Dominance of chemical agriculture from last few decades has deteriorated the soil health and created problem of disposal of agricultural waste in rural areas. It is important to maintain environmental and agricultural sustainability without reducing productivity. Vermiculture technology has been considered as a sound and viable option to regenerate the soil health through recycling the agricult...

the present paper aims to study the iranian-made movie “aroos-e-atash” (the bride of fire), using semiotic methodology at the three following levels: description (social codes), representation (technical codes) and ideology (ideological codes). the process of interconnections and interactions between these three types of codes resulted in these findings: although the movie enjoys an emancipatio...

The sickle gene is widespread among many tribal population groups in India with prevalence of heterozygotes varying from 1-40 per cent. Co-inheritance of the sickle gene with β-thalassaemia, HbD Punjab and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency has also been reported. Most of the screening programmes in India now use high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) analysis although t...

This study is confined to Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh, covering tribal population in relation to their food security and healthcare. To conduct the study a sample size of 200 was taken, in which 100 of the respondents were working tribal people and rest 100 were non working people. These 200 people from each village were interviewed with the help of schedule and questionnaires developed for...

This paper reports the sexual risk behaviour among migrant tribal community living in an eastern Indian city. The age at marriage is very low in this community and 54% of women had first intercourse before the age of 15 years with the mean of 15.8 years and it is 19.5 years for men. Pre and extramarital relations, including multi-partnered sex is prevalent. Safe sexual practices are not reporte...

BACKGROUND Malaria infection accounts for over one million deaths worldwide annually. India has the highest number of malaria deaths outside Africa, with half among Indian tribal communities. Our study sought to identify barriers to malaria control within tribal populations in malaria-endemic Gadchiroli district, Maharashtra. METHODS AND FINDINGS This qualitative study was conducted via focus...

BACKGROUND Alcohol abuse and alcoholism are leading causes of death among Native Americans. Little is known about the impact of negative childhood exposures, including parental alcoholism, childhood maltreatment, and out-of-home placement, on risk of lifetime DSM-IV (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th edition) diagnosis of alcohol dependence in this population. METHODS...

BACKGROUND Urbanization is increasing around the world, and in India, this trend has translated into an increase in the size of slum dwellings whose environments are suspected of being associated with poor health outcomes, particularly those relating to women's nutritional status. With this study, we sought to determine the factors associated with Indian women's body mass index (BMI) in slum en...

Ecofeminism in India, if approached and analysed non-intersectionally, will negate the struggles of indigenous ecofeminists their encounters. Therefore, it is important to look deeply into ecofeminist initiatives country, especially by Dalit Adivasi women. The paper attempts engage with intersectional ecofeminism India focusing on textual pragmatic aspects movement through specific case studies...