GITAM University

Current Practices of Laryngoscope Blade Cleaning, Sterilization, and Disinfection Postintubation: A Survey of Indian Healthcare Facilities

BACKGROUND: Reusable laryngoscope blades are exposed to oropharyngeal secretions, blood, and mucosal surfaces during airway procedures. Incomplete reprocessing can make them a preventable source of cross-contamination. This survey assessed current practices related to cleaning, d...

Non-Contact Image-Based Roughness Estimation of Drilled Holes: Imaging Setup, Ground-Truth Dataset and Leakage-Free Evaluation of GLCM and Wavelet Features

Surface roughness (Ra) of drilled hole walls is difficult to measure non-destructively because the recessed surface is inaccessible to a stylus unless the workpiece is sectioned. This study presents an imaging rig and a stylus ground-truth procedure for 150 holes (4–9 mm) drilled...

Thermal transport in radiative MHD Casson nanofluid flow over an exponentially stretching permeable sheet with Joule heating and viscous dissipation

This paper extends the classical model of radiative mixed convection flow of a Casson nanofluid over an exponentially stretching permeable surface by incorporating the effects of viscous dissipation and Joule heating. The presence of heat generation due to fluid friction and elec...

Energy-efficient clustering and mobile sink routing in wireless sensor networks using quantum-inspired optimization and deep learning

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) require energy-efficient clustering and adaptive routing to maintain reliable communication and prolong network lifetime under varying node density, initial energy, communication range, packet size, residual energy, routing distance, latency, and m...

Who am I? Self-inquiry as a neurophenomenological approach to consciousness

Inconclusive evidence for leading third-person theories of consciousness has renewed scientific interest in its first-person nature. Self-inquiry, a first-person method from Advaita Vedanta, can be operationalized to meet this need, though it has not received prior empirical stud...

EGFR-AI Drug Discovery Computational Workflow

This software repository contains the computational workflow developed for an EGFR-targeted artificial intelligence (AI)-assisted drug discovery study. The project includes source code and computational scripts for AI/ML-based analysis, molecular generation, molecular docking, mo...

Translation and Validation of the Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale in Telugu Language

Background: The Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale (DASS-21) is an extensively followed self-report measure for assessing negative emotional states. The current research aimed to translate the original English version of DASS-21 into Telugu and to evaluate its validity within a...

Analysis of Radiative Magnetohydrodynamic Boundary Layer Flow Over a Vertical Porous Plate Using Successive Linearization

ABSTRACT This research explores impact of radiation on boundary layer flow around a porous plate undergoing vertical motion in an incompressible magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) fluid. A system of complex differential equations is generated by reducing governing nonlinear equations usin...

Grid Long Short‐Term Memory With Recurrent Neural Network and Multi‐Objective Based Task Scheduling in Cloud Computing

ABSTRACT The fast growth of the cloud computing (CC) environment with numerous users from individuals to larger businesses has made it demanding for cloud providers to manage the vast amounts of data as well as resources in the cloud. Efficient task scheduling remains a critical...

Multi-Criteria Reduced-Order Modelling of Airport-Centric Microgrid for Frequency-Response Studies

This article develops an analytic hierarchy process (AHP)-assisted model-reduction approach for a higher-order airport-centric microgrid (ACM). The full-order ACM model is approximated by a computationally simpler lower-order transfer function while retaining its essential steady...

Scenario clustered robust Pareto optimization of photovoltaic wind battery and diesel hybrid microgrids for cost emissions and reliability

Hybrid microgrid planning requires a balanced selection of renewable generation, battery storage, diesel backup, power-interface capacity, lifecycle cost, emissions, and reliability. This study presents an integrated scenario-clustered robust Pareto design framework for PV–wind–b...

Thermophysical properties, combustion, performance, and emission analysis of ZnO, TiO₂, and GNP-enhanced WCOME–diesel–DGM triple fuel blends in a CRDI diesel engine

The continuous utilization of non-renewable/conventional fuels for different fields of applications creates intense demand, increasing costs, and hazardous exhaust gases, which cause depletion of these products from the Earth’s source. This scenario urges researchers to find alte...

Insights into Microbiota–Vaccine Crosstalk in Humans: Mechanisms, Modulators, and Translational Horizons

Vaccine responses differ substantially among individuals and across populations. Although factors such as age, genetics, and vaccine type are recognized contributors, they do not fully explain this heterogeneity. Emerging evidence suggests that the human microbiota, particularly...

Cohesin prevents local mixing of condensed euchromatic domains in living human cells

The human genome is folded into chromatin loops by the cohesin complex, forming functional chromatin domains that underlie transcription and DNA replication/repair. However, how cohesin organizes these domains in living cells, especially in active euchromatin, remains elusive. To...

Hybrid multicast-based static simulation of VANETs for communication overhead reduction using the M/G/m/m model

Purpose The purpose of this study is to develop an efficient hybrid multicast routing protocol for vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) using the M/G/m/m queuing model. It aims to reduce communication overhead, improve routing efficiency and enhance data transmission reliability in...

Beyond the conditional averages: a quantile-based analysis of effects of fiscal deficits on interest rates in India

Purpose The consequences of fiscal deficit on interest rate are a debatable issue. This study examines the differential impact of fiscal deficit on quantiles of interest rates depending on the different economic conditions by utilizing monthly data from January 2004 to July 2024...

Sunlight-driven persulfate oxidation as a sustainable solution for the degradation of trypan blue in aqueous medium

Water pollution resulting from the release of dye contaminated wastewater poses a serious threat to aquatic ecosystems and human health. Sunlight-based water treatment is an emerging method of sustainability practice. This study proposes the use of persulfate-based advanced oxida...

A rationally designed PE/PPE-based multi-epitope vaccine candidate engaging TLR4 to induce balanced humoral and cellular immunity against Mycobacterium tuberculosis

TB is a serious health challenge globally, with more than 10 million new cases every year and rising MDR and XDR variants diminishing the efficacy of existing chemotherapeutics. Although BCG vaccination confers protection in children, its limited ability to prevent adult pulmonar...

Conformational stability of lysozyme in choline chloride–polyol aqueous deep eutectic solvents (ADES)

Naturally occurring deep eutectic solvents (NADES) offer a tunable microenvironment for biomolecular stabilization. Yet, the atomistic mechanisms governing the protein-solvent interactions remain poorly understood. Here, we present microsecond-long atomistic molecular dynamics si...

Engineering ZnO─MgO Nanocomposites for Highly Efficient Sunlight‐Driven Photocatalytic Degradation and Antibacterial Applications

ABSTRACT In this study, ZnO (Z1C6), MgO (M1C6), and ZnO─MgO nanocomposites were synthesized using facile co‐precipitation method. The ZnO─MgO nanocomposites (NCs) were synthesized with varying compositions [MZ1C6 (ZnO─MgO 1:1), MZ2C6 (ZnO─MgO 2:1), and MZ3C6 (ZnO─MgO 3:1)], using...