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D. Sarojini ¹, P. Sunitha ², L. K. Kanthal ², K. Lavanya ², Kausik Bhar ²

Affiliations
1 Koringa College of pharmacy, Korangi, East Godavari Dist., - 533462, Andhra Pradesh, IN
2 Koringa College of Pharmacy, Korangi-533461, Tallarevu (M), East Godavari Dist., Andhra Pradesh, IN

Abstract

The present study focussed on the clinical profile of patients with acute severe pancreatitis on carbapenem Vs. non carbapenems. Out of 55 patients 22 patients were given carbapenem antibiotics and rest were given non carbapenem antibiotics which comprises of cephalosporins, fluoroquinolones, Piperacillin+tazobactum, Metronidazole. In the carbapenem group 20 patients were initially on cephalosporins and later they were started on carbapenem as they were not improving. In these 20 patients, renal failure is observed in 14 patients and respiratory failure in 6 patients. All these 20patients survived and they stayed in hospital for 3-5 weeks. Two patients in carbapenem group died and they had renal and respiratory failure even they were started on carbapenem in the first week. These two patients stayed in hospital for 3weeks. A total of 33 patients were given non carbapenem antibiotics. Out of 33 patients 16 patients had renal failure and 12 patients had multiorgan failure. 8 patients had local complications in form of multiple fluid collections and necrosis more than 50%. 22 out of patients received cefaperazone+sulbactum with Fluoroquinolones. 7 patients received only Piperacillin+Tazobactum with Fluoroquinolones. 4 patients received only Fluoroquinolones. 30patients who were on cephalosporins stayed 2-3 weeks and all 30 patients improved and were discharged. 3 Patients out of 33 died in the first week due to multiorgan failure. This study conclude that cefaperazone sulbactum along with quinolone is a good first choice antibiotic and reserve the imipenem for sicker and non responders to cephalosporins.

Keywords

Acute Severe Pancreatitis, Carbapenem Antibiotics, Non-Carbapenem, Respiratory Failure, Multiorgan Failure, Fluoroquinolones.

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Uma Boregowda ¹, P. Sunitha ¹, A. Geetha Kiran ¹, H. S. Chandrashekar ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan, IN

Abstract

In an attempt to improve student learning in terms of acquired knowledge and its applicability, the idea of using senior undergraduate students to tutor junior undergraduate students is attempted. The goal of the tutoring program is to provide an interactive atmosphere that will help junior computer science students to better understand the fundamental and advanced concepts, and also to provide an opportunity for senior students to develop teaching, organizational and leadership skills. This paper illustrates the approach experimented at our department for the course on microprocessor. The approach is based on the use of enthusiastic and fairly intelligent senior students to tutor junior students through discussion, problem solving and demonstration of important topics in the course. The experience of both faculty and students involved in the entire process has endorsed that this approach creates an effective learning environment, wherein all stakeholders like department, faculty, junior and senior students are benefited.

Keywords

Tutor, Education.

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P. Sunitha ¹, Uma Boregowda ¹, A. Geethakiran ¹, R. E. Margaret ², A. M. Vinod ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan, Karnataka, IN
2 Department of Master of Computer Applications, Malnad College of Engineering,Hassan, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

Students and educators are the main components of any teaching system wherein educators play an important role. The vision of every educator is to make every student a successful IT professional in the current industry scenario. To meet the requirements of the IT industry, we need to enhance the quality of our students through effective teaching. Many studies have shown that life skills along with technical skill decide the success of a person. Hence, an attempt is made to improve both technical and life skills of students through regular engineering courses, instead of having separate courses on communication skills and ethical values. The idea of enhancing the skills of students through our proposed approach is experimented for the "Algorithm Design and Analysis" course. Our experimented process of effective teaching through programming assignments has given a very satisfactory result and the students are also happy about their accomplishments in the course.

Keywords

Algorithm Analysis and Design Course, Programming, Assignment.

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Uma Boregowda ¹, P. Sunitha ¹, A. Geetha Kiran ¹, H. S. Chandrashekar ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan, IN

Abstract

In an attempt to improve student learning in terms of acquired knowledge and its applicability, the idea of using senior undergraduate students to tutor junior undergraduate students is attempted. The goal of the tutoring program is to provide an interactive atmosphere that will help junior computer science students to better understand the fundamental and advanced concepts, and also to provide an opportunity for senior students to develop teaching, organizational and leadership skills. This paper illustrates the approach experimented at our department for the course on microprocessor. The approach is based on the use of enthusiastic and fairly intelligent senior students to tutor junior students through discussion, problem solving and demonstration of important topics in the course. The experience of both faculty and students involved in the entire process has endorsed that this approach creates an effective learning environment, wherein all stakeholders like department, faculty, junior and senior students are benefited.

Keywords

Tutor, Education.

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B. Vijaya Babu ¹, M. Surendra Prasad Babu ², P. Sunitha ³

Affiliations
1 Department of IST, KLCE, Vaddeswaram - 522 502, IN
2 Department of CS & SE, College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, IN
3 Department of CSE, PVPSIT, Vijayawada - 520 010, IN

Abstract

Revolutionary changes took place in the modern communication world. Mobiles and internet have changed the way people communicate with each other. Nowadays every busy person has many devices for communicating with others such as a mobile phone, a telephone and a PC at his home, a telephone and a PC at his office etc. People call using a telephone or PC to communicate with that particular user according to their convenience (using the device which is along with them). But the user may not be present at that particular device. Hence the user may have to loose some calls. Those calls may be very important or urgent calls. This paper ICR aims to solve the above problem. In order to avoid this problem we should route the call to the current user location irrespective of the device used by the other user. We check the current location of the user and route the call to that location. For this we maintain a schedule for every user in the database provided in the server of the service provider. Whenever call comes to a particular user it checks the schedule of that user, finds his location and routes the call to that location. Hence this application can also be called as Schedule Based Calling. For implementation of this application we require a protocol which works for all the devices in order to create a session between any two different devices. Hence we use Session Initiation Protocol (SIP). Session Initiation Protocol is an application layer control signaling protocol used to create (initiate), modify and terminate sessions. Session represents the type of data transfer between two devices such as audio, video etc. SIP only initiates, modifies and terminates sessions. It does not provide any information about data transfer. Data transfer is done using other protocols such as RTP, RTSP etc. type of session is defined by Session Description Protocol (SDP).

Keywords

Session Initiation Protocol(SIP), Intelligent Call Routing,H.323, User Agent Client, User Agent Server, HTTP, Proxy sever, MGCP, PSTN, Forking.

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B. Vijaya Babu ¹, M. Surendra Prasad Babu ², P. Sunitha ³

Affiliations
1 Department of IST, KLCE, Guntur, IN
2 Department of CS&SE, College of Engineering, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam, IN
3 Department of CSE, PVPSIT, Krishna, IN

Abstract

Ambient Intelligence devices are developed from Ubiquitous computing and communications and Intelligent User –friendly Interfaces. Ambient Intelligence refers to electronic environments that are sensitive and responsive to the presence of people. These devices provide vocal interaction with users but serve only a single-user Environment. H. 323 is a standard that specify many components, protocols and procedures that serve establishing multi-user communication. In our research, we embedded supportive H. 323 components to those of ambient device architecture and proposed a new architecture that supports multi-user communication environment through Ambient Intelligent devices. We threw light on advantages of using H.323 over other protocols.

Keywords

Ambient Intelligence (AmI), Eso-Endo Sensors, H.323; Multi-Point Control Units (MCUs).

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Uma Boregowda ¹, P. Sunitha ¹, A. Geetha Kiran ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Malnad College of Engineering, Hassan, Karnataka, IN

Abstract

The prime job of an engineer is to manipulate energy,materials and information in order to create facilities and benefits for mankind. To perform this successfully, an engineer needs sound knowledge which is beyond mere theory and it also encompasses other life skills. The laboratory courses are an important part of professional and engineering undergraduate education; and they are the ideal place for active learning. Programming is an essential skill that must be mastered by anyone interested in studying computer science. Our experiences in teaching have proven that significant number of students find programming to be difficult and disheartening.This underlines the need for making the programming laboratory courses more effective, interesting and encouraging. In an attempt to achieve this, we have experimented students mentoring schemes during the laboratory classes. Student mentoring is just a form of support given to students, which has shown positive impact on their learning, thereby improving the quality of the engineering graduates. Few other methods are also proposed to make the laboratory course more professional and exciting.

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