STUDY OF CONGENITAL MALFORMATIONS IN CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM & GASTRO- INTESTINAL TRACT

Introduction: Congenital malformations comprise 8% of the perinatal mortality in India. They rank fifth as a cause of perinatal mortality, after asphyxia, respiratory problems, infections and cerebral trauma. However, the pattern is changing rapidly with improvement in health care and living standards. Material & Method: In the present study, authors have tried to study the cases of congenital malformations specially related to Central nervous system and Gastro-intestinal system. 5240 cases of newborn babies were studied and results were analyzed and classified in to various categories. Findings: The results show that malformations are more common in still birth, more in female babies and more in central nervous system In live born babies the percentage of malformation is0.63 % whereas in still born baby it is6.53 %. Conclusions: Chances of having malformations increases as the age advances. Parity of mother also influences the incidence. Exposure to radiation & drugs also influences malformations. Incidence of congenital malformation is highest in central nervous system

Metachronous bilateral adrenal metastases following curative treatment for colorectal carcinoma

A delayed, metachronous presentation of bilateral adrenal metastases following colorectal cancer has never previously been reported. We describe the case of a 68-year-old man who underwent curative surgery and adjuvant chemotherapy for a locally invasive sigmoid adenocarcinoma, only to be diagnosed with metachronous bilateral adrenal metastasis necessitating further resection and chemotherapy. We discuss the literature surrounding this pathology and highlight the importance of continual, vigilant radiological surveillance of the adrenal glands after curative treatment of colorectal carcinoma with or without subsequent adrenal metastasis. </jats:p

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Not AvailableVarious metabolites were analyzed in groundnut genotypes grown under varying temperature regimes (based on date of sowing). Four contrasting groundnut genotypes viz. ICGS44 (high-temperature tolerant), AK159 and GG7 (moderately-high-temperature tolerant), and DRG1 (high-temperature sensitive) were grown at three different temperature regimes i.e., low (early date of sowing), normal (normal date of sowing) and high temperature (late date of sowing) under field conditions. Untargeted metabolomic analysis of leaf tissue was performed by GC–MS, while targeted metabolite profiling was carried out by HPLC (polyamines) and UPLC-MS/MS (phenolics) at both the pegging and pod filling stages. Untargeted metabolomic profiling revealed exclusive expression/induction of beta-d-galactofuranoside, l-threonine, hexopyranose, d-glucopyranose, stearic acid, 4-ketoglucose, d-gulose, 2-o-glycerol-alpha-d-galactopyranoside and serine in ICGS44 during the pegging stage under high-temperature conditions. During the pod filling stage at higher temperature, alpha-d-galactoside, dodecanedioic acid, 1-nonadecene, 1-tetradecene and beta-d-galactofuranose were found to be higher in both ICGS44 and GG7. Moreover, almost all the metabolites detected by GC–MS were found to be higher in GG7, except beta-d-galactopyranoside, beta-d-glucopyranose, inositol and palmitic acid. Accumulation of putrescine was observed to be higher during low-temperature stress, while agmatine showed constitutive expression in all the genotypes, irrespective of temperature regime and crop growth stage. Interestingly, spermidine was observed only in the high-temperature tolerant genotype ICGS44. In our study, we found a higher accumulation of cinnamic acid, caffeic acid, salicylic acid and vanillic acid in ICGS44 compared to that of other genotypes at the pegging stage, whereas catechin and epicatechin were found during the pod filling stage in response to high-temperature stress, suggesting their probable roles in heat-stress tolerance in groundnut.Not Availabl

Designing Distributed Multimedia Systems Using PARSE

With recent vast improvements in computer hardware, in particular, the processing capacity of multimedia database servers, and high performance of networks, distributed multimedia applications are becoming a reality. This paper presents an object-based approach to the design of distributed multimedia software. In particular, the PARSE methodology for designing parallel and distributed systems is employed. Justification of the object-based approach is given, and an overview of the PARSE process graph notation is presented. A case-study of a video-on-demand application is then presented, and a mapping from the design to an implementation based on Windows NT is described. Keywords Distributed system design, multimedia systems, parallel software engineering, PARSE 1 INTRODUCTION Advances in computer and media technology have enabled the development of high performance multimedia workstations and servers (Jadav.1995), (Taylor.1995). In addition to processing traditional computer data, th..