B. Kumar

Publication List Details

Period

1975 - 2009

Number

218

Co-Authors

Ferroelectric Thin-Film Capacitors and Piezoelectric Switches for Mobile Communication Applications (2009)

Klee, M., Van Esch, H., Keur, W., Kumar, B., Liu, J., ...

Thin-film ferroelectric capacitors have been integrated with resistors and active functions such as ESD protection into small, miniaturized modules, which enable a board space saving of up to 80%....

Congenital urethral hypoplasia with urethral fistula without imperforate anus: Report of two cases (2008)

Kumar, B, Sharma, SB, Agrawal, LD

Two male children with ano/recto-urethral fistula without anorectal malformation were managed in our institute. These patients had variable clinical manifestations and associated anomalies including...

CCD photometric and mass function study of 9 young Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters (2008)

Kumar, B., Sagar, R., Melnick, J.

We present CCD photometric and mass function study of 9 young Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters namely NGC 1767, NGC 1994, NGC 2002, NGC 2003, NGC 2006, SL 538, NGC 2011, NGC 2098 and NGC 2136....

Would healing response is a major contributor to the severity of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the ear model of infection (2007)

Baldwin, T, Sakthianandeswaren, A, Curtis, JM, Kumar, B, Smyth, GK, Foote, SJ, ...

In the conventional mouse model for cutaneous leishmaniasis involving infection with stationary phase Leishmania major promastigotes at the base of the tail, mice congenic for leishmaniasis...

Wound healing response is a major contributor to the severity of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the ear model of infection (2007)

Baldwin, T, Sakthianandeswaren, A, Curtis, JM, Kumar, B, Smyth, GK, Foote, SJ, ...

In the conventional mouse model for cutaneous leishmaniasis involving infection with stationary phase Leishmania major promastigotes at the base of the tail, mice congenic for leishmaniasis...

Wound healing response is a major contributor to the severity of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the ear model of infection (2007)

Baldwin, T, Sakthianandeswaren, A, Curtis, JM, Kumar, B, Smyth, GK, Foote, SJ, ...

In the conventional mouse model for cutaneous leishmaniasis involving infection with stationary phase Leishmania major promastigotes at the base of the tail, mice congenic for leishmaniasis...

Would healing response is a major contributor to the severity of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the ear model of infection (2007)

Baldwin, T, Sakthianandeswaren, A, Curtis, JM, Kumar, B, Smyth, GK, Foote, SJ, ...

In the conventional mouse model for cutaneous leishmaniasis involving infection with stationary phase Leishmania major promastigotes at the base of the tail, mice congenic for leishmaniasis...

Application of Dielectric, Ferroelectric and Piezoelectric Thin Film Devices in Mobile Communication and Medical Systems (2007)

Klee, M., Beelen, D., Keurl, W., Kiewitt, R., Kumar, B., Mauczok, R., ...

Dielectric, ferroelectric and piezoelectric thin films are getting more and more attention for next generation mobile communication and medical systems. Thin film technologies based on dielectric,...

Would healing response is a major contributor to the severity of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the ear model of infection (2007)

Baldwin, T, Sakthianandeswaren, A, Curtis, JM, Kumar, B, Smyth, GK, Foote, SJ, ...

In the conventional mouse model for cutaneous leishmaniasis involving infection with stationary phase Leishmania major promastigotes at the base of the tail, mice congenic for leishmaniasis...

Wound healing response is a major contributor to the severity of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the ear model of infection (2007)

Baldwin, T, Sakthianandeswaren, A, Curtis, JM, Kumar, B, Smyth, GK, Foote, SJ, ...

In the conventional mouse model for cutaneous leishmaniasis involving infection with stationary phase Leishmania major promastigotes at the base of the tail, mice congenic for leishmaniasis...

Rectangular tank surface aerators: scale up criteria and energy conservation (2006)

A. R. Rao, B. Kumar

Surface aeration experiments were conducted in two types of rectangular tanks of aspect ratios i.e., length to width ratio (L/W) of 1.5 and 2 and developed simulation equations to correlate the...

• Aspects of registration (2006)

A. L. Drozd, A. C. Blackburn, P. K. Varshney, M. Xu, B. Kumar

A preprocessing and automated algorithm selection system for image registration

Caspase 1 and caspase 8 in HIV infected patients with and without tuberculosis (2004)

Wanchu, A., Bhatnagar, A., Kumar, B., Bambery, P., Singh, S.

BACKGROUND: Caspase 8 is involved in apoptosis mediated by Fas and p55 tumor necrosis factor receptor ligation in HIV infection. Apoptosis is partially mediated by interleukin-1beta-converting enzyme...

The X-ray characterization of Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8+x single crystals grown by different methods (2003)

Bdikin, I. K., Maljuk, A. N., Kulakov, A. B., Lin, C. T., Kumar, P., Kumar, B., ...

We report on results of systematic X-ray investigations of the Bi2Sr2CaCU2O8+x (2212) single crystals grown by slow cooling, top seeded solution growth and travelling solvent floating zone (TSFZ)...

On the Rapid Variations of Solar Magnetic Fields (2003)

Venkatakrishnan, P, Kumar, B, Ravindra, B

We report on the rapid variations of solar magnetic fields that appear to be enhanced significantly above the background variability, at a few locations within the solar active regions, as observed...

Effect of extended perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis on intravascular catheter colonization and infection in cardiothoracic surgery patients (2003)

Sandoe, J. A. T., Kumar, B., Stoddart, B., Milton, R., Dave, J., Nair, U. R., ...

Intravascular catheter-related infections (CRI) account for one third of nosocomial bloodstream infections in England. UK Department of Health guidelines state that antibiotic prophylaxis is not...

Effect of extended perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis on intravascular catheter colonization and infection in cardiothoracic surgery patients (2003)

Sandoe, J. A. T., Kumar, B., Stoddart, B., Milton, R., Dave, J., Nair, U. R., ...

Intravascular catheter-related infections (CRI) account for one third of nosocomial bloodstream infections in England. UK Department of Health guidelines state that antibiotic prophylaxis is not...

On mass and velocity distributions in members of star clusters: An analytical approach (2002)

Chatterjee, S, Kumar, B, Sagar, R

Dynamical evolution of stellar mass distribution in star clusters is analysed by considering simultaneously the effects of dynamical friction, stochastic heating and the gravitational potential due...

Spectrophotometry of the comets C /2000 WM 1(LINEAR) and C /2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang) (2002)

Sanwal, B. B, Kumar, B, Singh, M

Spectrophotometric observations of the coma of the comets Cj2000 WM1 (LINEAR) and Cj2002 C1 (Ikeya-Zhang) were taken during Nov, Dec 2001 and Mar, Apr 2002 respectively with 104-cm telescope of the...

Aerosol contents at an altitude of ~2 km in central Himalayas (2002)

Sagar, Ram, Kumar, B., Pant, P., Dumka, U. C., Moorthy, K. K., Sridharan, R.

Aerosols, both natural and anthropogenic, play an important role in the atmospheric science, by imparting radiative forcing and perturbing the radiative balance of the Earth atmosphere system as well...

Seeing and microthermal measurements near Devasthal top (2001)

Stalin, C. S, Sagar, R, Pant, P, Mohan, V, Kumar, B, Joshi, Y. C, ...

Results of the seeing measurements carried out near Devasthal top on 43 nights during March to April 1999 are presented. Open air seeing measurements were carried out with a differential image motion...

Solar rotation rate from minimum to maximum of activity cycle (2001)

Jain, K, Tripathy, S. C, Bhatnagar, A, Kumar, B

Using helioseismic data from SOI/MDI and GONG for the current solar cycle 23, from solar minimum to near maximum phase, we report here on the temporal variation of the rotation rate.

Isotopic studies of beach rock carbonates from Konkan, central west coast of India (2001)

Kumar, B., Rajamanickam, G.V., Gujar, A.R.

The beach rock carbonates from the 200 km long stretch from Guhagar in the north to Deogad in the south along the Konkan coast (Maharashtra, India) are studied for sup(14)C dating and sup(13)C :...

A relation between frequency shift and the changes in activity indices (2000)

Jain, K, Tripathy, S. C, Kumar, B, Bhatnagar, A

We present a linear relation between the shift in p-mode frequencies and variation in two solar activity indices, namely the sunspot number and 10.7 cm radio flux. From this relation, an empirical...

On the power and frequency of p-modes in sunspots (2000)

Kumar, B, Tripathy, S. C, Jain, R, Deshpande, M. R

A time series of GONG Dopplergrams has been used to measure the velocity fluctuations in the sunspot and quiet photosphere simultaneously. The power spectrum analysis shows that the power of the...

Site characterization for the UPSO-TIFR telescope (2000)

Sagar, R, Uddin, W, Pandey, A. K, Stalin, C. S, Mohan, V, Sanwal, B. B, ...

The Uttar Pradesh State Observatory, Naini Tal and Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai plan to install jointly a 3 metre size optical telescope at Devasthal located east of Naini Tal about...

Sky transparency over Naini Tal : A retrospective study (2000)

Kumar, B, Sagar, R, Rautela, B. S, Srivastava, J. B, Srivastava, R. K

We present an analysis of the atmospheric extinction coefficients measured during 1964 to 1999 in broad-band photometric passbands at U.P. State Observatory, Naini Tal. The extinction properties are...

Is fetal gender significant in the perinatal outcome of pregnancies complicated by placental abruption? (1999)

Nwosh, E. C., Kumar, B., El Sayed, M., Hollis, S.

Seventy cases of placental abruption were studied. These occurred in 12,800 deliveries, an incidence of 4.8 per 1000. There were more female infants (34-56%) compared with males (27-44%). Sixteen...

An Asymptotically Optimal Minimum Degree Ordering of Regular Grids (1995)

Kumar Sadayappan, B. Kumar

It has previously been shown that there exists a minimum degree ordering for regular grids that is considerably worse than nested dissection in terms of fill-in and operations for factorization [1]....

On Sparse Matrix Reordering for Parallel Factorization (1994)

B. Kumar

To minimize the amount of computation and storage for parallel sparse factorization, sparse matrices have to be reordered prior to factorization. We show that none of the popular ordering heuristics...

A Tensor Product Formulation of Strassen's Matrix Multiplication Algorithm (1990)

B. Kumar, C. Huang, P. Sadayappan, R. W. Johnson

In this paper, we present a program generation strategy of Strassen's matrix multiplication algorithm using a programming methodology based on tensor product formulas. In this methodology, block...

EMERGENCY INTUBATION OF THE TRACHEA FACILITATED BY SUXAMETHONIUM: Observations in Obstetric and General Surgical Patients (1986)

CARNIE, J. C., STREET, M. K., KUMAR, B.

The relationship between the time of onset of neuromuscular blockade and the time at which laryngoscopy was attempted was studied in patients presenting for emergency obstetric or emergency general...

AN ANALYSIS OF THIRTY YEARS OF CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE BRITISH ANAESTHETIC LITERATURE (1953-1982) (1984)

CARNIE, J., KUMAR, B.

A thirty-year review of the two major British anaesthetic journals,Anaethesia and theBritish Journal of Anaesthesia, was undertaken. Overseas contributors accounted for 30% of the total...

Evaluation of PCR for Diagnosis of Indian Kala-Azar and Assessment of Cure

Maurya, R., Singh, R. K., Kumar, B., Salotra, P., Rai, M., Sundar, S.

This study was done to evaluate PCR with Ld1 primers for the diagnosis of Indian visceral leishmaniasis (VL) and to assess its role in prediction of the disease outcome. The PCR assay was performed...

Potential role of B7-1 and CD28 molecules in immunosuppression in leprosy

Agrewala, J N, Kumar, B, Vohra, H

In order to understand the mechanism of unresponsiveness towards Mycobacterium leprae antigens in leprosy, we evaluated the role of M. leprae sonicate antigens in regulating the expression of the...

Condylomata lata of the eyelids.

Sharma, V K, Chander, R, Kumar, B, Radotra, B D

A patient with secondary syphilis and extensive condylomata lata on the face, neck, axillae, groins, and genitalia is described. His facial condylomata lata affected the eyelids, medial canthus,...

Bilateral sabre-like tibial deformity in secondary syphilis: case report.

Kumar, B, Gupta, R, Sharma, S C, Khandelwal, N

A girl aged 12 years having early acquired syphilis with a rare bilateral sabre-like tibial deformity is reported.

Sulphaphenazole, streptomycin and sulphaphenazole combination, trimethoprim, and erythromycin in the treatment of chancroid.

Kumar, B, Sharma, V K, Bakaya, V

One hundred and thirty six patients with chancroid were treated with four different treatment regimens; (A) Sulphaphenazole 1 g 12 hourly by mouth x 10 days (B) Inj streptomycin 1 g intramuscularly...

Isolation of anaerobes from bubo associated with chancroid.

Kumar, B, Sharma, V K, Bakaya, V, Ayyagiri, A

Ten men with bubo associated with chancroid were studied for bacterial flora especially anaerobes. Anaerobes were isolated from all 10 buboes and eight out of 10 ulcers of chancroid. Anaerobic cocci,...

Correlation of HPV antigen and type of genital warts with atypia.

Kumar, B, Gupta, R, Sehgal, S

Five clinical types of genital warts were identified, studied histopathologically and stained for human papilloma virus (HPV) antigen. HPV antigen was found in all degrees of koilocytosis and it was...

Plasma cell balanitis: clinical and histopathological features--response to circumcision.

Kumar, B, Sharma, R, Rajagopalan, M, Radotra, B D

OBJECTIVE--To evaluate the clinicopathological features and response to circumcision in patients with plasma cell balanitis. SUBJECTS AND METHOD--32 uncircumcised men with penile lesions typical of...

Dorsal perforation of prepuce: a common end point of severe ulcerative genital diseases?

Gupta, S., Kumar, B.

Severe ulcerative genital diseases can cause destruction of the prepuce, glans, or sometimes of the whole penis (phagedena). We observed a characteristic pattern of partial destruction of the prepuce...

Multiple, genital lobular capillary haemangioma (pyogenic granuloma) in a young woman: a diagnostic puzzle

Gupta, S., Radotra, B. D., Kumar, B.

A 21 year old woman presented with multiple lobulated lesions on the labia majora. The surface of most of the lesions was ulcerated revealing a glistening surface. All lesions were excised. The...

Iatrogenic swollen penis

Ajith, C, Somesh, G, Kumar, B

We report what we think is the first case of localised angioedema of the glans penis as a result of contact allergy to prilocaine in EMLAP cream. We also propose a new term, contact angioedema for...

Acanthosis nigricans: relation with type 2 diabetes mellitus, anthropometric variables, and body mass in Indians

Grandhe, N, Bhansali, A, Dogra, S, Kumar, B

Objective: To determine the prevalence of acanthosis nigricans (AN) in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and its correlation with various anthropometric measurements in Indians.

Renal lesions in leprosy amongst north Indian patients.

Chugh, K. S., Damle, P. B., Kaur, S., Sharma, B. K., Kumar, B., Sakhuja, V., ...

Sixty consecutive patients with leprosy were investigated for renal involvement. Clinically overt renal disease was present in 4 patients; 3 presented with a nephrotic state and one patient with...

Mondor's disease of penis: a forgotten disease

Kumar, B, Narang, T, Radotra, B, Gupta, S

Background: Mondor's disease of penis is an uncommon genital condition involving the penile sulcus in a circumferential manner. Although this disorder is almost always self limited, it is associated...

Energy losses at pipe trifurcations

Rao, AR, Kumar, B

In the case of pipe trifurcation, previous observations report negative energy losses in the centre branch. This causes an anomaly, because there should not be any negative energy loss due to...