Comparing patient-reported outcomes of the Oxford Ankle and Foot Questionnaire in children with clubfoot from two different geographic and cultural environments: a cohort study in India and Canada.

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to compare the results of the Oxford Ankle and Foot Questionnaire (OxAFQ) in children with clubfoot in Canada and India to assess its ability to predict outcomes and capture patient experiences in different cultural contexts.

Methods: This is a retrospective study of children with clubfoot in India and Canada who completed the OxAFQ. Statistical analyses were implemented on registry-collected data to test for independent predictors of poor outcomes and compare scores between countries, among children and their parents, and in Canada where relapse data was collected and the effect of a relapse on scores.

Solar Salt with Carbon Nanotubes as a Potential Phase Change Material for High-Temperature Applications: Investigations on Thermal Properties and Chemical Stability.

Nano-enhanced phase change materials are highly employed for an enhanced heat-transfer process. The current work reports that the thermal properties of solar salt-based phase change materials were enhanced with carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Solar salt (60:40 of NaNO/KNO) with a phase change temperature and enthalpy of 225.

A taxonomic review of the fish parasitic isopod family Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothooidea) of India.

The parasitic isopod family Cymothoidae Leach, 1818 of the India exclusive economic zone is reviewed. A total of 56 nominal species corresponding to 48 valid species belonging to sixteen genera are reviewed from 73 host species belonging to 35 families. Mothocya plagulophora (Haller, 1880), Nerocila depressa Milne Edwards, 1840, Nerocila loveni Bovallius, 1887, Nerocila trichiura (Miers, 1877), Norileca triangulata (Richardson, 1910) and Ryukyua globosa Williams Bunkley-Williams, 1994 are redescribed.

Redescription of Ryukyua circularis (Pillai, 1954) (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), parasite of the Bleeker smoothbelly sardinella Amblygaster clupeoides Bleeker, 1849 from India.

Ryukyua circularis (Pillai, 1954) is recorded here for the first time on the host Amblygaster clupeoides Bleeker, 1849 from Indian waters. The species is redescribed with illustrations of the gravid female, adult male and manca from its type locality, and the known hosts and geographical records of the species are reviewed. Ryukyua circularis is readily identified from the oval to rounded body shape, widest at pereonite 3-5; cephalon deeply immersed in pereonite 1; mandible palp with the spiny surface, article 3 with a long terminal setae; pleonite 1-3 partially overlapped by a posterolateral margin of pereonite 7; pleotelson anterior lateral margins weakly convex, posterior margin evenly rounded, without median point.