Volume 9 | Issue 12 |

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Background. Numerous reviews report the beneficial effects of alpha tocopherol in preventive supplementation and also as an adjuvant in the treatment of some pathologies (cardiovascular, cancers). In this work, we analyzed the effects of vitamin E at high doses on some biochemical parameters. Methods. Thirty-two adult male and female mice (CD1 albino mice) were randomly selected for a 4-week experiment. The mice were supplemented with alpha tocopherol at doses of 150, 400 and 750mg/day. With a high dietary intake of vitamin E. Results. According to our analyses, we can note Excess weight predominated in groups 4 to 7. All the blood lipid parameters showed an abnormal concentration, as of the 400 mg dose of ?-T-acetate. Hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia were observed. These variations were more pronounced for total cholesterol and triglycerides than for HDL and LDL fractions. Conclusion. This study revealed that the consumption of high doses of vitamin E conferred on the animals a pro-oxidant status which induced a disturbance in lipid metabolism. This dysfunction resulted in obesity, kidney and liver abnormalities.

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Alpha-tocopherol, vitamin E-rich diet, body weight, kidney tissue, liver tissue

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The study was conducted to assess the knowledge regarding Gestational Diabetes Mellitus among pregnant mothers and self care practice of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus management among mothers with diabetes in pregnancy attending selected hospitals 0f Srinagar Kashmir India.The objectives were to assess the level of knowledge regarding Gestational Diabetes Mellitus among pregnant mothers, to assess the self care practice of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus management among mothers with diabetes in pregnancy, to find association between level of knowledge regarding Gestational Diabetes Mellitus and selected demographic variables,to find correlation between knowledge and self care practice of Gestational Diabetes Mellitus management among mothers with diabetes in pregnancy. The research design used in the present study is non experimental descriptive design. The study was conducted among 60 antenatal mothers and 15 mothers with gestational diabetes mellitus by using non probability convenient sampling technique.In the present study it was found that 33.3%mothers had poor knowledge, 33.3% had average knowledge and 33.3% had good knowledge regarding Gestational diabetes mellitus.When comes to practice 46.7% had satisfactory practices and 53.3% had good practice. There is a positive correlation between knowledge and practice (p=0.04).

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Keywords: Gestational diabetes mellitus, Knowledge, Practice

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ABSTRACT: Background: Breast-feeding is good for new mothers as well as for their babies. The WHO recommends breastfeeding the baby exclusively (no water, formula, juice or solid food) for the first six months of life and then continuing to breastfeed until the second year of age or longer as mutually desired by both mother and child.

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ABSTRACT: Background: Breast-feeding is good for new mothers as well as for their babies. The WHO recommends breastfeeding the baby exclusively (no water, formula, juice or solid food) for the first six months of life and then continuing to breastfeed until the second year of age or longer as mutually desired by both mother and child.

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Multiphase asynchronous machines are used more and more for reasons of reliability and power segmentation. This study deals with the modeling and the control of a dual star induction generator (DSIG) connected to the grid via two rectifiers and a three-phase inverter controlled by PWM. A second order sliding mode has been applied to the DSIG control. The last part of this work was devoted to the integration of the DSIG in the wind energy conversion system. The results of simulations presented at the end of this work show the effectiveness of the proposed control in particular on the quality of the energy supplied to the grid.

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Dual star induction generator (DSIG); second order sliding mode control (SOSMC); field oriented control (FOC); PWM rectifier

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fragmented psyche, modern relationship, feminism, gender studies, psychological study, Surfacing, Margaret Atwood

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Alopecia areata is a common autoimmune skin disease causing hair loss on the scalp, face and sometimes on other areas of the body. Alopecia can be the cause of psychological stress, individuals with it may experience social phobia, anxiety and depression. In modern medicine topical or injected corticosteroids are used to treat this condition. Due to side effects and limitation of the contemporary science, some harmless and effective medicines are expected from Alternative medical sciences. Ayurveda has great potential to treat such autoimmune diseases. In Ayurveda it can be correlated to Indralupta one of the k?udra roga. In the present case study, a case of Alopecia areata was managed with Ayurvedic medicines. Patient presented with patches of baldness on head with redness since 6 months. Scraping by Parijata Patra for 5min than apply Rasanjana and Hastidanta masi along with Gomutra arka on affected area. For Siro-abyanga dhatura patra taila was applied on scalp along with some internal medications were also give to the patient. Regrowth of hairs was achieved. Patient felt relieved of redness and itching of scalp also. This case study reveals the potential of Ayurvedic management of Alopecia areata and may form a basis for further detailed study of the subject.

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Indralupta, Alopecia areata, Rasanjana, Hastidanta masi, Gomutra arka, and Dhatura patra taila.

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The smoking prevalence has been increased in developing countries in last few decades. Nearly 80% of more than 1 billion smokers worldwide live in low- and middle-income countries, where the burden of tobacco-related illness and death. This paper explores actual prevalence of cigarette smoking amongst men of Nagpur, Maharashtra. It is population based cross-sectional survey carried out in the people ages 15-65 years by using structured questionnaire. In total, 423 individuals have been selected for this study however, actual men participated in were 398. The ethnic breakdown of respondents is demonstrates that maximum (98%) of the respondents were Hindu. Study participants reported numerous different types of occupations. The data estimate that the true prevalence of smoking among men aged 15yrs and older in Nagpur city is 13.8%. The major risk of smoking was reported in the age group 20-24 years and lower rate of prevalence occur above 30 years of age.

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Tobacco, Nagpur, Cigarette, Smoking

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The paper reveals about the association of occupational stressors and emotional intelligence components for better management of themselves and others emotions. The results of this article indicate that high emotional intelligence always helps the nursing professionals to overcome any type of problems arises in their works. As 50 numbers of respondents data are collected for study purposes through survey method with the use of convenience sampling and reported that the various issues of the work related and provided possible solutions to manage emotions internally and externally by effective use of emotional intelligence concept.

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Keywords: Emotional intelligence, occupational stressors

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An attempt has been made to examine the economic efficiency, cost and return analysis of major off-season vegetables in Himachal Pradesh. In the present study, major vegetables, namely pea, tomato, capsicum, cauliflower, French bean and cabbage was considered. The results revealed that the estimated per hectare cost of cultivation was highest in French bean/ green bean than that of other vegetable cultivation. Net returns per hectare in tomato cultivation was higher than that of other vegetables cultivation. The output-input ratio was found highest in case of tomato cultivation. In case of economic efficiency, study concluded that farmers were working in the first irrational zone of production function in case of pea, tomato, capsicum and cabbage i.e. increasing returns to scale. In case of cauliflower and French bean farmers were working in the third zone (irrational) of production function i.e. decreasing returns to scale. It indicates that vegetable growers do not make efficient use of their resources. The study also recommends optimum use of resources to achieve desire growth in vegetable cultivation. The vegetables cultivation has been influenced by number of factors like assess of irrigation facility, family labour, non-farm income of family and education level of cultivators was the main riving force for shifting towards vegetables cultivation.

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cost of cultivation, economic efficiency, production function

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In keyword search it is important to identify the actual meaning of a query and the context of query terms at an earlier phase. Conceptualization is the process of identifying this contextual information about query terms and to produce meaningful segments which guides to achieve search diversification. Because of the advancements in Machine Learning (ML), Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the growth in overall Parallel computing applications the search diversification process is not at all a risky job now. The proposed Semantic Search Diversification Model (SSDM) identifies the context of the search query at the very beginning of the search. The concept of Smallest Lowest Common Ancestor (SLCA) nodes is used to lock the desired key and semantic keys over the XML tree branches. The Mutual Information value of the given query terms and their semi features are considered. The Probabilistic weight of the search query is calculated based on the relevancy and the novelty of the query. The proposed Anchor based Semantic Preservation (AESP) algorithm extracts the weighted SLCA nodes for the original and generated queries from the given XML data and determines the anchor nodes to initiate the tree pruning. The node lists are assigned to multiple processors in order to achieve parallelism. The fuzzy set of the popular terms in the given data set is used for creating semantic table for the query terms. The Normalized Discounted Cumulative Gain (nDCG) measures of the SSDM shows the usefulness of the query suggestions, and a point to apply search annotations if needed.

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Anchor node, Mutual information, Intention, Context, Diversification

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