This paper describes the seasonal abundance of Culex quinquefasciatus in the rural and urban areas of the East and West Godavari districts (EGDT and WGDT) of Andhra Pradesh, India. The per man-hour density (PMHD) was collected from seven units in EGDT and two units in WGDT, which comprised rural and urban areas. The highest infection and infectivity rates were found in the rural areas of Rajahm...

OBJECTIVES Despite the growing importance of stroke in developing countries, little is known of stroke burden in survivors. The authors investigated the prevalence of self-reported stroke, stroke-related disability, dependence and care-giver strain in Latin America (LA), China and India. METHODS Cross-sectional surveys were conducted on individuals aged 65+ (n=15 022) living in specified catc...

India is often characterized as an emerging economic super power. The huge demographic dividend, the high quality engineering and management talent, the powerful Indian diaspora and the emerging Indian transnational--kneeling the optimism. In contrast, there is another profile of India which is rather gloomy. This is the country with the largest number of the poor, illiterates and unemployed in...

In this paper, we present a framework for a multimodal interactive rural kiosk for spreading awareness about diabetes and monitoring of blood glucose level, thus aiding its diagnosis in rural India. There were an estimated 40 million persons with diabetes in India in 2007 and this number is predicted to rise to almost 70 million people by 2025. In the last 15 years the prevalence of Diabetes in...

Introduction:India ranks 4th in the elderly population. Ageing play an important role in the well being and associated factors. The present study was conducted to understand the feeling of the elderly residing in urban and rural areas of Shivamogga, Karnataka southern India.  Methods: The study was conducted on 200 elderly by a questionnaire on their socio- demographic profile, health, residin...

This paper examines the deployment of Solar Home System (SHS) solutions as a means to address rural electrification in India. This is explored through analysis of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar, states where less than 40% of households use electricity as their primary lighting source. Government solutions have been inconsistent in addressing the issue with most research and comparable case studies ide...

Introduction: As carcinoma cervix mostly occurs after the age of 50 in women, it is mandatory to cytologically examine all the postmenopausal women above 45 to detect the onset of any premalignant changes in the cervix. The present study was conducted on 537 postmenopausal women living in rural areas and the collected data were analyzed in terms of predisposing factors of cervical carcinogenesi...

Introduction: As carcinoma cervix mostly occurs after the age of 50 in women, it is mandatory to cytologically examine all the postmenopausal women above 45 to detect the onset of any premalignant changes in the cervix. The present study was conducted on 537 postmenopausal women living in rural areas and the collected data were analyzed in terms of predisposing factors of cervical carcinogenesi...

Y. Kosuga, P. H. Diamond, and Ö. D. Gürcan Department of Physics and Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92093, USA WCI Center for Fusion Theory, National Fusion Research Institute, Gwahangno 113, Yusung-gu, Daejeon 305-333, Republic of Korea Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS, 91128 Palaiseau Cedex,...

P.W. Xi, X. Q. Xu, and P. H. Diamond FSC and State Key Lab of Nuclear Physics and Technology, Department of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People’s Republic of China Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550, USA WCI Center for Fusion Theory, National Fusion Research Institute, Daejon 100871, Republic of Korea CASS and Department of Physics, University of ...