Influence of Concentration & Nature of Supporting Electrolytes on the Kinetics of Reduction of Zn(II) at Dropping Mercury Electrode

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Effect of Triton X-100 on the Kinetics of Irreversible Electrode Processes: Polarographic Behaviour of Ni(II), Co(II), Zn(II) & Mn(II)

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Procuring Water:Foreign Aid and Rural Water Supply in Nepal

Water provisioning has become a major area of intervention by the modern state in developing countries. But, even before the modern state began engaging in water supply, people had been obtaining and managing water. What then is the provision of water (khane paani in Nepali) by the state all about? Though the official reason for involvement in water supply and sanitation is to ensure ´adequate water supply and sanitation coverage and service levels ´the study points out that for local people in the hills and the Tarai, the rationale for external support is different from established convention. Traversing through the history of water supply and sanitation in Nepal with the Finn-supported Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project and examining oral and written traditions on water, the study concludes that khane paani is as much about improving the conditions of life among the poor as about being modern. Piped water or tube-well brought with the help of the government, in turn made possible by foreign aid, is a symbol through which they posit themselves higher in the ' development' hierarchy. In the process, the rural communities increasingly come to participate in the global discourse on water, and share in the global values, preferences and ways of dealing with water

Procuring Water:Foreign Aid and Rural Water Supply in Nepal

Water provisioning has become a major area of intervention by the modern state in developing countries. But, even before the modern state began engaging in water supply, people had been obtaining and managing water. What then is the provision of water (khane paani in Nepali) by the state all about? Though the official reason for involvement in water supply and sanitation is to ensure ´adequate water supply and sanitation coverage and service levels ´the study points out that for local people in the hills and the Tarai, the rationale for external support is different from established convention. Traversing through the history of water supply and sanitation in Nepal with the Finn-supported Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Project and examining oral and written traditions on water, the study concludes that khane paani is as much about improving the conditions of life among the poor as about being modern. Piped water or tube-well brought with the help of the government, in turn made possible by foreign aid, is a symbol through which they posit themselves higher in the ' development' hierarchy. In the process, the rural communities increasingly come to participate in the global discourse on water, and share in the global values, preferences and ways of dealing with water

QT-prolongation as an indicator of complications in malaria

Introduction: There has always been a search for marker for predicting the complications of malaria. Electrocardiography (ECG) is a simple, easily available investigation, and QT-prolongation on ECG is a known marker of severity in many diseases. Aim: This study aimed to assess the association between QT interval prolongation and complications in malaria. Materials and Methods: This retrospective record-based study included 92 patients diagnosed with malaria by smear and was conducted from January to December 2013. The normal-corrected QT interval (QTC) was taken as 0.44 s (440 ms). Data were analyzed for association using Chi-square test and multivariate logistic regression model. Results: Mean QTC of the study group was 413.08 ± 34.8 ms. A total of 12 patients had QTC >440 ms, of them 10 had associated complications. Among 80 patients with normal QTC, 17 had complications associated with P < 0.001. Specificity of prolonged QTC for identifying complicated malaria was 83.33%, and sensitivity was 37.03%. On multivariate logistic regression model with QTC interval as the dependent variable, QTC was significantly associated with acute kidney injury (AKI) (P = 0.036) and Plasmodium vivax malaria (P = 0.01). Conclusions: Prolonged QTC has high specificity and low sensitivity for patients with complicated malaria. Prolonged QTC is significantly associated with vivax malaria and AKI in malaria. Hence, malaria patients with prolonged QTC should be more carefully watched for complications

Social Drivers of Aspirations Formation and Failure in Rural Nepal

The importance of aspirations for economic decision making has recently gained attention in the field of development economics. It’s been suggested that aspirations are formed from observing the status of one’s peers, and a failure of aspirations may result in a tendency to behave in a myopic and seemingly suboptimal manner. In this paper we provide the first known empirical test of the aspirations failure theory articulated in Appadurai (2004) and Ray (2006) using a unique dataset from rural Nepal. We ask two questions: (1) Does the current status of others in my aspirations window predict my own aspirations? (2) Is the aspirations gap correlated with future-oriented behavior? Our analysis suggests that the readily observable assets of one’s peers are quite important for one’s own wealth aspirations. However, the income of one’s peers, which is more readily hidden, is not important for one’s aspirational income. We also find evidence in support of Ray’s hypothesis that the aspirations gap is what ultimately drives future-oriented behavior, rather than aspirations or current standard of living