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Some Glaring Facts about the Status of Female Reproductive Health. Every minute, a woman somewhere dies in pregnancy or childbirth. This adds up to 1400 women dying each day- an estimated 529,000 each year- from pregnancy-related causes. For each woman who dies, about 20 women survive, but suffer from serious disease, disability or physical damage caused by complications of pregnancy or childbirth. A million or more children are left motherless each year as a result of maternal mortality. These children are 3 to 10 times more likely to die within two years than children who live with both parents. Almost half- about 3.4 million out of 8 million- of infant deaths per year result from poor maternal health and inadequate delivery care. While many other health indicators have improved over the last two decades, maternal mortality rates have shown little improvement.

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"Violence" is not a new phenomenon especially in the present times. We all have experienced some kind of violence in our lives. But have we tried to analyse the relationship between the acts of violence and diverse structures of the society? The concept of “Structural Violence” offers a useful framework to understand this linkage. In a layman’s terminology structural violence is shaped by the different institutions of the society. It affects all sections of the society but predominantly the poor people are its victim. The present paper attempts to offer a comprehensive understanding of the term by analyzing three different case studies, hereby offering a conclusion that an act of violence that an individual undergoes should be situated within the larger social matrix.

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National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers (NABH) was launched with the objective of enhancing health system & promoting continuous quality. The objective of the study is to identify the quality of services provided by the hospitals. Pratapgarh District was selected purposely. The sample size was 210 respondents from IPD & OPD, for the study population (CHC Lalganj) and control population (CHC Sanghipur) respectively. The data was collected by face to face interview using pre- tested structured schedule. Respondents having awareness regarding the services provided was 95.72% & 88.58% in the study and control population respectively. The study reveals that in the control population 47.15% do not know regarding the services displayed. In the control population 77.50% of the respondents stated that the laboratory service provided by the hospital were not adequate. The study reveals that 86.42% & 64.28% of the respondents in the study population & control population availed the medicines from the hospital respectively. The services provided regarding awareness was highest among study and control population. In the control population most of the respondents was not aware about the displayed services within the hospital. It is suggested that the services displayed should be pictorial and in regional language.

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With the advancement of technology and a tremendous boost in the Indian economy in the past few decades, the urbanization in the country has taken a pace never seen before in the history attracting even more population from the rural areas and burdening the urban services further more. The inherent weaknesses and shortcomings in the urban infrastructure management of our cities in a developing country like India are clearly reflected in the inaccessibility of a major portion of the population to these services. This paper presents the assessment of the urban infrastructure services in the city of Jaipur, popularly known as Pink City, to understand the picture of the infrastructure provisions in the Indian metropolitan cities through a primary survey. The survey is conducted with the help of questionnaires and structured interviews and is limited to only residential sector. There is an effort for the analysis of the quality of various services in the city from the people’s perspective instead of the government agencies.

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Meena Alexander, an internationally acclaimed poet, scholar and writer, describes herself as a “South-Indian woman-poet” who writes in English, a post colonial language (The Shock of Arrival, 127). As a Third- World-woman-poet, she is an exemplary of a number of South Asian American women writers who thematizes her own multi-lingualism and multi migrations. Born as Mary Elizabeth (a combination of her grandmothers’ name) on 17th Feb 1957 to George and Mary Alexander. Representing her multi-lingualism not only in her works but even in her suggests it – Meena. She has been called ‘Meena’ since her birth and officially changed her name to Meena not only to get rid of the colonial burden which her original name suggests but also to show her truer self.

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Uttarakhand the hill state in the Himalayan range is so far the worst hit by the extreme rains that struck northern India on June 16-17 this year. Heavy rainfall has wreaked havoc on the region because of the fragile nature of the Himalayan range and poor soil stability in its steep slopes. But it is human-induced factors that have compounded the scale of the disaster. The indiscriminate cutting of mountain slopes for construction of buildings had resulted in filling of the flood plains. Unabated expansion of hydro-power projects and construction of roads to accommodate ever-increasing tourism, especially religious tourism, are major causes for the unprecedented scale of devastation. Every year, Uttarakhand’s Garhwal region receives pilgrims in thousands for Chhota Char Dham Yatra—Gangotri, Yamunotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath. It also receives heavy rains and suffers floods. But the loss the region has suffered this time is horrifying. Even though it cannot be said that this particular Himalayan Tsunami is caused by climate change, the link to this event and the growing trend of intense and extreme rain events is clear and undisputable. Climate change is caused by fossil fuel use and emissions, needed for economic growth. So, this disaster is natural but damage is man-made.

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In developing countries like India adolescents constitutes about one fifth of the population. Almost estimated 1.2 billion young people aged between 10-19 years found in the world. Therefore it can be considered one huge segment of the total population. This segment includes lack of awareness and knowledge about personal hygiene and health problems related to adolescents .Objectives of the study were to ascertain the level of knowledge of respondents about personal hygiene, to identify the practices of personal hygiene among adolescents of rural & urban, to identify the gap between knowledge & practices of personal hygiene and to suggest a suitable educational strategy for minimizing the gap existing between knowledge and practice of personal hygiene.

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Literature is the most explicit record of human spirit. Through it, the essence of our living is made paramount by attaching to an imaginative experience. It is a ever changing process and this change is because of the change that takes place in our lives as well as get reflected in literature,. With the advent of Western education, freedom struggle, changes in economic conditions etc. act as a powerful levers to bring woman out of the cocoon of pride-in-sufferings to look herself as an individual. In the novels of Bhabani Bhattacharya, he has talked about this journey of women from self-denial to self-affirmation through the stages of tradition, transition and modernity. He has provided women with a bent opened to come out from the cocoon to the limelight. Bhattacharya provides a bent of window opened to look at the inner self of the woman and to help them to come out from their cocoon into the limelight. When one peeps into the gallery of Bhattacharya’s portrait of women to find a wide range of women from conventional to contemporary one- all of which are quite convincingly set in the local backdrop. The idea and role of woman described gives us an insight into the cultural values, changes and the concepts of traditional Indian society in general. They also stand, raise their voices and protest against the exploitation and oppression in a male dominated society.

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This paper is focused on the review of the scientific literature and succinctly recent progress related to the forensic examination of phenolphthalein in trap cases. Paper summarizes the current state of knowledge of the forensic examination of phenolphthalein. Attempt have been made to collect the suggested methods of forensic analysis of colored and faded/decolorized phenolphthalein solution (hand wash in trap cases). Mechanism of Colour change of the phenolphthalein and its break down products is also highlighted. This paper may create an understanding and can produce a coherent argument on this topic.

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Enhanced communication skills in English can result to not only an improved social life, but also better job opportunities in the future. From job interviews to the actual professional world, communication skills are very crucial, and being proficient in English means being able to communicate clearly and effectively. In job interviews, most interviewers conduct interviews in English. Interviewers quickly make judgments and give great importance to first impressions. Poor skills in the language can mean smaller chances of landing a job. On the other hand, being proficient in the language can help one leave a good first impression which means higher chances of getting the position one is applying for. English is the most commonly used language in the business world. Most job interviews are done in English. Most business contracts are written in English. Handling international business deals require effective skills in English. English is the preferred business language because it is an exact language. It allows a person to say what he or she wants to say without having to argue about the meaning. However, using incorrect tenses, prepositions, and the like will make one’s statement less accurate. So in order to have an increased competence in the professional world, one should have a very good grasp of the English language.

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Tuesday: Kneecap replacement, Sunday onwards: Recovery on Kovalam Beach, India or may be in Khajuraho, Madhya Pradesh. Surgery and leisure, a dream? Not any more. The purpose of this research will be to identify the scope of Indian medical tourism market, characteristics that affect the development of the niche market and seek to identify any significant similar patterns in Madhya Pradesh. This study also aims to provide a market overview of medical tourism for new entrepreneurs seeking investment opportunities in this sector in Madhya Pradesh. Primary data has been collected through interview with the hospital head Dr. Rajiv Choudhary, Padhar Hospital and Dr. Sabyasachi Gupta Citi Hospital Bhopal.

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Strategic thinkers claim that every organisation today must thrive on the cutting edge of global competition if it has to survive. Indeed one must run faster even to retain the same competitive spot. Hence excellence is no longer a luxury but a necessity. However, business history vouchsafes that when excellence has been approximated competition is rendered irrelevant. Business Ethics provides the bedrock of strategy. Corporate governance policies and practices help corporations to move towards the threshold of excellence. For this the corporate entity needs a system of corporate governance that is based on ethics and leads to excellence. A systematic approach for the development of Corporate Governance support systems is therefore essential for an effective design and implementation of management strategies, which would induce strategic leverage. Excellence an sich (of itself) and fur sich (for itself) remains a pipe ream unless it is converted into business sustainability. And sustainability requires acceptance by the stakeholders. This paper proposes the use of the Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) as a tool for understanding the process of CSR. In using soft systems methodology this paper lays the basis of a new paradigm.

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The aim of this study was to find out the differences, if any, in the study involvement between girls and boys and commerce and science students and to determine the interaction effects of gender and stream of study on the study involvement of the students. 136 Higher Secondary students of two Colleges of Lakhimpur district of Assam constituted the sample of the study. The Study Involvement Inventory by Dr. Asha Bhatnagar was used to measure study involvement of the students. Results were computed with the help of Mean, Standard Deviation, t-test and Two-way ANOVA.

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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease with 1% of world’s population suffering from it Cheekatla et al. (2011). It cannot be cured alone by the allopathic medicine. Therefore present study was undertaken to mark the efficacy of Naturopathy and Yoga in better management of RA. Total of 134 patients were distributed in three groups, group I- naturopathy and yoga plus Allopathic medications, group II – yoga plus Allopathic medication and group III Only Allopathic medicines. On comparison of all the three Groups, at baseline patients non-significant results for the parameters. However, after 1st, 3rd, 6th and 12th months treatment, patients showed significant difference with decrease in parameters like morning stiffness (p<0.01), tenderness (p<0.01), fatigue (p<0.01), visual analog scale (VAS) (p<0.01) and increase in sleep (p<0.01). A significant increase was seen in functional capacity by Health Assessment Questionnaire (HAQ)(p<0.01).

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Over the one last decade or so, the natural disasters and extreme weather events have claimed human lives and damaged properties across the globe like never before. The news reports of natural catastrophes in one part of the world or other reached us through print, electronic or web media as frequently as if they were common reports on routine sports, crime, business or political developments. If we take a look of such calamities and extreme weather events occurring from 2012 to 2013, we will find a long list including – monsoon flooding in North Korea uprooting more than 2 lakh people in July, 2012, more than 5,30,000 being displaced in Nigeria due to unprecedented flooding of the Niger River, superstorm Sandy displacing 7,76,000 people in USA in October 2012 and many others. India too witnessed one of the biggest catastrophes in the country in the form of Uttarakhand flash flood in July this year which claimed thousands of lives and more than 15000 were reported to be stranded.

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Incident investigations are increasingly getting embedded in the safety management systems. Incidents are caused by a complex mix of human error and systemic failures. The idea to carryout incident investigations is to bring about a clear picture of the adverse effects of the incidents and what should be done as an immediate remedial measure, Plan and implement appropriate corrective and preventive actions, verification of the effectiveness of the corrective and preventive actions in order to minimize / eliminate occurrences of similar incidents in future.

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This document will help to set the context of the skill development landscape in India, the current initiatives underway, challenges faced in skilling at a macro level as well as during implementation, and the way ahead. We hope that this document will help raise more questions and thoughts that will channelize deliberations during the times to come.

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MANETS an acronym for Mobile AD Hoc Network is one of the most recent emerging trends in research areas of computer science. Mobile refers to movement, AD Hoc means temporary and Network meaning collection of nodes interconnected with each other. MANETS are self-organized, have dynamic topology, lack centralized administration, havelimited energy and constrained bandwidth.Due to such features these nodes are highly vulnerable to attacks. Real life applications of MANET are in military operations, disaster relief operations, enterprise.Hence, a higher level of security is needed.To achieve security, Intrusion detection system came into picture.In this paper an attempt has been made to compare traditional intrusion detection techniques with modern approaches used for intrusion detection.

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The Indian education sector has been recognized as a “Sunrise Sector” for investment in the recent past. This recognition stems from the fact that the sector offers a huge untapped market in regulated and non-regulated segments due to low literacy rate, high concentration in urban areas and growing per capita income. The Government has also been proactively playing the role of facilitator in this sector.

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"Potential" broadly insinuates something promising but not yet (fully) exploited; it symbolizes the sum total of qualitative and quantitative values of the given resources on which the degree and extent of its exploitability depends (Kandari, 1984). In the context of tourism, assessing the resource potential in quantitative terms is highly complex process, if not impossible, as it involves the physical, psychological and spiritual demands on the people belonging to diverse geographical, socio-cultural and economic backgrounds who travel under different motives, interests, preferences and immediate needs.

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Indian economy is predominantly rural with a contribution of about 29 percent to India’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The companies find a huge potential and look forward to tap the rural market effectively by segmenting the market on the basis of demographic characteristics.

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Education is the backbone of every society to sustain economic growth. A good higher education system is essential for national, social and economic development of India that with a 2.2 billion strong population is fast emerging as a global force to reckon with. There is a need of value based higher education system which empowers youth for self–sustainability by inculcating employment skills and hence reducing poverty. Since independence, we are facing challenges to establish a great and strong system. Enough has been done but a lot more remains. Various governments came and gone. They tried to establish new education policies in the system but ended up making cosmetic changes only. Consequently even after 65 years of independence we are facing lots of problems in our education system. The overall scenario of higher education in India does not match with the global quality standards. The present system of higher education does not serve the purpose for which it has been started. There is an absence of a well-informed reform agenda for higher education in the country. Time has now come to walk the talk. or else India"s youth will be left behind in the global race . Considering the weakness in the prevailing regulatory and quality assurance environment, the amount of scams that are being highlighted in the press, the paper attempts to provide a roadmap for reforms towards greater transparency and accountability in the system

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Bhagavad Gita and Vedanta discuss three paths to reach the ultimate goal of life that of Jnana (Knowledge), Bhakti (Devotion) and Karma (Action). Here, parallels are drawn between Bhagavad Gita and Newton"s three laws to emphasize the point that everyone who is into enquiry of the reality would get to the same truth but from different perspectives. In this paper, a parallel is drawn between force in Newton"s laws to that of desire in philosophical thought while trying to bring about an amalgam between the paths of Jnana, Bhakti, Karma and Newton"s three laws. Similarly, a parallel is drawn between the mind and a bowl to relate the various states of equilibrium such as unstable, stable and steady state of matter as discussed from Newtonian perspective, to those of an immature, mature and illumined mind that result as one progresses on the spiritual path or a scientific path of enquiry into nature of Truth with an open mind.

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The Greek and Indian civilizations have had contacts since ancient times. Both of these cultures have been two highly fascinating cultures and their contribution towards a humanistic universal civilization is great. Since both of them have been advanced in different aspects and have the characteristics to make the impact on others so it is quite interesting to study the process of interaction between them. The Greeks were rational in thinking and believed in the equality of people. So the religious beliefs like Buddhism, Bhagvatism, which were intended to produce a sense of harmony, had obviously attracted them the most. Coincidently Buddhists were in majority in Greek ruled territories in India so they came into contact with them and made a slow and imperceptible impact on each other. The present paper focuses on the period of Indo-Greek rule in India. They came as invaders and very soon get adapted to this land. There are numerous evidences to suggest that under the rule of Indo-Greeks Buddhism flourished in India and it played a remarkable role in their acceptance amongst the local inhabitants of the land. The paper examines assimilation of Indo-Greeks to this country and role of Buddhist ideology in giving impetus to this process and making it successful.

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The paper attempts to briefly trace the background of the emergence of the MGNREGS from conflicting ideologies. It attempts to highlight the MGNREGS as useful scheme for fulfillment of natural rights, provision of fundamental rights and directive principles of states policy in the constitution of India and the dream of Father of the Nation.

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External commercial borrowing is one mode of obtaining financial assistance from outside country for large projects and more particularly infrastructure development in India. ECB include commercial bank loans, buyer’s credits, suppliers’ credit, securitized instruments such as floating rate notes and fixed rate bonds etc.

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Biomass torrefaction is a pre-treatment method carried out at 200-300°C in controlled atmospheric conditions. The occurring decomposition reactions at this temperature level cause the biomass to become completely dried and to loose its tenacious and fibrous structure. Therewith the grindability of the subjected biomass is improved significantly. In addition, torrefaction increases the calorific value and the biomass, its hygroscopic nature can be destructed to yield a hydrophobic material. Depending on the applied torrefaction conditions, torrefied biomass is coloured brown to dark-brown and approaches the properties of coal. The process makes the logistics of transporting and storing bulky biomass more efficient. This opens the prospects of using existing coal pulverizers and of considerably lowering costs of co-firing biomass to generate electricity. With coal prices at all time highs, torrefaction technology might arrive just in time to make biomass even more attractive to energy industries looking into co-firing.

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Structural designs of concrete structures traditionally focus over the initial cost of structural design and construction. However with time, there is a gradual deterioration in material characteristics and properties and this translates into a decline in the performance and durability of a structure. Maintenance of deteriorating concrete structures is required at regular interval to maintain the performance of structures. However, it is required to make the best possible use of limited financial resources during maintenance. Hence, methodologies are required to determine the expected number of maintenance required for new and deteriorating structures. This paper reviews several methods proposed by researchers for the analysis of life-cycle cost of structures.

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During the early 1980"s Indonesia emerged with an innovative technique of linking informal and formal financial institutions with financial self-help groups to touch the hither to neglected groups example small traders, tiny traders like milk, vegetable, fruit sellers etc. workers in non-farm sectors in rural areas etc. The technique gradually transformed into micro- finance. Thus, micro- finance is a recently developed financial service with a novel idea of filling the gaps in the economy. This is an experiment conducted to break the various circle of low income, no savings, no investment etc.In long years of banking history, banks could not reach certain categories of group. In agricultural countries like India, cheap, adequate and timely finance is a greater contributor for active functioning of different sectors. But the most important economic problem is scarcity of capital because the income and saving capacity of surplus units is extremely low.

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The future work place will be inhabited by the multi-skilled protagonist who would be possessed with the variety of knowledge, skills and attitudes and they will demand the fair worth for their these skills and knowledge, hence forth it would be the responsibility of the Human Resource Management how they will run the fortunes of the organizations by aligning the knowledge, skills and the attitudes of these protagonists for the accomplishment of the organizational goals.

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Under the threat of global warming it is vital to determine the impact that future changes in climate may have on the environment and to what extent any adverse effects can be mitigated. In this research Paper an assessment was carried out on the impact that climate trends may have on some parts of Kashmir valley. Historical rainfall data from 30 years were analyzed and long term trends were assessed for various aspects of some parts of Kashmir climates using suitable statistical techniques. Results indicated that intra-region variability for extreme seasonal rainfall is large and mostly exhibited a negative tendency leading to increasing frequency and magnitude of rainfall deficit and decreasing frequency and magnitude of rainfall decreases almost everywhere in Kashmir Valley.

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Universality of human rights has constantly been scrutinized and challenged by local, political and social norms of nation states. Since democracy is considered as cardinal virtue for exercising human rights, claims of various non-democratic nations of free exercise of human rights by their citizens often raise eye-brows of democratic nations. On the other hand, non-democratic or less democratic nations (though some objections may be raised on the use of the term) claim that the democratic form of government, for implementing human rights is nothing more than an exaggeration. The present article tries to analyze the importance of democratic content in implementing human rights of individual. It also attempts to observe whether various models of governments like China and Russia are really able to deliver the resulted envisaged in Universal declaration of Human Rights. Further, it also tries to reveal whether or not it is possible to exercise /implement human rights even in fragile democracies like Ukraine or Syria.

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"NEWS IS WHAT SOMEBODY, SOMEWHERE WANTS TO SUPPRESS; ALL THE REST IS ADVERTISNG." 1 Journalism is an art of writing and intimating the people about the things which is happening around the vicinity nationally and internationally, of which they don?t have the knowledge. Of Journalism, the real heroes are journalists, who extract out the story and portrait it before the reader or viewer, so that they have the first hand information or knowledge of the thing happening around them.

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