Do proximal hip geometry, trabecular microarchitecture, and prevalent vertebral fractures differ in postmenopausal women with type 2 diabetes mellitus? A cross-sectional study from a teaching hospital in southern India.

Unlabelled: This study from southern India showed that the trabecular microarchitecture and proximal hip geometry were significantly impaired in postmenopausal women with diabetes as compared to age and BMI matched non-diabetic controls. This is despite there being no significant difference in bone mineral density at the femoral neck and hip not between both groups. One-third of the study subjects with type 2 diabetes had prevalent vertebral fractures.

Synthesis, computational studies, antimycobacterial and antibacterial properties of pyrazinoic acid-isoniazid hybrid conjugates.

Benzotriazole and microwave mediated syntheses led to a new set of hybrid conjugates of pyrazinoic acid with isoniazid amino acid linkers in excellent yields with retention of chirality. Microbiological screening of the synthesized conjugates revealed an exceptionally high activity against some of the pathogenic bacterial strains at low concentrations. Promising antimycobacterial properties were observed against tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria.

Reverse selectivity--high silicon nitride and low silicon dioxide removal rates using ceria abrasive-based dispersions.

We show that by adding poly(acrylicacid-co-diallyldimethylammonium chloride), a cationic polymer with a weight average molecular weight of about 4200 g/mole, to ceria-based dispersions, it is possible to achieve a silicon nitride removal rate (RR) of >100 nm/min and a silicon dioxide RR of <2 nm/min at pH 4 and 4 psi down pressure during chemical mechanical polishing. Furthermore, the RRs of the silicon dioxide films can be tuned by varying the polymer to abrasive weight ratio in the dispersion while the nitride RR is unaffected. We also characterized the role of adsorption of this polymer additive on ceria, silica and silicon nitride powders using zeta potential, adsorption isotherms, UV-Vis spectroscopy, contact angle, thermo-gravimetric analysis and friction coefficient measurements.