ETHNOBOTANICAL APPROACH FOR IDENTIFYING THE POTENTIAL WOUND-HEALING PLANTS FROM THE FLORA OF WEST BENGAL

The present review focuses on the wound-healing medicinal plants from the Flora of West Bengal. Literature with direct ethnobotanical studies, reviews and compilations were used to identify the most potential ones. Wound healing process is a complicated event involving several steps. Different properties are needed in each step. The present work reveals the important medicinal plants that need to be explored for the potential wound healing phytochemicals based on ethnobotanical studies.

Spontaneous Recanalization of the Occluded Internal Carotid Artery

Spontaneous recanalization of the occluded internal carotid artery (ICA) is more frequent than is generally believed. The timing of spontaneous recanalization remains unclear but it may occur as either an early or a late event. The aim of this case report is to emphasize the importance of spontaneous recanalization and its consequences. From September 2008 to November 2010 we prospectively followed patients with old ICA occlusion. The diagnoses of an occlusion were based on duplex scan findings and were confirmed by CT angiography and digital subtraction angiography (DSA). ICA occlusions secondary to dissection, inflammatory process, like fibromuscular dysplasia, previous stenting or endarterectomy and trauma, were excluded from the study. All patients had a scheduled carotid duplex scan every six months. Overall 65 patients were enrolled. Two patients showed evidence of spontaneous recanalization. A 55-year-old man with a known history of transient ischemic attack had occlusion in the left side ICA. He presented with another TIA eight months later. Investigations showed evidence of rcanalization of occluded ICA. This artery underwent uneventful stenting. In another patient recanalization was heralded by global aphasia and right side hemiplegia. He was a 70-year-old man with a history of recurrent TIA. Carotid duplex scan and DSA showed recanalization of the occluded left ICA accompanied by occlusion of the ipsilateral middle cerebral artery. He remained profoundly disabled with severe neurological deficits. In conclusion, spontaneous recanalization of the occluded internal carotid artery is a potentially complicated event that may lead to severe neurological disability.

Complicated Event Query Processing Algorithms in Wireless Sensor Networks

In this paper, we propose two bloom filter based algorithms to solve the complicated event query adopting the separate DCS scheme. By using bloom filter, the communication cost involved in the procedure of query processing can be reduced. Experimental results show that our bloom filter based complicated event query processing algorithms achieve significant performance improvement in terms of energy consumption.

Graphical Concepts for the Representation of Events in High Energy Physics

Different methods to graphically represent points and tracks of events, measured with the ALEPH-detector at LEP, are discussed. Special emphasis is put on projections, that are adapted to the cylindrical geometry of the detector, to the track geometry of charged particles moving in a homogeneous magnetic field and to the specific event topologies, encountered in Z0 physics. A new concept, the so-called “V-plot”, is introduced, which incorporates the full three dimensional information of spatial points in a single picture. It is ideally suited for the study of more complicated event topologies, such as e.g. decays of particles within jets, and of the correlation between information from tracking and calorimetric devices. In addition, we propose ways of combining histograms and projections in a single picture. We describe methods of employing colour schemes to facilitate recognition of correlations between hits, tracks and/or subdetectors in different representations.

GRAPHICAL CONCEPTS FOR THE REPRESENTATION OF EVENTS IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS

Different methods to graphically represent points and tracks of events, measured with the ALEPH-detector at LEP, are discussed. Special emphasis is put on projections, that are adapted to the cylindrical geometry of the detector, to the track geometry of charged particles moving in a homogeneous magnetic field and to the event topologies, encountered in Z0 physics. A new concept, the so-called "V-plot", is introduced, which incorporates the full three-dimensional information of spatial points in a single picture. It is ideally suited for the study of more complicated event topologies, such as e.g. decays of particles within jets, and of the correlation between tracks and calorimeter clusters. In addition, we propose ways of combining histograms and projections to incorporate the tracking and calorimetric information into a single picture. We describe methods of employing colour schemes to facilitate recognition of correlations between hits, tracks and/or subdetectors in different representations.