Kumar, Manoj
Punjamgod, Dhanya
Udupa, Srivatsa
Ramesha, Nikhil Kumar
Thorat, Sachin Ashok
Kaniyassery, Arya
Rai, Padmalatha S.
Arunkumar, Kulanthaiyasu
Muthusamy, Annamalai https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4197-1711
Funding for this research was provided by:
ANRF-SERB (CRG/2022/003498)
Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal
Article History
Received: 26 December 2025
Accepted: 11 July 2026
First Online: 23 July 2026
Declarations
Conflicts of interest: The authors declare that they have no known conflicts of interests.
Declaration of generative AI and AI-assisted technologies in the writing process: The authors used Grammarly and Paperpal only for spell-checking, grammatical editing, and improving language and readability.