BACKGROUND Violence against women is now widely recognised as an important public health problem, owing to its health consequences. Violence against women among many Indian communities on a regularly basis goes unreported. The objective of this study is to report the prevalence and other related issues of various forms of domestic violence against women from the eastern zone of India. METHODS...

Relative to developed countries and some parts of the developing world, most notably sub-Saharan Africa, there are far fewer women than men in India and China. It has been argued that as many as a 100 million women could be missing. The possibility of gender bias at birth and the mistreatment of young girls are widely regarded as key explanations. We provide a decomposition of these missing wom...

A Brief Study on Different Intrusions and Machine Learning-based Anomaly Detection Methods in Wireless Sensor Networks J. Saranya Research Scholar Dept. of Computer Science, Avinashilingam Institute for Home Science and Higher Education for Women, Coimbatore, India Email: [email protected] Dr.G.Padmavathi Professor and Head Dept. of Computer Science, Avinashilingam Institute for Home S...

This article talks about four Indian women--Sonia Gandhi, Jayalitha, Mayawati, and Mamta Banerjee--in contrast with India's stereotypes in the political realm. India is a land of mind-boggling diversity. Yet stereotypes about India, which reduce the Indian reality to a unidimensional monolith, hold powerful sway. One such powerful stereotype is that Indian women are brutally oppressed, denie...

Womanly education ensures not only better development of civilization, but to teach after that generation too. Education is landmark of women empowerment since it facilitates them to responds to the challenges, to confront their customary appearance and revolutionize their living. Gender disparity in education sector is a dilemma for a nation like India, where women constituting more than 50% o...

Chlamydia trachomatis (hereafter CT) is Gram-negative, obligate intracellular pathogen. It causes the world's most common non-viral sexually transmitted disease. India is home to the world's greatest burden of infectious diseases, yet information on prevalence rates of CT is scarce. This article systematically reviews the literature for the prevalence rates and testing methods in India. A total...

OBJECTIVE There is currently little information on the acceptability of male circumcision in India. This study investigated the acceptability of male circumcision among Indian mothers with male children. DESIGN A cross-sectional survey was conducted among a convenience sample of 795 women attending a reproductive health clinic in Mysore, India, between January and April 2007. RESULTS Of the...

Krouse, RZ, Ransdell, LB, Lucas, SM, and Pritchard, ME. Motivation, goal orientation, coaching, and training habits of women ultrarunners. J Strength Cond Res 25(10): 2835– 2842, 2011—Ultrarunners participate in running events that exceed the 26.2-mile marathon distance (e.g., 50k, 50–100 miles). Very little research exists on ultrarunners, especially women. This study is a descriptive study de...