July 2016

  1. Sangeeth Thekkan, Tamilselvi, S.S. and Paulsamy, S.
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    In certain low hills of Western Ghats of Kerala, the tribal communities viz., Kattunaikans, Paniya and Uralis (Wayanad district), Malappandarum, Mala-aryan, Malavedan and Malakuruva (Pathanamthitta district) and Mala-aryans and Muthuvans (Idukki district) are the integral part of ecosystems. These tribal communities did cultivation of lemongrass and distilled oil. After the declaration of study sites as protective areas for biodiversity conservation, they are not permitted to continue the practice of lemongrass cultivation. However, they are allowed to extract oil from the existing populations, without adapting any cultivation practices. Therefore, while rehabilitating these tribes to other non-reserve forests of adjoining regions, habitats suitable for lemongrass cultivation with good oil quality similar to that of the sites in protected areas must be identified. The present study aims to evaluate favourable habitat for lemongrass growth in non-reserve forests of Western Ghats, Kerala by analyzing certain areas where the lemongrass oil distillation is under practice by the tribal communities. The results of the study show that among the 11 sites, Vadasserikara and Meppadi are more favourable for lemongrass growth and oil yield. Correlation and regression analyses showed that the maximum and minimum temperatures, rainfall and relative humidity, pH, N, P, K Ca and Mg contents of soil and altitude are largely determining the biomass production, oil concentration in biomass and citral percent in oil. Therefore, it is suggested to identify habitats in nearby non-reserved forests with more or less similar climatic conditions, soil pH and nutrients and altitude as in Vadasserikara and Meppadi for practicing agroforestry by lemongrass cultivation and oil distillation for tribal communities.

    Pub. Date: July 30, 2016
    Paper No:
    773
  2. Gayathri Nandhagopal and Rathinasamy Subashkumar
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    Majority of microbial infections occurring in the human body are attributed to be biofilm-mediated. Biofilms formations in industrial settings are associated with many problems. Formation of biofilm is controlled by environmental factors. This study is carried out to determine the biofilm formation in Serratia marcescens under different environmental condition. Biofilm assay in nutrient medium by microtitre plate methods under different test conditions were performed. Using a microplate assay with crystal violet staining, we examined biofilm formation by 30 strains in nutrient broth with different temperatures (fridge temperature, Room temperature and 37◦C), at different pH (4.5, 7.0 and 8.5) and with varying concentrations of sodium chloride (0.5%, 1% and 2%). The synergistic effect on biofilm formation was observed for temperature, pH and salt concentration. The strains produced more biofilm at fridge temperature than at RT and 37◦C. Biofilm production at pH 4.5, 7 and 8.5 was comparable but significantly higher at pH 4.5. This study also demonstrated the influence of NaCl on biofilm formation.

    Pub. Date: July 30, 2016
    Paper No:
    821
  3. Tamilselvi S.S., Venkatachalapathi, A. and Paulsamy, S.
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    Inflammatory present study is aimed to derive natural products of plant origin with insecticidal properties to control insect vectors. The aqueous, ethanol and methanol leaf extracts of the traditional mosquito repellant species, Melia dubia were evaluated against the fourth instar larvae of two mosquito species viz., Aedes aegypti and Culex quinquefasciatus. The percentage mortality of these two different mosquito species was tested after 24 hrs of exposure to different concentrations of the leaf extract. The methanolic leaf extracts showed 100% mortality at 150 ppm and the aqueous and ethanol extracts showed 65% and 75% mortality respectively. Therefore it is known that the extracts of M. dubia have prominent mosquito control property.

    Pub. Date: July 30, 2016
    Paper No:
    825
  4. Sri Vasavi Kadiyala and Dr. James D Raj
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    The dental restorative materials represent a unique class of biomaterials with some restrictions in physical, mechanical and biological properties like biocompatibility, aesthetics, and ultimate material properties. Fortunately, the dental restorative materials have been the focus of a great deal of research in recent years with the goal of improving restoration performances by changing the initiation systems (composite), fillers (GIC) and by developing novel polymerization strategies (composites) etc. Here, we review the recent modifications made in different dental restorative materials.

    Pub. Date: July 30, 2016
    Paper No:
    828
  5. Fabrice NKURUNZIZA
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    This study ‘Water Quality, quantity and accessibility Assessment: Volcanoes national park region experience in Rwanda’ established the ways in which water is used, the level of demand, the level of supply, water quality, water quantity and accessibility around Volcanoes nation park of Rwanda. It has been hypothesised that there is a very high demand for water, lower lever of access due to population pressure and limited water sources. A total of 329 household were randomly selected in region around volcanoes national park of Rwanda, and were interviewed through well-structured interviewing schedule under multistage sampling technique. According to the sampled area the average size of private households in region sampled was 4.2 persons, not far from of Fourth Rwanda Population and Housing Census 4.3 persons (NISR, 2012), as result shown 60.8 % of respondents revealed to use 1 to 3 jerricans of water per day, and 1 jerrican is equal to 20 litres, means that the average water consumption per capita in region around volcanoes national park is estimated between 4.7 and 12.3 litres per day which is below minimum as required by WHO, In terms of accessibility as determined primarily by distance and time, 21.58 % of respondents fetch water in distance which is more than 1000 meters and is defined as no access by WHO, and 38.91% of respondents take more than 30 minutes to collect water, in terms of water quality for drinking, cooking, washing and bathing, 71.2 % of the respondents perceived water to be clean and fairly clean in region around volcanoes national park. Thus, it was suggested that provision of safe drinking water to common people must be ensured mostly in region around volcanoes national park, since this region has not attained minimum requirements in terms of water quality and quantity consumption as required by WHO, and that for successful implementation of water programs in region, it is important that community members get fully involved in all processes of the program.

    Pub. Date: July 30, 2016
    Paper No:
    866
  6. Jayachitra, C., Jamuna, S. and Paulsamy, S.
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    Cyphostemma setosum is a traditional medicinal climber, distributed in Palani hills, the Western Ghats, Tamil Nadu, India. In this region, the puliah tribal community is using this species more commonly to control type II diabetics. As there is no work in this line, the present study was carried to investigate the in vitro antidiabetic activity of C. setosum in terms of the level of inhibition of α-amylase and α-glucosidase as influenced by methanolic extract of aerial parts of this species. The results showed that the extract inhibits the α-amylase and α-glucosidase enzymes very considerably and also exhibited the IC50 values 123.11±2.34 and 279.69±4.21µg/mL respectively. The study evidenced strongly that the probable inhibition of these two enzymes may lowers the blood glucose levels. Thus this species, C. setosum is claimed to have antidiabetic activity and further studies on in vivo models are in most needed.

    Pub. Date: July 30, 2016
    Paper No:
    867
  7. Saryono, Mekar DWI Anggraeni and Eni Rahmawati
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    Date fruit has a high nutritional value that has benefits for health. It has been known the effects of date fruit on the male reproductive system to strengthen the spermatogenesis process, sex hormone regulation, to increase gonadotropin and aphrodisiac activity, but very little research of the dates benefits on the female reproductive system. Date's may has effect on oocyte quality, the interaction of sperm and ovum, implantation and early embryonic development through an antioxidant mechanism. The antioxidants of date fruit can also be useful for the DNA repair from pro-oxidant damage. The components of phytoestrogens in the date fruit can regulate reproductive hormones. Date fruit contains many minerals, thus to prevent anemia, helps the involution process and improve the breast milk quality. However, the difference date fruit varieties have different levels of the active compound. This paper reviews the potential benefit of date fruit to improve the function of female reproductive system.

    Pub. Date: July 30, 2016
    Paper No:
    873
  8. Basavaraju, S.R.
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    Health is the essential part of human that individual has to feel, perceive and act effectively. And it is required to provide correspondent ways for proper health care delivery in real time manner. The arrival of new technologies especially the Internet of Things (IoT) Strengthen the health care system through Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). In the current health care environment the IoT enables to connect different stakeholders in the health care system like patients, physicians, hospital, emergency unit and patient well-wishers etc. regardless of their current location. The deploying of sensory devices and microcontrollers into health care system fetches an e-health care system. The existing health care system is usually unacceptable due to high operational cost and inconvenience user interface provided to the user. This paper focuses on implementing an e-health care system that collects the health data and processes it and performs the appropriate analysis to the collected data that enables to take the future decisions about individual patient by tracking and monitoring theirs previous health record.

    Pub. Date: July 30, 2016
    Paper No:
    876
  9. Rohit, S. Mamatha, N.S. Madhumati Singh and Naqoosh Haidry
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    Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor is a rare neoplasm of unknown etiology and pathogenesis. It clinically manifest as mass with rapid development that may occur at almost any site of body, but rarely arise in oral cavity. The lesion has a potential for recurrence, persistent local growth, progression to frank sarcoma and metastasis. We hereby describe a case of Inflammatory Myofibroblastic Tumor of mandible occurring in a 45 year old lady. Because of some aggressive clinical, histological, and radiological features, this lesion may be confused with a malignant tumor. Therefore, its correct recognition is important to avoid unnecessary extensive and radical therapeutic approaches.

    Pub. Date: July 30, 2016
    Paper No:
    877
  10. Yalçın KANBAY, Özgür ASLAN and Elif IŞIK
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    Hope and despair are two consept that commonly used in the human health. hope is a concept that positively affect the health of the individual. However, despair has a negative impact on an individual's health.

    Pub. Date: July 30, 2016
    Paper No:
    878
  11. Parsekar Gaurav Rajanikant, Veena, H.S. and Girish G Satardekar
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    The emerging applications of wireless networks enforce new challenges in design of algorithms and communication protocols. In such scenario of challenges, coding for error control has be- come extremely important to provide robust communication and maintain quality of service. One method to improve Bit Error Rate (BER) while maintaining high data reliability, is to use an error correction technique like the Viterbi algorithm. The Viterbi algorithm provides an efficient method for Forward Error Correction (FEC) that improves channel reliability. As constraint length associated with input bits increases it needs to implement it with lesser computations and lesser hardware to decode the original data. Therefore Dynamic Viterbi Algorithm is used for decoding which reduces error probability, computation and employ lesser hard- ware with increased speed. The purpose of this paper is to understand Viterbi Algorithm, Adaptive Viterbi Algorithm and to find the alternative to shortcomings in the design and implement the idea on a hardware.

    Pub. Date: July 30, 2016
    Paper No:
    879
  12. Golam Kayas, Sakhawat Hossain Himel and Mahraj Hasan
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    Sign Language is the mode of communication among the deaf and dumb. However, integrating them into the main stream is very difficult as the majority of the society is unaware of their language. So, to bridge the communication gap between the hearing and speech impaired and the rest in Bangladesh, we conducted a research to recognize Bangla sign language using a computer-vision based approach. To achieve our goals we used Artificial Neural Networks to train individual signs. In the future, this research, besides helping as an interpreter, can also open doors to numerous conveniently other applications like sign language tutorials or dictionaries and also help the deaf and dumb to search the web or send mails more.

    Pub. Date: July 30, 2016
    Paper No:
    887
  13. Amandeep Kaur
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    The need Forecasting is an important part of planning and future growth. Many of an organization’s decisions are based on the prediction of future unknown events. This paper describes some statistical methods that can be used for time series forecasting.

    Pub. Date: July 30, 2016
    Paper No:
    896
  14. Sumathi C. and Dr. S. Kousalya Devi,
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    The present study prominences on the customer satisfaction in service quality aspects among public sectors banks and private sectors banks in coimbatore city. The major objectives of this study are to identity the expectations (E) of consumers concerning banking facility, to discover perception (P) of consumers concerning service excellence of banks and to associate service excellenceslits (P-E) in public sectors banks and private sectors banks in Coimbatore city. Empirical method adopted with the basic arrangements of SERVQUAL instruments to measure the service Quality of banks. A grouping of convenience and duster sampling techniques were cast-off to select respondents from consumers of two public sectors banks (SBI & Canara Bank) and two private sectors (ICICI & HDFC Banks) in Coimbatore city. Arithmetic mean was calculated with the assistance of SPSS to examine the dates. The outcomes of this study indicate that the service gap is lesser in private sectors banks when compared to public sectors banks which shows that the private sectors bank consumers were extremely satisfied when compared with public sectors bank consumers. Aspects more subjugated by private sectors banks throughout the whole SERVQUAL excluding in the circumstance of assurance in which the public sectors banks have healthier results. Both the type of banks must find resolutions to reduce the prevailing service gaps and increase their customer satisfaction. Public sectors banks in particular increase their performance in order to uphold and preserve its market share in Coimbatore city.

    Pub. Date: July 30, 2016
    Paper No:
    904
  15. Dr. Prateek Kumar Gupta, Dr. Ashis Acharya and Dr. Amit Mourya
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    We report our clinical experiences in the diagnosis and treatment of a patient with synovial hemangioma. Synovial hemangiomas are uncommon causes of recurrent, nonspecific joint complaints and occur most often at the knee joint. Non traumatic joint swelling combined with recurrent hemorrhagic joint effusions must be considered signs of a synovial hemangioma. Although no preoperative diagnostic tool enables confirmation of the diagnosis, and MRI seems to be the diagnostic investigation of choice. It is important for the clinician to be aware of the existence of this disease. Early surgical treatment with excision of the tumor with wide margins of non involved normal synovium is the therapy of choice and it avoids degenerative changes as demonstrated with the case reported here.

    Pub. Date: July 30, 2016
    Paper No:
    908