416 research outputs found
A study on dog bite incidence in Union Territory of Dadra & Nagar Haveli, India
The injuries caused by dog bites have grown to such epidemic proportions that they are now considered a major public health concern. The epidemiology of dog bites in the UT of Dadra & Nagar Haveli has been evaluated, for the year 2012. This assessment included victims age, sex, biting site and season of the year. During the study, a total of 938 dog bites, were reported from aforesaid place. Of all the dog bites reported, 39.6% victim belonged to age group upto 0-15 year (children) and 60.4% were more than 15 years old (adults). The majority of the incidents 40.8% occurred during the pre monsoon period (1-20 weeks). There was no case of rabies. There is a need to educate the public about the magnitude of dog-bite problems, enforce leash laws and impound stray dogs as an integral part of prevention programs
Growth Rate Pattern and Economic Traits of Silkworm, Bombyx Mori L Under the Influence of Folic Acid Administration
Influence of oral administration of folic acid to 5th instar silkworm
larvae of a popular Indian bivoltine hybrid (CSR2 x CSR4) was studied.
Folic acid solution spraying on mulberry leaf and feeding to silkworm
significantly improved larval weight, silk gland weight and growth
rate. Higher larval and silk gland weight subsequently improved the
economic parameters like cocoon weight, shell weight and shell ratio of
folic acid treated batches
Multi-layered Ruthenium-modified Bond Coats for Thermal Barrier Coatings
Diffusional approaches for fabrication of multi-layered Ru-modified bond coats for thermal
barrier coatings have been developed via low activity chemical vapor deposition and high activity
pack aluminization. Both processes yield bond coats comprising two distinct B2 layers, based on
NiAl and RuAl, however, the position of these layers relative to the bond coat surface is reversed
when switching processes. The structural evolution of each coating at various stages of the
fabrication process has been and subsequent cyclic oxidation is presented, and the relevant
interdiffusion and phase equilibria issues in are discussed. Evaluation of the oxidation behavior of
these Ru-modified bond coat structures reveals that each B2 interlayer arrangement leads to the
formation of α-Al 2 O 3 TGO at 1100°C, but the durability of the TGO is somewhat different and in
need of further improvement in both cases
Superstring Vacua of 4-dimensional PP-Waves with Enhanced Supersymmetry
We study the superstring vacua constructed from the conformal field theories
of the type H_4 x M, where H_4 denotes the super Nappi-Witten model (super WZW
model on the 4-dimensional Heisenberg group H_4) and M denotes an arbitrary N=2
rational superconformal field theory with c=9. We define (type II) superstring
vacua with 8 supercharges, which are twice as many as those on the backgrounds
of H_4 x CY_3. We explicitly construct as physical vertices the space-time SUSY
algebra that is a natural extension of H_4 Lie algebra. The spectrum of
physical states is classified into two sectors: (1) strings freely propagating
along the transverse plane of pp-wave geometry and possessing the integral
U(1)_R-charges in M sector, and (2) strings that do not freely propagate along
the transverse plane and possess the fractional U(1)_R-charges in M. The former
behaves like the string excitations in the usual Calabi-Yau compactification,
but the latter defines new sectors without changing the physics in ``bulk''
space. We also analyze the thermal partition functions of these systems,
emphasizing the similarity to the DLCQ string theory. As a byproduct we prove
the supersymmetric cancellation of conformal blocks in an arbitrary unitary N=2
SCFT of c=12 with the suitable GSO projection.Comment: 37 pages, no figures, v2: typo corrected, references added, v3: minor
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Leprosy post-exposure prophylaxis with single-dose rifampicin
_Objective:_ Leprosy post-exposure prophylaxis with single-dose rifampicin (SDRPEP) has proven effective and feasible, and is recommended by WHO since 2018. This SDR-PEP toolkit was developed through the experience of the leprosy postexposure prophylaxis (LPEP) programme. It has been designed to facilitate and standardise the implementation of contact tracing and SDR-PEP administration in regions and countries that start the intervention.
_Results:_ Four tools were developed, incorporating the current evidence for SDRPEP and the methods and learnings from the LPEP project in eight countries.
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(Anti-)deuteron production in pp collisions at 1as=13TeV
The study of (anti-)deuteron production in pp collisions has proven to be a powerful tool to investigate the formation mechanism of loosely bound states in high-energy hadronic collisions. In this paper the production of (anti-)deuterons is studied as a function of the charged particle multiplicity in inelastic pp collisions at s=13 TeV using the ALICE experiment. Thanks to the large number of accumulated minimum bias events, it has been possible to measure (anti-)deuteron production in pp collisions up to the same charged particle multiplicity (d Nch/ d \u3b7 3c 26) as measured in p\u2013Pb collisions at similar centre-of-mass energies. Within the uncertainties, the deuteron yield in pp collisions resembles the one in p\u2013Pb interactions, suggesting a common formation mechanism behind the production of light nuclei in hadronic interactions. In this context the measurements are compared with the expectations of coalescence and statistical hadronisation models (SHM)
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