Publications by authors named "P Muthiah"

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  • Visual impairment can be preventable or treatable with proper access to eye care services, and optometrists play a crucial role in early detection and intervention for eye-related issues.* -
  • The study's objective was to create and validate a questionnaire (PECQ) to investigate the challenges faced by optometrists in providing primary eye care in Malaysia.* -
  • The PECQ was developed with 123 items categorized into three main areas: contributing factors, challenges, and ongoing education, demonstrating strong content validity through expert reviews and statistical reliability tests.*
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This study evaluated the biofuel production potential of two algal species, Chlorella pyrenoidosa and Scenedesmus abundans, under stress conditions induced by nutrient supplementation or starvation at varying light intensities. Central composite face-centered design response surface methodology (CCFD-RSM) was employed to optimize stress conditions by varying the sodium nitrate (NaNO), potassium dihydrogen phosphate (KHPO), dipotassium hydrogen phosphate (KHPO), cultivation time, and light intensity. The study included both C.

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Two series of a total of ten cocrystals involving 4-amino-5-chloro-2,6-dimethylpyrimidine with various carboxylic acids have been prepared and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction. The pyrimidine unit used for the cocrystals offers two ring N atoms (positions N1 and N3) as proton-accepting sites. Depending upon the site of protonation, two types of cations are possible [Rajam et al.

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Pyrimidines are important compounds in biology and medicine, and the aminopyrimidine fragment can be identified in three of the four bases in DNA. The targeted drug action of pharmaceuticals containing this functionality is likely to depend heavily on molecular recognition processes involving hydrogen bonding. Crystallization of an equimolar mixture of 4-amino-5-chloro-2,6-dimethylpyrimidine and 5-chloro-2-hydroxybenzoic acid yielded two forms of the 1:1 salt, CHClN·CHClO, each containing a different tautomeric form of the cation.

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The design of a pharmaceutical cocrystal is based on the identification of specific hydrogen-bond donor and acceptor groups in active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) in order to choose a `complementary interacting' molecule that can act as an efficient coformer. 5-Fluorouracil (5FU) is a pyrimidine derivative with two N-H donors and C=O acceptors and shows a diversity of hydrogen-bonding motifs. Two 1:1 cocrystals of 5-fluorouracil (5FU), namely 5-fluorouracil-4-methylbenzoic acid (5FU-MBA), CHFNO·CHO, (I), and 5-fluorouracil-3-nitrobenzoic acid (5FU-NBA), CHFNO·CHNO, (II), have been prepared and characterized by single-crystal X-ray diffraction.

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