Swahini Priya

• Post graduate at Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education and Research

Background Low bone mineral density comprising of both osteopenia and osteoporosis is a major health problem affecting 81% of elderly women. It is a silent disease causing bone fractures, thereby decreasing the quality of life. However, the real basis lies in the failure to achieve adequate bone mass at a young age due to nutritional and other fact...

A single crystal of Pyridine-1-ium-2-carboxylatehydrogenbromide (PHBr) was grown using the Slow Evaporation Solution Technique. Using Single Crystal X-Ray Diffraction analysis, the crystal lattice characteristics and molecular structure of the grown crystal of PHBr were found and it corresponds to the Triclinic crystal system with space group Pī. I...

Background COVID-19 pandemic causes major impact on economic, physical, mental well-being of people all over the world. Doctors are working in stressful, unprepared, limited resource setting, and they are under the continuous threat of getting infection. Managing mental health of these warriors is great importance. Hence the present study to estima...

Complex diseases identification through Gene-Gene Interactions (GGIs) plays a significant challenge in Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS). A typical indicator of genetic variations in many human diseases is Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs). SNPs are the most prevalent sort of genetic variation seen in human beings. The interactions betwee...

Background COVID-19 is a new pandemic disease. This disease course and its effect on pregnancy is little known due to limited available data. The objective of this study was to describe the demographic profile of COVID-19 positive mothers admitted in Government Rajaji hospital, Madurai in terms of time, place and person and to assess the general an...

In present times, data science become popular to support and improve decision-making process. Due to the accessibility of a wide application perspective of data streaming, class imbalance and concept drifting become crucial learning problems. The advent of deep learning (DL) models finds useful for the classification of concept drift in data stream...

4b,7,9b-trihydroxy-4bH-benzo[d]indeno[1,2-b]furan-10(9bH)-one (THBIFO) single crystals were grown by slow evaporation solution growth technique. The defects free THBIFO single crystal was characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction (SXRD) analysis and showing the lattice parameters and space group. Through hirshfeld surface analysis, the diff...

Introduction: The COVID19 pandemic has turned out to be one of the public health* burdens in 2020. The fear of deaths due to COVID19 has surmounted even in developed countries and hasn't spared young age. This study aims in assessing the mortality due to COVID19 among patients below 30years of age in TamilNadu. Methods: The data was collected fr...

In many information system applications, the environment is dynamic and tremendous amount of streaming data is generated. This scenario enforces additional computational demand on the algorithm to process incoming instances incrementally using restricted memory and time compared to static data mining. Moreover, when the streams of data are collecte...

Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide clear insight into understanding genetic variations and environmental influences responsible for various human diseases. Cancer identification through genetic interactions (epistasis) is one of the significant ongoing researches in GWAS. The growth of the cancer cell emerges from multi-locus as well as...

Genome-wide Association Studies (GWAS) give special insight into genetic differences and environmental influences that are part of different human disorders and provide prognostic help to increase the survival of patients. Lung diseases such as lung cancer, asthma, and tuberculosis are detected by analyzing Single Nucleotide Polymorphism (SNP) gene...

Zinc ferrite nanoparticles were synthesized effectively by sol gel method and were annealed at 500°C. The sample was characterized by various techniques. Powder XRD, FTIR and FESEM studies were utilized to evaluate the phase structure and surface morphology. XRD revealed single phase spinel cubic structure of zinc ferrite. Light absorption and opti...

Bismuth tungstate (Bi2WO6) micro/nanoparticles have been synthesized by a facile solvothermal route. The XRD pattern confirms the orthorhombic phase of russellite Bi2WO6 material. The sample BWO prepared by solvothermal route at 180°C gives rise to slightly elongatedshapewith an average particle size of about 9.91 nm, whereas the sample BWO-600 whi...

As the variation of the fading signal can be modeled at a very small scale using α-η-µ fading channel, this paper concentrates on the security performance analysis over the α-η-µ fading multicast channel considering the presence of multiple eavesdroppers. The performance metrics of probability of nonzero secrecy multicast capacity (PNSMC) and secur...

The secrecy performance analysis over the channels is done at the physical layer to assure the confidentiality of data. In this paper, the information-theoretic security over Hyper-Gamma fading channel is investigated by constructing a single-source multiple-receiver structure in which several number of eavesdroppers are trying to overhear the tran...

In recent decades, new efficient heuristic algorithms are introduced which helps in alleviating both large virtual and physical networks in the case when there are a host of healthcare service providers that are part of the evaluation and analysis. Demarcating virtual resources as separate physical nodes as well as co-localization of prerequisites...

With the development of Internet and the make use of Internet for medical information, the demand for huge scale and reliable managing medical information has brought out the huge scale Internet data centers. This work that has been presented here highlights the structural lay out and formulation of the medical information model. The aim of present...

Background: A. paniculata is widely known for its medicinal values and is traditionally used to treat a wide range of diseases such as cancer, diabetes, skin infections, influenza, diarrhoea, etc. The phytochemical constituents of this plant possess unique and interesting biological activities. The main focus of this study was to evaluate the anti...

In telemedicine, medical data are shared across the world among different specialists for various purposes through an unsecured medium. So there is a need to protect the medical data during transmission. With the help of image watermarking techniques, medical images are protected along with the electronic patient information (EPI). This paper propo...

Introduction: The modern era of sex hormone began less than 100 years, and the role of endocrine factors in Androgenic Alopecia (AGA) was recognized by modern medicine only around 75 years ago. It has been suggested that oestrogens may inhibit the peripheral action of androgens. Pregnant mare urine, natural source of oestrogens, has been used since...

Introduction: The modern era of sex hormone began less than 100 years, and the role of endocrine factors in Androgenic Alopecia (AGA) was recognized by modern medicine only around 75 years ago. It has been suggested that oestrogens may inhibit the peripheral action of androgens. Pregnant mare urine, natural source of oestrogens, has been used since...

Electronic devices are essential part in our day-today lives. The invent of wireless power transfer (WPT) technology provides a gateway for charging multiple number of electronic gadgets simultaneously. Wireless power transfer denotes the transfer of power between a transmitting module and a receiving module for various applications such as chargin...

For more than thousands of years, compounds derived from medicinal plants have been shown to treat and protect humankind from various diseases. In recent years, cancers of different organ origins are considered as the deadliest threat to human race and finding of a new herbal remedy with lesser adverse effects becomes the need of the hour. Curcumin...

Layered composite electro-ceramics can be designed to exhibit the magnetoelectric (ME) effect based on stress transfer from magnetostriction of ferromagnetic layer to the ferroelectric layer. Many studies in search of giant ME coefficients in layered composites have been made but there are less studies regarding the ME effect in these ceramic mater...

Background/introduction: Recent studies have indicated a much broader role to Vitamin D than simply the regulation of calcium metabolism alone. Vitamin D likely confers physiologically relevant pleiotropic functions that include cardioprotective and immunomodulatory effect, and its deficiency could lead to increased risk of cardiovascular disease...

This paper focuses the design of Multiple Input Multiple Output(MIMO) antenna for satellite communications at Ku-band. The design involves the half-ellipse patch fed with two ports and isolated by dumbbell shape resonator in the ground plane. A ground plane is etched on the back side of the ellipse patch. The dumbbell shape slot is introduced at th...

Background: The purpose of the study was to evaluate leaching properties of the colored elastomeric modules when exposed to various dietary media. Materials and Methods: Sample size was of 160 color modules (red, blue, green, black, 40 each) which were taken to evaluate the leaching properties by immersing in four dietary media (artificial saliva,...

Evaluation of colored elastomeric modules for leaching properties when exposed to various dietary media: "An in vitro study." J Int Oral Health 2016;8(1):58-62. Abstract: Background: The purpose of the study was to evaluate leaching properties of the colored elastomeric modules when exposed to various dietary media. Materials and Methods: Sample si...

Magnetoelectric (ME) properties are investigated in heterostructure trilayered composite of poled Pb(Zr0.52-Ti0.48)O3 and NiFe2O4 (PZT-NFO-PZT) sample at various frequencies. The ME voltage induced in the sample changes with change in frequency of the AC magnetic field. This change when minutely analysed using multiphysics simulation and numerical...

Skin cancer is the most frequent and malignant type of cancer. Melanoma is the most aggressive type among skin cancers and if they are detected at an early stage, they can be completely cured. In melanoma diagnosis, the detection of the melanocytes in the epidermis area is an important step. For the detection of melanocytes, use of histopathologica...

Optical Coherence Tomography(OCT) is a non-invasive imaging technique which is widely used in the field of ophthalmology. Ophthalmology requires segmentation of retinal layers of OCT images for efficient diagnosis of diseases. A segmentation algorithm based on a kernel and clustering method can be used for the extraction of retinal boundary and cho...

Introduction: Diabetes mellitus has been associated with an earlier onset and increased severity of urologic diseases that often result in debilitating urologic complications. Diabetic bladder dysfunction refers to a group of bladder symptoms occurring in patients with diabetes mellitus ranging from bladder over activity to impaired bladder contra...

Complexes of type ML. HL′ have been obtained by reacting alkali metal salt of thiocol with some organic acids such as salicylic acid, acetylsalicylic acid and 2-hydroxy-3-naphthoic acid in absolute ethanol. The infrared studies show that ligand is coordinated with alkali metal through oxygen atoms of-OH(phenolic) and C=0(quinine) groups. Infrared s...

Vibrios are the most common genera associated with crustaceans. The genus Vibrio were isolated from marine prawn (Penaeus monodon). The isolates were screened for vibriocin production. The best producer was identified as Vibrio parahaemolyticus. The maximum production of Vibrio spp. was manifested at 37°C at pH 9, after 20h of incubation. The Vibri...

This book contains 26 papers from the Magnetoelectric Multiferroic Thin Films and Multilayers; Dielectric Ceramic Materials and Electronic Devices; Recent Developments in High-Temperature Superconductivity; and Multifunctional Oxides symposia held during the 2010 Materials Science and Technology (MS&T'10) meeting, October 17-21, 2010, Houston, Texa...

Microbial biodegradation have enabled detailed genomic, metagenomic, proteomic, bioinformatics and other high throughput analysis of environmentally relevant microorganisms providing unprecedented insights into key biodegradative pathways and the changing environmental condition. The present work has been carried for the biodegradation of sugar mil...

Objective: The study was undertaken to evaluate the antioxidant activity of fruits of Trichosanthes dioica (Cucurbitaceae) and compared with ascorbic acid (Standard). Materials and Methods: Anti-oxidant activity of aqueous extract of Trichosanthes dioica (TSD) fruits was studied for its free radical scavenging property in different in vitro methods...