Amit Kumar

This book highlights recent findings on and analyses conducted on signals and images in the area of medicine. The experimental investigations involve a variety of signals and images and their methodologies range from very basic to sophisticated methods. The book explains how signal and image processing methods can be used to detect and forecast abnormalities in an easy-to-follow manner, offering a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, physicians and bioinformatics researchers alike.

When an investor believes a stock is overvalued and will soon drop in price, he might decide to "short" it. First, he borrows an amount of the stock, and then sells it. He waits for the stock to tank before buying back the same amount of shares at a deflated price. After returning the shares to his lender, he pockets the difference-unless any one of several hard-to-predict variables interferes, and the stock fails to drop. Since these variables are so hard to predict, short selling is difficult for even seasoned investors. It takes great talent and experience to isolate the best short ideas for falling stocks-skills Amit Kumar developed and honed over decades of market analysis and trading. This book shares his short-selling framework, built on themes common to falling stocks and the market's endemic strengths and cycles. Featuring key case studies and exclusive interviews with successful fund managers Bill Ackman (Pershing Square Capital Management) and Mark Roberts (Off Wall Street Consulting Group), Kumar shows investors how to avoid traps and profit from well-researched short ideas. Investors may not always act on short ideas, but they can avoid losses by using Kumar's framework to identify overvalued stocks. Professionals and amateur investors alike will benefit from this fundamental research approach, which transforms short selling into a long-term strategy.

This book is a collection of all the experimental results and analysis carried out on medical images of diabetic related causes. The experimental investigations have been carried out on images starting from very basic image processing techniques such as image enhancement to sophisticated image segmentation methods. This book is intended to create an awareness on diabetes and its related causes and image processing methods used to detect and forecast in a very simple way. This book is useful to researchers, Engineers, Medical Doctors and Bioinformatics researchers.

This Brief covers broad areas of Applied Biology specifically into the domains of Biotechnology/Biomedicine and Forensic Science. Chapters included here would also explain the role of bioinformatics in protein and gene characterization, modeling of the protein structure, survey related to the chromosomal effect on Human Disorders like Diabetes and Cardiac Problems. This Brief is full of Innovative Literature like Use of Microbes in Electricity Production, Brain connection to Type 2 Diabetes etc. Interesting issues in Forensic biology and the aspects of Bioforensics like STR profiling of exhumed bones makes this brief truly useful and informative for Researchers. It also includes the advancements and new ideologies in understanding crop improvements & crop quality. This Brief witnesses Innovative Research related to the Bio and Agri software development too which are capable of accelerating Insilico biological data analysis.

क्रिकेट जगत के लोग ही नहीं बल्कि राजनीति, साहित्य, खेल, वैज्ञानिक जगत की हस्तियां भी धोनी की कप्तानी के दीवाने हैं। आम आदमी की नजर में भी धोनी भारत के महानतम कप्तान हैं। दो दशकों से दुनिया भर में अपनी सफलता का डंका बजाने वाले सचिन तेंदुलकर का कहना है कि जितने कप्तानों के साथ वे खेल चुके हैं, उन सब में महेन्द्र सिंह धोनी सर्वश्रेष्ठ हैं। भारतीय कप्तान की तारीफ करते हुए सचिन कहते हैं कि रणनीति बनाने में धोनी माहिर और बेहद चुस्त हैं। इस पुस्तक में महेंद्र सिंह धोनी के जीवन की ऐसी कई अनकही कहानियां हैं जो आपको जीवन में सफलता पाने के लिए प्रेरित करती हैं।।

This was a prospective randomized double blind study conducted in Himalayan Institute of Medical Sciences. The aim was to evaluate the onset time of sensory and motor block; time required for complete sensory and motor block; to assess the duration of analgesia, sensory and motor block; to observe the haemodynamic changes and observe for any side effect and complications. Total 75 adult patients of either sex, ASA stutus I- III, body weight > 50 kg and with no contraindication to peripheral nerve blocks were randomly divided into three equal Groups-A, B and C all patients underwent elective upper limb surgery. No premedication was given to any of the patients. Group A- lignocaine]bupivacaine Group B- A+buprenorphine Group C- A+ fentanyl . All the patients were given brachial plexus block by supraclavicular approach using nerve stimulator. Cardiorespiratory parameters and drug toxicity and side effects and complications were monitored. Conclusion: Success rate with the technique was 100% with no incidence of pneumothorax or other complications like horner's syndrome, neurological deficit etc.