Teratological effects of titanium dioxide nanoparticles in mice embryo.

Nanoparticles have numerous applications related to human uses. Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO-NPs) are extensively used in many daily utilities. The small size particles and larger uses in the industry have led them to become a threatening entity to the living organisms.

Employee Voice: A Mechanism to Harness Employees' Potential for Sustainable Success.

Listening to employees' concerns reduces their dissatisfaction, but moreover, for an organization to achieve sustainable success, employees must raise their creative voice and give their input in decision-making without the fear of rejection in a psychologically safe environment. Ethical leaders facilitate such a participative style of management. A bureaucratic culture, as is generally encountered in Pakistan's work settings, poses real challenges to those who dare to speak up, therefore the importance of ethical leadership, leader-member exchange (LMX), and psychological safety cannot be neglected as coping mechanisms to sustain the employee voice for mutual gains.

Renewable and non-renewable energy consumption driven sustainable development in ASEAN countries: do financial development and institutional quality matter?

Energy consumption for sustainable development has become a crucial issue in recent years. The anthropogenic effects of traditional energy sources (non-renewables) underscore the need for renewable energy and efforts to promote its adoption have comprised policy makers' strategies to achieve sustainable development. At the same time, institutional stability is a necessary element needed to meet the goal of sustainable development via improved management of resources and technology diffusion.

Antidiabetic and Hypolipidemic Potential of Green AgNPs against Diabetic Mice.

Green nanotechnology-based approaches have been acquired as environmentally friendly and cost effective with many biomedical applications. The present study reports the synthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) from the leaves of characterized by UV-Vis spectroscopy, EDX, SEM, AFM, and XRD. The acute and chronic antidiabetic and hypolipidemic potential of AgNPs was studied in alloxan-induced diabetic mice.

Tracking Side Effects of the COVID-19 Vaccine in Mymensingh District of Bangladesh.

The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has turned into a worldwide human tragedy and economic devastation. There had an intensive search for an effective drug against the coronavirus but not led to any breakthrough agents. Only one choice was left namely an effective and safe vaccine.

An Efficient Privacy-Preserving Public Auditing Protocol for Cloud-Based Medical Storage System.

The booming Internet of Things makes smart healthcare a reality, while cloud-based medical storage systems solve the problems of large-scale storage and real-time access of medical data. The integrity of medical data outsourced in cloud-based medical storage systems has become crucial since only complete data can make a correct diagnosis, and public auditing protocol is a key technique to solve this problem. To guarantee the integrity of medical data and reduce the burden of the data owner, we propose an efficient privacy-preserving public auditing protocol for the cloud-based medical storage systems, which supports the functions of batch auditing and dynamic update of data.

An intelligent decision support system for crop yield prediction using hybrid machine learning algorithms.

: In recent times, digitization is gaining importance in different domains of knowledge such as agriculture, medicine, recommendation platforms, the Internet of Things (IoT), and weather forecasting. In agriculture, crop yield estimation is essential for improving productivity and decision-making processes such as financial market forecasting, and addressing food security issues. The main objective of the article is to predict and improve the accuracy of crop yield forecasting using hybrid machine learning (ML) algorithms.

Carbopol emulgel loaded with ebastine for urticaria: development, characterization, and evaluation.

Urticaria affects all age groups of a population. It is triggered by allergens in foods, insect bites, medications, and environmental conditions. Urticaria is characterized by itching, a burning sensation, wheals and flares, erythema, and localized edema.

Development of Chitosan-Based Nanoemulsion Gel Containing Microbial Secondary Metabolite with Effective Antifungal Activity: In vitro and in vivo Characterizations.

Purpose: Microbial resistance to antibiotics is one of the most important public health concerns of the 21 century. We isolated, purified, and structurally elucidated antifungal secondary metabolites from red soil microbes and encapsulated them into chitosan (CS)-based nanoemulsion (NE) gel (NEG).

Methods: Three compounds were isolated and purified of which only one compound (Pure 2) showed potent antifungal activity (MFC: 8-132 µg/mL), which was also significantly (<0.

Synthesis and Characterization of Manganese-Modified Black TiO Nanoparticles and Their Performance Evaluation for the Photodegradation of Phenolic Compounds from Wastewater.

The release of phenolic-contaminated treated palm oil mill effluent (TPOME) poses a severe threat to human and environmental health. In this work, manganese-modified black TiO (Mn-B-TiO) was produced for the photodegradation of high concentrations of total phenolic compounds from TPOME. A modified glycerol-assisted technique was used to synthesize visible-light-sensitive black TiO nanoparticles (NPs), which were then calcined at 300 °C for 60 min for conversion to anatase crystalline phase.

Investigating Poor Sleep Quality and Associated Factors During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Population-Based Survey in Bangladesh.

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has adversely affected the sleep quality of individuals, and is a poorly investigated area. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence estimate of poor sleep quality and its associated factors among Bangladeshi residents during the COVID-19 pandemic. An online cross-sectional survey was carried out from July 20 to August 5, 2020, involving 975 Bangladeshi residents (male: 54.

Perceived changes in lifestyle behaviours and in mental health and wellbeing of elementary school children during the first COVID-19 lockdown in Canada.

Objectives: The closure of schools to prevent the spread of COVID-19 prompted concerns of deteriorating lifestyle behaviours, mental health, and wellbeing of children, particularly those in socioeconomically disadvantaged settings. We assessed changes in lifestyle behaviours (physical activity, screen time, eating habits and bed/wake-up times), mental health and wellbeing during the first lockdown in Spring 2020 as perceived by school children from disadvantaged settings, and examined determinants of these changes.

Study Design: Cross-sectional study.

Look, but to the left: A rare case of gallbladder sinistroposition and comprehensive literature review.

Left-sided gallbladder (LSGB) is a rare anatomic variation that, while benign in the context of its transposition, is of significant intraoperative importance. Due to its association with other anatomic anomalies involving key structures in the hepatobiliary system, discovering it intraoperatively as opposed to preoperatively suddenly increases the difficulty of a gallbladder procedure.

Fabrication and Characterization of Polymeric Pharmaceutical Emulgel Co-Loaded with Eugenol and Linalool for the Treatment of Infections.

() is the main cause of chronic dermatophytosis which is highly prevalent worldwide. This study was aimed to fabricate and characterize polymeric emulgel of eugenol and linalool for the treatment of infections. Using the slow emulsification method, the emulgel was prepared and characterized for thermodynamic stability, pH analysis, viscosity, spreadability, swelling behavior, %drug content, surface morphology, globules size, polydispersity index, surface charge (mV), thermal behavior, in vitro drug release and XRD studies.

Insight into the Prospects for Nanotechnology in Wheat Biofortification.

The deficiency of nutrients in food crops is a major issue affecting the health of human beings, mainly in underdeveloped areas. Despite the development in the methods of food fortification, several barriers such as lack of proper regulations and smaller public-private partnerships hinder its successful implementation in society. Consequently, genetic and agronomic biofortification has been suggested as the potential techniques for fortifying the nutrients in diets.

Impact of globalization, institutional quality, economic growth, electricity and renewable energy consumption on Carbon Dioxide Emission in OECD countries.

This research for the first time examines the influence of the financial development, stock market, globalization, institutional quality, economic growth, electricity, and renewable energy consumption on carbon dioxide emission from 1985 to 2018 in thirty-six (OECD) countries. Cointegrations exist in the used variables based on the examined findings of the Kao, Westerlund, and Pedroni cointegration. Findings of the pooled mean group (PMG) indicate that renewable energy consumption, globalization, and institutional quality assist to reduce the carbon dioxide emission that improve the environment while financial development, stock market, electricity consumption, and economic growth cause to increase the carbon dioxide emission in OECD countries both in the long and in the short run.

Potential protective role of curcumin powder to regulate arsenic-induced hepatorenal toxicity and hyperlipidemic metabolic dysfunction in rat model.

The present work was conceptualized to determine the potential protective effects of curcumin on arsenic-induced kidney damage in male albino rat model. Thirty six male albino rats were selected, weighed about 175±10g and classified into four groups (9 rats in each group) such as C group (control with basal diet), Cur group (curcumin 200mg/kg body weight), AI group (arsenic-induced 5mg/kg body weight) and AI + Cur group (arsenic 5mg/kg+curcumin 200mg/kg body weight), respectively. Arsenic and curcumin were offered through the gavage method once daily with basal diet.

Effect of immunotherapy time-of-day infusion on overall survival among patients with advanced melanoma in the USA (MEMOIR): a propensity score-matched analysis of a single-centre, longitudinal study.

Background: The dependence of the adaptive immune system on circadian rhythm is an emerging field of study with potential therapeutic implications. We aimed to determine whether specific time-of-day patterns of immune checkpoint inhibitor infusions might alter melanoma treatment efficacy.

Methods: Melanoma Outcomes Following Immunotherapy (MEMOIR) is a longitudinal study of all patients with melanoma who received ipilimumab, nivolumab, or pembrolizumab, or a combination of these at a single tertiary cancer centre (Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA).

Variability in Physiological Traits Reveals Boron Toxicity Tolerance in Aegilops Species.

Boron (B) is an important micronutrient required for the normal growth and development of plants. However, its excess in the soil causes severe damage to plant tissues, which affects the final yield. Wheat, one of the main staple crops, has been reported to be largely affected by B toxicity stress in arid and semi-arid regions of the world.

Hand-based multibiometric systems: state-of-the-art and future challenges.

The traditional methods used for the identification of individuals such as personal identification numbers (PINs), identification tags, etc., are vulnerable as they are easily compromised by the hackers. In this paper, we aim to focus on the existing multibiometric systems that use hand based modalities for the identification of individuals.