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Bhattacharyya, Ranjan
- A Case of Corpus Callosum Agenesis Presenting with Recurrent Brief Depression
Authors
1 Calcutta National Medical College & Hospital, Kolkata, IN
2 Calcutta Medical College, Kolkata, IN
Source
International Journal of Nursing Education, Vol 2, No 1 (2010), Pagination: 39-41Abstract
Introduction
Agenesis of Corpus callosum can have various neuropsychiatric manifestations.
Case presentation
Following case report highlights a young a man presenting with features of recurrent brief depressive disorder each lasting for about three to seven days for over a year. He had history of occasional headache and episodes of swooning attack in between usually precipitated by emotional events. His neuroimaging revealed the agenesis of corpus callosum. He was experiencing swooning attacks as he got aware that some 'unusual' findings were present in his reports.
Conclusions
Recurrent brief depression can be a manifestation of this congenital anomaly and Conversion disorder can be present as comorbid diagnosis perhaps due to ignorance and fear for this apparently innocuous congenital malformation.
Keywords
Corpus Callosum Agenesis, Recurrent Depression, Conversion Disorder.
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- Case Report of Rheumatoid Vacuities Leading to Recurrent Sloughing Ulcer of Skin
Authors
1 Department of General Medicine, Murshidabad Medical College & Hospital, West Bengal, IN
2 Department of General Medicine, ID Hospital, Kolkata, West Bengal, IN
3 Department of Psychiatry, Murshidabad Medical College & Hospital, West Bengal, IN
4 Department of General Surgery, Murshidabad Medical College & Hospital, West Bengal, IN
5 Department of Pathology, Murshidabad Medical College & Hospital, West Bengal, IN
Source
International Journal of Nursing Education and Research, Vol 2, No 3 (2014), Pagination: 254-257Abstract
A lady aged 50 yrs presented with multiple small and large joint pain with severe body ache. She also gave history of recurrent skin ulcers which is very deep almost extending to the bone. The ulcers heal with scarring by the standard treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis and Steroid. One may misinterpret the diagnosis of rheumatoid vasculities presenting as sloughing ulcers as a secondary bacterial infection of skin as the patient may be associated with immunosuppression.Keywords
Rheumatoid Vasculitis, Anti-Nuclear Antibodies, Atypical Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibodies, Sloughing Ulcers, Immunosuppression.- Skill Development Initiatives in India:Fails to Bridge the Skill Deficits despite Big Promises
Authors
1 DCB Girls’ College, Jorhat-1, Assam, IN
Source
International Journal of Innovative Research and Development, Vol 5, No 12 (2016), Pagination: 165-168Abstract
India is emerging as a service driven economy with demographic dividend as it's competitive advantage. The opportunity of demographic dividend may be lost if the upcoming working population does not have quality education to make India internationally competitive and to further boost its economic activity, a skilled workforce and a functioning labour market are essential. Realizing this, the Government of India has started several initiatives to skill the workforce. States, Centre and private parties all are involved in this skilling initiative. It is the UPA Government that first gave Skill Development a priority by announcing Skill Development Policy, 2009. Modi Government added fuel to it by formulating Revised Skill Development Policy, 2015 and giving a mission to all the skill development activities. Skill development will serve purpose of Make in India, Digital India and Swachh Bharat. New schemes have been introduced under NSDC. But after one year of implementation, it seems reality has belied the expectation. With the help of certain case studies, an attempt is made in this paper to assess the ongoing initiatives of skill development by multiple stakeholders within the provision of NSDC.
Keywords
Skill Development, Demographic Dividend, Initiatives, Reality, Skilled Workforce.Full Text
- Mobile Theatre of Assam: Its Challenges
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International Journal of Innovative Research and Development, Vol 4, No 8 (2015), Pagination:Abstract
Mobile theatre of Assam has a long heritage in the field of performing Art. The term Mobile Theatre was first used by the renowned social worker RadhagovindaBaruah in the remark book of Suradevi Theatre after seeing the performances in Latasil playground of Guwahati. The first mobile theatre group of Assam was established in 1963. It was Nataraj theatre founded by veteran theatre organiserAchyutLahkar. In fact mobile theatre took such an organised form after a long journey of more than 30 years in which it was in the form of Yatra and Opera in the initial stage. There is no other theatre in the world like Assamese mobile theatre. It has given Assamese culture an unique identity. Revolutionary drama worker BrajanathSarma’s Kohinoor Opera was the pre indication of mobile theatre of Assam of 60’s. He was the pioneer of Assamese commercial mobile stage. AchyutLahkar introduced several new things to the mobile theatre movement of Assam. Mobile theatre has been playing two roles - one promoting drama as an art and one promoting drama as a product. Mobile theatre is a mixture of art and commerce. It has also immense contributions to socioeconomic and educational upliftment of Assamese people. It always performs its social responsibility by enacting a dance drama either on socio-cultural issue or on mythological theme before the performance of the main drama. It is a medium that has great impact on the viewers. The plays enacted by the theatre groups offered a veritable analysis of multifarious social evils. From the highly qualified spectators to illiterate villagers, all get the point to think on enjoying the performance of Mobile Theatre. Mobile theatre also contributes to the cultural environment of the state. Music and dance of mobile theatre is essentially of folk flavour. Over the years they have managed to capture and use the myriad tunes of the people of Assam, leading to the preservation and spread of folk forms, be it tunes or dance form. Mobile theatres have also great contribution to Assamese literature. They have created some new playwrights and offered many scripts to Assamese literature. Though it is not their purpose yet the mobile theatres help in the educational upliftment of the people indirectly. The very functioning of mobile theatre resembles to modern day’s social enterprise. Globalization has brought changes to the cultural taste of the people. Commercialization of culture has been started. It has created a market for drama in which Mobile Theatre groups are becoming sellers of drama. In fact, taking the challenges of globalisation they have changed themselves while this change itself has brought new challenges to them. In the process drama has lost its artistic value. So, these changes are not always positive. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyse these challenges as well as to provide solutions to it. In this study transformation of mobile theatre to social enterprise was found as a viable alternative.
Mobile theatre of Assam has a long heritage in the field of performing Art. The term Mobile Theatre was first used by the renowned social worker RadhagovindaBaruah in the remark book of Suradevi Theatre after seeing the performances in Latasil playground of Guwahati. The first mobile theatre group of Assam was established in 1963. It was Nataraj theatre founded by veteran theatre organiserAchyutLahkar. In fact mobile theatre took such an organised form after a long journey of more than 30 years in which it was in the form of Yatra and Opera in the initial stage. There is no other theatre in the world like Assamese mobile theatre. It has given Assamese culture an unique identity. Revolutionary drama worker BrajanathSarma’s Kohinoor Opera was the pre indication of mobile theatre of Assam of 60’s. He was the pioneer of Assamese commercial mobile stage. AchyutLahkar introduced several new things to the mobile theatre movement of Assam. Mobile theatre has been playing two roles - one promoting drama as an art and one promoting drama as a product. Mobile theatre is a mixture of art and commerce. It has also immense contributions to socioeconomic and educational upliftment of Assamese people. It always performs its social responsibility by enacting a dance drama either on socio-cultural issue or on mythological theme before the performance of the main drama. It is a medium that has great impact on the viewers. The plays enacted by the theatre groups offered a veritable analysis of multifarious social evils. From the highly qualified spectators to illiterate villagers, all get the point to think on enjoying the performance of Mobile Theatre. Mobile theatre also contributes to the cultural environment of the state. Music and dance of mobile theatre is essentially of folk flavour. Over the years they have managed to capture and use the myriad tunes of the people of Assam, leading to the preservation and spread of folk forms, be it tunes or dance form. Mobile theatres have also great contribution to Assamese literature. They have created some new playwrights and offered many scripts to Assamese literature. Though it is not their purpose yet the mobile theatres help in the educational upliftment of the people indirectly. The very functioning of mobile theatre resembles to modern day’s social enterprise. Globalization has brought changes to the cultural taste of the people. Commercialization of culture has been started. It has created a market for drama in which Mobile Theatre groups are becoming sellers of drama. In fact, taking the challenges of globalisation they have changed themselves while this change itself has brought new challenges to them. In the process drama has lost its artistic value. So, these changes are not always positive. In this paper an attempt has been made to analyse these challenges as well as to provide solutions to it. In this study transformation of mobile theatre to social enterprise was found as a viable alternative.
Keywords
Heritage, Mobile Theatre, Playwrights, Socioeconomic, Challenges, Globalisation, Artistic ValueFull Text
- The demerits of meta-analysis in science
Authors
1 Division of Environment Science, ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi 110 012, India, IN
2 ICAR-Indian Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, New Delhi 110 012, India, IN
Source
Current Science, Vol 122, No 12 (2022), Pagination: 1365-1366Abstract
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