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A Comparative Study to Assess the Health Status and Academic Progress among Day Scholars and Hostellers in a Selected College of Nursing in New Delhi
Full text linkStudents are considered as the most potential unit of future human resources in a country like ours, which relies greatly on its human resources strength. Hostel is a place where usually students live in a supervised environment. Students come from distant places to earn their degree. Hostel life has a great impact on the academic achievement and health status of the students. However, day scholars live with their parents and do not come across issues such as unappetizing food, hostel ragging and home sickness, but they surely do envy the freedom and independence of their hostel buddies. The objectives of the study were to assess the health status and academic progress among day scholars and hostellers and to compare the health status and academic progress among day scholars and hostellers. A quantitative research approach was adopted using comparative survey design. There were 50 students who were divided into hostellers (n1 =25) and day scholars (n2 =25). A self-report rating scale to assess the health status and academic progress was used for data collection. Result reveals that 100% day scholars are good in their health status whereas 92% hostellers are good and 8% are moderate in their health status and also reveals that 84% hostellers are good and 16% are moderate in their academic progress whereas 80% day scholars are good and 20% are moderate in their academic progress. Through this research study, we have found out that those students staying at home have better health status because of the parental care, healthy food and safe drinking water, whereas those students staying in the hostel have good academic progress due to less time of travel, participation in group study and help from other fellow hostel mates. Therefore, nursing administrations should provide students with good health education, guidance and counselling to help them in time management and cope with stressors in nursing colleges
A Descriptive Study to assess the Knowledge regarding Bio-Medical Waste Management among Class IV Workers in a Selected Hospital of New Delhi
Full text linkBio-Medical Waste Management has recently emerged as an issue of major concern not only to hospitals, and nursing homes but also to the environment. The objective of the study is to assess the knowledge regarding Bio-medical waste management among class IV workers in a selected hospital of New Delhi. A total of 50 samples were taken from Hakeem Abdul Hameed Centenary Hospital by random sampling technique. A structured knowledge questionnaire was used to assess the knowledge of class IV workers. A descriptive survey design was adopted. Majority of the class IV workers (84%) had average knowledge about Bio-medical waste management. Mean knowledge of the sample subjects was 19.8. Proper management of Bio-Medical Waste generated in a healthcare facility is one of the most important functions of health care and class IV workers. There is a need for health care and class IV workers involved in its management to understand the integrate link between human health and environmental health
A Study to assess Computer Vision Syndrome among Students in a Selected University of Delhi
Full text linkThe objectives of the study were to assess the computer vision syndrome among students in a selected university of Delhi and to establish relationship between eye problems and selected demographic variables i.e. duration of usage of smart phones/ computers, gender, previous eye problems or visual acuity and faculty. A total of 100 samples were selected from different faculties of Jamia Hamdard by convenient sampling techniques. A structured questionnaire was used for data collection, to assess computer vision syndrome among college students. A descriptive survey design was adopted. Majority of the students (64%) have moderate computer vision syndrome. With the obtained Chi square value, inference was drawn that gender was related to computer vision syndrome (significant at 0.05 level of significance). With the obtained Fisher Exact value, inference was drawn that past eye problems were related to computer vision syndrome (significant at 0.05 level of significance). Nowadays, computers, laptops and tablets are widely used by people in offices, hospitals etc., due to which, the chances of acquiring Computer Vision Syndrome have greatly increased making it a significant upcoming problem, thus making ubiquitous awareness a dutiful necessity
A Descriptive Study to Assess the Perception towards Organ Donation among the Students in a Selected University of New Delhi
Full text linkIntroduction: Organ transplantation has been the preferred treatment for many terminal solid organ diseases; however, increasing the numbers of people who consent to organ donation remains a significant challenge. In India, 500000 people die every year because of non-availability of organs. Very often the best solution for an end stage disease is to replace the organ. The present study aimed to assess the perception towards organ donation among the students in a selected university of New Delhi.Materials and Methods: A quantitative approach using descriptive survey design was carried out on 100 students using structured questionnaire. Convenient sampling technique was used to select the sample from the selected university of New Delhi.Results: The results of the study revealed that 76% of the subjects had a neutral perception, while only 24% of the students had a positive perception towards organ donation and none of them had negative perception.Conclusion: The study shows that the students need more awareness regarding organ donation and there is a need to improve their perception towards organ donation. Students being the pulse of the nation, should be included in campaigns and events organized to disseminate knowledge about the importance of organ donation for the country
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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