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Comparative Studies On Man-biting Population Of Filarial Vector Cx. Quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae) Between Tribal And Non-tribal Areas Of Bankura District, West Bengal India
West Bengal, India is endemic for filariasis and the number of patients infected with bancroftian filariasis is increasing. There are no observation on the potential vector of filariasis from the tribal areas that make up considerable part in this state. This study investigate population of Cx. quinquefasciatus in tribal and non-tribal areas of Bankura district. Species composition of mosquitoes, per man-hour density, hourly densities of night biting Cx. quinquefasciatus, number of Cx. quinquefasciatus biting per man per day and per man per night. Preferential biting site and peak period of filarial transmission were recorded from both the study areas. Infection rate, infectivity rate of man-landing vector population and annual transmission potential were observed to be 0.31%, 0.00% and 0.00 in tribal areas and 0.73%, 0.23% and 359.71 in non-tribal areas respectively
Static and dynamic characterization of pull-in protected CMOS compatible poly-SiGe grating light valves
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Contact symmetry of time-dependent Schr\"odinger equation for a two-particle system: symmetry classification of two-body central potentials
Symmetry classification of two-body central potentials in a two-particle
Schr\"{o}dinger equation in terms of contact transformations of the equation
has been investigated. Explicit calculation has shown that they are of the same
four different classes as for the point transformations. Thus in this problem
contact transformations are not essentially different from point
transformations. We have also obtained the detailed algebraic structures of the
corresponding Lie algebras and the functional bases of invariants for the
transformation groups in all the four classes
Structural relaxation of E' gamma centers in amorphous silica
We report experimental evidence of the existence of two variants of the E'
gamma centers induced in silica by gamma rays at room temperature. The two
variants are distinguishable by the fine features of their line shapes in
paramagnetic resonance spectra. These features suggest that the two E' gamma
differ for their topology. We find a thermally induced interconversion between
the centers with an activation energy of about 34 meV. Hints are also found for
the existence of a structural configuration of minimum energy and of a
metastable state.Comment: 4 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Let
Exchange Interaction in Binuclear Complexes with Rare Earth and Copper Ions: A Many-Body Model Study
We have used a many-body model Hamiltonian to study the nature of the
magnetic ground state of hetero-binuclear complexes involving rare-earth and
copper ions. We have taken into account all diagonal repulsions involving the
rare-earth 4f and 5d orbitals and the copper 3d orbital. Besides, we have
included direct exchange interaction, crystal field splitting of the rare-earth
atomic levels and spin-orbit interaction in the 4f orbitals. We have identified
the inter-orbital repulsion, U and crystal field parameter,
as the key parameters involved in controlling the type of exchange
interaction between the rare earth and copper 3d spins. We have explored
the nature of the ground state in the parameter space of U, ,
spin-orbit interaction strength and the filling n. We find
that these systems show low-spin or high-spin ground state depending on the
filling of the levels of the rare-earth ion and ground state spin is
critically dependent on U and . In case of half-filling
(Gd(III)) we find a reentrant low-spin state as U is increased, for
small values of , which explains the recently reported apparent
anomalous anti-ferromagnetic behaviour of Gd(III)-radical complexes. By varying
U we also observe a switch over in the ground state spin for other
fillings . We have introduced a spin-orbit coupling scheme which goes beyond
L-S or j-j coupling scheme and we find that spin-orbit coupling does not
significantly alter the basic picture.Comment: 22 pages, 11 ps figure
Density waves and density fluctuations in granular flow
We simulate the granular flow in a narrow pipe with a lattice-gas automaton
model. We find that the density in the system is characterized by two features.
One is that spontaneous density waves propagate through the system with
well-defined shapes and velocities. The other is that density waves are so
distributed to make the power spectra of density fluctuations as
noise. Three important parameters make these features observable and they are
energy dissipation, average density and the rougness of the pipe walls.Comment: Latex (with ps files appended
Velocity and density profiles of granular flow in channels using lattice gas automaton
We have performed two-dimensional lattice-gas-automaton simulations of
granular flow between two parallel planes. We find that the velocity profiles
have non-parabolic distributions while simultaneously the density profiles are
non-uniform. Under non-slip boundary conditions, deviation of velocity profiles
from the parabolic form of newtonian fluids is found to be characterized solely
by ratio of maximal velocity at the center to the average velocity, though the
ratio depends on the model parameters in a complex manner. We also find that
the maximal velocity () at the center is a linear function of the
driving force (g) as with non-zero in
contrast with newtonian fluids. Regarding density profiles, we observe that
densities near the boundaries are higher than those in the center. The width of
higher densities (above the average density) relative to the channel width is a
decreasing function of a variable which scales with the driving force (g),
energy dissipation parameter () and the width of the system (L) as
with exponents and . A phenomenological theory based on a scaling argument is presented to
interpret these findings.Comment: Latex, 15 figures, to appear in PR
Pre-pregnancy predictors of hypertension in pregnancy among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in north Queensland, Australia; a prospective cohort study
BACKGROUND Compared to other Australian women, Indigenous women are frequently at greater risk for hypertensive disorders of pregnancy. We examined pre-pregnancy factors that may predict hypertension in pregnancy in a cohort of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in north Queensland. METHODS Data on a cohort of 1009 Indigenous women of childbearing age (15–44 years) who participated in a 1998–2000 health screening program in north Queensland were combined with 1998–2008 Queensland hospitalisations data using probabilistic data linkage. Data on the women in the cohort who were hospitalised for birth (n = 220) were further combined with Queensland perinatal data which identified those diagnosed with hypertension in pregnancy. RESULTS Of 220 women who gave birth, 22 had hypertension in the pregnancy after their health check. The mean age of women with and without hypertension was similar (23.7 years and 23.9 years respectively) however Aboriginal women were more affected compared to Torres Strait Islanders. Pre-pregnancy adiposity and elevated blood pressure at the health screening program were predictors of a pregnancy affected by hypertension. After adjusting for age and ethnicity, each 1 cm increase in waist circumference showed a 4% increased risk for hypertension in pregnancy (PR 1.04; 95% CI; 1.02-1.06); each 1 point increase in BMI showed a 9% adjusted increase in risk (1.09; 1.04-1.14). For each 1 mmHg increase in baseline systolic blood pressure there was an age and ethnicity adjusted 6% increase in risk and each 1 mmHg increase in diastolic blood pressure showed a 7% increase in risk (1.06; 1.03-1.09 and 1.07; 1.03-1.11 respectively). Among those free of diabetes at baseline, the presence of the metabolic syndrome (International Diabetes Federation criteria) predicted over a three-fold increase in age-ethnicity-adjusted risk (3.5; 1.50-8.17). CONCLUSIONS Pre-pregnancy adiposity and features of the metabolic syndrome among these young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women track strongly to increased risk of hypertension in pregnancy with associated risks to the health of babies.Sandra K Campbell, John Lynch, Adrian Esterman and Robyn McDermot
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