Publications by authors named "Pintu Debnath"

Article Synopsis
  • The study aimed to systematically investigate symptoms associated with commonly prescribed homeopathic medicines using Bayesian statistics for more accurate likelihood ratios (LR).
  • Conducted over 21 months with 1,954 patients, the research utilized the ORIDL scale to measure treatment outcomes and calculated LRs for four specific symptoms linked to six selected homeopathic remedies.
  • Findings revealed high LR+ scores for symptoms like "dyspepsia from business anxiety" and "burning pain relieved by heat," supporting existing homeopathic literature, but emphasized the need for further research to confirm results in larger populations.
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In this communication, we report the design and synthesis as well as the supramolecular assembly behavior of a 2,4,5-triaryl imidazole derivative (compound 1) at the air-water interface and in thin films using Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique. The main idea for such a chemical structure is that the long alkyl chain and N-H of the imidazole core may help to form supramolecular architecture through the hydrophobic-hydrophobic interaction and hydrogen bonding, respectively. Accordingly, the interfacial behavior as well as morphology of 1 in thin films were studied through a series of characterization methods such as surface pressure-area (π-A) isotherm, hysteresis analysis, ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) absorption and steady-state fluorescence spectroscopies, Fourier transform infrared, X-ray diffraction, Brewster angle microscopy (BAM), and atomic force microscopy (AFM) measurements, and so forth.

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