Effectiveness of communication in promoting utilisation of breast cancer screening services among women working in Anganwadi centres.

Background: Breast cancer is the most common cancer among females, worldwide. Cancer screening in developing countries is mainly opportunistic type, characterized by low coverage and over-screening of women with increased access to health care services. This study was thus designed to understand the various factors preventing the participation and utilization of breast cancer screening, thereby study the different approaches for encouraging their participation and also the effectiveness of different ways of communication to Anganwadi Workers (AWW) and Anganwadi Helpers (AWH) in increasing breast cancer screening uptake at cancer screening camps.

Machine learning techniques for periodontitis and dental caries detection: A narrative review.

Objectives: In recent years, periodontitis, and dental caries have become common in humans and need to be diagnosed in the early stage to prevent severe complications and tooth loss. These dental issues are diagnosed by visual inspection, measuring pocket probing depth, and radiographs findings from experienced dentists. Though a glut of machine learning (ML) algorithms has been proposed for the automated detection of periodontitis, and dental caries, determining which ML techniques are suitable for clinical practice remains under debate.

Structure-based virtual screening to identify potential lipase inhibitors to reduce lipid storage in Wolman disorder.

Wolman disorder (WD) was first described in Iranian-Jewish (IJ) children, and it is caused by a deficiency of the lysosomal acid lipase (LAL). Newborns with WD are healthy and active at birth but soon develop severe malnutrition symptoms and often die before 1 year. In particular, spleens, livers, bone marrows, intestines, adrenal glands, and lymph nodes accumulate harmful amounts of lipids.

Implementing the WHO Labour Care Guide to reduce the use of Caesarean section in four hospitals in India: protocol and statistical analysis plan for a pragmatic, stepped-wedge, cluster-randomized pilot trial.

Background: The World Health Organization (WHO) Labour Care Guide (LCG) is a paper-based labour monitoring tool designed to facilitate the implementation of WHO's latest guidelines for effective, respectful care during labour and childbirth. Implementing the LCG into routine intrapartum care requires a strategy that improves healthcare provider practices during labour and childbirth. Such a strategy might optimize the use of Caesarean section (CS), along with potential benefits on the use of other obstetric interventions, maternal and perinatal health outcomes, and women's experience of care.

Spectrum of Neurological Manifestations of COVID-19 Data from a Tertiary Care Hospital.

Background: Coronavirus is a novel virus which has disrupted life in the past year. While it involves the lungs in the majority and this has been extensively studied, it involves other organ systems. More number of studies need to be focused on the extrapulmonary manifestations of the disease.

Morpho-molecular and mating-type locus diversity of Ustilaginoidea virens: an incitant of false smut of rice from Southern parts of India.

Aims: To characterize the geo-distinct isolates of Ustilaginoidea virens for morpho-molecular and mating-type locus diversity.

Methods And Results: Sixty-one isolates of U. virens collected from Southern India exhibited significant diversity in mycelial width (3·45-5·50 µm), colony colour (yellow, pale yellow, and white), and growth pattern (thick leather mat, raised-fluffy, flat-fluffy, and raised).

Health and therapeutic benefits of Shatkarma: A narrative review of scientific studies.

Shatkarma, also known as Shatkriya are a set of six yogic cleansing techniques described in the Hatha Yoga texts. Several health benefits of these procedures are indicated in the traditional texts of Yoga. However, there is no comprehensive literature about the scientific evidence on Shatkriya.

Role of Metals and Thiolate Ligands in the Structures and Electronic Properties of Group 5 Bimetallic-Thiolate Complexes.

Syntheses, structures, and electronic properties of group 5 metal-thiolate complexes that exhibit unusual coordination modes of thiolate ligands have been established. Room-temperature reaction of [Cp*VCl] (Cp* = η-CMe) with Na[B(SCHS)] led to the formation of [Cp*VO{(SCH)S}] (). The solid-state X-ray structure of shows the formation of six-membered l,3,5-trithia-2-vanadacyclohexane that adopted a chair conformation.

Heterometallic Triply-Bridging Bis-Borylene Complexes.

Triply-bridging bis-{hydrido(borylene)} and bis-borylene species of groups 6, 8 and 9 transition metals are reported. Mild thermolysis of [Fe (CO) ] with an in situ produced intermediate, generated from the low-temperature reaction of [Cp*WCl ] (Cp*=η -C Me ) and [LiBH ⋅THF] afforded triply-bridging bis-{hydrido(borylene)}, [(μ -BH) H {Cp*W(CO) } {Fe(CO) }] (1) and bis-borylene, [(μ -BH) {Cp*W(CO) } {Fe(CO) }] (2). The chemical bonding analyses of 1 show that the B-H interactions in bis-{hydrido (borylene)} species is stronger as compared to the M-H ones.

Stabilization of Classical [B H ] : Structure and Bonding of [(Cp*Ta) (B H )(μ-H)L ] (Cp*=η -C Me ; L=SCH S).

The room-temperature reaction of [Cp*TaCl ] with LiBH ⋅THF followed by addition of S CPPh results in pentahydridodiborate species [(Cp*Ta) (μ,η :η -B H )(μ-H)(κ ,μ-S CH ) ] (1), a classical [B H ] ion stabilized by the binuclear tantalum template. Theoretical studies and bonding analysis established that the unusual stability of [B H ] in 1 is mainly due to the stabilization of sp -B center by electron donation from tantalum. Reactions to replace the hydrogens attached to the diborane moiety in 1 with a 2 e {M(CO) } fragment (M=Mo or W) resulted in simple adducts, [{(Cp*Ta)(CH S )} (B H )(H){M(CO) }] (6: M=Mo and 7: M=W), that retained the diborane(5) unit.

Chalcogen stabilized trimetallic clusters: synthesis, structures, and bonding of [(Cp*M)(E)(BH)] (M = Nb or Ta; E = S or Se; m = 0 or 1 or 2; n = 0 or 1).

In an effort to isolate the chalcogen-rich niobium analogue of [(Cp*Ta)3(μ-S)3(μ3-S)3BH], the room temperature reaction of [Cp*NbCl4] (Cp* = η5-C5Me5) with Li[BH2S3] was carried out. Although the objective of isolating the niobium analogue was not achieved, the reaction yielded a homocubane-type cluster [(Cp*Nb)3(μ-S)3(μ3-S)3(μ-S)BH], 1, and a hexa-sulfido cluster [(Cp*Nb)3(μ-S)6], 2. Cluster 1 is a notable example of a homocubane-type cluster in which one of the vertices of the homocubane is missing.

Cyclometallation of a germylene ligand by concerted metalation-deprotonation of a methyl group.

The reaction of [CH{(CMe)(2,6-iPr2C6H3N)}2]GeCl with LiN(SiMe3)2 was previously reported, which led to the formation of a hetero-fulvene type germylene, [CH{(CMe)(C[double bond, length as m-dash]CH2)(2,6-iPr2C6H3N)}2]Ge through the deprotonation of the C-H bond from the methyl substituents. In this paper, we attempted the analogous reaction with (Dipp)NCMeCHCOMeGeCl using LiN(SiMe3)2 which gave rise to a metathesis product, (Dipp)NCMeCHCOMeGeN(SiMe3)2 (2). However, the reactions of 2 with [M2Cl2(μ-Cl)2(η5-Cp*)2] (M = Rh and Ir) resulted in cyclometallated Rh and Ir complexes through the activation of the C-H bond from the germylene ligand.

Additional Practice of Yoga Breathing With Intermittent Breath Holding Enhances Psychological Functions in Yoga Practitioners: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Background And Objective: The practice of yoga is associated with enhanced psychological wellbeing. The current study assessed the correlation between the duration of yoga practice with state mindfulness, mind-wandering and state anxiety. Also, we examined if an additional 20 min of yoga breathing with intermittent breath holding (experimental group) for 8 weeks would affect these psychological variables more than regular yoga practice (control group) alone.

Immediate Effects of Yoga Breathing with Intermittent Breath Holding on Response Inhibition among Healthy Volunteers.

Background: There is very little evidence available on the effects of yoga-based breathing practices on response inhibition. The current study used stop-signal paradigm to assess the effects of yoga breathing with intermittent breath holding (YBH) on response inhibition among healthy volunteers.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-six healthy volunteers (17 males + 19 females), with mean age of 20.

Effects of yogic breath regulation: A narrative review of scientific evidence.

Pranayama or breath regulation is considered as an essential component of Yoga, which is said to influence the physiological systems. We present a comprehensive overview of scientific literature in the field of yogic breathing. We searched PubMed, PubMed Central and IndMed for citations for keywords "Pranayama" and "Yogic Breathing".

Proportion and determinants of tuberculosis among human immunodeficiency virus-positive patients attending the antiretroviral therapy center attached to a Medical College in South India.

Background: The human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) pandemic has caused a re-emergence of tuberculosis (TB). In persons infected with both HIV and TB, the lifetime risk of developing TB disease is 50-70% compared to 10% in HIV-negative individuals. India has world's 3(rd) highest HIV burden and is also one of the countries endemic for TB, so the country faces a dual epidemic of HIV and TB.

Immediate effect of yogic visual concentration on cognitive performance.

The ancient Indian yoga text, Hatha Yoga Pradipika, describes six cleansing techniques. The objective of cleansing techniques is to purify and prepare the body for the practice of yoga postures, breath regulation, and meditation. Yogic visual concentration technique (trataka) is one of these techniques.

Effect of integrated approach of yoga therapy on autonomic functions in patients with type 2 diabetes.

Background And Objectives: Integrated approach of yoga therapy (IAYT) had shown beneficial effects in the management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). Autonomic dysfunction is one of the major complications of type 2 DM. Research studies have demonstrated that yoga can modulate autonomic functions.

Hereditary amyloid polyneuropathy in a family from North West India: phenotypic, MRI and pathologic study.

Hereditary amyloid polyneuropathies are rare, heterogeneous group of autosomal dominant disorders and deserve special attention because of its rare presentation, multisystem involvement and significant therapeutic implications if diagnosed early. We report a male patient of hereditary amyloid polyneuropathy from North West India with peripheral nerve, autonomic nervous system, vitreous and cardiac involvement.

Anaesthetic management of a pregnant patient with intracranial space occupying lesion for craniotomy.

Intracranial space occupying lesion [SOL] during pregnancy presents several challenges to the neurosurgeons, obstetricians and anaesthesiologists in not only establishing the diagnosis, but also in the perioperative management as it requires a careful plan to balance both maternal and foetal well-being. It requires modification of neuroanaesthetic and obstetric practices which often have competing clinical goals to achieve the optimal safety of both mother and foetus. Intracranial tuberculoma should be considered in the differential diagnosis of intracranial SOL in pregnant women with signs and symptoms of raised intracranial pressure with or without neurological deficits, especially when they are from high incidence areas.

Cyclic mood disorder heralding adult-onset autosomal dominant leucodystrophy: a clinical masquerader.

Leucodystrophies are a heterogeneous group of progressive white matter diseases which may be inherited in dominant, recessive or X-linked fashion depending on the type. Adrenoleucodystrophy (ALD) and metachromatic leucodystrophy (MLD) are rather commoner forms of leucodystrophies whereas krabbes disease, alexander disease, cannavans disease etc. are of less common type.