This study has investigated the association between amount of atmospheric aerosols and occurrences Asthma, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Lung Cancer in Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata Bengaluru. Aerosol Optical Thickness (AOT) data Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Google Trends (GT) have been used to acquire information regarding abundance respiratory diseases re...

BACKGROUND India, China and Russia account for more than 62% of multidrug resistant tuberculosis (MDRTB) globally. Within India, locations like urban metropolitan Mumbai with its burgeoning population and high incidence of TB are suspected to be a focus for MDRTB. However apart from sporadic surveys at watched sites in the country, there has been no systematic attempt by the Revised National Tu...

Anupam Saxena Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Mumbai, India Email: [email protected] Om Pal Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Mumbai, India Email:[email protected] Zia Saquib Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Mumbai, India Email: [email protected] Dhiren Patel Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, Ahmedabad, India Email: [email protected] ---...

In response to the Mumbai attacks of 2008, the Mumbai police have started to schedule a limited number of inspection checkpoints on the road network throughout the city. Algorithms for similar security-related scheduling problems have been proposed in recent literature, but security scheduling in networked domains when targets have varying importance remains an open problem at large. In this pa...

Eradication of poliomyelitis from large metropolis cities in India has been difficult due to high population density and the presence of large urban slums. Three paralytic poliomyelitis cases were reported in Mumbai, India, in 1999 and 2000 in spite of high immunization coverage and good-quality supplementary immunization activities. We therefore established a systematic environmental surveilla...

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is one of the most common childhood onset psychiatric disorders. Although the onset of ADHD is prior to the age of seven years, there is a paucity of data on the prevalence of the disorder in preschool age children. This study was performed to determine the prevalence rate of ADHD in preschool age children in kindergartens of south west, Mumbai. O...

Setting: While surgery for pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) is considered an important adjunct for specific cases, including drug-resistant tuberculosis, operational evidence on its feasibility and effectiveness is limited. Objective: To describe surgical outcomes and programmatic challenges of providing surgery for PTB in Mumbai, India. Design: A descriptive study of routinely collected data of su...

Mumbai, a megacity of India, and its adjacent marine environment, though heavily stressed from various anthropogenic interferences, harbor approximatley 146 km(2) of mangrove cover. Manori creek, in the close vicinity of Mumbai, sustains relatively better mangrove formations. A creek habitat had been evaluated for its biological and environmental characteristics, and is compared with similar bu...

This article considers dense social interactions in commuter trains and their crucial role within city-wide networks. Literature on social interactions in public transport has focused on how commuters have short interactions with each other, or constitute groups of train friends, but without situating them in wider geographies. The article focuses on deaf people in the Mumbai metropolis who tra...

Information relating to cancer incidence trends forms the scientific basis for the planning and organization of prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer in a community. An attempt was here made to study the trends in the age adjusted incidence rates for the sites of head and neck cancers in Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Bhopal, and Barshi registry's populations. For carrying out trend...