Life Sciences

The caste based discrimination does not only affect the spheres of education, work and employment but also the wide Horizons of life, which can be detrimental for the country's future. This paper concentrates on the detailed analysis of occupational segregation or should we say the discrimination and lower footing of the scheduled castes in employment. The paper in its analysis focuses not only on the SCs but also the Other Backward castes, because both of these groups have been subjected to centuries’ long discrimination.

Objective: Explain through scientific productions the effects of music therapy in the symptomatic control of Alzheimer's disease. Method: This is an integrative review with time cut from 1998 to 2017, carried out in the database: Web of Science, PubMed, EBSCO Information Service, Scopus, SciELO, BIREME e LILACS, descriptors: art therapy, Alzheimer disease; music therapy, nursing. Through the search question “Music therapy brings beneficial results for patients with Alzheimer's disease”.

Background: Cirrhosis of the liver is a chronic disease that involves the whole organ. In liver cirrhosis the gonadal axis is affected. Hyperprolactinemia is often present in these patients as well as hyperestrogenemia, both are responsible for the clinical characteristics of feminization. Patients and Methods: We investigated 50 patients with cirrhosis. The diagnosis of cirrhosis was based on biochemical evidence and clinical diagnosis including ascites or encephalopathy. Also prognostic indices (Child-Pugh) and prolactin levels are assessed. Results: Mean age was 51.94±5.99.

Objective: To identify, through the medical records, the pathophysiological changes resulting from brain death and to assess nursing actions in the management of these changes. Methods: It is a descriptive, cross-sectional study with a quantitative approach. We analyzed 170 charts of patients evaluated for brain death. Descriptive statistical analysis was used, and frequency, average and standard deviation. Results: Traumatic brain injury was the cause of diagnosis for the most frequent brain death (45.3%).

Objective: To evaluate the Basic Life Support and the knowledge for the practice of nursing in the pre-hospital service with emphasis on CRCA. Method: It is a descriptive and cross-sectional study of a quantitative approach, which was carried out from October 2015 to March 2016 in the Mobile Pre-hospital Care Services (SAMU) and fixed services that are the Emergency Care Units (UPA).

Copy-move is a simple and effective operation for creating digital image forgeries, where an area of an image is copied and pasted to a different location in that image. Generally, a forger uses some affine transformations to make the changes visually intact. Most existing copy-move detection methods are not effective when copied regions are under geometrical distortions.

The knowledge about termites in restinga (sand dunes and adjacent areas) is incipient in Santa Catarina (SC) State coast, southern Brazil. Aiming to verifiy the diversity of the termitofauna, the presence of possible exotic species as well as aspects of the biology of the existing species, a survey was done in a natural and in an anthropized portion of restinga, from May to December 2009, during 90 hours. Termites were searched visually on different substrates at both places, sampled and conserved for identification. Nests were also searched, opened and studied.

Current researchers are more emphasised towards microbes to meet the antibiotic requirement of mankind. And in this study we made an attempt for the search of antibiotics through isolation of actinomycetes and analysis of their antibiocity through 16s rRNA gene sequencing and identification of restriction site. An Actinomycete species (SN-4) was isolated from botanical garden soil samples of the Karnatak University, Dharwad, India. Morphological, physiological, biochemical and 16S ribosomal RNA studies suggested that the isolate belongs to Streptomyces sp.

A simple, specific, precise and stability-indicating RP-HPLC method was developed and validated for analysis of Curcumin in bulk drug, cream and churna formulations. Chromatographic separation were achieved using Agilent-TC C18 column (250 X 4.6 mm; 5µ) column at ambient temperature. Mixture of methanol, acetonitrile, and 5% acetic acid (35: 50: 15, v/v) was used as mobile phase at constant flow rate of 1.0 ml/min and 420 nm was selected as wave length for detection of method. The Curcumin peak was obtained at RT 4.92 min.

Voltage gated potassium channels is a group of tetrameric signalling proteins with several functions which includes modulation of neuronal excitability and neurotransmitter release. Potassium channel antibody disorder was first described in acquired neuromyotonia condition which is a syndrome of spontaneous and continuous muscle fibre contraction resulting from hyperexcitability of motor nerves. A syndrome from antibodies to voltage gated potassium channel includes Neuromyotonia, Morvan’s syndrome, limbic encephalopathy.