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P. K. Wahal ¹, V. Prakash ¹, D. K. Hazra ¹, R. Mathur ²

Affiliations
1 Affiliation not given, IN
2 Department of Medicine, S.N. Medical College, Agra, IN

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V. Prakash ¹, V. K. Sehgal ¹, V. K. Bajaj ¹, H. Singh ²

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1 Department of Pharmacology, Government Medical College Patiala, Punjab, IN
2 Government Medical College Patiala, Punjab, IN

Abstract

Background:In India, CVD is a leading cause of death. Among the modifiable risk factors, hyperlipidemia is one of the important factors. Therefore lowering cholesterol level is a key factor in controlling this disease.

Objectives: To compare the effect of Terminalia arjuna, an indigenous drug with Rosuvastatin on serum total cholesterol and low density lipoprotein cholesterol levels, in patients of either sex with dyslipidemia.

Material and Methods: An open prospective randomized controlled study was conducted in on 60 patients for the duration of 12 weeks. Patients were distributed into two groups of 30 patients each. Group I was given Rosuvastatin 10 mg daily and group II was given capsules containing bark powder of T.arjuna 500 mg twice daily. Patients TC and LDL-C levels were performed at baseline and then repeated at 4 weeks, 8 weeks and 12 weeks. The results of both the therapies were then compared and statistically analyzed.

Results: T.arjuna leads to greater reduction in mean TC level than Rosuvastatin (-14.06±8.07% vs -10.10±5.39%), (- 24.73±10.69% vs -19.42±9.98%) and (-27.89±9.25% vs - 24.74±10.02%) at 4, 8 and 12 weeks respectively. The difference between both the groups was statistically non-significant (p>0.05) at 4, 8 and 12 weeks. The reduction in mean LDL-C level was also greater with T.arjuna as compared to Rosuvastatin.

Conclusion: Both Rosuvastatin and T.arjuna were effective in causing significant decrease in serum TC and LDLC levels, but T.arjuna had a slight edge over Rosuvastatin as it showed greater reduction in TC and LDL-C levels as compare to Rosuvastatin. And was found to be safe and well tolerated.

Keywords

Terminalia arjuna, Rosuvastatin, Total Cholesterol, Low Density Lipoprotein, Cholesterol.

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V. Prakash ¹

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1 CSIR Distinguished Scientist at JSS-MVP, JSS Technical Institutions Campus, Mysore 570 006, IN

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V. Prakash ¹

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1 Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore - 570 013, IN

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The nutrition agenda of the country in the earlier days was one that of 'protein' migrating slowly with knowledge base to 'protein calorie' and today the nutrition problem is engulfed into the aspects of 'micro nutrient' malnutrition. Therefore, on the one hand, the urbanities continue to be aware of the nutrition intervention but the ruralities are not totally exposed to nutrition knowledge, eventhough they want to have an access seldom they succeed.

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K. Hariohm ¹, V. Prakash ², J. Saravan Kumar ¹

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1 MSAJ college of Physiotherapy, 144, Nungambakkam High Road, Chennai 600 034, IN
2 Ashok and Rita Patel Institute of Physiotherapy, Charotar University of Science and Technology, Changa, Anand 388 421, IN

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Scientific output analysis of the current research productivity of physiotherapists will allow the construction of baseline indicators in this area of knowledge and professional practice. This study aims to analyse the research productivity of Indian physiotherapists in terms of quantity and examines the trends of all types of studies published. MEDLINE database was searched to identify researches published by Indian physiotherapists during the period between January 2000 and May 2014. There is an overall upward trend in the output of Indian researchers in physiotherapy and a substantial increase is seen in the last 5 years. To advance the growth of physiotherapy, it is essential to demonstrate that physiotherapy interventions are of high quality and cost-effective. However, studies evaluating the physiotherapy treatment regime and healthcare cost of rehabilitation are lacking. Hence, Indian physiotherapists are encouraged to conduct primary researches focusing on developing cost-effective management strategies relevant to Indian context.

Keywords

India, MEDLINE, Physiotherapy, Research.

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Akhilesh Murikipudi ¹, V. Prakash ¹, T. Vigneswaran ¹

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1 School of Electronics Engineering, VIT University, Chennai – 600127, Tamil Nadu, IN

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Background/Objectives: The objective of the paper is to analyze the General Purpose Operation System (GPOS) performance with Real Time Operating System(RTOS) using a mobile robot as a real time application. The mobile robot module is implemented on a single board computer having ARM11 as its core. Methods/Statistical Analysis: The method used to calculate response is realfeel method which uses dedicated timer and interrupt to calculate the response. Findings: The response of the mobile robot is calculated by interrupting the mobile robot with some obstacles. Findings:In addition to this, other parameters such as speed, rotations time and precision resulted by the sensor are also calculated. RTOS have an average of 20μs where as GPOS have an average of 102μs of response time in real time environment.Conclusion:The results show that RTOS has better response time than GPOS. The minimum distance required to stop the mobile robot in RTOS is more accurate than GPOS. Compare to GPOS, the RTOS is able to avoid the obstacle collision even for a shorter distance.

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GPOS, Latency Calculation, Mobile Robot, Response Time, RTOS, Single Board Computer

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Swapnil Vir Lal ¹, Ravishankar Palaniappan ², V. Prakash ¹

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1 School of Electronics Engineering, VIT University, Chennai - 600127, Tamil Nadu, IN
2 Research and Development (R and D), Strobilanthes Tech. Sol. India Pvt. Ltd., Chennai - 600010, Tamil Nadu, IN

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Background/Objectives: Doctors and patients are the primary stake-holders in patient care life-cycle. The vital role of nursing assistants and other supporting medical staffs like cleaning is often neglected. The goal of this work is to create a bridge-module between nursing staff and patients to provide best standard class patient care. Methods/Statistical Analysis: This paper discusses the issues in nursing management and proposes methodology involving real-time intelligent embedded system and analyses its outcomes. The proposed solution comprises of Radio Frequency (RF) and wearable technology to bridge the communication between patient and care-giver and data analytics modules to store, analyze and access the in-sights. The Xenomai Real Time Kernel on a System on Chip (SOC) that is imperative for real-time scheduling of critical tasks. This system also got capability to store and analyzes the urgency records from patients, which are critical for identifying the inefficiency in process or resource utilization. Findings: Existing Nursing management systems are software based solutions which lacks in maintain the communication from the patients in real-time. Proposed system provides facility to patient to request for service and any time. This also stores the services in its database, which can be utilized for prediction by performing data analytics modules. By predicting the patient’s service, nursing staff can prepare itself in advance for serving patient services, Hence it is providing support in utilizing the resources effectively. Conclusion/Improvements: In this paper, the gateway is designed to act as a central monitoring system, which provides worthy addition to present hospital management systems. RF Remote and watches are used to provide communication between patients and nursing care. Both hardware and software design of gateway is discussed briefly with series of outputs, which proves that proposed systems is feasible and efficient in real-time scenario.

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Health Care, Nursing Management System, RF Technology, System on Chip, Xenomai Real Time Kernel

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M. Anandaraj ¹, P. Parameswaran ², S. Krishnakumar ¹, T. Ezhilarasi ², V. Thomas Paul ², R. Thirumurugesan ², S. Chandramouli ¹, V. Ramakrishnan ¹, G. Padmakumar ¹, Shaju K. Albert ², B. K. Nashine ¹, V. Prakash ¹, P. Selvaraj ¹

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1 Fast Reactor Technology Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India - 603 102, IN
2 Metallurgy & Materials Group, Indira Gandhi Centre for Atomic Research, Kalpakkam, India - 603 102, IN

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One of the spark plug leak detectors employed in high temperature liquid sodium systems had failed to detect a sodium leak and systematic failure analysis was carried out to identify the ischolar_main cause of the failure. Radiography image of the leak port nozzle revealed that the extension wire which was welded with spark plug electrode had snapped. Since the failure originated from the cracks present in the weld, it was decided to standardize the welding procedure of spark plug electrode to extension wire to prevent the possibility of similar failures in future. Three different materials viz, stainless steel, nickel, inconel were chosen as extension wires as well as filler wires to optimize the welding parameters. Microstructural studies in terms of presence of defects, interface integrity between the weld and extension wire as well as that of spark plug electrode were carried out. Based on this, the final choice of welding parameters, material for extension wire and for filler wire to achieve a sound weld was proposed.

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Spark Plug Detector, Extension Wire, Failure Analysis, Metallography, Welding Procedure Qualification.

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V. Prakash ¹

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1 International Union of Food Science and Technology; and International Union of Nutritional Sciences, IN

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