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Electronic industry is one of the fastest growing manufacturing industry in India. But the increase in sales of electronic goods and their rapid obsolescence has resulted in generation of electronic waste, which is popularly known as E-waste. It includes discarded electronic and electrical equipment. Developing countries face enormous challenges which are related to the generation and management of E-waste which are either internally generated or imported illegally; India is no exception. However, the existing management practices related to E-waste in India are reasonably poor and have the potential to risk both human health and the environment. Moreover, the policy level initiatives are not being implemented appropriately. This paper reviews E-waste generation, present scenario in India, health and environmental implication of E-waste and E-waste management in India.

The intradiverticular bladder carcinoma (IDUCB) is a rare and poorly known entity. To analyze diagnostic and therapeutic features of urothelial carcinoma within the bladder diverticulum. Twenty eight men with an average age of 65 years were included. The main reason for consultation was hematuria. The intradiverticular tumor was suspected by radiological assessment in 11 patients. All these patients underwent an endoscopic resection of the tumor. The histological study concluded to a pTa stage in 10 patients, pT1 stage in 11 patients and invasive tumors in 7 patients. A complementary endovesical BCG-therapy and cystoprostatectomy were performed in patients depending on the stage, grade, recurrence and multifocality. With an average follow-up of 31 months, seven recurrences were found in the group of superficial tumors, including 5 cases of progression to invasive stage and 2cases of nodes invasion. Intradiverticular bladder tumors are rare and more common in elderly. They are distinguished from conventional bladder tumors by a triple specificity: pathological specificity with high frequency of ?T3a tumor, diagnostic specificity with a risk of under-staging of the extent and tumor multifocality, therapeutic specificity linked to a worse prognosis than conventional tumors which encourages a strict limitation of the indication of conservative treatment.

The incidence of neurodegenerative diseases are increasing in the present generation. Based on their diversified causes it is targeting almost all the age groups including young (juvenile) and old (senile) population without discrimination. There are some metabolic diseases which are targeting the brain functions in young. The juvenile diabetes is one among them, where the excess of unutilized glucose is following wide range of deranged paths resulting into encephalopathy. The early detection of such diseases needs to be identified and tackled at the earliest. The existing modern treatment is having much limitation; hence it is inviting the contribution from the field of alternate herbal medicine.

Organizational climate plays a key role in the performance of an organization. In schools it directly affects the academic achievement of the students. Therefore, this study was conducted on organizational climate of high and low adopter secondary schools in Khyber pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. This study was descriptive in nature. Population of this study comprised all the head teachers and teachers of public secondary schools registered with Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (Kohat, Bannu and Dera Ismail Khan). 120 schools were selected as sample from these 8 boards, 40 schools from each board, out of which 20 high adopter and 20 low adopter schools from each board and from each school 01 head teacher and 04 teachers were selected using equal ratio sampling method. For collection of data simple survey method was applied using a self-developed questionnaire based on five major facets of organizational climate and each facet contained ten statements. To find out and compare the organizational climate of high and low adopter schools Mean, Standard Deviation and t-test were used. It was concluded that the organizational climate of high adopter schools was better than low adopter schools. And there was a close relationship between the organizational climate and students academic achievements. It was hoped that the government of Khyber pakhtunkhwa, policy makers and other authorities will take initiative steps to improve the organizational climate of the schools in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Advancement in the field of embedded system and VLSI has induced the researcher in designing low power embedded systems and VLSI circuit design. The embedded systems are mostly batteries operated in nature. The power loss during static, dynamic and switching characteristics are tabulated. The switching nature in cmos constitutes a large value of power loss during the switching condition. Many research papers have been proposed in reducing the switching loss, and low power estimation, this paper clearly demonstrates the comparison of them. The main features of the dominated design techniques and methodologies of transistor level, gate level, RTL level, behavior level and system level are reviewed. The corresponding advantages and drawbacks, as well as comparisons between the techniques and the methodologies are also presented. The low-power design process such as transistor level, gate level, RTL level, behavior level and system-level models are explained.

The thermal evaporation system type (Edwards) has been used to evaporate high purity (99.9 %) silver on glass substrates at room temperature under low pressure (about 10-6 torr) for different thickness (50, 75, 100, 125 and 150) nm. Using a rapid thermal oxidation (RTO) of Ag film at oxidation temperature 350 oC and different oxidation times, Ag2O thin film was prepared. The optical properties of Ag2O film were investigated and compared with other published results. The gas response behaviors of the p-Ag2O/PSi/c-Si – based gas sensor to H2 gas were investigated. The film gas response dependence on the temperature and test gas concentration was tested.

The invasion of the orbit with metastatic tumors is rare. In addition, some cases of unilateral metastatic disease have been reported but more often it is bilateral involvement. Moreover, it frequently attends locoregional invasion of the orbit by tumors adjacent structures including intraocular tumors in children. In adults, the orbital metastases are mostly of epithelial origin and they are considered a full metastatic site [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]. In the literature, many cases of orbital metastases have been reported, such as esophageal cancer metastasis [7], breast [8], pancreatic [9] as well as lung [10]. Today, metastatic carcinoma of the orbit are 2.3 to 7% of orbital tumors [11, 12]. Cancer of the prostate is the most common cancer in humans outside of skin cancer, and it often leads to bone and visceral metastases. [13] However, the orbital metastases appear at an advanced stage of the disease [3, 4]. The purpose of this article is to report the case of a bet diagnosed with adenocarcinoma of the prostate revealed a metastatic orbital tumor.

This paper deals with an analysis of rotation effects on unsteady free convective flow past an impulsively started vertical plate with variable mass diffusion in the presence of transversely applied uniform magnetic field. The problem is solved analytically using the Laplace Transform technique. A selected set of graphical results illustrating the effects of various parameters involved in the problem are presented and discussed. The numerical values of skin-friction have been tabulated.

Aim: To assess the long-term effects of antioxidants in individuals according to age and sex distribution. We studied the effects of antioxidant functional foods and nutraceuticals on Malondialdehyde (MDA) level. Methods: The studied subjects included a total of 150 healthy adults of 96 men and 54 women aged between 30 and 74 years. At the baseline visit, eligible candidate were randomized to either 1 capsule per day of antioxidant nutraceutical or antioxidant functional foods or placebo, and the first dose was dispensed and followed up for six months. Results: The results were grouped based on gender and age ranges, positive decrease in the MDA after antioxidant dietary intervention and lower concentration in men than in female at some age ranges was observed. Conclusion: We suggest the use of antioxidant functional foods as an alternative to antioxidant nutraceuticals/functional foods in reducing the effects of MDA in either healthy or stressed individuals.

Stress has been viewed as an inevitable consequence of work life. A worker will fell stress when his or her does not match their job requirements. Work stress come from a variety of sources and it can affect people in different ways. In the report The Scale of Occupational Stress (Smith et al., 2000 in Jeremy, 2005) it was estimated that there were 5 million workers suffering the high level of stress at work. The study shows the important outcomes that approximately one in five workers reported stress arising from work. There were cause by excessive workloads or lack of managerial support, ill health and back pain, together with certain health related activities such as smoking and alcohol intake.