Ethnic lifestyle and food habits

According to the geological structure and climate change, people followed different customs in food systems. In today's environment, various changes can be seen in people's food patterns due to cultural change and lack of time. And each ethnic group followed dietary habits according to their occupational and economic circumstances. This research has been conducted to investigate the dietary patterns of the Devangar ethnic group. All the data for this article are collected through ethnographic fieldwork

The Role of Classroom Interactions in Enhancing Speaking Skills in English

The English language, with its status as a global language, has the power to connect nations while retaining the value of the individual institutions and organizations of the nations. Competency in the language with effective transactional abilities can be the only best way to ensure their development and sustenance. The world-renowned psychologists and language experts strongly point out that language learning is a social process.  With classrooms being prominent workshops for language learning across the globe, they emphasize that these learning rooms should employ social learning approaches and strategies involving collaborative methods. Only such collaborative arenas can certainly promote effective learning of language skills (LSRW), especially speaking

Study on real-time media congestion avoidance technique for video streaming over wireless local area network

The video streaming is one of the important application which consumes more bandwidth compared to non-real-time traffic. Most of the existing video transmissions are either using UDP or RTP over UDP. Since these protocols are not designed with congestion control, they affect the performance of peer video transmissions and the non-real-time applications. Like TFRC, Real-Time Media Congestion Avoidance (RMCAT) is one of the recently proposed frameworks to provide congestion control for real-time applications. Since the need for video transmission is increasing over the wireless LAN, in this paper the performance of the protocol was studied over WLAN with different network conditions. From the detailed study, we observed that RMCAT considers the packet losses due to the distance and channel conditions as congestion loss, and hence it reduced the sending rate thereby it affected the video transmission

A Modified Architecture of Multiplier and Accumulator Using Spurious Power Suppression Technique

High speed and low power Multiplier and Accumulator (MAC) unit is at most requirement of today’s VLSI systems and digital signal processing (DSP) applications like FFT, Finite Impulse response filters, convolution etc. In this modified architecture, Radix-4 Modified Booth Encoding (MBE) is used to produce the partial products. In this multiplication and accumulation has been combined using a hybrid type of Carry Save Adder (CSA). So the performance will be improved. A Carry Look ahead Adder is inserted in the CSA tree to reduce the number of bits in the final adder. In booth multiplication, when two numbers are multiplied some portion of the data may be zero. By neglecting those data, power has been reduced. For this purpose Spurious Power Suppression Technique (SPST) is used to remove useless portion of the data in addition process. In this modified architecture, the overall process is three stages to produce the result. The modified MAC operation is coded with Verilog and simulated using Xilinx 12.1

Prospective study to analyse effectiveness of Samartharam suction canula as a preventive strategy for postpartum haemorrhage in high-risk mothers at a teaching hospital over a period of one year

Background: To analyse the effectiveness of Samartharam suction canula as a preventive strategy along with routine Active management of third stage of labour (AMTSL) in women who are high risk for pph. Incorporating SR canula along with routine AMSL might help in reducing the incidence of postpartum haemorrhage (PPH).   Methods: This is a hospital based comparative prospective cross-sectional study, carried out among 150 high risk women for PPH who delivered vaginally in department of obstetrics and gynaecology, govt. Theni medical college and hospital, Theni between October 2020 to October 2021. All the women received 10 units of oxytocin IM at the appearance of anterior shoulder, or uterine massage and controlled cord traction. SR cannula was applied in 75women and in another 75 women all other uterotonics (oxytocin, misoprostol and tranexamic acid) for preventing PPH were used. Results: Mean age of the patients was observed in the age group of 21-30 years (SR suction canula=49, medical management=50). Comparison between SR suction canula and medical methods. In this study it was observed, in higher number of cases the bleeding stopped immediately and there was a significant reduction in the amount of blood loss and the need for blood transfusion. Whereas, bleeding stopped immediately only in lower numbers, in whom medical management alone was used. Conclusions: This study provides a promising insight, as a prophylactic strategy for prevention of atonic PPH for high-risk mothers

Alternative Oxidase (AOX) Senses Stress Levels to Coordinate Auxin-Induced Reprogramming From Seed Germination to Somatic Embryogenesis—A Role Relevant for Seed Vigor Prediction and Plant Robustness

Somatic embryogenesis (SE) is the most striking and prominent example of plant plasticity upon severe stress. Inducing immature carrot seeds perform SE as substitute to germination by auxin treatment can be seen as switch between stress levels associated to morphophysiological plasticity. This experimental system is highly powerful to explore stress response factors that mediate the metabolic switch between cell and tissue identities. Developmental plasticity per se is an emerging trait for in vitro systems and crop improvement. It is supposed to underlie multi-stress tolerance. High plasticity can protect plants throughout life cycles against variable abiotic and biotic conditions. We provide proof of concepts for the existing hypothesis that alternative oxidase (AOX) can be relevant for developmental plasticity and be associated to yield stability. Our perspective on AOX as relevant coordinator of cell reprogramming is supported by real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analyses and gross metabolism data from calorespirometry complemented by SHAM-inhibitor studies on primed, elevated partial pressure of oxygen (EPPO)–stressed, and endophyte-treated seeds. In silico studies on public experimental data from diverse species strengthen generality of our insights. Finally, we highlight readyto- use concepts for plant selection and optimizing in vivo and in vitro propagation that do not require further details on molecular physiology and metabolism. This is demonstrated by applying our research & technology concepts to pea genotypes with differential yield performance in multilocation fields and chickpea types known for differential robustness in the field. By using these concepts and tools appropriately, also other marker candidates than AOX and complex genomics data can be efficiently validated for prebreeding and seed vigor prediction

Foetal and neonatal outcomes in gestational diabetes mellitus

Background: GDM has gained global importance because of its rising prevalence. Increasing prevalence of GDM especially among youngsters has been associated with increased complications associated with it.Methods: A case control study conducted from October 2010 to August 2012. 100 ladies diagnosed with gestational diabetes and 100 ladies without gestational diabetes representing the general population were selected and followed till delivery. Foetal and neonatal complications in them were studied.Results: Occurrence of macrosomia was 1% more in GDM group compared to control group. There was no still birth or respiratory distress syndrome in either group. Congenital anomaly was same 1% in either group. Preterm labour was 9% in GDM group compared to 4% in control group. Operative vaginal delivery (forceps and vacuum) was 6% in both groups. Rate of caesarean delivery was 28% in GDM group compared to 19% in control group.Conclusions: The rate of adverse outcomes has seen lot of changes, which was high in earlier days. With increasing prevalence of GDM there is a threat for these complications to again increase. With good monitoring and treatment the adverse outcomes of GDM are not more than that of general population

Forecasting of Utility Cost in a Deregulated Electricity Market by Using Locational Marginal Pricing

In the deregulated electricity market bidding contest is the major operation. Prices obtained from the result of bidding strategy is essential, since all market participants do not be familiar with the accurate assessment of future prices in their decision-making process. Locational Marginal Pricing obtains from the Optimal Power Flow problem gives the economic value of electrical energy at each location. Proposed method is based on lossless DC Optimal Power Flow. To solve this LMP problem optimization based Linear Programming (LP) approach has been implemented. In this paper LMP values with transmission, line outage and generator outage constraints are studied. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.11591/telkomnika.v14i1.771