Webometric Analysis of Postgraduate Ophthalmic College Websites in India

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the websites of postgraduate ophthalmic colleges in India using the Alexa Internet Website Traffic, Statistics and Analytics. A total of 263 postgraduate ophthalmic colleges in India which have the web presence are included in the study. Each college website was searched in the Alexa Internet and data of Website Traffic, Statistics and Analytics is collected. The collected data is organized, tabulated and visualized using excel. The results of the analysis give interesting insights about the colleges\u27 websites. The colleges, Dr SN Medical College, Jodhpur and R N T Medical College, Udaipur have highest global rank and daily time on site. Meenakshi Medical College and Research Institute, Enathur have the highest bounce rate. The college website, SMS Medical College, Jaipur has the highest number of links. The study will provide important insights about the website usage to the colleges which will help them to strengthen their website

A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE OUTPUT IN THE JOUNAL SURVEY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Survey of Opthalmology is an international peer reviewed journal which publishes clinically oriented surveys in the field of ophthalmology. This study is an attempt to investigate and analyse the literature corpus published in the journal during the period 2014-2018. The data was obtained from PubMed. It was found that a total of 377 literatures were published during the period 2014-2018 by 1,520 authors. Two authorship pattern was the popular authorship pattern and degree of collaboration was 0.93. Majority of the first authors were from USA. The first authors from India had contributed 3.4% in the literature corpus. Most of the first authors from India were from LV Prasad Eye Institute and Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences. Majority of the first authors from other countries were working in Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. The literature corpus was cited by 5,028 literatures. “Humans” was the most popular MeSH/keyword

A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE OUTPUT IN THE JOUNAL SURVEY OF OPHTHALMOLOGY

Survey of Opthalmology is an international peer reviewed journal which publishes clinically oriented surveys in the field of ophthalmology. This study is an attempt to investigate and analyse the literature corpus published in the journal during the period 2014-2018. The data was obtained from PubMed. It was found that a total of 377 literatures were published during the period 2014-2018 by 1,520 authors. Two authorship pattern was the popular authorship pattern and degree of collaboration was 0.93. Majority of the first authors were from USA. The first authors from India had contributed 3.4% in the literature corpus. Most of the first authors from India were from LV Prasad Eye Institute and Dr. Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences. Majority of the first authors from other countries were working in Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. The literature corpus was cited by 5,028 literatures. “Humans” was the most popular MeSH/keyword

Pit Slope Failure Problems in Goan Iron Ore Mines, Goa, India

The problem of open pit slope stability is a matter of concern when the mining operations go deeper followed by weak strata conditions. In Goa iron ore mines the problem of slope instability has been faced by several mines, after the on-set of monsoon. A review of case studies available on the subject demonstrates that the ground displacement, stress redistribution, effect of ground water, low strength characteristics of the slope forming materials played significant role for the cause of slope failures. Slope monitoring studies indicated that the mechanism of slope failures could be complex and dependent on failure pathways, where certain units fail first and it is followed by subsequent failures due to redistribution of stresses from the preceding zone. The results of several observations, laboratory testing of slope forming materials and monitoring of the slopes have lead to an awareness of various mechanisms of failure and the conditions under which they occur. In real world situations, the failure mechanisms are much more complex involving many other variables due to complexity within the geological materials. The paper addressed the design of practical pit slope angles in such type of weak strata conditions. The testing techniques for material properties enable weak zones to be identified and their relative strengths are accurately determined. Case study of a large Iron mine discussed in detail to demonstrate how deep mining can be carried out under difficult ground conditions

A retrospective study of 'non-compliant' patients in controlled clinical trials of short course chemotherapy

In a total of 2,332 pulmonary short-course chemotherapy studies conducted during 1975-1985, there were 60 ‘noncompliant’ patients who had received less than 75% of the prescribed treatment. A retrospective study was undertaken to find out the reasons for default in these patients since the Tuberculosis Research Centre has very stringent criteria of selection of patients for their, studies, an adequate system. of motivation of the patients and well organised infrastructure for retrieval of the defaulters. Unwillingness for treatment was stated as the reason for default by 20 patients and adverse reactions to the drugs by 16 patients. Other major reasons given were pressure of work (14 patients), frequent outstation visits (13) and migration (12)

A SCIENTOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF LITERATURE GROWTH IN ANTHRAX

Anthrax is an infectious disease which occurs regularly in southern Europe. It is also used as a weapon by a number of countries. This study is an attempt to investigate and analyze about the literature output on Anthrax. The aim of the present study was to identify literature growth over the period, literature distribution and authorship pattern. The data was obtained from PubMed using the keywords Anthrax”. It was found that a total of 1,955 published literatures for the period 2011-2018 in the field of Anthrax were contributed by 8,185 unique authors in 11 languages in 694 journals in 12 publication types. Ten and above authorship pattern contributed a higher percentage of literature while comparing with other authorship patterns and the total degree of collaboration was 0.94. First authors from USA have contributed around 44.6% of the total literature. Most of the literatures published in these years have citation count between 1-10. The literature published in the year 2011 have the highest citation counts. “Humans” was the more popular MeSH/keyword

Structural and Electrical properties of ZnO Nanorod based dye sensitized solar cell

ThePreparation of nanorod involves simple and novel design of sol-gel process. Further, by using the prepared nanorods,working electrode will be prepared and it will be sensitized with ruthenium dye. A platinum coated FTO electrode will beused as a counter electrode. Dye sensitized solar cell will be assembled by using the working electrode and counterelectrode. FE-SEM and UV characteristics have been carried out at 250ᵒC, 350ᵒC&450ᵒC. The size and band gap ofnanorod at these temperatures has been found out to be 1μm and 2.95eV, 200nm and 2.86eV, 100nm and 2.79eVrespectively. The power conversion efficiency and the fill factor have been obtained as 2.72% and 0.722 respectively

Combining ability analysis and gene action of grain quality traits in rice (Oryza sativa L.) using line × tester analysis

In rice, twelve lines were crossed with five testers in a line × tester mating design and the resultant 60 hybrids along with their parents were evaluated for their combining ability effects for 15 grain quality traits. The results revealed that the ratio of GCA: SCA variances computed for all the fifteen grain quality traits showed the predominance of non-additive gene action. Among the lines, ADT (R) 47 showed significant desirable gca effects at 1% probability level (p = 0.01) for 11 grain quality traits viz., hulling percentage, milling percentage, head rice recovery percentage, kernel breadth, kernel breadth after cooking, breadth wise expansion ratio, gelatinization temperature, amylose content, gel consistency, water uptake and volume expansion ratio. Among the testers, Pusa 1460 showed significant desirable gca effects at 1% probability level (p = 0.01) for 10 grain quality traits viz., kernel length, kernel breadth, kernel length/breadth ratio, kernel length after cooking, kernel breadth after cooking, linear elongation ratio, gelatinization temperature, amylose content, water uptake and volume expansion ratio and hence they were adjudged as the best combiners for the improvement of the respective traits. Among the hybrids, the hybrids CO 47/Imp., Samba Mahsuri, ADT (R) 47/IRBB 21 and ADT (R) 46/IRBB 21 were identified as best hybrids for exploitation of grain quality traits since they revealed significant sca effects at 1% probability level (p = 0.01) for eight, eight and five grain quality traits, respectively

Instance of unusual feeding behaviour of the Indian mackerel, Rastrelliger kanagurta (Cuvier) off Mangalore

Swarms of Acetes are known to occur in the inshore waters and ascend up the estuaries in this region during this time of the year. The senior author found Acetes to be an important item of food of other fishes also like Lactarius lactarius and Trichiurus lepturus at the same time in tms area. Occurrence of immature individuals of L. lactarius (35 to 112 mm total length) in large numbers in the inshore waters off Mangalor