Potentially toxic metals contamination, health risk, and source apportionment in the agricultural soils around industrial areas, Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, India: a multivariate statistical approach.

Potentially toxic metals (PTMs) contamination in the soil poses a serious danger to people's health by direct or indirect exposure, and generally it occurs by consuming food grown in these soils. The present study assessed the pollution levels and risk to human health upon sustained exposure to PTM concentrations in the area's centuries-old glass industry clusters of the city of Firozabad, Uttar Pradesh, India. Soil sampling (0-15 cm) was done in farmers' fields within a 1 km radius of six industrial clusters.

Research Trends in Green Product for Environment: A Bibliometric Perspective.

The term "green products" is used commonly to describe the products that seek to protect or enhance the environment during production, use, or disposal by conserving resources and minimizing the use of toxic agents, pollution, and waste. Hence, green products offer potential benefits to the environment and human health. Therefore, environmentally conscious consumers have shown an enhanced inclination for them.

"Carpal tunnel syndrome:" A bibliometric study of 35 years of research.

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a disease caused by compression of the median nerve passing through the wrist. Patients suffer from severe pain and paresthesis in the median nerve. Compression of the median nerve occurs, with prolonged working on keyboards (computer or laptop or music players) being one of the reasons along with others such as diabetes or rheumatoid arthritis.

Effect of Magnetized Water on Urea-Loading Efficiency of Mesoporous Nano-Silica: A Seed Germination Study on Wheat Crop.

Efficiently-loaded, controlled-release nanofertilizer systems improve fertilizer use efficiency, germination percentage, root and shoot length, seedling growth, and can overcome the problem of the ever-increasing cost of agrochemicals and their inherent post-application losses, which lead to severe soil, water, and eatable commodity pollution. In this study, magnetized distilled waters (MDWs) with various physicochemical characteristics have been used to enhance the urea loading efficiency into mesoporous nano silica (mNS). The mNS was in-house synthesized by a sol-gel method and characterized by UV-visible spectrophotometer (UV-Vis), Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), Energy-dispersive X-ray (EDX) spectroscopy, X-ray powder diffractometer (XRD), and thermogravimetric (TGA)/differential thermal analyzer (DTA) and Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FESEM).

Global muscular dystrophy research: A 25-year bibliometric perspective.

Muscular dystrophy is a genetic disorder leading to progressive weakness of muscles caused due to dysfunction in or lack of protein in muscle cells. The prevalence of muscular dystrophy has been observed globally and is becoming a critical area of study for better health services. The purpose of the study is to analyze the research strength of muscular dystrophy using bibliographic literature.

A Bibliometric Assessment of Global Ice Bucket Challenge (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) Research.

Background: This study is a quantitative and qualitative assessment of the global research trends on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) (popularly known as Ice Bucket Challenge), through related literatures retrieved from SCOPUS multidisciplinary database for the period 1974-2013.

Purpose: This study is aimed at analyzing the literature on ALS in terms of document type, language, annual growth, productive country, journal, authors, subject, and most cited articles.

Methods: The bibliographic data for this study was retrieved from the SCOPUS database using keywords 'amyotrophic lateral sclerosis', 'motor neurone disease', 'Charcot disease', 'Lou Gehrig's disease', 'Ice Bucket Challenge' available in title, abstract, and keyword fields of Scopus database from 1974 to 2013.

A bibliometric profile of lymphatic filariasis research in India.

Background & Objectives: Tropical and vector borne diseases have always been a challenge for the medical science and society and exerted high impact on society in terms of financial, economical and psychological relevance. Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is one of the tropical diseases which is prevalent in under developing and developed countries. The objective of this study is to analyze the literature published in the area of filariasis research.

India's contribution on "Guillain-Barre syndrome": mapping of 40 years research.

Objective: Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS) is an acute inflammatory polyradiculoneuropathy causing limb weaknesses. The mortality is around 8%, with about 20% of patients remaining disabled. The purpose of this study is to examine the performance of Indian Medical Scientists in the area of GBS over a period of 40 years.