OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects of a government insurance programme covering tertiary care for the poor in Karnataka, India--Vajpayee Arogyashree Scheme (VAS)--on treatment seeking and postoperative outcomes. DESIGN Geographic regression discontinuity. SETTING 572 villages in Karnataka, India. PARTICIPANTS 3478 households in 300 villages where VAS was implemented and 3486 households in...

BACKGROUND In India, 55% of women and 69.5% of preschool children are anaemic despite national policies recommending routine iron supplementation. Understanding factors associated with receipt of iron in the field could help optimise implementation of anaemia control policies. Thus, we undertook 1) a cross-sectional study to evaluate iron supplementation to children (and mothers) in rural Karna...

The darkling beetle species Boletoxenus taprobanae (Lewis, 1894) is newly reported for the fauna of India, from state Karnataka.

Asian Journal of Transfusion Science ‐ Volume 11, Issue 2, July‐December 2017 215 Figure 1: Evidence‐based use of higher pretransfusion international normalized ratio as a threshold for plasma transfusions Address for correspondence: Dr. Shamee Shastry, Department of Immunohematology and Blood Transfusion, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal ‐ 576 104, Karnataka, India. E‐mail...

1Professor, Department of Conservative Dentistry & Endodontics, M R Ambedkar Dental College and Hospital, Bangalore, Karnataka, India; 2Professor, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodonics, Bhabha College of Dental Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; 3Professor, Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodonics, R K D F Dental College, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India; 4Reader, De...

Leptospirosis has long been considered a rare zoonotic disease in India with only sporadic cases being recorded. Since 1980’s the disease has been reported from various states during monsoon months in mini epidemic proportions. The disease is endemic in Kerala, Tamilnadu, Gujarat, Andamans, Karnataka, Maharashtra. It has also been reported from Andhra Pradesh, Orissa, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh...

11.15AM – 12.00Noon Keynote VII (Skype) Cognitive Group-Based Collaborative Sensor Network for Sensing and Monitoring the Water Environment (Skype Presentation) Dr. Jaime Lloret Mauri, Associate Professor, Department of Communications, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain 12.00Noon – 01.00PM Keynote VIII Data Center Networking Dr. Mohit P. Tahiliani, National Institute of Technology Karnat...

Bounds for the second Hankel determinant of certain bi-univalent functions Halit ORHAN, Nanjundan MAGESH, Jagadeesan YAMINI Department of Mathematics Faculty of Science, Atatürk University 25240 Erzurum, Turkey. Post-Graduate and Research Department of Mathematics, Government Arts College for Men, Krishnagiri 635001, Tamilnadu, India. Department of Mathematics, Govt First Grade College Vijayana...

This study was conducted to assess oxidative stress and antioxidant status of organophosphorus (OP) poisoning cases before and after therapy with atropine and pralidoxime of north Karnataka (India). For this study 30 male OP poisoning cases (study group) and 30 male normal healthy subjects (control group) having age range 17-40 years were taken. All organophosphorus poisoning cases were diagnos...