S. Sadasivan
OBJECTIVES: Although health technology assessment (HTA) has been well established in all developed countries, it has not found a firm footing in many developing countries. This is especially true of the Asia Pacific region, which has much of the world population. METHODS: The beginnings of HTA in th...
Sunil Kumar Joshi, Urvi Sharma, Priya Sharma, Pathak Ss et al.
A cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the health status of children engaged in carpet weaving factories of Jaipur City. Two hundred and ninety school going boys of similar socio-economic status served as controls. A higher prevalence of signs of nutritional deficiencies was observed in...
Varun Ganjigunte Prakash, Manu Kohli, Prathosh AP, Monica Juneja et al.
Abstract Human action recognition (HAR) in untrimmed videos can make insightful predictions of human behaviour. Previous work on HAR‐included models trained on spatial and temporal annotations and could classify limited actions from trimmed videos. These methods reported limitations such as (1) perf...
Sunil Kumar Joshi, Priya Sharma, Urvi Sharma, Sadasivan Sitaraman et al.
OBJECTIVE: To assess the adverse influence of carpet weaving on lung functions and the nurtritional status of children employed in such factories. DESIGN: Comparison of the peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) of the study group with controls of similar socio-economic status and correlate it with anthro...
Pradip Kumar Bardhan, Rina Das, Baitun Nahar, Md. Ahshanul Haque et al.
Background: Diarrhoeal disease poses a significant global health challenge, especially in children under three years old. Despite the effectiveness of oral rehydration therapy (ORT), its adoption remains low. Glucose-based ORS (GORS) is the standard, but novel formulations like glucose-free amino ac...
Shyama Sadasivan, Anjali Gera Roy
Although traumatic memories of the subcontinental Partition left indelible scars on South Asian diasporas dispersed worldwide, Partition has been examined from a nation-centric lens. Lately, Partition scholars have emphasised the need to investigate its traumatising effects beyond the nation states ...
Shyama Sadasivan, Anjali Gera Roy
Although traumatic memories of the subcontinental Partition left indelible scars on South Asian diasporas dispersed worldwide, Partition has been examined from a nation-centric lens. Lately, Partition scholars have emphasised the need to investigate its traumatising effects beyond the nation states ...
Sasi Abirami, Shazia Abrar, Kenta Adachi, Khalil Akhtar et al.
Keshav Bhattar, S. Anilkumar, Rashma Sadasivan, Ramesh Pandit et al.
After several reports of a multisystem inflammatory disease in pediatric patients who had evidence of active or past infection with the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, in May 2020, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) provided a case definition for this multisystem inflammatory syndrom...
Shahid Akbar, Himender Bharti, Enrico Schifani, Aijaz Ahmad Wachkoo
The ant genus Vollenhovia Mayr, 1865 (Myrmicinae, Crematogastrini) mostly occurs in the Australasian and Oriental regions. We revised its diversity in India and Sri Lanka based on qualitative and quantitative morphology, recognizing eleven taxa, including a new species which is described herewith: V...
Pradip Kumar Bardhan, Rina Das, Baitun Nahar, Md. Ahshanul Haque et al.
Deep Bhardwaj, Shalu Aggarwal, Sadasivan Sitaraman, Kamlesh Khilnanai et al.
This study aimed to determine the proportion of babies having retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) by a screening of high-risk babies and to determine the proportion of babies requiring laser for ROP. A tertiary hospital-based prospective descriptive study was carried out over a span of 2 years in 370 n...