Are Guessing, Source Coding and Tasks Partitioning Birds of A Feather?

This paper establishes a close relationship among the four information theoretic problems, namely Campbell source coding, Arikan guessing, Huleihel et al. memoryless guessing and Bunte and Lapidoth tasks' partitioning problems in the IID-lossless case. We first show that the aforementioned problems are mathematically related via a general moment minimization problem whose optimum solution is given in terms of Renyi entropy.

A validation study of questionnaire towards mobile based health applications in uncontrolled diabetic population of India (South).

Background: Mobile applications have the potential to provide needed support for older adults with diabetes. The field of medical application is currently one of the most dynamic in application development and medicine.

Objective: This study was designed to develop and validate a questionnaire to assess knowledge, attitude and practice of uncontrolled diabetic patients towards mobile based health applications.

CRAO in Moyamoya Disease.

Moyo Moya Disease (MMD) is a rare, progressively stenotic condition of the intracranial arteries with various cerebrovascular manifestations. Ocular manifestations are seen very rarely and there are only few case reports of ocular perfusion anomalies. Central Retinal Artery Occlusion (CRAO) can be caused by atherosclerosis related thrombosis, carotid embolism, cardiac embolism, thrombophilic disorders, giant cell arteritis, etc.

Two cases of bilateral ischemic optic neuropathy following coronary artery bypass grafting.

Postoperative vision loss (POVL) after major non-ocular surgery is a very rare but devastating complication since it has the potential to cause bilateral, severe and permanent loss of vision. The common major procedures resulting in POVL are cardiac and spinal procedures. We are reporting two patients who presented with features of bilateral anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy after coronary artery bypass grafting.

Clinico-pathological profile of Hairy cell leukemia: critical insights gained at a tertiary care cancer hospital.

Context: Hairy cell leukemia (HCL) is a rare, low grade, B-cell neoplasm with a characteristic morphologic and immunophenotypic profile. It has to be distinguished from chronic lymphoproliferative disorders because of different treatment protocol and clinical course.

Aims: To evaluate clinicopathological features including immunophenotypic analysis of cases diagnosed as HCL.

Cardiac Troponin T (TNNT2) mutations are less prevalent in Indian hypertrophic cardiomyopathy patients.

We sought to determine the frequency of the genetic variations in the Troponin T (TNNT2) gene and its association in Indian cardiomyopathy patients. Sequencing of the entire TNNT2 gene in 162 hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) patients, along with 179 healthy controls, revealed a total of 15 variants. These included an A28V missense mutation, a novel single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) (g.

Differential expression of TNF-α signaling molecules and ERK1 in distal and proximal colonic tumors associated with obesity.

Distal and proximal colon cancers have been recognized as two different disease types in human population. The environmental factors involved in the pathogenesis of the proximal and distal tumors also differ. The main objective of this study was to determine if obesity-augmented colonic tumors differ from each other if they are located in different regions of the colonic axis.

Haplotypes on 9p21 modify the risk for coronary artery disease among Indians.

The chromosomal region 9p21 has been reported to be associated with myocardial infarction, coronary artery disease (CAD), diabetes, and many other related multifactorial diseases in humans. Although the genome-wide association studies have identified a limited number of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) at 9p21 for CAD risk, the role of flanking SNPs has not been studied so far. Therefore, in the present work, we studied the role of flanking SNPs with respect to that of the previously identified SNPs rs10757278 and rs2383207 at 9p21 among the Indian subjects found to have CAD (n = 414) along with age- and sex-matched control subjects (n = 408).

Associations for lipoprotein lipase and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor-gamma gene and coronary artery disease in an Indian population.

Background And Aims: Peroxisome proliferator activated receptor-gamma (PPARgamma) and lipoprotein lipase (LPL) genes are important in pathways of triglyceride metabolism, insulin resistance and adipogenesis. We hypothesized that polymorphisms of PPARgamma Pro12Ala, LPL HindIII and LPL Ser447X influence severity of coronary artery disease (CAD) in an Indian population.

Methods: PPARgamma Pro12Ala, LPL HindIII and LPL Ser447X polymorphisms were genotyped in 414 patients with CAD and matched with 424 controls.

Genetic variants on apolipoprotein gene cluster influence triglycerides with a risk of coronary artery disease among Indians.

Apolipoprotein C3 and apolipoprotien A5 are proteins coded from the APOA1/C3/A4/A5 gene cluster. Sst I polymorphism on apolipoprotein C3 and -1131C polymorphism of apolipoprotien A5 are key variants involved in triglyceride metabolism and cause a significant cardio-metabolic risk. Here, we have evaluated these two variants for their roles in coronary artery disease in patients of the Indian population.

Iatrogenic descemetorhexis as a complication of phacoemulsification.

During clear corneal temporal phacoemulsification, an accidental iatrogenic descemetorhexis occurred. The entire cornea was hazy and edematous on the first postoperative day. By the 1-month postoperative review, the cornea had become clear with visible descemetorhexis margins; best corrected visual acuity was 20/25, and the pachymetry was 556 microm.

Acute leukemia with coexpression of lymphoid and myeloid phenotypes.

A multiparameter analysis of 706 cases of acute leukemia (AL) over a two-year period revealed only six cases (0.86 per cent) with coexpression of lymphoid and myeloid phenotypes. In three cases, expression of both lymphoid and myeloid markers by the majority of the blast cells suggested a 'biphenotypic' pattern while in the remaining three cases, the lymphoid and myeloid phenotypes were segregated into two morphologically distinct populations of blast cells indicating a 'biclonal' distribution.