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A study to assess the effectiveness of Indian ginger tea in management of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting among cancer patients in a selected cancer hospital at Guntur, Andhra Pradesh”.

Chemotherapy is considered an effective treatment and therapeutic option for certain cancers. Nausea and vomiting remain the most common adverse effects of chemotherapy in spite of the administration of antiemetics. Various alternative, adjuvant and complementary therapies are widely used to prevent the side effects of chemotherapy. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of Indian ginger tea in the management of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting among cancer patients. Materials and methods: A true experimental pre-test post-test control group design was adopted in this study. Sixty women were selected through a simple random sampling technique (30 experimental and 30 control groups of cancer patients). The data were collected before and after ingestion of Indian ginger tea using the Structured MASCC (Multinational Association for Supportive Care in Cancer) antiemesis tool (mat) for measuring chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. Results: The major findings of the study revealed that the mean pre-test score of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting was 45.17 with an SD of 16.09 and it decreased to 27.33 with an SD of 13.83 in the post-test. It can be interpreted that a decrease in the post-test scores to post-test-test chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting scores. Whereas in the control group, the mean pre-test was 38.83 with SD of 16.64 and it was slightly decreased to 36.93 with SD of 14.94 in the post-test. The paired ‘t-test was computed to find the effectiveness of Indian ginger tea in the management of chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting among cancer patients. The calculated value of ‘t’ was 12.57 which was greater than the tabulated value of ‘t’ 3.66 with 29 degrees of freedom was found to be highly significant at 0.001 level of significance. The demographic variables such as age, gender, marital status, education, family history of cancer, and habits were found to be significant at 0.05 level of significance. The clinical variables such as diagnosis, signs and symptoms, duration of treatment, type of cancer, and source of information were found to have a significant association with chemotherapy-induced vomiting at 0.05 level of significance. Conclusion: Indian Ginger tea was effective in relieving chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting among cancer patients.

Published by: Sampa Mandal, Sahaya John, Punitha Singh, Jyothi Vidya

Author: Sampa Mandal

Paper ID: V9I1-1180

Paper Status: published

Published: February 20, 2023

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Grievance management

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Published by: Mudita Nagori, Ipshita Pathak

Author: Mudita Nagori

Paper ID: V9I1-1172

Paper Status: published

Published: February 11, 2023

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A fused machine learning technique for diabetes prediction.

Early disease diagnosis and prevention are crucial in the medical field. One of the world's most hazardous diseases is diabetes. Sugar and fat are commonly found in modern lifestyles. Our eating behaviors, which has elevated the risk of diabetes. It is crucial to comprehend the disease's signs in order to predict it. Machine learning (ML) techniques are useful at the moment for disease identification. The model for predicting diabetes in this paper uses a fused machine-learning technique.

Published by: Manyam Kishore Kumar Reddy, Gandlapati Bhavani, Mulasthanam Venkata Moulika, Addepalli Tharun Raju, Y Mahanandi

Author: Manyam Kishore Kumar Reddy

Paper ID: V9I1-1171

Paper Status: published

Published: February 11, 2023

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Carbon credit financing- A global perspective

In order to combat climate change, it became crucial for industrialized countries to swiftly decarbonize and reduce their emission levels. A novel financial tool called carbon financing gives carbon emissions a monetary value and enables companies who want to offset their own emissions to do so by purchasing carbon credits produced by eco-friendly projects. One tonne of carbon dioxide or an equivalent amount of another greenhouse gas may be emitted by the holder of a carbon credit, a sort of trading permits. By directing industrial processes towards less carbon-intensive approaches than those used when there is no cost associated with emitting carbon dioxide and other GHGs into the atmosphere, the government attempts to maintain a limit on the emissions of harmful greenhouse gases (GHGs) from its industries.

Published by: Pratham Amit Shah

Author: Pratham Amit Shah

Paper ID: V9I1-1170

Paper Status: published

Published: February 11, 2023

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Evaluation of surface water quality characteristics of Hussain Sagar and Saroornagar lake water studies

The study was conducted to analyze surface water quality fluctuations of Hussain Sagar lake and Saroornagar lake water from the seasonal variation from 2016 to 2020 year. Total fiver year wise water quality monitoring was analyzed including temperature, color, odor, turbidity, pH, electrical conductivity (EC), total dissolved solids (TDS), dissolved oxygen (DO), biological oxygen demand (BOD), chemical oxygen demand (COD), total hardness (TH as CaCO3), calcium (Ca2+), magnesium (Mg2+), total alkalinity (TA), chloride (Cl-), nitrate (NO3-), sulphate (SO42-) and Fluoride (F-). The study used water quality index (WQI) and principal component analysis (PCA) methods to analyze surface water quality. The results showed that the surface water was contaminated with organics (low DO and high BOD, COD), and chemical parameters like TDS, TH, Ca2+, TA, Cl-, NO3- and F- concentrations exceeded the allowable limits of BIS. WQI classified water quality from bad to very good (WQI = 50 to 100) due to the impact of hydrological conditions, navigation, and urban and industrial zones. Seasonal variations in water quality parameters were recorded and compared with standards, and pollution status was studied using the water quality index.

Published by: M. Pratibha, Pbharath Kumar

Author: M. Pratibha

Paper ID: V9I1-1162

Paper Status: published

Published: February 7, 2023

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Research on Swachh Bharat Mission(SBM) a paradigm shift in waste management and cleanliness in India

India generates nearly 62 million tons of municipal social waste annually, creating huge environmental problems. A small number of initiatives for waste treatment, e.g., incineration, pyrolysis, bio-refining & biogas plants, composting, recycling, and SLFs are available in the country. An inclusive improvement policy and a paradigm shift are necessary for sustainable Solid Waste Management (SWM). SBM (SBM), flagged off on October 2, 2014, is considered as a paradigm shift in the Indian SWM movement. SBM is the country’s biggest-ever cleanliness drive, costing over 10,600 million USD for 5 years in 4,041 towns, which SWM considered as one of the six components. One of the stated objectives of SBM is to ensure door-to-door garbage collection and proper disposal of municipal solid waste in all 83,000 wards in urban areas by 2019. Swachh Bharat citizen communities were formed subsequently to generate awareness and citizen participation. Since then, over a period of 12 months, over 335,000 citizens have become part of the various Swachh Bharat citizen communities across more than 100 cities in India. The study reviews the present status and sustainability of the activities undertaken and proposes some improvement scopes in the schemes under the SB mission for effective SWM in India. The study will definitely help in revisiting the scheme periodically for continual improvement.

Published by: Kajal R. Sharma, Himani Upadhyay, Rinki Mishra

Author: Kajal R. Sharma

Paper ID: V9I1-1165

Paper Status: published

Published: February 7, 2023

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