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This work addresses the practice of exercises developed in the classroom with students in the discipline of financial analysis of projects. It includes concepts related to financial investments, payback analysis, comparative analysis of NPV (Present Value - Net), or in Spanish the NPV (Net Present Value). It also analyzes the Internal Rate of Return (IRR) of each project over a period of 04 years. The questioned question is: What is the best investment to make according to the situations presented? Because.

Objectives: Determine the socio-demographical and health profile of the elderly population living in a county’s rural area; Verify this population’s frailty levels and depression symptoms’ prevalence. Method: A quantitative, descriptive-analytical approach was chosen. Data was collected through a questionnaire containing socio-demographical, health and life habits questions. Then the Edmonton Frail Scale and the Depressed Population Tracking Scale were used to measure the frailty and the depression symptoms’ presence.

Aim of the study: To assess the effectiveness of Intradialytic stretching exercise on selected parameters among hypertensive elderly in selected old age home. Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) affects an increasing number of populations and 15% of adults in the United States are estimated to have CKD by the Modification of Diet in Renal Disease (MDRD) estimated glomerular filtration rate (EGFR) criteria.

Performing repetitive tasks periodically on automobile assembly line is challenging. Ergonomic design of the shop floor can affect not only operator health but his/her job satisfaction and overall productiveness. Current study takes a sample size of 95 employees working in Vehicle Chassis Frame Assembly shop at Tata Motors Ltd. and explores the impact of ergonomics on all of these factors. The shop was selected based upon the health related issues reported at the medical center inside the manufacturing facility.

Introduction: Neonates and children are often exposed to pain from invasive procedures during intensive care and postoperative period. Evidence suggests that the exposure to acute pain in early life leads to long-term consequences. Opioid analgesics are the most effective and frequently used substances for the relief of moderate to severe pain in adults and children.

The main objective of the paper is give an ideal about different methods of the text to speech synthesis for quality of synthesized speech for Marathi Language. A system converting textual information into speech is usually called as Text to speech (TTS). Speech is surely the most natural mode of communication in human’s community. [Quartier, 2002]. This information can be evaluated at several non-exclusive stages of description. At the acoustic level, speech is considered as a mechanical wave that is an oscillation of pressure.

Obesity has reached alarming proportions around the world, and it is responsible for an important burden for the health systems andincrease of deaths both in developed and developing countries.

The purpose of the article was to identify definitions and their attributes, antecedents and consequences of the concept of persuasive communication used in health through Meleis' theoretical and methodological framework and to establish an expanded definition of persuasive communication in relation to health behavioral adoption. This is a theoretical study of concept analysis in the light of the Meleis’ Method in national and international studies published online in any year.

A reactor horizontally oriented was developed for bio-char for preparation from agricultural crop residues. The study was conducted at three levels of predefined temperature of 450, 500 and 550°C and residual time duration of 60, 120 and 180 min for optimization of temperature for obtaining the better quality of bio-char. The average recovery of bio-char prepared from pigeon-pea stalk was found to be 40.30%.

Health literacy is a rapidly growing field involving interdisciplinary audience. Understanding the contributing factors and their influence on individual health literacy can help to assess their ability to take responsibility for one’s own health as well as of one’s family and community. Health literacy is an important domain to be considered while management of chronic diseases including diabetes and hypertension.