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BACKGROUND: In today’s fast-paced world, both men and women have to be equally competent to handle their responsibilities in order to look after their family members and children. In this pace of competency women tend to forget to take care of their own health and face many health issues, including pelvic floor dysfunction. OBJECTIVE: This study aimed to analyse the prevalence rate of pelvic floor dysfunction among the working women in regards to their age and body mass index as well as their quality of life. METHODS: One hundred sixty one post-partum working female participants from the medical fraternity were involved in this study after their consent was obtained. Pelvic floor muscle strength was assessed and their quality of life measured using King’s health questionnaire. RESULTS: There was a strong correlation between the pelvic floor muscle dysfunction and its impact on the quality of life among the females with increasing age. Significant statistical significant difference of P(

A new multi-residue method using gas chromatography–mass spectrometry electron ionization selective ion monitoring mode (SIM) has been developed for the simultaneous determination of eight 1,3,5-triazine herbicides such as 1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine (atrazine), ametryn, prometryn, propazine, terbuthylazine, terbutryn, and simazine simetryn in water and soil samples. Quantification is done using lindane (gamma benzene hexachloride) as an internal standard. A specific Capillary DB-Wax column of 30 m length, 0.32 mm internal diameter, and 0.25 µm film thickness is used for the separation of eight 1,3,5-triazine-2,4-diamine. The method was applied for the determination of residues in groundwater and soil samples. The lowest detection limit by GC-MS-SIM (selective ion monitoring mode) is 0.1 pg/mL. Recovery in water samples is in the range of 93–103%, and in soil samples, 91–102% for different individual compounds. Forty-five groundwater and soil samples were collected in and around Kancheepuram district in Tamilnadu (India), and they were analyzed for the respective residues. A detailed discussion of the GC-MS analysis results has been presented.

The global pandemic involving severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus-2 has brought new challenges to clinical practice and care in the provision of palliative care. This position statement of the Indian Association of Palliative Care (IAPC) represents the collective opinion of the experts chosen by the society and reports on the current situation based on recent scientific evidence. It purports to guide all health-care professionals caring for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients and recommends palliative care principles into government decisions and policies. The statement provides recommendations for palliative care for both adults and children with severe COVID-19 illness, cancer, and chronic end-stage organ impairment in the hospital, hospice, and home setting. Holistic care incorporating physical, psychological, social, and spiritual support for patients and their families together with recommendations on the rational use of personal protective equipment has been discussed in brief. Detailed information can be accessed freely from the website of the IAPC http://www.palliativecare.in/. We hope that this position statement will serve as a guiding light in these uncertain times.

Public transport contributes a predominant role in economic prosperity of a country. The main purpose of this system is to overcome the problems faced by traditional ticketing system and to increase the use of digital currency. In this proposed methodology, RFID is used to identify a passenger and money deduction will be done based on the distance that has been travelled by any passenger. GPS has been deployed in this ticketing system to identify the initial and destination location. Ticket fare is issued based on the GPS information. After debiting the money from wallet, the passenger gets a confirmation message with the help of GSM modem.

Background: Restless legs syndrome also known as Willis-Ekbom disease is a sensor motor disorder composed of an urge to move with or without associated discomfort that occurs with inactivity and improves with movement. The symptoms occur in leg muscles like calves and thighs. The feet and arms also affected and it causes the functional disability in pregnant women. Sleep disorder is typically the biggest complication of this condition. Unpleasant sensations are deep in the legs. Sensations appear during periods of rest or inactivity particularly in the evening and at night and relived by movement. Prevalence of RLS among pregnant women ranged from 10 to 34%. Aim: The aim of the study is to prove the effect of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) with Stretching and Exercises in restless leg syndrome among pregnant women. Objectives: To determine and prove the effectiveness of TENS with stretching to relive pain and improve the functional ability in restless leg syndrome among pregnant women. Materials and Methods: A Quasi-experimental study was conducted on 30 subjects using convenient sampling technique based on inclusion and exclusion criteria. Subjects were allotted into 2 groups i.e., Group A with 15 subjects and Group B with 15 subjects using odd even method of sampling. Experimental group will be treated with TENS and Stretching. Control group will be treated with exercises and massage. Result: Statistical Analysis of Post test for pain and functional performance revealed that patients who received Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) with Stretching in Group A showed marked improvement compared to patients who received Massage and Exercises in Group B. Conclusion: From the result of the study it concluded that Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) with Stretching is more effective than massage and exercises in subjects with restless leg syndrome among pregnant women.

Graph labeling has developed into one of the important areas in graph theory for last few years. Though graph labeling is considered primarily a theoretical subject in graph theory, it serves as models for variety of applications. We introduced the concept of group S3 cordial remainder labeling in [1]. In this paper, we prove that shadow graph of cycle and path, splitting graph of cycle, armed crown, umbrella graph and dumbbell graph admit a group S3 cordial remainder labeling. Also we prove that snake related graphs are a group S3 cordial remainder graphs.

A graph G is said to be SD-harmonious labeling if there exists an injection f: V(G) -> {0,1,2,...,q} such that the induced function f*: E(G) ->{0,2,...,2q-2} defined by f(uv)=S+D (mod 2q) is bijective, where S=f(u)+f(v) and D=|f(u)-f(v)|, for every edge uv in E(G). A graph which admits SD-harmonious labeling is called SD-harmonious graph. In this paper, we investigate SD-harmonious labeling of path related graphs, tree related graphs, star related graphs and disjoint union of graphs.

Let G be a graph with p vertices and q edges and A = {0,2,4,···, q+1} if q is odd or A = {0,2,4,···,q} if q is even. A graph G is said to be an even vertex equitable even labeling if there exists a vertex labeling f : V (G) → A that induces an edge labeling f∗ defined by f∗(uv)=f(u)+f(v) for all edges uv such that for all a and b in A, |vf(a)−vf(b)|≤1 and the induced edge labels are 2,4,···,2q, where vf(a) be the number of vertices v with f(v)=a for a ∈ A. A graph that admits even vertex equitable even labeling is called an even vertex equitable even graph. In this paper, we prove that S(D(Qn)), S(D(Tn)), DA(Qm) ʘ nK1, DA(Tm) ʘ nK1, S(DA(Qn)) and S(DA(Tn)) are an even vertex equitable even graphs.

Isolation and enumeration of endophytic fungi from leaf samples of Tectona grandis L.f was carried out in Thanjavur District of Tamilnadu India.During the study period, a total of 140 fungi were isolated from PDA medium and Different fungal species namely Alternaria sp.,, Colletotrichum sp.,, Phomopsis sp., Penicillium sp.,, Schizophyllu sp.,, Xylariaceae Sp.,, Schizophyllum Sp., Nigrospora sp., Fusarium sp., The Lower portion of leaf sample was most frequently colonized Penicillium sp, Schizophyllum Sp., Fusarium sp., and Xylariaceae sp,, (15%),Followed by Alternaria sp, Colletotrichum sp, and Phomopsis sp(13.5%), whereas Nigrospora sp., was found only in young leaves.However,from the upper region was most frequently colonized by Alternaria sp (10%)followed by Xylariaceae sp.,, , Colletotrichum sp, Phomopsis sp., (8.5%).%) and Fusarium sp.,( 5.0%) and sterile mycelium(4.5%). There was the significant Differenes in the type of colonization of fungus with reference to reason and location.However,from the upper region was most frequently colonized by Alternaria sp (10%)followed by Xylariaceae sp.,, , Colletotrichum sp,and Phomopsis sp., (8.5%).Whereas at upper portion of leaf segment was mostly similar colonized by Alternaria sp(15%), Colletotrichum sp,and Phomopsis sp.,Fusarium sp., (13.5%).It was noticed in general, that the colonization frequency of some of those fungi, Alternaria sp,Schizophyllum sp, Xylariaceae sp, and sterile mycelium was little higher percentage in lower portion of the leaf. The findings in the present study is also agreement with finding of Bills (1996).who reported large number of fungal species isolated as entophytes from the leaves of this plant sp. The study of entophytic fungus in Ticino grandis suggests that there is a need of larger survey in relation to various seasons to study the diversity existing in this species and their seasonal variability on endophytes colonization. They showed colonization frequency was greater during rainy season than summer and winter.

This paper presents a remote manipulation method for robot control unit. Since it's all the more sophisticated and connected with numerous powerful sensors. Those sensors are exceptionally helpful for autonomous robots safe navigation system and pathfinding framework. The research uses Android Mobile phone and Arduino Uno R3 controller to find location and optimize the interaction system by means of in-band telecommunication signaling system from different separation. Gyroscope, magnetometer pole identifier, an acceleration sensor are utilized as a contribution to activating mobile robot development for localization purpose. This way, robots may collaborate in an indistinguishable area from clients control them from any place in the world utilizing the internet and wireless networks for this purpose. The input sensor is intended to create in-band media transmission system framework depends on the magnetic pole direction and starting the robot to a single bearing referenced by the North Pole, a lot of investigation experiment to be done, for example, network system configuration, robot administrator prediction, mobile manipulator through operator's gesture for localization analysis. Kalman filter was used to estimate the position, and particle filter was used to estimate the orientation. Alongside straightforwardness comes the advantage of having the capacity to reduce costs to a minimum, undertaking that has been planned and constructed. At last, on one side, an economical and almost completely printable robot has been designed and built, and on the other side, both the robot's product software and the Android phone's software have been developed. The advantage of the proposed method is that it is feasible to control a mobile manipulator.

Notice of Violation of IEEE Publication Principles "Combined Operation and Performance Trade-Off Autotuning Methods for PID Controllers" by Jenifer S., Jerwin Prabu A., Abbiramy S.S. in the Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Current Trends toward Converging Technologies, March 2018 After careful and considered review of the content and authorship of this paper by a duly constituted expert committee, this paper has been found to be in violation of IEEE's Publication Principles. This paper copied images from the papers cited below. The original content was copied without attribution (including appropriate references to the original author(s) and/or paper title) and without permission. "Simple Servo/Regulation Proportional−Integral−Derivative (PID) Tuning Rules for Arbitrary Ms-Based Robustness Achievement" by O. Arrieta, R. Vilanova in Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research, 51, 2012, pp. 2666-2674 "Stability Analysis for the Intermediate Servo/Regulation PID Tuning" by O. Arrieta, A. Ibeas, R. Vilanova in the Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Emerging Technologies & Factory Automation, September 2009 "Performance Degradation Driven PID Controller Design" by O. Arrieta, R. Vilanova, V.M. Alfaro in the Proceedings of the IFAC Conference on Advances in PID Control, March 2012 "Chapter 8: Balanced Performance/Robustness PID Design" by Orlando Arrieta (1), Ramon Vilanova (1), and Victor M. Alfaro (2) in Intelligent Control and Innovative Computing, December 2011, pp. 91-107 Control system has been widely used in various fields. The angle error and turning angles are the main factors that affect the accuracy performance of the interfacing system. It is important to notice that these control loop parameters error cannot be eliminated from the interaction system completely. Within these possibilities, the control system's performance and the robustness must be considered as important. The aim is to provide solutions and improve the general behavior of a control system, with a Single-Degree-of-Freedom (1DoF) Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controller structure. Even after calibration, these errors still exist and will be fluctuated during the operating system running. This paper proposed a new method of finding the best position and orientation for turning to perform a specific working path based on the current accuracy capacity of the control loop system. By analyzing the system forward/inverse kinematics and the angle error sensitivity of different combination in the PID system, a new evaluation formulation is established for combined operation and performance trade-off autotuning methods for PID controllers. The accomplishment of the claimed robustness is checked. The influence of different position and orientation on the movement accuracy of the end effector has been verified by experiments and discussed thoroughly.

A validated direct chiral HPLC method was developed for the separation of enantiomers of Mefloquine. The separation was achieved using chiral PAK IG-3 (250 x 4.6 mm) 3μm column. The mobile phase was composed of 10 mM ammonium acetate and methanol in the ratio of 30: 70, v/v. The flow rate of the mobile phase was set at 0.7 ml/min. The detection wavelength was set at 284 nm with column temperature maintained at 25°C. The retention time of both (+) and (−) enantiomers was found to be 4.59 min and 6.47 min, respectively under a runtime of 10 min. The method was validated as per ICH guidelines. The method was found to be linear over a concentration range of 20–120 μg/ml and 15–105 μg/ml for (+) and (−) Mefloquine enantiomers, respectively. The chiral assay of Mefloquine in a pharmaceutical formulation was performed and the recoveries ranged from 99.3 to 99.9%. The detection limit for the (+) and (−) enantiomers was found to be 5.5 μg/ml and 5μg/ml, respectively.

Drawing primarily on the construct of psychological buffer, the purpose of this study was to explore the extent to which racism-related stress and ethnic identity are determinants of career aspirations. A total of 163 African American college students from a predominately White Midwestern university participated in the study. A moderation regression analysis was conducted. Results indicate that ethnic identity interacted with racism-related stress (p = .04) to predict career aspirations. In other words, as racism-related stress increases in the context of low identity development, career aspirations decrease. Conversely, as perceived racism increases in the context of high identity development, career aspirations increase. Implications for professionals and future research in the field of career counseling are discussed. Keyword: African American, career aspirations, ethnic identity, racism-related stress Career counseling is defined as "the process of assisting individuals in the development of a life-career with focus on the definition of the worker role and how that role interacts with other life roles" (Fouad & Byars-Winston, 2005, p. 224). One goal of career counseling is to help students set goals toward their career aspirations. Career aspirations refer to students finding incentives to set objectives toward and be motivated to meet their occupational goals (Quaglia & Cobb, 1996). To better accomplish this mission, career counselors have begun to consider the sociocultural contexts (i.e., identity and racism) that influence students' career goal-setting processes (Fouad & Byars-Winston, 2005). Recendy, researchers have theorized that identity and racism may enhance or detract racial and ethnic minorities from specific occupational goals (e.g., Fouad & Byars-Winston, 2005). To further extend the career counseling literature, this study amalgamates career aspirations with two areas of research: racism and identity. Similar to other scholars (e.g., Helms & Piper, 1994), we postulated that racism would have a negative impact on African American college students' career goals. We also assumed that identity would moderate the relationship between racism and career aspirations. Although the extent to which identity buffers against the attacks of racism has received recent attention (Cross & Vandiver, 2001), we found no study that identified ethnic identity as a protective-reactive factor for career aspirations. Therefore, it was predicted that the more African American college students identified with their ethnic identity, the weaker the effect of racism -related stress would be on their career aspirations. Racism: A Career Rarrier on Carper Aspirations Recent developments in the career counseling literature have focused attention on how career barriers influence African American college students' career development (Neblett, Shelton, & Sellers, 2004). Career barriers are defined as "events or conditions, either within the person or in his or her environment, that make career progress difficult" (Swanson & Woitke, 1997, p. 434). In their recent meta-analysis, Fouad and Byars-Winston (2005) examined racial and ethnic differences on career aspirations and barriers. The results of their study showed (a) no significant difference in career hopes among racial and ethnic groups and (b) that racial and ethnic minorities were more likely to be exposed to career barriers. In other words, career barriers such as racism or racial-related stress might preclude racial and ethnic minorities from meeting their occupational goals. However, only recently have scholars considered racism-related stress as a potential career barrier (Neblett et al., 2004). Racism-related stress is defined as "the race-related transactions between individuals or groups and their environment that emerge from the dynamics of racism, and that are perceived to tax or exceed existing individual and collective resources or threaten well-being" (Harrell, 2000, p. …

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and nocturnal blood pressure (BP) dipping in young adult African Americans (AAs). PTSD is associated with physical illnesses including cardiovascular conditions. Sleep disturbances related to heightened arousal likely contribute to physical health risk; however, this possibility has not been studied. The studies that have found a relationship between PTSD and hypertension (HTN) have substantial representation of AAs. AAs have elevated rates of HTN and are more likely to exhibit an absence of the normal “dip” of BP at night. Nocturnal BP “nondipping” is an established risk factor for HTN and its cardiovascular complications. Nocturnal BP nondipping and sleep disturbances of PTSD have both been linked to sympathetic nervous system function. Methods: Thirty healthy young adult AAs (60% female; mean age = 20.0 years; 17 with lifetime full or subthreshold PTSD, 4 with current symptoms) received 24-hour BP and actigraphy monitoring, filled out sleep diaries, and had structured clinical assessment of PTSD. Results: There were significant associations of lifetime full and subthreshold PTSD and BP nondipping, and the degree of nocturnal dipping correlated with lifetime and current PTSD severity. Conclusion: Elevated nocturnal BP may be a link between PTSD and cardiovascular morbidity in AAs that can be targeted in prevention.

Clustering is one of the important streams in data mining which is useful for discovering groups and identifying interesting distributions in the underlying data. For efficient clustering process in high dimensional datasets, synchronization algorithm is proposed. It can perform clustering by using the mathematical model called kuramato model. This model is widely used for the synchronization of oscillators. We regard each object in the dataset as phase oscillator and do the clustering process. This algorithm doesn't requires any input parameters which are difficult to estimate. It only requires the efficient interaction range as input for the clustering process. Since it is a dynamic clustering algorithm it does not requires the users to determine the predefined inputs like the number of clusters to be formed. Our proposed algorithm is scalable even when the dimensionality of the dataset increases. Hierarchical clustering algorithm can generate hierarchical tree like clusters which is used to predict the clusters of different types in high dimensional real time datasets.

Esophagitis is a major toxicity of radiation therapy for nonsmall-cell lung cancer. Intraesophageal injection of manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) plasmid/liposome complexes (1 mg of the pRK5-MnSOD plasmid containing the human MnSOD transgene in a 0.15 ml volume of lipofectin) before irradiation was carried out to attempt to prevent irradiation esophagitis. In control noninjected male C3H/HeNsd mice, esophagitis was induced by single fraction 3,500 cGy irradiation. Histopathology at 4 days revealed vacuole formation in squamous lining cells, separation of the squamous layer from the underlying muscle layer, ulceration at 7 days, and dehydration and death by 30 days. MnSOD plasmid/liposome complex-injected mice showed transcription of the human MnSOD transgene message in esophageal squamous lining cells by nested reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) increased MnSOD biochemical activity 24 h after injection, decreased vacuole formation at day 4 (P < 0.001) after 3,500 cGy thoracic irradiation, and improved survival (P = 0.0009). In contrast, groups of mice receiving LacZ (bacterial beta-galactosidase gene) plasmid/liposome complexes or liposomes containing no DNA before 3,500 cGy irradiation showed an unaltered irradiation histopathology and decreased survival. Mice receiving intraesophageal MnSOD plasmid/liposomes followed 8 h later by human equivalent doses of Taxol (1.4 mg/kg) and carboplatin (2.5 mg/kg), then 15 h later 3,300 cGy irradiation, showed increased survival, compared with irradiated control or LacZ plasmid/liposome groups. Thus, overexpression of the human MnSOD transgene in the esophagus can prevent irradiation-induced esophagitis in the mouse model.

To determine whether overexpression of the human MnSOD transgene protected 32D cl 3 hematopoietic progenitor cells from ionizing irradiation, 32D cl 3 cells were co-electroporated with the pRK5 plasmid containing the human MnSOD transgene and SV2-neo plasmid with G418-resistant colonies selected. Two clones (1F2 and 2C6) were identified to overexpress the human MnSOD transgene by nested reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) and increased biochemical activity. Measurement of irradiation-induced damage was determined in cells removed from G418 for 1 week before irradiation. Irradiation survival curves, apoptosis tunnel assay, and Comet assay was performed. Cell cycle distribution was determined for each line at 0, 1, 3, 6, 24, and 48 hr after 500 cGy by fixing the cells in 70% ethanol, staining with propidium iodide, and analysis by flow cytometer. Biochemical MnSOD activity in U/mg protein was 2.6 for 32D cl 3 and significantly elevated to 8.4 and 6.6 (P < 0.001) U/mg protein for subclones 1F2 and 2C6, respectively. Irradiation survival curves demonstrated an increased shoulder on the irradiation survival curve for 1F2 and 2C6 cells with an n of 4.95 ± 0.48 (P = 0.042) and 4.95 ± 0.13 (P = 0.011), compared with 2.77 ± 0.20 for 32D cl 3. A higher percent of 32D cl 3 cells demonstrated apoptosis at 24 and 48 hr after 1,000 cGy irradiation, compared with 1F2 and 2C6 cells (at 24 hr, 29.37% ± 2.01% of 32D cl 3 cells were apoptotic compared with 5.21 ± 2.61 (P = 0.018) and 5.27 ± 2.58 (P = 0.004) for 1F2 and 2C6, respectively). Significantly more DNA strand breaks were detected by Comet assay in 32D cl 3 cells (Comet length at 600 cGy of 103.4 ± 50.3 units, compared with 69.7 ± 36.3 (P < 0.001) and 48.9 ± 27.5 (P < 0.001) for 1F2 and 2C6, respectively). In contrast, irradiation-induced cell cycle arrest was similar between the cell lines with a G2/M phase arrest at 6 hr and a G1/S phase arrest at 24 and 48 hr after irradiation. While overexpression of MnSOD increases the shoulder on the irradiation survival curve of 32D cl 3 cells, decreases irradiation-induced apoptosis, and DNA strand breaks by Comet assay, irradiation-induced alterations in cell cycle distribution were not significantly altered. These 32D cl 3 subclonal lines overexpressing MnSOD provide a potentially valuable system with which to study the mechanism of irradiation-induced cell cycle arrest separate from irradiation-induced apoptosis. Radiat. Oncol. Invest. 7:331–342, 1999. © 1999 Wiley-Liss, Inc.

Automated vessel tree segmentation in the presence of interstitial lung disease in Multidetector Computed Tomography (MDCT) is an important task in the development of Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) scheme. The accuracy of automated vessel tree segmentation aims to improve the accuracy in CAD scheme. The development of CAD scheme is for quantification, detection and diagnosis of ILD. Vessel tree segmentation deal with the normal lung parenchyma and ILD affected lung parenchyma. In case of ILD affected lung, initial stage of the method identifies the vessel tree volume candidate by utilizing the combination of three-dimensional multiscale enhancement filtering and Expectation Maximization segmentation algorithm. The second stage of the method is texture based analysis for accurate segmentation. The proposed method utilizes Otsu threshold to segment the lung field and Fuzzy Support Vector Machine classifier is also enhanced to improve the traditional SVM by adding fuzzy membership to training sample to indicate degree of membership of this sample to different class and accuracy of SVM. Consequently it reduces noises and outliers in data and enhances performance. Performance of vessel tree accuracy is evaluated by means of Area Overlap (AO), True Positive Fraction (TPF) and False Positive Fraction (FPF) metrics. Automated vessel tree segmentation is expected to improve performance as compared to other techniques.