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Health care industry produces enormous quantity of data that clutches complex information relating to patients and their medical conditions. Data mining is gaining popularity in different research arenas due to its infinite applications and methodologies to mine the information in correct manner. Data mining techniques have the capabilities to discover hidden patterns or relationships among the objects in the medical data. In last decade, there has been increase in usage of data mining techniques on medical data for determining useful trends or patterns that are used in analysis and decision making. Data mining has an infinite potential to utilize healthcare data more efficiently and effectually to predict different kind of disease. This paper features various Data Mining techniques such as classification, clustering, association and also highlights related work to analyse and predict human disease.

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Aim:The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of different antioxidant additives in standard tris-fructose-egg yolk-glycerol (TFYG) extender on the cryopreservability of buffalo semen.Materials and Methods:Semen collection using artificial vagina, twice weekly for 5 weeks from three pedigreed health breeding bulls of Mehsani breed, aged between 6 and 8 years. Immediately after initial evaluation all 30 qualifying ejaculates (10/bull) were split into three aliquots and diluted at 34°C keeping the concentration of 100 million spermatozoa/ml with standard TFYG extender as control and TFYG having two antioxidant additives - Cysteine HCl at 1 mg/ml and ascorbic acid at 0.2 mg/ml to study their comparative performance. Semen filled in French Mini straws using IS-4 system and gradually cooled to 4°C and equilibrated for 4 h in cold handing cabinet. After completion of equilibration, straws were cryopreserved in LN2 by Programmable Bio-freezer. Semen was examined at post-dilution, post-equilibration, and post-thaw stages for sperm quality parameters, and at each stage plasma was separated for enzymatic analysis of aspartate aminotransferase (AST), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), and alkaline phosphatase (AKP).Results:The mean percentage of sperms in TFYG, TFYG + cysteine HCl and TFYG + ascorbic acid diluents at post-thaw stage in terms of progressive motility (52.83±0.52, 57.83±0.52, 57.83±0.52), livability (78.70±0.21, 82.33±0.23, 81.73±0.22), and abnormality (5.43±0.21, 5.03±0.17, 5.23±0.18) varied significantly (p<0.05) between control TFYG and TFYG having antioxidant additives. The mean U/L activities of AST (78.70±0.47, 72.80±0.48, 73.30±0.54), LDH (172.70±0.41, 155.78±0.42, 156.33±0.41), and AKP (103.61±0.34, 90.20±0.34, 91.03±0.34) in semen diluted with TFYG, TFYG + cysteine HCl and TFYG + ascorbic acid diluents at post-thaw stage, respectively, which showed significantly (p<0.05) higher leakage of enzymes in control TFYG than TFYG incorporated with additives.Conclusion:Incorporation of antioxidant additives such as cysteine HCl and ascorbic acid in standard TFYG diluents improves sperm quality parameters, reduces enzyme leakage, and ultimately advances cryopreservability of buffalo semen.

Background: Epidemiological studies of Indian population reveal that dementia is largely a hidden problem in India. Ayurveda claims several plants are beneficial in cognitive disorders. Pharmaco-epidemiological studies reveal that herbal and allopathic learning and memory enhancing medicines are becoming very popular among Indian population. Methodology: The present study was aimed at investing the effects of Dr. Brain Syrup and Capsule, Ayurvedic polyherbal formulation on memory enhancing activity in albino wistar rats. Drugs were administered through intraperitoneal at therapeutic dose for 28 days to different groups of the rats. Elevated Plus maze (EPM) and Radial Arm maze apparatus were served as the evaluating tool to identify the Transfer Latency (