Background: Globally, a significant hike in the prevalence of overweight and obesity has been found in almost all age groups.Aims: To determine the prevalence of obesity among adults in a rural area of Pondicherry and to study the risk predictors of obesity in the study population.Materials & Methods: A cross-sectional descriptive study was conduct
The striatum is the main input station of the basal ganglia and is strongly associated with motor and cognitive functions.Anatomical evidence suggests that individual striatal neurons are unlikely to share their inputs from the cortex.Using a biologically realistic large-scale network model of striatum and cortico-striatal projections, we provide a
In recent years, the number of incidents involving aqueduct damage due to vehicle impact has steadily increased, significantly affecting the safe operation of water transfer projects.To investigate the dynamic response characteristics of aqueduct structures under vehicle impact, a numerical model of vehicle impact on an aqueduct was developed using
Abstract When particles are deposited at a fluid interface they tend to aggregate by capillary attraction to minimize the overall potential energy of the system.In this work, we embed floating millimetric disks with permanent magnets to introduce a competing repulsion effect and PERFUME study their pattern formation in equilibrium.The pairwise ener