New Innovation: Use of Flash Glucose Monitoring for Evaluating Glycaemic Variability, Patient Satisfaction and Clinical Utility in Pregnant Women with Diabetes.

Aim: Application of Flash glucose monitoring (FGM) system to evaluate glycaemic variability (GV), patient satisfaction and clinical utility in pregnant women with diabetes.

Methods: This prospective study was conducted in a tertiary care teaching hospital on 70 pregnant women with diabetes where blood sugar levels were monitored by FGM and self-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG).

Results: FGM generated 19,950 readings versus 1470 readings by SMBG over 3 days.

An atomic Fabry-Perot interferometer using a pulsed interacting Bose-Einstein condensate.

We numerically demonstrate atomic Fabry-Perot resonances for a pulsed interacting Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) source transmitting through double Gaussian barriers. These resonances are observable for an experimentally-feasible parameter choice, which we determined using a previously-developed analytical model for a plane matter-wave incident on a double rectangular barrier system. Through numerical simulations using the non-polynomial Schödinger equation-an effective one-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation-we investigate the effect of atom number, scattering length, and BEC momentum width on the resonant transmission peaks.

Possible Effects of Perchlorate Contamination of Drinking Water on Thyroid Health.

Background: Perchlorate is an anion that occurs as a contaminant in groundwater. It originates from the improper disposal of ammonium perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel. The objective of this study was to explore whether the exposure to perchlorate in drinking water had an impact on the thyroid function of the population residing near an ammonium perchlorate plant in Kerala.

Orthorhombic crystal structure and oxygen deficient cluster distribution model for YBaCuAlO superconductor.

Single crystal x-ray diffraction measurements on both as-grown as well as oxygenated single crystals of an aluminium doped high temperature superconductor YBaCuAlO revealed the crystal structure to be orthorhombic with space group Pmmm, in contrast to, tetragonal crystal structures corresponding to space group P4/mmm, previously reported for as-grown YBaCuAlO, and conflicting structures on oxygenated YBaCuAlO. The orthorhombic crystal structure was confirmed by powder x-ray diffraction that showed the presence of two peaks corresponding to (020) and (200) reflections associated with orthorhombic structures of space group Pmmm, instead of a single (200) reflection corresponding to tetragonal crystal structures with space group P4/mmm. All the as-grown crystals were found to be superconducting.

Observation of short range ferromagnetic interactions and magnetocaloric effect in cobalt substituted GdSiGe.

We report on the observation of double transition - a first order and a second order transition in GdSiCoGe with x = 0, 0.1, 0.2 and 0.