Publications by authors named "A Muthiah"
Task loading of soldering workers in small-scale manufacturing units.
Int J Occup Saf Ergon
January 2025
Soldering is common in electrical product manufacturing, but the task load in small units is unquantified. Therefore, this study aimed to establish the occurrence of task load due to soldering work, analyzing the effects of age and sex among workers in small manufacturing units. The task load of 102 soldering workers from four small-scale manufacturing units was assessed using the National Aeronautics and Space Administration task load index (NASA-TLX) questionnaire, covering six dimensions: physical demand, mental demand, temporal demand, effort, performance and frustration.
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- The study investigates early-onset coronary artery disease (CAD) in individuals aged 45 or younger, focusing on factors affecting their health, symptoms, and treatment following ST-elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI).
- Conducted over six months with 100 STEMI patients, it found a mean age of 42.5 years, with most patients being male, and identified key risk factors such as smoking, obesity, and hypertension.
- The majority of cases involved chest discomfort, with the left anterior descending artery being most affected; treatment included various types of PCI and CABG, yet there were no recorded fatalities during the study.
The function of a protein is most of the time achieved due to minute conformational changes in its structure due to ligand binding or environmental changes or other interactions. Hence the analysis of structure of proteins should go beyond the analysis of mere atom contacts and should include the emergent global structure as a whole. This can be achieved by graph spectra based analysis of protein structure networks.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Universal design (UD) is a beneficial concept for better accessible design to improve easy approachability and industry-standard products. Specifically, Indian household products require UD features in domains such as bathroom and toilet, furniture, kitchen utilities, and home appliances. Among household product design in India, a lack of understanding of the product's universality might be a constraint for product designers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA once often neglected virus from common practice has been demanding the attention of all researchers for the past decade ever since it started to infect humans from its usual wild habitats. The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection in humans is now found to have frequent manifestations of thromboembolic events as a result of a hyper-coagulable state. Anti-coagulants (ACs) have been suggested to overcome such a state, and studies have been conducted to assess its role.
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