INTRODUCTION Studies exploring the linkages between financial vulnerabilities and community collectivization of female sex workers (FSWs) are scarce in India despite having potential policy implications. To fill this gap in the literature, this study attempts to understand the financial vulnerabilities among FSWs and assess the relationship between community collectivization and financial vulne...

This paper deals with a two-warehouse inventory model for deteriorating items with time dependent demand and partial backlogging under inflation. It is assumed that deterioration of items follows two-parameter Weibull distribution and demand rate varies exponentially with time. Shortages are allowed and partial backlogging depends on waiting time of next replenishment. A numerical example is pr...

Parent death occurring in childhood is an event which may have serious psychological consequences (Birtchnell, 1969a and b). Even during adult life it may be followed by a period of instability and increased vulnerability to mental breakdown (Birtchnell, 1969c and d). There are considerable problems in attempting to establish a relationship between parent death and ensuing psychiatric illness, ...

In this study, we hypothesized that dynamics of sleep time obtained over consecutive days of extended sleep in a laboratory reflect an individual's optimal sleep duration (OSD) and that the difference between OSD and habitual sleep duration (HSD) at home represents potential sleep debt (PSD). We found that OSD varies among individuals and PSD showed stronger correlation with subjective/objectiv...

The common mycotoxin ochratoxin-A (OTA) accumulates in brain, causes oxidative stress, and elicits a DNA repair response that varies across brain regions and neuronal populations. Neural stem/progenitor cells (NSCs) prepared from hippocampus of adult mouse brain were tested for their vulnerability to the toxin in vitro. The following measurements were made in NSC cell cultures in both prolifera...

BACKGROUND Social vulnerability is related to the health of elderly people, but its measurement and relationship to frailty are controversial. The aims of the present study were to operationalize social vulnerability according to a deficit accumulation approach, to compare social vulnerability and frailty, and to study social vulnerability in relation to mortality. METHODS AND FINDINGS This i...

The important development of digital soil mapping (DSM) these last decades has led to a large number maps properties with increasingly finer raster size. Map resolution is mostly determined by expert knowledge or matching the existing data, while scale recognized as major issue. Using pH and C/N ratio describing surface horizon forest soils estimated bioindication, we evaluated effect changes o...