Prevalence and Risk Factors of Child Marriage Among Madhesi Women in Nepal's Terai Region.

Objective: Child marriage is a detrimental practice with negative consequences for girls' health and well-being. This study aims to identify the prevalence of child marriage and associated risk factors within the Madhesi community.

Materials And Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted in a sub-metropolitan city of Lumbini Province, Nepal, in 2023.

A prospective randomized study to evaluate the efficacy of pressure support ventilation with and without positive end expiratory pressure for preoxygenation in adult patients.

A primary concern for anesthesiologists is the maintenance of oxygenation during general anesthesia. Extending the safe apnea time, which is the time from the onset of apnea until the oxygen saturation concentration reaches 90% or less, increases the margin of safety with tracheal intubation. Preoxygenation before anesthetic induction has been a widely accepted manoeuver to increase oxygen reserves and hence delay the onset of arterial desaturation during apnea.

Impact of Economic Structure on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) hypothesis in India.

This study aims to evaluate the impact of economic structure on the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) in India. The present study deviates from the bulk of study in the literature with the incorporation of both aggregated and disaggregated measures of economic development on the environmental degradation function. For the empirical analysis, the study employed the Auto-Regressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) bounds testing approach of cointegration to analyse the long-run and short-run relationship during 1971-2014.

The role of technological innovation and diffusion, energy consumption and financial development in affecting ecological footprint in BRICS: an empirical analysis.

Economic activities, technological innovation and diffusion, energy consumption and financial development have been significant in BRICS countries over the last three decades. Corresponding to it, BRICS have been facing substantial environmental deterioration. The growth of such factors needs a comprehensive analysis.

Dilated cardiomyopathy: a new insight into the rare but common cause of heart failure.

Heart failure is a global health burden responsible for high morbidity and mortality with a prevalence of greater than 60 million individuals worldwide. One of the major causes of heart failure is dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), characterized by associated systolic dysfunction. During the last few decades, there have been remarkable advances in our understanding about the genetics of dilated cardiomyopathy.

KLaGdF:Eu hexagonal phase nanoparticles as luminescent probes for Huh-7 cancer cell imaging.

A facile chemical route is reported for synthesizing red-emitting photoluminescent/MRI multi-functional KLa(0.95-x)GdxF4:Eu3+ (x = 0 to 0.4) bio-compatible nanomaterials for targeted in vitro tumor imaging.

Strong structural phase sensitive rare-earth photoluminescence color flips in KLaF:RE (RE = Eu, Er/Yb) nanocrystals.

Systematic and strong rare-earth photoluminescence (PL) color flips that are highly sensitive to structural phase transformation in KLaF:RE (RE = Eu, Er/Yb) nanocrystals are demonstrated. Room-temperature wet chemical synthesis at various reaction times involves a systematic conversion from cubic (α, space group Fm3[combining macron]m) to hexagonal (β, space group P6[combining macron]2m) polymorph nanocrystals of 4 to 8 nm sizes. The unusual down-conversion photoluminescence (DC-PL) asymmetric ratio of the hypersensitive transition (D→F, Red) to that of nearly invariant transition (D→F, Orange) (R/O from 1.

Unusual Red-Shift and Enhanced Photoluminescence of BaMgAlO:Eu Phosphor Under Ultraviolet A Excitation for Modern Lighting Systems.

An unconventional red-shift but enhanced photoluminescence (PL) under ultraviolet A (UV-A) irradiation of Eu doped Barium Magnesium Aluminate (BAM) phosphor prepared in both bulk and nanoforms useful for modern lighting applications has been presented. The solid-state reaction and solution combustion approaches were used for the preparation of phosphors with post-annealing step in reduced atmosphere. A significant broad blue-green (˜500 nm) PL associated with the transition of Eu from 4 5d excited state to the 4 ground state has been observed.

Color-Tunable Upconversion in Er/Yb-Codoped KLaF Nanophosphors by Incorporation of Tm Ions for Biological Applications.

Heavily doped nanocrystals of host KLaF with rare earth (RE = Er, Tm, and Yb) ions prepared by a simple one-step template-free wet-chemical route have been reported. Prepared KLaF nanocrystals reveal phase-pure cubic structures (lattice constant = 5.931Å) with space group 3.

Growing stock and woody biomass assessment in Asola-Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary, Delhi, India.

Biomass is an important entity to understand the capacity of an ecosystem to sequester and accumulate carbon over time. The present study, done in collaboration with the Delhi Forest Department, focused on the estimation of growing stock and the woody biomass in the so-called lungs of Delhi--the Asola-Bhatti Wildlife Sanctuary in northern Aravalli hills. The satellite-derived vegetation strata were field-inventoried using stratified random sampling procedure.