Spleen Size in Chhattisgarhi Adult Population with Relation to Age using Ultrasonography: A Cross-sectional Study by Kushal Chakraborty, Manik Chatterjee, SBS Netam

“…JNM) Medical College, Raipur, India. A total of 400 subjects were recruited for study, of which 239 were females and 161 were males. …”
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A 2-Dose AERAS-402 Regimen Boosts CD8+ Polyfunctionality in HIV-Negative, BCG-Vaccinated Recipients by Dhanasekaran Sivakumaran, Dhanasekaran Sivakumaran, Gretta Blatner, Gretta Blatner, Rasmus Bakken, Rasmus Bakken, David Hokey, Christian Ritz, Christian Ritz, Synne Jenum, Harleen M. S. Grewal, Harleen M. S. Grewal

“…The present phase I trial assessed the safety and immunogenicity of AERAS-402 in participants living in India – a highly TB-endemic area. Healthy male participants aged 18–45 years with a negative QuantiFERON-TB Gold in-tube test (QFT) were recruited. …”
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ROTAVAC® does not interfere with the immune response to childhood vaccines in Indian infants: A randomized placebo controlled trial by Temsunaro Rongsen Chandola, Sunita Taneja, Nidhi Goyal, Kalpana Antony, Kiran Bhatia, Deepak More, Nita Bhandari, Iksung Cho, Krishna Mohan, Sai Prasad, GVJA Harshavardhan, Tataji Surender Rao, Sudhanshu Vrati, Maharaj Kishan Bhan

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Juvenile Heat Tolerance in Wheat for Attaining Higher Grain Yield by Shifting to Early Sowing in October in South Asia by Uttam Kumar, Ravi Prakash Singh, Susanne Dreisigacker, Marion S. Röder, Jose Crossa, Julio Huerta-Espino, Suchismita Mondal, Leonardo Crespo-Herrera, Gyanendra Pratap Singh, Chandra Nath Mishra, Gurvinder Singh Mavi, Virinder Singh Sohu, Sakuru Venkata Sai Prasad, Rudra Naik, Satish Chandra Misra, Arun Kumar Joshi

“…Therefore, a study was undertaken to identify wheat genotypes suited to October sowing under warmer temperatures in India. A diverse collection of 3322 bread wheat varieties and elite lines was prepared in CIMMYT, Mexico, and planted in the 3rd week of October during the crop season 2012–2013 in six locations (Ludhiana, Karnal, New Delhi, Indore, Pune and Dharwad) spread over northwestern plains zone (NWPZ) and central and Peninsular zone (CZ and PZ; designated as CPZ) of India. …”
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Evolving a Structural Model in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: Influence of Knowledge Attitudes, and Self-Management Practices on Glycaemic Control by Matpady Prabhath Kalkura, Shashikiran Umakanth, Arun Gundmi Maiya, Shreemathi Sureshramana Mayya, Krishnanda Prabhu Renjala Vasudeva, Mamatha Shivananda Pai, Pallavi Prakash Saraswat, Balkudru Kiran Aithal

“…Materials and Methods: A cross-sectional study was conducted among people with T2DM in Udupi taluk, Karnataka, India. A total of 432 participants, selected by simple random sampling and fulfilling the inclusion criteria, were included in the study. …”
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Feasibility of molecular testing in a multicenter study with geographical variation in India: Epidermal growth factor receptor mutation as a model molecular test by Kumar Prabhash, Amit Rauthan, Senthil Rajappa, Chirag Desai, Rajesh Mistry, Amit Dutt, Anuradha Chougule, Ravi Mohan, Pratap K Das, Rajiv Kumar, Vanita Noronha, Amit Joshi, Vijay M Patil, Binay Swarup, Anil Kukreja

“…Prevalence of EGFR mutation in Indian NSCLC patients was similar across western and southern centers in India. A statistically significant association between EGFR mutation and gender as well as the smoking status of the patients was observed. …”
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Climate variability and its impacts on runoff in the Kosasthaliyar sub-basin, India by Usha Balambal, B. V. Mudgal

“…These downscaled data are used to study runoff changes due to climate change for the Kosasthaliyar sub-basin in South India. A trend analysis of the hydro-meteorological data for the sub-basin indicates that future rainfall is expected to decrease by approximately 10%, while the mean temperatures will increase by the year 2100. …”
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Design and Analysis of Modified U-Shaped Four Element MIMO Antenna for Dual-Band 5G Millimeter Wave Applications by Chandrasekhar Rao Jetti, Tathababu Addepalli, Sreenivasa Rao Devireddy, Gayatri Konni Tanimki, Ahmed Jamal Abdullah Al-Gburi, Zahriladha Zakaria, Pamarthi Sunitha

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COVID-19 cases and their outcome among patients with uncommon co-existing illnesses: A lesson from Northern India by D. Himanshu Reddy, Virendra Atam, Priyanka Rai, Farman Khan, Saurabh Pandey, Hardeep Singh Malhotra, Kamlesh Kumar Gupta, Satyendra Kumar Sonkar, Rajeev Verma, Kauser Usman, Shyam Chand Chaudhary, Satyendra Kumar Sonkar, Vivek Kumar, Kamal Kumar Sawlani, Kamlesh Kumar Gupta, M.L. Patel, D. Himanshu, Ajay Kumar, Sudhir Kr Verma, Medhavi Gautam, Harish Gupta, Satish Kumar, Deepak Baghchandanani, Ambuj Yadav, M. Lamba, Amit Kumar, Suhail, Rati Prabha, Darshan Bajaj, Abhishek Bahadur Singh, Mayank Mahendra, Gaurav Kumar, Narendra Kumar, Bal Krishna Ojha, Rajeev Verma, Dhananjay Kumar Verma, Vinod Kumar, Suresh Singh, Shivam Gupta, Mohammad Hashim, Kuldeep Verma, Akriti Bhardwaj, Anurag Chaudhary, Himanshu Chaudhan, Kaustubh, Kinjalk Dubey, Naveen Kumar, Rituraj, Janmajay Kumar, Somesh Srivastav, Shiv Paratap Singh, Sunita Kumari, Sudham Srivastave, Jyoti Verma, Mohmmad Ahmad Hussain, Ammar Sabir Siddiqui, Azher Rizvi, Chitranshu Pancholi, Deepak Sharma, Deepak Kumar Verma, David Zothansanga, Kuldeep Singh, Prashant Kumar Singh, Rahul Kumar, Vipin Raj Bharti, Shahnawaz Ali Ansari, Vivek Kumar, Monika Kallani, Harish Bharti, Ankita Singh, Avirup Majumdar, Neeraj Verma, Mayank Mishra, Pankaj Kumar Gupta, Shubhanshu Shivhare, Mudit Kotwal, Prashant Mahar, Praduman Mall, Krishnapal Singh Parmar, Guddoo Kumar

“…Method: Single centred study from June 2020 to May 2021 at a tertiary centre in North India. A preformed questionnaire was used to record clinical and laboratory parameters and to identify cases which are in addition to CDC list and Indian data. …”
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MIXv2: a long-term mosaic emission inventory for Asia (2010–2017) by M. Li, M. Li, J. Kurokawa, Q. Zhang, J.-H. Woo, J.-H. Woo, T. Morikawa, S. Chatani, Z. Lu, Y. Song, G. Geng, H. Hu, J. Kim, O. R. Cooper, B. C. McDonald

“…A series of unit-based point source information was incorporated covering power plants in China and India. A consistent speciation framework for non-methane volatile organic compounds (NMVOCs) was applied to develop emissions by three chemical mechanisms. …”
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Effect of Almond Consumption on Metabolic Risk Factors—Glucose Metabolism, Hyperinsulinemia, Selected Markers of Inflammation: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Adolescents and Youn... by Jagmeet Madan, Sharvari Desai, Panchali Moitra, Sheryl Salis, Shubhada Agashe, Rekha Battalwar, Anushree Mehta, Rachana Kamble, Soumik Kalita, Ajay Gajanan Phatak, Shobha A. Udipi, Shobha A. Udipi, Rama A. Vaidya, Ashok B. Vaidya

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Perceptions about controlled human infection model (CHIM) studies among members of ethics committees of Indian medical institutions: A qualitative exploration [version 2; peer revi... by Vina Vaswani, Medha Rajappa, Samir Malhotra, Shifalika Goenka, Subitha Lakshminarayanan, Rashmi Sangoram, Jayanthi Mathaiyan, Suganya Jayaram, Prarthna Mukerjee, Manjulika Vaz, Khadeejath Farseena, Amol Dongre, Surinder Jaswal, Nusrat Shafiq, Olinda Timms, Manmeet Kaur, Rakesh Aggarwal, Amrita Sekhar, Sanjay Juvekar, Gagandeep Kang, Aditi Apte, Abhishek Sharma

“…Three major themes emerged from this analysis—apprehensions about conduct of CHIM studies in India, a perceived need for CHIM studies in India and risk mitigation measures needed to protect research participants and minimize the associated risks. …”
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Validation of the Interpersonal Quality of Family Planning Scale in a rural Indian setting by Nicole E. Johns, Anvita Dixit, Mohan Ghule, Shahina Begum, Madhusudana Battala, Gennifer Kully, Jay Silverman, Christine Dehlendorf, Anita Raj, Sarah Averbach

“…Implications: The Interpersonal Quality of Family Planning scale is a useful tool in rural India, a different context than the one in which it was developed. …”
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Assessment of carbon footprint of milk production and identification of its major determinants in smallholder dairy farms in Karnataka, India by A. Mech, G. Letha Devi, M. Sivaram, S. Sirohi, A. Dhali, A.P. Kolte, P.K. Malik, R.K. Veeranna, L. Niketha, R. Bhatta

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Selected Class of Enamides Bearing Nitro Functionality as Dual-Acting with Highly Selective Monoamine Oxidase-B and BACE1 Inhibitors by Anusree Venkidath, Jong Min Oh, Sanal Dev, Elham Amin, Shebina P. Rasheed, Ajeesh Vengamthodi, Nicola Gambacorta, Ahmed Khames, Mohamed A. Abdelgawad, Ginson George, Orazio Nicolotti, Hoon Kim, Bijo Mathew

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An 11-year record of wintertime snow-surface energy balance and sublimation at 4863 m a.s.l. on the Chhota Shigri Glacier moraine (western Himalaya, India) by A. Mandal, A. Mandal, T. Angchuk, M. F. Azam, A. Ramanathan, P. Wagnon, M. Soheb, C. Singh

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Optimizing the Retrieval of Wheat Crop Traits from UAV-Borne Hyperspectral Image with Radiative Transfer Modelling Using Gaussian Process Regression by Rabi N. Sahoo, Shalini Gakhar, Rajan G. Rejith, Jochem Verrelst, Rajeev Ranjan, Tarun Kondraju, Mahesh C. Meena, Joydeep Mukherjee, Anchal Daas, Sudhir Kumar, Mahesh Kumar, Raju Dhandapani, Viswanathan Chinnusamy

“…Here, a hybrid approach of radiative transfer modelling combined with a machine learning (ML) algorithm is proposed for the retrieval of the leaf area index (LAI) and canopy chlorophyll content (CCC) of wheat cropland at the experimental farms of ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI), New Delhi, India. A hyperspectral image captured from a UAV platform with spatial resolution of 4 cm and 269 spectral bands ranging from 400 to 1000 nm was processed for the retrieval of the LAI and CCC of wheat cropland. …”
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Multifarious Indigenous Diazotrophic Rhizobacteria of Rice (Oryza sativa L.) Rhizosphere and Their Effect on Plant Growth Promotion by Mohammad Imran Mir, Bee Hameeda, Humera Quadriya, B. Kiran Kumar, Noshin Ilyas, Ali Tan Kee Zuan, Hesham Ali El Enshasy, Hesham Ali El Enshasy, Hesham Ali El Enshasy, Daniel Joe Dailin, Hazem S. Kassem, Abdul Gafur, R. Z. Sayyed

“…The present study was aimed to isolate, identify and characterize indigenous plant growth promoting (PGP) diazotrophic bacteria associated with the rhizosphere of rice fields from different areas of Jammu and Kashmir, India. A total of 15 bacteria were isolated and evaluated for various PGP traits, antagonistic activity against phytopathogens, production of hydrolytic enzymes and biofilm formation under in-vitro conditions. …”
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A comparison of five epidemiological models for transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in India by Soumik Purkayastha, Rupam Bhattacharyya, Ritwik Bhaduri, Ritoban Kundu, Xuelin Gu, Maxwell Salvatore, Debashree Ray, Swapnil Mishra, Bhramar Mukherjee

“…We study how five epidemiological models forecast and assess the course of the pandemic in India: a baseline curve-fitting model, an extended SIR (eSIR) model, two extended SEIR (SAPHIRE and SEIR-fansy) models, and a semi-mechanistic Bayesian hierarchical model (ICM). …”
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Species C Rotaviruses in Children with Diarrhea in India, 2010–2013: A Potentially Neglected Cause of Acute Gastroenteritis by Sudipta Bhat, Jobin Jose Kattoor, Yashpal Singh Malik, Shubhankar Sircar, Pallavi Deol, Vinita Rawat, Ritu Rakholia, Souvik Ghosh, Anastasia N. Vlasova, Touil Nadia, Kuldeep Dhama, Nobumichi Kobayashi

“…Here, we intended to detect the presence of RVC in diarrheic children visiting or admitted to hospitals in Haldwani (state of Uttarakhand, India), a city located in the foothills of the Himalayas. …”
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