Citations in chemical engineering research: factors and their assessment

The study explores citation pattern of the 4112 articles in the field of chemical engineering published from 1974 to 2018 and indexed in Web of Science. Apart from good quality research, a number of other factors may be responsible for citing and not citing an article. The study has also tried to explore such factors. Only the top 500 articles with the most number of citations have been analysed in-depth. The countries like United States of America (USA), China, Germany, United Kingdom (UK), France, Canada, India, Japan, Spain, Russia and Brazil have the highest number of articles. The investigators calculated Pearson correlation between the number of keywords, pages, references and citations and it showed that there is no relationship between the number of keywords and number of citations. The number of pages and the number of references in a publication have a significant and positive impact on the number of citations

Penggunaan Metode Team Accelerated Instruction (TAI) Untuk Meningkatkan Penguasaan Siswa Pada Mata Pelajaran Matematika Bagi Siswa Kelas III SDN 2 Bandungan Jatinom Semester I Tahun Pelajaran 2012/2013

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah mendiskripsikan peningkatan penguasaan mata pelajaran Matematika pada pokok bahasan perkalian yang hasilnya bilangan tiga angka menggunakan penerapan metode Team Accelerated Instruction (TAI). Jenis penelitian ini adalah Penelitian Tindakan Kelas (PTK). Subyek penerima tindakan adalah siswa kelas III SD Negeri 2 Bandungan Jatinom Klaten yang berjumlah 18 siswa.Teknik pengumpulan data dengan observasi, dokumentasi, tes, dan catatan lapangan. Teknik analisis data dilakukan secara deskriptif kualitatif dengan langkah-langkah: reduksi data, penyajian data dan penarikan kesimpulan. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan adanya peningkatan penguasaan siswa pada mata pelajaran Matematika pada pokok bahasan perkalian yang hasilnya bilangan tiga angka. Hal ini dapat dilihat dari hasil pelaksanaan pembelajaran pada ranah afektif yaitu adanya peningkatan dari perhatian terhadap pelajaran pada siklus I (44,4 %), pada siklus II (66,6 %), pada siklus III (83,3 %). Keseriusan mengikuti pelajaran pada siklus I (33,3 %), pada siklus II (61,1 %), pada siklus III (77,7 %). Keaktifan dalam kelompok pada siklus I (50 %), pada siklus II (55 %), pada siklus III (77,7 %). mengerjakan soal di depan kelas pada siklus I (38,9 %), pada siklus II (61,1 %), pada siklus III (88,8 %). Adapun pada ranah kognitif yaitu sebelum tindakan sebesar 22,2 %, setelah dilakukan tindakan terjadi peningkatan yaitu pada siklus I sebesar 27,7 %, pada siklus II sebesar 61,1 %, pada siklus III sebesar 94,4 %. Hasil penelitian ini diperoleh dari dokumentasi dan hasil tes dengan KKM sebesar = 70. Kesimpulan dari penelitian ini adalah bahwa penerapan metode Team Accelerated Instruction (TAI) dapat meningkatkan penguasaan siswa pada mata pelajaran Matematika dalam pokok bahasan perkalian yang hasilnya bilangan tiga angka kelas III SD Negeri 2 Bandungan Jatinom Klaten tahun pelajaran 2012/2013

Epidemiology of prediabetes and prehypertension-progression, regression and interaction

Background: The major portion of the non-communicable diseases is formed by cardiovascular diseases. The two major modifiable risk factors are hypertension and diabetes. The probable CVD risk with pre-hypertension and pre-diabetes, to some extent, is dependent on whether pre-HTN leads to hypertension and pre-DM leads to diabetes. Our aim was to study: the progression of prehypertension and prediabetes to overt hypertension and diabetes or to normal status, and the association of pre-obesity and obesity with prehypertension and prediabetes. Methods: A total of 1200 patients equally distributed among three groups were studied for progression or regression. Group A included 400 patients of pre-hypertension, and group B included 400 patients of pre-diabetes and group C included 400 patients of pre-diabetes and pre-hypertension. Results: Among the 400 studied patients with prediabetes 31 (7.8%) progressed to diabetes and only 9 (2.3%) progressed to hypertension over a period of two years. Patients with both prehypertension and prediabetes had a higher risk of progression to hypertension and diabetes (3% to hypertension and 15.5% to diabetes). Males were more prone to develop both pre-hypertension and pre-diabetes mellitus and progression. Obesity increased the risk of progression to hypertension and diabetes significantly. Conclusions: The screening of people for pre-diabetes mellitus and pre-hypertension should be carried out at mass levels so as to diagnose them at an early stage and hence, their progression can be either halted or modified

Carbon sequestration potential of various litter components in temperate coniferous forests of Kashmir Himalaya, India

Natural forests play a key role in the mitigation of atmospheric carbon and have been studied by various workers but very limited work was carried out towards to the contribution of litter in carbon mitigation potential. The current study estimated the carbon sequestration potential in different components of litter in temperate coniferous forests. The results found that carbon content was found highest in cone followed by needle, branch and bark. Seasonal variation was found in all the components of the litter with highest carbon in autumn found at Daksum. During spring season Kuthar showed maximum contribution followed by Pahalgam in summer. Among different components of litter Cone contributed maximum at Kuthar while needle at Pahalgam. The result revealed that litter decomposition was directly related to the accumulation of soil organic carbon in all the ranges which depict the relation of litter with soil organic carbon. It was concluded that litter has an important contribution in sequestering atmospheric carbon as well as providing nutrients to the standing vegetation that mitigates the carbon dioxide

Citations in chemical engineering research: factors and their assessment

36-44The study explores citation pattern of the 4112 articles in the field of chemical engineering published from 1974 to 2018 and indexed in Web of Science. Apart from good quality research, a number of other factors may be responsible for citing and not citing an article. The study has also tried to explore such factors. Only the top 500 articles with the most number of citations have been analysed in-depth. The countries like United States of America (USA), China, Germany, United Kingdom (UK), France, Canada, India, Japan, Spain, Russia and Brazil have the highest number of articles. The investigators calculated Pearson correlation between the number of keywords, pages, references and citations and it showed that there is no relationship between the number of keywords and number of citations. The number of pages and the number of references in a publication have a significant and positive impact on the number of citations

Inclinations of Global Research on Saffron as Represented by Science Citation Index-Expanded

Using the Science Citation Index-Expanded of the Web of Science Core Collection, we analyzed global saffron research literature published between 1991 and 2017. The variables examined were research performance of nations, institutions, and authors. The study noted that the distribution of author keywords, citations, and publication patterns of saffron related articles to ascertain the research inclinations. The highly cited articles and author keyword analysis showed that the chemical and biochemical qualities of saffron were of key interest for the researchers

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Assessment of medication adherence among patients with chronic diseases: a descriptive cross-sectional study

Background: Adherence is a key factor associated with effectiveness of all pharmacological therapies. Medication non-adherence is a significant barrier to achieve positive health outcomes especially for patients suffering from chronic diseases. Improving medication adherence is a public health priority and could reduce economic and health burdens. The aim of the present study was to assess medication adherence to some common chronic ailments.Methods: Pre-validated questionnaires were distributed among 300 patients suffering from chronic illnesses, by simple randomization out of which 240 patients returned completely filled questionnaires. The analysis was done by manual calculators, VassarStats, and SPSS V20. Results were calculated using univariate linear regression, with each patient’s adherence score as the dependent variable and each predictor as the independent variable. Results are expressed in frequencies and percentages.Results: In this study, 46.66% patients were males and 53.33% females. The mean age was 56.69 years ranging from 24 to 90 years.65.00% patients were uneducated.40.00% were taking one drug, 53.33% two to four drugs and 6.66% more than four drugs. 63.33% had low medication adherence, 35.00% medium and only 1.66% had high adherence. Compared to 14.28% men, 43.75% women were moderately adherent to medications. 41.02% uneducated patients had medium adherence as compared to 14.28% educated patients. 92.30% young patients had low adherence as compared to 53.25% in adults. 44.79% of patients receiving a single drug had medium adherence as compared to 25.00% in those receiving multiple drugs. Linear regression analysis demonstrated that the level of medication adherence was associated with patient gender, age, educational level, and number of prescribed drugs.Conclusions: There are many challenges in understanding the reasons for non-adherence. In this study medication adherence in chronic diseases was found suboptimal and associated with patient`s socio-demographic characteristics. Patient-tailored interventions are required to achieve sufficient adherence to therapeutic drug regimens

Side effect profile of hepatitis C treatment with peginterferon alpha-2b and ribavarin

Background: The major types of side effects include fatigue, influenza-like symptoms, gastrointestinal disturbances, neuropsychiatric symptoms and hematologic abnormalities. These side effects may be treatment limiting and require dose reduction or drug discontinuation objectives of the study was to assess the side effect profile of hepatitis C treatment (peginterferon alpha-2b and ribavarin) in Kashmiri patients attending the Department of Gastroenterology skims.Methods: In this study, all consecutive patients of hepatitis C infection on peginterfron and ribavarin treatment were enrolled after written consent. The patients underwent intervention treatment taking pegylated interferon α-2b (Viraferon, Schering Plough Corp., Kenilworth, NJ) and ribavirin in accordance with the standard protocol. Patients were monitored through weekly referrals while taking the medications. A detailed history was taken and complete physical examination done each time the patient presented to the hospital necessary blood sampling was taken.Results: During the study period of 2 years,105 Patients were enrolled 55 (52.4%) were males with a male:female ratio of 1.1:1.0. and mean age 37.6 years with a range of 13-75 years 7 patients (6.6) had a history of needle pricks, 4 patients (2.2%) of sharing same razors at barber’s shop. 4 (3.8%) patients of drug abuse; out of which 3 (2.8%) were intravenous drug abusers, Anemia occurred in 17 (16.2%) patients with requirement of dose modification w in 11 (10.4%) patients and dose stoppage in 1 (0.95%) patient in whom Hb dropped to less than 7, thrombocytopenia occurred in 27 (25.7%) patients with requirement of dose modification in 13 (12.3%) patients and dose stoppage in 1 (0.95%) patients due to platelet count decreasing to less than 30,000. Neutropenia as defined by ANC less than 1500 occurred in 22 (20.9%) patients.Conclusions: Dose modification was required in 48 (45.7%) patients, 30 (28.5%) patients required dose modifications due to labortory abnormalities and 18 (17.1%) due to other side effects. In 8 (7.6%) patients dose was discontinued due to adverse events (including psychosis in 1, severe flu like symptoms in 3, dermatitis in 1, depression in 3)