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Background: Although well-defined principals of rational antibiotic use are available, inappropriate prescribing patterns are reported worldwide. Accurate information on the usage of antimicrobials, including factors associated with and influencing their use, is valuable for improving the quality of prescription practice. In this survey study, some data about the prescribers' knowledge and attitude about antibiotic use was addressed. Method: A total of 250 questionnaires were distributed randomly to house staff physicians working in different hospitals in Khartoum state during Jan to Feb 2010. Results: 43.6% of respondents prescribed antibiotics according to guidelines, and only 59 (32.6%) refer to BNF or SNF. More than half of participants prescribed antibiotics with their trade and generic names. Ciprofloxacin is the most frequent antibiotic prescribed at different specialties. Conclusion: that a variety of complex reasons govern the attitudes of antibiotics. Inadequate recognition of the infectious agent is the main reason of irrational antibiotic prescribing. Amoxicillin is the most antibiotic prescribed empirically.

Partition, one of the most glaring phenomena in the history of the Indian subcontinent that led to the loss of lives and homes is the concern of many sensitive writers. The Paper attempts to analyze and compare the works of two such writers who were participant, sufferers and delineators of this event. Though written in two different languages, both these novels explore the difference made by partition in the lives of innumerable people who got uprooted or killed in the riots where law and administration failed miserably. The writers describe event from their own vantage point which help us in understanding this ghastly happening even better.

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between the mathematics anxiety, mathematics interest and mathematics achievement. The sample size comprised of 78 (32 male and 46 female) undergraduate students of Bachelor of Science in Economics. The Pearson correlation analysis is used to analyze the data. The results revealed that mathematics anxiety has significant negative correlation with mathematics interest and mathematics achievement. It is also found that mathematics interest and mathematics achievement has significant positive correlation. There was a no significant gender difference found in mathematics anxiety but there was a significant gender difference in mathematics interest and mathematics achievement. Moreover, female students showed a higher level of mathematics interest and mathematics achievement than the male students. The study reveals that the performance of the students of Economics in Mathematics is influenced by the mathematics anxiety.

Landslide is among the major hydro-geological hazards that affect large part of India, especially Western Ghats and Eastern Ghats. The paper presents an integrated GIS and Remote sensing approach for Landslide Hazard Zonation in part of Sirumalai hill, Tamil Nadu. Satellite data, topographic maps, field data and other information maps are used to the study were prepared in GIS environment. Numerical rating scheme for the factors was developed for the spatial analysis in GIS environment to arrive at landslide Hazard Zonation map of the area. Landslide Hazard Index (LHI) value is calculated and landslide hazard zonation is decide by the LHI histogram. The resulting of the landslide Hazard Index Frequency Mapping is classified in five classes: very high, high, moderate, low, very low. Field data on landslide bodies are used to evaluate and validate the LHZ Map.

The idea behind this study is to provide a solution on some problems faced in Indian Railways. Points taken in concern while working on this study are Cleanliness & power generation. Those it has been mentioned everywhere to do not use lavatories while train is at station, still it is observed that such notice is merely followed. Using some techniques like piezoelectric sensors for power generation and RFID for lavatory door locking automation, we can solve the problem faced.

The situation that is obtainable in South Africa judging from the historical and socio-political perspective is one in which the black majority lived under the oppressive apartheid regime designed, manipulated and controlled by the white minority. Racial discrimination, an inherent effect of the apartheid policy of the white minority has reduced the blacks to a state of the underprivileged in their fatherland. Racial discrimination in this respect means the state of feeling estranged or separated from one's environment, culturally, socially, economically, politically and otherwise. Its effects on the sociological well being of the individual cannot be overemphasized. The dramatic works of Athol Fugard, a South Africa playwright, have had close sympathy for the situation of the life of blacks in South Africa. The major literary themes of his plays include racial segregation, oppression, deprivation and subjugation. These and the inherent effects of the apartheid laws on the oppressed in South Africa are the main focus in Athol Fugard's play: Sizwe Bansi is Dead are used as a case study in this submission.

To assess fetal and maternal outcome in PROM, and also to know the risk factors behind these cases. Methods: It is a prospective study done in our hospital from January 2014 to June 2014 in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Result: Out of 100 cases, the incidence of LSCS is 12.33% in the study group and birth asphyxia about 6.6% and Respiratory distress in fetus around 14.66%. Conclusion: PROM must be managed by inducing labour either by PGE2 or Misoprostol to reduce the rate of infection and by decreases the chances of baby stay in NICU( neonatal intensive care unit).

In parametric speech synthesis algorithms, a sequence of signals corresponding to phonemes is generated. However, synthesized speech tends to be unnatural as the vocal tract transition from one phoneme to another is not considered in most of the existing algorithms. This paper attempts to model the phoneme transition by extracting the speech parameters by means of Linear Time Varying system based Auto Regressive model. To reduce the capacity Speech parameters were represented in a polynomial equations. Sinusoidal Noise model was used to reconstruct the phoneme transition region. The results show moderate correlation of reconstructed transition regions with synthesized signal for different orders of polynomial.

Nowadays Hospital requirements are needed to be automated. During surgery, manual handling of surgical instruments may lead to human error. Here an automated surgical instrument lifting system is proposed and its movement carried over in four directions. System responds to voice and sensor signal from android accelerometer for controlling the motors connected with Microcontroller. Lifting of surgical instrument is done by a movable round table that rotates in a circular motion then a robotic arm lifts the surgical instruments using MATLAB software and Microcontroller hardware. Doctor’s voice command also used for executing the system.