HE retirement is a concept of recent origin though it could be traced to Indian philosophy. The reasons related to voluntary retirement scheme (VRS) of Government of India and its response by public sector employees have been analyzed in this paper. There are number of reasons for opting to VRS like doing some business, job dissatisfaction, health and personal reasons. There exists variation in...

The term 'dual diagnosis' denotes the coexistence of substance use disorder(s) and other, non-substance-use, psychiatric disorder(s). The last two decades, and especially the 1990s, have witnessed tremendous research and clinical interest in this previously neglected area. India, however, lags behind, inspite of indications that the problem exists here too. The current approach to managing such...

Naturopathy is an old science based on philosophy founded on natural principles of healing. We find mention of health promotive, disease preventive, curative and rehabilitative values of different Naturopathy practices in ancient Indian texts. Recognizing and realizing the need for developing naturopathy system on the basis of its own principles, the Government of India established Central Coun...

This paper deals with the visual representation of negation involving particular propositions. The underlying consideration depends on the three basic desirable aspects of visual representation viz. simplicity, visual clarity and expressiveness [9]. For incorporation of constants in diagrams we discuss Venn-i (2004), Swoboda’s diagrams (2005) and Spider diagrams with constants (2005). We also d...

This chapter discusses the use of vocal tract information for recognizing the emotions. Linear prediction cepstral coefficients (LPCC) and mel frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCC) are used as the correlates of vocal tract information. In addition to LPCCs and MFCCs, formant related features are also explored in this work for recognizing emotions from speech. Extraction of the above mentioned ...

Navya-Nyāya (NN), a school of Indian logic and philosophy, has evolved a sophisticated language to deal with verbal cognition, logic and epistemology. This language is known for its use of long compounds, productive use of secondary derivational suffixes, and a special technical vocabulary. In this paper we present a specially designed domain specific splitter to split the NN compounds into its...

Karma is the ancient Indian philosophy of cause and effect, which implies that an individual's intentions, and actions, both have consequences. None can escape the consequences of one's actions. Applying the principle of karma to medicine and healthcare, the significance of optimal and timely interventions at various stages of disease, may be realized. A holistic approach to metabolic control i...

Non-structural elements of a building are not a part of the main load-resisting system. Therefore, these are often neglected from the structural design point of view. Performance in the past earthquake clearly pointed out that in view of the absence or inadequacy of design provisions for non-structural elements and their attachments it has resulted in poor performance of several life line build...

BACKGROUND Unani Medicine, also called "Unani-tibb", has a long and impressive record in India based on the grecoarabic medicine and teachings of Hippocrates, Galen and Arab physicians. Its main principle is the maintenance of equilibrium among the various aspects of the body, made up of four elements, different temperaments, simple and compound organs, and four humours. METHODS The main bibl...