patriarchy, it seems today, has always been an integral part of the indian society. a slight glance at the status of women in india today makes one think that women have always been considered inferior to men. history, however, says otherwise; women in india have historically had a greater role to play and have commanded far greater respect than they do today. it will therefore be justified to ...

metal contents viz., cu, ni, co, zn and cd in sediment cores recovered from the vembanad lake, the largest estuarine-lagoonal system on the west coast of india, were analysed to understand the pollution levels and the impact on the coastal environment. of the three cores studied, vc-10 shown enrichment in all metals compared to other cores, as it is located in the vicinity of industrial area. f...

objective: in dental and medical education, information and communication technology (ict) has been playing an important role and its use is rapidly increasing. in developing countries, however, information technology is still only available to a minority of health professionals. the present study aimed to assess the level of computer use among dental undergraduate students pursuing their caree...

background: prelacteal feeding is an underestimated problem in a developing country like india, where infant mortality rate is quite high. the present study tried to find out the factors determining prelacteal feeding in rural areas of north india. methods: a crosssectional study was conducted among recently delivered women of rural uttar pradesh, india. multistage random sampling was used for ...

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background: the guidelines for minimizing occupational health risk from exposure to highly infectious diseases is already established but little information exists on the compliance of these measures among paramedical workers in india. objective: to study the awareness of occupational safety measures such as universal precautions, biomedical waste handling, disposal and its compliance in their ...

BACKGROUND To explore the hypothesis that sight restoring cataract surgery provided to impoverished rural communities will improve not only visual acuity and vision-related quality of life (VRQoL) but also poverty and social status. METHODS Participants were recruited at outreach camps in Tamil Nadu, South India, and underwent free routine manual small incision cataract surgery (SICS) with in...

a r t i c l e i n f o India is a country where 300 million people still live without access to formal electricity, and where hundreds of millions more live with irregular supply through the existing grid network. This paper examines business innovation in the diffusion of off-grid solar technologies in India. An in-country survey of off-grid solar energy providers from across the nation was con...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are perceived as a catalyst for economic growth. Number of studies, carried out by worldand Europeanleading institutions such as Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) or European Commission, addresses this issue in their reports. (OECD, 2004), studies the influence and measures the impact of ICT on firms. The development o...

MING-JAE LO,1 MEI-MEI KAU,1 YEN-HAO CHEN,2 SHIOW-CHWEN TSAI,1 YU-CHUNG CHIAO,1 JIANN-JONG CHEN,1 CHARLIE LIAW,1 CHIEN-CHEN LU,1 BU-PIAN LEE,1 SI-CHIH CHEN,2 VICTOR S. FANG,3 LOW-TONE HO,3 AND PAULUS S. WANG1 1Department of Physiology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei 112; 2Department of Biology, Fu-Jen Catholic University, Taipei 242; and 3Department of Medical Research and Education, Vete...