Past Issue

Survey on organised and unorganised sectors in campus of jnu

The Indian economy is characterised by the huge majority of informal workers either in unorganized sector or in organized sector and a minority of organized workers. The present paper is survey based report on the conditions of workers in unorganized as well as organized sector in the campus of Jawaharlal Nehru University. The study also focusses on the rapid increase in the casualisation of workers in organized sector which has led to decline in the overall working and living conditions of the workers in the organized sector.

An approach to management of data for India’s national action plan on climate change

The National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC) enacted by Government of India had considered climate change as a global challenge and is committed to engage multilaterally as per the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Numerous studies had pointed to Global climate change research using big data from Earth observations to enable the coordinated and sustainable development of humanity. NAPCC’s missions will involve huge number of agencies and resources at both at the national level and exchanges at the global level.

Factors that influence research participants’ understanding of informed consent: evidence from Kapseret in Uasin Gishu County, Kenya

This paper examines the factors that influence research participants’ understanding of informed consent and their willingness to participate in health-related research. The paper is based on a study that sought to ascertain the extent to which research participants in Kapseret sub-urban in Uasin Gishu County understood informed consent in the researches they had already participated in at the time of the current study.

Performing information governance: Golden triangle components for apts countermeasures

Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) use multiple processes to break into a system, avoid detection, harvest valuable information, and inflict serious harm to an organization. It may help us perform information governance to implement security policies, identify risk assessment, and block computer packets. There is still a lack of standards in the APTs investigation processes. In order to obtain the required evidences in the court for prosecution, the golden triangle components (People, Process and Technology) for APTs counter measures have been carried out in this study.

Clinical characteristics of multidrug-resistant escherichia coli at a tertiary care university hospital in Japan

Escherichia coli is the leading cause of various infectious diseases such as pneumonia, urinary tract and blood stream infections. Furthermore the emergenceof multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli has been focused worldwide. The objective of this study was to determine the clinical characteristics of multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli at a tertiary care university hospital in the central region of Japan. We determined the in vitro susceptibilities of 10 antimicrobial agents for 530 multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli in Japan.

Awareness of the effect of traditional birth attendance among women of child bearing age

The study is awareness of the effect of traditional birth attendance practices among women of child bearing age. The main objective is to known the level of awareness of the effect of traditional birth attendant among women of child bearing age during pregnancy and delivery methods. A starter and purposive method was conducted where women are divided to starters and only women that have attend traditional birth attendant ware selected among women of child bearing age to be interviewed. Data was collected using a structure questionnaire by the researcher.

Biliary hamartoma mimicking pneumobilia: A case report

Multiple biliary hamartomas (MBH) are a rare cause of multiple benign hepatic lesions. The condition is also known as von Meyenburg complexes, multiple bile duct hamartomas and biliary microhamartomas. MBH is asymptomatic and usually found incidentally, where it is important to differentiate from other causes of multiple liver lesions, particularly metastases. In this report, a case of biliary hamartoma mimicking pneumobilia is presented.

Leiomyosarcoma of the rectum: case report and review of literature

Leiomyosarcoma of the rectum is rare tumor occurring at all ages and in both sexes, but it is more common beyond the sixth decade of life and represents approximately 0.3% of rectal malignancies. The standard treatment is surgical resection with or without radiotherapy & chemotherapy for patients with operable tumors. Prognosis is poor. Survival rates vary and depend of tumor staging. We report a patient case complaining of recurrent episodes of rectal bleeding and pelvic mass due to a rectal leiomyosarcoma, he had surgery with sphincter preserving.

Diversification of growth opportunities in ‘Seven Sister States’

The seven sister states are the contiguous states of Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Meghalaya, Manipur, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura in North Eastern India. The sobriquet, land of seven sister (The seven sister states) coined by Jyoti Prasad Saikia, a journalist in Tripura in the course of a radio talk show at the time of inauguration of new states in January, 1972.India’s north east region, the seven sister states is endowed with huge untapped natural resources.