Capsulization of Weather Broadcasting System using Raspberry pi

Weather broadcasting plays an important role in human life, so the collection of information about the temporal dynamics of weather changes is very important. The fundamental aim of this project is to develop an embedded system and design a weather broadcast system which enables the broadcasting of weather parameters for different sector. Such a system contain pair of sensors like temperature, pressure and humidity, which is used to sense the atmospheric parameter. Block diagram consist of the Raspberry pi, DHT-22 and BMP-180 sensor which is used for analyze the atmospheric parameters. The data from the sensors are collected by the microcontroller and it stored in SD cardand LCD screen is used to display the result

Use of traditional cooking fuels and the risk of young adult cataract in rural Bangladesh: a hospital-based case-control study

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>This study aimed to investigate the independent relationship between the use of various traditional biomass cooking fuels and the occurrence of cataract in young adults in rural Bangladesh.</p> <p>Methods</p> <p>A hospital-based age- and sex-matched case-control study incorporating two control groups was conducted. Cases were cataract patients aged 18 and 49 years diagnosed on the basis of any opacity of the crystalline lens or its capsule and visual acuity poorer than 6/18 on the Log Mar Visual Acuity Chart in either eye, or who had a pseudophakic lens as a result of cataract surgery within the previous 5 years. Non-eye-disease (NE) controls were selected from patients from ENT or Orthopaedics departments and non-cataract eye-disease (NC) controls from the Ophthalmology department. Data pertaining to history of exposure to various cooking fuels and to established risk factors for cataract were obtained by face-to-face interview and analyzed using conditional logistic regression.</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Clean fuels were used by only 4% of subjects. A majority of males (64-80% depending on group) had never cooked, while the rest had used biomass cooking fuels, mainly wood/dry leaves, with only 6 having used rice straw and/or cow dung. All females of each group had used wood/dry leaves for cooking. Close to half had also used rice straw and/or cow dung. Among females, after controlling for family history of cataract and education and combining the two control groups, case status was shown to be significantly related to lifetime exposure to rice straw, fitted as a trend variable coded as never, ≤ median of all exposed, > median of all exposed (OR = 1.52, 95%CI 1.04-2.22), but not to lifetime exposure to wood/dry leaves. Case status among females showed an inverse association with ever use of cow dung as a cooking fuel (OR 0.43, 95%CI 0.22-0.81).</p> <p>Conclusions</p> <p>In this population, where cooking is almost exclusively done using biomass fuels, cases of young adult cataract among females were more likely to have had an increased lifetime exposure to cooking with rice straw fuel and not to have cooked using cow dung fuel. There is a possibility that these apparent associations could have been the result of uncontrolled founding, for instance by wealth. The nature of the associations, therefore, needs to be further investigated.</p

Physical Abuse and Adverse Pregnancy Outcome: a Cohort Study

The present study assess association between physical violence during pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes. A cross sectional study using McFarlane's Abuse Assessment Screen (AAS) was done. A systemic random sample of newly registered pregnant women seeking routine ANC care at the study hospital, who satisfied eligibility criteria was screened for physical abuse using modified Mc. Farlane Abuse Assessment Screen (AAS). [Presented at Global Forum for Health Research].pregnancy, women, physical abuse, vilolence, women, ANC, India, USA, pregnant, maternal, health, multiple logistic regression analysis

Do Gender Differences Influence the Quality of Life of People Living with HIV/AIDS?

Introduction: Given the longevity achievable with the current Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) for People Living with HIV/AIDS, quality of life (QOL) has emerged as a significant measure of health outcome. Also, younger age, higher socioeconomic status and employment have been associated with improvement in QOL. Hence, the present study has made an attempt to examine gender differences in QOL of People living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Material and methods: It was a cross sectional study carried out on 754 HIV positive patients attending the anti-retroviral treatment clinic of the IGGMC, Nagpur from March 2010 to June 2011 .Socio-demographic characteristics of the patients were studied and quality of life was assessed by WHOQOL-HIVBREF scale. Chi-square test, z-test and multiple logistic regressions were used for analysis. Results: Out of 754 study subjects, 461(61.1%) were male and 293(38.9%) were female patients. It was observed that92.2% males and 80.2%females were literate, 50.8%females were widowed, divorced or separated and only 41.6% females were employed. Females had poor nutritional status as indicated by haemoglobin levels (9.3 gm% ± 1.33) and Body Mass Indices (19.3 Kg/m2 ± 2.95). They had lower total QOL score than male patients. Women had significantly lower scores in social relationships (11.5±3.55) and environmental domains (10.6 ± 2.19), (p<0.001) of Quality of Life. Conclusions: Women had a poor quality of life as compared to men. Poor living conditions, lack of social support, illiteracy are the factors along with the fact of being HIV positive which could be incriminated towards these findings