Management of obesity with integrated Ayurveda and Yoga intervention: A case report

Obesity is the disease of nutritional deficiency which leads to abnormal growth of adipose tissue resulting in an increase in the body weight to the extent of 20% or more of standard weight for the person’s age, sex, and height. Obesity is one side of the double burden of malnutrition, and today more people are obese than underweight. In Ayurveda Obesity is classified under santarpanjanya rogas and ashtaninditiya purusha by Acharya Charaka. Ayurveda attributes concept of Dosha, dhatus and Mala in which any vikriti in any of dhatus, pramanatah or gunatah then it firmly affects both body and mind. Yoga and Ayurveda both spring as a greater part of spiritual and mental aspect of treatment. Considering all these factors this study is carried out to understand cause, cause effect relationship as well as treatment. In this case study patient was treated with Udwarthana, Shodhana and Shamana chikitsa, also advised Ahara (scheduled diet) and Vihara (life style modification) for the management of obesity. This showed a significant change in anthropometric measurement.

Infant Warmer Equipped with Digital Weight Scales

Scales Scales in the world of health are used to measure human body weight such as baby scales. Newborns are very important to be weighed because it is used as a measure of the baby's health indication ranging from 2.4 kg to 4.2 kg. The author makes a tool for this to make it easier for users to weigh with a 7 segment display on the Infant Warmer tool and external calibration. By using a loadcell sensor with a maximum capacity of 5 kg, the loadcell can detect the weight of the load where the voltage generated by the loadcell of 0.7 mV at a load of 1 kg is amplified to 0.62 V by the PSA circuit using the AD620 IC and then processed by Arudino UNO as a microcontroller. The weight results will be displayed on the 7Segment display located on the Infant Warmer tool. In the study, the measured load included a weight of 0 kg to a maximum weight of 5 kg. The measurement of the data results was carried out 5 times each by comparing the modules that had been made with the standard weight, namely (lead). The data from the measurement results of the research module shows that when the weight of the measurement at 1 kg has an error percentage of 0.08%. Measurements at a weight of 2 kg have an error percentage of 0.05%. Measurement of weight 3 kg has a presentation error of 0.01%. Measurements at a weight of 4 kg have a presentation error of 0.02%. And measurements at a weight of 5 kg have an error percentage of 0.04%. Then the data from the measurement results of the research module shows the largest error presentation of 0.08% at a weight of 1 kg. And the data from the measurement results of the research module shows the smallest error presentation of 0.01% at a weight of 3 kg. Making a research module in the form of a scale placed on an infant warmer can make it easier for the wearer.

To the question of determining the standard weight

Attempts have been made repeatedly to establish what weight should be considered normal for a given person. The best and most accurate way is, of course, data based on a lot of statistical material. However, it is impossible to always have statistical tables with you, but it is necessary to have some simple method that makes it possible to quickly and with sufficient accuracy set the standard weight for a given person.

International Transportation of Heavy and Oversized Cargo: Example of Haulage of Components of Wind Power Plant

Heavy and oversized transportation requires solving a whole range of tasks, such as choosing a suitable method of customs clearance and of a customs post, determining the optimal route, correctly selecting vehicles, ensuring safety of related infrastructure, and road traffic, such as the width of the carriageway, height and width of bridges, tunnels, power lines, ordering permits for travel on certain road segments, ordering heavy and oversized cargo escorting service, providing the special labour regime and working conditions for drivers.The objective of the study was to provide options for solving the listed issues and offer choice of best modes of transport, routes of delivery of heavy and oversized cargo.This article based on the example of multimodal supply of components of wind power plant through the Russian national and foreign territory analyses issues of choosing a mode of transport for multimodal transportation of heavy and oversized cargo; of individuality of routes for movement of goods with non-standard weight and size characteristics; of developing a survey route, and of preliminary preparing transportation of heavy and oversized cargo. Identification of difficulties faced by participants in similar projects, helped to reveal preliminary solutions which might increase the efficiency of any individual transportation. Described features of transportation of this kind of cargo in Russia focused particularly on customs regulations governing crossing of the border of the Russian Federation by multicomponent goods. Since about 70 % of total «door-to-door» transportation, comprising haulage of heavy and oversized cargo, are performed by road transport, the article highlights the road transportation segment.The conclusion suggests that the main task when developing a route is to ensure safety of cargo transportation. The identified phases comprise choosing and calculating the route, the coordination of obtaining permits for transportation of heavy and oversized cargo with various organisations on different segments of the route. Solutions for import customs clearance of multicomponent disassembled cargo, particularly in case of non-simultaneous delivery, are examined.

Unveiling the impact of weight heterogeneity on random walks in weighted extended tree-like fractals

In this paper, we put forward a class of weighted extended tree-like fractals and further use them as test bed to unveil the impact of weight heterogeneity on random walks. Specifically, a family of weighted extended tree-like fractals are first proposed, which are parameterized by a growth parameter [Formula: see text] and weight parameter [Formula: see text]. Then, we explore standard weight-dependent walk on the networks by deploying three traps at initial three nodes. To this end, we derive analytically the average trapping time (ATT) to measure the trapping efficiency and the obtained results show that depending on values of [Formula: see text], ATT may grow sub-linearly, linearly and super-linearly with the network size. Besides, it can also quantitatively impact the leading behavior and pre-factor of ATT simultaneously. Finally, more challenging mixed weight-dependent random walk that takes non-nearest-neighbor hopping is addressed. Analytical solutions of ATT derived under this new scenario imply that weight parameter [Formula: see text] still can qualitatively, quantitatively steer leading behavior and quantitatively affect pre-factor of ATT. As to the stochastic parameter [Formula: see text] controlling mixed random walk, it could only impact the pre-factor of ATT and only have negligible effect on the leading behavior of ATT. In summary, this work could further augment our understanding of random walks on networks.

Development of osmotic vacuolization of proximal tubular epithelial cells following treatment with sodium-glucose transport protein 2 inhibitors in type II diabetes mellitus patients-3 case reports

We encountered 3 cases of acute kidney injury that occurred after treatment with a SGLT2 inhibitor. In case 1, serum creatinine increased from 1.65 to 3.0 mg/dL, in case 2, serum creatinine increased from 1.03 to 1.21 mg/dL, and in case 3, serum creatinine increased from 0.8 to 1.1 mg/dL. Renal biopsy showed isometric vacuolization on tubules, that was completely negative for Periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) stain in case 1, and was partially negative for PAS stain in case 2 and 3, consistent with osmotic vacuolization. Immunohistochemical analysis showed positive staining for CD138 and CD10 indicating the proximal tubules in the vacuolar lesions. 3 patients were obese with body mass index of more than 30, and showed an increase in serum renin. In conclusion, in type II diabetes mellitus (T2DM), individuals that remain within their standard weight range, SGLT2 inhibitor treatment does not result in osmotic vacuolization of proximal tubular epithelial cells and AKI. However, treatment with a SGLT2 inhibitor may cause damage of the proximal tubules resulting in AKI in T2DM individuals who do not remain within their standard weight range, due to an overdose lavage of sugar in the urine and dehydration.

Long-term exposure of Pacu (Piaractus mesopotamicus) fish to dietary aflatoxin B1: residues in tissues and performance

The objective of this work was to evaluate the aflatoxins residues on tissues of Pacu (Piaractus mesopotamicus) fish chronically exposed to dietary aflatoxins, also evaluating the effects on fish performance. Aflatoxins were incorporated into the extruded fish feed and the concentrations were confirmed by high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC). The experimental design comprised the following treatments: Control – feed without toxin; Treatment A: feed + 10 μg aflatoxin B1 (AFB1)/kg; Treatment B: feed + 20 μg AFB1/kg and Treatment C: feed + 50 μg AFB1/kg. Pacu juvenile were allocated in tanks with density of one fish per litter. The experiment lasted 180 days with monthly sampling, and approximately ten fish per treatment were used to compose a sample. Biometric surveys were performed every 30 days, including standard weight and length. Aflatoxins were detected and quantified in fish muscle and liver by HPLC, using immunoafinity columns. Results showed AFB1 deposition in the liver throughout the experiment in all treatments, but only treatment C differed significantly (P<0.05) from the others after 150 days, while in muscle there was low residual deposition. Long-term exposed fish had negative influence in weight and length. The higher mortality was observed in treatment C. Although there were AFB1 residues at low levels in liver and only a slight amount in fish muscle, it should be noted that accumulation is possible in the Pacu species. The diets contaminated with AFB1 negatively interfered in weight and length of fish when compared to control. Therefore, it can be concluded that long-term exposure of Pacu to dietary AFB1 can cause losses to producers.