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Aim The aim of this clinical trial rheumatoid arthritis–chronic periodontitis (RA-CP) is to assess the effect of non-surgical periodontal therapy in RA patients. Materials and Methods Sixty RA patients taking disease-modifying anti-rheumatoid drugs (DMARD) with CP were selected from the Institute of Rheumatology, Madras Medical College, randomised into the intervention group (IG) and control group (CG). IG received non-surgical periodontal therapy after the screening visit, but CG did not receive treatment until the 3 months study period. Periodontal parameters were recorded at baseline and after 3 months for both groups. Rheumatoid Disease activity (RD activity) was assessed using disease activity score (DAS28), inclusive of tender joints count (TJC), swollen joints count (SJC), visual analog scale (VAS), and erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) for both groups at baseline and after 3 months. Results At the end of 3 months, IG had significant reduction in RA parameters such as tender joints count (0.0005), swollen joints count (0.0005), ESR (0.003), VAS score (0.0005), and DAS28 values (0.0005) compared to CG. Periodontal parameters at the end of 3 months were also significantly reduced in IG than in CG. Conclusion Non-surgical periodontal therapy might have reduced the burden of systemic inflammatory markers, thus reducing severity of RA in IG. Reduction in tenderness and swelling of joints in the upper arm might have enabled the patients in IG to perform better oral hygiene maintenance procedures.

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Abstract Photocatalytic selective C(sp3)–H activation/cross-coupling reactions are appealing in organic synthesis. In this manuscript, we describe the development of photoexcited-state Pd-catalyzed dehydrogenative β-sulfonylation reactions using amines and aryl sulfonyl chlorides via intermolecular hydrogen atom transfer and C−S cross-coupling processes at room temperature. The transformation can be achieved by the direct generation of two distinct Pd-radical hybrid species and their capability to promote two different reactivities from Pd(0) and aryl sulfonyl chlorides, allowing for the efficient conversion of readily available amines into stable sulfonyl-substituted enamines at room temperature. The in-depth experimental, computational, and transient optical spectroscopic study and catalytic applications of a dehydrogenative functionalization event provide evidence for both static and dynamic quenching, as well as inner-sphere and outer-sphere mechanisms.

The performances of neural networks and two heuristics in solving the NP-hard car sequencing problem (CSP) were compared. Specifically, the steepest descent and simulated annealing algorithms were compared to the standard Hopfield-Tank neural network and a modified Hopfield neural network that employs an energy function based on valid subspaces theory. Being a combinatorial optimization problem modeled as a nonlinear integer programming problem, the CSP involves the 'sequencing of different car models along an assembly line.'

Subh, a new game on digraphs, is presented. In this game, the first player attempts to create a directed cycle which passes through all the nodes of a graph only once. The second player tries to prevent the first player from completing the cycle. The game can be modified with the first player aiming to prevent a cycle and the second player attempting to form a directed cycle. A winning strategy for the case where the first player's goal is to form the cycle and the number of nodes is from three to five is also presented and proven mathematically.