Isolated hand weakness due to stroke is rare and is often misdiagnosed as a peripheral lesion. Isolated central hand and finger weakness can present as pseudomedian, pseudoulnar, and/or pseudoradial nerve palsy. Here, we describe a patient who presented with a median claw hand due to cortical infarct.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFField test kits are indispensable tools for strengthening community-based water quality monitoring and surveillance programs. However, the reliability of field test kits is important, as these kits are being used to test large number of water sources in developing countries due to insufficient laboratory resources. A field test kit validation protocol is essentially needed to strengthen the quality control mechanism during the kit production and procurement stages.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Consumer awareness of food labels plays a crucial role in promoting informed purchasing decisions and healthier dietary habits. However, the extent to which demographic factors such as age and education influence this awareness remains underexplored in the Indian context.
Objective: This study investigates the influence of age and education on consumer awareness of food labels of the edible oils and fats in India.
CpG sites are regions of DNA where a cytosine nucleotide is followed by a guanine nucleotide in the 5' → 3' direction. Epigenetic markers based on methylation values at CpG sites are valuable for accurate age prediction and have become essential in forensic science, supporting criminal investigations and human identification. The present study identified 12 CpG sites from a collection of 476,366 CpG sites based on the following criteria: (a) CpG sites were retained if the Pearson correlation coefficient between the methylation values and the chronological age of the individual is greater than 0.
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