Publications by authors named "S Rajalakshmi"

Background: The current sensory assessment measures for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have issues related to cultural and clinical applicability, which makes them difficult to apply in the Indian context consistently. The current study aimed to explore locally relevant themes for sensory reactivity in children with ASD.

Methods: This exploratory phenomenological qualitative study was carried out on 15 parents of children with ASD visiting the child guidance clinic.

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  • Serovar Kentucky is frequently linked to clinical infections in humans and has been found to have multidrug resistance mainly from animal food sources, with limited studies on colistin resistance.
  • The study focused on the colistin-resistant Kentucky strain COL-R, isolated from chicken meat, revealing high resistance to several antibiotics and confirming its pathogenic potential as it has features suggestive of being a serious human pathogen.
  • Genomic analysis identified multiple antimicrobial resistance genes, including genes responsible for fluoroquinolone resistance, and characterized the strain's phylogenetic relatedness, highlighting its position within a diverse cluster of other S. Kentucky genomes.
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Setting: The community-based primary palliative care programme in Kerala, India, has received international acclaim. Programme functioning is supported through Palliative Care Management Committees (PMCs) at the local government (LG) level.

Objective: To study the functioning of the PMCs within the decentralised governance space to identify achievements, gaps and notable innovations.

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In recent years, rapid development in the industrial sector has offered console to the people but at the same time, generates numerous amounts of effluent composed of toxic elements like nitrogen, phosphorus, hydrocarbons, and heavy metals that influences the environment and mankind hazardously. While the technological advancements are made in industrial effluent treatment, there arising stretch in the techniques directing on hybrid system that are effective in resource recovery from effluent in an economical, less time consuming and viable manner. The key objective of this article is to study, propose and deliberate the process and products obtained from different industries and the quantity of effluents produced, and the most advanced and ultra-modern theoretical and scientific improvements in treatment methods to remove those dissolved matter and toxic substances and also the challenges and perspectives in these developments.

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