A COLLEGE FOR BLIND GIRLS

Knowledge of college girls on child health.

In Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu State in India, 384 final-year female students attending the Government College for Women completed a questionnaire so the researcher could assess their knowledge of prenatal and childhood immunizations, breast feeding, weaning, oral rehydration solution (ORS), and feeding during diarrhea. 53.2% were from an urban area, 17.9% from a semi-urban area, and 28.9% from a r...

Adolescent Girls’ College Aspirations: Precollege Expectations and Goal Setting of Adolescent Women and Girls

In the 2007 and 2010 Status of Girls in Wisconsin reports, published by the Alverno College Research Center for Women and Girls, it was found that while girls aspire to go to college, there may be some threats to their ability to attain or complete those aspirations. This was true especially for those aspiring to nontraditional majors such as the sciences, engineering, or mathematics. This pape...

Assessment of Nutritional Status of Adolescent College Girls at Rawalpindi

Premenstrual syndrome: frequency and severity in young college girls.

OBJECTIVES To find out the frequency of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) in young college girls and to describe the severity of emotional, physical and behavioural symptoms. METHODS An observational study was conducted at the Khyber Medical College, Peshawar by convenient sampling on 384 young girls. Data was collected over two cycles by filling a 29 items shortened premenstrual assessment form ba...

A Blind Hammerstein Diversity Combining Technique for Flat Fading Channels

Diversity combining techniques play an important role in combating the destructive effects of channel fading in wireless communication systems. In this work we present a blind diversity combining technique for Rayleigh flat fading channels based on Hammerstein type filters. We show that the performance of this technique is very close to ideal MRC system which is accepted as an optimum receiver ...