Factorial Design of Experiment Method to Characterize Bioprinting Process Parameters to Obtain the Targeted Scaffold Porosity.

Due to its inbuilt ability to release biocompatible materials encapsulating living cells in a predefined location, 3D bioprinting is a promising technique for regenerating patient-specific tissues and organs. Among various 3D bioprinting techniques, extrusion-based 3D bioprinting ensures a higher percentage of cell release, ensuring suitable external and internal scaffold architectures. Scaffold architecture is mainly defined by filament geometry and width.

Constraint based Bayesian optimization of bioink precursor: a machine learning framework.

Current research practice for optimizing bioink involves exhaustive experimentation with multi-material composition for determining the printability, shape fidelity and biocompatibility. Predicting bioink properties can be beneficial to the research community but is a challenging task due to the non-Newtonian behavior in complex composition. Existing models such as Cross model become inadequate for predicting the viscosity for heterogeneous composition of bioinks.

Trauma unit admissions at the Ugandan National Referral Hospital: a descriptive study.

Background: Injuries are a neglected epidemic globally accounting for 9% global deaths; 1.7 times that of HIV, TB and malaria combined. Trauma remains overlooked with key research and data focusing on infectious diseases yet Uganda has one of the highest rates of traumatic injury.

Pivotal role of environmental toxicants on developing infectious diseases in LMICs: a protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis.

Introduction: Environmental toxicants such as chemical pollution have an enormous impact on the health of people and the planet. Emerging findings suggest that non-communicable diseases are linked to early and chronic environmental exposures. However, the rapid globalisation in developing countries, environmental change and the emergence, spread, persistence and severity of infectious diseases are not yet well understood.

Evaluation of some heavy metals toxicity in and riverine water of Kosi in Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India.

This study was aimed to assess the bioaccumulation and concentration level of three heavy metals such as Chromium (Cr), Cadmium (Cd) and Lead (Pb) in the riverine water and edible fish, obtained from River Kosi, Rampur, Uttar Pradesh, India. These toxic heavy metals are released into the environment because of E-waste, industrial activities, municipal urban runoff, coal burning, fertilizers etc., then paved the way into the aquatic system due to direct input, atmospheric deposition, and erosions caused by rain.

Bioaccumulation of heavy metals in (Bloch) in river Ramganga (U.P.), India.

Ganga is the largest riverine system of India with a fragile ecosystem. Its prone to anthropogenic disturbances because of its cultural, economic and environmental values. The contamination of river Ganga by heavy metals (HM) is due to biotic (anthropogenic sources) and abiotic (pesticides, fertilizers) sources that poses a devastating health hazard to human, plant and edible fish life.

Groundwater contamination with cadmium concentrations in some West U.P. Regions, India.

Water is considered a vital resource because it is necessary for all aspects of human and ecosystem survival. However, due to natural processes and anthropogenic activities, various pollutants have been added to the ground water system. Among these, heavy metals are some of the most serious pollutants.

Quantifying the Impact of Trainee Providers on Outpatient Clinic Workflow using Secondary EHR Data.

Providers today face productivity challenges including increased patient loads, increased clerical burdens from new government regulations and workflow impacts of electronic health records (EHR). Given these factors, methods to study and improve clinical workflow continue to grow in importance. Despite the ubiquitous presence of trainees in academic outpatient clinics, little is known about the impact of trainees on academic workflow.

Study the effect of age and gender related differences on common paper and pencil neurocognitive tests in adolescents.

Background: Neurocognitive tests are routinely used to assess cognitive domains in the adolescents for assessing cognitive deficits and for therapeutic interventions. Now they are being used to assess their mental abilities in athletics too.

Aim: To study the effect of age and gender differences on routinely used common paper and pencil neuro-cognitive tests in adolescents and present the trends of normative data of Indian adolescent population.

The English National Chlamydia Screening Programme: variations in positivity in 2007/2008.

Background: The purpose of this study was to examine variation in positivity within the English National Chlamydia Screening Programme during 2007/2008.

Methods: Data were analyzed using multivariable logistic regression. The outcome measure was positivity.

On pins and needles? Pediatric pain patients' experience with acupuncture.

Introduction: Despite its increasing use as a complementary therapy to treat pain, acupuncture is rarely considered by pediatricians, in part due to perceptions that it will not be acceptable to pediatric patients. We wished to describe pediatric pain patients' experience with acupuncture treatment for chronic pain.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Child health care in changing times.

Unprecedented transformations in the financing and organization of child health care are driving change in the practice of pediatrics at a remarkably fast pace. The health care needs of children also are evolving, reflecting changing disease patterns, new technologies, and shifting socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of children and families. Changes in the financing and organization of child health services catalyzed by managed care and legislative initiatives need to be responded to proactively by the pediatric community.

Power, certainty, and the fear of death.

Reproductive technology has been poorly used because both health care providers and clients unrealistically expect it to prevent all death and uncertainty. Because of this we often get the risks, side effects, and inaccurate information without benefits. Poorly used reproductive technology also deskills both providers and clients.