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The Humoral Theory held sway for more than two thousand years, as it offered a rational and understandable model for the workings of the human body in both health and disease. It incorporated the concepts of the elements (fire, water, air, and earth) and the qualities (heat, coldness, moistness and dryness) which offered a viable explanation of both the microcosm (the body) and the microcosm (the environment). It also merged with the constructs related to the person’s temperament and lifestyle, and offered valuable clinical support in diagnosis, treatment, and recuperation.

Aim of the study: is to determine the effectiveness of structure teaching program on knowledge regarding cardiac rehabilitation among patients undergone coronary artery bypass grafting surgery in study group. Background: A coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) is a surgical procedure used to treat coronary heart disease. After the coronary artery bypass grafting surgery, patients have doubt about various factors such as exercises, diet pattern, return to work, sexual activity and physical activity.

A correlational study to assess the effect of Emotional Intelligence on job performance among staff nurses working in selected hospitals of Jalandhar, Punjab. The aim of the study is to assess the effect of Emotional Intelligence (EI) of staff nurses on their job performance. Results depicted that mean score of Emotional Intelligence was 44.63 and mean score of job performance was 68.56. There was weak positive correlation between Emotional Intelligence and job performance.

A study on the performance of papaya cv. Red Lady 786 under open and protected conditions was conducted in the Department of Horticulture, Khalsa college Amritsar during 2016-2017. The seedlings of papaya cv. Red Lady 786 were planted in the second week of August with a spacing of 1.6 x 1.6 m in net house and open field at the same time. The investigation was laid out in CRD with two treatment combinations replicated thrice.

In wooden buildings, the collapse is generally due to connections or relationship that does not meet the standards. And structural system is not earthquake resistant. Wood Regulation in Indonesia is very outdated, since 1961 Indonesian Wooden Regulation (PKKI 1961) 52 years has not changed. Several draft wood regulations of 1980 and 2002 were made until the issuance of SNI 7973: 2013 Design specifications for timber construction. Currently, the regulations abroad use both Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD), and Alowable Stress Design (ASD) design methods, Breyer 2008.

Image restoration is field of digital image processing that includes techniques used to reconstruct an original image scene from degraded quality images. Blur & noise are two main degradations by which the quality image gets ruined. The goal of this paper is to give overview of image restoration techniques to readers, who is just beginning in this field of image restoration. The task of developing restoration algorithms is quite difficult, since the information should not be destroyed during image restoration.

Like water and air, soil is essential for growing vegetation and afforestation. Pollution of soil leads to contamination of vegetation and also of the nearby water reservoirs making it unhealthy for the human consumption. Heavy metal contamination of soil has been observed since years due to rapid industrialization, transportation and dumping of garbage at dumping sites. Pollution indices act as a powerful tool for assessing the extent of soil pollution. In this study, soil samples were collected from five different locations of Nashik district.

The study was undertaken with the main objective of assessing the practices and challenges of VAT administration in Yirgalem Town Administration. Both primary and secondary data were deployed for the study purpose. Yirgalem Town Administration was selected purposively as the study area. By adopting simple random basis 83 tax payers selected as sample respondents. Structured questionnaire was prepared to collect primary data from the tax payers. Simple statistical tools such as frequency table and percentages were used for data analysis and interpretation.

The word diabetes has been derived from two words, diabetes (Greek) which means ‘siphon through’ and mellitus (Latin)which means ‘sweetened with honey’. Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disorder, i.e. it is caused due to the malfunctioning of the pancreas, which is responsible for the production of the hormone insulin. Diabetes mellitus has the world’s largest silent killer. India has been projected by WHO as the country with the fastest growing population of Diabetic patients. It is estimated that between 1995 to 2025 diabetic patients in India will increase by 195%.

The Brazilian legislation for organic compost type A allows a maximum of 50% moisture for commercialization. Thus, the use of dryers may be an alternative to reach this percentage. The objective of this work was to evaluate the effect of the continuous dryer on physical-chemical, microbiological and phytotoxicological characteristics of organic compost. The compost was elaborated with sludge from a poultry and pork slaughtering treatment plant and sawdust. Continuous counter-flow cylindrical dryer was used, with collections before, during and after the dryer.