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Aparna Singh ¹, B. D. Bhatia ¹, S. K. Upadhyay ¹, Vineeta Gupta ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Medical Sciences, B.H.U., Varanasi, IN

Abstract

Thalassemia has become a worldwide clinical problem due to increasing immigration of ethnic groups with high prevalence of thalassemia. 30 million people carry thalassemia gene in the world of which approximately 15 million alone are in India. The carrier rate varies from 3 - 17 % in different ethnic groups. Over the past three decades, better medical facilities, regular blood transfusions and iron chelation have improved the quality of life of children with thalassemia and converted it from fatal to chronic disease with prolonged life. Thalassemia is an inherited autosomal recessive blood disease which is characterized by an imbalance in the production of alpha and beta polypeptide chains of haemoglobin. The goal of medical care is not only to achieve long term survival but also to achieve the best possible psychological, social and spiritual wellbeing. With increased life expectancy of these patients, complications keep arising such as transfusion related infections, allosensitization, iron- overload related cardiac, endocrine and liver disturbances, toxicities of iron chelators, hepatic involvement, neurological complications and psychological manifestations. These can manifest as anxiety, nervousness, irritability, demanding a lot of attention, depression, etc. in the child. This paper emphasizes the fact that these children may require something more than simple medical management and also psychological support. In short, beta thalassemia has a spectrum of varied manifestations and complications. We need to develop preventive strategies like pre- marital screening, genetic counselling, ante- natal diagnosis and educational programs for awareness. Apart from early diagnosis, there is also a need to increase medical facilities which is a great challenge facing India .This paper gives a brief overview of the disease and focuses on the behaviour of children with thalassemia. We have described their psychological symptoms and strongly recommend psychological interv

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Aparna Singh ¹, S. K. Upadhyay ¹, Vineeta Gupta ²

Affiliations
1 Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, IN
2 Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221 005, Uttar Pradesh, IN

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There was a constant and variable increase in asthma prevalence worldwide in the last two decades, and the same is being observed in India. The reasons are multi-factorial, but a neglected area is the psychological aspects. The aim of the present study was to investigate the psychopathology of children suffering from bronchial asthma. A casecontrol study was conducted at the asthma clinic, Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Medical Sciences, Banaras Hindu University, 40 children age range 6-14 years with asthma were included in the study group by consecutive sampling and compared to 40 age and sex matched children with no history of chronic illness. Psychopathology of children were evaluated using Hindi version of childhood psychopathology measurement schedule (CPMS). A score of 10 or above indicates the possibility of psychopathology in children. 4/40 (10%) children with asthma had scores above the recommended cut-off score (≥10) on the CPMS and were functioning in the clinically significant maladjustment range while 3/40 (7.5%) of the control subjects had scores above the recommended cut-off score. In addition, children with asthma did not found to have a significant difference on the total score of CPMS than control subjects. There were more emotional problems with physical illness in the asthma group than the control group. The findings of this study enlightened the new facts about asthma.

Keywords

Bronchial Asthma, Psychopathology, Psychosocial Problems, Respiratory Illness.

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Aparna Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Paediatrics, IMS, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, IN

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The risk of someone committing suicide continues to be an elusive challenge for health professionals. And the role of emotional intelligence is an ongoing issue in suicide prevention. Either emotional intelligence may play an important role to reduce suicidal thinking/attempts or not is a big question. So this is an appropriate goal for future research. To evaluate the role of emotional intelligence in suicide. Various researches support the notion that emotional intelligence is able to reduce the suicidal thinking and attempts. This paper is theoretical base of subject and there is a predominance of western studies regarding the role of emotional intelligence in suicide. There is need to expand the vision about emotional intelligence, create awareness and effort to develop emotional intelligence in children during their childhood because it can be developed and better able to reduce negative thoughts of life including suicide even in the period of adverse condition.

Keywords

Suicide, Suicidal Thinking, Emotional Intelligence.

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Aparna Singh ¹, Jyoti Kedia ¹

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1 Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering, PEC University of Technology, Chandigarh, IN

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At gigascale integration the interconnects are major bottlenecks where optics seems to be a better alternative for use in optoelectronics. As it is very true that silicon electronics is going to increase in performance and complexity both, so as to compete with this rapidly evolving technology, the aim of optoelectronics is to complement it. Therefore optical interconnect devices for both input and output is a desirable method for making optoelectronics. This paper presents study and comparative analysis of optical receiver for use in optoelectronic Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI). There are various optoelectronic VLSI receivers designed like diode clamped receiver, transimpedance receiver with single beam and dual beam and sense amplifier based receiver. On the basis of their performance characteristics all the available receivers are compared.

Keywords

Interconnect, Optoelectronics (OE), Optical Receivers, Smart Pixels, Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI).

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Aparna Singh ¹, Sanjay Singh ², Nirmala Singh ², Ajlan Khan ¹

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1 College of Agriculture, Rewa (M.P.), IN
2 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Rewa (M.P.), IN

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Involvement of rural women in decision-making process has been of great importance because they perform every household activity and major farm activities with great devotion and excellent capabilities. Keeping this in view, the present study was conducted to know the level of involvement of rural women in the decision-making process in agriculture and allied activities. The present study was conducted in Rewa district of M.P. since the National Rural Livelihood Mission (NRLM) project has been running in the district since 2015 for improving the livelihood and empowerment of women. Hence, the sample of the study was consisted of 120 rural women beneficiaries of National Rural Livelihood Mission. The study revealed that 45.00 per cent of the total respondents exhibited low level of decision making pattern followed by 30.83 per cent had medium and only 24.16 per cent had high decision making ability in farming and allied activities The study suggests that the rural women should be actively involved in awareness and capacity building programmes of rural and agricultural development for enhancing their involvement in decision-making process.

Keywords

Decision Making Pattern, Rural Women, National Rural Livelihood Mission.

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Aparna Singh ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Kriya Sharir, RLAMC, Durg – 491221, Chhattisgarh, IN

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Nadi pariksha deals with the science of assessing the functional status of pulse for diagnosis of healthy mind, body and even soul. The presence of nadi (pulse) in an individual signifies the existence of life. Ayurveda visualizes nadi pariksha being performed to analyze and access the quantity of tridosha in body i.e. nadi provides a platform for diagnosis of normal and vitiated doshas in the body. Nadi pariksha serves as an important diagnostic tool for examination of pulse and it’s importance is described in Astavidhapariksha, as one of the important diagnostic measures in ayurvedic literature. The concept of nadi pariksha was visualized in various ayurvedic texts like Sharangdhar Samhita, Yoga Ratnakar, Basavarajeeyam, Bhava Prakasha as well as in Nadi Prakasha by Ravan Samhita and Nadi vigyan by Kanad. The traditional knowledge of nadi pariksha in Ayurveda was practiced since a long time but, these documents need to be assessed as the quality of pulse described was qualitative and the same needs to be well analyzed in quantitatively for practical implication of nadi with scientific approach. This paper deals with the ancient development of diagnostic tool of examination of pulse in parlance with modern approach hence an extensive search was undertaken using key words as Nadi, Nadi pariksha etc in Google scholar, Pubmed, Google as well as ayurvedic literatures were also studied so as to re-establish facts which could be helpful in future.

Keywords

Ashtavidhapariksha, Nadi Prakash, Pulse Examination.

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