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The Social support of family and friends during a crisis has long been seen to have a positive emotional and physical benefit effect on people. Social support is an important issue for ageing adults as common life events may put at risk the support networks of this age group. With advancing age, it is inevitable that people lose connection with their friendship networks and that they find it more difficult to initiate new friendships and to belong to new networks.

Introduction: Dengue fever can present with a diverse clinical spectrum. Although liver is not a major target organ, hepatic dysfunction is a well recognized feature. In this study we attempted to study the pattern of hepatic involvement in children with dengue and its association with outcome of the disease. Methods: The present study was Prospective observational study consisting 220 confirmed cases of dengue fever.

The people who are involved with prolonged sitting or standing in their day to day activities tend to have an increased risk for varicose veins. The reason is the same for the security guards, who are as a part of their profession need to stand for prolonged periods, placing them at the highest risk of developing varicose veins. Objectives: This study was designed to assess the knowledge of varicose vein among security guards.

Ceiling fan and lighting forms a significant load of educational institutions. If energy efficient super fan and light emitting diode tube light is used in place of normal fan and tube light then a significant amount of energy can be saved on the load side and hence reduce the burden on the generating station. In this paper, the method of evaluation of energy audit is given using super fan and light emitting diode tube light.

The status of being accompanied, arrested, detained not legitimize police structures to exercise forms of pressure, psychological, physical, or torture against these persons. Respect for citizens' legal procedural guarantees in police custody implemented at the time of notification of the indictment and interrogation of persons in conflict with the law.

Technology is improving day by day, but the advancement is leaving many of us trapped in the comforts and luxuries, imposing multiple side effects on our health. Earphones are very small gadgets, but there is a huge list of side effects using them and the list is increasing every day. We see many people walking around with earphones, including us. Earphones not only affect the user but also the surroundings. This is hard to believe, but it’s true.

In this present study, Soil samples were collected from Vilakkudi, Thiruthuraipoondi (TK), Thiruvarur district, Tamil Nadu, India. Bacterial and fungal species were isolated, identified and confirmed using Bergey’s Manual of Systematic Bacteriology and the Manual of Soil Fungi. Bacterial species such as Lactobacillus casei and fungal species such as Trichoderma harzianum were identified. The activated EM was verified by pH (3.2) and by sweet sour smell. The seeds of Vigna unguiculata were sown in six pots of equal size and noted as T1,T2, T3, T4, T5 and Control.

The aims of study were1) to present a unified Portuguese-language version of the Perceived Health Competence Scale (PHCS) and to evaluate their psychometric properties in unifactorial and bifactorial models, and 2) to estimate the influence of demographic variables and body mass index (BMI) on perceived health competence in Brazilian, Portuguese and Mozambican students. Face and content validity of PHCS were performed. The convergent, discriminant, concurrent validity and the reliability were assessed. The invariance was estimated using multi-group analysis.

The development of the code of ethics including the professional values is to guide health care practices especially nursing practice. So in nursing education, a better understanding of undergraduate nursing students’ and registered nurses awareness of professional values would be important to inform academic and hospital educators about the areas for improvement. Nursing professional values perceived by Saudi undergraduate nursing students is not clearly understood due to inadequate studies.

Feathers are by-product waste of poultry processing plant and produced in large amount. Waste feathers from poultry were not a major concern for the environment or for the plants and poultry farms. But with the increasing production of poultry which might be accompanied with an increase in feather waste. In this study, feather-degrading bacteria and the production of keratinolytic and proteolytic enzymes by these organisms was investigated.