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The birth of an infant is one of the most awe-inspiring and emotional events that can occur in one’s life time of a mother, after nine months of anticipation and preparation. The neonates arrive with a flurry of excitement. Healthy and sturdy babies are likely to evolve as physically and mentally strong adults with enhanced quality of human resource development. The health of a growing child is always a matter of great concern to the parents. The physical health of a child is important because it is associated with the mental and social development.

Plants are one of the most important sources of natural medicine and number of modern drugs has been isolated from them. The present investigation on the two medicinal plants Annona squamosa L. and Garcinia gummi-gutta (L.) Roxb. has revealed the presence of various biochemical compounds such as chlorophyll, protein and carbohydrate. Among the two medicinal plants taken for study, the chlorophyll ‘a’, chlorophyll ‘b’, total chlorophyll and protein content was found to be significantly higher in Annona squamosa L.

Objective: To identify nursing diagnoses in elderly participants in activities carried out in the Social Assistance Referral Centers of the municipalities of Aracoiaba, Aratuba, Itapiúna, Mulungu and Pacoti, located in the Baturité-Ceará Massif. Method: A cross-sectional study was carried out between January and July 2014 with 134 elderly people. The following criteria for inclusion of the elderly in the study were considered: age of 60 years or older, physical and mental ability to respond to the form used for data collection, acceptance to perform a physical examination.

The paper attempts to study a Rajasthani folktale A Hound’s Pride by Vijaydan Detha as an allegorical-folk literary expression. The themes and plot are parallel to George Orwell’s Animal Farm. The devices of anthropomorphism and symbolism are efficiently applied to portray the paradoxes of revolution and autocracy.

A study of Physico-chemical parameters of Waldevi dam water was carried out during February 2015 to January 2016. Waldevi is an earth fill dam situated at the Pimplad village near Nashik city. Physical characters like Temperature, transparency, total dissolved solid, Rainfall and Chemical Parameters like Dissolved oxygen, pH, free carbon dioxide, Hardness (Ca & Mg), Total Alkalinity, Chlorides, and Biochemical oxygen Demand were studied during the study.

Academic writing, individual or collaborative, is an essential skill for today's graduates. Unfortunately, managing, writing activities and providing feedback to students is very labor intensive and academics often opt out of including such learning experiences in their teaching. Successful integration of educational technology is a complicated process that is influenced by multiple factors (Levin & Wadmany, 2008; Valcke et al., 2007).

The purpose of this study was to understand the effects of a life education intervention on nursing students’ meaning of life, positive beliefs, and well-being for self-directed learning. A pre-experimental design was adopted. 119 3rd-year nursing students completed a life education course and participated in the health education curriculum. Ultimately, 74 nursing students voluntarily participated in the study and filled out the questionnaire on an e-learning platform.

The industrial sludge with heavy metal poses a severe threat to the environment and human health when it is disposed to a landfill site without proper treatment. In this work, the removal of Cu from electroplating industrial sludge by biosolubilization was studies using adapted Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans as the bacterial agent with due importance for investigating the effect of temperature. The experiments were carried out in 250 mL Erlenmeyer flasks with 5% (w/v) sludge and at the different temperatures between 27 and 39C.

Consumers play a vital role in the development of a nation. Mahatma Gandhi said, "A consumer is the most important visitor on our premises. He is not dependent on us, we are on him. He is not an interruption to our work; he is the purpose of it. We are not doing a favour to a consumer by giving him an opportunity.

Communication is the transfer of information from one person to another person. Nonverbal communication usually occurs through the process of communicating wordless messages using the medium of “silent language”. Along with all other nonverbal signals, clothing, as probably the most prominent source of nonverbal communication, transmits messages which are important aspects of communication. Clothes often signal a person’s sense of self esteem, personality, education, general character, background, socio-economic status, and credibility.