Objective: To evaluate transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) as an intraoperative
monitoring modality and to assess its safety, reliability, and overall utility in real-time use during …

Background Studies examining the intricate interplay between poverty, female literacy, child
malnutrition, and child mortality are rare in demographic literature. Given the recent focus on …

Using three quinquennial rounds of consumption expenditure data over two decades (1993–2012),
this paper estimates the extent of money metric poverty and inequality in regions of …

Using the consumption expenditure data, National Sample Survey, 2009–2010, this paper
test the hypothesis that the monthly per capita household health spending of elderly …

Objectives To examine the level and trend in the coverage gap of a set of interventions of
maternal and child health services using a summary index and to assess the disparity in usage …

Glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) composites are gaining on its usage in various
sectors. The drilling of GFRP composite is an inevitable machining operation. The anisotropy …

BACKGROUND Districts in India exhibit enormous variation in the level of socioeconomic
development and are at different stages of fertility transition. Though a large and growing body …

Aim This paper examines the pattern, growth and determinants of household health spending
in India and compares the growth of per capita household health spending and per capita …

Fertility divergence amid declining in use of modern contraception in many states of India
needs urgent research and programmatic attention. Although utilization of antenatal, natal, and …

More than 1, 000 years ago, a goatherd in Ethiopian south-western highlands plucked a few
red berries from some young green trees growing there in the forest and tasted them. He …