Government Medical College

Prevalence of renal impairment in urban adults: A community-based study from Kerala, India

Background and objectives Community-based studies on detecting renal impairment are minimal from India, though early detection could prevent progression to end-stage renal disease (ESRD). This study aims to estimate the prevalence of renal impairment among adults aged 30 y or abo...

Synthesis and characterization of sustainable nano biofilm derived from chitosan nanoparticles and stem starch of Amorphophallus paeoniifolius

Packaging one time use plastic garbage possess severe threat to the environment. To address this issue, this study develops and characterizes biodegradable bioplastics films derived from stem starch of Amorphophallus Paeoniifolius with chitosan nano particles as filler material,...

A Hybrid PSO–GA Algorithm for Adaptive Decentralized Sequencer Selection and DAG-Aware Workload Coordination in Layer-2 Blockchain Networks

Decentralized Layer-2 sequencing requires fixed-size committees to balance performance, fairness, and resilience while downstream transaction tasks remain dependency-constrained. This study formulates committee selection as a bounded seven-objective discrete optimization problem...

Is sustainable tourism actually serving the SDGs? Insights from scientometrics and BERTopic analysis of research evolution and future trajectories

Purpose Sustainable tourism is increasingly recognised as a strategic instrument for advancing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). However, the field lacks a data-driven synthesis that traces the evolution of themes over time and links emerging research traje...