504 research outputs found
sj-docx-1-jop-10.1177_02698811231154852 – Supplemental material for Psilocybin-assisted therapy for major depressive disorder: An exploratory placebo-controlled, fixed-order trial
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-jop-10.1177_02698811231154852 for Psilocybin-assisted therapy for major depressive disorder: An exploratory placebo-controlled, fixed-order trial by Jordan Sloshower, Patrick D. Skosnik, Hamideh Safi-Aghdam, Surbhi Pathania, Shariful Syed, Brian Pittman and Deepak Cyril D’Souza in Journal of Psychopharmacology</p
sj-docx-2-jop-10.1177_02698811231154852 – Supplemental material for Psilocybin-assisted therapy for major depressive disorder: An exploratory placebo-controlled, fixed-order trial
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-2-jop-10.1177_02698811231154852 for Psilocybin-assisted therapy for major depressive disorder: An exploratory placebo-controlled, fixed-order trial by Jordan Sloshower, Patrick D. Skosnik, Hamideh Safi-Aghdam, Surbhi Pathania, Shariful Syed, Brian Pittman and Deepak Cyril D’Souza in Journal of Psychopharmacology</p
sj-jpg-1-jop-10.1177_02698811231179800 – Supplemental material for Sub-acute effects of psilocybin on EEG correlates of neural plasticity in major depression: Relationship to symptoms
No full textSupplemental material, sj-jpg-1-jop-10.1177_02698811231179800 for Sub-acute effects of psilocybin on EEG correlates of neural plasticity in major depression: Relationship to symptoms by Patrick D Skosnik, Jordan Sloshower, Hamideh Safi-Aghdam, Surbhi Pathania, Shariful Syed, Brian Pittman and Deepak C D’Souza in Journal of Psychopharmacology</p
Ascorbic acid/h2o2 initiated free radical graft polymerization of delignified grewia optiva cellulosic fibre
No full textAscorbic acid/H2O2 an redox initiator has been explored for the graft polymerization of acrylonitrile
(AN) onto delignified Grewia optiva fibre. Different reaction conditions affecting the grafting percentage (Pg) were optimized to obtain the maximum grafting yield (16.44%) for graft polymerization of AN onto delignified Grewia optiva fibre. Delignified and graft polymerized fibre were subjected to evaluation of physico-chemical properties such as swelling behaviour, chemical resistance and moisture absorbance. The morphology, structural changes, crystallanity and thermal behaviour of raw, delignified and grafted samples were investigated by scanning electron microscopic (SEM) studies, FTIR spectrophotometer, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). Tensile properties of raw, delignified and grafted samples have also been studied
Recommended from our members
Relational Care - with Mary Larkin and Manik Deepak-Gopinath [Podcast]
No full textWhat is 'relational care' and how can it improve the day-to-day experience of carers and those they care for? What are its implications for relationships between staff and service users in care settings? And how does the concept of relational care enable us to re-imagine the role of place and space in the experience of care? These are some of the questions we explore in this episode with Mary Larkin and Manik Deepak-Gopinath who recently completed a research project on the value and practice of relational care with older people.
Mary is Professor of Care, Carers and Caring at The Open University in the UK, where her research has focused on carers and caring and adult social care. She is the co-author, most recently of Family Carers and Caring, published in 2023 by Emerald. Manik is a Lecturer in Ageing, also at The Open University, and is a critical gerontologist with interests in the intersection of ageing, place and wellbeing, and in the intimate and family ties of older adults
My Name Is Deepak
No full textThis chapter looks at the author's responses to being given a nickname by his co-workers: Tupac. They do it in a friendly manner, but the author doesn’t understand the connection with the American rapper. It makes him think about who he is, his identity, and how people see him in his adopted country.</p
Sideffective - system to mine patient reviews: sentiment analysis
No full textSideffective is the system to crawl, rank and analyze patient testimonials about side ffeects from common medications. Since the wealth of any mining model is the Data corpus, the data collection phase involved extensive crawling of massive medical websites comprised of user forums from the internet. Subsequently, the raw files were subjected to certain site-specific parsing routines, yielding outputs conforming to a well-defined data model. Currently, the system holds close to 400,000 user testimonials pertaining to more than 2500 drugs/medicines. Sideffective aims at gathering and aggregating this wealth of information, build useful associations and present interesting observations and numeric validations, all in a user-friendly interface. The important issues that we have tried to tackle are: Extracting side effects without relying on pre-built lists, aggregating distribution of different side effect for a give drug, site-specific search, ranking and determining the negativity of reviews. The system has been jointly built by Deepak Yalamanchi and Sangeetha Rajagopalan under the guidance of Prof. Tomasz Imielinski. This thesis focuses mainly on Sentiment Analysis of patient reviews. While most existing sentiment analysis systems are predicated by POS (parts of speech) tagging or Bayesian sentiment analysis methods, the same cannot be applied to medical reviews as they generally carry a negative flavor in them. We thereby approached the problem by identifying the features in the sentence and calibrating the sentiment on a Negativity Meter based on their relation to sentiment words. A feature, as defined for the purpose of this thesis, can be a medicine, a side effect or a symptom. The sentiment of each feature is determined by the aggregate of all its polarities with respect to each sentiment word, where the polarity is determined by an inverse relation to the distance of the feature from the sentiment word. Each sentence is then evaluated by the cumulative polarity of all the features contained in it. Sentiment of a review is determined by individually determining the sentiment of each sentence and then getting a weighted sum score of all the sentences in the review. The accuracy of a sentiment analysis system is, in principle, how well it agrees with human judgments. Experimental results, involving human reviewers (extracted from site: www.askapatient.com) and correlating them back to the negativity rating of each review yield conclusive results, demonstrating the effectiveness of the technique. We have also implemented a customized Lucene search on the data using a multi-review summarization approach and a ranking scheme based on the feature-list. Ranking priority is given to the review that has the largest feature list size.M.S.Includes bibliographical referencesby Deepak Yalamanch
The development of antibacterial and hydrophobic functionalities in natural fibers for fiber-reinforced composite materials
No full textGreen surface modification of coconut fibers was performed using laccase biografting of eugenol for the development of antibacterial functionalities and fiber-reinforced polymer composites. Fourier transform infrared analysis, X-ray diffraction and surface morphology of grafted fibers were utilized to confirm the biografting of eugenol. Antibacterial, hydrophobicity and thermal properties were evaluated by colony forming unit (CFU) method, moisture absorption and thermogravimetric analysis, respectively. The grafted surfaces were found to be antibacterial, hydrophobic and thermally more stable. Grafted fibers were reinforced in a poly(butylene succinate) matrix to improve the mechanical properties of the biocomposites. The mechanical properties were improved even with a low content of biografted coconut fibers
An epidemiological study of metabolic syndrome in a rural area of Ambala district, Haryana
No full textIntroduction: Metabolic syndrome (MS) is a state of deranged metabolic and anthropometric status. It is considered a precursor to various cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Objectives: (1) To determine the prevalence of MS in adults aged 20 years and above in the rural area of Ambala district, Haryana. (2) To determine the sociodemographic factors associated with MS. Materials and Methods: In a community-based cross-sectional study, a total of 1200 subjects aged 20 years and above were studied, using multi-stage random sampling. Results: The prevalence of MS was estimated by using criterion given by the International Diabetes Federation. MS was found in 110 (9.2%) subjects, being more prevalent in females: 73 (66.36%) when compared to 37 males (33.63%). Sedentary occupation and age were significantly associated with MS. Conclusions: MS is a major health problem in the region and it should be given proper attention in order to prevent and control it
Building Thermal Performance Varies During Extreme Heat within Cities
No full textabstract: This document has been superseded by our peer-reviewed publication:
Building Thermal Performance, Climate Change, and Urban Heat Vulnerability, Matthew Nahlik, Mikhail Chester, Stephanie Pincetl, David Eisenman, Deepak Sivaraman, and Paul English, 2017, ASCE Journal of Infrastructure Systems, 23(3), doi:10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000349
The publication is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)IS.1943-555X.0000349
The leading source of weather-related deaths in the United States is heat, and future projections show that the frequency, duration, and intensity of heat events will increase in the Southwest. Presently, there is a dearth of knowledge about how infrastructure may perform during heat waves or could contribute to social vulnerability. To understand how buildings perform in heat and potentially stress people, indoor air temperature changes when air conditioning is inaccessible are modeled for building archetypes in Los Angeles, California, and Phoenix, Arizona, when air conditioning is inaccessible is estimated. An energy simulation model is used to estimate how quickly indoor air temperature changes when building archetypes are exposed to extreme heat. Building age and geometry (which together determine the building envelope material composition) are found to be the strongest indicators of thermal envelope performance. Older neighborhoods in Los Angeles and Phoenix (often more centrally located in the metropolitan areas) are found to contain the buildings whose interiors warm the fastest, raising particular concern because these regions are also forecast to experience temperature increases. To combat infrastructure vulnerability and provide heat refuge for residents, incentives should be adopted to strategically retrofit buildings where both socially vulnerable populations reside and increasing temperatures are forecast
- …
