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Background- SARS-COV-2, β type corona virus affects nearly all world population after appearing in Wuhan in Nov. 2019. In Covid-19 related bronchitis there is an issue of excessive sputum production in the airways (Kaphastheevan), resulting in coughing (Kasa) and chest tightness.This recurrent cough and ongoing chest discomfort affect one’s quality of life. Aim & Objectives- Aim of this study is to create an Ayurvedic protocol (Shodhan Chikitsa -Nasya therapy and Shaman Chikitsa – Chitrak Haritaki, Sitopaladi Churna, Tankan Bhasma, Swarnavasant Malti Rasa) for treatment of post Covid19 related chronic bronchitis. Material & Methods- It is a case of 27yrs old female presented with complain of breathlessness, cough especially at night with expectoration. Assessment was done on the basis of symptoms, radiological findings (Chest X-ray PA View) and PFT (FVC & FEV1). Result- There was relief in Subjective Parameters such as Cough (Kasa), Dyspnoea (Shwasakashtata), Chest tightness (Urashool), Wheezing (Ghurghurak), Sputum and Sleep (Nidra). This Ayurvedic treatment yielded more improvement in the value of FEV1.0 (L), FVC (L), FEV1.0/FVC (%) after treatment. Discussion- Shodhan (Anu Tail Nasya) and Shaman (Chitrak Haritaki, Sitopaladi Churna, Tankan Bhasma, Svarnvasant Malti Rasa) Chikitsa have mainly VataKaphahara action. This Case study of COVID-19 related Chronic Bronchitis is highly effective in subsiding the all symptoms of Post COVID Chronic Bronchitis and also improving the Pulmonary Function.

An unorthodox intra-lattice ‘inverse’ charge transfer occurs from the undercoordinated Mo-center to neighbouring Ni-centers in the Ni73Mo alloy (−) and NiMo-hydroxide (+). The self-supported couple splits alkaline water at 1.48 V at 10 mA cm−2.

Introduction: Biomedical waste (BMW) generated during diagnosis, treatment or immunization is infectious, hazardous, and deleterious for humans, animals, and the environment. Across-sectional study with Pre-test and Post-test assessment was carried out on 115 newly enrolled rstyear MBBS students as study subjects. The study aimed to assess and impart knowledge regarding BMW management to naïve Medical Students. Also considering them to be representative of the community, we assessed this knowledge among the community. Methods and Material:Apredesigned Performa consisting of multiple-choice questions related to BMW management, for a pre-test and post-test assessment was used for data collection. A score was assigned for each correct response. Accordingly, participants were categorized as having Good, Average, or Poor knowledge regarding the subject. The data were statistically analyzed using paired "t" test with Wilcoxon correction by Graph Pad Prism. Results: The P-value was statistically signicant (p-value

A study was conducted to evaluate the performance of indigenous Nusuri chicken germplasm of Odisha maintained in floor rearing system. Seventy birds were selected for this study. Body weight and feed consumption were recorded up to 20 weeks. Feed conversion ratio (FCR), energy efficiency ratio (EER) and protein efficiency ratio (PER) were calculated. The body conformation traits (breast angle, body length, keel bone length, shank length, shank width, shank circumference, body girth, beak length, head width and height of the bird) were measured at 8th, 12th, 16th and 20th week of age. Blood was collected for estimation of haematological and serum biochemical parameters at 20th week. The day-old, 8th, 16th and 20th week body weights were 24.15, 250.92, 767.09 and 1033.38 g, respectively. The mean cumulative 8th and 20th weeks FCR was 3.74 and 5.46, respectively. The mean cumulative EER and PER was 9.07 and 1.23 at 8th week and 7.39 and 1.15 at 20th week, respectively. All recorded linear body measurements were higher in male birds than the female birds. Haematological parameters such as haemoglobin (12.27 g%), total erythrocyte count (3.57 mm3), total leucocyte count (9.80 mm3), packed cell volume (44.64%), mean corpuscular haemoglobin (39.49 pg), mean corpuscular volume (124.99 fL) and mean corpuscular haemoglobin concentration (27.84 g%) and serum biochemical parameters such as glucose (142.61 mg%), total protein (2.91 g%), albumin (1.86 g%), globulin (1.05 g%), urea (4.79 mg/dL), uric acid (6.00 mg/dL), cholesterol (106.74 mg/dL) and triglycerides (35.25 mg/dL) were recorded. This study provides a baseline data of growth performance, nutrient efficiency and blood metabolites of Nusuri chicken germplasm of Odisha.

In this research article, we implement a methodology for solving fuzzy transportation problems involving linear fractional fuzzy numbers. The main aim of this paper is to find optimum values of the fuzzy transportation problems by simplex method with the help of a triangular fuzzy number (TFN) as the costs of objective function. The outcome of this method is explained with a numerical example.

Economic and sustainable (ecological) energy storage forms a major pillar of the global energy sector. Bifunctional electrocatalysts, based on oxygen electrolysis, play a key role in the development of rechargeable metal-air batteries. Pursuing precious metal-free economic catalysts, here, we report K

A dicationic diradical has been synthesized from the N,N′- trans-1,4-cyclohexylene bridged bis-NHC–CAAC dimer.

A self-supported heterostructure has been created where the charge transfer from NiV-LDH to CoP drives electrochemical hydrogen production with sustained durability for 10 days at −1 A cm−2 in alkaline and acidic pH, yielding ∼20 ml h−1 H2.

Engineering the electronic excited state manifolds of organic molecules can give rise to various functional outcomes, including ambient triplet harvesting, that has received prodigious attention in the recent past. Herein, we introduce a modular, non-covalent approach to bias the entire excited state landscape of an organic molecule using tunable 'through-space charge-transfer' interactions with appropriate donors. Although charge-transfer (CT) donor-acceptor complexes have been extensively explored as functional and supramolecular motifs in the realm of soft organic materials, they could not imprint their potentiality in the field of luminescent materials, and it still remains as a challenge. Thus, in the present study, we investigate the modulation of the excited state emission characteristics of a simple pyromellitic diimide derivative on complexation with appropriate donor molecules of varying electronic characteristics to demonstrate the selective harvesting of emission from its locally excited (LE) and CT singlet and triplet states. Remarkably, co-crystallization of the pyromellitic diimide with heavy-atom substituted and electron-rich aromatic donors leads to an unprecedented ambient CT phosphorescence with impressive efficiency and notable lifetime. Further, gradual minimizing of the electron-donating strength of the donors from 1,4-diiodo-2,3,5,6-tetramethylbenzene (or 1,2-diiodo-3,4,5,6-tetramethylbenzene) to 1,2-diiodo-4,5-dimethylbenzene and 1-bromo-4-iodobenzene modulates the source of ambient phosphorescence emission from the

Molecular dioxygen is activated across the C(sp3)–C(sp3) bond of a piperazine derivative. This unprecedented reaction proceeds without any catalyst and at ambient condition yielding a 8-membered cyclic organic peroxide.

Herein we report the first metal-free regioselective Markovnikov ring-opening of epoxides (selectivity up to 99%) using an abnormal N-heterocyclic carbene (aNHC) to yield secondary alcohols. DFT calculations and X-ray crystallography suggest that the Markovnikov selectivity originates from the high nucleophilicity and steric factors associated with the aNHC.

Background: Meningiomas are the most prevalent of all intracranial tumours. Although they are mostly benign, about 20% of meningiomas are atypical or malignant. Knowledge of their histologic grade can be clinically useful while planning surgery.Objectives: To differentiate between various grades and subtypes of meningiomas with advanced MR parameters.Method: We assessed the advanced MR imaging characteristics of 27 histopathologically confirmed meningiomas on a 3T MRI, of which 23 were grade I meningiomas (2 fibroblastic, 9 meningothelial, 9 transitional, 3 unspecified) and 4 were grade II/III meningiomas (2 atypical, 1 papillary, 1 anaplastic). Analysis of the ADC, FA, λ1, λ2, λ3 and mean diffusivity was performed using standard post-processing software.Results: The mean size of atypical meningiomas (5.9 cm ± 0.7 cm) was significantly higher (p = 0.038, 95% confidence interval [CI]) than that of typical meningiomas (4.6 cm ± 1.6 cm) with a cut-off value of 6.05 cm (75% sensitivity and 87% specificity). The mean cerebral blood flow (CBF) (ASL) of atypical meningiomas (286.70 ± 8.06) was significantly higher (p = 0.0000141, 95% CI) than that of typical meningiomas (161.09 ± 87.04) with a cut-off value of 276.75 (66.7% sensitivity and 75% specificity). Among the typical meningiomas, transitional subtypes had the lowest ADC. High FA and planar coefficient (CP) values and low λ3 and spherical coefficient (CS) values were seen in fibroblastic meningiomas. Fibroblastic meningiomas also showed the lowest vascularity among typical meningiomas.Conclusion: Tumour size and ASL perfusion are two parameters that could differentiate between typical and atypical meningiomas while ADC, FA, λ3, CP, CS, rCBF and rCBV may be helpful in distinguishing different subtypes of typical meningiomas.

Herein we report the development of a new methodology for the synthesis of various quinodimethane derivatives under two-electron oxidation of bis-Nheterocyclic olefins linked by different pi-conjugated aromatic spacers. In case of paraand ortho-phenylene bridge, we obtained air and moisture stable diimidazolium paraand ortho-quinodimethane derivatives. Analogues of the para-phenylene spacer such as tetrafluoro-p-phenylene and p-anthracene also led to the corresponding air and moisture stable quinodimethane derivatives. This emphasizes the influence of imidazolium substituents which facilitate the air and moisture stability of the quinodimethane derivatives. Differences were observed for the electron transfer processes: two one-electron vs one two-electron redox transitions between bis-N-heterocyclic olefins and diimidazolium-quinodimethanes depending on the employed pi-conjugated aromatic spacer. The formation of the pi-conjugated radical-cations, transient redox intermediates between bis-N-heterocyclic olefins and diimidazolium-quinodimethanes, was addressed by an EPR investigation.

Electrocatalytic as well as photocatalytic CO2 reduction reactions (CO2RR) on single transition metal (TM = Fe/Co/Ni) supported C6N6 frameworks by first principles calculations.

Pincer ligated coordination complexes of base metals have shown remarkable catalytic activity for hydrogenation/dehydrogenation of CO2 . The recently reported MeN[CH2 CH2 (i Pr2 )]2 Co(I)PNP-pincer complex was shown to exhibit substantially higher catalytic activity in comparison to the corresponding catalyst, HN[CH2 CH2 (i Pr2 )]2 Co(I)PNP, bearing a secondary nitrogen center on the pincer ligand. Here, we computationally investigate the mechanisms for hydrogenation of CO2 to formate catalyzed by these two Co-PNP complexes to explain how such a small structural difference could have a sizable impact on their catalytic activity. Plausible hydrogenation routes were examined in details and our findings provide solid support for the experimental observations. Our results reveal that such trends in catalytic activity could be explained from the lower activation barrier for the hydride transfer step upon changing the pincer nitrogen center from secondary to tertiary.

Systemic sclerosis is a connective tissue disorder of unknown etiology. Although it is a multisystemic disorder, skin thickening is considered as a hallmark of the disease. It usually involves the lungs, gastrointestinal, and musculoskeletal systems. However, a rare subset of systemic sclerosis, systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma, is characterized by internal organ involvement and positive serologic markers with the total or partial absence of cutaneous manifestations. We present a rare association of osteopetrosis in a case of systemic sclerosis sine scleroderma, in a 22-year-old male patient, who presented with pulmonary symptoms as his chief complaints, unreported so far in literature.