Background: Whilst prevention of growth faltering has both shortand long-term health benefits, whether too fast or accelerated infant growth adversely affects later health outcomes is controversial and a major focus of research. Summary: Many observational studies suggest that rapid weight gain in infancy (upward centile crossing) increases the long-term risk of obesity and non-communicable dis...

A checkpoint algorithm for mobile computing systems needs to handle many new issues like: mobility, low bandwidth of wireless channels, lack of stable storage on mobile nodes, disconnections, limited battery power and high failure rate of mobile nodes. These issues make traditional checkpointing techniques unsuitable for such environments. Minimum-process coordinated checkpointing is an attract...

A 12-year-old child presented to us with an avulsion injury left lower limb 6 hours following road traffic accident. On examination, the patient had avulsion of skin from the anterolateral surface of the thigh and circumferential skin avulsion extending from knee joint to the foot (figure 1). The non-viable avulsed skin was debrided till the fresh bleeding edges were obtained. The avulsed skin ...

Gustatory stimuli have at least 2 kinds of function: They can support immediate, reflexive responses (such as substrate choice and feeding) and they can drive internal reinforcement. We provide behavioral analyses of these functions with respect to sweet taste in larval Drosophila. The idea is to use the dose-effect characteristics as behavioral "fingerprints" to dissociate reflexive and reinfo...

The paucibacillary nature of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) has been a major obstacle in the diagnosis of human tuberculous meningitis (TBM). This study shows that with molecular techniques direct precise determination to the species level of mycobacterial pathogens can be made. The present report describes the utility of a nested PCR (N-PCR) assay (A. Mishra, A. Singhal, D. S. Chauhan, V. M. Ka...

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The number of people connected to the Internet and the number of Web page visits have increased exponentially over the past years. The Internet has become one of the most important and most used media for communication and learning, as it allows for the creation of interactive and collaborative environments, whose contents and resources can be shared with a limitless number of users. Among the ...

Athletes have been shown to have greater movement imagery abilities than non-athletes. However, since these differences were observed using questionnaires where participants subjectively judged the vividness of performing imagined movements, it is possible that responses could be biased by other factors such as social desirability. One possible solution is to use an objective test, such as the ...

Entertainment-Education and Social Change: History, Research, and Practice // Arvind Singhal, Michael J. Cody, Everett M. Rogers, Miguel Sabido // 2003 // 320 pages // 1135624550, 9781135624552 // Routledge, 2003 Entertainment-Education and Social Change introduces readers to entertainment-education (E-E) literature from multiple perspectives. This distinctive collection covers the history of e...

Few would doubt the benefits of exercise on one’s physical well-being. However, the benefits of exercise on one’s mental abilities are not nearly as extolled. More directly, the perspective that our bodies have a significant influence on our minds is still relatively new, though reviews by Rosenbaum (2005) and Madan and Singhal (2012a) suggest that this is beginning to change. This idea is also...