Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) is grown globally for its protein-rich seed. However, low ... more Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) is grown globally for its protein-rich seed. However, low availability of soil zinc (Zn) adversely affects the seed yield of pigeonpea. The present study was therefore conducted to assess the Zn efficiency of pigeonpea genotypes based on seed yield and seed Zn uptake efficiency. Field experiments were conducted at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research–Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal, India with twenty different pigeonpea genotypes and two levels of Zn application under a split-plot design. The two levels of Zn were low (without application of Zn fertilizer) and high (with application of 20 kg Zn ha−1 (as ZnSO4∙7H2O) as basal soil application, in conjunction with three foliar sprays of 0.50% (w/v) ZnSO4∙7H2O aqueous solution) (with 0.25% lime as neutralizing agent) at flowering, pod formation, and pod filling stages). Application of Zn improved plant height, branches plant−1, pods plant−1, seeds pod−1, and 100 seed weight of pigeo...
Zinc has emerged as the most widespread micronutrient deficiency in soils and crops worldwide, re... more Zinc has emerged as the most widespread micronutrient deficiency in soils and crops worldwide, resulting in severe yield losses and nutritional quality. Almost half of the soils in the world are deficient in zinc. Since cereal grains have inherently low concentrations, growing these on the potentially zinc-deficient soils further decreases grain zinc concentration. There is a high degree of correlation between zinc deficiency in soils and that in human beings. Zinc is an essential nutrient for human health. There is no life without zinc. Zinc deficiency is the fifth leading cause of death and disease in the developing world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 800,000 people die annually due to zinc deficiency, of which 450,000 are children under the age of five. About one-third of the world’s population suffers from zinc deficiency. The paper describes the role of zinc in crop production as well as human health. It highlights the initiatives of the International...
The deficiencies of nutrient elements and inappropriate nutrient management practices in agricult... more The deficiencies of nutrient elements and inappropriate nutrient management practices in agricultural soils of the world is one of the reasons for low crop productivity, reduced nutritional quality of agricultural produce, and animal/human malnutrition. We carried out the present study to evaluate the single and multi-nutrient deficiencies of sulfur (S) and micronutrients (zinc (Zn), boron (B), iron (Fe), copper (Cu) and manganese (Mn)) in agricultural soils of India for their effective management to achieve sustainable crop production, improved nutritional quality in crops and better animal/human health. Altogether, 24,2827 surface soil samples (0 to 15 cm depth) were collected from the agriculture fields of 615 districts in 28 states of India and were analyzed for available S and micronutrient concentration. The concentration of available S and micronutrients varied widely. There were variable and widespread deficiencies of S and micronutrients in different states. The deficiencie...
Context: Hypnic headache (HH) is a rare primary headache syndrome first described by Raskin in 19... more Context: Hypnic headache (HH) is a rare primary headache syndrome first described by Raskin in 1988. Aim: To describe the occurrence of HH in Indian patients and compare its clinicoepidemiological features to those published in the literature and attempt to trace some of the evolving concepts regarding its etiology and clinical features since it was first described. Materials and Methods: Patients attending the neurology outpatient department of a tertiary referral teaching hospital from 01-05-2011 to 30-04-2016 who were identified to have HH as per ICHD 3 beta criteria were included in the study. A meticulous history of the headache and comorbidities, clinical examination, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, blood counts, blood biochemistry, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brain and polysomnography (in selected patients) were done and the results were compared to selected international literature. Results: A total of 11 patients with HH were identified during the study period, ...
A ring R is called right (or left) socle-injective if every R-homomorphism from the right (or lef... more A ring R is called right (or left) socle-injective if every R-homomorphism from the right (or left) socle of R into R extends to R. In this article, we show that any semiprime ring R with socle S, is socle-injective if and only if where Q′ is a suitable subring of maximal right ring of quotients of R and is an ideal of Q′. Furthermore, an explicit structure of the ring Q′ is presented for a semiprime socle- injective ring, with essential socle. As an application, we show that a unital Leavitt path algebra with essential socle is socle-injective if and only if is semisimple, hence von Neumann regular. Moreover, we observed that socle-injective Leavitt path algebras are left-right symmetric. We also have provided examples to illustrate our results.
2020 IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC), 2020
Li-ion battery supports fast charging. However in conventional battery charging schemes, this fas... more Li-ion battery supports fast charging. However in conventional battery charging schemes, this fast charging capability is restricted by its terminal voltage during constant current charging profile. Furthermore conventional charging schemes neglect battery dynamics for an optimized charging protocol. This paper characterises Li-ion battery into its electrical equivalent circuit model. Additionally, based on the dynamics characterized through battery modelling a multi-level constant current charging protocol is adopted. This paper demonstrates a multi-level constant current charging scheme for faster battery charging with state of charge (SoC) estimation using least mean square (LMS) based algorithm. The implemented modified LMS algorithm with variable learning rate estimates the SoC of the battery accurately. The charging scheme approaches 100% SoC at a relatively higher charging current in comparison to the conventional battery charging schemes making the SoC estimation an important aspect for charge termination. The multi-level constant current charging scheme, inspired by the Taguchi optimization technique is implemented using a DC-DC buck converter as a variable current source. Experimental comparison between multi-level constant current and conventional charging scheme is performed. The hardware results showcase a reduction in charging time over conventional charging schema by 39.28%.
2017 7th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), 2017
The evolution of technology and lifestyle in the past few decades has led to an immense change in... more The evolution of technology and lifestyle in the past few decades has led to an immense change in technological as well as social front. Digitalization has taken over the world due to an easy control and accessibility to smartphones. It has led to a technology dependent automatic world ready to adapt to a precision and accuracy based labor-free system. Automation along with widely used smartphones plays an important role in the commencement of Smart Home Automation. On the other hand, exponential increase in demand for electricity due to urbanization has led to drastic decrease in the non-renewable resources and increase in greenhouse gases. This coerced the scientists to opt for easily available and cost efficient renewable resources. Smart home Automation when merged with renewable resource as co-generating system, will not only reduce human labor but will also contribute towards betterment of the environment. This paper focuses on a reliable, low cost and efficient Hybrid Smart Home Automation (HSHA) system for controlling as well as monitoring the loads. Wireless controlling and monitoring of loads is done using a smartphone via an android application. The android application has features such as password protection, availability of different modes of operation, real-time power monitoring and controlling the loads using switch or voice control. An android based controller circuit is built which serves as an intermediate platform between the user and the relay system. For wireless communication, Bluetooth module is used due to its flexibility and relays for quick and methodical control of loads. A real-time prototype of the proposed system is designed for 1 kilo-watt household system and the experimental results are presented for different loads and modes of operation.
Economics suffers from a blurred view of the economy due to the delay in the official publication... more Economics suffers from a blurred view of the economy due to the delay in the official publication of macroeconomic variables and, essentially, of the most important variable of real GDP. Therefore, this paper aimed at nowcasting GDP in India based on high-frequency data released early. Instead of using a large set of data thus increasing statistical complexity, two main indicators of the Indian economy (economic policy uncertainty and consumer price index) were relied on. The paper followed the MIDAS–Almon (PDL) weighting approach, which allowed us to successfully capture structural breaks and predict Indian GDP for the second quarter of 2021, after evaluating the accuracy of the nowcasting and out-of-sample prediction. Our results indicated low values of the RMSE in the sample and when predicting the out-of-sample1- and 4-quarter horizon, but RMSE increased when predicting the 10-quarter horizon. Due to the effect of the short-term structural break, we found that RMSE values decrea...
Undoped and Ni doped SnO 2 nanoparticles were synthesized by low temperature polyol route and sys... more Undoped and Ni doped SnO 2 nanoparticles were synthesized by low temperature polyol route and systematically investigated for gas sensing applications. XRD, SEM and TEM studies confirmed the tetragonal rutile phase and the nanocrystalline nature of SnO 2 particles. Doping of Ni and the formation of various defects/oxygen vacancies in SnO 2 were supported by XPS, PL and UVeVis spectroscopic measurements. For gas sensing studies, sensors were fabricated by drop casting of the nanoparticles on gold inter-digitated electrodes and tested at room temperature (~25 C). It was found that 2 at% Ni doping has improved the sensor response towards SO 2 (~6 for 10 ppm) and NO 2 (~850 for 3 ppm) significantly. Excellent sensor response and selectivity of Ni doped SnO 2 for NO 2 could be attributed to the formation of preferred type oxygen vacancies, favourble adsorption sites and the surface hydroxyl groups due to optimum Ni doping. Since the Ni doped SnO 2 sensor exhibited opposite response signal towards SO 2 (decrease in resistance) and NO 2 (increase in resistance), the same sensor can be used for the selective, sensitive and reversible detection of both SO 2 and NO 2 , especially operating at room temperature.
Sodium bismuth titanate (NBT) based compounds have drawn significant attention because of high ox... more Sodium bismuth titanate (NBT) based compounds have drawn significant attention because of high oxygen-ion conductivity which makes them a promising electrolyte candidate for solid oxide fuel cells. The present work investigates the long-term conductivity stability of Na 0.54 Bi 0.46 TiO 3−δ doped with acceptor cations such as Mg 2+ and Ga 3+ in 5% H 2-95% N 2 environment at 600°C for 100 h. In-situ conductivity measurement performed using impedance spectroscopy indicates a significant loss in the conductivity in the first 20 h of ageing. Following which, the conductivity appears to be stable for the next 20 h. However, a sudden gain in conductivity is seen after 40 h of ageing in reducing conditions. XRD analysis indicates the formation of Bi 2 O 3 based compound which on further ageing decomposes to metallic Bi. SEM analysis reveals the change in grain morphology during the course of ageing with the microstructure of 100 h aged sample is shown to contain several ruptured grains. XPS results indicate the partial reduction of Ti 4+ to Ti 3+ which possibly leads to high n-type electronic conductivity in aged samples. The conductivity loss is attributed to the decomposition of the perovskite phase while the sudden conductivity increase after 40 h of ageing is explained through n-type electronic conduction inside the NBT lattice.
Forensic psychiatry is in its infancy in India. There is a clear module or a well-structured trai... more Forensic psychiatry is in its infancy in India. There is a clear module or a well-structured training in the country except for recently opened few courses. Lack of trainer in the field might lead to compromised state when one has to take decision between the well-being of a person versus society. Starting from social contexts, such as marriage and mental illness, to the interpretation of criminal mind, there is a multitude of situations where forensic psychiatrist has a handful of jobs which suffer due to lack of infrastructure. In this article, we delineate the importance of a forensic psychiatrist in different civil as well as legal scenarios and difficulties often faced while handling it.
Epistaxis or nasal bleeding is a common condition which may be severe enough to warrant an urgent... more Epistaxis or nasal bleeding is a common condition which may be severe enough to warrant an urgent medical or surgical treatment. Factitious epistaxis is a rare entity. Due to a lack of exposure in complex behavioral issues during undergraduate training, it is quite natural on the part of a surgeon to miss the underlying emotional phenomena. Here, we present a case of factitious disorder which presented to the surgical causality with nasal bleeding. After proper evaluation and liaison with the department of otorhinolaryngology, we were able to manage the patient with antidepressants and cognitive behavioral therapy.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-No... more This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
Asia-Pacific Journal of Management Research and Innovation, 2014
The resurgence of a new generation of skilled workers, with a vast majority of them enjoying incr... more The resurgence of a new generation of skilled workers, with a vast majority of them enjoying increased incomes through much of their careers, has been widely hailed as one of the primary reasons for India’s remarkable economic growth. However, there still exists a significant difference in wages for similarly skilled workers from different social groups in the country. Consequently, such wage disparities have been at the forefront of public policy deliberations, and a vast majority of the remedial formulations have relied on affirmative safeguards to rectify these imbalances. While the merits of such policies are rightfully debated, direct empirical evidence on their effectiveness have been inadequate. This article seeks to redress the lacuna by using newer samples from the National Sample Survey Organization which enumerates wage data based on all the four major social groups in India. The results indicated that members from the three underprivileged groups entering the labour forc...
Aripiprazole induced hypersexuality, when we should be cautious? Sir, Sexual side-effects are the... more Aripiprazole induced hypersexuality, when we should be cautious? Sir, Sexual side-effects are the major hindrance and limiting factor of using antipsychotics in Schizophrenia and other indication (Dossenbach et al., 2005). Antipsychotics cause decrease in dopamine and increase in prolactin level which in turn leads to reduced libido. Some studies say that second generations cause less sexual side effects but this is not a unitary finding (Üçok et al., 2007). Aripiprazole, being the partial agonist of the dopamine D2 receptor, as a partial agonist at the 5-HT1A receptor, and an antagonist at the 5-HT2A receptor, is safer option in sexual dysfunction and often used to alleviate the prolactin related side effects (Doval et al., 2017). But due to its partial dopaminergic agonistic activity can cause compulsive behaviors, such as pathological gambling, compulsive shopping, and hypersexuality (Eğilmez et al., 2016). Here, we are presenting a case of Aripiprazole induced excessive libido leading significant relational issue which made us stop the medicine, followed by normalisation of the symptoms.
Photofragmentation/ionization of dimethyl sulphide (DMS) and dimethyl disulphide (DMDS) clusters,... more Photofragmentation/ionization of dimethyl sulphide (DMS) and dimethyl disulphide (DMDS) clusters, i.e., (CH 3 SCH 3) n and CH 3 SSCH 3) n , subjected to nanosecond laser pulses of 355 and 532 nm of intensity *5 9 10 9 W/cm 2 , has been studied using time-of-flight mass spectrometry. At 355 nm, these clusters were found to exhibit multiphoton dissociation/ionization behavior similar to that reported earlier for their corresponding monomer. In contrast at 532 nm, these clusters were found to exhibit Coulomb explosion phenomenon resulting in generation of multiply charged atomic ions of carbon (up to C 4?) and sulphur (S 6?), along with other fragment ions arising from multiphoton dissociation/ ionization of DMS and DMDS clusters.
Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) is grown globally for its protein-rich seed. However, low ... more Pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan (L.) Millsp.) is grown globally for its protein-rich seed. However, low availability of soil zinc (Zn) adversely affects the seed yield of pigeonpea. The present study was therefore conducted to assess the Zn efficiency of pigeonpea genotypes based on seed yield and seed Zn uptake efficiency. Field experiments were conducted at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research–Indian Institute of Soil Science, Bhopal, India with twenty different pigeonpea genotypes and two levels of Zn application under a split-plot design. The two levels of Zn were low (without application of Zn fertilizer) and high (with application of 20 kg Zn ha−1 (as ZnSO4∙7H2O) as basal soil application, in conjunction with three foliar sprays of 0.50% (w/v) ZnSO4∙7H2O aqueous solution) (with 0.25% lime as neutralizing agent) at flowering, pod formation, and pod filling stages). Application of Zn improved plant height, branches plant−1, pods plant−1, seeds pod−1, and 100 seed weight of pigeo...
Zinc has emerged as the most widespread micronutrient deficiency in soils and crops worldwide, re... more Zinc has emerged as the most widespread micronutrient deficiency in soils and crops worldwide, resulting in severe yield losses and nutritional quality. Almost half of the soils in the world are deficient in zinc. Since cereal grains have inherently low concentrations, growing these on the potentially zinc-deficient soils further decreases grain zinc concentration. There is a high degree of correlation between zinc deficiency in soils and that in human beings. Zinc is an essential nutrient for human health. There is no life without zinc. Zinc deficiency is the fifth leading cause of death and disease in the developing world. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), about 800,000 people die annually due to zinc deficiency, of which 450,000 are children under the age of five. About one-third of the world’s population suffers from zinc deficiency. The paper describes the role of zinc in crop production as well as human health. It highlights the initiatives of the International...
The deficiencies of nutrient elements and inappropriate nutrient management practices in agricult... more The deficiencies of nutrient elements and inappropriate nutrient management practices in agricultural soils of the world is one of the reasons for low crop productivity, reduced nutritional quality of agricultural produce, and animal/human malnutrition. We carried out the present study to evaluate the single and multi-nutrient deficiencies of sulfur (S) and micronutrients (zinc (Zn), boron (B), iron (Fe), copper (Cu) and manganese (Mn)) in agricultural soils of India for their effective management to achieve sustainable crop production, improved nutritional quality in crops and better animal/human health. Altogether, 24,2827 surface soil samples (0 to 15 cm depth) were collected from the agriculture fields of 615 districts in 28 states of India and were analyzed for available S and micronutrient concentration. The concentration of available S and micronutrients varied widely. There were variable and widespread deficiencies of S and micronutrients in different states. The deficiencie...
Context: Hypnic headache (HH) is a rare primary headache syndrome first described by Raskin in 19... more Context: Hypnic headache (HH) is a rare primary headache syndrome first described by Raskin in 1988. Aim: To describe the occurrence of HH in Indian patients and compare its clinicoepidemiological features to those published in the literature and attempt to trace some of the evolving concepts regarding its etiology and clinical features since it was first described. Materials and Methods: Patients attending the neurology outpatient department of a tertiary referral teaching hospital from 01-05-2011 to 30-04-2016 who were identified to have HH as per ICHD 3 beta criteria were included in the study. A meticulous history of the headache and comorbidities, clinical examination, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, blood counts, blood biochemistry, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans of the brain and polysomnography (in selected patients) were done and the results were compared to selected international literature. Results: A total of 11 patients with HH were identified during the study period, ...
A ring R is called right (or left) socle-injective if every R-homomorphism from the right (or lef... more A ring R is called right (or left) socle-injective if every R-homomorphism from the right (or left) socle of R into R extends to R. In this article, we show that any semiprime ring R with socle S, is socle-injective if and only if where Q′ is a suitable subring of maximal right ring of quotients of R and is an ideal of Q′. Furthermore, an explicit structure of the ring Q′ is presented for a semiprime socle- injective ring, with essential socle. As an application, we show that a unital Leavitt path algebra with essential socle is socle-injective if and only if is semisimple, hence von Neumann regular. Moreover, we observed that socle-injective Leavitt path algebras are left-right symmetric. We also have provided examples to illustrate our results.
2020 IEEE Kansas Power and Energy Conference (KPEC), 2020
Li-ion battery supports fast charging. However in conventional battery charging schemes, this fas... more Li-ion battery supports fast charging. However in conventional battery charging schemes, this fast charging capability is restricted by its terminal voltage during constant current charging profile. Furthermore conventional charging schemes neglect battery dynamics for an optimized charging protocol. This paper characterises Li-ion battery into its electrical equivalent circuit model. Additionally, based on the dynamics characterized through battery modelling a multi-level constant current charging protocol is adopted. This paper demonstrates a multi-level constant current charging scheme for faster battery charging with state of charge (SoC) estimation using least mean square (LMS) based algorithm. The implemented modified LMS algorithm with variable learning rate estimates the SoC of the battery accurately. The charging scheme approaches 100% SoC at a relatively higher charging current in comparison to the conventional battery charging schemes making the SoC estimation an important aspect for charge termination. The multi-level constant current charging scheme, inspired by the Taguchi optimization technique is implemented using a DC-DC buck converter as a variable current source. Experimental comparison between multi-level constant current and conventional charging scheme is performed. The hardware results showcase a reduction in charging time over conventional charging schema by 39.28%.
2017 7th International Conference on Power Systems (ICPS), 2017
The evolution of technology and lifestyle in the past few decades has led to an immense change in... more The evolution of technology and lifestyle in the past few decades has led to an immense change in technological as well as social front. Digitalization has taken over the world due to an easy control and accessibility to smartphones. It has led to a technology dependent automatic world ready to adapt to a precision and accuracy based labor-free system. Automation along with widely used smartphones plays an important role in the commencement of Smart Home Automation. On the other hand, exponential increase in demand for electricity due to urbanization has led to drastic decrease in the non-renewable resources and increase in greenhouse gases. This coerced the scientists to opt for easily available and cost efficient renewable resources. Smart home Automation when merged with renewable resource as co-generating system, will not only reduce human labor but will also contribute towards betterment of the environment. This paper focuses on a reliable, low cost and efficient Hybrid Smart Home Automation (HSHA) system for controlling as well as monitoring the loads. Wireless controlling and monitoring of loads is done using a smartphone via an android application. The android application has features such as password protection, availability of different modes of operation, real-time power monitoring and controlling the loads using switch or voice control. An android based controller circuit is built which serves as an intermediate platform between the user and the relay system. For wireless communication, Bluetooth module is used due to its flexibility and relays for quick and methodical control of loads. A real-time prototype of the proposed system is designed for 1 kilo-watt household system and the experimental results are presented for different loads and modes of operation.
Economics suffers from a blurred view of the economy due to the delay in the official publication... more Economics suffers from a blurred view of the economy due to the delay in the official publication of macroeconomic variables and, essentially, of the most important variable of real GDP. Therefore, this paper aimed at nowcasting GDP in India based on high-frequency data released early. Instead of using a large set of data thus increasing statistical complexity, two main indicators of the Indian economy (economic policy uncertainty and consumer price index) were relied on. The paper followed the MIDAS–Almon (PDL) weighting approach, which allowed us to successfully capture structural breaks and predict Indian GDP for the second quarter of 2021, after evaluating the accuracy of the nowcasting and out-of-sample prediction. Our results indicated low values of the RMSE in the sample and when predicting the out-of-sample1- and 4-quarter horizon, but RMSE increased when predicting the 10-quarter horizon. Due to the effect of the short-term structural break, we found that RMSE values decrea...
Undoped and Ni doped SnO 2 nanoparticles were synthesized by low temperature polyol route and sys... more Undoped and Ni doped SnO 2 nanoparticles were synthesized by low temperature polyol route and systematically investigated for gas sensing applications. XRD, SEM and TEM studies confirmed the tetragonal rutile phase and the nanocrystalline nature of SnO 2 particles. Doping of Ni and the formation of various defects/oxygen vacancies in SnO 2 were supported by XPS, PL and UVeVis spectroscopic measurements. For gas sensing studies, sensors were fabricated by drop casting of the nanoparticles on gold inter-digitated electrodes and tested at room temperature (~25 C). It was found that 2 at% Ni doping has improved the sensor response towards SO 2 (~6 for 10 ppm) and NO 2 (~850 for 3 ppm) significantly. Excellent sensor response and selectivity of Ni doped SnO 2 for NO 2 could be attributed to the formation of preferred type oxygen vacancies, favourble adsorption sites and the surface hydroxyl groups due to optimum Ni doping. Since the Ni doped SnO 2 sensor exhibited opposite response signal towards SO 2 (decrease in resistance) and NO 2 (increase in resistance), the same sensor can be used for the selective, sensitive and reversible detection of both SO 2 and NO 2 , especially operating at room temperature.
Sodium bismuth titanate (NBT) based compounds have drawn significant attention because of high ox... more Sodium bismuth titanate (NBT) based compounds have drawn significant attention because of high oxygen-ion conductivity which makes them a promising electrolyte candidate for solid oxide fuel cells. The present work investigates the long-term conductivity stability of Na 0.54 Bi 0.46 TiO 3−δ doped with acceptor cations such as Mg 2+ and Ga 3+ in 5% H 2-95% N 2 environment at 600°C for 100 h. In-situ conductivity measurement performed using impedance spectroscopy indicates a significant loss in the conductivity in the first 20 h of ageing. Following which, the conductivity appears to be stable for the next 20 h. However, a sudden gain in conductivity is seen after 40 h of ageing in reducing conditions. XRD analysis indicates the formation of Bi 2 O 3 based compound which on further ageing decomposes to metallic Bi. SEM analysis reveals the change in grain morphology during the course of ageing with the microstructure of 100 h aged sample is shown to contain several ruptured grains. XPS results indicate the partial reduction of Ti 4+ to Ti 3+ which possibly leads to high n-type electronic conductivity in aged samples. The conductivity loss is attributed to the decomposition of the perovskite phase while the sudden conductivity increase after 40 h of ageing is explained through n-type electronic conduction inside the NBT lattice.
Forensic psychiatry is in its infancy in India. There is a clear module or a well-structured trai... more Forensic psychiatry is in its infancy in India. There is a clear module or a well-structured training in the country except for recently opened few courses. Lack of trainer in the field might lead to compromised state when one has to take decision between the well-being of a person versus society. Starting from social contexts, such as marriage and mental illness, to the interpretation of criminal mind, there is a multitude of situations where forensic psychiatrist has a handful of jobs which suffer due to lack of infrastructure. In this article, we delineate the importance of a forensic psychiatrist in different civil as well as legal scenarios and difficulties often faced while handling it.
Epistaxis or nasal bleeding is a common condition which may be severe enough to warrant an urgent... more Epistaxis or nasal bleeding is a common condition which may be severe enough to warrant an urgent medical or surgical treatment. Factitious epistaxis is a rare entity. Due to a lack of exposure in complex behavioral issues during undergraduate training, it is quite natural on the part of a surgeon to miss the underlying emotional phenomena. Here, we present a case of factitious disorder which presented to the surgical causality with nasal bleeding. After proper evaluation and liaison with the department of otorhinolaryngology, we were able to manage the patient with antidepressants and cognitive behavioral therapy.
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-No... more This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
Asia-Pacific Journal of Management Research and Innovation, 2014
The resurgence of a new generation of skilled workers, with a vast majority of them enjoying incr... more The resurgence of a new generation of skilled workers, with a vast majority of them enjoying increased incomes through much of their careers, has been widely hailed as one of the primary reasons for India’s remarkable economic growth. However, there still exists a significant difference in wages for similarly skilled workers from different social groups in the country. Consequently, such wage disparities have been at the forefront of public policy deliberations, and a vast majority of the remedial formulations have relied on affirmative safeguards to rectify these imbalances. While the merits of such policies are rightfully debated, direct empirical evidence on their effectiveness have been inadequate. This article seeks to redress the lacuna by using newer samples from the National Sample Survey Organization which enumerates wage data based on all the four major social groups in India. The results indicated that members from the three underprivileged groups entering the labour forc...
Aripiprazole induced hypersexuality, when we should be cautious? Sir, Sexual side-effects are the... more Aripiprazole induced hypersexuality, when we should be cautious? Sir, Sexual side-effects are the major hindrance and limiting factor of using antipsychotics in Schizophrenia and other indication (Dossenbach et al., 2005). Antipsychotics cause decrease in dopamine and increase in prolactin level which in turn leads to reduced libido. Some studies say that second generations cause less sexual side effects but this is not a unitary finding (Üçok et al., 2007). Aripiprazole, being the partial agonist of the dopamine D2 receptor, as a partial agonist at the 5-HT1A receptor, and an antagonist at the 5-HT2A receptor, is safer option in sexual dysfunction and often used to alleviate the prolactin related side effects (Doval et al., 2017). But due to its partial dopaminergic agonistic activity can cause compulsive behaviors, such as pathological gambling, compulsive shopping, and hypersexuality (Eğilmez et al., 2016). Here, we are presenting a case of Aripiprazole induced excessive libido leading significant relational issue which made us stop the medicine, followed by normalisation of the symptoms.
Photofragmentation/ionization of dimethyl sulphide (DMS) and dimethyl disulphide (DMDS) clusters,... more Photofragmentation/ionization of dimethyl sulphide (DMS) and dimethyl disulphide (DMDS) clusters, i.e., (CH 3 SCH 3) n and CH 3 SSCH 3) n , subjected to nanosecond laser pulses of 355 and 532 nm of intensity *5 9 10 9 W/cm 2 , has been studied using time-of-flight mass spectrometry. At 355 nm, these clusters were found to exhibit multiphoton dissociation/ionization behavior similar to that reported earlier for their corresponding monomer. In contrast at 532 nm, these clusters were found to exhibit Coulomb explosion phenomenon resulting in generation of multiply charged atomic ions of carbon (up to C 4?) and sulphur (S 6?), along with other fragment ions arising from multiphoton dissociation/ ionization of DMS and DMDS clusters.
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