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Syed Minhaj Ali ¹, Bhavna Gupta ²

Affiliations
1 RGPV University, Bhopal, IN
2 Department of Computer Science, All Saint`s College of Technology, Bhopal, IN

Abstract

This paper describes a neural network speech enhancement system using Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) network and trained using the back propagation algorithm (BPA). Speech enhancement is generally refers to map noisy speech into cleaner speech. Noisy speech signals are obtained by adding random noise to the clean signals .Speech enhancement is then performed on the noisy signals by using the ADALINE. Here we show that neural nets can be used to significantly boost recognition accuracy, without retraining the speech recognizer.

Keywords

Speech Processing, Adaptive Neural Network, MLP for Noise Reduction.

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B. P. Niranjan Reddy ¹, R. K. Deshmukh ², Bhavna Gupta ³, N. K. Deshmukh ², G. Bhaganagare ³, S. M. Shivraj ³, T. Singh ³, A. S. Kotashane ³

Affiliations
1 National Research Center on Plant Biotechnology, IARI, New Delhi, IN
2 Dept. of Boitechnology, Swamy Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Nanded (M.S.), IN
3 Dept. of Boitechnology, Indira Gandhi Krishi Vishwavidhyalaya., Raipur, (C.G.), IN

Abstract

To identify putative candidate genes involved in BLB disease resistance, we performed in silico anchoring of the generated QTL genetic marker data to the rice physical map. In total, one QTL responsible for resistance specificity to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae iso 6 was identified using CT 9993-5-10-1-M / IR 62266-42-6-2 double haploid population. The QTL qBB 10.1, on chromosome 10 RG 4561-EM 14-10 was saturated with 108 markers, 1097 ESTs, and 201 genes. In total, 28 putative positional candidate genes were identified and were classified based on their function. it is suggested that, the generated data can further be used for the dissection and validation of the QTL to understand the molecular mechanisms of the plant pathogen interaction and to develop a resistant variety.

Keywords

QTL, Bacterial Leaf Blight, Expressed Sequence Tags, Candidate Genes, Physical Map.

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Bhavna Gupta ¹, Anish Gupta ², Munisha Agarwal ¹, Lalit Gupta ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, MAMC and Lok Nayak Hospital, New Delhi, IN
2 Department of Cardiothoracic Vascular Surgery, AIIMS, New Delhi, IN

Abstract

Patients with single ventricle physiology have single chamber for pulmonary and systemic venous return that is supplied in parallel leading to cyanosis and ventricular volume overload. Palliative surgeries in the form of superior cavo-pulmonary anastomosis, also known as Bidirectional Glenn shunt (BDG) and complete cavo-pulmonary anastomosis, also known as Fontan procedure are done to divert blood from superior vena cava and inferior vena cava respectively into pulmonary circulation. As a result systemic and pulmonary blood flow run in series and forward flow is dependent on the relationship of systemic vascular resistance and pulmonary vascular resistance. Patients who have undergone Glenn shunt usually have peripheral oxygen saturation in the range of 75-85 % as a consequence of non-diversion of blood from inferior vena cava into pulmonary circulation. Fontan procedure is done in a staged manner to avoid sudden unloading of ventricle leading to failure. Anaesthesiologists encounter patients with Glenn shunt for non-cardiac surgery before they have undergone completion Fontan. A thorough understanding of Glenn and single ventricle physiology is required to deal with such patients and meticulous approach to anesthesia management is required after discussing with the surgeons and cardiologist, regarding the type of non-cardiac surgery, and to know the functional status of Glenn shunt. The present review article aims to discuss the anaesthesia concerns, and search of terms such as 'anaesthetic management', 'Glenn shunt', 'cavopulmonary anastomosis', 'Fontan procedure' was carried out in KKH eLibrary, Medline, PubMed, and Google scholar focusing on current research, randomized control trials, review articles and editorials.

Keywords

Cavopulmonary Anastomosis, Fontan Procedure, Glenn Shunt, Non-Cardiac Surgery.

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Bhavna Gupta ¹, Kavita Sharma ², Vikas Malhotra ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, AIIMS, Rishikesh – 249203, Uttarakhand, IN
2 Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care, MAMC and LNH, New Delhi – 110002, Delhi, IN
3 ENT Department, MAMC and LNH, New Delhi – 110002, Delhi, IN

Abstract

Spasmodic Dysphonia is a chronic long-term voice disorder, with a very rare incidence of 1 per 100,000 cases in which the movement of vocal cords is both forced and strained resulting in hoarse, quivery and jerky voice. We present a very rare and interesting case of spasmodic Dysphonia that was adequately relaxed after administration of muscle relaxants but had undue contractions of adductor group of muscles at the level of vocal cords. Little is known about the genetic basis of the disease but symptoms improve when the kinetic output of the laryngeal muscles is reduced either by unilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve section, or by botulinum injections into the affected muscles.

Keywords

Inadequate Laryngeal Muscle Relaxation, Post Tracheostomy, Spasmodic Dysphonia.

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