Publications by authors named "B D Joshi"
Tributyl phosphate (TBP), an organophosphate ester (OPE), is heavily used as a solvent in chemical industries, a plasticizer, and to extract radioactive molecules. Thus, widespread uses of TBP in industrialized countries led to the release of TBP and its metabolites, dibutyl phosphate (DBP) and monobutyl phosphate (MBP), in the environment and were detected in human samples. Accumulating these OPEs over time in humans and aquatic animals may develop toxicological effects.
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- Urban rodents at Kolkata's Alipore Railway Station were studied for their role in spreading zoonotic pathogens, particularly Bartonella spp., through fleas, highlighting the link between high rodent populations and increased disease risk due to nearby human activity.
- The study involved collecting and identifying rodents and fleas, as well as detecting Bartonella DNA to understand its prevalence and phylogenetic relationships among different species.
- Results showed a high prevalence of Bartonella infections in rodents (53.33%) and fleas (79.1%), with some haplotypes indicating cross-species transmission between rodents, fleas, and humans, underscoring the public health implications of these findings.
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- * A model was used to analyze costs and health outcomes, showing that strengthening these linked services can significantly diminish unintended pregnancies, induced abortions, live births, and infant infections.
- * Results indicate that for a relatively low cost, this integrated approach can avert multiple negative outcomes, supporting the idea that enhancing healthcare provider training and contraception methods is a cost-effective solution.
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- The study focuses on detecting multijet signatures from proton-proton collisions at a high energy of 13 TeV, analyzing a dataset totaling 128 fb^{-1}.
- A special data scouting method is utilized to pick out events with low combined momentum in jets.
- This research is pioneering in its investigation of electroweak particle production in R-parity violating supersymmetric models, particularly examining hadronically decaying mass-degenerate higgsinos, and it broadens the limits on the existence of R-parity violating top squarks and gluinos.
The first search for soft unclustered energy patterns (SUEPs) is performed using an integrated luminosity of 138 fb^{-1} of proton-proton collision data at sqrt[s]=13 TeV, collected in 2016-2018 by the CMS detector at the LHC. Such SUEPs are predicted by hidden valley models with a new, confining force with a large 't Hooft coupling. In events with boosted topologies, selected by high-threshold hadronic triggers, the multiplicity and sphericity of clustered tracks are used to reject the background from standard model quantum chromodynamics.
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