Introduction: “Identification is an individual’s birth right”. A dismembered body parts are being frequently brought to the Medico-legal expert for generating data for identification, due to incidence of mass disasters like air crash, terrorist attacks etc. These disasters are quiet frequent now a days. The aim of the present study was to estimate the stature from percutaneous tibial length (PC...

We conduct a standard public goods game in three small towns in the Indian state of Rajasthan. Until independence in 1947, these towns were assigned to (barely) opposite sides of a colonial border separating British India from the Princely States. One town fell on the British India side of the border on account of historical military conquest, unrelated to any geographic or commercial advantage...

In patients with diabetes mellitus (DM), chronic infections are frequent and severe due to the impairment of their immune status. However, data on the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection in DM type II (DMT2) are scanty and contradictory. Aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence of H. pylori infection in DMT2 patients in Northern region of India (Rajasthan state, more...

Objective: In 2007 the Rajasthan state of India reported 55,000 malaria cases and 46 deaths caused by malaria. District Jodhpur is the gateway to the Thar Desert in Western Rajasthan. Here malaria is endemic. Between 2002 and 2006 the slide positivity rate ranged between 0.56% and 2.29 % in Jodhpur. The present study aimed to identify factors associated with malaria in Jodhpur. Methods: An age ...

Background: Over the past few decades, there has been more interest in geminiviruses, especially begomoviruses, as many of the diseases they cause have now reached epidemic proportions. Weed plants serve as an alternative host for begomoviruses and may allow the transmission of begomovirus to other horticulture crops and medicinal plants thus enhances the host range of these viruses in differen...

Sir, Epilepsy is world wide health problem. Figures ranging from 1.28 to 8.87 per 1000 have been given in various studies from India.1 Very few neuroepidemiological studies have been possible in rural areas. This door-to-door survey was conducted in part of rural Rajasthan, with the aim to study the prevalence rate of active epilepsy and clinical profile including attitude and beliefs of people...

The textile dyeing and printing units in Sanganer town, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. Discharge a huge volume of mostly untreated textile dye wastewater (10,000-15,000kl/day) into various pools and drain adjoining the textile printing units. A number of azo dyes are used in textile printing industries, As a result. The textile waste waters are loaded with them, along with other chemicals used durin...

AIM To investigate the practice-, patient- and dentist related barriers to the provision of preventive dental care as perceived by dentists of Udaipur city, Rajasthan, India. SETTINGS AND DESIGN - A cross sectional descriptive survey was conducted among 120 dentists of Udaipur city, Rajasthan. MATERIAL AND METHODS Mean Content Validity Ratio (CVR) was calculated as 0.87 based on the opinion...