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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.

Ventilator Associated Pneumonia is pneumonia which occurs in patients receiving mechanical ventilation. The aim of the study was to explore knowledge of 200 Cypriot Intensive Care Nurses working in 7 public Hospitals across Cyprus, regarding its prevention through a validated questionnaire. The pass rate on the questionnaire was 6% and the fail rate 94%. The majority of the nurses admitted that they do not have sufficient knowledge regarding the VAP prevention.

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The hazardous affect of the different bacterial infection induced epizootic ulcerative syndrome (EUS) the present study focus on the histopathology and histochemistry of liver of the freshwater edible fishes of Channa striatus and Channa punctatus are infected with Aeromonas hydrophila, Staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Salmonella salmonicida was investigated.

Aim of Study: To find out prevalence of ankle instability in gymnastic players of age below 16- year-old female Objectives: 1) To find out the commonest direction of instability using Star excursion balance test. 2) To find out ankle instability using Idfai (Identification of Functional Ankle Instability) Conclusion: The study concludes that there is significant prevalence of ankle instability in gymnastic player of age below 16 years old female

Blood parasite constituent a major problem in goat breeding due to severe economic losses and lowered vitality which lead to a decrease of animal production and increase the susceptibility to bacterial and viral infections. The only common feature between these diseases is that they can all be transmitted by ticks. The objective of the present study was to determine the prevalence of Anaplasmosis in Iraq goats of Baghdad city and differentiation between Anaplasmaovis and Anaplasmamarginale by using PCR and PCR-RFLP.