Background: Neurological soft signs (NSS) are those minute sensory and motor function impairments which have been found to be frequently associated with Schizophrenia patients. NSS have been found to have a familial association. However the pattern of association of NSS with their first degree relatives needs to be evaluated. There is paucity of Indian studies in this area. Aim and Objectives :We aim to evaluate the pattern of neurological soft signs in patients of schizophrenia and first degree relatives (FDR) of the patients with schizophrenia and to evaluate the association between the patterns of Neurological soft signs in both groups to see whether there is a correlation between the two. Methodology :Patients who are clinically diagnosed to have Schizophrenia using International Classification of Diseases - 10th revision (ICD-10) research criteria presenting to either Outpatient Unit or Inpatient Unit of Psychiatry Department of the AVBRH hospital will be selected. Only one of the FDRs of each patient will be selected for the study. NSS will be assessed by using Neurological Evaluation Scale (Original version) in both the patient and their FDRs. Later comparison will be made between both the groups using appropriate statistical methods. Results : The Outcome of this study will help in establishing the association between NSS in patients of schizophrenia and their FDR. This study will help in evaluating the endophenotype status of NSS. Conclusion :With this study we will be able to recognize the pattern of neurological soft signs in patients with Schizophrenia and the FDRs. It will help us to recognize whether the neurological soft signs are found more frequently in patients or first degree relatives of schizophrenia. It will answer whether neurological soft signs can be considered as endophenotypes of schizophrenia.
The toxicity of implants is a vital factor affecting the safety of implants. Thebibliometric analysis had been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of “toxicity of implants”.All published articles related to “toxicity of implants” from “Scopus”, were analyzed using the VOS viewer to develop analysis tables and visualization maps.This article had set the objective to consolidate the scientific literature regarding “toxicity of implants”and also to find out the trends related to the same.The most active journal in this research domain wasthe Brachytherapy and Journal of Biomaterials Research. The most active country was the United States of America and the leading organization engaged in the research domain was the Laval University of Canada. The most active authors were Vigneault E. and Hallab. N.J.
Corrosion of medical implants is a serious issue inthe medical sector. Thebibliometric analysis had been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of “corrosion of implants”.All published articles related to “corrosion of implants” from “Scopus”, were analyzed using the VOS viewer to develop analysis tables and visualization maps.This article had set the objective to consolidate the scientific literature regarding “corrosion of implants”and also to find out the trends related to the same.The most active journal in this research domain wasMaterial Science and Engineering C and Biomaterials. The most active country was the United States of America. The leading organizations engaged in the research regarding the Corrosion of implants were the Ministry of Education China and Rush University Medical Centre, United States of America. The most active authors who had made valuable contributions related to pacemaker batteries were Jacob J.J and Mathew M.T.
Titanium is one of the most used metals for implants. Thebibliometric analysis had been conducted to understand the active authors, organizations, journals, and countries involved in the research domain of “Titanium-implants”.All published articles related to “Titanium-implants” from “Scopus”, were analyzed using the VOS viewer to develop analysis tables and visualization maps.This article had set the objective to consolidate the scientific literature regarding “Titanium-implants”and also to find out the trends related to the same.The most active journals in this research domainwere the International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Implants and Clinical Oral Implants Research. The most active country was the United States of America. The leading organization engaged in the research domain was the Gothenburg University of Sweden. The most active authors were Alberktsson T and Buser D
In day to day real-life situations we often tend to face problems which contain parameters which are mutually non-commensurable. In transportation problems where goods are transported from origin to destination, when trying to establish a relationship between parameters, we observe that few of them come out as fractions with linear nature. In this work, we have proposed a four dimensional multi-objective multi-item fractional transportation model whose parameters in both objective functions and constraints are considered as an uncertain variables. As it is difficult to handle such type of problem directly, an equivalent deterministic model is obtained by using chance constraint and expected value property of uncertain variable. Furthermore, all the uncertain linear fractional objective functions of the proposed model are converted to a single objective function and obtained an optimal solution for the proposed model. An illustrative example is given to demonstrate the proposed model.
