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The formation of stone is one of the common problems of urinary system and as per modern science only few medicines are available for such condition along with surgery. It is second most common disease of urinary tract with high recurrence rate. The common symptoms of ureter culculi are pain, haematuria, burning micturiton, dysurea, tenderness and sometimes fever. Ayurveda described Mootrashmari as urinary calculus disease of Mutravaha Srotas and considered as Asthamahagada. Ayurveda described various treatment approaches for the management of disease; use of herbs, ayurveda formulation and Kshara, etc. this article presented summarative review on Mootrashmari. Keywords: Ayurveda, Ashmari, Mutravaha Srotas, Mootrashmari

Due to use of fossil fuels for the human activities found a significant effect on the environment as well as people's health. Hence, the researchers from all around the world are searching for the sustainable solution through non-conventional sources of energy like wind, biomass, solar energy etc. Among all non-conventional sources of energy, solar energy is prevalent. Pasteurisation is a process of heating of food or liquid for the killing of bacteria. For pasteurisation of milk, dairy industries require boiler or heat exchanger, and it consumes energy, and sometimes they need fossil fuels. Hence, a primary aim of this review paper is to discuss various research works have conducted by researchers on milk pasteurisation system so an appropriate best solution can be found for sustainable development.

Extracorporeal septoplasty is a valuable tool in the armamentarium of the nasal surgeon for the reconstruction of the severely deviated septum. Extracorporeal septoplasty offers the surgeon the opportunity to correct the septum under direct visualization, shape the nasal vault and address the nasal dorsum with the ultimate goal of providing both form and function for the patient with a complex septal deviation. The study was conducted with the aim to measure the outcomes of extracorporeal septoplasty in severely deviated nasal septum, relief of symptoms (nasal obstruction), surgical complications, if any, revision, if any with objective to evaluate the functional outcome and aesthetic aspects of extracorporeal septoplasty. This was a prospective observational study of 35 patients with severe deviated nasal septum with or without external deformity of nose attending the ENT OPD between Jan 2015 and Jan 2016 at Sri Aurobindo Medical College and Post Graduate Institute, Indore (M.P.). In this study, 17 patients (48.57%) shows excellent improvement on VAS scale, out of which 13 patients shows excellent improvement and 4 patients shows good improvement on photographic assessment. 11 patients (31.43%) show good improvement on VAS as well as photographic assessment and 7 patients (20%) show moderate improvement on VAS scale and fair improvement on photographic assessment. Extracorporeal septal reconstruction is an important surgical option for the correction of the markedly deviated nasal septum. Fixation of the straightened and replanted septum at the nasal spine and dorsal septum border with the upper lateral cartilages is essential. Spreader grafts for stabilization of the internal nasal valve and dorsal onlay grafts to prevent dorsal irregularity are strongly encouraged.

A solar still is very simple device to convert available brackish or saline water into drinkable water by use of solar energy. But due to its lower distillate output, it is not used widely for indu...

A compound parabolic concentrator (CPC) is defined as a non-imaging-type concentrating collector where incident solar radiations, after reflection from the reflector, are not concentrated at a poin...

The present research paper deals with the theoretical and experimental investigation of solar stills with two different thermal energy storage materials, namely, marble pieces and sandstones. To carry out this research, three solar stills of 1 m square area have been made. All solar stills have been provided with a glass cover and a cooling and dripping arrangement for reducing top heat loss and maintaining a constant level of water. It has been found that the use of sandstones as storage materials and the cooling and dripping arrangement have a remarkable effect on the distillate output of a solar still. The set-up has been used to augment the distillate output throughout the day. Theoretical results have also been compared with the experimental results and have been found to be in good agreement.

The serum progesterone and estradiol profiles during synchronization of estrus by buck effect and PGF2α treatments were monitored in Surti does. Total eighteen non-pregnant does selected were evenly divided into 3 groups, 6 does in each group. The does of Group I were teased with a sexuallyactive- apronized buck; and those of Group II were treated with PGF2α, i.e., Inj. Lutalyse® @ 7.5 mg/doe IM twice 11 days apart, while the Group III served as untreated control. Blood samples were collected from all the animals on day 0 (before 1st PGF2α injection), 3rd day (during treatment), 11th day (before 2nd PGF2α injection), 14th day (after treatment) and 40th day (post-service) by jugular vein puncture. The serum separated was stored at -20°C till further analysis. In all the three groups, 83.33% does, conceived at first service in the sampling cycle. The overall mean serum progesterone concentration of Group I does (5.82±0.72 ng/ml) was significantly higher (p less than 0.01) as compared to Group II (2.93±0.38 ng/ml) and III (2.88±0.30 ng/ml). Similarly, the overall mean serum progesterone concentration of Surti does on day 0 (2.65±0.46 ng/ml), 3rd (2.56±0.80 ng/ml), 11th (4.45±0.84 ng/ml) and 14th (3.40±0.63 ng/ml) did not differ significantly, but the overall mean level at day 40 (6.31±0.45 ng/ml) was significantly (p less than 0.01) higher, because most of animals became pregnant at that time. The overall mean serum oestradiol-17β levels of Group I (24.40±2.98 pg/ ml) was significantly higher (p less than 0.01) than in Group II (15.77±1.77 pg/ml) and III (12.21±1.45 pg/ ml). On the other hand, the overall mean serum oestradiol-17β levels of Surti does on day 0 (12.89±1.21 pg/ml), 3rd (15.84±1.74 pg/ml), 11th (14.81±1.96 pg/ml), 14th (22.15±2.97 pg/ml) and 40th (21.64±5.16 pg/ml) did not differ significantly (p>0.05) and the slightly higher overall mean level found at 40th day might be the influence of the non-pregnant does at first service in the cumulative animals. The hormonal profile reflected the initiation of cyclicity and establishment of pregnancy in treated and control animals.

In the present chapter, the widely common problem of handwritten character recognition has been tackled with multiresolution technique using discrete wavelet transform and artificial neural networks. The technique has been tested and found to be more accurate and economic in respect of the recognition process time of the system. Features of the handwritten character images are extracted by discrete wavelet transform used with appropriate level of multiresolution technique, then the artificial neural networks is trained by extracted features. The unknown input handwritten character images are recognized by trained artificial neural networks system. The proposed method provides good recognition accuracy for handwritten characters with less training time, less no. of samples and less no. of iterations.

Seven aerobic bacterial strains were isolated from pulp paper mill waste and screened for pentachlorophenol (PCP) tolerance on PCP containing mineral salt agar medium (MSM). The organism was characterized by 16S rDNA sequencing which showed 99.7% sequence similarity with Serratia marcescens. PCP degradation was routinely monitored with spectrophotometric analysis and further confirmed by HPLC analysis. Among seven strains, ITRC S7 was found to degrade up to 90.33% of 1.127 mM (300 mg/l) of PCP and simultaneous release of chloride ion (2.435 mM) emphasized the bacterial dechlorination in the medium in presence of glucose as an additional carbon and energy source under optimized condition within 168 h incubation. In absence of glucose bacterium was unable to utilize PCP indicating the phenomenon of co-metabolism. Bacterium was identified as S. marcescens (AY927692), was a novel and potential aerobic bacterial strain capable of degrading PCP in axenic condition. Further, this strain may be used for bioremediation of PCP containing pulp paper mill waste in the environment.

The present paper deals with the problem of handwritten character recognition of English character. This paper presents a novel method of handwriting character recognition which exploits a compression capability of discrete wavelet transform to enhance the accuracy of recognition at the pixel level, the learning capability of artificial neural network and computational capability of Euclidean distance metric. The problem of handwritten character recognition has been tackled with multiresolution technique using discrete wavelet transform and learning rule through the artificial neural network. Recognition accuracy is improved by Euclidean distance metric along with recognition score in case of misclassification. Features of the handwritten character images are extracted by discrete wavelet transform used with appropriate level of multiresolution. Handwritten characters are classified into 26 pattern classes based on appropriate properties i.e. shape. During preprocessing each character is captured within a rectangular box and then resized to a threshold size. Weight matrix of each class is computed using the learning rule of artificial neural network, and then the unknown input pattern vector is fused with the weight matrices of all the classes to generate the recognition scores. Maximum score corresponds to the recognized input character. Learning rule provides a good recognition accuracy of 88.46%. In case of misclassification, the Euclidean distance metric improves the recognition accuracy to 92.31% and then its product with recognition score further improves the recognition accuracy to 99.23%. The proposed method provides such good recognition accuracy for handwritten characters even with fewer data samples.

Edge is the boundary between an object and the background, and identifies the boundary between overlapping and non-over lapping objects. This means that if the edges in an image can be identified accurately, all of the objects can be located and basic properties such as area, perimeter, and shape can be measured. Here fuzzy logic based image processing is used for accurate and noise free edge detection and Cellular Learning Automata (CLA) is used for enhance the previously-detected edges with the help of the repeatable and neighborhood-considering nature of CLA. The different result of edge detection technique is compared with fuzzy edge detected and resulting edge is enhanced using CLA. In this paper, all the algorithms and result are prepared in MATLAB.

In this paper, the design and construction of a speech entry data logger are described. This equipment consists of a commercially available voice recognition chip set, a bubble memory module, and a supervisory microprocessor. Necessary details on the hardware and software are included for the construction of the equipment. Test results using the equipment are included.

To assess the effect of sleep on airflow resistance and patterns of ventilation in asthmatic patients with nocturnal worsening, 10 adult subjects (6 asthmatic patients with nocturnal worsening, 4 normal controls) were monitored overnight in the sleep laboratory on two separate occasions. During 1 night, subjects were allowed to sleep normally, whereas during the other night all sleep was prevented. The six asthmatic patients demonstrated progressive increases in lower airway resistance (Rla) on both nights, but the rate of increase was twofold greater (P less than 0.0001) during the sleep night compared with the sleep prevention night. However, overnight decrements in forced expired volume in 1 s (FEV1) were similar over the 2 nights. The asthmatic patients maintained their minute ventilation as Rla increased during sleep, demonstrating a stable tidal volume with a mild increase in respiratory frequency. We conclude that in asthmatic patients with nocturnal worsening 1) Rla increases and FEV1 falls overnight regardless of sleep state, 2) sleep enhances the observed overnight increases in Rla, and 3) sleep does not abolish compensatory ventilatory responses to spontaneously occurring bronchoconstriction.

In a study of 144 children aged 1-12 years, attempts were made to assess the ED50 and ED90 of the intravenous induction agent, propofol. The doses required for loss of eyelash reflex and tolerance of facemask, in 50% of unpremedicated children, were 1.6 mg/kg and 2.5 mg/kg respectively. In children premedicated with oral trimeprazine the corresponding values of ED50 were 1.1 mg/kg and 2.0 mg/kg. Doses of 2.8 mg/kg in unpremedicated and 2.0 mg/kg for those who received trimeprazine were required for loss of eyelash reflex in 90% of children. This probably corresponds to an effective induction dose. Pain and movement on induction were common; the incidence was 27% and 21.5% respectively.