conclusions the hindi version of the abc scale demonstrated acceptable measurement properties, showing that abc-h can be used for assessing balance confidence in hindi-speaking, community-dwelling indian older adults. it can be an assessment tool either for clinical management or research. results the normative value of abc-h total score observed in the indian older population (n = 100) was 71%...

heat stress is a significant occupational health and safety for workers in petrochemical industries. heat stress is a combination of heat load individual and environmental factors impose on workers’ bodies, which in turn, have impacts on workers’ performance, safety, and health. the present paper is carried out to determine the heat stress levels in workplace and to compare it with allowed wet ...

the employment is a requisite if one wants to have a normal life, decent meals and a place to stay; it socializes the people and gives them some survival and esteem feeling in the society. besides that employment boosts personal well fear, morale integrity and self confidence. in india economy is diverse where employees are employed in agriculture, handicraft, a wide range of modern industries,...

Recognition of Indian languages is a challenging problem. In Optical Character Recognition (OCR), acharacter or symbol to be recognized can be machine printed or handwritten characters/numerals. Several approaches in the past have been proposed that deal with problem of recognition of numerals/character depending on the type of feature extracted and way of extracting them. In this paper also a ...

Levels of asbestos fibers in air at work zone in asbestos-cement (AC) sheets manufacturing factory, M/s Sturdy Industries Ltd, Patiala, Punjab have been studied. Air samples were collected from fiber godown, ingredients mixing, AC sheet manufacturing and the main gate. Phase contrast and polarized microscopic observations on asbestos fibers collected on membrane filters suggests that they are c...

The most spectacular example of a plate convergence event on Earth is the motion of the Indian plate towards Eurasia at speeds in excess of 18 cmyr−1 (ref. 1), and the subsequent collision. Continental buoyancy usually stalls subduction shortly after collision, as is seen in most sections of the Alpine–Himalayan chain. However, in the Indian section of this chain, plate velocities were merely r...