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M. Amirthaveni ¹, S. Premakumari ¹, K. Gomathi ¹, R. Y. Yang ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore-641 043, IN
2 AVRDC- The World Vegetable Center, TW

Abstract

Diabetes mellitus is an increasing world health problem; particularly the prevalence of type 2 diabetes has assumed epidemic in developing countries. It is mainly due to the environmental, dietary and lifestyle behavioral factors that control the progress of this disease. Nutrition is often said to be the cornerstone of diabetes care. The nutritional management of diabetes can affect long term health and quality of life. There is increasing evidence that complications related to diabetes are associated with oxidative stress induced by the generation of free radicals. Bitter gourd (Momordica charantia L. ) is a common food in Indian cuisine and has been used extensively in folk medicine as a remedy for diabetes. Medicinal value of bitter gourd has been attributed to its high antioxidant properties due in part to phenols, flavonoids, isoflavones, terpenes, anthroquinones and glucosinolates. Hypoglycaemic effect of bitter gourd extracts have been demonstrated in various animal models of insulin resistance.

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S. Premakumari ¹, K. Gomathi ¹, R. Balasasirekha ¹, S. Supriya ¹, K. Alagusundaram ², R. Jagan Mohan ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore-641 043, IN
2 Indian Institute of Crop Processing Technology, Thanjavur-613 005, IN

Abstract

Diabetes prevalence in India indicates that the epidemic is progressing rapidly across the nation, reaching a total of 62.4 million in 2011. Phase one results of the Indian Council of Medical Research - India Diabetes (ICMR- INDIAB) study concluded that 62.4 million people live with diabetes in India and 77.2 million people are on the threshold, with pre- diabetes. The prevalence of diabetes in Tamil Nadu is 10.4 per cent and the prevalence of pre-diabetes (impaired fasting glucose and/ or impaired glucose tolerance) is 8.3 per cent. The American Diabetic Association recommends that individuals with diabetes mellitus must increase the quantity of dietary fiber in their diets to reduce their blood glucose and insulin levels following meals. Qureshi et al ., brought into limelight that soluble fiber such as rice bran plays an important role in decreasing cholesterol and controlling blood glucose levels. Every year, 63 to 76 million tons of rice bran is produced in the world and more than 90 per cent of rice bran is sold as animal feed for throw away price.

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K. Gomathi ¹, C. Yegammai ¹

Affiliations
1 Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, IN

Abstract

Five hundred destitute women were selected based on judgment sampling from home for women in difficulty, home for the aged destitute, old age home and Tsunami rehabilitation centre in Coimbatore District. Among the selected destitute women majority (22.8 per cent) were in the age group of 65-74 years. Of the selected destitute women, majority (30.4 per cent) of them became destitute due to widowhood. Majority (29.2 per cent) of the women live as destitute for more than 16 years. All the selected 500 destitute women (100 per cent) had the psychological problem of feeling sad, wandering thoughts, depression and restlessness. Many cases go unrecognized and so are not offered potentially beneficial interventions.

Keywords

Psychological Problems, Behavioral Changes, Women.

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K. Gomathi ¹, B. Parvathavarthini ²

Affiliations
1 Computer Applications, Sathyabama University, IN
2 St. Joseph Engineering College, IN

Abstract

Key management is an essential part of multicast security. The distribution of keys in an authenticated manner is a difficult task in MANETS and when a mobile node leaves or joins generates new session key. The combination of Enhanced Distributed Weighted Clustering Routing Protocol (EDWCRP) and RSA has been proposed to secure multicast key distribution. Cluster Head (CH) maintains the group key and it also updates the group key whenever there is a change in the membership. A Secondary Cluster Head (SCH) is also elected to avoid the CH from becoming a bottleneck. Mobile nodes get authenticated using MD-5 hash authentication mechanism. The performance of the system is evaluated based on attackers and metrics like Packet Delivery Ratio, energy consumption and packet drop. As demonstrated by simulation results, the proposed algorithm improves the overall performance and reduces energy utilization.

Keywords

Cluster Head, Secondary: Cluster Head, EDWCRPs, RSA, MD-5.

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U. K. Lakshmi ¹, K. Gomathi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam University, Coimbatore-641 043, IN

Abstract

India is the second major producer of fruits and vegetables and ranks next to Brazil and China in the world. It contributes to 10 and 14 per cent of world fruit and vegetable production respectively. Out of the total production of fruits only 20 per cent is processed.

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K. Gomathi ¹, S. Sellakumar ², K. R. Valluvan ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Erode, IN
2 Jeppiar Engineering College, Chennai, IN
3 Department of Electronics Engineering, Kongu Engineering College, Perundurai, Erode, IN

Abstract

The harmonics in power system increases as the number of non linear loads increases. The monitoring and control of harmonics is the tedious and time consuming task in the development of drives for industrial applications. The identification of harmonics plays the role of designing efficient harmonic controller. Such intelligent harmonic controller is designed and simulated using feed forward neural network.

Keywords

PWM Inverter, Harmonics, BPN Algorithm and Space Vector Modulation.

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K. Gomathi ¹, D. Shanmuga Priya ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Computer Science, Karpagam University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, IN
2 Department of Information Technology, Karpagam University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, IN

Abstract

Data mining techniques are used for a variety of applications. In healthcare industry, data mining plays an important role in predicting diseases. For detecting a disease number of tests should be required from the patient. But using data mining technique the number of tests can be reduced. This reduced test plays an important role in time and performance. This paper analyzes data mining techniques which can be used for predicting different types of diseases. This paper reviewed the research papers which mainly concentrate on predicting heart disease, Diabetes and Breast cancer etc.

Keywords

Data Mining, Classification, Naive Bayes, J48, Decision Tree.

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M. Amirthaveni ¹, S. Premakumari ¹, K. Gomathi ², Ray-yu-Yang ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore-641043, Tamil Nadu, IN
2 Department of Home Science, Sri Sarada College for Women, Salem-636016, Tamil Nadu, IN
3 AVRDC-The World Vegetable Center, P.O. Box 42, Shanhua, 74151 Tainan, TW

Abstract

High prevalence of pre diabetes observed in many South Asian countries highlights a potential indicator of further progression of the diabetic epidemic in the region. Average expenditure related to diabetes per person in India is higher. Unless appropriate action is taken, this will place an economic burden, hence a food based approach was planned to reduce the incidence of pre diabetes. The main aim of the study was to investigate the hypoglycemic effect of bitter gourd (Mormordica charantia L.)among pre diabetics. A single blinded, placebo-controlled, randomized, cross-over designed intervention study was conducted with freeze dried bitter gourd powder (2.5 g) to find out its hypoglycemic effect. In the first phase Group 1 (AB) started the bitter gourd juice (A) intervention followed by placebo (B), while the Group 2 (BA) started the supplementation with placebo (B) followed by bitter gourd (A). The intervention continued for a period of eight weeks. Between the two arms, 4 weeks were left as wash-out period to minimize the carry-over effect of one phase to the other. Cross over was done after the washout period. The mean initial fasting blood glucose level of pre diabetics in AB group was 110.66 mg/dl which reduced significantly (p<0.01) to 99.86 mg/dl at the end of intervention. In case of BA group the placebo treatment did not bring any appreciable change in FBG where as the bitter gourd treatment was found to have a significant (p<0.01) impact. No serious adverse effects were observed. The present study proved that the consumption of bitter gourd juice prepared with 2.5 g freeze dried bitter gourd powder (50g of the vegetable) reduced the fasting blood glucose and total cholesterol level among the pre diabetics.

Keywords

Hypoglycemia, Pre Diabetes, Bitter Gourd, Diabetes, Cross-Over Design.

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K. Gomathi ¹, M. Amirthaveni ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Home Science, Sri Sarada College for Women, Salem – 636016, Tamil Nadu, IN
2 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Avinashilingam University for Women, Coimbatore – 641043, Tamil Nadu, IN

Abstract

Prediabetes an asymptomatic intermediate state of hyperglycemia with blood glycemic parameters above normal but below the diabetes threshold with high probability of developing diabetes. Hence, main aim of the study was to screen the prediabetics using IDRS (Indian Diabetic Risk Score). Around 948 healthy volunteers (office administrators, employees, trainees and authorities) between the age of 25-60 years were selected from a Central Government funded center and from five private industries for screening the prediabetic subjects. From the 948 participants screened, 540 (57%) were males and 408 (43%) were females. About 35% male and 36.3% female subjects, were having an IDRS of ≥ 60 and were categorized as subjects with high risk vulnerabilities. From the high risk vulnerabilities group, about 120 (35.6%) subjects (64 male and 56 female) who had fasting blood glucose level ranging between 100-125 mg/dl were identified as prediabetics.The study revealed that the prediabetics can be screened in a simple and effective way for large populations.

Keywords

Diabetes, Hypoglycemia, Indian Diabetic Risk Score, Prediabetes.

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N. Albert Singh ¹, K. A. Muraleedharan ², K. Gomathi ²

Affiliations
1 Research Scholar, CET, University of Kerala, Trivandrum, IN
2 Professor, N. I. College of Engineering, Kumaracoil, Tamil Nadu, IN

Abstract

Power system stabilizers (PSS) are used to generate supplementary control signals for the excitation system in order to damp the low frequency power system oscillations. To overcome the drawbacks of conventional PSS (CPSS), numerous techniques have been proposed in the literature. Based on the analysis of existing techniques, this paper presents the stabilization of multi-machine power system based on coordinated Adaptive Hierarchical Neuro-Fuzzy network based power system stabilizer (AHNFPSS) design. The proposed system consists of a Hierarchical neuro fuzzy controller, which is used to generate a supplementary control signal to the excitation system. The proposed method has the features of a simple structure, adaptivity and fast response. The proposed controller is evaluated on a multi-machine power system under different operating conditions and disturbances to demonstrate its effectiveness and robustness. Eigenvalue analysis shows that the undamped modes are sensitive to excitation control while speed governors have little influence on damping.

Keywords

Hierarchical Neuro-Fuzzy Networks, Power System Stabilizer (PSS), Dynamic Stability.

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