The study was conducted on 320 pulse based cropping system practicing farmers in Chhattisgarh plains to ascertain their socio-economic characteristics. selected growing have been interviewed personally with the help of a well-structured and pre-tested interview schedule. shows that majority respondents fall under age group 36 50 years, educated up middle school, belonged other backward class, r...

The installation of stationary super-capacitor energy storage system (ESS) in metro systems can recycle the vehicle braking energy and improve the pantograph voltage profile. This paper aims to optimize the energy management, location, and size of stationary super-capacitor ESSes simultaneously and obtain the best economic efficiency and voltage profile of metro systems. Firstly, the simulation...

The profile of employment in rural areas is critical given the prevalence in the agricultural employment, in what is called subsistence farming. Removing this point and getting out a real development is the prerogative of each rural community to establish, through local development strategies, economic priorities, not at least, financial resources to support them. Data at our disposal have allo...

Flexible work patterns require rigorous plans on adult education and life long learning, based on worker’s personal competence profile. To achieve this point, at European and national level, official competences certification systems are proposed and, in same cases, realized. The paper discusses the role that administrative data on competences could play in the context of economic statistical s...

OBJECTIVE To study the quality of life (QL) and social characteristics of patients submitted to total knee arthroplasty (TKA). METHODS The Brazilian validated version of the SF-36 Quality of Life Questionnaire was applied during the pre- and postoperative periods to assess the effect of TKA in QL. A semi-structured social questionnaire was used for the survey of patients' socioeconomic profil...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES The commonly used available scales for measurement of socio-economic status (SES) with some cross regional applicability are old and have lost their relevance. There is a need for the development of a valid and reliable instrument for measurement of SES in rural and urban communities in India. The present study was undertaken to develop a cross regionally applicable scal...

A well-presented poverty profile can be immensely useful in assessing how economic change is likely to affect aggregate poverty, even though the profile typically just uses basic techniques such as tables and graphs. Some tables show the poverty rate for each group, for example, by level of education of household head, or by region of the country. It is good practice to show the confidence inte...

The aims of this paper were to evaluate the nutritional status of children orphaned by aids or homicides in the city of São Paulo and to estimate the association of nutritional indexes with orphanhood-related variables. The study was a household survey carried out between 2006 and 2007. We sampled 484 children representative of São Paulo, 5-14 years old who lost either or both of their parents ...