Asymptomatic Proteinuria and Hematuria in School Going Children

Background: This study was undertaken because many cases of asymptomatic proteinuria and hematuria are present in school children.Aims and Objectives:The study was under taken to evaluate asymptomatic proteinuria and hematuria in 100 school children of both sexes from 6 to 15 years of age. Material and Methods: Samples were collected randomly from students of different classes at the Government Kannada Primary School, K H B Colony,Bijapur, Karnataka (India). The midstream urine sample was collected in a clean wide mouth jar,examined by dipsticks for proteinuria and hematuria by microscopy. Results:We found that asymptomatic proteinuria and hematuria was more prevalent amongst the children between 10 to 13 years of age group with female predominance i.e.16% proteinuria and 5% of microscopic hematuria respectively. Conclusion:By this study we conclude that it would be possible to screen a large population of children for asymptomatic proteinuria and hematuria at a relatively low cost

P Wave Meson Spectrum in a Relativistic Model with Instanton Induced Interaction

On the basis of the phenomenological relativistic harmonic models for quarks we have obtained the masses of P wave mesons. The full Hamiltonian used in the investigation has Lorentz scalar + vector confinement potential, along with one gluon exchange potential (OGEP) and the instanton-induced quark-antiquark interaction (III). A good agreement is obtained with the experimental masses. The respective role of III and OGEP for the determination of the meson masses is discussed.Comment: Corrected typo

Tuberculosis-diabetes mellitus bidirectional screening at a tertiary care centre, South India

Supported by the TB Union/MSF Course on Operational Researc

UFLC Method Development and Validation for Anti Retro Viral Drugs: Investigation of Greenness Assessment using Complex GAPI, AGREE and AMGS SPREADSHEET

The study\u27s proposal was to establish a method development and validation by green chromatography technique for anti-viral drugs, as well as to assess the proposed method\u27s greenness using various tools, which is one of the emerging developments in the analytical field.. The chromatographic separation is achieved by using Eclipse plusC18(250x4.6, 5μm) column by applying isocratic elution using the mobile phase containing methanol and isopropyl acetate in the ratio of (60:40% v/v) with 1ml/min flow rate. The separation of drugs is achieved by using greener mobile phase. Results: The retention time of 1.854 min and 8.09 min for Ritonavir and Ombitasvir was found respectively.  The regression co-efficient (R2) is 0.997 for the both drugs. Accuracy & precision is evaluated for the method and found be within the limit and the results were reproducible. Assessment of method was carried out using the three different tools. The proposed method is anticipated to be eco-friendly, alternative to developed method HPLC method in regard to safe solvent, less toxic and less run time. The proposed method was adopted for the estimation of the two samples under study in their combined dosage forms

Rare occurrence of sunfish Mola mola (Linnaeus) from the coastal waters off Visakhapatnam (Bay of Bengal)

The occurrence of sunfish in any sea is a rare event. It is so rare that even fishermen engaged in fishing throughout their lives find it totally strange when they come across one. On 6 May, 1986, a local fisherman reported to the Zoology Department of the Andhra University that a very strange looking fish was part of that day's catch

Strange hadron matter and SU(3) symmetry

We calculate saturation curves for strange hadron matter using recently constructed baryon-baryon potentials which are constrained by SU(3) symmetry. All possible interaction channels within the baryon octet (consisting of $N$, $\Lambda$, $\Sigma$, and $\Xi$) are considered. It is found that a small $\Lambda$ fraction in nuclear matter slightly increases binding, but that larger fractions ($>10$) rapidly cause a decrease. Charge-neutral ${N,\Lambda,\Xi}$ systems, with equal densities for nucleons and cascades, are only very weakly bound. The dependence of the binding energies on the strangeness per baryon, $f_s$, is predicted for various ${N,\Lambda,\Xi}$ and ${N,\Lambda,\Sigma,\Xi}$ systems. The implications of our results in relativistic heavy-ion collisions and the core of a dense star are discussed. We also discuss the differences between our results and previous hadron matter calculations.Comment: 14 pages RevTeX, 7 postscript figure