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Kumar, Varun
- Ethical Dimensions of 'Hospitality and Tourism' Marketing
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1 International Hospitality Management with Le Cordon Bleu – University of South Australia, Adelaide, AU
1 International Hospitality Management with Le Cordon Bleu – University of South Australia, Adelaide, AU
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Asian Journal of Professional Ethics & Management, Vol 2, No 2 (2010), Pagination: 37-40Abstract
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- Antifungal Activity of Methanolic and Ethanolic Leaf Extracts of Medicinal Plants
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1 Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering, Jacob School of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad (U.P.), IN
1 Department of Molecular and Cellular Engineering, Jacob School of Biotechnology and Bioengineering, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad (U.P.), IN
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International Journal of Plant Protection, Vol 9, No 2 (2016), Pagination: 474-478Abstract
The following plants were screened for thew study viz., Ocimum sanctum (Tulsi), Withania somnifera (Ashwagandha) and Asparagus racemosus (Shatavari) which were traditionally used in India to treat various diseases. In evaluating antioxidant property and phytochemical analysis, all three plants were screened for antifungal activity. It was evaluated using Well diffusion method. The extracts were tested against fungus Aspergillus niger. Inhibition of fungal growth was investigated using PDA well diffusion method. The contents of total flavonoid compounds in crude methanolic and ethanolic extracts obtained from Ocimum sanctum, Withania somnifera and Asparagus racemosus leaves.Keywords
Antifungal, Methanolic Leaf Extracts, Ethanolic Leaf Extracts.
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- A Study on Body Image and Emotional Well-Being among University Students
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Richa Ojha
1,
Varun Kumar
2
Affiliations
1 National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development NIPCCD, Lucknow, U.P., IN
2 Clinical Psychologist, Ankur Rehab Centre, Dharampuri, Indore, M.P., IN
1 National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development NIPCCD, Lucknow, U.P., IN
2 Clinical Psychologist, Ankur Rehab Centre, Dharampuri, Indore, M.P., IN
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IAHRW International Journal of Social Sciences Review, Vol 4, No 1 (2016), Pagination: 65-68Abstract
Happiness is the realization of one's potential. It consisted of the presence of pleasure and absence of pain. It emerges when several specific life conditions are met, such as self-acceptance, environmental mastery, personal growth, and relatedness. Very limited researches have been done on the Body Image and Emotional Well Being among University Students. So this research will be an attempt on this path. To see the relationship between body image and emotional well-being among university students. A sample of 223 university students (of both sexes) was selected by purposive sampling method from Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University Jaunpur, in the age range of 18-25 years. The major thrust of the present investigation was to study the Body image and emotional well-being among university students. Correlation analysis was used to measure the linear relationship between predicting and outcome variables. The body image variables are significantly correlated with emotional well being variables. Body image variables significantly positively correlated with Life satisfaction variables (.276**). Body image variables significantly positively correlated with Positive affect variables (.415**).Body image variables significantly correlated with Negative affect variables (-.240**). Body image variables significantly positively correlated with Social connectedness variables (.311**). In essence, the present study highlights the influence of emotional well-being on body image among university students. It can be said that the emotional well-being significantly influenced body image.Keywords
Body Image, Emotional Well-Being, University Students.- A Review on Psychoeducation in Psychiatric Disorder
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Varun Kumar
1,
Richa Ojha
1,
Ashok Parasar
1,
Ajay Maurya
1,
Ajay Sharma
2,
Ashok Kumar Patel
2,
Ankur Agrawal
2,
S. K. Chawala
3
Affiliations
1 Department of Psychotherapy, Ankur Rehab Centre, Dharmpuri, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN
2 Department of Neurology, Shri Arvindo Institute, Ankur Rehab Centre, Mediacal Sciences, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN
3 Ankur Rehab Centre, Dharmpuri, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN
1 Department of Psychotherapy, Ankur Rehab Centre, Dharmpuri, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN
2 Department of Neurology, Shri Arvindo Institute, Ankur Rehab Centre, Mediacal Sciences, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN
3 Ankur Rehab Centre, Dharmpuri, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN
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IAHRW International Journal of Social Sciences Review, Vol 3, No 4 (2015), Pagination: 526-534Abstract
Psychoeducation has been emerged as an indispensable mode of treatment in modern day psychiatric treatment. Most mental health clinicians and researchers are in favour of adding psychoeducation as the adjunct to strengthen the other forms of psychiatric treatment because psychoeducation has the potentialities to help the patients and family members know about their creative and positive role in the treatment and enhance their ability to deal with daily stress. Psychoeducation is an adjunctive approach which has the immense potentialities to reduce the relapse as well as rehospitalization rates and mental health costs in relapsing psychiatric disorders. Psychoeducation is understood as systematic, structured, didactic information on the illness and its treatment options and psychoeducation aims to enable patients as well as family membersto cope with the illness. Modern treatment protocols cite psychoeducation as an indispensable part of psychiatric treatment. Psychoeducation for patients with severe and relapsing mental disorder improves the understanding of mental illness, increases the quality of life, and can reduce relapse rates. Family psychoeducation as well has become a strongly supported evidence-based practice in the treatment of chronic and relapsing mental disorders. Psychoeducation in families of patients with such disorders can reduce the relapse rates of these patients, positively influence the course of the patient's illness, and help the families and patients to better cope with the mental illness (Rummel-Kluge et al., 2006). In our review paper we present evidence supporting the efficacy of psychoeducation, the topics to be addressed in a psychoeducational program and its postulated mechanisms of action as well as side-effects.Keywords
Psychoeducation, Psychiatric Disorders.- Significance of Rorschach Obsessive Style Index in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Patients
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1 Shri Auribindo Medical College & PG Institute, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Dr B.R. Shri Purandare Arts & Smt. S.G. Gupta, Commerce & Science College Lonavla, Pune, Maharashtra, IN
3 Ankur Rehab Centre, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN
4 District Hospital, Jhansi, Utter Pradesh, IN
1 Shri Auribindo Medical College & PG Institute, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN
2 Department of Psychology, Dr B.R. Shri Purandare Arts & Smt. S.G. Gupta, Commerce & Science College Lonavla, Pune, Maharashtra, IN
3 Ankur Rehab Centre, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN
4 District Hospital, Jhansi, Utter Pradesh, IN
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Indian Journal of Health and Wellbeing, Vol 8, No 7 (2017), Pagination: 642-647Abstract
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder causes in many cases, severe disability. There is a dearth of reliable tools that diagnose difficult cases of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder accurately, particularly those helpful in differentiating it from schizophrenia and depression. Obsessive Style Index was developed by Exner group (1990) with the purpose of diagnosing Obsessive Compulsive Disorder patients accurately. Very little literature is available and probably none from India, regarding the validity of this index. So this research will be an attempt on this path. The aim of the study was to study the socio-demographic profile of the patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, to see the clinical profile of the patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, To see the significance of Obsessive Style Index (OBS) in diagnosing the Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder patients and To see the relation in severity of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder on OBS index. A sample of 30 patients (male&female), diagnosed clinically as having OCD by psychiatrists on the basis of ICD-10 diagnostic criteria for research, were selected from out-patient department of the Post Graduate Institute of behavioural and Medical Sciences, Raipur (C.G.). The major thrust of the present study was to see the significance of Obsessive Style Index (OBS) in diagnosing the Obsessive- Compulsive Disorder patients and to see the relation in severity of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder on OBS index. In essence, the present study highlights the obsessive style index (OBS) needs to be modified if it is to be used to identity the cases of obsessive compulsive disorder in our Indian population or some other measure should be used.Keywords
Obsessive, Style Index, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.- A Study on Life Satisfaction and Emotional Well-Being Among University Students
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Richa Ojha
1,
Varun Kumar
2
Affiliations
1 National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, IN
2 Ankur Rehab Center, Dharampuri, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN
1 National Institute of Public Cooperation and Child Development (NIPCCD), Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, IN
2 Ankur Rehab Center, Dharampuri, Indore, Madhya Pradesh, IN
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Indian Journal of Positive Psychology, Vol 8, No 2 (2017), Pagination: 112-116Abstract
Life satisfaction is the way people evaluate their lives and how they feel about their directions and options for the future. It is a measure of well-being and may be assessed in terms of mood, satisfaction with relations with others and with achieved goals, self-concepts, and self-perceived ability to cope with daily life. So this research will be an attempt on this path. The aim of the study was to ascertain whether the emotional well being of university students affects their life satisfaction. A sample of 223 university students (of both sexes) was covered by purposive sampling method from Veer Bahadur Singh Purvanchal University, Jaunpur. The sample was selected on the basis of age range between 18 years to 25 years. The major thrust of the present study was to study the relation between Life Satisfaction and Emotional Well Being among University Students. Correlation analysis was used to measure the linear relationship between predicting and outcome variables. The life satisfaction and emotional well being are correlated (.276**). In essence, the present study highlights the influence of emotional well-being on life satisfaction among university students. It can be said that the emotional well-being significantly influenced life satisfaction.Keywords
Life Satisfaction, Emotional Well-Being.- Production Optimization of Alkali-Thermo Tolerant Crude Endoglucanase from Funalia leonina by Response Surface Methodology
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Varun Kumar
1,
Nirmal Sudhir Kumar Harsh
1,
Sanjay Naithani
2,
Bipin Prakash Thapliyal
3,
Shrikant Sharma
4
Affiliations
1 Forest Pathology Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun 248 006, IN
2 Cellulose and Paper Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun 248 006, IN
3 Central Pulp and Paper Research Institute, Saharanpur 247 001, IN
4 Ch Kaliram Degree College, Nagal, Saharanpur 247 001, IN
1 Forest Pathology Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun 248 006, IN
2 Cellulose and Paper Division, Forest Research Institute, Dehradun 248 006, IN
3 Central Pulp and Paper Research Institute, Saharanpur 247 001, IN
4 Ch Kaliram Degree College, Nagal, Saharanpur 247 001, IN
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Current Science, Vol 113, No 09 (2017), Pagination: 1750-1754Abstract
A remarkable yield of an alkali-thermo-tolerant endoglucanase (2.93 IU/ml) was obtained from a white rot fungus, Funalia leonina through fermentation process in solid state, optimized by response surface methodology. The three test variables, viz. pH of medium, incubation temperature and incubation time were optimized as they have significant effect on enzyme production. After solving the model equation, the optimum values of medium pH, incubation temperature and incubation period were found to be 5.8, 34°C and 10 days respectively, for maximum endoglucanase production. The consequence of culture preservation medium on enzyme production capacity was also studied and wheat bran agar medium was found the most suitable medium for culture preservation.Keywords
Endoglucanase, Funalia leonina, Preservation Medium, Response Surface Methodology.Full Text
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