Assessment of drought with a real-time web-based application for drought management in humid tropical Kerala, India.

Geospatial techniques are useful for near real-time monitoring of drought and towards devising local-level effective drought management plan. Based on the historic and current remote sensing data, one can identify the influence of drought on the vegetation status by analyzing the anomaly/drought condition of a particular area of interest (AOI) through different digital image processing techniques. In this study, an attempt has been made to develop a web-based application for generating drought maps and district-wise drought information at real time in the web server using Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) and Python scripts.

Mechanism of protection of rat hepatocytes from acetaminophen-induced cellular damage by ethanol extract of .

The aim of this study is to evaluate the protective effect of ethanol extract of (EEAL) in preventing acetaminophen induced liver toxicity. EEAL was prepared and its hepatoprotective effect was studied in both isolated primary hepatocytes and in Sprague Dawley rats . For studies, the animals were grouped as Group I - Control; Group II - ACN (2 g/kg b.

Impact of practice modification on oral health status of students: An interventional study from a tribal area of India.

Context: Tooth decay precipitated by poor oral hygiene is one of the most common oral diseases that affect 60-90% of school children. It not only interferes with speech, self-esteem but pain caused by decay also affects nutrition intake, resulting in malnutrition with abnormal cognitive development.

Aim: To evaluate the impact of health education and supervised brushing intervention on their oral health status.

Effect of Transition Metal Fragments on the Reverse Fritsch-Buttenberg-Wiechell Type Ring Contraction Reaction of Metallabenzynes to Metal-Carbene Complexes.

Metallabenzynes (1M), contrary to their organic analogues, benzynes, undergo ring-contraction to metal-carbene complexes (2M) via a reverse Fritsch-Buttenberg-Wiechell (FBW) type rearrangement. A detailed computational quantum mechanical study has been carried out to understand the effect of different third row transition metal fragments (MLL'; M = W, Re, Os, Ir, Pt; L/L' = PH, Cl, CO) on the stability of metallabenzynes and their reactivity toward reverse FBW type rearrangement. Our results indicate that the late transition metal fragments Ir(PH)Cl and PtCl prefer 16 VE metal-carbene complex (2M), while the middle transition metal fragments W(PH), Re(PH)Cl, and Os(PH)Cl prefer metallabenzyne (1M).