An Experimental Study to Assess the Effectiveness of Planned Teaching Programme on Knowledge of Adolescents Girls of Higher Secondary School Age Group (14-17 Years) Regarding Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome at Vijaya Raje Government Girls School, Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh

Introduction: Adolescents youthful citizens between the period of 12 and 19 year - are often thinking of as a in good physical shape group. It is the transition stage between babyhood and adolescence. Also many grave diseases in maturity have their ancestry in adolescent. For e.g. Tobacco use sexually transmitted disease together with HIV and deprived intake and exercise behaviour direct to illness or early death afterwards in life. Adolescence and young women make up approximately the 40 % residents of India. It covers about 22.5 % of total population. It is the most fascitinating and changeover period between babyhood and adolescence. The quick bodily, sexual, physiological, and emotional changes causes anxiety and stress, also many serious diseases in adolescence have their root in adolescence.Material & Method: Quantitative approach with one group pre test post test Experimental design was used .Total 30 adolescents’ girls of 10th standard students of Vijaya Raje government schools were selected by convenient sampling technique. Pre test conducted then planned teaching given on polycystic ovarian syndrome then after one week post-test done on same group, and analysis done by using descriptive and inferential statistics.Result: The result revealed that in pre test 50% girls had poor knowledge, 40% girls had average knowledge and 10% girls had good knowledge. In post test knowledge score75% girls had good knowledge, 25% girls had average knowledge and 0% girls had poor knowledge. Study also showed that there is no association between pre test knowledge score on PCOS and demographic variables but in Post test knowledge score some variables showed significant association.Conclusion: The study concluded that planned teaching programme on polycystic ovary syndrome is useful tool for improving knowledge of adolescent girls and it may be used by health care provider for improving knowledge regarding any areas of education

Effectiveness of Structured Teaching Programm on Knowledge Regarding Paediatric Emergency Drugs and Calculation of Doses among B.Sc. Nursing Students in Selected Nursing Colleges at Bhopal (M.P.)

The drug administration is a vital part in the care of children and all the more in the care of critically ill children. The nurse is wholly responsible for the drugs administered by her during the emergency situations of child care. A quantitative research approach has been used in this study. The data was collected by using a socio-demographic variables and a structured knowledge questionnaire on paediatric emergency drugs following which a structured teaching programme on paediatric emergency drus and calculation of doses was administered to the B Sc Nursing students on the same day. The data analysis was done by using descriptive and inferential statistics like frequency, percentage , chi square and Z test. Among 50 B Sc Nursing students 64% had inadequate knowledge and 36% of the students had moderately adequate knowledge. After the effectiveness of structured teaching programme the mean pre test knowledge score were 16.44 and post test knowledge scores were 27.32 which showed the effectiveness. In association with pre test knowledge scores, there is no statistically significant association between knowledge score of B Sc Nursing students and socio demographic variables

Influence of Growth Regulators and Explant on Plant Regeneration in Tomato

Influence of different growth regulators was studied on in vitro growth and regeneration of tomato (Solanum esculentum) explants derived from hypocotyls and cotyledons of aseptically grown seedlings. On the basis of regeneration frequency, number of shoot primordia and shoots produced per explants, it is concluded that the best regeneration is achieved on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 0.5 mg L"1 of indole-3-acetic acid and 1.0 mg L"1 zeatin. In all the genotypes studied, a good percentage of regeneration frequency was observed in hypocotyl explants used

Estimating the effect of healthcare-associated infections on excess length of hospital stay using inverse probability-weighted survival curves

Background: Studies estimating excess length of stay (LOS) attributable to nosocomial infections have failed to address time-varying confounding, likely leading to overestimation of their impact. We present a methodology based on inverse probability–weighted survival curves to address this limitation. Methods: A case study focusing on intensive care unit–acquired bacteremia using data from 2 general intensive care units (ICUs) from 2 London teaching hospitals were used to illustrate the methodology. The area under the curve of a conventional Kaplan-Meier curve applied to the observed data was compared with that of an inverse probability–weighted Kaplan-Meier curve applied after treating bacteremia as censoring events. Weights were based on the daily probability of acquiring bacteremia. The difference between the observed average LOS and the average LOS that would be observed if all bacteremia cases could be prevented was multiplied by the number of admitted patients to obtain the total excess LOS. Results: The estimated total number of extra ICU days caused by 666 bacteremia cases was estimated at 2453 (95% confidence interval [CI], 1803–3103) days. The excess number of days was overestimated when ignoring time-varying confounding (2845 [95% CI, 2276–3415]) or when completely ignoring confounding (2838 [95% CI, 2101–3575]). Conclusions: ICU-acquired bacteremia was associated with a substantial excess LOS. Wider adoption of inverse probability–weighted survival curves or alternative techniques that address time-varying confounding could lead to better informed decision making around nosocomial infections and other time-dependent exposures

Solution growth of Triglycine Sulfate (TGS) crystals on the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1)

An experiment was planned for the International Microgravity Laboratory (IML-1) to be launched around Feb. 1991. Crystals of triglycine sulfate (TGS) will be grown by low temperature solution crystal growth technique using a multiuser facility called Fluid Experiment System (FES). A special cooled sting technique of solution crystal growth will be used where heat is extracted from the seed crystal through a semi-insulating sting, thereby creating the desired supersaturation near the growing crystal. Also, a holocamera will be used to provide tomography of the three dimensional flow field and particle image displacement velocimetry to monitor the convective flows

Morphological and Biochemical Characterization of Chrysanthemum

Ten large flowered chrysanthemum cultivars, viz., 'Beat Rice May', 'Beauty', 'Casa Grande', 'Jet Snow', 'John Weber' , 'Miss Maud Jeffries', 'Penny Lane', 'Shanker Dayal', 'Snow Ball' and 'S.S. Arnold' from National Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow, were evaluated for morphological and biochemical characterization. Morphological data were recorded on vegetative and floral characters. Biochemical characterization included analysis of anthocyanins, carotenoides, chlorophyll content (chlorophyll a, b and total) and flavonoids. Results on morphological and biochemical parameters clearly indicated distinctness among cultivars with reference to differences in morphological characters and chemical composition of pigments

Dark linear seesaw mechanism

We propose a minimal model where a dark sector, odd under a $\mathcal{Z}_2$ discrete symmetry, is the seed of lepton number violation in the neutrino sector at the loop level, in the context of the linear seesaw mechanism. Neutrino mass suppression stems from a naturally small scalar potential coupling which breaks the lepton number symmetry softly. The fact that we consider (dark) Dirac vector-like neutral leptons, prevents the appearance of other mass terms that could contribute to neutrino masses via alternative mechanisms. We study the dark-matter phenomenology of the model, focusing on the case in which the stable particle is the lightest neutral scalar arising from the dark scalar sector. Prospects for testing our framework with the results of current and future lepton flavour violation searches are also discussed.Comment: 13 LaTeX pages, 3 figure

The Role of Vitamin E in Slowing Down Mild Cognitive Impairment: A Narrative Review

With the aging population, dementia emerges as a public health concern. In 2012, the Health and Retirement Study found that 8.8% of adults over 65 years suffered from dementia. The etiopathogenesis and treatment of dementia are not well understood. Antioxidant properties of Vitamin E and its major elements tocopherols and tocotrienols have been reported to be effective in slowing down the progression of dementia from its initial stage of Mild cognitive impairment (MCI). Therefore, the current review aims to explore the role of vitamin E on MCI. A literature search using the key words “Vitamin E, tocopherols, tocotrienols, and mild cognitive impairment” was conducted in MEDLINE (PubMed), CINAHL, and Google Scholar. The inclusion criteria were: (1) articles published in the past ten years; (2) published in English language; (3) published in peer-reviewed journals; and (4) descriptive and epidemiological or evaluation studies. Articles published prior to 2010, focused on other forms of dementia than MCI, grey literature and non-peer-reviewed articles were excluded. A total of 22 studies were included in the narrative synthesis. The results were equivocal. Eleven studies showed some level of the neuroprotective effect of Vitamin E, tocopherols and tocotrienols on the progression of MCI. The mixed results of this review suggest further exploration of the possible protective effects of Vitamin E on the development of dementia. Future studies can be conducted to decipher antioxidant properties of vitamin E and its association with slowing down the cognitive decline