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Human otoacariasis: a common outbreak in rubber growing belt of Karnataka.
Background/Objective: Soft tick in the ear is a very common acute painful and distressing condition in the flowering months of October to March. It’s a common condition in the rubber growing belt of Sullia.The mouthparts of the tick grips firmly the skin of the external auditory canal or the tympanic membrane and sucks blood and swells up. Otoscopy and removal of the tick from the ear can be done in outpatients in adults and difficult in a frightened irritable child.Materials and methods: 312 cases of intra-aural ticks presenting to the opd and casualty which included 131 males and 181 females were included in the study.Results: Out of the 312 cases of intra-aural ticks, 170 cases were treated in the outpatient and 140 cases under short general anesthesia with oto-microscopy.Conclusion: Intra-aural tick infestation is an acute painful condition which needs prompt management by an experienced otolaryngologist. Proper visualization and instrumentation is necessary to avoid complications.
Development of improved high temperature coatings for IN-792 + HF
The development for t-55 l712 engine of high temperature for integral turbine nozzles with improved thermal fatigue resistance without sacrificing oxidation/corrosion protection is discussed. The program evaluated to coating systems which comprised one baseline plasma spray coating (12% Al-NiCoCrALY), three aluminide coatings including the baseline aluminide (701), two CoNiCrAly (6% Al) + aluminide systems and four NiCoCrY + aluminide coating were evaluated. The two-step coating processes were investigated since it offered the advantage of tailoring the composition as well as properly coating surfaces of an integral or segmented nozzle. Cyclic burner rig thermal fatigue and oxidation/corrosion tests were used to evaluate the candidate coating systems. The plasma sprayed 12% Al-NiCoCrAlY was rated the best coating in thermal fatigue resistance and outperformed all coatings by a factor between 1.4 to 2.5 in cycles to crack initiation. However, this coatings is not applicable to integral or segmented nozzles due to the line of sight limitation of the plasma spray process. The 6% Al-CoNiCrAlY + Mod. 701 aluminide (32 w/o Al) was rated the best coating in oxidation/corrosion resistance and was rated the second best in thermal fatigue resistance
Azimuthal correlations of D-mesons in + and +Pb collisions at LHC energies
We study the correlations of D mesons produced in + and +Pb
collisions. These are found to be sensitive to the effects of the cold nuclear
medium and the transverse momentum () regions we are looking into. In
order to put this on a quantitative footing, as a first step we analyse the
azimuthal correlations of D meson-charged hadron(Dh), and then predict the same
for D meson -anti D meson () pairs in + and +Pb
collisions with strong coupling at leading order ()
and next to leading order () which includes space-time
evolution (in both systems), as well cold nuclear matter effects (in +Pb).
This also sets the stage and baseline for the identification and study of
medium modification of azimuthal correlations in relativistic collision of
heavy nuclei at the Large Hadron Collider.Comment: 12 pages, 4 figure
Total cross sections for neutron-nucleus scattering
Systematics of neutron scattering cross sections on various materials for
neutron energies up to several hundred MeV are important for ADSS applications.
Ramsauer model is well known and widely applied to understand systematics of
neutron nucleus total cross sections. In this work, we examined the role of
nuclear effective radius parameter (r) on Ramsauer model fits of neutron
total cross sections. We performed Ramsauer model global analysis of the
experimental neutron total cross sections reported by W. P. Abfalterer, F. B.
Bateman, {\it et. al.,}, from 20MeV to 550MeV for nuclei ranging from Be to U .
The global fit functions which can fit total cross section data over periodic
table are provided along with the required global set of parameters. The global
fits predict within deviation to data, showing the scope for
improvement. It has been observed that a finer adjustment of r parameter
alone can give very good Ramsauer model description of neutron total scattering
data within deviation. The required r values for Ramsauer model
fits are shown as a function of nuclear mass number and an empirical formula is
suggested for r values as a function of mass number. In optical model
approach for neutron scattering, we have modified the real part of
Koning-Deleroche potentails to fit the neutron total cross sections using SCAT2
code. The modified potentails have a different energy dependence beyond 200MeV
of neutron energy and fit the total cross sections from Al to Pb.Comment: 9 pages, 20figures, Poster number ND-1457, ND2010 Conference in Kore
Thermo-mechanical analysis of carbon nanotube based functionally graded Timoshenko beam
This analytical work deals with prediction of the stresses developed in a Functionally Graded Timoshenko Beam that has been reinforced with Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs), which is subjected to thermal and mechanical loads. High temperatures have been applied to the upper and lower surfaces of the beam with a certain temperature difference between the two layers for the formation of a temperature gradient. The physical properties of the constituent elements of the beam material vary with temperature and further a variation in temperature leads to development of stresses in a beam. The constituent materials are alumina as the ceramic material, as well as the matrix material, of the functionally graded beam and single walled CNTs as the reinforcement material. Further the physical properties of the beam would vary along the thickness direction according to the volume fraction of the constituents of the beam. In this analysis the volumetric fraction varies according to power law. Temperature-dependent and temperature-independent material properties were obtained layer wise by dividing the entire thickness of the beam into ten layers. Thermal stresses were obtained using temperature-dependent and temperature-independent material properties for each layer for different slenderness ratios and compared
Class Transitions and Two Component Accretion Flow in GRS 1915+105
The light curve of the galactic micro-quasar GRS 1915+105 changes in at least
thirteen different ways which are called classes. We present examples of the
transitions from one class to another as observed by the IXAE instrument aboard
the Indian Satellite IRS-P3. We find that the transitions are associated with
changes in photon counts over a time-scale of only a few hours and they take
place through unknown classes. Assuming that the transitions are caused by
variation of the accretion rates, this implies that a significant fraction of
the matter must be nearly freely falling in order to have such dramatic changes
in such a short time.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, Astronomy and Astrophys. (in press
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