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Impact of Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment on Sexuality
of Nigerian Breast Cancer Survivors
*Elumelu TN., **Oladeji A., *Adenipekun A.,** Eriba L.
*Department of Radiotherapy, College of Medicine, University
of Ibadan
**Dept. of Radiotherapy, University College Hospital,
Ibadan.
tessynek@yahoo.com,
bayo5050@ymail.com,
adenipek2000@yahoo.com,
lucieris72@yahoo.com
ABSTRACT: Introduction:
The advances in breast cancer treatments has led to an
increased overall survival amongst patients with early
breast cancer with five year survival reaching about 97%
especially in the developed countries. The breast is often
seen as the part of the body that is strongly associated
with women's femininity, maternal role, and sexuality.
Therefore, problems that affect the breast (e.g. breast
cancer and its treatments) are likely to affect women’s
sexuality. Approximately 20–30% of breast cancer survivors
experience sexuality problems which include general sexual
disruption, decreased frequency of intercourse, and
difficulties reaching orgasm, which is significantly related
to a reduction in their quality of life. Aim & Objective:
This study was designed to evaluate the sexuality problems
in young women who had completed treatment for breast cancer
and on follow up appointment. Methodology: Women
treated for breast cancer on at least six months follow up
appointments after completion of their treatment at the
Radiotherapy Department and oncology unit of Surgery
Department, University College Hospital Ibadan were
recruited. A 6-page questionnaire survey which includes
demographic information, past medical history, stage of the
disease, treatments received, sexual activity and quality of
life, using survey items which included: The Female Sexual
Function Index (FSFI), Body Image Scale (BIS), and Marital
Satisfaction Scale was administered to consenting patients.
Results: A total of 101
patients completed the questionnaire; they were between the
ages of 20 and 50 years, with mean, 40.74 + 5.18 years. 83%
were conscious of their appearance. Body image problem
reported by 81.3% of the patients, and 73% claimed that the
treatment has left their body less whole. 76.2% felt
discomfort with nudity because of the scar.
The most frequent sexual dysfunctions were the absence or
reduction of sexual desire (83.2%), followed by lubrication
difficulties (69%), dyspareunia (55%) and inhibited female
orgasm (55%). Lack of sexual satisfaction was reported by
73.3%. About 30% reported increased tension in their home
following diagnosis of the cancer and its treatments and
about the same percentage reported emotional difficulties
with their spouses.
Conclusion: This study demonstrated7 sexuality
dysfunctions in women who had undergone breast cancer
treatment. Clinicians should bear in mind sexual
dysfunctions as possible side effects that could be
experienced during and after treatment for breast cancer and
so should be considered during counseling sessions while
managing these patients.
[Elumelu TN.,
Oladeji A., Adenipekun A., Eriba L.
Impact of Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment on Sexuality
of Nigerian Breast Cancer Survivors.
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Breast cancer, Sexuality, Women
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Public
Key Cryptography for mobile payment
T K Mohanta1, R K
Samantaray2, (Dr) R P Panda3
1. Dept.of Electronics &
Communication Engg, Sudhananda Engg & Research center,
Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
2. Dept.of Electronics &
Communication Engg, REC, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
3. Vssut, Burla, Odisha, India.
samantaray.ranjan75@gmail.com
Abstract:
Since the mobile systems are growing quickly, the e-commerce
will change gently to m-commerce. As a result, mobile security
will become the one of the most important part of mobile system
and will become the hottest area facing the mobile payment due
to mobile networks directness. However, the appropriate
encryption scheme for mobile communication must have small
amount of data calculating and quick operation as of its
inherent restrictions of small quantity and low calculating
ability. The objectives of this paper are to look at mobile
payment and its security. Also, to explain elliptic curve with
public key encryption, authentication of security wireless
milieu. Compare with the RSA scheme, an elliptic curve has
shorter key size, smaller signature length, low calculating,
fast operations and high security working.
[T K Mohanta, R K Samantaray, R
P Panda. Public Key Cryptography for mobile payment.
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RSA, elliptic curve scheme, digital signature, encryption and
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Design & Analysis Of
H¥
Controller For Blood Glucose Regulation In Type1 Diabetes
Patient
A K Patra1,
R K Samantaray2, (Dr) P K Rout3*
1. Department of
Electronics & Electrical engineering, I.T.E.R, ‘SOA’ University,
Odisha, India
2. Dept. of
Electronics & Communication Engg, REC, Bhubaneswar, Odisha,
India.
3. I.T.E.R, ‘SOA’
University, Odisha, India
samantaray.ranjan75@gmail.com
Abstract:
The target is to achieve some adaptive & robust controller for
blood glucose regulation in presence of all sorts of
disturbances in terms of physiological parameter
variations,process and measurement noises. The state of the art
in closed loop control of drug delivery using implant able has
been reviewed & H¥ controller for the device has been designed & tested. The designed of
the controller is mainly based on non linear modeling & robust
structure constrained controller & also related problems like
sample data control etc. The robust closed loop control
algorithms for insulin infusion to maintain normoglycaemia in
patient have been developed in one important method, that is H∞
control for the state feed back design with parameter
uncertainties & external disturbances to assure robust closed
loop stability in all possible patient conditions.
[A K Patra, R K
Samantaray, P K Rout. Design & Analysis Of H¥
Controller For Blood Glucose Regulation In Type1 Diabetes
Patient.
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Keywords:
Diabetes mellitus, Glucose insulin model, insulin infusion,
linear matrix inequality &
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Secure
and Authentication Communication in GSM, GPRS, and UMTS Using
Asymmetric Cryptography
T K Mohanta1,
R K Samantaray2, S Panda3
1. Dept. of
Electronics & Communication .Engg, Sudhananda Engg & Research
center, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India.
2. Dept. of
Electronics & Communication Engg, REC, Bhubaneswar, Odisha,
India.
3. Dept. of
Electronics & Communication Engg, REC, Bhubaneswar, Odisha,
India.
samantaray.ranjan75@gmail.com
Abstract:
With its great features like providing access to users at
anytime and anywhere in the world, mobile communication has been
very attractive among the users as well as operators and service
providers. However, despite of several advantages, mobile
communication has also been facing many security problems. In 2G
and 3G technologies like GSM, GPRS and UMTS, the architectures
comprise of mainly three nodes; the mobile station (MS), Visitor
Location Register/Serving GPRS Support Node (VLR/SGSN), and Home
Location Register /Authentication Center (HLR/AuC). These nodes
are involved to encrypt/decrypt the data and authenticate the
user (MS) in GSM, GPRS and UMTS. To provide security services
like authentication and secure communication, the mechanism has
been moved from symmetric cryptography to, despite of its
complexity, asymmetric cryptography. To reduce the signaling
overhead and add some other security features, we propose a new
generalized approach in this paper. This is based on asymmetric
cryptography for user/network authentication and communication
encryption in GSM/GPRS and UMTS with reduced signaling overhead.
[T K Mohanta, R K
Samantaray, S Panda.
Secure and Authentication Communication in GSM, GPRS, and UMTS
Using Asymmetric Cryptography.
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Keywords:
GSM, GPRS, UMTS, Authentication,
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Modeling of Optical-Fiber Communications Systems by Split-Step
Fourier Method
N Das1, G S Roy2, R N Satapathy3*
1. Hi-Tech Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
2. CHSE, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
3. Hi-Tech Institute of Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
niranjan.das@gmail.com
Abstract:
We studied the efficiency of different implementations of the
split-step Fourier method for solving the nonlinear Schrödinger
equation that employ different step-size selection criteria. We
compared the performance of the different implementations for a
variety of pulse formats and systems, including higher order
solitons, collisions of soliton pulses, a single-channel
periodically stationary dispersion-managed soliton system, and
chirped return to zero systems with single and multiple
channels. We introduce a globally third-order accurate
split-step scheme, in which a bound on the local error is used
to select the step size. In many cases, this method is the most
efficient when compared with commonly used step-size selection
criteria, and it is robust for a wide range of system providing
a system-independent rule for choosing the step sizes. We find
that a step-size selection method based on limiting the
nonlinear phase rotation of each step is not efficient for many
optical-fiber transmission systems, although it works well for
solitons. We also tested a method that uses a logarithmic
step-size distribution to bound the amount of spurious four-wave
mixing. This method is as efficient as other second-order
schemes in the single-channel dispersion-managed soliton system,
while it is not efficient in other cases including multichannel
simulations. We find that in most cases, the simple approach in
which the step size is held constant is the least efficient of
all the methods. Finally, we implemented a method in which the
step size is inversely proportional to the largest group
velocity difference between channels. This scheme performs best
in multichannel optical communications systems for the values of
accuracy typically required in most transmission simulations.
[N Das, G S Roy, R N Satapathy.
Modeling of Optical-Fiber Communications Systems by Split-Step
Fourier Method.
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Keywords:
Optical fiber communication, optical solitons, split-step
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Job Satisfaction of Rural and
Urban Male and Female Higher Secondary School Teachers: A
Comparative Study of District Srinagar and Anantnag
Mohammad Ibrahim Wani, Javid
Ahmad Bhat and Asooda Ali
Ph. D. Research Scholar of CCAS,
University of Kashmir, Srinagar190006
M. Ed. Student Department of
Education, University of Kashmir, Employees in J&K Bank, India
showkat80ahmad@gmail.com
ABSTRACT:
Job satisfaction is a set of
favorable or unfavorable feelings and emotions with which
employees view their works. It refers to a collection of
attitudes that workers have about their job. The present study
was conducted to investigate the rural/urban male and female
Higher Secondary school teachers about job satisfaction. Study
is descriptive in nature and
Job Satisfaction
Scale (JSS, English
version) by
Amar Singh and T.R. Sharma that has been published by National
Psychological Corporation; Agra is used, in order to assess
the job satisfaction of higher secondary school teachers. The
data were collected from 200 teachers selected from all Govt.
Higher Secondary schools in each district .The findings were
drawn after the descriptive and inferential analysis, Means,
Standard Deviation and‘t’ test, was run to test the hypotheses.
Generally, there is significant difference between urban and
rural male/female teachers’ job satisfaction.
[Mohammad
Ibrahim Wani, Javid Ahmad Bhat and Asooda Ali. Job
Satisfaction of Rural and Urban Male and Female Higher Secondary
School Teachers: A Comparative Study of District Srinagar and
Anantnag. Researcher 2013;5(5):50-53]. (ISSN:
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Keywords:
Job satisfaction, Attitude, Govt. Higher Secondary Schools,
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Analysis of Phytochemical
Content and Antibacterial Activity of Tapinanthus
dodoneifolius Extracts
1Ndamitso,
M.M. , 2 Musah, M., 1Mohammed-Hadi,
Z., 1Idris, S., 1Tijani O.J., 1Shaba
E.Y. and 2Umar, A.
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Department of
Chemistry, Federal University of Technology, Minna, Nigeria
2.
Department of
Chemistry, Niger State College of Education, Minna, Nigeria
musahmonday@yahoo.com
Abstract:
African mistletoe (Tapinanthus
dodoneifolius) (DC), a plant parasite used
ethnomedicinally for the treatment of several human and animal
ailments including stomach ache, diarrhoea, dysentery, wound,
cancer and hypertension was subjected to both phytochemical and
antibacterial screening. The result of the phytochemical
screening showed the occurrence of anthraquinones, saponins,
carbohydrates, tannins, and alkaloids but absence of
phlobatannins in the hemi-parasite. The In vitro assaying
of the extracts using agar plate-hole and nutrient broth
dilution techniques revealed a wide spectrum of antimicrobial
activities against certain multiple drug resistant bacteria
isolates with Salmonella typhi and Staphylococcus
aureus being the most susceptible while Bacillus subtilis
was the least. The inhibitory concentration (MIC) of the
extracts ranged from 6.25 to 15.6mg/ml while the maximum
bactericidal concentration (MBC) ranged from 25.0 to 62.5mg/ml.
Interestingly, the antimicrobial activity of these extracts
against the growth of Bacillus subtilis,
Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhi,
Staphilococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa;
the bacterial species known to be associated with either crown
gall or gastrointestinal tract and wound infections gave
credence to the ethno-medicinal usage of the plant. Since the
antibacterial activities and the phytochemical constituents of
Tapinanthus dodoneifolius could partly be dependent on
the host plant species and since the locust beans tree upon
which this plant grows has a wide variety of ethno-medicinal
applications, the wide traditional applications of this
parasitic plant could also be explained on this basis.
[Ndamitso, M.M., Musah, M., Mohammed-Hadi, Z.,
Idris, S., Tijani, O.J., Shaba E.Y. and Umar, A. Analysis of
Phytochemical content and Antibacterial Activity of
Tapinanthus dodoneifolius Extracts.
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Phytochemicals; ethno-medicinal;
antibacterial; anthraquinone; alkaloids; Tapinanthus
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Evaluation of Wastewater (Effluent) from Rubber Latex
Concentrate for Microbiological and Phyciso-Chemical Properties.
Omorusi, Victor Irogue
Plant Protection Division, Rubber Research Institute of Nigeria,
P.M.B. 1049,
Iyanomo, Benin City, Nigeria.
omorusirrin123@yahoo.com
Abstract:
Samples of effluent (wastewater) of rubber latex obtained from
the rubber latex processing stand at the Rubber Research
Institute of Nigeria main station, Iyanomo, were investigated
for the microbiological quantities, physical and chemical
characteristics. The results revealed high total viable counts
(TVC) for bacteria ranging from 7.4 x 105–2.05 x 106
and 1.07 x 106–2.13 x 106 cfu/ml for the
initial and repeat studies, respectively, while the total counts
for fungi recorded for the initial and repeat experiments ranged
from 1.4 x 105–4.6 x 105 and 8.6 x 104–4.6
x 105 cfu/ml respectively, were obtained. The
physiochemical concentrations detected in the samples included
calcium (4.92mg/l). magnesium (9.15 mg/l), potassium (7.99 mg/l)
and zinc 91.50 mg/l).
Lead
and cadmium were however, not detected in the sample analyzed.
The pH (5.29) level indicated acidity of effluents, while a
levels of alkalinity (8.50), temperature (32oC),
hardness (54.80) and turbidity (62.00mg/l) were recorded. High
values of BOD (320 mg/l) and COD (911.00mg/l) were indicative of
high oxygen demand for the oxidation of total solids of organic
origin. This work provides information on the hazardous nature
of latex effluents on the environment and public health, and
suggestions on the safe procedure of handling of effluents.
[Omorusi,
Victor Irogue.
Evaluation of Wastewater (Effluent) from Rubber Latex
Concentrate for Microbiological and Phyciso-Chemical Properties.
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Hevea, Effluent, Latex concentrate, Physical, Chemical,
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Background Extraction Technique in Thermal Imagery; Case Studies
during Hajj
Adnan Ghazi Abuarafah
Vice
Dean for Academic Affairs, Faculty of Computer of and IS, Umm
Al- Qura University, Makkah, SA
agabuarafah@uqu.edu.sa
Abstract:
Analyzing crowd density in huge crowds like Hajj is very
important and background extraction is an effective image
processing method to calculate the accurate density of crowd. An
advanced and improved approach is introduced based on the
background extraction from thermal images to calculate the
accurate density of crowd during Hajj 1433H. Firstly, we will
get the thermal video frames. They consist of people with
background shadows and objects. We then calculate the average of
all video frames to get the background image and then the
background is removed. The crowd density is then calculated and
the robustness of our approach is demonstrated through multiple
case studies which gives an accurate results of crowd density
calculation and proves to be an enhanced approach.
[Adnan Ghazi Abuarafah. Background
Extraction Technique in Thermal Imagery; Case Studies during
Hajj.
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Person detection; thermal imagery; FLIR; background noise; hajj
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Disaster Management Plan for
Nanded City by Using Geographical Information System
Yannawar V.B1.
Bhosle A.B.2, Khadke P.A.3, Waghmare
P.B4
4Research Scholar, 2,3Assistant
Professor
School of Earth Sciences, Swami
Ramanand Teerth Marathwada University, Vishnupuri, Nanded
431606, (Maharashtra) India.
E-mail:
vyanky@hotmail.com,
abbkandlikar@gmail.com
Abstract: This paper is an attempt to prepare disaster
management plan for Nanded city (MH) India. Objectives:
The objective of the research is to time wise service area
calculation for fire station and ambulance. Preparation of
buffer zone maps for flood prone area. Generation of facility
zone for police stations. Methods: The random distortions
were corrected using well distributed ground control points
occurring in raw data. To achieve plan metric accuracy, the
remote sensing scene was rectified with respect to SOI maps on
1:50,000 scale. Then the subset of image has been taken
according to the boundary of the study area. The digital
classification technique has been used for the extraction of the
land use and land cover information from the imagery.
Results: Using GIS for Preparing Disaster management plan
for Nanded city. Conclusions: It is
found that major population having areas are of Nanded city i.e.
Anand Nagar, Sahayog Nagar,
Ambedkar Nagar, Manyar Galli, Bramhapuri, Umar Colony, Bilal
Nagar, Labor Colony, Jaibhim Nagar, Shiv Nagar, Jangamwadi,
Hanuman gad, Mandhai, Ram Rahim Nagar, Sidhnathpuri, Ambekar
Nagar and Shobha Nagar. This growth is
subsequently found in same area of Nanded city that make problem
in feature for disaster management.
[Yannawar V.B., Bhosle A.B., Khadke P.A.,
Waghmare P.B. Disaster Management Plan for Nanded City by
Using Geographical Information System
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Geographic Information Systems
(GIS), Disaster management plan, flooding, hazard risk
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Isolation and Identification of Staphylococci Species from
Fermented Salt Fish (Fassiekh)
Arafat M. Goja
Department of Food Science & Technology
Faculty of Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Bakht
Alruda, Ed Dueim, Sudan.
E-mail:
arafatmohammed9@yahoo.com
Abstract:
Fassiekh is one of the fermented fish produced in different
parts of Sudan, especially in coastal cities. It is made from
the two common Nile fish, locally named Kawara (Alestes spp.)
and Kass (Hydrocyonus spp.) which was most preferred by
Sudanese consumers. The aim of this study
was to isolate and identify the Staphylococcus species present
in the salted fassiekh produced in Ed Dueim city. Three types of
samples (Dry salted fassiekh, Paste fassiekh and Wet salted
fassiekh) were collected from different retails in sterile
polyethylene bags and stored in ice containers.
The laboratory analysis began immediately
after arrival using pour plate methods and biochemical tests to
evaluate total viable bacterial load and Stataphylococcus spp.
(Staph. spp.) existence in fassiekh. Total viable counts
were ranged from (4.0×103 - 1.8×106
cfu/g); Staphylococci counts (1.1×103 - 1.9×104
cfu/g). Seven isolates belonging to five species were
isolated and identified: Staph.saccharolyticus (43.0%)
predominate in all samples, and then followed by
Staph.epidermidis, Staph.caprac, Staph.carnosus and
Staph.schleiferi with the frequency (14.3%) respectively.
The results from this study revealed that the unhygienic
practices of fasiekh making, and the higher number of bacterial
load and staphylococci count may pose hazards to human health.
[Arafat M. Goja.
Isolation and Identification of Staphylococci Species from
Fermented Salt Fish (Fassiekh).
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Salted fish, Fassiekh, Staphylococcus spp., Coagulase,
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