The Biomedical Technology Wing of Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences and Technology (SCTIMST) was set up to develop appropriate technologies to meet the health care needs of India with a variety of facilities for research and development in biomaterials and medical devices. The institute has developed and transferred 12 technologies for commercial production and six others are i...

This paper describes the experience and the results of using the VigilAgent agent methodology to develop surveillance systems. This work is based on the suitability of agent characteristics for developing surveillance systems. It is usual to develop them following an ad-hoc approach instead of using a methodology to guide stakeholders in achieving quality standards expected from commercial soft...

Department of Chemistry, Avinashilingam Deemed University for Women, Coimbatore641 043 ABSTRACT Lipophilicity which plays an important role in research into the structure-activity relationship of drug action has been theoretically predicted for few chromen-2-ones and chromen-2-thiones using commercial software HyperChem 7.0 and an internet computational software ALOGPS 2.1. In the compounds ana...

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biosensors are classes of sensors in which at least a biological process is used in sensing procedure. they are generally composed of three parts: a sensing element, a transducer, and a signal processor (or detector). they can be categorized by type of sensing materials or by detection techniques. from their invention time up to now, various biological species have been analyzed using variety o...

A National Cancer Institute (NCI) survey published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, March 20, 1991, showed no general increased risk of death from cancer for people living in 107 U.S. counties containing or closely adjacent to 62 nuclear facilities. The facilities in the survey had all begun operation before 1982. Included were 52 commercial nuclear power plants, nine Departm...

OBJECTIVES We examined associations between neighborhood demographic characteristics and the availability of commercial physical activity-related outlets by zip code across the United States. METHODS Multivariate analyses were conducted to assess the availability of 4 types of outlets: (1) physical fitness facilities, (2) membership sports and recreation clubs, (3) dance facilities, and (4) p...