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Often a huge amount of efforts are invested in ferrying old or ill people to laboratories for medical diagnosis. That also involves troubles like repeated investments and in addition a pile of reports that are often messed up. Finding a particular report is always herculean. Solutions to all these troubles is MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS CHAIR. This Medical Diagnosis Chair is almost a mini - laboratory. This can also stay connected with laboratories, doctors and family members. It eliminates the old people to the laboratories and also avoids the piling of reports. The functions of MEDICAL DIAGNOSIS CHAIR are a set sensors are used to find Blood Pressure and Heart Beat count. If there are any fluctuations in heart beat is reported and the alarm is raised and voice call is initiated. At regular intervals reports are generated and stored in local memory as well as transmitted. The hardware section includes the Arduino Galileo Gen2 board, Blood Pressure sensor, Pulse rate sensor, Capacitive touch sensor, GSM shield and memory card.

Microscopic colitis, including lymphocytic colitis (CL) and collagenous colitis (CC), is a chronic inflammation of the colon accompanied by non-bloody aqueous diarrhea, while the colonic mucosa has a normal or almost normal macroscopic appearance. It is a benign affection that can evolve spontaneously towards remission or, more often, evolve with phases of respite and relapse. The physical examination is strictly normal and laboratory tests do not reveal any anomalies. The diagnosis will be confirmed by colonic biopsies staged per-colonoscopy. CL is characterized by an increase in intraepithelial lymphocytes, while CC is characterized by a thickening of the subepithelial collagen band. In the light of data from the literature, we will study the epidemiological, clinical, endoscopic and histological characteristics of microscopic colitis through a series of 20 cases collected in the Medical Clinic B of IbnSina University Hospital in Rabat.

Marine macroalgae (seaweeds) are renewable resources of our Earth and make a substantial contribution to marine biodiversity. Seaweeds are presently considered as the plant-based and alternative form of food, due to the presence of nutrients including carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, and minerals as well as a rich source of health-promoting compounds to control or cure the wide spectrum of disorders and diseases. About 11, 000 species of seaweeds have been reported worldwide. Among them, ca 221 of seaweed is cost-effectively important and utilized in the various broad field of science. In India, a total of 865 species of seaweeds, belonging to 234 genera were reported so far from the various coastal states. In respect of this, the current study endeavoured to itemize the presence of therapeutically and economically significant seaweeds from the coastline of Andhra Pradesh. Andhra Pradesh contains the second-largest coastline (ca 973Km) among the states of India, next to Gujarat. It comprises various kinds of rocky bodies, which may perform as the suitable substratum for the enormous diversity of marine macroalgae. The rocky bodies stretched from Visakhapatnam to the Srikakulam districts. A total number of 112 stations were selected to furnish the inventory of marine macroalgae between March 2017 and August 2019. Based on the perusal of literature collection, a total of 58 species found to be the monetary potential with bioprospecting capability and being used for biological activities including antibacterial antiviral, antifungal anticoagulant antitumor, anti-inflammatory, etc. Further, the present study reviews and enumerates the consumption and utilization of seaweeds correlation with their aspects on the nutritional range, economic, and biological values.

The present study is based on an empirical survey of 150 self help groups in the 4 districts of north Karnataka region covering 400 members (100 members from each district) with a focus on two major aspects of the (SHG) covered by the study viz., motivational factors and purpose for joining the SHG and the financial assistance to members by the SHG and their utilization. The major purposes for which the selected members joined their respective SHGs included financial security, enhancing their social status, increasing self esteem, attaining power and increasing family business/trade. Responses of the members are almost indicative of all these socio-economic purposes. Major motivational sources for joining the SHG included own decision, friends, relatives, caste leaders, panchayat chairman / members, Anganwadi teachers, NGOs, bank officials and others. The study revealed that ‘own decision’ and ‘friends’ were the major sources of motivation for joining the SHGs. The area of assistance needed by SHG members have been wide ranging including using own and bank finances for loan advancing to members, providing raw materials, ensuring supply of electricity through Karnataka Electricity Board(KEB), arranging training, providing marketing information ,technical assistance etc. Large number of respondent members of SHGs have obtained bank loan through SHGs. Major Purposes of obtaining loan related to dairy business and agriculture. The overall results of the survey indicated a positive impact in membership of SHG on the respondents’ socio economic status as a result of their membership and involvement in SHGs.

In this paper, we apply our generalized theorem on summability to derive some approximation formulae of the series involving quadruple hypergeometric function K12. This work may be useful in the field for computation of the solution of hydrodynamical problems. 2000 AMS Classification: 32A05, 33C47, 33C70, 33C90, 40A05, 40A25, 40D05.

This study is aimed at investigating the differential amount of importance which materials developers should attach to semi-technical, technical, and core vocabulary in ESP books. To do so, two major authentic introductory books prepared for the students of political science have been examined carefully in terms of their proportion of semi-technical, technical and core vocabulary. In order to examine the utility of books currently taught in the Iranian universities, two preparatory ESP books developed for the Persian students of political science were, also, scrutinized in terms of their proportion of semi-technical, technical, and core vocabulary. Put in another way, an attempt was made to investigate the degree of representativeness of ESP books in terms of the abovementioned types of vocabulary. After the word counts the authentic and ESP books were compared with each other. Results showed that the 40,000 words counted in the two authentic books were comprised of: 63% core vocabulary, 22% semi-technical vocabulary, and 15% technical vocabulary. The 40,000 words counted in the two preparatory ESP books were comprised of 56% core vocabulary, 33% semi-technical vocabulary, and 11% technical vocabulary. Results obtained from the frequency counts in this study lend support to the idea that technical vocabulary by virtue of its small proportion should not assume much import— if not ignored in its entirety. Notwithstanding, materials developers are suggested to place a higher priority on semi-technical, as this type of vocabulary is more frequent and variable.

Background: Uncontrolled diabetes is a major health problem with more than million of death occurs due to opportunistic fungal infection annually. The risk of opportunistic infections increases with high sugar level in diabetic patients causes high morbidity and mortality. These fungal infection increases with geographical location, which varies from region to region. This research was carried out to view the occurrence of fungal infections among diabetes patients in central Nepal. Methods: this is a tertiary care centre based descriptive study carried out in the Department of Microbiology, CMS-TH, Bharatpur, Nepal over a period of two year from (January 2018 to December 2020). A total of 300 clinically fungal infection suspected uncontrolled diabetes samples were enrolled for our study. Informed written consent was taken from individual patients for the research. Fungal isolation and identification was done as per standard Microbiological procedure. Result: Out of 300 clinically suspected opportunistic fungal infection in diabetes patients only showed 60 patients fungal culture positive, giving an incidence of (20.0%). The majority of infections were by saprophytic fungal species of Candida 37(61.7%) followed by Aspergillus 9(15.0%), Cryptococcus 5(8.3%) and Mucor 3(5.0%) in that order. Only 2(3.3%) Trichosporon and Fusarium each; and 1(1.7%) Pseudoallescheria boydii were also isolated from skin and soft tissue infections of diabetes patients. One 1(1.7%) dematiaceous unidentified fungus was also identified. Conclusion: The opportunistic fungi mostly isolated from diabetes patients were Candida, Aspergillus, Cryptococcus and Mucor species. Trichosporon, Fusarium; and Pseudoallescheria boydii were least isolated from different clinical samples.