Silico-tuberculosis: An updated review.

Silico-Tuberculosis (silico-TB) is a severe combination of tuberculosis and silicosis, caused by occupational exposure to fine crystalline silica dust, which has become a global health concern. This comprehensive review compiles the updated knowledge regarding pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, important diagnostic techniques, treatment aspects, and challenges in understanding silico-TB. The review compiles the disease's history and epidemiology, highlighting a lack of data owing to poor monitoring and healthcare particularly in low- and middle-income countries like India.

Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver clinical practice guidelines on liver transplantation.

Liver transplantation is a highly complex and challenging field of clinical practice. Although it was originally developed in western countries, it has been further advanced in Asian countries through the use of living donor liver transplantation. This method of transplantation is the only available option in many countries in the Asia-Pacific region due to the lack of deceased organ donation.

Brain image fusion-based tumour detection using grey level co-occurrence matrix Tamura feature extraction with backpropagation network classification.

Most challenging task in medical image analysis is the detection of brain tumours, which can be accomplished by methodologies such as MRI, CT and PET. MRI and CT images are chosen and fused after preprocessing and SWT-based decomposition stage to increase efficiency. The fused image is obtained through ISWT.

An Intelligent Classification System for Cancer Detection Based on DNA Methylation Using ML and Semantic Knowledge in Healthcare.

To consistently assess a patient's internal and external wellness and diagnose chronic conditions like cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and cardiovascular disease, wearable sensing devices are being used. Wearable technologies and networking websites have become incredibly common in the medical sector in recent times. The condition of a patient's health can be influenced by a number of factors, including psychological response, emotional stability, and anxiety levels, which can be evaluated using social network analysis based on graph theory-based techniques and these ideas, known as "social network analysis" (SNA) are used to study relationship phenomena.

Lagophthalmos: An etiological lookout to frame the decision for management.

Purpose: To describe the etiology, clinical profile, duration of lagophthalmos cases and thereby, framing a decision for the management based on the severity of Exposure keratitis (EK), Facial palsy (FP) with each etiology and to describe the outcome of the management options.

Methods: The method was a prospective review of 120 lagophthalmos cases treated at a single tertiary center from January 2018 to January 2019. The main outcome measures were analysing the association between age, etiology, duration and management of lagophthalmos.

Appropriate Supervised Machine Learning Techniques for Mesothelioma Detection and Cure.

Mesothelioma is a dangerous, violent cancer, which forms a protecting layer around inner tissues such as the lungs, stomach, and heart. We investigate numerous AI methodologies and consider the exact DM conclusion outcomes in this study, which focuses on DM determination. K-nearest neighborhood, linear-discriminant analysis, Naive Bayes, decision-tree, random forest, support vector machine, and logistic regression analyses have been used in clinical decision support systems in the detection of mesothelioma.

Dialogue as a tool of nutrition literacy in an agricultural intervention programme in Odisha, India.

Background: An ongoing action research nutrition literacy programme based on Freire's approach of raising critical consciousness through the use of dialogue as a pedagogic tool is being implemented as part of a nutrition sensitive agricultural intervention in tribal Odisha. One hundred and eight adults, referred to as Community Hunger Fighters (CHFs) underwent two modules of a residential training programme of two and a half days each, spread over two months. Through discussion they explored the reasons behind the lack of diversity in their daily diets and identified the social, economic and cultural barriers to food intake in the context of their own poverty.

Contactless radar-based breathing monitoring of premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Vital sign monitoring systems are essential in the care of hospitalized neonates. Due to the immaturity of their organs and immune system, premature infants require continuous monitoring of their vital parameters and sensors need to be directly attached to their fragile skin. Besides mobility restrictions and stress, these sensors often cause skin irritation and may lead to pressure necrosis.

The COVID19 pandemic crisis and the relevance of a farm-system-for-nutrition approach.

The Covid19 pandemic should be seen as a wake-up call for humanity, to reflect, rethink and redesign food systems that are safe, healthy, sustainable, and beneficial to all. This crisis has disrupted food supply chains, affecting lives and livelihoods. Hunger and malnutrition is expected to increase and the poor and vulnerable will suffer the most.

Vulnerability mapping: A conceptual framework towards a context-based approach to women's empowerment.

•Women's empowerment interventions are not as effective as hoped or intended.•Could be an issue with intervention design and implementation.•Research reveals that there are several limitations to existing women's empowerment approaches.

Factors which may limit the value of dietary diversity and its association with nutritional outcomes in preschool children in high burden districts of India.

Background And Objectives: Dietary diversity plays a critical role in infants as they need energy and nutrient dense foods for both physical and mental development. This study examines whether three dietary diversity indices validate against Nutrient Adequacy Ratio (NAR) and Mean Adequacy Ratio (MAR) and studies the relationship of dietary diversity with nutritional status of preschool children, in two districts of India: Wardha district in Maharashtra state and Koraput district in Odisha state.

Methods And Study Design: Dietary diversity was calculated using: individual food scores calculated using 24 hour diet recall (FS24hr) data; household dietary diversity using Berry's index (DDI) and food scores calculated using food frequency data (FSFFQ).

DIETARY DIVERSITY AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH NUTRITIONAL STATUS AMONG ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS IN RURAL INDIA.

Dietary diversity is associated with household or individual food availability and intake of nutrients from different food groups and is an important component of nutritional outcome. This study examined the Nutrient Adequacy Ratio (NAR) and the Mean Adequacy Ratio (MAR) of three dietary diversity indices and their relationship with the nutritional status of adolescents and adults in rural regions of two states in India, Wardha district in Maharashtra and Koraput district in Odisha, in 2014. Individual dietary diversity was calculated using 24-hour diet recall (FS24hr) data and household dietary diversity was measured with food frequency data using Berry's index (DDI) and food scores (FSFFQ).

Sonocatalytic degradation of malachite green oxalate by a semiconductor metal oxide nanocatalyst.

Advanced Oxidation Process (AOP) technologies are considered to be better technique for the degradation or mineralization of many recalcitrant compounds and pollutants. In the present study heterogeneous sonocatalytic degradation of a model organic compound such as Malachite green oxalate (MGO) was carried out in the aqueous phase. Zinc oxide nanorods were prepared by precipitation method employing zinc acetates as precursors and were characterized by FT-IR, XRD, FE-SEM and EDAX analysis.

Food production & availability--essential prerequisites for sustainable food security.

Food and nutrition security are intimately interconnected, since only a food based approach can help in overcoming malnutrition in an economically and socially sustainable manner. Food production provides the base for food security as it is a key determinant of food availability. This paper deals with different aspects of ensuring high productivity and production without associated ecological harm for ensuring adequate food availability.

Oral treatment with gallic acid and quercetin alleviates lindane-induced cardiotoxicity in rats.

Lindane is a man-made organochlorine pesticide used for agricultural purposes. Since lindane-induced toxicity is mediated by free radical generation, this investigation was carried out to study the protective effects of gallic acid and quercetin against lindane-induced cardiotoxicity. Lindane (100 mg·(kg body mass)(-1)) was administered orally to rats for 30 days.

Integration of soil application and seed treatment formulations of Trichoderma species for management of wet root rot of mungbean caused by Rhizoctonia solani.

Background: The efficacy of seed dressing and soil application formulations from the isolates of Trichoderma viride (IARI P1; MTCC 5369), T. virens (IARI P3; MTCC 5370) and T. harzianum (IARI P4; MTCC 5371) were evaluated individually and in combination in pot and field experiments during the rainy seasons of 2005, 2006 and 2007 for the management of wet root rot (Rhizoctonia solani) and improvement in the yield of mungbean.

Solid-liquid interfacial energy as a tool to estimate shifts in isoelectric points of adsorbed proteins on solid surfaces.

This work reports the estimation of isoelectric points (pIs) of adsorbed amino acids and proteins on solid surfaces in the pH range between 3.5-11.0 from a measurement of solid/liquid interfacial energy.

Rapid enlargement of subdural haematoma.

A case of subdural haematoma (SDH) having atypical features (headache, vomiting, drowsiness but normal haematological and metabolic parameters and no localising neurological signs) is reported. The SDH rapidly enlarged and liquefied in five days as evident on computerised tomographic (CT) scan and operative findings. Rapid improvement was observed following this.