The accurate quantification of glycemic index (GI) remains crucial for diabetes management, yet current methodologies are constrained by resource intensiveness and methodological limitations. digestion models face challenges in replicating the dynamic conditions of the human gastrointestinal tract, such as enzyme variability and multi-time point analysis, leading to suboptimal predictive accuracy. This review proposes an integrated technological framework combining non-enzymatic electrochemical sensing with artificial intelligence to revolutionize GI assessment.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF. Sudden cardiac death (SCD) stands as a life-threatening cardiac event capable of swiftly claiming lives. It ranks prominently among the leading causes of global mortality, contributing to approximately 10% of deaths worldwide.
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September 2024
This paper reports on the spin glass-like coexistence of competing magnetic orders in oxygen-deficient V2O5 nanoparticles with a broad size distribution. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy yields the surface chemical stoichiometry of nearly V2O4.65 due to significant defect density.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSensing and quantification of gas at low concentrations is of paramount importance, especially with highly flammable and explosive gases such as hydrogen. Standard gas sensing setups have a limit of measuring ultra-low concentrations of few parts per billion unless the external gas cylinders are changed to ones with low concentrations. In this work, we describe a home-built resistance based gas sensing setup that can sense across a wide concentration range, from parts per billion to parts per million, accurately.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFReading requires the transformation of a complex array of visual features into sounds and meaning. For deaf signers who experience changes in visual attention and have little or no access to the sounds of the language they read, understanding the visual constraints underlying reading is crucial. This study aims to explore a fundamental aspect of visual perception intertwined with reading: the crowding effect.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAvocado fruit is a rich source of phytonutrients such as vitamins, minerals, carotenoids, carbohydrates, polyphenols and unsaturated fatty acids. However, due to its climacteric nature, fruits are highly susceptible to storage temperature, resulting in poor shelf life and reduced quality. In the present study avocado fruits (Accession CHES-HA-I/I) were stored at different low temperatures (5, 9 and 12 °C with 90-95% relative humidity, RH) to identify optimum low temperature for cold storage.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNitrogen-fused heterocycles are of immense importance in modern drug discovery and development. Among them, imidazopyrimidine is a highly versatile scaffold with vast pharmacological utility. These compounds demonstrate a broad spectrum of pharmacological actions, including antiviral, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, and anticancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSkin cancer remains one of the most prominent types of cancer. Melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancer are commonly found together, with melanoma being the more deadly type. Skin cancer can be effectively treated with chemotherapy, which mostly uses small molecular medicines, phytoceuticals, and biomacromolecules.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStrong correlations are often manifested by exotic electronic phases and phase transitions. LaCoO (LCO) is a system that exhibits such strong electronic correlations with lattice-spin-charge-orbital degrees of freedom. Here, we show that mesoscopic oxygen-deficient LCO films show resistive avalanches of about 2 orders of magnitude due to the metal-insulator transition (MIT) of the film at about 372 K for the 25 W RF power-deposited LCO film on the Si/SiO substrate.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDetection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from the breath is becoming a viable route for the early detection of diseases non-invasively. This paper presents a sensor array of 3 component metal oxides that give maximal cross-sensitivity and can successfully use machine learning methods to identify four distinct VOCs in a mixture. The metal oxide sensor array comprises NiO-Au (ohmic), CuO-Au (Schottky), and ZnO-Au (Schottky) sensors made by the DC reactive sputtering method and having a film thickness of 80-100 nm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: This study was done to review and compare safety, effectiveness and advantages of total tubeless percutaneous nephrolithotomy (PCNL), tubeless PCNL with standard PCNL.
Methodology: This prospective comparative study involving 30 patients in each total tubeless PCNL, tubeless PCNL and standard PCNL group from Feb 2021 to June 2022.
Result: Significant difference was found in mean duration of surgery ( < 0.
ZnO is a widely studied gas sensor material and is used in many commercial sensor devices. However, selectivity towards any particular gas remains an issue due to lack of complete knowledge of the gas sensing mechanism of oxide surfaces. In this paper, we have studied the frequency dependent gas sensor response of ZnO nanoparticles of a diameter of nearly 30 nm.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResearch on child support compliance has focused on the characteristics of noncustodial parents (NCPs) that are associated with compliance, finding that compliance with child support orders is primarily related to the ability to pay support as demonstrated by earnings. Yet, there is evidence linking social support networks to both earnings and noncustodial parents' relationships with children. Using a social poverty framework, we show that relatively few NCPs are completely isolated: most have at least some people in their network who can loan money, provide a place to stay, or provide a ride.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: To analyse the safety and efficacy of Thulium laser en bloc enucleation of bladder tumour (ThuLEBT) in comparison to transurethral resection of bladder tumour (TURBT) for treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC).
Methods: Prospective observational study involving 30 patients in each group of ThuLEBT and TURBT admitted in tertiary care centre from 1st January 2021 to December 2021.
Results: Significant difference was found in terms of less operative time (-0.
Omshree ShettyVikas Ostwal The present study evaluates the mutation pattern and frequency of , and in colorectal carcinoma observed in the tertiary cancer center in India. Consecutive cases of colorectal adenocarcinoma ( = 330) registered from January 2015 to December 2019 (5-year duration) were selected for the study. Molecular analysis for .
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Embelia ribes Burm f. (Primulaceae) is a medicinal and vulnerable woody liana distributed throughout India. Embelin, a well-recognized active phytoconstituents in berries, is commonly used in ayurvedic formulations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIn metal nanoclusters (NCs), the kernel geometry and the nature of the surface protecting ligands are very crucial for their structural stability and properties. The synthesis and structural elucidation of Ag NCs is challenging because the zerovalent oxidation state of Ag is very reactive and prone to oxidization. Here, we report the NC [AgS(SBu)][CFCOO] with a hexagonal close-packed () cagelike Ag kernel.
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April 2022
This article presents two highly fluorescent donor-π-acceptor (D-π-A) moieties containing an electron-donating carbazole and phenothiazine donors fused with electron-withdrawing pyrrolo-quinoline acceptor dyes, and . We also discussed the polymerization and film-forming process of dye and doped in poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and polystyrene (PS) polymer to find their optical applications in polymer-based technology. We investigated the fluorescent properties of dyes and from 0.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA giant enhancement of nearly 100 times is seen in triethylamine response through Ti-Zr-Cr-V-Ni high-entropy alloy nanoparticle (HEA NP)-induced fermi energy control of two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS) nanosheets. These Laves-phase HEA NP-decorated MoS samples are synthesized using cryomilling followed by 30 h of sonication. The prolonged sonication results in well-exfoliated MoS with fairly small (∼10-20 nm) HEA NPs anchored due to cryomilling confirmed by extensive microscopic and spectroscopic examinations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe preparation of intelligent structures for multiple smart applications such as soft-robotics, artificial limbs, etc., is a rapidly evolving research topic. In the present work, the preparation of a functional fabric, and its integration into a soft elastomeric matrix to develop an adaptive fiber-elastomer composite structure, is presented.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThermal conductivities of polybutadiene rubbers crosslinked by 2.4 and 2.8 phr of sulfur have been found to be functions of temperature via molecular dynamics (MD) simulations using the Green-Kubo method.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWe report a systematic investigation of the differences in charge transport mechanism in ultra-thin nano-island like films of palladium with thickness varying between 5 nm and 3 nm. The thicker films were found to be metallic in a large temperature range with a dominant Bloch-Grüneisen mechanism of charge transport arising due to electron-acoustic phonon scattering. These films were also found to exhibit an additional electron-magnon scattering.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSeebeck measurement is a crucial step for characterizing thermoelectric samples, as measuring the accurate value with a simpler system design is challenging. Here, we report a simple design of the Seebeck coefficient measurement system, which can measure the thermo-emf (Seebeck coefficient) of the sample, under a limited temperature range of 300-600 K. Unlike the majority of the reported instrumental designs, the system does not have a hot walled chamber.
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