The cancerous spread of slum has been a rampant problem in urban areas worldwide. The acute shortage of housing facilities compels the poor to live in slums. Proper rehabilitation is considered as a very essential remedial measure to provide better living environment to slum peoples. This study is an essential attempt to gauge the effectiveness of a rehabilitation program, which studies the cha...

INTRODUCTION India is an ethnically diverse country with an approximate population of 1.2 billion. The frequency of beta-thalassemia trait (βTT) has variously been reported from <1% to 17% and an average of 3.3%. Most of these studies have been carried out on small population groups and some have been based on hospital-based patients. There is also a variation in the prevalence of hemoglobinopa...

To control the spread of COVID-19, government India imposed a nationwide lockdown on all nonessential activities from 22 Mar. to 3 May 2020. Daily ambient particulate matter ?10 ?m in diameter (PM10), ?2.5 (PM2.5), NO, NO2, and O3 concentrations Delhi Kolkata 1 March both 2019 2020 were collected different monitoring stations along with meteorological data study impact COVID-19 pollutant concen...

Vito Di Gesù University of Palermo, Italy Sankar Kumar Pal Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Alfredo Petrosino University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Scientific Program Committee: Sanghamitra Bandyopadhyay Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, India Jim Bezdek University of West Florida, Pensacola, USA Isabelle Bloch ENST-CNRS, Paris, France Piero Bonissone GE CRD, Schenectady, USA ...

Enteric fever, caused by Salmonella enterica, remains an unresolved public health problem in India and antimicrobial therapy is the main mode of treatment. The objective of this study was to characterize the Salmonella enterica isolates from Kolkata with respect to their antimicrobial resistance (AMR), virulence profiles and molecular subtypes. Salmonella enterica blood isolates were collected ...

The pressing need for accurate and reliable precipitation measurements forecasting poses theoretical technological problems. Remote-sensing instruments with increased coverage sensitivity (such as space-borne ground-based radar) are available; however, their full exploitation requires physical calibration validation based on a deep knowledge of microphysics. This study reports detailed analysis...

BACKGROUND Pulmonary function tests (PFTs) need to be revisited in light of rapid economic growth and industrial development. Questions have been raised about the validity of existing population-specific norms for predicting PFTs, and therefore, the present study aimed to determine the applicability of existing norms for PFTs in young healthy non-smoking male university students of Kolkata. M...

This paper provides evidence concerning political participation (turnout, awareness, attendance at meetings, campaign involvement, voting) and its relation to local governance (targeting of public services) in a developing country, based on a rural household survey in West Bengal, India. We find that reported participation rates varied remarkably little with socio-economic status, with the exce...