Self-Awareness among Visually Impaired Late Adolescent Girls - A Descriptive Study

The present scientific research paper concentrates on self-awareness among visually impaired late adolescent girls. The term self-awareness is widely used in the field of psychology. Self-awareness is conscious knowledge of one’s own charters, strength, weakness, feelings, motives, desires. Visually impaired adolescent should have aware about their one’s own self because once started to aware about their self their life goal can be easily to reach. Devendra Agochiya (2010) rightly pointed out that Self-awareness is the first step on the path to growth and development or to be successful in life and it will help the adolescence set realistic life goals. As adolescence are perpetual contact with their potentialities and what adolescents are capable of achieving. The main aim of the scientific research paper is to analysis the self-awareness condition among visually impaired late adolescent’s girls at a government blind school in Thiruchirappalli District. And find out the relationship between age and self-awareness and also to find out the association between selected demographic variables (Domicile, life goal,) and self-awareness among visually impaired late adolescents girls. Descriptive research design was adopted. Thirty visually impaired late adolescents girls were selected by adopting simple random sampling techniques using lottery method. Self-awareness scale was developed by Auzoult.L in 2013 was used. One to one interview method was adopted to collect data form the respondents. The present study result revealed that more than half (60 per cent) of the visually impaired late adolescents girls have low level of self-awareness, less than half (40 per cent) of the visually impaired late adolescents have high level of self-awareness, further, the present study salient finding will be discussed in the full paper. Keywords: Self-awareness, visually impaired later adolescents girls

Clinical and radiological outcome analysis of neck of femur fractures treated with bipolar hemiarthroplasty: An Institutional study

INTRODUCTION: The neck of femur fracture is one of the common fractures in elderly. It has been always a challenge to the orthopaedic surgeons to manage these fractures. The prevalence of neck of femur fractures has increasing with increased incidence of osteoporosis, poor vision in elderly, poor neuro muscular coordination, life style changes, sedentary habits, improvement in life expectancy. The incidence is expected to be double in next twenty years, triple by 2050. The burden of neck of femur fractures and its sequelae continued to be on the rise. The treatment goal for this fractures is restoring of functions without morbidity, still controversy exists in management of neck of femur fractures in elderly. Open reduction and internal fixation in elderly has higher chance of non union & avascular necrosis. In 1974, bipolar prosthesis was introduced by bateman which had mobile haed element and had additional head surface to alow movement within acetabulum. This reduces the erosion in acetabulum and reduction in pain and incidence of protrusio. The motion occurs between metal head and polyethylene socket (inner bearing) as well as between metallic head and acetabulum (outer bearing). Unipolar prosthesis is used only in developing countries. It should be reserved for acive elderly and very limited patients. In india, bipolar prosthesis is slowly replacing unipolar prosthesis in elderly patients, because of the advantage of bipolar than unipolar like less post operative pain, good results, good range of movements & cost effectiveness. AIM OF THE STUDY: 1. To study the functional outcome of intracapsular fracture of femoral neck with bipolar prosthesis in Indian population. 2. To study the end results of bipolar prosthesis with respect to pain, mobility and stability. 3. To analyse the radiological parameters and bipolar mobility in fluorosocpy 4. To study the complications of bipolar hemiarthroplasty. MATERIALS AND METHODS: In this retrospective study, patients who underwent bipolarhemiarthroplasty for neck of femur fractures in Government Royapettah hospital was considered for the study Total number of cases : 34 Patients who came for follow up – 30 cases Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients who were treated with bipolar hemiarthroplasty 2. Age of patient > 60 years 3. minimum period of 2 years post op Methodology: The contact list of neck of femur fracture patients who were treated by bipolar hemiarthroplasty were obtained from medical records department. All the patients were communicated either thro’ letter or phone. A proforma were postulated, which after thorouh wetting by the guide was used for this study. All the patients were analysed uniformly with the same. All the patients were analysed in single visit. At the time of presentation all the patients analysed for 1. Functional outcome using modified hip score 2. Radiological assessment 3. Fluoroscopy analysis for interprosthetic movement Functional outcome: Modified harris hip score was used for analysis of the functional outcome for all the patients. OBSERVATION AND RESULTS: Out of 34 patients, only 30 patients came for the follow up. Data was collected with respect to history, clinical examination, radiological examination and fluoroscopy examination. The patients who have completed post op period minimum of 2 years included in the study. CONCLUSION: Bipolar hemiarthroplasty for fractures of the femoral neck provides freedom from pain and more rapid return to unassisted activity with an acceptable complication rate. The end functional results depend on the associated co- morbidity and optimum post-operative rehabilitation. There is no correlation between functional outcome and interprosthetic movements also radiological outcome. Our study patients has good radiological outcome with significant interprosthetic movements, bipolar seems to be a cost effective prosthesis in active elderly individuals. Similar study on long term follow up would provide more affirmative findings

A STUDY ON USAGE OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER) FORMAT TO ENHANCING THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RAMANATHAPURAM EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT

Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely available, openly allowed text, media, and other digital resources that are useful for instruction. The Open Educational Resources (OER) formats are used for this study with the help of the internet. The investigator as a facilitator for this study. The learning is through open educational resources in three months. The quarterly marks were used for pretest and half-yearly marks were used for the post-test score. The experimental method and single group design were employed in the study. 40 students were taken for this study. The simple random sampling has used the study. The findings were there is no significant difference between the groups. The academic performance is may increase through Open Educational Resource (OER) format learning.

IMPACT OF PANDEMIC PERIOD OF COVID-19 ON ONLINE LEARNING AND TEACHING IN TEACHER EDUCATION

Working as Assistatnt Professor in SCAD College of Education, IndiaOnline learning is an educational process which takes place over the Internet as a form of distance education. Distance education became ubiquitous as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. Because of these circumstances, online learning and teaching had an indispensable role in teacher education programs, even though debates continue on whether or not it is beneficial for prospective teachers to be exposed extensively to Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This descriptive study demonstrates how a student teacher course in teacher education was redesigned to provide student teachers with opportunities to learn and practice through online. It reports experiences and reflections from a practicum course offered in the teacher education courses in the Tirunelveli. It describes three phases of the online student teachers’ experiences Preparation, Implementation, and Reflection. Tasks accomplished in each phase are reported. Online teaching experiences provided these student teachers with opportunities to interact with others, as well as to encourage reflection on how best to promote prospective teachers development and learning with online communication tools

Vocational Education and Training Reform in India: Business Needs in India and Lessons to be Learned from Germany. Working paper

India is among the countries with the lowest proportion of trained youth in the world. Even worse, vocational education in secondary schools has received very limited funding since the mid-1980s;nit has remained non-aspirational, of poor quality and involves little industry collaboration. The Vocational Education and Training (VET) system in Germany, in contrast, shows a much higher proportion of youth participation, more intense involvement of the private sector and is anchored in the law

Redemptive benefit of atorvastatin in the risk factors of coronary artery disease

Cardiovascular disease, in particular coronary artery disease (CAD), is the principal cause of mortality in developed countries. The classical acute phase protein, C-reactive protein (CRP) is an exquisitely sensitive systemic marker of disease with broad clinical utility for monitoring and differential diagnosis. In recent years, acute phase reactants have been shown to predict future cardiovascular events in individuals with and without established CAD. Atorvastatin, a 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase inhibitor, substantially reduce cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, and recently their anti-inflammatory properties have been investigated. The present study was therefore designed to determine the effects of atorvastatin on CRP in patients with CAD. Ninety two patients with or without or at the risk of CAD were recruited for the study, of which 35 belongs to control (untreated) and 57 were test group, in which, 30 of them received daily with 20 mg/day of atorvastatin and the remaining 27 were untreated. The patients were followed for over a period of 6 weeks. For entire study population, CRP along with lipid profile, SGOT, SGPT, urea and creatinine were measured 1st day and at the end of 6th week of the treatment. For patients with or at risk of CAD, the reduced rate of progression of atherosclerosis associated with intensive atorvastatin treatment, as compared with control is significantly related to greater reduction in the levels of both atherogenic lipoproteins and CRP. This may be important with respect to the early benefits of atorvastatin therapy

A STUDY ON USAGE OF OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER) FORMAT TO ENHANCING THE ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE OF HIGHER SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN RAMANATHAPURAM EDUCATIONAL DISTRICT

Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely available, openly allowed text, media, and other digital resources that are useful for instruction. The Open Educational Resources (OER) formats are used for this study with the help of the internet. The investigator as a facilitator for this study. The learning is through open educational resources in three months. The quarterly marks were used for pretest and half-yearly marks were used for the post-test score. The experimental method and single group design were employed in the study. 40 students were taken for this study. The simple random sampling has used the study. The findings were there is no significant difference between the groups. The academic performance is may increase through Open Educational Resource (OER) format learning.

Artificial intelligence in respiratory medicine: The journey so far – A review

The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) and the medical field has opened a wide range of possibilities. Currently, the role of AI in the medical field is limited to image analysis (radiological and histopathology images), identifying and alerting about specific health conditions, and supporting clinical decisions. The future of lung cancer screening, diagnosis, and management is expected to undergo significant transformation with the use of radiomics, radiogenomics, and virtual biopsy. AI can also help physicians diagnose and treat a variety of respiratory illnesses, including interstitial lung diseases, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and pleural diseases such as effusion and pneumothorax, pneumonia, pulmonary artery hypertension, and tuberculosis. AI can also help in the automated analysis and reporting of lung function tests, polysomnography, and recorded breath sounds. Through robotic technology, AI is set to create new milestones in the realm of interventional pulmonology. A well-trained AI may also offer new insights into the genetic and molecular mechanisms of the pathogenesis of various respiratory diseases and may also assist in outlining the best course of action with the horizontal integration of patients' digital health records, digital radiographic images, digital pathology images, and biochemical lab reports. As with any technology, doctors and researchers should be aware of the advantages and limitations of AI, and they should use it responsibly to advance knowledge and provide better care to patients