Adoption Level of Farmers on Maize Cultivation Practices

The study to measure the extent of adoption level of maize production technologies has been conducted among the maize farmers in the Udumalpet block. The results of the study would help to know the adoption level of farmers which would had in designing suitable programmes to cater to the needs of the farmers. The results revealed that majority (64 per cent) of respondents belonged to the category of medium adoption level whereas, 23.30 per cent of the respondents belonged to the category of low adoption level and above one tenth (14 per cent) of respondents belonged to high adoption level category

Origin of transition metal clustering tendencies in GaAs based dilute magnetic semiconductors

While isovalent doping of GaAs (e.g. by In) leads to a repulsion between the solute atoms, two Cr, Mn, or Fe atoms in GaAs are found to have lower energy than the well-separated pair, and hence attract each other. The strong bonding interaction between levels with t2 symmetry on the transition metal (TM) atoms results in these atoms exhibiting a strong tendency to cluster. Using first-principles calculations, we show that this attraction is maximal for Cr, Mn and Fe while it is minimal for V. The difference is attributed to the symmetry of the highest occupied levels. While the intention is to find possible choices of spintronic materials that show a reduced tendency to cluster, one finds that the conditions that minimize clustering tendencies also minimize the stabilization of the magnetic state.Comment: To appear in Appl. Phys. Let

Electronic Structure of Sr_2FeMoO_6

We have analysed the unusual electronic structure of Sr_2FeMoO_6 combining ab-initio and model Hamiltonian approaches. Our results indicate that there are strong enhancements of the intraatomic exchange strength at the Mo site as well as the antiferromagnetic coupling strength between Fe and Mo sites. We discuss the possibility of a negative effective Coulomb correlation strength (U_{eff}) at the Mo site due to these renormalised interaction strengths.Comment: To appear in Phys. Rev. Let

Helping Low-Income Families Manage Childhood Asthma: Solutions for Healthcare & Beyond

Asthma is the most common childhood chronic illness, affecting more than seven million children nationwide. Managing chronic illness in a child is challenging for any family. Among the challenges is constant fear of an acute episode, a complex regimen of medications given daily or many times each day, frequent changes in prescriptions or dosages, coordinating multiple healthcare providers, and helping a child have as "normal" and active a childhood as his/her condition allows. Low-income children of color bear a heavier asthma burden than their white or more affluent peers. Those low-income children who live in urban areas such as Baltimore, Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York are particularly vulnerable. Families with limited resources struggle to provide their children with asthma the support that these children need

Clinical study on postpartum eclampsia

Background: Eclampsia constitutes one of the deadly triad along with malnutrition and anemia which authors encounter in the present tertiary hospital Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubli. This study was done to study the epidemiological factors associated with postpartum eclampsia, correlation with neuroimaging and the maternal outcome. The objective of the present study was retrospective study of postpartum eclampsia over a period of 22 months.Methods: A retrospective study conducted over a period 22 months from June 2015 to March 2017 in a tertiary care hospital, Karnataka Institute of Medical Sciences, Hubli. Case records of all postpartum eclampsia patients admitted during the period were analyzed.Results: This study showed that incidence of postpartum eclampsia in our hospital was 1.4%. It is more common in age group of 20-25 years, more common in primipara  (67.24%), commonest mode of delivery was vaginal route (86.2%), the occurrence of convulsion was more common within 24hrs after delivery. Most common CT scan finding was normal study (51.72%) followed by cerebral infarct (15.5%), cerebral edema (13.72%), PRES (10.34%). There were no cases of maternal mortality due to postpartum eclampsia during study period.Conclusions: Eclampsia still remains a major cause of maternal morbidity, CT scan of brain gives valuable intracerebral information, and aids in a better management