Umbilical Cord Care Practices and Cord Care Education of Mothers Attending Health Care (Pakistan Prospect)

Neonatal mortality is of global concern, it is the death in the first month of life. According to WHO, 2.4 million children died globally in the first month of life2. Globally the neonatal mortality rate declined slowly from 28/100 live births in 2000 to 17.9/100 live births in 2019. It is a major challenge for the low socioeconomic group of countries. Most neonatal deaths occurred in south Asia and African countries, in 2019 out of 2.4 million death 81% occurred in the Southeast Asia. Objective: To evaluate and improve cord care practices of mothers to reduce the risk of cord related infections. Methodology: The mixed method will be used in this research, questionnaire is used for data collection, total collected sample is 391. Results: 354 (91.0%) of the 394 patients analyzed obtained prenatal care (ANC) in both traditional and nontraditional settings. Among these, 288 (72.3%) got cord care health education, whereas 106 (27.7%) did not. The overall documentation of the instructions for the use of metabolized spirits alone included 116 (48.9%) teaching institutions and 103 (43.5%) private hospitals. the average results show the age of the baby 1 - 7 days, the average age of the mother is 18 - 25 years. The average education of the mothers is primary. Participation of health centers is average. Most of the participants has 1 child. Conclusion: This research concludes the poor umbilical cord practices and knowledge. Those with information used it better. Raise awareness about umbilical cord care and improper behaviors, including using mentholated balms. Before women leave the hospital, they should learn cord care. Mothers must clean wires. Several healthcare organizations don’t provide cord care instruction, and what they provide isn’t research-based.

Experimental investigation of evaporative cooling systems for agricultural storage and livestock air-conditioning in Pakistan

Evaporative cooling(EC)is an ancient technique that is usually suitable for hot and dry climatic conditions due to the potential of water vapor evaporation.In this study,three kinds of evaporative cooling systems such as direct EC(DEC),indirect EC(IEC),and Maisotsenko cycle EC(MEC)were locally developed at lab-scale.The performance of the systems was evaluated and compared for agricultural storage and livestock air-conditioning application in Pakistan.The experiments were performed for climatic conditions of Multan city(Pakistan)and the data were collected for hourly and daily basis.According to the results,it was observed that the DEC system has the ability to reduce the temperature of ambient air to an average of 8.5℃.Whilst IEC and MEC systems were able to drop the temperature of ambient air to an average of 6.8℃and 8.9℃,respectively.As per the results,the DEC system remained behind to provide desired conditions for livestock and agricultural product storage applications due to excessive humidity.On the other hand,the IEC and MEC systems can achieve the desired conditions for livestock application,but could not provide feasible conditions for various fruits and vegetable storage.The study concludes that hybrid EC systems can be developed to provide desired conditions for a wide range of applications under varying climatic conditions.

Impacts of fuel feeding methods on the thermal and emission performance of modern coal burning stoves

The extensive use of traditional cooking and heating stoves to meet domestic requirements creates a serious problem of indoor and outdoor air pollution.This study reports the impacts of two fuel feeding methods-front-loading and top-loading on the thermal and emissions performance of a modern coal-fired water-heating and cooking stove using a contextual test sequence that replicates typical patterns of domestic use.Known as a low-pressure boiler,when this stove was fueled with raw coal,the findings indicate that front-loading the fuel,which devolatilizes the new fuel gradually,produced consistently higher space heating efficiency and lower emission factors than top-loading the same stove,which devolatilizes new fuel all at once.Comparing the performance at both high and low power gave the similar results:front-loading with raw coal produced consistently better results than top-loading.The average water heating efficiency when front-loading was(58.6±2.3)%and(53.4±1.8)%for top-loading.Over the sixteen-hour test sequence,front-loading produced 22%lower emissions of PM2.5(3.9±0.6)mg/MJNET than top-loading(4.7±0.9)mg/MJNET.The same pattern was observed for carbon monoxide and the CO/CO2 ratio.CO was reduced from(5.0±0.4)g/MJNET to(4.1±0.5)g/MJNET.The combustion efficiency(CO/CO2 ratio)improved from(8.2±0.8)%to(6.6±0.6)%.Briquetted semi-coked coal briquettes are promoted as a raw coal substitute,and the tests were replicated using this fuel.Again,the same pattern of improved performance was observed.Front loading produced 3.5%higher heating efficiency,10%lower CO and a 0.9%lower CO/CO2 ratio.It is concluded that,compared with top loading,the manufacturers recommended front-loading refueling behavior delivered better thermal,emissions and combustion performance under all test conditions with those two fuels.

Investigation of energy-efficient solid desiccant system for wheat drying

The study investigates the applicability of solid desiccant system for drying of freshly harvested wheat grains in order to reduce the moisture content to an optimum level.Fast and low-temperature drying systems are required by today’s drying industries in order to provide economical and safe drying.Therefore,comparison of desiccant drying has been made with the conventional method in terms of drying kinetics,allowable time for safe storage,the total time for drying cycle,and overall energy consumption.It has been found that the air conditions of proposed desiccant drying system provides a high drying rate and longer allowable storage time for safe drying.As the desiccants possess water adsorbing ability by means of vapor pressure deficit,therefore,the desiccant system successfully provides low-temperature drying which ensures the quality of wheat grains.Overall energy consumption is estimated for both conventional hot air drying and desiccant drying system.It has been found that the desiccant system requires less energy as drying is accomplished at minimum level of air flow and within allowable storage time.In addition,the overall performance index of the desiccant system is higher at all temperatures.The study is useful for developing a low-cost and sustainable drying technology for various agricultural products.

Effect of foreign ions for the determination of metal ion in the presence of surfactants

Aluminum is the third most abundant metal in the Earth’s crust.Despite its ubiquitous nature it is present in small amount in living organisms.Aluminum toxicity has been implicated in the pathogenesis of renal distinct clinical syndromes,including progressive and fatal encephalopathy and bone diseases.In the present study,Al was selected for the analysis by complexometric method.This method was based on the formation of a red colored ternary complex by the reaction of Aluminum with Aluminon(Aurin tricarboxylic acid triammonium salt)in the presence of micellar medium.The ternary complex of Aluminum with the surfactant Triton X-100 shows a maximum absorbance at 530 nm wavelength at pH 4.0 while with the sodium dodecyl sulfate it shows a maximum absorbance at 525 nm and at pH 5.0.The reaction was proceeded by the variation in pH and concentrations of surfactants,aluminon,aluminum.Their effects on the reaction of aluminum with aluminon complex in micellar media were recorded by UV-visible spectrophotometer.The reaction was found to be extremely rapid at room temperature.The system obeys Lambert Beer’s law between 0.24 and 21.74μg/mL concentrations with Triton X-100.The values of slope,intercept and correlation coefficients were 0.07,0.348 and 0.989,respectively.The concentration varied between 0.24 and 24.14μg/mL with sodium dodecyl sulfate and the values of slope,intercept and correlation coefficients were 0.029,0.148 and 0.962,respectively.The foreign ion effect was also tested by keeping the constant concentration of metal ion and determining its concentration in the presence of different foreign ions.The method was also applied for the determination of Al(III)in pharmaceutical formulations and water samples,which showed an excellent resemblance between reported and obtained results.

The kinetics study of the reduction of Fast Green dye with cetylpyridinum chloride as cationic surfactant

The kinetics of the reaction of Fast Green dye(FG)with cetylpyridinum chloride was studied in alkaline medium by UV-Visible spectrophotometer.Reduction of Fast Green dye was carried out by varying the fast green dye concentration,cetylpyridinum chloride concentration and concentration of sodium hydroxide.In the present study the reduction of dye was carried out in order to reduce the color content.The interaction of dye was carried out with reducing analyte(cetylpyridinum chloride).The rate of the reaction was determined by varying the above parameters at different temperatures.It was observed that the reduction followed pseudo first-order kinetics with respect to dye,surfactant,OH–ion concentration according to the following reaction pathway.reaction like entropy of activation(ΔS)and free energy of activation(ΔG)showed the extremely solvated states of transient complex which was less disorderly arranged than the oxidized form of dye,whereas Ea values reflects a high amount of energy required for the reduction of dye with cetylpyridinum chloride.