Present study was conducted with an objective to study work and working conditions, extent of occupational health hazards faced thereof and to develop and implement an educational intervention for ensuring same of women engaged as unskilled labourers at construction sites in Ludhiana city. Survey was conducted on randomly selected 80 such women using both objective...
Buses are an important public transport facility available to a common man. These transport facilities in India are run by State-Owned Road Transport Corporation and private travel agencies. The conductor is expected to stand for prolonged periods whereas the driver sits for long duration at his seat. Today, it is widely known that many women also joined as bus con...
The study was conducted to elicit opinions regarding dimensions of educational excellence in Home Science colleges of SAUs. Five questionnaires using Likert scale technique were developed to measure the opinions against principles governing five dimensions of educational excellence viz: teachers-teaching, learners-learning, ...
The study was conducted in Hubli – Dharwad twin cities of Karnataka State to know the opinion and knowledge of children and adolescents towards computer usage and to reveal the time spent for computers and its effects on health of children and adolescents. The total sample size consisted of one hundred and twenty respondents comprising children of age group 10 ...
One hundred and ninety rural girls in the age group of 14-16 yrs of Osmanabad district were personally interviewed for collecting information about opinions on marriage and mate selection. Irrespective of the types and SES of families aflthe rural girls stated that marriage has significance in their life and proper age for girls to get married is above 18 yrs. ...
The present study was undertaken to standardise processing treatments for optimising resistant starch (RS) formation in rice starch and to evaluate the changes in rice starch properties. The study also aimed to standardise rice flour supplemented with RS, to evaluate its quality attributes during storage and the effect of RS supplemented food products on postprandi...
Parents occupy the most important place in the perceptual world of the child and generally feel ambivalent towards the adolescents’ maturity and movement away from the family. They also want to steer their child away from the problem that they experienced in becoming adults. Steinberg’s (1990) research indicated that a majority of parents feel that the adolesc...
Parents influence their children in every aspect of their lives particularly in adolescence period, in the type of parenting approach they adopt to rear their child. Parenting style is defined as the manner in which parents treat, communicate, discipline, monitor and support their children (Slicker, et . al, 2003). Adolescence is the developmental stage followi...
