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The ever increasing failures and collapse of buildings. Bridges, etc in Nigeria is not only a set back to the construction industry, lives and properties, but also another name as “underdeveloped‘’ with many labeled descriptions in terms of infrastructural facilities. These facilities are the ones on that are expected to ensure stability towards Economic development of the country, if the expected stresses have been induced in them during the construction periods. This is the primary aim of prestressed concrete.

Electricity demand is increasing exponentially and due to the limitations in the generation of electricity by conventional methods the generation and demand gap has largely increased. This paper focuses on the energy management area by taking different sectors as a load and comparing them on the basis of their consumption.

Recent field and laboratory studies have shown that the effect of Soil-Structure Interaction (SSI) can be not conservative to a structure if not considered. In evaluating the SSI effect along basement walls on the seismic response of moment-resisting frame buildings with multiple basements, a parametric study is performed on multiple story buildings resting on flexible grounds. The number of basements is varied and UBC suggested site conditions are considered.

The author’s intention is to reflect the present transport and logistic system in Odisha and to focus precisely the strategic transport planning matching with changing scenarios of new industrialization and economic policy in the subsequent need for transportation planning for fast moving benefits to shareholders in the state.

It is rightly said that Robots are next generation citizen of the modern world. Advancements in robotics technology is increasing leaps and bounds which is making them flexible to do human like works more effectively without any rest. In this project we develop a autonomous aerial drone for delivery of products which will reduce manpower and also improve the quality of delivery. An autonomous aerial drone will be made, which is GPS linked and navigation enabled, which will fly off from the factory and deliver the product at the doorstep of the customer.

Urinary metabolic abnormalities such as low urine volume, hypercalciuria, hyperoxaluria, hyperuricosuria and hypocitraturia predispose the patient to early recurrence in kidney stone disease. This present study was planned to measure calcium, magnesium, oxalate, citrate, phosphate and uric acid in 24  hours urine samples in first time kidney stone disease and recurrent kidney  stone disease patients to emphasize the importance of these measurements in  metabolic evaluation and management of kidney stone disease.

Ovarian cancer (Oca) alone accounts for 16% of all cancers in the female and is the fifth most common form of cancer in the world. As Oca offers poor prognosis, CA-125 is a sole biomarker for the detection of Oca besides histological techniques. CA-125, also known as MUC16 is a membrane bound glycoprotein which is found in higher concentration in blood of Oca patients. In addition to multiple factor endorsing ovarian carcinoma, oxidative stress has also been inscribed to be critical factor in tumor development.

Dengue virus infection is one of the serious mosquito borne viral infection mainly affecting the population from tropical and subtropical countries of the world with high morbidity and mortality. In India it is a major public health problem with all four serotypes of Dengue virus (DENV-1, DENV-2, DENV-3, DENV-4). An estimated 50 million dengue infections occur annually. Among the hospitalized 2.5% of the children die with disease. There is no immunoprophylaxis or specific antiviral therapy available so far.

A Unani compound formulation known as Dawa-ul-Qustwas evaluated for its hepatoprotective effects by crude as well as 50% hydro-alcoholic extract against Carbon tetra chloride (CCl4) induced liver injury in rats. The animals were divided into five groups of 6 animals each – I (Plain control), II Negative control (CCl4 treated group), III (Silymarin treated), IV DQ (Crude treated)and V DQ (Extract treated). Hepatotoxicity was induced by single administration of CCl4 (2ml/ kg I.P.

Tissue expansion has become the most important armamentarium for aesthetic scalp reconstruction as it allows the surgeon to cover large defects using local tissue of appropriate colour, texture and adnexal structure with minimum donor site morbidity. It is commonly used in reconstruction of large defects created due to any trauma, electric burn over scalp, excision of tumors, carcinoma of breast following reconstruction of operation and in many other conditions.