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Present study explicitly talks about the health insurance coverage in India by socioeconomic characteristics of households. Further this study describes the type of health scheme or health insurance adopted by households in India. Data for the present study was drawn from the latest round of the Indian Demographic and Health Survey, known as the National Family Health Survey. Findings of the study revealed quite a low coverage of health insurance. Low coverage of any insurance scheme has been observed in Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.

Landslide detection using satellite remote sensing images has been widely studied. This type of applications often involves either change detection or multi-spectral image classification methodologies. If there is only one set of satellite image, the change detection method has limited use. Collecting and analyzing training area data for image classification are costly and time consuming.

In the northern part of India Libraries have existed in some form or the other form early times. The large collections of the early Hindu manuscripts at Nalanda, Taxila, Patliputra and at Vaishali together with the librarie s of the Medieval Hindu period at Ujjain, Bnaras, Tanjore and Kashmir are good examples of the existence of ancient libraries in our country. A well equipped and a well managed library is the foundation of modern educational structure. Vaidyaratnam ayurveda college library is the pioneer of private medical colleges.

The most basic task for one’s mental, emotional, and social health, which begins in infancy and continues until one die, is the construction of his or her positive self-esteem. A quasi experimental study was conducted to assess the effect of psycho-education on self-esteem of psychiatric patients attending psychiatric setting in CMC and H and DMC and H, Ludhiana. Data was collected from 40 psychiatric patients (i.e., 20 in control group and 20 in experimental group). Level of self esteem was assessed by using Rosenberg self-esteem scale in the month of November and December, 2009.

Meyna spinosa Roxb, a medicinal plant enjoys it use in the traditional medicine in all over the India for the treatment of a number of ailments. In Bengali it is called as Monkata. It is a wild common plant distributed in India, Bangladesh and in both northeastern tropical Africa and tropical Asia. The main objective of the present research work was to determine various bioactive compounds especially phenolic and flavonoid contents, carbohydrates, phytosterols, aminoacids and proteins and to evaluate the in vitro cytotoxic activity of different fruit extracts of Meyna spinosa Roxb .

Positional cloning is the approach of choice for the identification of genetic mutations underlying the pathological development of complex genetic diseases like autism. Such genes can be identified using carriers of a chromosomal rearrangement which goes along with the sequencing of novel candidate genes. We report here the positional cloning of a reciprocal translocation associated with an autistic phenotype. We mapped the translocation breakpoints by fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH).

Introduction: The aim of the study was to estimate and analyze the direct and indirect costs for treatment of three categories of patients with COPD and asthma - smokers, passive smokers and non-smokers after exacerbation and hospitalization in the clinic for pulmonary suppurative disease, pneumonia and bronchoscopy procedures and calculate price that society pays for one hospitalization and one patient exacerbation of each year.

Care is essential in nursing practice. Determination of the standards will serve as a guide in defining, measuring and evaluating the quality of patient care. In this context, the concept of “Care-Friendly Hospital” has been established. The project aims to attract nurses to the patient side and encourage them into care and applications.

Oil pollution is a serious threat to the bio-physical environment and consequently the socio-economic life of the people living within the oil bearing environment. This paper examined the significance of oil contamination on the socio-economic life of the people of Mgbede in Rivers State, Ekakpamre and Kwale in Delta State, with a view to determining the need for mitigation. Survey was conducted on the communities and with a well-structured questionnaire the data for the study were generated.

Claudia Goldin gave the ‘U’ shaped female labour force function curve and she related it to the level of education and the emergence of the white collar sector jobs. The downward trend in the ‘U’ was due to rise in incomes because of expansion of markets and shift from farm activities to factory work; this she has denoted as the income effect on the female participation rate.