A SEMINAR REPORT ON UNICODE STANDARD

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UNICODE STANDARD

A SEMINAR REPORT

PRESENTED BY


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DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE, FACULTY OF SCIENCE
MADONNA UNIVERSITY ELELE CAMPUS, RIVERS STATE

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT FOR THE AWARD OF BACHELOR OF SCIENCE (B.Sc.) DEGREE IN COMPUTER SCIENCE

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DECLARATION


This is to certify that this seminar work titled: Unicode standard was fully carried out by registration number CS/##/### in partial fulfillment of the requirement for the award of Bachelor of Science in Computer Science. This seminar research was done by the following stated above, and has not been submitted elsewhere for the award of a certification diploma or degree.
                                                                    
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT


I would like to thank the almighty God for giving me the courage to do this topic and to my supervisor ######## ####### ##### for his support and guidance throughout this research. I would also like to extend my heartfelt thanks to my parents ######## ####### #####. I would also like to thank ######## ####### ##### and to the HOD Computer science department MRS ######## ####### ##### and all the lectures who has one way or the other help me on the course of this research fellow colleagues and to all those who supported and encouraged me.














 


TABLE OF CONTENTS
DECLARATION.. 2
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.. 3
ABSTRACT.. 7
CHAPTER 1. 8
INTRODUCTION.. 8
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY.. 8
1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT.. 9
1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY.. 9
1.4 SCOPE OF THE REPORT.. 9
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY.. 10
1.6 LIMITATIONS.. 10
1.7 GLOSSARY.. 10
1.8 ORGANIZATION OF THE CHAPTER.. 10
1.8.1 Chapter 2 Literature Review.. 10
1.8.2 Chapter 3 Finding/Case Study. 10
1.8.3 Chapter 4 Conclusion.. 10
CHAPTER 2. 11
LITERATURE REVIEW... 11
HISTORY OF UNICODE STANDARD.. 11
HISTORICAL BACKGROUND.. 12
ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT.. 13
CHAPTER 3. 14
FINDINGS.. 14
3.1 COVERAGE OF UNICODE STANDARD.. 14
3.1.1 Languages covered by Unicode standard.. 14
3.1.2 Design Basis. 14
3.1.3 Text Handling.. 15
3.1.4 The Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646. 15
3.1.5 The Unicode Consortium... 16
3.1.6 ASCII TEXT AND UNICODE TEXT.. 16
3.2 CHARACTER SEMANTICS.. 17
3.3 WHY UNICODE STANDARD WAS DESIGNED.. 17
3.4 WHEN TO USE UNICODE-MODE APPLICABLE.. 17
3.5 ADVANTAGES OF UNICODE STANDARD.. 18
3.6 DISADVANTAGES OF UNICODE STANDARD.. 18
3.7 BENEFITS OF UNICODE STANDARD.. 18
3.8 THE IMPORTANCE OF UNICODE STANDARD.. 19
3.9 PROBLEM OF UNICODE STANDARD.. 19
3.10 AVAILABILITY OF UNICODE STANDARD.. 19
3.11 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ASCII AND UNICODE STANDARD KEYBOARD.. 20
CHAPTER 4. 21
CONCLUSION.. 21
4.1 SUMMARY.. 21
4.2 RECOMMENDATION.. 21
REFERENCE.. 23














ABSTRACT

The Unicode Standard is the universal character encoding scheme for writing characters and text. It defines a consistent way of encoding multilingual text that enables the exchange of text data internationally and creates the foundation for global software. The main objective of this research is that Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems and also for the classical forms of many languages which the unified Han subset contains 27,484 ideographic characters defined by national and industry standards of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Singapore. Unicode Standard goes far beyond ASCII's limited ability to encode only the upper and lowercase letters A through Z but Unicode have the capacity to encode all characters used for the written languages of the world and close more than 1 million characters can be encoded therefore making those in the listed countries stated above to make use of their different letter symbols to communicate with each other. Unicode standard provide basis of software that must function all around the world.















CHAPTER 1


INTRODUCTION


1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY

               The Unicode Standard is the universal character encoding scheme for written characters and text. It defines a consistent way of encoding multilingual text that enables the exchange of text data internationally and creates the foundation for global software. As the default encoding of HTML and XML, the Unicode Standard provides a sound underpinning for the World Wide Web and new methods of business in a networked world. Required in new Internet protocols and implemented in all modern operating systems and computer languages such as Java, Unicode is the basis of software that must function all around the world.
With Unicode, the information technology industry gains data stability instead of proliferating character sets; greater global interoperability and data interchange; and simplified software and reduced development costs.
While modeled on the ASCII character set, the Unicode Standard goes far beyond ASCII's limited ability to encode only the upper- and lowercase letters A through Z. It provides the capacity to encode all characters used for the written languages of the world--more than 1 million characters can be encoded. No escape sequence or control code is required to specify any character in any language. The Unicode character encoding treats alphabetic characters, ideographic characters, and symbols equivalently, which means they can be used in any mixture and with equal facility
The Unicode Standard specifies a numeric value and a name for each of its characters. In this respect, it is similar to other character encoding standards from ASCII onward. In addition to character codes and names, other information is crucial to ensure legible text: a character's case, directionality, and alphabetic properties must be well defined. The Unicode Standard defines this and other semantic information, and includes application data such as case mapping tables and mappings to the repertoires of international, national, and industry character sets. The Unicode Consortium provides this additional information to ensure consistency in the implementation and interchange of Unicode data.
Unicode provides for two encoding forms: a default 16-bit form and a byte-oriented form called UTF-8 that has been designed for ease of use with existing ASCII-based systems. The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0, is code-for-code identical with International Standard ISO/IEC 10646. Any implementation that is conformant to Unicode is therefore conformant to ISO/IEC 10646.
Using a 16-bit encoding means that code values are available for more than 65,000 characters. While this number is sufficient for coding the characters used in the major languages of the world, the Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646 provide the UTF-16 extension mechanism (called surrogates in the Unicode Standard), which allows for the encoding of as many as 1 million additional characters without any use of escape codes. This capacity is sufficient for all known character encoding Unicode covers all the characters for all the writing systems of the world, modern and ancient. It also includes technical symbols, punctuations, and many other characters used in writing text.

1.2 PROBLEM STATEMENT

Unicode is a computing industry standard allowing computers to consistently represent and manipulate text expressed in most of the world's writing systems. Older fonts were designed before Unicode.
They placed special characters in non-standard "slots" in the encoding. You can tell this in InDesign's Glyphs panel, because when you pause over a special character, the tooltip description (based on Unicode) won't match what you're seeing.

1.3 OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY

The main objective of this research is that Unicode is a computing industry standard for the consistent encoding, representation, and handling of text expressed in most of the world's writing systems.

1.4 SCOPE OF THE REPORT

This work will cover the definition of Unicode standard, what it is used for and the advantages and disadvantages of using the standard. It will also list some languages covered by Unicode standard. How the languages assign or arrive at different coding system will not be part of this work.

1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

The essence of this topic is to enable my listeners to know that Unicode standard is based on inserting different languages and symbols attached to your keyboard of your computer system, which the symbols are different letters in our keyboard like A-Z that is each country have their own symbols for English letter.

1.6 LIMITATIONS

The main problem of his topic is that countries that their main language is not English language was having problem using the keyboard for typing and sending messages since their own type of letters were not in use example China , Cameroon , Russia etc. 

 1.7 GLOSSARY

·         UTF-Unicode Transformation Format
·         UTC-Unicode Technical Committee
·         IETF- Internet Engineering Task Force
·         UCS-Universal Character Set

1.8 ORGANIZATION OF THE CHAPTER

1.8.1 Chapter 2 Literature Review

This section is talking about some of the related literatures or work done by other researchers pertaining to this topic and how this literatures relate to my report. The study of Unicode standard have proven to be important to the research community.

1.8.2 Chapter 3 Finding/Case Study

My final chapter three is on my research findings. Where I discussed the results that I discovered in relation to Unicode standard. I discussed about the various parts of Unicode standard and how they affect and helps the society.

1.8.3 Chapter 4 Conclusion

This section contains the conclusion, summary and the recommendation of the technical report on Unicode standards


CHAPTER 2

LITERATURE REVIEW

HISTORY OF UNICODE STANDARD

       The Unicode standard document is the original Unicode manifesto, authored by Joe Becker. It developed the basic principles for the Unicode design and briefly outlined the history and status of the "Unicode Proposal" as of 1988. Some of its content was reworked for inclusion in the early Unicode pre-publication drafts.
The August, 1990 document was a very rough working draft for the standard. The editors and the Unicode Working Group (UWG) the predecessor of the UTC―used it to help lay out the anticipated content and structure of the standard. It contained no code charts or block descriptions. This draft preceded the final decision about the eventual name of the Unicode Consortium—hence the odd name of the consortium on the title page. The Unicode Consortium was not officially incorporated until January 3, 1991.
The October, 1990 draft was fairly widely distributed. It contained very abbreviated introductory text, initial drafts of the code charts, the first draft of the character names index, the first draft of multi-column Unihan charts, and various mapping tables. It was referred to at the time as "Unicode 0.9".
The December, 1990 drafts were even more widely distributed, including to many international reviewers. They were used to elicit public feedback on the draft standard. They put the participating SC2 national bodies on notice that the Unicode Consortium was serious about developing and publishing its standard. The first volume contained a more extended introduction, a full draft of the non-Han code charts, including the first version of the character names list. It also contained the first drafts of the block descriptions. The second volume contained the multi-column Unihan charts and the draft of the Han block introduction. At the time these draft volumes were referred to collectively as the "Final Review Draft".
The May 7, 1991 draft was complete content, intended for final Unicode Consortium membership review and approval and non-Han part of the draft standard prior to copy editing with the eventual publisher, Addison-Wesley.                

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

         The origins of Unicode date to 1987, when Joe Becker from Xerox and Lee Collins and Mark Davis from Apple started investigating the practicalities of creating a universal character set. In August 1988, Joe Becker published a draft proposal for an "international/multilingual text character encoding system, tentatively called Unicode". He explained that "[t]he name 'Unicode' is intended to suggest a unique, unified, universal encoding.
Unicode is intended to address the need for a workable, reliable world text encoding. Unicode could be roughly described as "wide-body ASCII" that has been stretched to 16 bits to encompass the characters of all the world's living languages. In a properly engineered design, 16 bits per character are more than sufficient for this purpose.
His original 16-bit design was based on the assumption that only those scripts and characters in modern use would need to be encoded
Unicode gives higher priority to ensuring utility for the future than to preserving past antiquities. Unicode aims in the first instance at the characters published in modern text (e.g. in the union of all newspapers and magazines printed in the world in 1988), whose number is undoubtedly far below 214 = 16,384. Beyond those modern-use characters, all others may be defined to be obsolete or rare; these are better candidates for private-use registration than for congesting the public list of generally useful Unicode.
In early 1989,Unicode working group expanded to include Ken Whistler and Mike Kernaghan of Metaphor, Karen Smith-Yoshimura and Joan Aliprand of RLG, and Glenn Wright of Sun Microsystems, and in 1990 Michel Suignard and Asmus Freytag from Microsoft and Rick McGowan of NeXT joined the group. By the end of 1990, most of the work on mapping existing character encoding standards had been completed, and a final review draft of Unicode was ready.
The Unicode Consortium was incorporated on January 3, 1991, in California, and in October 1991, the first volume of the Unicode standard was published. The second volume, covering Han ideographs, was published in June 1992.
In 1996, a surrogate character mechanism was implemented in Unicode 2.0, so that Unicode was no longer restricted to 16 bits. This increased the Unicode code space to over a million code points, which allowed for the encoding of many historic scripts (e.g., Egyptian) and thousands of rarely used or obsolete characters that had not been anticipated as needing encoding. Among the characters not originally intended for Unicode are rarely used Kanji or Chinese characters, many of which are part of personal and place names, making them rarely used, but much more essential than envisioned in the original architecture of Unicode


ORIGIN AND DEVELOPMENT

Unicode has the explicit aim of transcending the limitations of traditional character encodings, such as those defined by the ISO 8859 standard, which find wide usage in various countries of the world but remain largely incompatible with each other. Many traditional character encodings share a common problem in that they allow bilingual computer processing (usually using Latin characters and the local script), but not multilingual computer processing (computer processing of arbitrary scripts mixed with each other).
Unicode, in intent, encodes the underlying characters—graphemes and grapheme-like units—rather than the variant glyphs (renderings) for such characters. In the case of Chinese characters, this sometimes leads to controversies over distinguishing the underlying character from its variant glyphs.
In text processing, Unicode takes the role of providing a unique code point—a number, not a glyph—for each character. In other words, Unicode represents a character in an abstract way and leaves the visual rendering (size, shape, font, or style) to other software, such as a web browser or word processor. This simple aim becomes complicated, however, because of concessions made by Unicode's designers in the hope of encouraging a more rapid adoption of Unicode.
The first 256 code points were made identical to the content of ISO-8859-1 so as to make it trivial to convert existing western text. Many essentially identical characters were encoded multiple times at different code points to preserve distinctions used by legacy encodings and therefore, allow conversion from those encodings to Unicode (and back) without losing any information. For example, the "full width forms" section of code points encompasses a full Latin alphabet that is separate from the main Latin alphabet section. In Chinese, Japanese, and Korean (CJK) fonts, these characters are rendered at the same width as CJK ideographs, rather than at half the width.


                        


CHAPTER 3

FINDINGS

3.1 COVERAGE OF UNICODE STANDARD

3.1.1 Languages covered by Unicode standard

The Unicode Standard, Version 3.0, contains 49,194 characters from the world's scripts. These characters are more than sufficient not only for modern communication, but also for the classical forms of many languages. Scripts include the European alphabetic scripts, Middle Eastern right-to-left scripts, and scripts of Asia. The unified Han subset contains 27,484 ideographic characters defined by national and industry standards of China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and Singapore. In addition, the Unicode Standard includes punctuation marks, mathematical symbols, technical symbols, geometric shapes, and dingbats.

3.1.2 Design Basis

The primary goal of the development effort for the Unicode Standard was to remedy two serious problems common to most multilingual computer programs. The first problem was the overloading of the font mechanism when encoding characters while the second major problem was the use of multiple, inconsistent character codes because of conflicting national and industry character standards. In Western European software environments, for example, one often finds confusion between the Windows Latin 1 code and ISO/IEC 8859-1. In software for East Asian ideographs, the same set of bytes used for ASCII may also be used as the second byte of a double-byte character. In these situations, software must be able to distinguish between ASCII and double-byte characters.
Universal, Efficient, and Unambiguous

Figure 1-2. Universal, Efficient, and Unambiguous

3.1.3 Text Handling

Computer text handling involves processing and encoding. When a word processor user types in text via a keyboard, the computer's system software receives a message that the user pressed a key combination for "T", which it encodes as U+0054. The word processor stores the number in memory and also passes it on to the display software responsible for putting the character on the screen. This display software, which may be a windows manager or part of the word processor itself, then uses the number as an index to find an image of a "T", which it draws on the monitor screen. The process continues as the user types in more characters.
 The Unicode Standard directly addresses only the encoding and semantics of text and not any other actions performed on the text. In the preceding scenario, the word processor might check the typist's input after it has been encoded to look for misspelled words, and then highlight any errors it finds. Alternatively, the word processor might insert line breaks when it counts a certain number of characters entered since the last line break. An important principle of the Unicode Standard is that the standard does not specify how to carry out these processes as long as the character encoding and decoding is performed properly and the character semantics are maintained.

3.1.4 The Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646

The Unicode Standard is fully compatible with the international standard ISO/IEC 10646-1:2000, Information Technology--Universal Multiple-Octet Coded Character Set (UCS)--Part 1: Architecture and Basic Multilingual Plane, which is also known as the Universal Character Set (UCS). During 1991, the Unicode Consortium and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) recognized that a single, universal character code was highly desirable. A formal convergence of the two standards was negotiated, and their repertoires were merged into a single character encoding in January 1992. Since then, close cooperation and formal liaison between the committees have ensured that all additions to either standard are coordinated and kept synchronized, so that the two standards maintain exactly the same character repertoire and encoding.

3.1.5 The Unicode Consortium

The Unicode Consortium was incorporated in January 1991, under the name Unicode, Inc., to promote the Unicode Standard as an international encoding system for information interchange, to aid in its implementation, and to maintain quality control over future revisions.
The Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) is the working group within the Consortium responsible for the creation, maintenance, and quality of the Unicode Standard. The UTC controls all technical input to the standard and makes associated content decisions. Full Members of the Consortium vote on UTC decisions. Associate and Specialist Members and Officers of the Unicode Consortium are nonvoting UTC participants. Other attendees may participate in UTC discussions at the discretion of the Chair, as the intent of the UTC is to act as an open forum for the free exchange of technical ideas.

3.1.6 ASCII TEXT AND UNICODE TEXT

It provides the capacity to encode all characters used for the written languages of the world--more than 1 million characters can be encoded. No escape sequence or control code is required to specify any character in any language. The Unicode character encoding treats alphabetic characters, ideographic characters, and symbols equivalently, which means they can be used in any mixture and with equal facility.

Wide ASCII

Figure 1-1. Wide ASCII

3.2 CHARACTER SEMANTICS

The Unicode standard includes an extensive database that specifies a large number of characters properties, including:
·         Name
·         Type (e.g., letter, digit, punctuation mark)
·         Decomposition
·         Case and case mappings (for cased letters)
·         Numeric value (for digits and numerals)
·         Combining class (for combining characters)

·         Directionality
·         Line-breaking behavior
·         Cursive joining behavior
·         For Chinese characters, mappings to various other standards and many other properties

3.3 WHY UNICODE STANDARD WAS DESIGNED


·         Universal-The repertoire must be large enough to encompass all characters that are likely to be used in general text interchange, including those in major international, national, and industry character sets.

·         Efficient-Plain text is simple to parse: software does not have to maintain state or look for special escape sequences, and character synchronization from any point in a character stream is quick and unambiguous.

·         Uniform. A fixed character code allows for efficient sorting, searching, display, and editing of text.

·         Unambiguous. Any given 16-bit value always represents the same character.

3.4 WHEN TO USE UNICODE-MODE APPLICABLE

Consider working with Unicode-mode applications only in the following situations:
  • You need to enable users with different languages to view, in their own languages and character sets, information from a common database.
For example, using alias tables in Japanese and German, users in Japan and Germany can view information about a common product set in their own languages.
  • You need to handle artifact names longer than non-Unicode-mode applications support.
For example, application and database names need to include more than eight characters, or you are working with a multi byte character set, and you need to handle more characters in artifact names.

3.5 ADVANTAGES OF UNICODE STANDARD

  • Unicode is a 16-bit system which can support many more characters than ASCII.
  • The first 128 characters are the same as the ASCII system making it compatable.
  • There are 6400 characters set aside for the user or software.
  • There are still characters which have not been defined yet, future-proofing the system.
  • It impact it has on the performance of the international economy
  • This enables corporations to manage the high demands of international markets by processing different writing systems at the same time.
·         Character based encoding.
·         Unicode values are governed by characters (vowels and consonants).
·         Can be ported on any platform and any OS.
·         Can be ported on hand held and mobile devices
·         Different scripts have different code page.
·         All Asian languages are supported along with all other languages.
·         Allows multiple languages in the same data.
                                                                   

3.6 DISADVANTAGES OF UNICODE STANDARD

  • Unicode files are very large because it takes 2 bytes to store each character

3.7 BENEFITS OF UNICODE STANDARD

Support for Unicode provides many benefits to application developers, including:
  • Global source and binary.
  • Support for mixed-script computing environments.
  • Improved cross-platform data interoperability through a common code set.
  • Space-efficient encoding scheme for data storage.
  • Reduced time-to-market for localized products.
  • Expanded market access.
  • For a translated, multi byte base implementation, you have experienced a “round-trip” problem, where two different bit values can map to the same character, which can occur in communications between multi byte operating systems and application programs.

3.8 THE IMPORTANCE OF UNICODE STANDARD

·         Unicode enables a single software product or a single website to be designed for multiple platforms, languages and countries (no need for re-engineering) which can lead to a significant reduction in cost over the use of legacy character sets.
·         Unicode data can be used through many different systems without data corruption.
·         Unicode represents a single encoding scheme for all languages and characters.
·         Unicode is a common point in the conversion between other character encoding schemes.
·         Unicode is the preferred encoding scheme used by XML-based tools and applications.

3.9 PROBLEM OF UNICODE STANDARD

                          
·         Overloading of the font mechanism when encoding characters fonts have often been indiscriminately mapped to the same set of byte.

·         The use of multiple, inconsistent character codes because of conflicting national and industry character standards


3.10 AVAILABILITY OF UNICODE STANDARD

·         UNICODE is not vendor specific
·         Backward compatible
·         Major database, OS, browser players support some form UNICODE encoding
·         Data Migration services will be provided free for e-governance developers
·         Currently  office documents such as .doc/.docx, .xls/xlsx, .txt can be converted to UNICODE
·         Soon database migration tools will also be made available.
                  

3.11 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ASCII AND UNICODE STANDARD        KEYBOARD


ASCII REPRESENTATION
     
ASCII representation




UNICODE STANDARD REPRESENTATION
    
 

UNICODE standard representation










CHAPTER 4

 CONCLUSION

                               The objective of this report is talking about the study of Unicode standard. This ssstudy brings more insights on some of the most problems in Unicode standard which has two serious problems common to most multilingual computer programs.The main purpose of the study is to carry out these processes as long as the character encoding and decoding is performed properly and the character semantics are maintained. I believe that Unicode standard have helped countries that don’t understand English language to enable them make use of their systems to type and send messages to one another.

4.1 SUMMARY

                   Unicode standard is emphasizing about how universal character encoding scheme is written as character and text. It enable users with different language to view their own language and character set from a common database.it also enable single product or single website which is designed for multiple platform , languages and countries and it prefers encoding schemes use by XML-based tool and application.
                    Unicode standard is a superset of all character in widespread use today, which provides the capacity to encode all characters used for the written language of the world, which more than 1 million characters can be encoded and it also provides the capacity to encode characters used in writing languages in the world and treats alphabetic characters, ideographic characters and symbols equivalently which can be the mixture with equal facility.
                      Unicode standard contains 49,194 character from the world script which the unified subset contains 27,484 ideographic characters defined by the natural and industry standard of china, japan, Singapore etc.

4.2 RECOMMENDATION

            Unicode standard should be made available for developed countries that find it difficult to understand the main English language examples which are the Chinese, Ethiopia, Japanese, Korean etc. This countries making use of Unicode standard will enable them to make use of desktops/laptops and even mobile phone also, so that they can find it easy to send messages to each other.
          Unicode standard should also increase their versions ie adding more characters so that it can be more user friendly to the public.
                  









































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The DJI Spark Drone
The DJI Spark Drone

You will accept the fact that not everyone who wants a drone will be super stoked about having to lug a big ol’ carrying case around and all that. For those kinds of people, there is The DJI Spark Drone just made for them. The DJI Spark Drone is super compact so they can stuff it right into their bag without much-added bulk. And if you do not want to drop the money for the $119 controller, it can be controlled just with a mobile smartphone, or even gestures as the case may be. It will launch with a wave of the hand, and when you make a rectangle shape with your thumbs and forefingers, it snaps a selfie, isn't that interesting?
Price: The DJI Spark Drone sells for $441


6. The DJI Mavic Pro Drone


The DJI Mavic Pro Drone
The DJI Mavic Pro Drone
Surprisenly the DJI Mavic Pro Drone also folds. Thus it is another great option for travelers or people who do not want to carry a bunch of equipment whenever they go droning around. The optics on the Mavic Pro drone are not as great as the ones on other drones, but it is more compact and its accessories are more affordable cash wise. With the image quality aside, you can get a great machine that offers most of what DJI puts into its best flyers. 
Price: The DJI Mavic Pro Drone sells for $919




7. The Mindkoo JJRC H8 Mini Quad Copter Drone

The Mindkoo JJRC H8 Mini Quad Copter Drone
The Mindkoo JJRC H8 Mini Quad Copter Drone
If you have got a kid who is dying to fly a droneThe Mindkoo JJRC H8 Mini Quad Copter Drone is the right drone to grab for that kid. Just as $20, it is a steal, and you will not have to worry as much about them flying it into a tree or an object. The Mindkoo JJRC H8 Mini Quad Copter Drone is light so it cannot do much damage, and flying it will help them learn the basics before they step up to the bigger drones.
Price: The Mindkoo JJRC H8 Mini Quad Copter Drone sells for $20



8. The Aukey Mohawk Drone

The Aukey Mohawk Drone
The Aukey Mohawk Drone

The Aukey Mohawk Drone is yet Another great beginner drone for newbies. The Aukey Mohawk Drone gets up to 10 minutes of flight per charge, and its design makes it look like the Remote Control vehicle of the future. The Aukey Mohawk Drone does not have any fancy automation technology, but it will get budding pilots into the groove pretty seamlessly.
Price: The Aukey Mohawk Drone sells for $65



9. The Parrot Disco Drone

The Parrot Disco Drone
The Parrot Disco Drone

Are you looking for something other than a quadcopter? Then the Parrot Disco drone is just the right one and it changes things up in a fun way. The Parrot Disco Drone looks like a traditional “flying wing” airplane. The propeller is on the back, and there is a camera on the nose. The Parrot Disco Drone comes with a headset too, and when you slide in a smartphone, you get a first-person view of the flight action. Give someone the gift of feeling like a real airplane pilot at least until the battery dies.
Price: The Parrot Disco Drone sells for $600


Drone Extra Accessories

The Incase Camera Sling Bag

The Incase Camera Sling Bag
The Incase Camera Sling Bag
We all know that drones are awesome, but they are no good if they just sit at home collecting dust on the shelf. So you can equally get your pilot something to lug their bird around in. The Incase Camera Sling Bag keeps your drone gear nice and safe while remaining understated and inconspicuous. The Incase Camera Sling Bag will also hold some DSLR equipment and a 13-inch laptop for the multi-skilled creator pilots.
Price: The Incase Camera Sling Bag sells for $150



The VMEI Drone Landing Pad

The VMEI Drone Landing Pad
The VMEI Drone Landing Pad


Surprisenly, some drones will not land unless they can sense they have got a safe, clear place to perch as the case may be. The VMEI Drone Landing Pad helps guide drones back to the ground on terrain that is difficult for the drone to assess. This The VMEI Drone Landing Pad comes with reflective strips, so that late night flight sesh will not incur too much risk. 
Price: The VMEI Drone Landing Pad sells for $16.29



The Samsung 128GB Micro SD Card

The Samsung 128GB Micro SD Card
The Samsung 128GB Micro SD Card


As you know, your loved one will surely need somewhere to store all that sick footage they capture using their drones. If they like to fly all day, the more storage the better that is just the case. Most drones support up to 128GB Micro SD cards, and that should be plenty to get a day’s worth of aerial shots.
Price: The Samsung 128GB Micro SD Card sells for $45

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Latest: Nike Release Sales/Launch Date For New HyperAdapt 1.0 Self-Lacing Sneakers.

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Latest: Nike Release Sales/Launch Date For New HyperAdapt 1.0 Self-Lacing Sneakers.
Latest: Nike Release Sales/Launch Date For New HyperAdapt 1.0 Self-Lacing Sneakers.

If we can remember well in November of 2016 which was basically last year, the well-known company Nike introduced its first-ever self-lacing sneaker with the debut of the HyperAdapt 1.0 sneakers. Now in the year 2017, a year removed the initial release, the company Nike looks forward to continuing pushing the innovative self-lacing sneaker with a new colorway of the technically advanced shoe before the end of this year 2017.



Furthermore, launching in the next few days to come, the latest HyperAdapt 1.0 sneakers will feature a royal blue upper with hits of navy blue on the toe front and Swoosh branding. Also with black accents complementing the heel of the sneakers, a white colorway is added to the midsole of the sneakers to give the HyperAdapt 1.0 a contrast hue. With the HyperAdapt 1.0 made out of a mesh material, the HyperAdapt 1.0 come equipped with LED (Light Emitting Diode) lights on the heel and midsole that light up when a user uses the self-lacing system.


Latest: Nike Release Sales/Launch Date For New HyperAdapt 1.0 Self-Lacing Sneakers
Latest: Nike Release Sales/Launch Date For New HyperAdapt 1.0 Self-Lacing Sneakers

Morealso, the HyperAdapt 1.0 inspired by Marty McFly’s Mag shoes from the Back to the Future movie franchise, the first generation of the Nike HyperAdapt 1.0 sneakers includes electrical and mechanical engineering with Nike’s innovative Zoom Air unit.


Finally, the HyperAdapt 1.0 will be set to release on Friday, October 27, 2017 ( 27/10/2017 ), the Nike HyperAdapt 1.0 royal blue iteration will also be made available at select Nike retailers and accounts as well as nike.com. The HyperAdapt 1.0 sneaker will have a price tag of $720 (N259920), the surprising thing is that the sneakers will only be available for a limited amount of time only, so what are you waiting for, hurry up and grab a pair of the HyperAdapt 1.0 fast.

A RESEARCH PROPOSAL ON EFFECTS OF ESSENTIAL OILS ON MEDICAL PATHOGENIC BACTERIA

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A RESEARCH PROPOSAL ON EFFECTS OF ESSENTIAL OILS ON MEDICAL PATHOGENIC BACTERIA
A RESEARCH PROPOSAL ON EFFECTS OF ESSENTIAL OILS ON MEDICAL PATHOGENIC BACTERIA

MADONNA UNIVERSITY,
ELELE, RIVERS STATE,
NIGERIA.

EFFECTS OF ESSENTIAL OILS ON MEDICAL PATHOGENIC BACTERIA

BY
O******* E*******
MB/12/***.

A RESEARCH PROPOSAL SUBMITTED TO THE
 DEPARTMENT OF MICROBIOLOGY, FACULTY OF SCIENCES, 
MADONNA UNIVERSITY IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT
 OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE AWARD OF
 A BACHELOR OF SCIENCES (B.Sc.) IN MICROBIOLOGY

SUPERVISION: DR. W***** B*****
MAY, 2016.




CONTENTS
Introduction
Aim
Objectives
Methodology
References

  
INTRODUCTION
The increasing resistance of microorganisms to conventional chemicals and drugs has prompted scientists to search for novel sources of biocides with broad-spectrum activities (Abad, et al., 2007). In nature, Essential oil play an important role in the protection of plants. They may also attract some insects to promote the dispersion of pollens and seeds or keep away other undesirable insects. Thus, Essential oil can play a role in mediating the interactions of plants with the environment (Bakkali, et al., 2008).
Essential oils are aromatic liquid materials that are derived from plant material (flowers, buds, seeds, leaves, twigs, bark, stems, herbs, wood, fruits and roots) but are generally stored by the plant in secretory cells, cavities, canals, glandular trichomes or epidermic cells. (Van de Braak and Leijten, 1999). They can be obtained by expression, fermentation, effleurage or extraction with the method of steam being only for commercial purpose. Essential oils are concentrated natural products with strong smells that are produced by aromatic plants as secondary metabolites. These oils are present as variable mixtures of primarily terpenoids, especially monoterpenes (C10) and sesquiterpenes (C15), although diterpenes (C20) may also be present. Essential oils are liquid, volatile, limpid and coloured and are soluble in lipids and organic solvents that have a lower density than water. Essential oils are extracted from various aromatic plants that are generally found in temperate or warm countries, where they often represent an important part of the traditional pharmacopoeia. These plants may be known for their antioxidant effects as well as their antiseptic and medicinal properties and fragrance and are often used in the preservation of foods and as analgesics, sedatives, anti-inflammatories, spasmolytics and local anaesthetics (Bakkali, et al., 2008). Essential oils contain a wide series of secondary metabolites that can inhibit or slow the growth of bacteria, yeasts and moulds (De Martino et al., 2009). The Essential oils and their components have a variety of targets, particularly the membrane and cytoplasm, and in certain situations, they completely alter the morphology of the cells. Essential oils of medicinal plants have been used traditionally against pathogenic bacteria that caused infectious disease in human. In many parts of the world, the extracts and essential oil of medicinal plants with active biological compounds are used for their antimicrobial and antiviral properties that have been used in folk medicine (Hassawi and Kharma, 2006). The WHO considers phytotherapy in its health programs and suggests basic procedures for the validation of drugs in developing countries. Infectious diseases are the second leading cause of death worldwide (Fazly-Bazzaz et al., 2005). Generally, Gram-negative bacteria are more resistant to Essential oils than Gram-positive bacteria (Trombetta et al., 2005). The structure of the Gram-positive bacteria cell wall allows hydrophobic molecules to easily penetrate the cells and act on both the cell wall and within the cytoplasm. Phenolic compounds, which are also present in the Essential oil, generally show antimicrobial activity against Gram-positive bacteria.


AIM

This brief review will be to determine the effects of Essential oils against medical pathogenic bacteria
OBJECTIVES

  • To study the effect of essential oils on some medical pathogenic bacteria.
  • To characterize and identify medical pathogenic bacteria·
  • To determine the phytochemical properties in plants used for the extraction of essential oils.


METHODOLOGY

Collection Of Essential Oils
I will be using Essential oils which will be gotten from Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek Research Centre Ihiagwa, Imo State. Nigeria. 

Bacterial Strains
To evaluate the effects of the Essential oils, I will be using stocked isolates which will also be acquired from Anthony Van Leeuwenhoek Research Centre Ihiagwa, Imo State. Nigeria. They will be sub-cultured in the laboratory and prepared for antimicrobial susceptibility testing. Each test organism will be sub-cultured on different media for viability testing.


Characterization And Identification Of Bacterial Isolates
Pure cultures of bacterial isolates shall be identified on the basis of their colonial morphology, microscope and biochemical characteristics. Isolates shall be identified with reference standard bacteriological manual.

Media To Be Used


The media to be used in this study shall include Mannitol Salt Agar (MSA), Eosin Methylene Blue agar (EMB), Salmonella-Shigella Agar (SSA), Nutrient Agar (NA), MacConkey Agar (MCA), and Deoxychocolate Agar (DCA)


Media Preparations
I will prepare the media that will be used based on Manufacturers specifications. An electronic balance will be used to measure the quantity of agar that will be needed with the aid of a spatula before dispensing water into the beaker of choice which will autoclaved at 1210C for 15minutes before pouring into the number of petri dishes that will be used

Preparation Of Inoculums

I will be using streak method to inoculate my isolates on the media that will be prepared before incubating at room temperature (370C) for 24hours. After incubation, I will standardize my cultures using 0.5 McFarland standard turbidity of 1% Bacl and 1%H2SO4.

I will prepare Muller Hinton Agar using manufacturer’s specifications after autoclaving and then allow to solidify.

After that, I will use different swab sticks to pick from my inoculum, mix it in peptone water inside the bottle and then smear it evenly on of the Muller Hinton Agar plate and using a spreader, spread the inoculum evenly on the agar surface and then leave it to incubate at 370C for 24hours.

Preparation Of Antimicrobial Disc

I will impregnate sterile antimicrobial disc (Whatman 6mm) using Volume to Volume dilution to introduce the Essential oils to the disc. Ciproflaxacin will be used as my positive control disc and Dimethylsulphuric Acid (DMSO) as my negative control disc.

Disc Diffusion Method

I will place my disc that will be impregnated with Essential oils and standardized antibiotic disc on the surface of the standardized 0.5 McFarland inoculum and then wait for a period of 30minutes for absorption before incubating at 370C for 24hours and then check to see if there is/are susceptibilities or zones of inhibition.


REFERENCES

Abad, M.J., Ansuategui, M., Bermejo, P. (2007). Active Antifungal Substances from Natural Sources: ARCHIVOC 2007: 116–145.

Bakkali, F., Averbeck, S., Averbeck, D., Idaomar, M. (2008). Biological Effects of Essential Oils—a Review: Food Chem. Toxicol; 46: 446–475.

De Martino, L., De Feo, V., Nazzaro, F. (2009). Chemical Composition and In Vitro Antimicrobial and Mutagenic Activities of Seven Lamiaceae Essential Oils: Molecules; 14: 4213–4230.

Fazly-Bazzaz BS, Khajehkaramadin, M., Shokooheizadeh, HR. (2005). In Vitro Antibacterial Activity Of Rheum Ribes Extract Obtained From Various Plant Parts Against Clinical Isolates Of Gram-Negative Pathogens. Iranian J. Pharmacol. Res.; 2: 87-91.

Hassawi, D., Kharma, A. (2006). Antimicrobial Activity of Some Medicinal Plants against Candida Albicans. J. Biol. Sci.; 6: 109-114.

Trombetta, D., Castelli, F., Sarpietro, M.G., Venuti, V., Cristani, M., Daniele, C., Saija, A., Mazzanti, G., Bisignano, G. (2005). Mechanisms of Antibacterial Action of Three Monoterpenes. Antimicrob. Agents Chemother: 49; 2474–2478.

Van de Braak, S.A.A.J., Leijten, G.C.J.J., (1999). Essential Oils and Oleoresins: A Survey in the Netherlands and other Major Markets in the European Union. CBI, Centre for the Promotion of Imports from Developing Countries, Rotterdam: p. 116.


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Medication Drug Options For Mental Health Issues

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MEDICATION DRUG OPTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES
MEDICATION DRUG OPTIONS FOR MENTAL HEALTH ISSUES
Fortunately, prescript drugs can be used to treat mental health disorders in conjunction with behavioral therapy or cognitive therapy, antidepressants, mood stabilizers, and antipsychotics are the broad types of medically prescribed drugs to treat mental illness.



MENTAL HEALTH DRUGS POSSIBLE OPTIONS

Depending on the disorder, different medication will be prescribed. Antidepressant Such as Paxil, Zoloft, Prozac and a variety of SSRIs, SNRIs and MAOIs can be used to treat depression. Mood stabilizers such as lithium tablets are used to treat bipolar disorder, as are anticonvulsants like Depakote. Antipsychotics like olanzapine or clozapine are used to treat schizophrenia or psychotic depression.


MEDICATION SIDE EFFECTS

Some of the side effects of mental health medication include nausea, headache, change in appetite, dry mouth increased urination, change in libido, irritability, blurred vision and drowsiness. Other side effects can occur; each person body and brain chemistry is unique, and it is impossible to predict with certainty how a given medication will affect you or how well it will work. People who prescribed these medications should regularly communicate with their doctors and notify them of any side effects.


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April Is The Best Month To Buy Android Phones, Gadgets And Devices | The Best Month To Buy Android Phones, Gadgets And Devices

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April Is The Best Month To Buy Android Phones, Gadgets And Devices   |  The Best Month To Buy Android Phones, Gadgets And Devices
In our world of Android smartphones and devices can often be disorganized and chaotic, but in this year 2016, it seems to have settled finally on the precious month of April for the availability and show of the widest range and collection of new desirable  devices and smartphones. Six months after the prestigious company, Google’s release of the latest Android Marshmallow operating system, all the hardware producers manufacturers in the market are now fully ready to deliver a deluge of smartphones and devices built around the most recent version of the operating system (OS). It has already begun with smartphones like the Xiaomi Mi 5, and the Samsung Galaxy S7, but in the dear month of April is when the choice and variety will fully explode.




The Huawei’s P9 showcases its high dual-camera system is ready to fully launch on April 6th, wao! ten days to my birthday, wonderful. This is also when the Meizu will also reveal its M3 Note. Then in a week later, HTC will be pulling the curtains back on one of its 2016 package, which is called the HTC 10, and Oppo will then join the fun at around the same precious time with the international release and unveiling of its R9 Plus and R9. The R9’s 16-megapixel selfie camera, which is main the competitor of the HTC’s BoomSound, or the prospect of another Huawei smartphone which has a monster battery of 3,900mAh. 

Something is going to astonish most Android fans world wide, which is the Zopo Speed 8, which fully lays claim to have title of ever being the first Deca-core smartphone to be produced.



This two key factors are driving the bumper crop of Android operating system this season of the year (spring). The precious timing of the Marshmallow operating system (OS) release and the availability of the Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 820 chipset. This chipset is a simple awesome new chip which deserve awesome new smartphones and devices  to show off their  maximum capabilities and features, and the 820 has already proven itself as the No 1 in our Mi 5 ,and the Samsung Galaxy S7 smart phone reviews. The more surprising aspect is Android itself. A good amount of Android OEMs presently have told the masses that it takes upwards of four months to completely integrate their developed software with that of Google’s, and lest you think that a pointless endeavor, have in mind that this processes involves the addition of better and more superior image processing and camera applications , as shown off by the Samsung and LG company in particular. This is one of the main reason why, despite being announced at Mobile World Congress in late February this year, LG’s G5 smart_phone will not be able to ship until April 1st 2016. Sony’s new Xperias are in the same boat, though the Japanese company does not even have an exact date, (aside from "some time this summer") for when you’ll be able to lay your hands on one.

However, for the past 3 years, the well know company Google has released the latest iteration of Android OS in October. This is in Google’s best interests because, as the company endeavors to keep pace with (or keep ahead of, depending on your perspective) Apple’s iOS. New iPhones, replete with new software, typically arrive in the month of  September, and Google’s job is to mainly counter them with a fresh serving of Android operating system right away. Because of the time factor, device manufacturers (OEM) need to mainly capitalize on that latest software, the rhythm that is developed in recent times is that in February’s Mobile World Congress becomes the main focal point for new announcements of new devices, and the weeks immediately after it are the time when all the new Android devices start trickling out. This year 2016, most of them seems to be clustering much around the first week of April 2016, as a coincidence more than a deliberate plan. But if Google schedule continues as it has been going, this might well become a normal and familiar phenomenon to the Android smartphones and devices market.

Google main hardware partners understand that its priority is to mainly compete with the Apple  iOS, and not the iPhone or iPad themselves. Android’s Operating system release pattern makes it hard for them to easily launch hot new flagship devices in time for the holiday shopping period, but at the same time it opens up the opportunity for them to develop a separate hype window in the spring. By this point next month, new smartphone buyers should be feeling overwhelmed by the breadth and depth of choice on offer from new Marshmallow devices as the case may be.

Nevertheless, If you are in the market for a new smartphone or devices, you owe it to yourself to simply wait a couple of weeks to see exactly what everyone as a whole  have in store. More devices to come will  mainly embrace USB-C, LG and Huawei will be trying to convince us that just one camera on the back of a smartphone or device is not enough, and everyone will be pushing the envelope on better and more efficient industrial design as the case may be. Apple is also getting in on this particularly active launch period with the announcement of its cheaper and smaller iPhone SE, but April looks destined to be dominated by a succession of Android launches. You never know, maybe we’ll start referring to April as Android month. It'd make for fun alliteration while articulating the spring's importance as the critical time when all the manufacturers’ pieces start falling into place.


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