Daily life in the Open Biologist's second job, as a Data Curator.

Background: Data reusability is the driving force of the research data life cycle. However, implementing strategies to generate reusable data from the data creation to the sharing stages is still a significant challenge. Even when datasets supporting a study are publicly shared, the outputs are often incomplete and/or not reusable.

Primary eyecare in paediatrics population (PREPP) - II study: Study of satisfaction of services and barrier for not reporting to the base hospital on referral among pediatric patients treated in six major vision centers of a tertiary eye care facility in Southern India.

Purpose: This study was conducted in continuation of Primary Eyecare in Paediatrics Population (PREPP-I) and was aimed to assess parents' satisfaction with pediatric-eye-care services across six vision centers (VCs) of a tertiary eye hospital in Southern India. The barriers among the parents for not attending the base hospital (BH) when referred from these VCs were also evaluated.

Methods: A standard-validated-satisfaction questionnaire (VSQ) was used to assess patient satisfaction.

Acute abducens nerve palsy with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis-like presentation following COVID-19 vaccination.

We report two adult cases of abducens nerve palsy presenting immediately (within weeks) after they received the first dose of Covishield vaccination. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the brain obtained after the onset of diplopia demonstrated demyelinating changes. The patients had associated systemic symptoms.

Conduction of excitation waves and reentry drift on cardiac tissue with simulated photocontrol-varied excitability.

The development of new approaches to suppressing cardiac arrhythmias requires a deep understanding of spiral wave dynamics. The study of spiral waves is possible in model systems, for example, in a monolayer of cardiomyocytes. A promising way to control cardiac excitability in vitro is the noninvasive photocontrol of cell excitability mediated by light-sensitive azobenzene derivatives, such as azobenzene trimethylammonium bromide (AzoTAB).

Primary eye care in pediatric population-I study (PREPP-I study): Demographic and clinical profile of pediatric patients treated in six major vision centers of a tertiary eye care facility in South India.

Purpose: The study intends to evaluate the demographic and clinical profile of pediatric patients (0-18 years) attending six vision centers (VCs) of a tertiary eye care facility in south India.

Methods: This is a cross-sectional observation study conducted at six major peripheral VCs of a tertiary eye care facility in South India from June 20 to Dec 20. All children presenting at the VCs under a base hospital (BH) in Pondicherry, whose parents gave consent were included.

Clinical profile and management of sixth nerve palsy in pediatric patients (0-15 years) in Southern India - A hospital-based study.

Purpose: This study was done to evaluate the clinical profile in pediatric patients (0-16 years) presenting with acute onset esotropia due to sixth nerve palsy and its management options in a tertiary care set up of Southern India.

Methods: A total of 12 patients presenting to our OPD with acute onset esotropia due to sixth nerve palsies were included in this retrospective study. All patients were observed for 6 months and managed with prism and/or patching while waiting for spontaneous resolution and later managed surgically.

Class-Wise Subspace Alignment-Based Unsupervised Adaptive Land Cover Classification in Scene-Level Using Deep Siamese Network.

In this article, an unsupervised domain adaptation strategy has been investigated using a deep Siamese neural network in scene-level land cover classification using remotely sensed images. At the onset, the soft class label and probability scores of each target sample have been obtained using a pretrained model of a deep convolutional neural network. Thereafter, a semiautomatic threshold selection algorithm along with a graph-based approach has been explored to obtain the "most-confident" target samples.

A study of referral pattern to pediatric ophthalmology department in a tertiary eye-care center of South-India.

Purpose: The study was aimed at finding out the present pattern of referrals to the Pediatric Ophthalmology outpatient department (OPD) in a tertiary eye care hospital and thus identify the discrepancy of referral, if any, which would help to modify and enhance the practice guidelines.

Methods: The study was conducted by retrospectively collecting data from all referral letters that were already uploaded in the Electronic Medical Report (EMR) against all patients from June 2019 to December 2019. All pediatric patients in the age group of 0-16 years were included in the study.

Prevalence of diabetic retinopathy in self-reported diabetics among various ethnic groups and associated risk factors in North-East India: A hospital-based study.

Purpose: To describe the prevalence and severity of diabetic retinopathy (DR) among different ethnic groups of North-East India and to study the associated risk factors.

Methods: In this hospital based cross sectional study 7,133 individuals among the age group of 20-79 years, attending the OPD, were screened for presence of Diabetes Mellitus (DM) (HbA1c >7% or previously diagnosed). Among them, 780 (10.

Safe Slit-lamp Shield: Maintaining a balance between ergonomics and safety.

Since the emergence of COVID pandemic, health workers have been facing major challenges every day. Ophthalmology practice has encountered countless modifications in the practice pattern not to jeopardize patient care and at the same time maintain all safety measures to reduce transmission. One such modification we made was the Safe Slit-Lamp Shield (SSS) which has been found to be extremely protective in differentiation to other available shield.

Effect of heptanol and ethanol on excitation wave propagation in a neonatal rat ventricular myocyte monolayer.

In this work, the action of heptanol and ethanol was investigated in a two-dimensional (2D) model of cardiac tissue: the neonatal rat ventricular myocyte monolayer. Heptanol is known in electrophysiology as a gap junction uncoupler but may also inhibit voltage-gated ionic channels. Ethanol is often associated with the occurrence of arrhythmias.