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Bram Stoker gave breath to Count Dracula in his Gothic, connecting historical correlation to his creative approach. An account of mystery and realism imbibed within an epistolary novel that dates back to a specific historical context of fifteenth-century Romania. This paper focuses on the revelation of facts and fiction regarding how a prince was souled in the soulless Count, and how Stoker sew traits in common with differences as a medium of suspense thriller, developing a diary of a moving historical figure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With 10 million deaths in 2020 cancer remains one of the most challenging diseases in contemporary medicine. Chemotherapy, surgery, and radiation therapy are commonly used to treat tumors. These treatments harm healthy tissues and succeed rarely in advance stages of cancer. Recent studies indicate that magnetic hyperthermia, which involves targeted delivery of magnetic nanoparticles to tumor cells followed by localized remote heating of cancer tissues could revolutionize clinical practice in the treatment of cancer, either as standalone intervention or adjunct to radiotherapy and chemotherapy. Water dispersible magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) of ferrites (AFe2O4; A = Fe, Mn, Co) are the promising candidates for magnetic hyperthermia due to their high chemical stability, biocompatibility, moderate magnetization and high specific absorption rates (SAR). In this article, we have evaluated magnetic hyperthermia efficiency of water based magnetic fluids of AFe2O4. AFe2O4 NPs were synthesized by chemical co-precipitation method. Nanoparticles were coated with a bilayer of oleic acid and dispersed in water. Structural and magnetic properties of MNPs were investigated by X-Ray diffraction (XRD) and vibrating sample magnetometer (VSM). XRD study revealed that AFe2O4 NPs exhibits cubic inverse spinel structure. Fe3O4 (Ms = 48 emu/g, Mr = 2.60 emu/g, Hc = 49 Oe), MnFe2O4 (Ms = 40 emu/g, Mr = 2.60 emu/g, Hc = 35 Oe) and CoFe2O4 (44 emu/g, Mr = 10.10 emu/g, Hc =440 Oe) NPs exhibits soft ferromagnetic behaviour. Magnetic hyperthermia measurements were performed as a function of magnetic field strength (2–10 mT), field frequency (162–935.6 kHz) for 10 minutes. MNPs exhibits highest SAR values for 10 mT field strength at 935.6 kHz. Amongst the tested MNPs, Fe3O4 possess the highest SAR value (27.35 W/g), followed by MnFe2O4 (1.91 W/g) and CoFe2O4 (0.94 W/g). Considering this, it is concluded that amongst the inverse spinel ferrites AFe2O4, Fe3O4 NPs and most suitable for magnetic hyperthermia applications. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The paper aims to do a comparative study of Premchand's Shtaranj Ke Khiladi and its cinematic adaptation by Satyajit Ray. It also exposes the dynamic relationship between literature and cinema, demonstrating that the two art expressions have convergences and divergences. The present story is also translated into several languages and adapted into different cultures with a little modification according to the demand/popularity and understanding of the directors and the audiences. There is always a remarkable creative touch-up given by the translator or the director to the original story in order to make it appear more rooted into the culture of the readership or viewers. Most of the times the settings, times, costumes, dialogues, etc. are completely reframed holding only a little resemblance to the original text and thus appear like faded traces of the original text. The paper is an attempt to trace the differences in story writing and script writing, plotting and acting, characters and actors, settings and locations, characterization and acting etc through Satyajit Ray's adaptation of Satranj ke Khiladi. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]