591 research outputs found
Suspension cell secretome of the grain legume Lathyrus sativus (grasspea) reveals roles in plant development and defense responses
No full textRathi, Divya, Verma, Jitendra Kumar, Chakraborty, Subhra, Chakraborty, Niranjan (2022): Suspension cell secretome of the grain legume Lathyrus sativus (grasspea) reveals roles in plant development and defense responses. Phytochemistry (113296) 202: 1-13, DOI: 10.1016/j.phytochem.2022.113296, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.phytochem.2022.11329
The Effect of Demographic and Psychological Factors on Vaccine Reluctance in COVID-19 : A systematic review
No full textBackground: Though the COVID-19 pandemic claimed millions of lives worldwide, advanced vaccine research resulted in the quick evolvement of many potential vaccines. Despite mass vaccine availability, people across the globe were revealed to be uncertain about receiving the vaccination against COVID-19.
Objectives: The current chapter, following a systematic review approach, addresses three crucial questions: (a) worldwide COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy rates, (b) demographic factors determining the COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy, and (c) psychological factors influencing COVID-19 vaccine acceptance and hesitancy.
Method: The protocol was registered with PROSPERO (registration number: CRD42022369290). No funding was received for the current systematic review. PubMed and Scopus databases were searched for published articles in peer-reviewed journals in English from December 2020 to October 2022. Records numbering 1,201 were identified, and 54 studies were finally included.
Results: Twenty demographic and 11 psychological factors were identified as significant determining factors of vaccine acceptance and hesitancy across 54 studies in the current systematic review. Most frequent factors are plotted against the number of studies they appeared in.
Discussion: Several other factors, such as symptoms of anxiety and depression, marital status, and political ideologies, were linked with vaccine acceptance and hesitancy and can be the scope of future studies as the current study was limited to discussing the most prominent factors that repeatedly appeared in five or more studies.
Conclusion: By identifying the prominent factors, the current review contributes crucially to the COVID-19-related scientific literature emphasising the requirement of addressing these factors while designing public health interventions/mass vaccination during a pandemi
Role of demographic and psychological factors on vaccine reluctance in Covid-19: A systematic review
No full textMerchants of Virtue
No full textMerchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. Using legal strategies and alliances with elites, these merchants successfully remade the category of “Hindu,” setting it in contrast to “Untouchable” in a process that reconfigured Hinduism in caste terms. In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.
“A refreshingly different perspective on the history of caste and untouchability in India, enlarging the field of scholarship from its focus on the colonial era by telling us how precolonial configurations of power in the locality shaped the everyday experience of caste.” — GOPAL GURU, coauthor of The Cracked Mirror and Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social
“This provocative and empirically rich study offers a plenitude of fascinating insights into aspects of western Indian history ca. 1800, from kingship and caste hierarchy to abortion and alcohol consumption. Particularly innovative is its focus on the critical role played by merchants in articulating social identities that became widespread in modern times.” — CYNTHIA TALBOT, author of The Last Hindu Emperor
“A pathbreaking book that explodes essentialist views of the construction of Hindu and Muslim identities in precolonial India. Divya Cherian provocatively argues that the category of ‘Hindu’ was the primary locus for a system of radical othering that excluded Untouchables (and Muslims as Untouchables) through mechanisms of state, law, and everyday life.” — CHRISTIAN LEE NOVETZKE, Professor of South Asian and Religious Studies, University of Washingto
Merchants of Virtue
No full textMerchants of Virtue explores the question of what it meant to be Hindu in precolonial South Asia. Divya Cherian presents a fine-grained study of everyday life and local politics in the kingdom of Marwar in eighteenth-century western India to uncover how merchants enforced their caste ideals of vegetarianism and bodily austerity as universal markers of Hindu identity. Using legal strategies and alliances with elites, these merchants successfully remade the category of “Hindu,” setting it in contrast to “Untouchable” in a process that reconfigured Hinduism in caste terms. In a history pertinent to understanding India today, Cherian establishes the centrality of caste to the early-modern Hindu self and to its imagination of inadmissible others.
“A refreshingly different perspective on the history of caste and untouchability in India, enlarging the field of scholarship from its focus on the colonial era by telling us how precolonial configurations of power in the locality shaped the everyday experience of caste.” — GOPAL GURU, coauthor of The Cracked Mirror and Experience, Caste, and the Everyday Social
“This provocative and empirically rich study offers a plenitude of fascinating insights into aspects of western Indian history ca. 1800, from kingship and caste hierarchy to abortion and alcohol consumption. Particularly innovative is its focus on the critical role played by merchants in articulating social identities that became widespread in modern times.” — CYNTHIA TALBOT, author of The Last Hindu Emperor
“A pathbreaking book that explodes essentialist views of the construction of Hindu and Muslim identities in precolonial India. Divya Cherian provocatively argues that the category of ‘Hindu’ was the primary locus for a system of radical othering that excluded Untouchables (and Muslims as Untouchables) through mechanisms of state, law, and everyday life.” — CHRISTIAN LEE NOVETZKE, Professor of South Asian and Religious Studies, University of Washingto
Improved collision detection in StarLogo Nova
No full textThesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2015.This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis.Includes bibliographical references (page 65).StarLogo Nova is blocks-based educational software that allows students to write and play their own 3D games online. It is the online version of StarLogo TNG. This thesis explores the problem of needing more accurate collision detection in StarLogo Nova while maintaining reasonable performance. Three new collision detection systems for StarLogo Nova are developed and evaluated. Compared to the spheres used to perform collision checks in the current system, the first new system, called the TightestFitCollider, introduces a variety of bounding spheres, bounding boxes, and bounding capsules as bounding structures that may fit the models in StarLogo Nova more closely. The second system, called the HierarchicalCollider, uses hierarchies of bounding boxes to perform even more precise collision detection than the TightestFitCollider. Finally, the third system combines the first two systems, so that the advantages of each can be used as appropriate. The three systems are evaluated for their accuracy and performance within the StarLogo Nova framework.by Divya Bajekal.M. Eng
Antiepileptic drugs for the primary and secondary prevention of seizures after subarachnoid haemorrhage
No full textBackground: subarachnoid haemorrhage may result in seizures both acutely and in the longer term. The use of antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in the primary and secondary prevention of seizures after subarachnoid haemorrhage is uncertain, and there is currently no consensus on treatment.Objectives: to assess the effects of AEDs for the primary and secondary prevention of seizures after subarachnoid haemorrhage.Search methods: we searched the Cochrane Epilepsy Group Specialised Register, the Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (2013, Issue 1) in The Cochrane Library, and MEDLINE (1946 to 12th March 2013). We checked the reference lists of articles retrieved from these searches.Selection criteria: we considered all randomised and quasi-randomised controlled trials in which patients were assigned to a treatment (one or more AEDs) or placebo.Data collection and analysis: two review authors (RM and JK) independently screened and assessed the methodological quality of the studies. If studies were included, one author extracted the data and the other checked it.Main results: no relevant studies were found.Authors' conclusions: there was no evidence to support or refute the use of antiepileptic drugs for the primary or secondary prevention of seizures related to subarachnoid haemorrhage. Well-designed randomised controlled trials are urgently needed to guide clinical practice
Ophthalmology: breakthroughs in research and practice/ Information Resources Management Association, editor.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references."This book is an innovative reference source for the latest academic material on the identification, treatment, and management methodologies of eye diseases and disorders. Highlighting a range of topics such as retinal prosthesis, ocular diseases, and ophthalmoscopy"--Provided by publisherRetinal prosthetics / Milan Djilas, Serge Picaud -- Case study : resolving diagnostic uncertainties in the clinical presentation of ocular tuberculosis / Swarna Biseria Gupta, Divya Verma, D.P. Singh -- An efficient and lossless cryptosystem for security in tele-ophthalmology applications using chaotic theory / Garima Mehta, Malay Kishore Dutta, Pyung Soo Kim -- Nanotechnology for omics-based ocular drug delivery / Anjali Hirani, Aditya Grover, Yong Woo Lee, Yashwant Pathak, Vijaykumar Sutariya -- Case study : glaucoma and epidemic dropsy : a past possible association revisited / Swarna Biseria Gupta, Divya Verma, D.P. Singh -- An intelligent and adaptive hypermedia system based on thinking style (IAHS-TS) / Mahnane M.L. Lamia, Hafidi Mohamed -- Older adults with amd as co-designers of an assistive mobile application / Lilit Hakobyan, Jo Lumsden, Dympna O'Sullivan -- Computer assisted methods for retinal image classification / S.R. Nirmala, Purabi Sharma -- A reversible data hiding scheme for efficient management of tele-ophthalmological data / Abhilasha Singh, Malay Kishore Dutta -- An overview of telemedicine technologies for healthcare applications / P.S. Pandian -- Case study : atypical presentation of orbital hemangiopericytoma / Vasudha Damle, Rahul Agarwal, Nitin Garg, Hanni V. Gulwani -- Advanced solutions for healthcare facility management / Francesco Longo, Letizia Nicoletti, Alessandro Chiurco, Antonio Calogero -- Use of mobile phones by individuals with visual impairments / Murat Bengisu -- Identifying factors for successful implementation of simulation modeling in healthcare / Krisjanis Steins, Fredrik Persson -- The importance of telemedicine in global health care / Kijpokin Kasemsap -- Medical robotics / Ahmad Taher Azar, M. Sam Eljamel -- Bioactive compound analysis of Coriandrum sativum L against microbial keratitis / V. Nithya -- Participatory design : how to engage older adults in participatory design activities / Lilit Hakobyan, Jo Lumsden, Dympna O'Sullivan -- Approach for automatic detection and grading of macular edema / Jyoti Prakash Medhi -- Mobile platforms supporting health professionals : need, technical requirements, and applications / Ioannis Tamposis, Abraham Pouliakis, Ioannis Fezoulidis, Petros Karakitsos.1 online resourc
The Evolution of C-Technologies: Trends, Impact, and Future Directions
No full textThe organization of chromosomes in three dimensions is crucial for gene regulation and genome stability. Over the years, various methods have been developed to study chromosome conformation. The advent of chromosome conformation capture (3C) and its high-throughput derivatives revolutionized genome architecture studies by enabling detailed interaction mapping at different scales. These methods, including 3C, 4C, 5C, Hi-C, and advanced techniques like ChIA-PET and Micro-C, have provided insights into chromatin organization, compartments, and topologically associating domains (TADs). This study presents a comprehensive bibliometric analysis of research on C-technologies from 2002 to 2021, using the Scopus database. A total of 2,587 publications were analyzed to track trends, geographical distribution, citation impact, collaborations, and technological advancements. The results indicate a steady growth in publications, with a sharp increase after 2019. Highly cited papers, published in journals like Science, Nature, and Cell, highlight key methodological developments and applications. Co-citation analysis revealed three major research clusters focused on chromosome conformation methods, computational tools, and chromatin topology. The findings underscore the growing significance of C-technologies in genomics and highlight emerging research directions in functional genomics, structural variations, and gene regulation
Neuroprotective Effects of NPD1 in a Parkinson\u27s Disease Model
No full textMentor: Karen O\u27Malley
From the Washington University Undergraduate Research Digest: WUURD, Volume 9, Issue 1, Fall 2013. Published by the Office of Undergraduate Research.
Joy Zalis Kiefer Director of Undergraduate Research and Assistant Dean in the College of Arts & Sciences
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