Entrepreneurship’s Impact on Personal Development and Self-Efficacy

Leadership is interpersonal influence exercised in a situation and directed through communication process towards the attainment of a specified goal or goals. It is the process of influencing and supporting others to work enthusiastically towards achieving objectives. By exercising his leadership, the leader tries to influence the behavior of individuals or group of individuals around him to achieve common goals. Leadership emphasis on transformation and therefore, transformational leadership emerges. Leadership is an important factor for making any type of organizations successful. Good leadership is essential in all aspects of managerial function whether it to be motivation, communication or direction. Good leadership ensures success in the organization and dissatisfactory human performance in any organization can be primarily attributed to perform leadership. In recent management practices a recent emphasis has been put on leadership development through training and development and by providing conducive work environment. Leadership development involves developing the qualities and attitudes in managers which help them to look into the future and being necessary change on proactive basis rather than or reactive basis. Entrepreneurial activities are associated with various uncertainties, complexities, and challenges. Higher education is need for the building of competencies of the Entrepreneurial knowledge, skills and abilities. Additionally, for successfully deals with the challenge, the student’s engagement is essential to create interpersonal relationship, teamwork, enabling task delegation, and building confidence among the group members. Actually, the entrepreneurial leader takes responsibility for their actions and those actions must be more proactive than reactive

Cardiac Phase Retrieval in Intravascular Ultrasound Sequences

Acquisition of intravascular ultrasound (IVUS) sequences is a major artifact for 3-D exploring of coronary arteries. Most current techniques are based on the electrocardiogram (ECG) signal to obtain a gated pullback without longitudinal motion by using specific hardware or the ECG signal itself. We present an image-based approach for cardiac phase retrieval from coronary IVUS sequences without an ECG signal. A signal reflecting cardiac motion is computed by exploring the image intensity local mean evolution. The signal is filtered by a series of filters namely Gaussian and Optical at the main cardiac frequency. After applying minimum and maximum values of threshold, based on the pixel values at different position, the cardiac phase is retrieved and the report is mailed to the concerned. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.15039

EVALUATION OF THERAPEUTIC EFFICIENCY OF TOPICAL CLOTRIMAZOLE AND TOPICAL MICONAZOLE IN THE TREATMENT OF OTOMYCOSIS- A PROSPECTIVE STUDY

Background: Otomycosis a Superficial Fungal Infection of the External auditory canal causes lot of misery to the Patient with tendency of recurrence. Many Antifungals are used for treatment with different percentage of success; still a standard regime is not firmly established. So this study is undertaken to evaluate Therapeutic efficiency of Topical Clotrimazole and Miconazole in treating Otomycosis. Materials and Methods: Present study was conducted on 156 clinically diagnosed cases of Otomycosis. Ear discharge was collected. Identification of fungi was done by standard protocol. Out of 156 cases 135 cases produced positive fungal isolates which were taken for further studies. Cases underwent thorough cleaning in Infected Ear. 1% Clotrimazole Ear drop was used in 70 cases and 1% Miconazole in 65 cases for 1 week and followed up for 1 week to 2 months for clearance or recurrence. Results: Clotrimazole showed good response Symptomatically and Mycological clearance within one week in 66 cases. Persistence of disease to 2-4 weeks in 4 cases and no recurrence within 2 months of follow up with minimal side effects, Where as Miconazole showed good response within one week in 54 cases, 9 cases had persistence of disease to 2-4 weeks and 2 cases had recurrence, burning sensation in 9 patients and 1 case developed allergy and discontinued treatment. Conclusion: Topical Clotrimazole is more Effective, Safe and well tolerated with better Symptomatic relief, Mycological clearance and low relapse rate compared to Topical Miconazole

Streptococcus agalactiae in adults at chiang mai university hospital: a retrospective study

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Infection caused by <it>Streptococcus agalactiae</it>, a Group B streptococcus, is an emerging disease in non-pregnant adults. This study describes the epidemiological, clinical, and microbiological characteristics of <it>S. agalactiae </it>infection in adult patients in northern Thailand.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>A retrospective study was conducted between January 1, 2006 and December 31, 2009 at Chiang Mai University Hospital among patients aged ≥15 years, whose clinical specimens obtained from normally sterile sites grew <it>S. agalactiae</it>.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>One-hundred and eighty-six patients and 197 specimens were identified during the 4-year period. Among 186 patients, 82 were documented as having invasive infection; 42 patients were male (51.2%) with the mean age of 48.5 ± 19.4 years (range 17, 83). Fifty-three patients (64.6%) had underlying medical conditions; 17 patients (20.7%), 10 (12.2%), 8 (9.7%) had diabetes, chronic renal diseases, and malignancy, respectively. Among 40 patients (48.8%) with bloodstream infection, no other site of infection was determined in 29 (35.4%) patients. In the remaining 11 patients, 5 patients (6.1%), 5 (6.1%), and 1 (1.2%) had meningitis, arthritis, and meningitis with arthritis, respectively. Forty-two patients (51.2%) presented with localized infection, i.e., subcutaneous abscess (19 patients, 23.2%), chorioamnionitis (10 patients, 12.2%), urinary tract infection (5 patients, 6.1%), arthritis (3 patients, 3.7%), meningitis (2 patients, 2.4%), and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, uveitis, and tracheobronchitis (1 patient each, 1.2%). The overall mortality was 14.6% (12 patients).</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p><it>S. agalactiae </it>infection is a growing problem in non-pregnant patients, particularly in those with underlying medical conditions. Physicians should add <it>S. agalactiae </it>infection in the list of differential diagnoses in patients with meningitis and/or septicemia.</p

Improved annotation of the insect vector of citrus greening disease: biocuration by a diverse genomics community

Author affiliation for Liliana Cano has been corrected to link to University of Florida/IFAS Indian River Research and Education Center, Ft. Pierce, FL 34945

Improved annotation of the insect vector of citrus greening disease: Biocuration by a diverse genomics community

The Asian citrus psyllid (Diaphorina citri Kuwayama) is the insect vector of the bacterium Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus (CLas), the pathogen associated with citrus Huanglongbing (HLB, citrus greening). HLB threatens citrus production worldwide. Suppression or reduction of the insect vector using chemical insecticides has been the primary method to inhibit the spread of citrus greening disease. Accurate structural and functional annotation of the Asian citrus psyllid genome, as well as a clear understanding of the interactions between the insect and CLas, are required for development of new molecular-based HLB control methods. A draft assembly of the D. citri genome has been generated and annotated with automated pipelines. However, knowledge transfer from well-curated reference genomes such as that of Drosophila melanogaster to newly sequenced ones is challenging due to the complexity and diversity of insect genomes. To identify and improve gene models as potential targets for pest control, we manually curated several gene families with a focus on genes that have key functional roles in D. citri biology and CLas interactions. This community effort produced 530 manually curated gene models across developmental, physiological, RNAi regulatory and immunity-related pathways. As previously shown in the pea aphid, RNAi machinery genes putatively involved in the microRNA pathway have been specifically duplicated. A comprehensive transcriptome enabled us to identify a number of gene families that are either missing or misassembled in the draft genome. In order to develop biocuration as a training experience, we included undergraduate and graduate students from multiple institutions, as well as experienced annotators from the insect genomics research community. The resulting gene set (OGS v1.0) combines both automatically predicted and manually curated gene models.Peer reviewedBiochemistry and Molecular BiologyEntomology and Plant Patholog

ENTROPY CODING FOR H.264 VIDEO COMPRESSION

H.264/AVC standard of the ITU-T Video Coding Experts Group and the ISO/IEC Moving Picture Experts Group. The H.264/AVC standardization is now achieving signicant improvement in rate-distortion efciency for digital systems worldwide. This paper provides an overview of the technical features of H.264/AVC, describing its baseline proles, motion estimation for inter, and intra prediction. To improve the human perceptual quality of videos deblocking lter and perceptual quality assessments are described in detail.</jats:p