Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of adding hydrocortisone enema in traditional management Solitary rectal ulcers (SRU) pediatric patients. Study Design: Randomized Controlled Trial. Setting: Department Pediatric Gastroenterology, Children’s Hospital and The Institute Child’s Heath, Multan, Pakistan. Period: January, 2021 till December, 2021. Material & Methods: A total 52 children (...

new mPH Program a First for India Not often does a new degree program make headline news, but then, in India there is nothing entirely comparable to the new master’s of public health (MPH) program launched 19 January 2010 at Sri Ramachandra University (SRU) in Chennai. With environmental disease constituting roughly half the country’s total disease burden, India has a dire need of the expertise...

Mangroves are valuable contributors to coastal ecosystems, and remote sensing is an indispensable way to obtain knowledge of the dynamics of mangrove ecosystems. Due to the similar spectral features between mangroves and other land cover types, challenges are posed since the accuracy is sometimes unsatisfactory in distinguishing mangroves from other land cover types with traditional classificat...

This paper describes DEPTAL, an open and flexible framework for institutional repositories reusing open-source technology. DEPTAL is a collection-centric system that manages collections of documents in multiple copies and types. It can manage also users and groups of users, it supports authority control (subjects, authors, etc.), and can interoperate with other systems by interfaces such as OAI...

Sophisticated gated recurrent neural network architectures like LSTMs and GRUs have been shown to be highly effective in a myriad of applications. We develop an un-gated unit, the statistical recurrent unit (SRU), that is able to learn long term dependencies in data by only keeping moving averages of statistics. The SRU’s architecture is simple, un-gated, and contains a comparable number of par...

This review describes a new type of label-free optical biosensor that is inexpensively manufactured from continuous sheets of plastic film and incorporated into standard format microplates to enable highly sensitive, high-throughput detection of small molecules, proteins and cells. The biosensor and associated detection instrumentation are applied to review two fundamental limiting issues for a...