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Background: In 2011, 41 countries experienced water stress with approximately 24% of them depleting their freshwater supply. They had to rely on alternative water sources such as roof harvested rain water (RHRW) with uncertainty about its bacterial safety for human consumption as well as domestic use. Objectives: We aimed to study the presence of bacterial pathogens in roof-harvested rain water, their sero-typical identity as well as their antibiotic susceptibility profile.

Today India is called the diabetes mellitus world capital. Some alarming diabetes statistics shows that there is one person in the world dying of diabetes every ten seconds. There will be two new diabetic cases in the world being identified every ten seconds. Therefore a need was assessed and the researcher was challenged to explore the knowledge of diabetes among diabetes mellitus patients. Quasi experimental approach was used with purposive sampling technique.

Background: a correct interpretation as regards public health data represents a valid parameter in preventing community diseases. Here, we evaluated the epidemiological situation in a northern area of Côte d’Ivoire. Methods: for this purpose, health condition data apropos 906adult patients, from year 2015 to year 2016 were collected at the Regional Hospital of Korhogo. To make straightforward statistical analysis, diagnosed pathologies were clustered in eleven categories.

Objective: To identify the sociodemographic profile of the elderly caregivers and to evaluate their responses to the domains of a workload scale. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study of a quantitative approach, where it was used to analyze the domains and their items on the scale of ZARIT BURDEN, the sample was 228 forms, applied to caregivers of the elderly enrolled in the Family Health Program Sanitary District IV, having as inclusion criteria age equal or superior to 28 years old with at least 10 years living together with the elderly.

Self esteem of the orphan children and the children living with their parents are different. The children in orphanages reported lower degree of self esteem than the children living with their parents. The study was evaluative approach. The research design used for the study was pre experimental one group pre test and post test design. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the 100 samples. Pre test data was collected by self administered questionnaire using 4 point likert scale. In that 33 boys and 67 girls had low self esteem with inadequate coping.

Introduction: Somatoform disorders are a group of psychiatric disorders in which patients present with clinically significant but unexplained physical symptoms. These disorders often cause significant emotional distress for patients and are a challenge to physicians. Somatization disorder was significantly associated with suicide attempts. Material and Methods: 270 patients with a diagnosis of any of the sub types of somatoform disorders were inducted from those attending the out-patient and in- patient services of deptt.

Behavioural finance is a relatively new paradigm of finance, which seeks to supplement the standard theories of finance by introducing behavioural aspects to the decision making process. Early proponents of behavioural finance are considered by some to be visionaries. This was the first time a psychologist was awarded the Nobel Prize and played a key role in convincing mainstream financial economists that investors can behave irrationally.

An experiment was conducted with four selection procedures of 20 progenies [PS(EF), PS(HY), SSD and RBP] of GJG 0719 x SAKI 9516 in F5 generation in Desi chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) to study the correlation and direct and indirect effects of different characters on seed yield. Correlation coefficients of seed yield per plant with various characters within F5 generation revealed that seed yield per plant exhibited significant and positive association at genotypic and phenotypic levels with number of pods per plant in all the selection procedures of the cross.

Objective: to identify the symptoms indicative of depression in nursing students at a public higher education institution. Methodology: This descriptive, exploratory study with a quantitative approach was conducted with 122 undergraduates, with data collected by means of applying the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and structured questionnaire with questions related to the study.

We assessed the nutritional composition of Merremia aegyptia, Calotropis procera, and Senna uniflora for use as green manure in different soil types. Soil and plant samples were collected at four sites in the municipality of Natal, Rio Grande do Norte, Brazil, from May to June 2014. The experimental design was a completely randomized factorial design (4 x 3) with four replications.