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Plants face different abiotic stresses that reduce crop production worldwide. Cold stress is the main abiotic stress that reduce plant yield in hilly areas. Cold resistance in plants is considered to be an interesting phenomenon with complex signaling pathways. Tolerance to cold in plants is acquired by exposing them to a low non freezing temperature and involves extensive changes at molecular level. Understanding the molecular mechanism behind the cold resistance in plants can help us to develop more and more cold tolerant plants.

Introduction: Cervical tooth pathologies, in addition to caries, can be found in the form of carious and non-carious cervical lesions, the occurrence of which generates irreversible loss of dental structure. Non-carious cervical lesions (NCCL) involve the superficial pathological loss of dental tissue by a non-bacterial process different from that of caries.

Background: In 2011, 41 countries experienced water stress with approximately 24% of them depleting their freshwater supply. They had to rely on alternative water sources such as roof harvested rain water (RHRW) with uncertainty about its bacterial safety for human consumption as well as domestic use. Objectives: We aimed to study the presence of bacterial pathogens in roof-harvested rain water, their sero-typical identity as well as their antibiotic susceptibility profile.

Today India is called the diabetes mellitus world capital. Some alarming diabetes statistics shows that there is one person in the world dying of diabetes every ten seconds. There will be two new diabetic cases in the world being identified every ten seconds. Therefore a need was assessed and the researcher was challenged to explore the knowledge of diabetes among diabetes mellitus patients. Quasi experimental approach was used with purposive sampling technique.

Background: a correct interpretation as regards public health data represents a valid parameter in preventing community diseases. Here, we evaluated the epidemiological situation in a northern area of Côte d’Ivoire. Methods: for this purpose, health condition data apropos 906adult patients, from year 2015 to year 2016 were collected at the Regional Hospital of Korhogo. To make straightforward statistical analysis, diagnosed pathologies were clustered in eleven categories.

Objective: To identify the sociodemographic profile of the elderly caregivers and to evaluate their responses to the domains of a workload scale. Methodology: This is a cross-sectional descriptive study of a quantitative approach, where it was used to analyze the domains and their items on the scale of ZARIT BURDEN, the sample was 228 forms, applied to caregivers of the elderly enrolled in the Family Health Program Sanitary District IV, having as inclusion criteria age equal or superior to 28 years old with at least 10 years living together with the elderly.

Self esteem of the orphan children and the children living with their parents are different. The children in orphanages reported lower degree of self esteem than the children living with their parents. The study was evaluative approach. The research design used for the study was pre experimental one group pre test and post test design. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the 100 samples. Pre test data was collected by self administered questionnaire using 4 point likert scale. In that 33 boys and 67 girls had low self esteem with inadequate coping.

Introduction: Somatoform disorders are a group of psychiatric disorders in which patients present with clinically significant but unexplained physical symptoms. These disorders often cause significant emotional distress for patients and are a challenge to physicians. Somatization disorder was significantly associated with suicide attempts. Material and Methods: 270 patients with a diagnosis of any of the sub types of somatoform disorders were inducted from those attending the out-patient and in- patient services of deptt.

Behavioural finance is a relatively new paradigm of finance, which seeks to supplement the standard theories of finance by introducing behavioural aspects to the decision making process. Early proponents of behavioural finance are considered by some to be visionaries. This was the first time a psychologist was awarded the Nobel Prize and played a key role in convincing mainstream financial economists that investors can behave irrationally.

An experiment was conducted with four selection procedures of 20 progenies [PS(EF), PS(HY), SSD and RBP] of GJG 0719 x SAKI 9516 in F5 generation in Desi chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) to study the correlation and direct and indirect effects of different characters on seed yield. Correlation coefficients of seed yield per plant with various characters within F5 generation revealed that seed yield per plant exhibited significant and positive association at genotypic and phenotypic levels with number of pods per plant in all the selection procedures of the cross.