279 research outputs found
Flood Zone Mapping – A Study on Cooum River
Source: ICHE Conference Archive - https://mdi-de.baw.de/icheArchiv
Effect of Urbanization on Flooding: Adyar River a Case Study
Source: ICHE Conference Archive - https://mdi-de.baw.de/icheArchiv
A comparative study of inflammatory marker highly sensitive C- Reactive Protein in depression patients exhibiting suicidal behaviour and depression patients without suicidal behaviour
Background: Recent research have found a link between inflammatory pathway and suicidal behaviour. hs-CRP, IL, TNF have been shown to have significant alterations in suicidality, however multiple covariates influence this relationship. One of the main limitations of most of the studies is that they have evaluated the CRP in patients demonstrating suicidal behaviour but not in depression. No study has been conducted in Indian subpopulation with parameters of our study. Aims of the study was to compare hsCRP levels between depression patients with suicidal behaviour and without suicidal behaviour.Methods: Authors compared 50 depression patients with suicidal behaviour and 50 depression patients without suicidal behaviour, diagnosed using ICD10. Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS‑17), Suicide behaviour Questionnaire- Revised (SBQ-R), Beck Scale for Suicidal Ideation (BSSI) were applied for assessment of depression and suicidality. Highly sensitive CRP was measured using autoanalyzer.Results: hsCRP levels were significantly high in depression patients with suicidal behaviour (4.12 mg/dl) than depression without suicidal behaviour (2.42 mg/dl). Duration of illness, HAM-D, BSSI and SBQ-R scores correlated positively with hsCRP levels.Conclusions: Depression with suicidal behaviour patients have a significantly higher hs-CRP levels than depression without suicidal behaviour. Patients of depression with suicidal behaviour group have a strong positive correlation between hs-CRP levels and HAM-D, BSSI and SBQ-R scores
Expanding the evidence base for the design of policy influencing consumer choice for products and services with environmental impacts: policy briefing
Local heating method for growth of aligned carbon nanotubes at low ambient temperature
We use a highly localised resistive heating technique to grow vertically aligned multiwalled nanotube
films and aligned single-walled nanotubes on substrates with an average temperature of less than 100°C. The
temperature at the catalyst can easily be as high as 1000 °C but an extremely high temperature gradient
ensures that the surrounding chip is held at much lower temperatures, even as close as 1μm away from the
local heater. We demonstrate the influence of temperature on the height of multi-walled nanotube films,
illustrate the feasibility of sequential growth of single-walled nanotubes by switching between local heaters
and also show that nanotubes can be grown over temperature sensitive materials such as resist polymer
Local heating method for growth of aligned carbon nanotubes at low ambient temperature
We use a highly localised resistive heating technique to grow vertically aligned multiwalled nanotube
films and aligned single-walled nanotubes on substrates with an average temperature of less than 100oC. The
temperature at the catalyst can easily be as high as 1000 oC but an extremely high temperature gradient
ensures that the surrounding chip is held at much lower temperatures, even as close as 1μm away from the
local heater. We demonstrate the influence of temperature on the height of multi-walled nanotube films,
illustrate the feasibility of sequential growth of single-walled nanotubes by switching between local heaters
and also show that nanotubes can be grown over temperature sensitive materials such as resist polymer
Expanding the evidence base for the design of policy influencing consumer choice for products and services with environmental impacts: final report
Turning Milestones into Quantified Objectives: Food waste
This document sets out to define food waste, investigate how best it can be measured and provides a first assessment of the impacts of setting a food waste reduction target in the EU
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