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Influence of water on birds and insect pests in the paddy fields of Kannur district, Kerala

The vast water bodies of a paddy field attract avian fauna. These water bodies serve as feeding, breeding, nesting and roosting places for the birds. During the winter, migratory birds arrive the water bodies. Since Mundakan (Rhabi) season coincided with the winter season, there was the highest number of birds in the paddy field. Most of the birds were insectivorous and carnivorous. Insectivorous birds consumed insect pests of paddy and as a result, the number of insect pests in the paddy field was less.

Published by: Prabhakaran P. V., Dr. Aravindan Tharemmal

Author: Prabhakaran P. V.

Paper ID: V5I2-1937

Paper Status: published

Published: April 20, 2019

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Education system

What is happening to our education system nowadays? Public and private sector have man difference that leads to a lack of knowledge. After coming of the English system the Vedic Gyan that are given in gurukuls have become less important and that place is taken by English. The difficulties faced by students in both private and public school is also discussed in this paper

Published by: Shubham Goyal, Monika Bazzad

Author: Shubham Goyal

Paper ID: V5I2-1930

Paper Status: published

Published: April 20, 2019

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Prediction model for brain tumor patients based on MRI images

The paper presented here describes the predicted survival time for brain tumor patients using Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The accuracy is improved using the denoising wavelet transform (DWT) method. For this work BraTS, a dataset is used. MRI images are used to extract the histogram features so that the prediction model can be trained using the machine learning methods. MRI information is damaged due to the noise in MRI imaging. And the 2D wavelet transform was able to improve the results. The SVM with a 10 folds cross-validation helps to achieve the best accuracy by Daubechies 4 level 4 (db4-L4). With the same 10 folds, Daubechies 2 level 1 and 3 produces better results when the age factor is removed. An accuracy of 66.7% is achieved with a 10 % hold validation method in Daubechies 2 level 3.

Published by: Ashutosh Kaushik, Ankit Kumar, Rashmi K. A.

Author: Ashutosh Kaushik

Paper ID: V5I2-2000

Paper Status: published

Published: April 20, 2019

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A comparative study on intercooler for turbocharged unit using mathematical modelling

In today’s era pollution is a major problem of the environment. But vehicles are the major cause of environmental pollution to overcome from this effect in BS3 engines intercooler is used to cool down the compressed air temperature from the turbo charged unit. The purpose of the research paper is to take mathematical modeling of an intercooler and reduce the outlet temperature by cooling it down with some modification.

Published by: Pranay A. Nimje, Kiran K. Jadhao, Shubham V. Thakare, Shital G. Gore, Avinash P. Sarkate

Author: Pranay A. Nimje

Paper ID: V5I2-2008

Paper Status: published

Published: April 20, 2019

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Benefits of Turmeric

This paper explains a few benefits of turmeric. It belongs to family Zingiberaceae Indian turmeric is considered to be the best in the world. Erode, a city in South India state of Tamil Nadu is the world’s largest producer of turmeric and the most important trading centre for turmeric. This paper also defines the major constituent of Turmeric.

Published by: Srinidhi

Author: Srinidhi

Paper ID: V5I2-1987

Paper Status: published

Published: April 20, 2019

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Effect of adding clotrimazole lozenges in reducing the severity of radiation/chemo- irradiation induced oral mucositis in patients with head and neck malignancies

This paper aims to determine the effect of clotrimazole lozenges in addition to soda bicarbonate mouthwash and compare it with soda bicarbonate mouthwash only, in reducing radiotherapy/chemoirradiation induced oral mucositis in patients with Head and Neck Malignancies. A randomized controlled trial was conducted. Arm A - Radiotherapy/Chemoirradiation who were randomized to receive clotrimazole lozenges and soda bicarbonate mouth wash. Arm B- Radiotherapy/Chemoirradiation who were randomized to receive soda bicarbonate mouthwash only. Fifty-six patients were accrued in the trial, 28 in control arm and 28 in study arm. Fifty-two patients completed the treatment protocol. 4 patients in control arm defaulted due to various reasons. A number of patients in the control Vs study arm of Chemoirradiation group were 16 Vs 16 and in Radiotherapy group 12 Vs 12 patients. The occurrence of Grade 3 mucositis was more in the control arm 30% vs. 40% and the onset was later among patients in the study arm (week 3). In the Chemoirradiation group requirement for analgesic (92.8% vs. 53.8%), topical anaesthetic (35.7% vs. 7.6% - significant), occurrence of mouth pain(28.5% vs. 15.3%) and Ryles tube feeding (28.5% vs. 15.3%) were less in the study arm and also tolerated more number of cycles of concurrent chemotherapy (76% vs. 14% p= 0.036). A number of patients having a break in treatment (0% vs. 42.8% -significant) and occurrence of oral thrush (32% vs. 9%) were less in study arm of chemoirradiation and Radiotherapy. Nausea and vomiting were the predominant complaints in study arm probably induced by the chemotherapy. The occurrence of dryness of oral mucosa and throat was more in study arm of chemoirradiation group but less in radiotherapy only group.Overall the addition of clotrimazole lozenges to soda bicarbonate mouthwash along with oral care protocol during treatment showed significant benefit in decreasing the incidence of oral thrush.

Published by: Dr. V. Srinivasan, Dr. P. Anandhi, Dr. S. Ashok Kumar

Author: Dr. V. Srinivasan

Paper ID: V5I2-2006

Paper Status: published

Published: April 20, 2019

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