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| Articles of Volume : 1 Issue : 8 ( 12, September - 2013) |
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| 23 | Practical Problem For Assessing Antioxidant Enzymes |
| By : Basudeb Dalal And Sovonlal Mukherjee |
| Abstract : Monitoring of total antioxidant capacity in biological fluid is a popular method of modern medicine for assessing oxidative stressThe estimation requires proper infrastructure for maintaining samples prior to assay. Lack of proper infrastructure for conducting epidemiologic studies in relation to maintenance of biological samples at study site is common in third world countries. Although antioxidant markers like superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxidase are reported to be stable at -80°C, we speculated its deterioration upon storage at 2- 8°C. The aim of the present study was to determine whether antioxidant markers retain its activity upon storage at 2- 8°C. Blood was collected from 26 healthy subjects (age 25-45 years). Total antioxidant Status, Superoxide Dismutase and Glutathione Peroxidase were assayed either instantly after collection of blood and or kept for 24 hours at 2- 8°C prior assaying. It was noticed that level of TAS, SOD and GPX decreased 29%,34% and 49% respectively upon storage at 2-8°C for 24 hours. Decay in activity of the parameters would not reflect the actual oxidative stress. This observation led us to conclude that samples should be assessed quickly after collection if proper storage facility is not available. | |
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| 24 | Herbal Product Based Remedies Against Microbial Infections And Resistance |
| By : Parul Sirohi, Shweta Ranghar, Amit Khandelwal, Anuj Poonia, Anil Sirohi And Devi Singh |
| Abstract : Many disease causing microorganisms have developed resistance against
drugs, thus causing a challenge for the treatment of infectious diseases.
The increase in antimicrobial resistance of various pathogens and the
reduced number of available drugs with their decreased efficacy, reduced
life span directed to the search of new therapeutic substitutes.
Phytochemical derived from herbal plants have a great potential against
microbial infections and the medicines derived from plants are now
considered safer in contrast to synthetic drugs for use. Medicinal plants
are now evaluated against various drug resistant microorganisms.
Antibiotic activity can be enhanced by plant derived drugs by decreasing
virulence or by reversing drug resistance. In the present review we focus on
the herbal plants as a source of bioactive components and their
therapeutic properties which may substitute antibiotic based therapy and
may be helpful to prevent and cure infections. | |
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| 38 | Today's UniversityE-Learning Information Systems |
| By : Vivek H Mahale , Charansing Nathoosing Kayte And Ashok T. Gaikwad |
| Abstract : Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) as a design pattern that presents
systems as collection of reusableservices that can be exposed and
consumed on the Internet with standard interfaces has many advantages
that canbe achieved on technical, managerial, and implementation aspects
of the system. Integrating UniversityManagement Information Systems
(UMIS) and Learning Management Systems (LMS) can be
achievedeffectively, efficiently, and with minor modifications of both
systems via SOA utilization. SOA can also be usefulin integrating long
decades and efforts of adaptive and intelligent features of E-Learning in
today's informationsystems. Both UMIS and LMS; as the two major
components of learning information systems can make use ofadaptive and
intelligent features became available over decades. Adaptive and intelligent
features in informationsystems are many, and they can be utilized in new
learning systems. Presenting adaptive and intelligent features asservices
with standard interfaces will allow different E-Learning systems to adopt
them, so they will be reusableand newly introduced information systems
will not have to redo the work again, besides, wrapping adaptive
andintelligent features with standard interfaces will present a separation
of interests that help adaptive and intelligentfeatures' researchers and
developers to focus more on their target and transfer the responsibility of
utilizing thosefeatures in different information systems to information
systems specialists. Today's E-Learning informationsystems' architects
can make use of SOA in integrating major E-Learning components
together, side by side withadaptive and intelligent features to provide
students with personalized learning environment. This article reviewsthe
E-Learning different models. Reviewing the E-Learning proposed systems,
architectures, and frameworks starting from traditionalE-Learning
systems through adaptive E-Learning systems supported by intelligent ELearning
features, methods,and techniques yields E-Learning researchers
to Services based Adaptive and Intelligent E-Learning Systems. | |
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| 39 | Today's Digital Forensic Research Challenges |
| By : Mahale Vivek Hilal , Charansing Nathoosing Kayte And Ashok T. Gaikwad |
| Abstract : Today's Golden Age of computer forensics is quickly coming to an end.This
article summarizes current forensic research directions andargues that to
move forward the community needs to adopt standardized,
modularapproaches for data representation and forensic processing. | |
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| 40 | Digital and Cyberforensics research: The next 5 years |
| By : Charansing Nathoosing Kayte , Mahale Vivek Hilal And Ashok T. Gaikwad |
| Abstract : Today's Golden Age of Digital and Cyber forensics is quickly coming to an
end. Without a clearstrategy for enabling research efforts that build upon
one another, Digital and Cyberforensic research willfall behind the market,
tools will become increasingly obsolete, and law enforcement,military and
other users of Digital and Cyber forensics products will be unable to rely on
the resultsof forensic analysis. This article summarizes current Digital and
Cyberforensic research directions andargues that to move forward the
community needs to adopt standardized, modularapproaches for data
representation and Digital and Cyber forensic processing. | |
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