From the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Relief, Fortis Hospitals, Bangalore, Karnataka 560075, India. Address reprint requests to Murali Chakravarthy, MD, DA, DNP, FIACTA, Fortis Hospitals, Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care, and Pain Relief, Bannerughatta Road, Bangalore, Karnataka 560076, India. E-mail: [email protected] © 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserve...

Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology, Bangalore Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Bangalore Institute of Dental Sciences, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Department of Conservative Dentistry and Endodontics, K M Shah Dental College and Hospital, Vadodara, Gujarat, India Department of Pedodontics and Preven...

Automated Arterial Input Function Detection in Ascending Aorta for Breast DCE-MRI Venkata Veerendranadh Chebrolu, Dattesh D Shanbhag, Sheshadri Thiruvenkadam, Sandeep Kaushik, Uday Patil, Patrice Hervo, Sandeep N Gupta, and Rakesh Mullick Medical Image Analysis Lab, GE Global Research, Bangalore, Karnataka, India, GE Healthcare, Buc, France, Biomedical Image Processing Lab, GE Global Research, ...

55 Multi-Objective Optimization of Squeeze Casting Process using Evolutionary Algorithms Manjunath Patel G C, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India Prasad Krishna, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Surathkal, India Mahesh B. Parappagoudar, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Chhatrapat...

Floriculture in India is estimated to cover an area of 2.55 lakh ha with a production of 17,54,000 MT of loose flowers. Nearly 77 % of the area under floricultural crops is concentrated in seven states comprising Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, West Bengal, Maharastra, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Delhi. Among different states, Tamil Nadu ranks first in area followed by Karnataka, West Bengal and Maharast...

Department of Pathology, JJM Medical College, Rajiv Gandhi University, Davangere, Karnataka and Department of Medicine, Meenakshi Medical College, Meenakshi University, Kanchi, India Correspondence to S.M. Savithadevi, MBBS, PG Pathology, PG Service, Department of Pathology, JJM Medical College, Rajiv Gandhi University, Davangere, Karnataka, 577004 India Tel: + 91 819 222 0234; fax: + 91 819 22...

Senior Resident, Department of Biochemistry 1 , Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalya Hospital, Associated to Maulana Azad Medical College, Geeta Colony, New Delhi-110031, India. Professor, Department of Biochemistry 2 , Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and KLES Dr.Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Medical Research Center, Belgaum-590010, Karnataka, India. Associate Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngolog...

1 Senior Resident, Department of Biochemistry, Chacha Nehru Bal Chikitsalya Hospital, Associated to Maulana Azad Medical College, Geeta Colony, New Delhi-110031. 2 Professor, Department of Biochemistry, Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and KLES Dr.Prabhakar Kore Hospital and Medical Research Center, Belgaum-590010, Karnataka. 3 Associate Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and...

1Department of Tahaffuzi wa Samaji Tib (Preventive and Social Medicine), Younis Fazlan Unani Medical College, Kunj Keda, Maharashtr, India, 2Department of Amraze Niswan wa Ilmul Qabalat (Obstetrics and Gynecology), National Institute of Unani Medicine, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 3Department of Ilmul Saidla (Pharmacy), National Institute of Unani Medicine, Bengaluru, Karnataka, India, 4Departm...

Introduction Reduction of neonatal mortality from the current levels of 29 neonatal deaths per 1000 live births to 21 per 1000 live births is one of the major goals of the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM) in Karnataka. Strategic focus on geographies and sub-populations within the state where neonatal mortality is the highest will enhance the speed and magnitude of its reduction. A recently ...