The age of the individual can be assessed as skeletal age, morphological age, secondary sex character age and dental age and these may be applied singly or in conjunction to assess the degree of physical maturity of a child. The determination of physiological age is based on the various degree of maturation of the different tissue systems. Dental age is one of the important factor taken into ac...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVE The estimation of filariasis prevalence in Panna district of Madhya Pradesh was so far relied upon clinical and night blood smear examination. However, night blood smear examination fails to detect the infection in individuals having low parasitaemia and cryptic filarial infection. The present study was undertaken to re-evaluate the prevalence of filariasis in two village...

Haemoglobinopathies in form of sickle haemoglobin and β -thalassaemia are common in Central India and are important from clinical and disease burden point of view. These disorders are more common in Scheduled Tribes and Scheduled Castes as compared to other endogamous groups of Central India. There is heterogeneity in the distribution of these deleterious genes in the area. In some endogamous g...

BACKGROUND This was a prevalence survey of pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) disease in the tribal population of Madhya Pradesh state, central India. METHODS A community-based cross-sectional tuberculosis (TB) disease prevalence survey was undertaken among adults aged > or = 15 years in the tribal population of Madhya Pradesh. A multistage stratified cluster sampling was adopted. A representative ...

Engaging in partnerships is a strategic means of achieving objectives common to each partner. The Post Graduate Diploma in Public Health Management (PGDPHM) partners in consultation with the government and aims to strengthen the public health managerial capacity. This case study examines the PGDPHM program conducted jointly by the Public Health Foundation of India and the Government of Madhya P...

PROBLEM In India, adequately iodized salt needs to be made accessible to the most marginalized. APPROACH In an effort to provide adequately iodized salt to the most vulnerable, in 2009 Madhya Pradesh launched a state-wide initiative through two national flagship nutrition programmes: the Supplementary Nutrition Programme of the Integrated Child Development Services and the Midday Meal Scheme....

Timing Jitter and Quantization Error Effects on the performance of Sigma Delta ADC used in SDR Receivers Preeti Trivedi, Dr. Ajay Verma 1 Assistant Professor, SGSITS, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA 2 Prof. and Head, IET, DAVV, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, INDIA __________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: This paper presents the effect of timing...

AIM The study was conducted to determine the prevalence and burden of gastrointestinal (GI) parasites in cattle and buffaloes of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh. MATERIALS AND METHODS The presence of helminths eggs and coccidial oocysts in fecal samples were detected using standard qualitative and quantitative methods. Identification of eggs or oocysts was done on the basis of morphology and size of...

1 Research Scholar of Sagar Institute of Research & Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India 2 Professor, Dept. of Electronics and Communication, Sagar Institute of Research & Technology, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India. __________________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract: Scaling of devices in bulk CMOS technology contributes to short channel effe...

The antihyperlipidemic activity of resinoids of guggul (Commiphora mukul/Commiphora wightii), belonging to family Burseraceae (Genus: Commiphora), collected from different parts of India (Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan), was studied on cholesterol-rich high fat diet-induced model of hyperlipidemia in rats. The resinoids of these exudates were prepared in ethyl acetate and ethyl alcohol. ...