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The thermal properties of flours have been extensively used as engineering parameter in the desig... more The thermal properties of flours have been extensively used as engineering parameter in the design of processes and equipment to handle, transport, storage purpose and for protection of quality of technological process by processing to final products. The thermal properties of ground flaxseed (Linum usitatissimum) were investigated as a function of moisture content in the range of 4.82%-29.32% dry basis (d.b.) at six moisture levels, using a KD2 Pro Thermal Properties Analyzer. As the moisture content of ground flaxseed increased from 4.82 to 29.32 (% d.b.), the thermal conductivity, specific heat and thermal diffusivity increased from 0.122 to 0.184 W m-1 K-1, 2.94 to 5.64 kJ kg-1 K-1, and 6.42×10-8 to 8.11×10-8 m2/s, respectively. Ground flaxseed moisture content effect was statistically significant (p<0.05) on all properties and baseline data were generated for the development of necessary handling and processing equipment.. 2016. Moisture dependent thermal properties of ground flaxseed (Linum usitatissimum). Agric Eng Int: CIGR Journal, 18(1):256-262.
International journal of applied & basic medical research
Depression, especially in concurrence with chronic medical disorders, is highly prevalent worldwi... more Depression, especially in concurrence with chronic medical disorders, is highly prevalent worldwide. An average between 9.3% and 23% of patients with one or more chronic disease have co-morbid depression. This comorbid depression has the worst health scores of all the disease states. Despite this, patients with chronic medical disorders are not commonly screened for depression. Lack of objective screening by health-care providers as well as lack of infrastructure (time/space/personnel) probably contributes to gross underdiagnosis of depression. This issue can be addressed using short objective depression screening score (Patient Health Questionnaire-9 [PHQ-9]) (validated in native languages, e.g., Hindi) and paperless self-administered interface on handheld computer (tablet), which is the objective of the study. One hundred consecutive patients with chronic medical disorders visiting our medicine outpatient department were screened for depression using tablets with PHQ-9 Hindi on a ...
Pre-diagnosis attrition needs to be addressed urgently if we are to make progress in improving MD... more Pre-diagnosis attrition needs to be addressed urgently if we are to make progress in improving MDR-TB case detection and achieve universal access to MDR-TB care. We report the pre-diagnosis attrition, along with factors associated, and turnaround times related to the diagnostic pathway among patient with presumptive MDR-TB in Bhopal district, central India (2014). Study was conducted under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme setting. It was a retrospective cohort study involving record review of all registered TB cases in Bhopal district that met the presumptive MDR-TB criteria (eligible for DST) in 2014. In quarter 1, Line Probe Assay (LPA) was used if sample was smear/culture positive. Quarter 2 onwards, LPA and Cartridge-based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (CbNAAT) was used for smear positive and smear negative samples respectively. Pre-diagnosis attrition was defined as failure to undergo DST among patients with presumptive MDR-TB (as defined by the programme)....
Despite many serious efforts, tuberculosis (TB) is still a recognized public health problem. The ... more Despite many serious efforts, tuberculosis (TB) is still a recognized public health problem. The Government of India has adopted the Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course (DOTS) strategy for the entire country through the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) for the treatment of TB. In this report, we have presented the trajectories for care seeking of two TB cases who suffered from either &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;patient level delays&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; or &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;health system-related delays&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; in seeking DOTS for the treatment of TB.
European Review For Medical and Pharmacological Sciences, 2013
This review was prepared with an aim to show role of serotonin in seasonal affective disorder. Se... more This review was prepared with an aim to show role of serotonin in seasonal affective disorder. Seasonal affective disorder, which is also called as winter depression or winter blues, is mood disorder in which persons with normal mental health throughout most of the year will show depressive symptoms in the winter or, less commonly, in the summer. Serotonin is an important endogenous neurotransmitter which also acts as neuromodulator. The least invasive, natural, and researched treatment of seasonal affective disorder is natural or otherwise is light therapy. Negative air ionization, which acts by liberating charged particles on the sleep environment, has also become effective in treatment of seasonal affective disorder.
Developing nations face the issue of illegal and excessive land mining which has adverse effects ... more Developing nations face the issue of illegal and excessive land mining which has adverse effects on the environment. A robust and cost effective system is presented in this paper to monitor the mining process. This system includes a novel vehicle detection approach for detecting vehicles from static images and calculating the amount of sand being carried to prevent the malpractices of sand smuggling. Different from traditional methods, which use machine learning to detect vehicles, this method introduces a new contour mapping model to find important " vehicle edges " for identifying vehicles The sand detection algorithm uses color based segmentation since sand can have various colors under different weather and lighting conditions The proposed new color segmentation model has excellent capabilities to identify sand pixels from background, even though the pixels are lighted under varying illuminations. The detected amount of sand is checked against the maximum set threshold...
Multilayers of ZrO2/Y2O3 with layer thickness of 30 nm and 10 nm, respectively were prepared by p... more Multilayers of ZrO2/Y2O3 with layer thickness of 30 nm and 10 nm, respectively were prepared by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique on silicon and quartz substrates at substrate temperature of 300 and 873 K. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis shows that films deposited at 300 K are amorphous in nature. But the films deposited at 873 K shows ZrO2 layers with monoclinic and tetragonal phases, and Y2O3 layers containing only cubic phase. Individual layer thicknesses and roughness values were determined by X-ray reflectivity (XRR) measurement and were confirmed by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). Multilayer deposited at 300 K shows higher transmittance (~97%) than the films deposited at 873 K (~ 85%) as a consequence of increase in roughness values
ABSTRACT Multilayers of ZrO2/Y2O3 were prepared by pulsed laser deposition technique with variati... more ABSTRACT Multilayers of ZrO2/Y2O3 were prepared by pulsed laser deposition technique with variation in the ZrO2 layer thickness from 5 to 30 nm keeping the Y2O3 layer thickness constant (∼10 nm). The stability, phase evolution and thermal expansion behaviour of the multilayers were analyzed by high temperature x-ray diffraction technique, in the temperature range of 300–1373 K. Unlike the single layer of ZrO2 film, which shows a mixture of tetragonal and monoclinic phase, the ZrO2 layers in multilayers show tetragonal phase in case of all the multilayers investigated in the present work. The values of coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) decrease with increase in the ZrO2 layer thickness. The CTE of both ZrO2 and Y2O3 are found to be influenced by their mutual solubility as well as due to interdiffusion of these oxides taking place along the interfaces of the multilayers, especially during high temperature heat-treatment.
The thermal properties of flours have been extensively used as engineering parameter in the desig... more The thermal properties of flours have been extensively used as engineering parameter in the design of processes and equipment to handle, transport, storage purpose and for protection of quality of technological process by processing to final products. The thermal properties of ground flaxseed (Linum usitatissimum) were investigated as a function of moisture content in the range of 4.82%-29.32% dry basis (d.b.) at six moisture levels, using a KD2 Pro Thermal Properties Analyzer. As the moisture content of ground flaxseed increased from 4.82 to 29.32 (% d.b.), the thermal conductivity, specific heat and thermal diffusivity increased from 0.122 to 0.184 W m-1 K-1, 2.94 to 5.64 kJ kg-1 K-1, and 6.42×10-8 to 8.11×10-8 m2/s, respectively. Ground flaxseed moisture content effect was statistically significant (p<0.05) on all properties and baseline data were generated for the development of necessary handling and processing equipment.. 2016. Moisture dependent thermal properties of ground flaxseed (Linum usitatissimum). Agric Eng Int: CIGR Journal, 18(1):256-262.
International journal of applied & basic medical research
Depression, especially in concurrence with chronic medical disorders, is highly prevalent worldwi... more Depression, especially in concurrence with chronic medical disorders, is highly prevalent worldwide. An average between 9.3% and 23% of patients with one or more chronic disease have co-morbid depression. This comorbid depression has the worst health scores of all the disease states. Despite this, patients with chronic medical disorders are not commonly screened for depression. Lack of objective screening by health-care providers as well as lack of infrastructure (time/space/personnel) probably contributes to gross underdiagnosis of depression. This issue can be addressed using short objective depression screening score (Patient Health Questionnaire-9 [PHQ-9]) (validated in native languages, e.g., Hindi) and paperless self-administered interface on handheld computer (tablet), which is the objective of the study. One hundred consecutive patients with chronic medical disorders visiting our medicine outpatient department were screened for depression using tablets with PHQ-9 Hindi on a ...
Pre-diagnosis attrition needs to be addressed urgently if we are to make progress in improving MD... more Pre-diagnosis attrition needs to be addressed urgently if we are to make progress in improving MDR-TB case detection and achieve universal access to MDR-TB care. We report the pre-diagnosis attrition, along with factors associated, and turnaround times related to the diagnostic pathway among patient with presumptive MDR-TB in Bhopal district, central India (2014). Study was conducted under the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme setting. It was a retrospective cohort study involving record review of all registered TB cases in Bhopal district that met the presumptive MDR-TB criteria (eligible for DST) in 2014. In quarter 1, Line Probe Assay (LPA) was used if sample was smear/culture positive. Quarter 2 onwards, LPA and Cartridge-based Nucleic Acid Amplification Test (CbNAAT) was used for smear positive and smear negative samples respectively. Pre-diagnosis attrition was defined as failure to undergo DST among patients with presumptive MDR-TB (as defined by the programme)....
Despite many serious efforts, tuberculosis (TB) is still a recognized public health problem. The ... more Despite many serious efforts, tuberculosis (TB) is still a recognized public health problem. The Government of India has adopted the Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course (DOTS) strategy for the entire country through the Revised National Tuberculosis Control Programme (RNTCP) for the treatment of TB. In this report, we have presented the trajectories for care seeking of two TB cases who suffered from either &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;patient level delays&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; or &amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot;health system-related delays&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;quot; in seeking DOTS for the treatment of TB.
European Review For Medical and Pharmacological Sciences, 2013
This review was prepared with an aim to show role of serotonin in seasonal affective disorder. Se... more This review was prepared with an aim to show role of serotonin in seasonal affective disorder. Seasonal affective disorder, which is also called as winter depression or winter blues, is mood disorder in which persons with normal mental health throughout most of the year will show depressive symptoms in the winter or, less commonly, in the summer. Serotonin is an important endogenous neurotransmitter which also acts as neuromodulator. The least invasive, natural, and researched treatment of seasonal affective disorder is natural or otherwise is light therapy. Negative air ionization, which acts by liberating charged particles on the sleep environment, has also become effective in treatment of seasonal affective disorder.
Developing nations face the issue of illegal and excessive land mining which has adverse effects ... more Developing nations face the issue of illegal and excessive land mining which has adverse effects on the environment. A robust and cost effective system is presented in this paper to monitor the mining process. This system includes a novel vehicle detection approach for detecting vehicles from static images and calculating the amount of sand being carried to prevent the malpractices of sand smuggling. Different from traditional methods, which use machine learning to detect vehicles, this method introduces a new contour mapping model to find important " vehicle edges " for identifying vehicles The sand detection algorithm uses color based segmentation since sand can have various colors under different weather and lighting conditions The proposed new color segmentation model has excellent capabilities to identify sand pixels from background, even though the pixels are lighted under varying illuminations. The detected amount of sand is checked against the maximum set threshold...
Multilayers of ZrO2/Y2O3 with layer thickness of 30 nm and 10 nm, respectively were prepared by p... more Multilayers of ZrO2/Y2O3 with layer thickness of 30 nm and 10 nm, respectively were prepared by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique on silicon and quartz substrates at substrate temperature of 300 and 873 K. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis shows that films deposited at 300 K are amorphous in nature. But the films deposited at 873 K shows ZrO2 layers with monoclinic and tetragonal phases, and Y2O3 layers containing only cubic phase. Individual layer thicknesses and roughness values were determined by X-ray reflectivity (XRR) measurement and were confirmed by high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM). Multilayer deposited at 300 K shows higher transmittance (~97%) than the films deposited at 873 K (~ 85%) as a consequence of increase in roughness values
ABSTRACT Multilayers of ZrO2/Y2O3 were prepared by pulsed laser deposition technique with variati... more ABSTRACT Multilayers of ZrO2/Y2O3 were prepared by pulsed laser deposition technique with variation in the ZrO2 layer thickness from 5 to 30 nm keeping the Y2O3 layer thickness constant (∼10 nm). The stability, phase evolution and thermal expansion behaviour of the multilayers were analyzed by high temperature x-ray diffraction technique, in the temperature range of 300–1373 K. Unlike the single layer of ZrO2 film, which shows a mixture of tetragonal and monoclinic phase, the ZrO2 layers in multilayers show tetragonal phase in case of all the multilayers investigated in the present work. The values of coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) decrease with increase in the ZrO2 layer thickness. The CTE of both ZrO2 and Y2O3 are found to be influenced by their mutual solubility as well as due to interdiffusion of these oxides taking place along the interfaces of the multilayers, especially during high temperature heat-treatment.
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