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Patil, P. M.
- Study on the Use of Tobacco among Male Medical Students in BLDEU, S Shri B M Patil Medical College Hospital and Research Center, Bijapur
Authors
1 Dept of Community Medicine, IN
2 Dept of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, IN
3 Dept of Pathology, IN
4 Dept of Physiology, IN
5 Dept of Community Medicine, BLDEU, Shri B M Patil Medical College Hospital and Research Center, Bijapur, IN
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Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology, Vol 8, No 1 (2014), Pagination: 120-123Abstract
Objectives: Is use of tobacco a major health problem among medical students? To find out the factors associated with the use of tobacco.Materials and Method: A cross sectional study was done on 260 under graduate male medical students Using pre designed pretested questionnaire to study about the problem and various correlates of the tobacco use, Data was analyzed through chai-square test and Fisher's exact test.
Results: Among the tobacco users (31.53%),smoking was find in 24% and 2.6% tobacco chewing in the form of gutkha, khaini thota dried tobacco leaves 6.5%.Hostellers were found to be more frequent tobacco users as compared to day-scholars. There was a significant relationship between the presence of a smoker in the family and picking up the habit in the present study.
Conclusions: Tobacco use is significant problem among the male medical students and we need to take step to stop its use by them so as to prevent them from being exposed to its harmful effects
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Medical Student, Smoking, Tobacco- Review Article on Gene Therapy
Authors
1 Modern College of Pharmacy, Sector 21, Yamunanagar, Nigdi, Pune-44 (M.S), IN
2 Sharad Pawar College of Pharmacy, Nagpur, IN
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Research Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacodynamics, Vol 4, No 2 (2012), Pagination: 77-83Abstract
Gene therapy can be broadly defined as the transfer of genetic material to cure a disease or at least to improve the clinical status of a patient. One of the basic concepts of gene therapy is to transform viruses into genetic shuttles, which will deliver the gene of interest into the target cells. Based on the nature of the viral genome, these gene therapy vectors can be divided into RNA and DNA viral vectors. The majority of RNA virus-based vectors have been derived from simple retroviruses like murine leukemia virus. A major shortcoming of these vectors is that they are not able to transducer nondividing cells. This problem may be overcome by the use of novel retroviral vectors derived from lentiviruses, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The most commonly used DNA virus vectors are based on adenoviruses and adeno-associated viruses. An example of gene-knockout mediated gene therapy is the knockout of the human CCR5 gene in T-cells in order to control HIV infection. Although the available vector systems are able to deliver genes in vivo into cells, the ideal delivery vehicle has not been found. Thus, the present viral vectors should be used only with great caution in human beings and further progress in vector development is necessary.Keywords
Lentiviruses, Transducer, RNA Vector, Adeno-Associated Viruses.References
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- Use of Triggers to Detect Adverse Drug Reactions of Gastrointestinal Tract in Outpatient Department
Authors
1 University Department of Interpathy Research and Technology, Maharashtra University of Health Science, Nashik (MS) 420 004, IN
2 University Department of Interpathy Research and Technology, Maharashtra University of Health Science, Nashik, IN
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Research Journal of Pharmacology and Pharmacodynamics, Vol 3, No 5 (2011), Pagination: 260-262Abstract
The use of "triggers", clues to identify Adverse Drug Events (ADEs) is an effective method for measuring the overall level of harm from medications in a health care organization. The use of multiple medications is a serious problem in current health care system. To detect the Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) in gastrointestinal drugs by using trigger tool methodology was done in civil hospital and one of the private hospital of Nashik city. It includes enrolment of the patient in Out Patient Department (OPD) according to Inclusion Criteria (IC) and Exclusion Criteria (EC). The patient was selected by using consecutive sampling method. Written informed consent was taken from recruit patient by using informed consent form. Once the informed consent was obtained, patient's prescription was studied and was followed every 7 days by telephonic conversation and every month in OPD. Prescription was studied and analysed by observing the prescription of the patient by using predetermined triggers associated with possible adverse drug event for next seven days. After finding specific trigger we kept record of all finding on ADE report form. Total number of prescriptions was considered and total number of Triggers was calculated in percentage .Total number of positive triggers which had shown ADR was calculated accordingly. Out of 180 sample size total triggers were found to be 15 (8.3%), and ADR reported to be 7 (3.8%). We found 8 (4.4%) such triggers which could not detect any ADR. Improving trigger tools and applying them in analyzing the ADR will surely detect the ADR and reduce the risk and harms in patients.Keywords
Gastrointestinal System, Adverse Drug Reaction, Trigger Tool, Adverse Drug Event.References
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- MODBUS–An Overview and Applications in Automation Supporting ASCII and RTU Mode Transmission
Authors
1 Shingad Institute, IN
2 IN E&TC, Bharati Vidyapeeth, IN
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Networking and Communication Engineering, Vol 4, No 2 (2012), Pagination: 84-89Abstract
The Evolution Industrial Communication inexorably moves to Industrial Networks.Since the Modbus protocol was introduced in 1979, it has been adopted in manufacturing applications throughout the world. This paper gives an overview of all the aspects in which how MODBUS gives its contribution in this evolution of Industrial Automation. It also explains the various application of MODBUS which can be implemented using both ASCII and RTU transmission Mode.Keywords
The Evolution Industrial Communication Inexorably, Ethernet Infrastructure.- Low-Complexity Based Modified Image Super-Resolution Scheme by the Design of Dyadic Integer Coefficient Based Wavelet Filters
Authors
1 Modern Education Society’s College of Engineering, Pune-01, IN
2 KJ’s Educational Institute, Pune-1, IN
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Digital Image Processing, Vol 7, No 4 (2015), Pagination: 120-124Abstract
This paper presents a low-complexity based modified image super-resolution scheme based on the wavelet coefficients soft-thresholding .The design this scheme is based on a particular class of dyadic-integer-coefficient based wavelet filters (DICWFs) which is formulated from the design of a half-band polynomial. To design integer-coefficient based half-band polynomial we used the splitting approach. Next, factorization is done for this designed half-band polynomial and assigned specific number of vanishing moments and ischolar_mains to achieve the dyadic-integer coefficients low-pass analysis and synthesis filters to reduce the hardware complexity. The discrete wavelet transform (DWT) obtained from DICWF is applied on the low-resolution image to obtain the high frequency sub-bands. These high frequency sub-bands and the original low-resolution image are then interpolated to enhance the resolution. Next, stationary wavelet transform (SWT) that are obtained using DICWFs is employed to minimize the loss due to the use of DWT. In addition, wavelet coefficients soft-thresholding scheme is used on these estimated high-frequency sub-bands in order to reduce the spatial domain noise. These sub-bands are combined together by inverse discrete wavelet transform obtained from DICWF to generate a high-resolution image. The proposed approach is validated based on quality metrics of existing filter banks and proposed filter banks.
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Superesolution, Dyadic-Integer-Coefficients, DWT, Soft Thersholding.- Design of Dyadic-Integer-Coefficients Based Bi-Orthogonal Wavelet Filters for Image Super-Resolution Using Sub-Pixel Image Registration
Authors
1 Department of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering, Modern Education Society’s College of Engineering, IN
2 RMD Sinhgad School of Engineering, IN
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ICTACT Journal on Image and Video Processing, Vol 4, No 4 (2014), Pagination: 817-823Abstract
This paper presents image super-resolution scheme based on subpixel image registration by the design of a specific class of dyadic integer- coefficient based wavelet filters derived from the construction of a half-band polynomial. First, the integer-coefficient based halfband polynomial is designed by the splitting approach. Next, this designed half-band polynomial is factorized and assigned specific number of vanishing moments and ischolar_mains to obtain the dyadic-integer coefficients low-pass analysis and synthesis filters. The possibility of these dyadic-integer coefficients based wavelet filters is explored in the field of image super-resolution using sub-pixel image registration. The two-resolution frames are registered at a specific shift from one another to restore the resolution lost by CCD array of camera. The discrete wavelet transform (DWT) obtained from the designed coefficients is applied on these two low-resolution images to obtain the high resolution image. The developed approach is validated by comparing the quality metrics with existing filter banks.Keywords
Super-Resolution, Sub-Pixel Image Registration, Integer Wavelet, Discrete Wavelet Transform, Half-Band Polynomial.- UV Spectrophotometric Simultaneous Determination of Metformine Hydrochloride and Pioglitazone Hydrochloride in Combined Dosage Form
Authors
1 Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Modern Collage of Pharmacy, Nigdi, Pune, IN