Corrigendum to "Indexing blood banking performance in India: A retrospective cross-sectional analysis of states and districts" [Dialogues in Health: Volume 3 (2023)-Article 100160].

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Indexing blood banking performance in India: A retrospective cross-sectional analysis of states and districts.

Background: Multiple international assessments have highlighted gaps in blood banking globally. However, there is a dearth of subnational assessments. We applied a thematic framework with multiple composite indices to assess blood bank performance across Indian states and districts.

A study on impostor phenomenon, personality, and self-esteem of medical undergraduates and interns.

Introduction: Impostor phenomenon (IP) is a psychological experience where an individual considers their achievements to be fraudulent. IP in medical professionals is of paramount importance since it affects their self-confidence and communication skills. It has been associated with burnouts, low self-esteem, and neuroticism.

Incidence of Early Adverse Events Following Covishield (ChAdOx1 nCoV-19) Vaccination: A Prospective Study.

Background: Minor adverse event following immunizations (AEFIs) are often underreported and self-treated. This study aimed to collect information regarding any and every probable adverse event experienced by the recipient of Covishield vaccine up to 10 days following the first and second dose of vaccine. To find the incidence of minor adverse events following Covishield vaccination; draw an association between adverse events and individuals' demographic factors and comorbidities; and report new adverse events, if any.

Benefit of coconut-based hair oil via hair porosity quantification.

Objective: The present study is intended to characterize the surfactant damage suffered by the hair cortex in routine washing and the mechanistic effect of Coconut Based Hair Oils (CBHO) to mitigate the damage.

Methods: Surfactants which diffuse into the hair structure solubilize protein moieties, leading to an increase in porosity and internal surface area as well as the pore volume. The changes in hair pores occurring in the hair cortex are measured by nitrogen sorption method in line with the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET) theory.

Preliminary analysis of the distribution of water in human hair by small-angle neutron scattering.

Diffusion and distribution of water in hair can reveal the internal structure of hair that determines the penetration of various products used to treat hair. The distribution of water into different morphological components in unmodified hair, cuticle-free hair, and hair saturated with oil at various levels of humidity was examined using small-angle neutron scattering (SANS) by substituting water with deuterium oxide (D(2)O). Infrared spectroscopy was used to follow hydrogen-deuterium exchange.

Reduction-induced surface modification of human hair.

A microfluorometric method has been developed to characterize lipid removal or "delipidation" of the human hair cuticula during light exposure and chemical grooming processes such as oxidation (bleaching) and reduction. In the case of photochemical and chemical oxidation, lipid removal ("delipidation" of the F-layer or lipid-layer) from the outer beta-layer of the exposed scale faces and generation of cysteic acid groups occurs. This "delipidation," which ultimately results in "acidification" of the scale faces, leading to a change in surface chemistry from hydrophobic to hydrophilic, can be detected and quantified by microfluorometry by tagging, e.

Hair breakage during combing. IV. Brushing and combing hair.

During combing of hair, longer fiber breaks (>2.5 cm) occur principally by impact loading of looped crossover hairs, while short segment breaks (<2.5 cm) occur primarily by end wrapping.

Hair breakage during combing. III. The effects of bleaching and conditioning on short and long segment breakage by wet and dry combing of tresses.

A recent publication (1), provided evidence for two types of hair breakage during combing, short segment breakage (approximately less than 1.27 cm) and longer segment breakage. We have confirmed these results and refined the separation distance between short and long segment breakage at about 2.

Diffraction of light by the cuticle structure of hair.

Under a microscope, hair looks like a surface relief grating with an irregular sawtooth profile. Using scalar diffraction theory, we model what has been, until now, assumed to be a specular peak in the light scattering data. Diffraction efficiencies are calculated as a function of cuticle thickness.

Tensile properties of twisted hair fibers.

Hair is routinely twisted during grooming processes, which can cause tangles and lead to breakage of hair fibers. To evaluate the damage caused by twisting hair, the tensile stress-strain properties of single twisted hair fibers were measured by two different experimental procedures: (A) twist at constant length, followed by extension to break (without untwisting); and (B) twist and untwist at constant length, followed by extension to break. In procedure (A), the strength, extension, and initial modulus decreased with increase in twist factor, whereas in procedure (B), the strength and extension did not significantly change from control values, although the initial modulus decreased with increase in twist factor.

Failure of intercellular adhesion in hair fibers with regard to hair condition and strain conditions.

Although adhesion failure in hair fibers can occur inside cells, it occurs more frequently in the cell membrane complex (CMC), often involving the rupture of interlayer bonds. Therefore, a model of the CMC is presented, based on prior research in which we propose interconnecting bonds between the layers to assist in our interpretation of hair-fracturing mechanisms for cuticle chipping, deep transverse cuticle cracks, cracks during heat drying, scale lifting by surfactants, and catastrophic failure. Failure in the wet state generally involves hydrophilic layers, e.