Volatile methylsiloxanes in beauty and personal care products sold in India and human exposure assessment.

This study investigated the presence of cyclic and linear volatile methylsiloxanes in 174 beauty and personal care products (PCPs) sold in India. Siloxanes were detected in all the samples with a detection frequency of 20 to 99 %. The cyclic siloxanes viz.

Levels, distribution, and health risk assessment of phthalic acid esters in urban surface soils of Nagpur city, India.

Surface soil samples from residential, commercial, and industrial areas of Nagpur city, India, were collected to study the levels, distribution, and impact of land use patterns on phthalic acid ester (PAEs) contamination. The ΣPAEs concentrations in soils from residential, commercial, and industrial areas ranged between 6,493 to 13,195 µg/kg, 707 to 18,446 µg/kg, and 1,882 to 5,004 µg/kg with medians of 10,399, 6,199, and 3,401 µg/kg, respectively. Bis-2-ethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) and dimethyl phthalate (DMP) were the dominant PAEs in the urban soils.

Occurrence and Health Risk Assessment of Phthalates in Municipal Drinking Water Supply of a Central Indian City.

In this study, the occurrence of phthalates in the municipal water supply of Nagpur City, India, was studied for the first time. The study aimed to provide insights into the extent of phthalate contamination and identify potential sources of contamination in the city's tap water. We analyzed fifteen phthalates and the total concentration (∑phthalates) ranged from 0.

Does early exposure to cardiothoracic surgery increase interest in the specialty?

Introduction: The number of applications for cardiothoracic surgery has been steadily dropping over the past decades. We aim to assess whether a 1-day cardiothoracic surgical skills conference could increase interest into the speciality.

Methods: Participants included in the study had to be medical students or junior doctors.

Ocular Outcomes of Maxillofacial Trauma - A Decennary Descriptive Study.

Unlabelled: Maxillofacial trauma is amongst the most frequently encountered trauma seen in the hospital emergency setting. It may be life-threatening on rare occasions, and with concomitant injuries, it is often severely debilitating.

Objective: The present study was conducted to determine the occurrence of concomitant orbital and ocular injuries amongst patients with maxillofacial trauma, and also helps in deriving a correlation between different patterns of maxillofacial fractures.

Leaching characteristics and hazard evaluation of bottom ash generated from common biomedical waste incinerators.

India has more than 202 biomedical waste incinerators, however, knowledge on the chemical characteristics of incinerator ash is lacking. The objective of this study was to evaluate the lecahablility characteristics of bottom ash and to study the levels of incineration by-products polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Bottom ash samples from 13 common biomedical waste treatment facilities (CBMWTF) were colleted and subjected to leachig test, sequential extraction procedure (SEP) and PAHs and PCBs analysis.

Structural disorder originates beyond narrow stoichiometric margins of amino acids in naturally occurring folded proteins.

Rigorous analyses of Euclidean distances between non-peptide bonded residues in structures of several thousand naturally occurring folded proteins yielded a surprising "margin of life" for percentage occurrence of individual amino acids in naturally occurring folded proteins. On one hand, the concept of "margin of life", referring to lower than expected variances in average stoichiometric occurrences of individual amino acids in folded proteins, remains unchallenged since its discovery a decade ago. On the other hand, within this past decade there has been a strong emergence of a gradual paradigm shift in biology, from sequence-structure-function in proteins to sequence-disorder-function, fuelled by discoveries on functional implications of intrinsically disordered proteins (primary sequences that do not form stable structures).

Association Between Harmful Oral Habits and Sign and Symptoms of Temporomandibular Joint Disorders Among Adolescents.

Context: Temporomandibular disorder (TDM) is defined as a heterogenous group of psychophysiological disorders commonly characterised by orofacial pain, chewing dysfunction or both. Various Epidemiological studies had shown occurrence of TMD in all age groups including children. Also research had shown that non nutritional oral habits to be associated with TMD.