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BACKGROUND: There is growing recognition of the role of mobile learning (M-learning) for undergraduate (UG) academic education and teaching purposes, but teacher attitudes toward it can be variable. OBJECTIVE: To determine the attitudes toward the incorporation of M-learning methods for UG medical education among resident doctors at a government medical college in Delhi, India. METHODS: A cross-sectional study was conducted for 3-months duration (2019) among 60 final year junior and senior resident doctors. The participants were selected from all the preclinical and paraclinical department, and one clinical department selected randomly based on the probability proportion to size method. The data was collected using self-administered instruments including the modified 20-item M-learning Perception Scale (MLPS). RESULTS: Social media (36.7%) and instant messaging platforms (85%) were routinely used by the participants for exchanging academic (medical) and health-related information. The mean score for all the MLPS item responses was >3, indicating positive attitudes toward M-Learning. The participants expressed maximum agreement with the views stating M-Learning can "supplement traditional teaching," was "reliable for personal use," and "improves the quality of lessons." The responses of those participants having preexisting familiarity with health information and education portals, and those aware of massive open online courses correlated significantly with higher MLPS scores. CONCLUSION: M-learning is visualized as an increasingly relevant teaching and learning medium by early-career resident doctors involved in UG medical education in India.

Not Available ; COVID-19 is the deadliest pandemic, with over 18.2 million people infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus by August 2, 2021 resulting in human deaths and economic losses. A number of countries have formulated control measures in order to prevent the spread of the virus. However, it is unknown when the outbreak will subside in different countries around the world. The role of predicting the COVID-19 trend is extremely difficult. Indian government has made disease outbreak analysis a priority in order to implement necessary healthcare measures to reduce the impact of this deadly pandemic on human health and country's economics. The time series data for COVID-19 disease was collected from the website www.covid19india.org and were analyzed using a periodic regression model using the data from 22nd Janaury March 2020 to 01st Febraury 2021 the estimated number of cases until 27 July, 2021 was predicted to develop a stochastic model using periodic regression and were documented in top 10 highly infected states in India. The analysis revealed a increasing pattern for the number of reporting cases in the early days of prediction and decreasing trend for the number of reporting cases in the later days of prediction, which could decrease in future days in Karnataka, West Bengal, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Bihar and Haryana states. However, in Madhya Pradesh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu states showed a rapid phase of rise in disease incidence, which is likely to infect a larger population and suggests the disease's pandemic existence over a duration. Our model emphasizes the importance of ongoing and continuous efforts that are in place in all states to minimize occurrence of new cases of infections, so as to potentially improving India's economic wealth with the available resources ; Not Available

The countries involved in the ASEAN–India Free Trade Agreement (AIFTA) are major producers/exporters of tropical commodities including natural rubber (NR). India is the sixth largest producer and second largest consumer of NR in the world. The country is also a major importer of NR and exporter of rubber products. The import of NR worth US$ 785.44 million and export earnings of rubber products worth US $244.17 million from ASEAN region during the year 2017–18 indicated the importance of AIFTA in the rubber sector of India. Therefore, an in-depth analysis on the pattern and specialisation of rubber and rubber products exported from India is done using trade indicators such as revealed comparative advantage, regional orientation, intra-industry trade and Galtonian regression. The results indicate no considerable change after the establishment of AIFTA in the pattern and specialisation in exports of rubber and rubber products from India to ASEAN.

J. D. Beglar, Archaeological Survey of India, Report on a tour in Bundelkhand and Malwa, 1871-72 and in the Central Provinces in 1873-74, vol. 7 (Calcutta: Superintendent of Government Printing, 1878).

Being universal phenomenon, stress is experienced in everyday human life especially among individuals who work in different industrial set-ups at various levels of jobs. With changing work expectations, competition & environment, increasing workloads and work place politics, stress has become an integral part of employees' life and affects individual performance. Also, due to an employee's psychological and physiological reactions to work situation factors directly or indirectly influence the stress to appears, as resultant. Though certain level of work stress instigates the efficiency of work in positive but more stress causes negative impact on individual employee and in turn to organization too. Employees handle such stress without letting it influence their performances but fail to do so with growing work stress beyond certain level. On organization side, it also depends upon type of industry and nature of competition faced by the organization in market. On individual side, this stress impact on performance varies with work experience, demographics and length of service years. In order or assess workplace stress and its influence on individual employee, this study is done on a garment manufacturing organization in India, which is prone to high work stress due to its competitive nature of business.

The purpose of this study is to understand the role of leader-member exchange, nepotism, and employee loyalty in attaining organizational sustainability in Indian small and medium enterprises. The quantitative descriptive research design was adopted following purposive sampling in the present research study. The 652 employees from the top, middle and lower level of management in SMEs such as manufacturing and service sector from Northern region of India were examined. The data were collected through a survey questionnaire and analyzed by using structural equation modeling. The findings of the research study explain the significant direct impact of leader-member exchange on organizational sustainability in Indian SMEs. The indirect relationship shows significant partial mediation effect of nepotism and employee loyalty between leader-member exchange and organizational sustainability. The obtained findings will assist entrepreneurs, leaders, and managers of SMEs in recognizing the value of family members' contributions to the success of their business.

Adolescent girls vulnerable to early marriage and school dropout in rural India may be at elevated risk of psychosocial problems. However, few screening instruments have been culturally adapted and validated to measure this risk. This paper describes the process by which the Primary Health Questionnaire PHQ-9, a screening instrument for depression, was tested for cultural validity as part of the Samata evaluation – an intervention to support low caste adolescent girls in rural south India to attend and complete secondary school and to delay marriage until adulthood. Three focus groups discussions (FGDs) were held with 20 adolescent girls and six outreach workers of the Samata programme in rural north Karnataka, south India. The FGDs were used to explore local expressions of psychosocial problems and to understand the acceptability and appropriateness of PHQ-9 items. A thematic content analysis was conducted on the transcripts of the FGDs. Descriptions of local expressions of psychosocial problems generally matched the items on the PHQ-9. However, not all representations of psychological symptoms were captured by this tool. Persistent worry, loneliness and isolation, and externalised behaviours were also described by participants as common expressions of psychosocial distress. Based on the limitations of translation methods, local stakeholders must be involved in evaluating the cultural appropriateness of mental health screening tools. The current research demonstrates a strategy by which to assess the cultural validity of Western psychiatric instruments with key stakeholders in low- and middle-income settings.

The first aid knowledge of seventy pediatricians practicing in various Government and private hospitals in Karnal city Haryana, India, were assessed through four conceptual questions a hypothetical clinical condition about anterior tooth avulsion and its re-plantation in 10 years old boy. The collected data was analyzed as a whole as well as in four different groups of pediatricians having experience as G1, 10 to 20 years, G3, >20 to 30 years and G4, > 30 years. The percentage of pediatricians having different options for four different questions were calculated and in addition to that knowledge-score of each pediatrician was calculated by assigning one and zero to each right and wrong options of each question. Satisfactory knowledge was observed on three basic questions viz. Q1 Is the avulsed tooth likely to be primary or permanent?, answered rightly as permanent by 71.43% pediatricians with knowledge score, 0.70±0.19, Q2, How urgent do you feel that a dentists opinion is needed, accurately answered as immediately, by 67.14 % pediatricians with knowledge score, 0.65±0.15 andQ3 Do you think that a primary tooth that has been avulsed should be replanted, answered appropriately as no, by 60% pediatricians with knowledge score, 0.60±0.16, whereas, average knowledge about another basic question viz.,Q4,What would be the ideal time for replanting the avulsed tooth for the best possible prognosis?, accurately responded as within 15 to 20 minutes by 34.29% of pediatricians with knowledge score 0.33±0.06. Mild positive correlation between first aid knowledge of pediatricians with experience was observed in this study.

Unplanned urbanization would pose serious threats to both environment and mankind. Hence, urbangrowth model (UGM) becomes mandatory to predict future growth of a city. In the current study, urbangrowth of Sriperumbudur Taluk, Tamil Nadu, India was predicted using three types of Cellular Automata(CA) model namely Traditional CA (TCA) model, Agents based Cellular Automata (ACA) Model and NeuralNetwork coupled Agents- based Cellular Automata (NNACA) model. The urban maps of the study regionfor the years 2009, 2013 and 2016 along with the influencing agents of urbanization namely transporta-tion, industries, elevation and also hotspot locations based on the Government policy were used in themodeling. Analytical Hierarchical Process (AHP) technique was adopted to estimate the weights of theagents for suitability map preparation in ACA model. On validating 2016 predicted outputs, NNACAmodel proved to be the better urban model (kappa coefficient - 0.72) when compared to TCA and ACAmodels (kappa coefficient - 0.6 each). Shannon's entropy measure revealed that the urbanization is con-centrated in the north-east direction and it is predicted to have an urban sprawl area of 157 km2in 2020using NNACA model while the observed urbanization is 113 km2of the area in 2016.

Reasons and awareness levels of farmers on residue burning in Indo-Gangetic Plain of India : An exploratory research ; The study examines reasons for the burning of crop residue, awareness of the impact of the burning of crop residue and government approaches to mitigating the burning. Data from 180 farmers from three districts of the state of Haryana was sought. Rank Based Quotient method was used to identify reasons. At the same time, awareness was assessed by direct questioning. The study concludes that the short window time between paddy harvesting and showing wheat was a primary reason for stubble burning. Research also shows that harvesting is expensive and time-consuming, causing farmers to burn. Most farmers were aware of the various adverse effects of burning on soil health (73.89%), air health (100%), and human health (81.66%). Everybody was aware of the ban on crop residue burning and other government measures, but they have no other viable options other than burning. Policymakers, therefore, must focus on feasible options that are acceptable in farmers' socio-economic conditions. ; Not Available

The purpose of this study was to examine the determinants for early discontinuation among IUCD users in a rural district of northern India. Multivariate analysis indicated several significant predictors of early discontinuation of IUCD use. The risk of discontinuation increased more than two times in the presence of factors such as more than usual amount of menstrual flow before insertion and intermenstrual bleeding after insertion. Similarly, residence or alternatively those coming from villages without health centres were nearly two times more likely to discontinue. Menstrual disturbance increased the risk nearly three-fold. If only those women who report normal menstrual cycles had IUCDs inserted, it is very likely that the high discontinuation rate due to menstrual disturbance could be reduced. Knowledge about the IUCD and its effectiveness decreased the risk of early discontinuation but was not a statistically significant factor in multivariate analysis. Validation of the developed model was done by using the bootstrapping method and the model was found to be 18% noisy. These findings may help family planning providers in counselling and practice.