail. The use of herbal drugs is becoming more popular due to the adverse effects of synthetic Anticholenergics and Antispasmodic drugs which are used to treat hyperhidrosis worldwide. Excellence of Siddha, formulated each and every medicines on the basis of Thiridhosa theory and five elemental theory, which are the basic principles of Siddha medicine. The basic theory of Siddha formulation Kungumapoo Mathirai is also explained here.
APPLICATION OF NOVEL DRUG DELIVERY SYSTEM IN THE PHARMACOTHERAPY OF HYPERLIPIDEMIA

Hyperlipidemia is an elevated condition of lipid levels in the body and is known to speed up a process of atherosclerosis that may prove fatal in the development of various cardiovascular diseases. Increase in lipids like LDL i.e low density lipoproteins, cholesterol and triglycerides are mainly responsible for hyperlipidemia. Present pharmacotherapy for hyperlipidemia includes statins, niacin, fibric acid derivatives and cholesterol absorption inhibitors. 90% of the pharmacotherapy of hyperlipidemia includes statins and these statins also suffer from limitations like, inadequate solubility, less absorption, less bioavailability and ineffectiveness in lowering of cholesterol levels only upto maximum 40% risk reduction. These drugs are to be given on daily basis which make it cumbersome for patients. Novel Drug Delivery System is an advanced drug delivery system with improved solubility, absorption, bioavailability, drug potency, control drug release to give a sustained therapeutic effect, and target oriented to a desired tissue as well as patient compliance is good. So it is the need of hour to formulate such kind of drug delivery systems which will combat the limitations of antihyperlipidemic therapy. The present review emphasise on applications of novel drug delivery systems in pharmacotherapy of anti hyperlipidemic drugs.
A Survey on Improved Authentication Technology-Contactless Palm Vein Recognition

: Local binary patterns (LBP) are a type of visual descriptor used for classification in computer vision. LBP is the particular case of the Texture Spectrum model Local binary pattern (LBP) is well known for the surface representation attributable to its segregation capacity and computational effectiveness, yet when used to portray the scanty surface in palm vein pictures, the separation capacity is weakened, prompting lower execution, particularly for contactless palm vein coordinating. In this project, an enhanced shared frontal area LBP strategy is exhibited for accomplishing a superior coordinating execution for contactless palm vein acknowledgment. In the first place, the standardized angle based maximal foremost bend calculation also, k-implies strategy is used for surface extraction, which can adequately stifle commotion and enhance exactness and strength. At that point, a LBP coordinating procedure was embraced for comparability estimations on the premise of removed palm veins also, their neighbourhoods, which incorporate by far most of helpful particular data for ID while dispensing with obstruction by barring the foundation. To further improve the LBP performance, the matched pixel ratio was adopted to determine the best matching region (BMR). Finally, the matching score obtained in the process of finding the BMR was fused with results of LBP matching at the score level to further improve the identification performance. A series of rigorous contrast experiments using the palm vein data set in the CASIA multispectral palm print image database were conducted.
IMAGE SEGMENTATION USING WATERSHED AND GRADIENT VECTOR FOR MULTIPLE OBJECTS

This paper describes a novel method for partitioning image into meaningful segments within a given time. The proposed method employs a step wise approach which uses gradient vector method for determining the boundary, a threshold which after getting the boundary neutralizes the values to make the image consistent enough so that the watershed segmentation technique can segmentize the image with proper and ﬁ ne boundary de ﬁ nitions. Along with that, it uses various auxiliary schemes such as gray scale conversion, average threshold method, which segment the image in proper way but with some distortion around the boundary. The algorithm proposed in this paper considers all these methods in effective way and takes little time. It is organized in such a manner so that it operates on input image adaptively. Its robustness and ef ﬁ ciency makes it more convenient and suitable for all types of images.
Early Referral to Orthopedic Surgeon Prevents Skeletal Related Events: A Comparison of Patients with Cancer of Known and Unknown Primary Origin at Initial Presentation in a Musculoskeletal Department

Purpose: To identify optimal orthopedic surgical intervention by comparing cases of bone metastasis in cancer of known and unknown primary origin at initial presentation. Methods: Twenty-two patients with bone metastasis who were referred to us between 2011 and 2014 were retrospectively assigned to two groups based on their initial presentation: the known primary origin (known) group and the unknown primary origin (unknown) group (n = 11 each). Data analyzed included local therapy, orthopedic surgeon involvement, response and complications at the metastatic site, and individual outcomes. Results: In the known group, all 11 patients underwent radiotherapy (RT) as the initial treatment and 4 underwent secondary surgery (wide resection in 2 patients and palliative surgery in the remaining 2). In the unknown group, in which the orthopedic surgeon was involved early in local therapy for bone metastasis, 6 underwent RT and 5 underwent orthopedic surgery as the initial treatment (wide resection in 3 patients and palliative spinal surgery in the remaining 2), with 2 patients requiring secondary RT. There were significantly more cases of progressive disease (PD) in the known group (p = 0.004). The complication rate was 18.2% in the known group and 0% in the unknown group. Conclusion: All patients in the unknown group, who received early involvement from the orthopedic surgeon, showed better local control. Therefore, as soon as skeletal metastatic lesions are identified, orthopedic surgeons have an important role to play in defining the treatment strategy.
Performance Analysis Of Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) Encoded Cooperative Communication System With Implementation Of Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing

: Cooperative communication is a new paradigm that draws from the ideas of using the broadcast nature of the wireless channel to make communicating nodes help each other, of implementing the communication process in distributive fashion. Due to the requirement of ubiquitous coverage for wireless broadband services, demand for high data rate is increasing rapidly for the future wireless generations. More base stations are needed to deliver these services, in order to cope with the increased capacity demand and inherent unreliable nature of wireless medium. Usually wireless communication performance is badly affected by channel fading, noise, attenuation, crosstalk, less signal quality etc. This paper presents performance analysis and comparison of a three node cooperative communication system with orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) and low-density parity check matrix (LDPC) encoded system. The simulation results show that the system performance can be improved by using cooperative communication techniques even when the inter-user channel is not good. The performance metric used for analysis is BER at a particular direct link SNR. In this thesis work we examine the performance of a cooperative communication system and its ability to realize the advantages and the ideas behind its invention. We model a simple amplify and forward, decode and forward repletion based cooperative communication system. To evaluate the performance of cooperative communication system using computer simulation. We focus on Bit Error Rate (BER) performance analysis of cooperative communication system with either an amplify-and-forward (AF) and decode-and-forward (DF) cooperation protocol using MATLAB. Our results shown that a better performance of a communication system could be achieved by allowing wireless network partners to communicate cooperatively.
Intrapsychic and Interpersonal Behaviours, Anxiety and Depression in Elderly and Adult Women affected by Breast Cancer: a Case-Control Study Anna Scienti ﬁ c Journal of Depression & Anxiety

Introduction: The proﬁ Materials and methods: case group- 257 breast cancer woman; control group- 206 healthy woman. Questionnaires: Structural Analysis of Interpersonal Behaviour-SASB- intrapsychic processes; IPAT-CDQ- and ASQ depression and anxiety- Tests. Results: Differences between breast cancer patients (adult and elderly) and control group: medium high levels of depression- CDQ ( p < .001) and of anxiety-ASQ ( p < .001); Intrapsychic level-SASB: less autonomy in their choices with low acceptance of their own feelings Cl2 ( p =.004), CL3 ( p < .001), Cl2 ( p = .004), CL3 ( p < .001), negative control and depression, CL5 ( p < .001), Cl6 ( p < .001), Cl7 ( p = .018), Cl8 ( p = .009). Interpersonal level: lower levels of conﬁ dence and of acceptance of others (Cl2 p = .004), worse attitude of taking care for others in presence of stressful situation (Cl3 p < .001), more self control towards the others (Cl5 p < .001); they are critical towards the others (Cl6 p < .001), are engaged in destructive behaviours in the physical and emotional dimensions towards the others (Cl7 p = .018) and ignore and neglect the needs and interests of the other (Cl8 p = .009). Conclusions: The intrapsychic factors as tendency to depression, not to be in touch with their own feelings may be linked to difﬁ culties to face the disease treatment. This intrapsychic modalities knowledge may allows to plan the most appropriate psychotherapeutic intervention to promote a good adaptation to the disease conditions.
Selective Harmonic Elimination for Multilevel Inverter in Statcom

: The multilevel Inverter is a widely used for high power utility applications. To provide stepped sinusoidal waveforms with low harmonic content with reduced distortion. Improving the inverter performance means improving the quality of the output voltage. For this purpose a set of transcendental equations known as selective harmonic elimination equation is used for eliminating or reducing magnitude of desired harmonics. The required switching angles can be computed by solving the selective harmonic equations by using Newton-Raphson technique. The computed switching angles are then used for switching the switches used in the multilevel inverter of the STATCOM. The magnitude of the output waveform can be changed by changing the modulation index. By changing the value of modulation index the Total Harmonics Distortion (THD) also will change. In this paper, the performance of single phase full-bridge inverter using SHE scheme with varying the modulation index is evaluated in order to achieve a minimum THD.
Energy Efficient Clustering Using Fuzzy Logic

—Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are an important emerging wireless technology with the advantages of ease of distribution and low cost. They consist of a large number of nodes that sense real-time events and transfer them to a base station for processing. However, WSNs have a few constraints such as energy consumption due to the node CPU and battery which directly affects the network life time. In this paper, we propose a method that focuses on reduction of energy consumption and increasing the network life time using a fuzzy logic approach. The technique is based on two parameters, namely, energy level and centrality, and uses a controller that prevents unwanted concentration of cluster heads in a particular region. The simulation results clearly show a significant amount of increase in energy preservation and longer network life time compared to other proposed approaches.
ZnO Nanostructure Deposition on Si Substrates by Chemical Vapor Deposition and its Antibacterial effect on Escherichia coli

ZnO nanostructures are directly integrated into a substrate by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. Gold catalyst is patterned on a Si substrate using a DC magnetron sputtering and then ZnO nano structures is grown on the patterned substrate by CVD. X-ray diffraction and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) were employed to obtain the nanostructure and morphology of the films. Additionally, the antibacterial effect has been studied on Escherichia coli. The result shows that the bacteriostatic effect was dependent on the ZnO nanostructures thickness.
FORMULATION AND EVALUATION OF TASTE MASKED ORAL DISINTEGRATING TABLETS OF LORATADINE

The aim of the present research work was to mask the intensely bitter taste of Loratadine and to formulate an orally-disintegrating tablet (ODT)) of the taste-masked drug. Loratadine is an antihistamine that reduces the effects of natural chemical histamine in body there by reduces sneezing, itching, watery eyes and running nose. In this present study, Eudragit L-100 as the taste masking agent and sodium starch glycolate and croscarmellose sodium as super disintegrants were used. Taste masked granules of Loratadine were prepared using different ratios of Loratadine and Eudragit L-100 (1:1,1:2,1:3) by wet granulation method and evaluated for precompression parameters. The optimum ratio (1:3) of drug and Eudragit L-100 was selected based on taste masking effect for preparing Oral disintegrating tablets of Loratadine using different percentages of the super disintegrants (3%, 6%, 9% ) by wet granulation method. The prepared tablets were evaluated for post compression parameters like hardness, friability, disintegration time, invitro dissolution studies.From this study, it is concluded that the taste masked Loratadine oral disintegrating tablets can be successfully prepared by EudragitL-100 as a taste masking agent (1:3) and sodium starch glycolate (9%) as super disintegrant as it has shown 100% drug release with in 20 mins.
Smooth Projective Hash Function based PEKS Framework for Secure Searchable Cloud Storage

— Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search (PEKS) idea provides a mechanism that enables users to search encrypted emails with keywords without revealing any information including the server. Also, the server can retrieve encrypted emails containing specific keywords, but learn nothing else about the emails. On the other hand, PEKS augments the security and privacy protection of data storage applications. Since cloud computing becomes the popular issue in recent years, more and more cloud services bloom in a very short time including cloud storage service. Thus, PEKS scheme can increase the personal documents protection over cloud environment. PEKS schemes suffer from an inherent insecurity regarding the trapdoor keyword privacy, namely inside Keyword Guessing Attack (KGA). The reason leading to such a security vulnerability is that anyone who knows receiver’s public key can generate the PEKS ciphertext of arbitrary keyword himself. We formalize a new PEKS framework named Dual-Server Public Key Encryption with Keyword Search (DS-PEKS) to address the security vulnerability of PEKS. A new variant of Smooth Projective Hash Function (SPHF), referred to as linear and homomorphic SPHF, is introduced for a generic construction of DS-PEKS
Phytochemical screening of Moringa oleifera Lam

The present study is aimed at the development of phytochemical parameters and to investigate the medicinally active substances present in methanolic extract obtained from leaves of Moringa oleifera Lam. Preliminary phytochemical screening of the extracts revealed the presence of alkaloids, terpenoids, steroids, flavanoids, tannins, carbohydrates, saponins and phenolic compounds. For the TLC new solvent system developed for the best separation of the phytoconstituents present in the extract. The solvent system selected for the best results of TLC was the ratio of Toulene: Aceteic acid: Formic acid 5 : 3.5 : 0.5 ml for methanolic extract. The five spots found in the methanolic extract. The Rf values of the extract were 0.08, 0.39, 0.44, 0.7, and 0.73. The study will provide referential information for the correct identification of the methanol crude extract of Moringa oleifera Lam.