INTRODUCTION Overall mortality rates are higher among cigarette smokers than non-smokers. However, very little is known about the health effects of other forms of tobacco use widely prevalent in India, such as bidi smoking and various forms of smokeless tobacco (e.g. chewing betel-quid). We therefore carried out a cohort study in the city of Mumbai, India, to estimate the relative risks for all...

The genotoxic potential of total particulate matter (TPM) from mainstream smoke (MS) and sidestream smoke (SS) of Indian smoking products, namely cigarettes and bidis, as well as a brand of US cigarettes, was studied by determining the levels of bulky aromatic DNA adducts in mouse tissues. TPM from MS or SS of various smoking products [equal weights (2.5 mg) or the amount derived from equal (0....

In this paper we present some exploratory studies of emotion words basedon large annotated corpora Portuguese. Those were automaticallyannotated with emotionality, and each word was assigned one or moregroups out 26 groups. Our goal is to evaluate those groups byapplying different statistical approaches our material, namely based on (a)co-occurrence in a sentence as sign closeness meaning, (b) ...

The purpose of this study was to obtain an overview character education management consisting planning, organizing, implementing, and supervising, as well evaluating programs in shaping school culture at SMAN 1 Banda Aceh. This research uses a qualitative approach with descriptive type research. Data collection techniques using observation, interviews, documentation. standard data validity refe...

Total harmonic distortion <span style="font-size: 9pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" lang="EN-US">(THD) is</span><span 10.0pt; Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: Roman'; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-language: mso-bidi-language: AR-SA;" lang="EN-US"> a key index used to measure the quality of output waveforms in multilevel inverters. In this paper </sp...

This study evaluates the influence of genetic polymorphism at GSTM1, GSTM3 and GSTT1 gene loci on oral cancer risk among Indians habituated to the use of, smokeless tobacco, bidi or cigarette. DNA extracted from white blood cells of 297 cancer patients and 450 healthy controls by the proteinase K phenol-chloroform extraction procedure were analyzed by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and PCR...