Engagement and Preparedness of Urban Accredited Social Health Activists (U-ASHAs) for Delivery of Tuberculosis (TB) Care: Findings From two Cities in Maharashtra, India by Vidula S. Purohit, Shilpa Santosh Karvande, Daksha Y. Shah, Omprakash B. Vallepawar, Omprakash J. Yadav, Nerges F. Mistry

“…Finding missing tuberculosis (TB) cases from the “under-reached” population of urban slums and connecting them with TB services is a priority and ongoing challenge for India. It requires the effective engagement of community health workers including urban Accredited Social Health Activists (U-ASHAs). …”
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Impact of economic shocks on mental health during COVID-19: A longitudinal study of adult residents of Indian metropolitan cities by Zakir Husain, Mousumi Dutta, Saswata Ghosh, Soumitra S. Datta

“…The COVID-19 pandemic, along with the economic recession caused by the lockdowns to reduce transmission, provides a natural experimental setting to examine the causal impact of a decline in monthly per capita expenditure (MPCE) on mental health of the general population in India during the pandemic. Aim: To evaluate the impact of income shocks on mental health of adults in metro cities during the COVID-19 pandemic. …”
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A socio-ecological model of the management of leprosy reactions in Indonesia and India using the experiences of affected individuals, family members and healthcare providers by Annisa Ika Putri, Ruth M. H. Peters, Kevin De Sabbata, Brittney S. Mengistu, Regitta I. Agusni, Medhi Denisa Alinda, Joydeepa Darlong, M. Yulianto Listiawan, Cita R. S. Prakoeswa, Stephen L. Walker, Marjolein B. M. Zweekhorst

“…Non-medical aspects, such as financing, service provision, and healthcare resources in the management of LR are generally overlooked as studies tend to concentrate on clinical features and treatment. …”
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Kluyvera ascorbata: An Emerging Pathogen and Rare Cause of Urinary Tract Infection in Immunocompetent Patients at a Tertiary Care Center in North India by Apurva Rautela, Nikhil Raj, Vikramjeet Singh, Anupam Das, Jyotsna Agarwal

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A Qualitative Study of Digital Religious Influence: Perspectives from Christian, Hindu, and Muslim Gen Y and Gen Z in Mumbai, India by Clyde Anieldath Missier

“…It draws on data from 64 in-depth interviews with Generation Y and Generation Z individuals with a higher-education background who identified as Christian, Muslim, or Hindu, conducted in Mumbai, India. While influencers are increasingly playing a significant role in the daily lives of the respondents, the impact of family on religious behavior appears to be more substantial than the epistemic sources on social media. …”
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Third molar infections and their impact on systemic health- an awareness study among women degree college students of Udupi City, Karnataka, India by Ananya Prabhu, Ramprasad Vasthare, Prajna P. Nayak, Gargi Gandhi, Shreyosi Banik, Bidisha Sarmah

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Correlates for the severity of suicidal risk in participants with common mental disorders with comorbid chronic medical conditions in rural primary healthcare settings in India by Johnson-Pradeep Ruben, Maria L. Ekstrand, Elsa Heylen, Krishnamachari Srinivasan

“…Settings and Design: The setting was at 49 PHC in the rural Ramanagara District of Karnataka State in southern India. Study eligibility criteria included being ≥30 years with at least mild depression or generalized anxiety disorder and at least one medical condition (cardiovascular disorder or type 2 diabetes mellitus). …”
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Invariant Approximation Results via Common Fixed Point Theorems for Generalized Weak Contraction Maps by Savita Rathee, Anil Kumar, Kenan Tas

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Ni-kshay Poshan Yojana: receipt and utilization among persons with TB notified under the National TB Elimination Program in India, 2022 by Kathiresan Jeyashree, Jeromie W V Thangaraj, Devika Shanmugasundaram, G Sri Lakshmi Priya, Sumit Pandey, Venkateshprabhu Janagaraj, Prema Shanmugasundaram, Sabarinathan Ramasamy, Joshua Chadwick, Sivavallinathan Arunachalam, Rahul Sharma, Vaibhav Shah, Aniket Chowdhury, Swati Iyer, Raghuram Rao, Sanjay K Mattoo, Manoj V Murhekar, NPY Evaluation Group

“…Background Ni-kshay Poshan Yojana (NPY), a direct benefit transfer scheme under the National Tuberculosis Elimination Program (NTEP) in India, provides a monthly benefit of INR500 for nutritional support of persons with TB (PwTB). …”
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Impulsive Control on Seasonally Perturbed General Holling Type Two-Prey One-Predator Model by Chandrima Banerjee, Pritha Das

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A Novel System and Iterative Schemes for Generalized Variational Inclusion Problems and its Approximation Solvability by Mohd Sarfaraz, Md. Kalimuddin Ahmad

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A characterization of $ b $-generalized skew derivations on a Lie ideal in a prime ring by Omaima Alshanqiti, Ashutosh Pandey, Mani Shankar Pandey

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A Cone Measure of Noncompactness and Some Generalizations of Darbo’s Theorem with Applications to Functional Integral Equations by Mohamed Jleli, Mohammad Mursaleen, Kishin Sadarangani, Bessem Samet

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On some integral inequalities of Grüss type involving the generalized fractional Saigo k-integral operator by Akhtar Abbas, Shahid Mubeen, Aziz Khan, Thabet Abdeljawad

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Analysis of Bianchi Type V Holographic Dark Energy Models in General Relativity and Lyra’s Geometry by Daba Meshesha Gusu, M. Vijaya Santhi

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Drug Use Evaluation of Beta-Blockers in Medical Wards of Nedjo General Hospital, Western Ethiopia by Ginenus Fekadu, Firomsa Bekele, Kumera Bekele, Sagni Hanbisa, Gemechis Belay, Mudasir Maqbool

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Potential Impacts of Future Climate Changes on Crop Productivity of Cereals and Legumes in Tamil Nadu, India: A Mid-Century Time Slice Approach by Vellingiri Geethalakshmi, Ramasamy Gowtham, Radhakrishnan Gopinath, Shanmugavel Priyanka, Marimuthu Rajavel, Kandasamy Senthilraja, Manickam Dhasarathan, Raj Rengalakshmi, Kulanthaivel Bhuvaneswari

“…The present study uses the midcentury climate derived from the ensemble of 29 general circulation models (GCMs) on a spatial grid to quantify the anticipated climate change impacts on rice, maize, black gram, and red gram productivity over Tamil Nadu state in India under RCP 4.5 and RCP 8.5 scenarios. …”
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A very low carbohydrate diet improved metabolic profile in congenital generalized lipodystrophy type 4 by Sayantan Chakraborty, Subhankar Roy, Debaditya Das, Sayantani Chatterjee, Pranab Kumar Sahana, Satinath Mukhopadhyay

“…She had severe acanthosis nigricans, generalized loss of subcutaneous fat and prominent veins over extremities. …”
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Estimation of Parameters of Generalized Inverted Exponential Distribution for Progressive Type-II Censored Sample with Binomial Removals by Sanjay Kumar Singh, Umesh Singh, Manoj Kumar

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Existence and Uniqueness of Generalized Solutions to a Telegraph Equation with an Integral Boundary Condition via Galerkin's Method by Assia Guezane-Lakoud, Jaydev Dabas, Dhirendra Bahuguna

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