Government of India

About: Government of India is a government organization based out in New Delhi, India. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Government. The organization has 2945 authors who have published 2999 publications receiving 44942 citations. The organization is also known as: Union Government & Central Government.

Experience of active tuberculosis case finding in nearly 5 million households in India

Abstract: In India, to increase tuberculosis (TB) case detection under the National Tuberculosis Programme, active case finding (ACF) was implemented by the Global Fund-supported Project Axshya, among high-risk groups in 300 districts. Between April 2013 and December 2014, 4.9 million households covering ~20 million people were visited. Of 350 047 presumptive pulmonary TB cases (cough of ⩾2 weeks) identified, 187 586 (54%) underwent sputum smear examination and 14 447 (8%) were found to be smear-positive. ACF resulted in the detection of a large number of persons with presumptive pulmonary TB and smear-positive TB. Ensuring sputum examination of all those with presumptive TB was a major challenge.

Cosmetotextiles: State of Art

Abstract: The main aim of this article is to collect the scattered knowledge of Cosmetotextiles and present it to the world scientific community for scrutiny Various aspects of Cosmetotextiles are compiled systematically and oriented towards product development The technology of Cosmetotextiles is at the neonatal stage The joint efforts of textile technologists, biochemists, cosmetic experts and medicos can achieve challenging targets in the field of Cosmetotextiles Various derivatives of metals, plants and animals are used in pure and derivative form to generate cosmetic functionality in textiles Various routes for the incorporation of cosmetic potentail in textiles are available, of which microencapsulation and the use of cyclodextrin as cage material are the most popular The content of moisture on skin surface is a key parameter in maintaining skin elasticity and glowing potential The characterization of Cosmetotextiles is a difficult task, but the Europeans have taken the lead by classifying and standardising the testing of the cosmetic effects of cosmetotextiles

Fabrication and transverse piezoelectric characteristics of PZT thick-film actuators on alumina substrates

Abstract: Soft piezoelectrics based on niobium-doped lead zirconate titanate (PZT-5H) are used for actuator applications. Through careful control of particle dispersion in thick-film ink formulations, crack-free and dense PZT thick-films of thickness 40 μm have been fabricated on alumina substrates by screen-printing method. The transverse piezoelectric coefficient, e 31 * (=d31/s11) have been determined from the tip deflection of the unimorph cantilevers. The PZT films on alumina substrates exhibited good linear piezoelectric deflection to the applied voltage with the stable piezoelectric coefficient, e 31 * of −4.0 C/m2.

Active transverse faulting within underthrust Indian crust beneath the Sikkim Himalaya

Abstract: SUMMARY Deep focus earthquakes within the underthrust Indian lower crust beneath the Himalaya occur in very specific regions and have distinct source characteristics. The study of the source mechanisms of these earthquakes provides valuable constraints on the kinematics of deformation of the underthrust Indian Plate, and its influence on the active deformation of the overlying Himalayan wedge. One of the most significant regions of these deep focus earthquakes is beneath the Sikkim and Bhutan Himalaya. We study the source characteristics of the 2011 September 18 (Mw 6.9) deep focus Sikkim main shock and its major aftershocks using global, regional and local waveform data. We determined the focal mechanism of the main shock using moment tensor inversion of global P and SH waveforms, and ascertained the earthquake fault plane using rupture directivity from regional P-wave spectra. The main shock originated at 53 ± 4 km depth and ruptured at least 20 km thickness of the underthrust Indian lower crust. Faulting occurred on a near vertical dextral strike-slip fault oriented NW-SE (strike 127 ◦ ,d ip 81 ◦ and rake 167 ◦ ), oblique to the local strike of the Himalayan arc. The rupture initiated from the SE end of the fault and propagated to the northwest. The main shock was followed by 20 small-to-moderate aftershocks (mb > 3.0), which we relocated using phase arrival times. We computed the focal mechanisms of the larger ones (mb ≥ 3.5) using local waveform inversion. We find that all aftershocks originated SE of the main shock, between depths of 12 and 50 km, and have dominantly strike-slip mechanisms. Our results, combined with the source mechanisms of earthquakes from previous studies, reveals that the entire underthrust Indian crust is seismogenic and deforms by dextral strikeslip motion on oblique structures beneath the Sikkim and Bhutan Himalaya. These active oblique structures with transverse motion possibly mark the western boundary of the clockwise rotating ‘microplates’ in northeast India observed from GPS geodesy.