Publications by authors named "Ashok Baral"

Olanzapine is widely used during pregnancy to manage mood and psychotic disorders with overall beneficial effects. There have been past reports of olanzapine exposure during early pregnancy and clubfoot in two newborns from India and Israel. We report a woman in Nepal diagnosed with schizophrenia and treated with olanzapine throughout the pregnancy delivering a baby boy with congenital talipes equinovarus deformity.

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Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) is an autoimmune inflammatory disease of the central nervous system that is characterized by widespread demyelination, predominantly involving the white matter of the brain and spinal cord. Often caused by a viral infection or vaccination, its clinical features include an acute encephalopathy with multifocal neurologic signs and deficits in children. It can present with psychosis, depression, or abnormal behavior, and it might mimic a dissociative disorder.

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Rosai-Dorfman disease is referred to as sinus histiocytosis massive lymphadenopathy. We are reporting a rare case of Rosai-Dorfman disease, a case of 6-year-old boy with a history of multiple painless submandibular and cervical lymphadenopathy.

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Here, we report the dielectric characteristics of Li-stuffed garnet-type Li5+2xLa3Nb2-xYxO12 (x = 0.25, 0.5 and 0.

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Lithium ion batteries are the most promising energy storage system on the market today; however, safety issues associated with the use of flammable organic polymer-based electrolytes with poor electrochemical and chemical stabilities prevent this technology from reaching maturity. Solid lithium ion electrolytes (SLIEs) are being considered as potential replacements for the organic electrolytes to develop all-solid-state Li ion batteries. Out of the recently discovered SLIEs, the garnet-related structured Li-stuffed metal oxides are the most promising electrolytes due to their high total (bulk + grain boundary) Li ion conductivity, high electrochemical stability window (∼6 V versus Li(+)/Li at room temperature), and chemical stability against reaction with an elemental Li anode and high-voltage metal oxide Li cathodes.

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The fundamental electrical transport properties including ionic conductivity, dielectric constants, loss tangent, and relaxation time constants of Li-excess garnet-type cubic (space group Ia3̄d) Li5+2xLa3Ta2-xYxO12 (x = 0.25, 0.5 and 0.

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The ionic transport properties of nanocrystalline 20 mol% Eu, Gd, Dy, and Ho doped cerias, with average grain size of around 14 nm were studied by correlating electrical, dielectric properties, and various dynamic parameters. Gd-doped nanocrystalline ceria shows higher value of conductivity (i.e.

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