The Art and Craft of Music Therapy for Stroke Rehabilitation in a Remote North Indian Community by Sahitya Rajagopal, Alex Street, Stephen W. Philip

“… This case study describes how a music therapist (Stephen) and a music therapy intern (Sahitya) worked conjointly with a client and her granddaughter in a remote part of North India. The description provides a unique insight into conditions, culture, and lifestyle in this location, and how these two clinicians were able to merge broader arts-based and holistic approaches, on a journey towards client-centered and functional neurologic music therapy exercises to help the client regain more independence. …”
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Identification of Facing Satisfaction Issues While Shopping Through Electronic Platforms in Gen-X and Y by Sunita Dwivedi

“…The generational cohort in this study represented Generation X (39-58) and Generation Y (18- 38) of North India. Further, the results also prove that companies' brand image is one of the essential variables moderating the level of satisfaction among consumers and the website's features. …”
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Clinical approach to patients with thick wall gallbladder by Meraj Ahmed, Hirdaya Hulas Nag, Pankaj Meena

“…Abstract Background Thick wall gallbladder (TWGB) is not an uncommon finding on ultrasonography especially in region with high prevalence of gall stones disease like north India. On most occasion, these thickening could be because of benign disorders but malignancy are not a rare cause of it. …”
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Development and validation of a treatment compliance assessment scale for clients with mental illnesses by Sucheta Mann, Jaison Joseph, Yogender Kumar Malik, Rajeshwari Devi

“…The instrument was applied to 130 clients attending the outpatient services of a tertiary care hospital in North India. Results: A seven-item clinician-rated questionnaire was formed in which exploratory factor analyses yielded two factors, including medication compliance and attitude toward current treatment. …”
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Subconjunctival Dirofilariasis presenting as orbital cellulitis by Smitha K Shambhu, Praveen R Murthy

“…Most of the cases from India have been reported from the states of Kerala, coastal Karnataka and Maharashtra, and a few from the North India, Orissa and Assam. Dogs, cats, foxes and other wild animals are definitive hosts for dirofilaria. …”
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Camel Caravans as a Mode of Production in Postclassical Afro-Eurasia. An Interview with Richard W. Bulliet by Constanza Castro, Kaveh Yazdani

“…The caravan system increasingly expanded into many areas of West and Central Asia, North Africa, North India, North-West China, and, to some extent, even parts of “Islamicate” Europe (Andalusia and Sicily). …”
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Ungiven: Philanthropy as critique by Banerjee, Dwaipayan, Copeman, Jacob

“…Drawing on field research principally from contexts of medical blood donation in North India, this article describes how gifts that are given often critique—by obviation—those that remain ungiven: the care not provided by the Indian state for Bhopal survivors, the family members unwilling to donate blood for their transfusion-requiring relative, and so on. …”
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Migration as a risk and a livelihood strategy: HIV across the life course of migrant families in India by Rai, T, Lambert, H, Ward, H

“…We conducted semi-structured interviews with 33 HIV-positive migrant men and women recruited from an anti-retroviral therapy (ART) centre in north India. Following infection among the migrant men, contact with free, public-sector HIV services was often made late, after the development of debilitating symptoms, abandonment of migrant work and return to native villages. …”

Tribal Women’s Livelihood In Goa: A Daily Struggle With The Nature And The Nurture by Velip, Priyanka

“…It has been called by different names, for example jhum cultivation in North India, slash and burn, swidden agriculture etc. …”
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Predictors of positive psychological strengths and subjective well-being among North Indian Adolescents: role of mentoring and educational encouragement by Khan, Aqeel

“…Data were collected from 464 professional course students, 200 males and 264 females residing in North India. Descriptive, correlations and regression analysis were performed. …”

Cross-Sectional Study of Clients’ Satisfaction With Outpatient and Inpatient Services of Public Health Facilities of a North Indian State by Manmeet Kaur, Abu Bashar, Tarundeep Singh, Rajesh Kumar

“…A cross-sectional study of persons attending public health facilities in Punjab, North India, was carried out in 2016. All district hospitals, subdistrict hospitals, 2 community health centres (CHCs), and 6 primary health centres (PHCs) were randomly selected from each of the 22 districts. …”
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Performance in a Corsi block-tapping task following high-frequency yoga breathing or breath awareness by Ram Kumar Gupta, Savita Agnihotri, Shirley Telles, Acharya Balkrishna

“…Methods: Fifteen participants of both sexes with ages between 18 and 24 years (group mean age ± standard deviation, 20.0 ± 1.6 years; 10 females) were recruited for the trial from a university in North India. Each participant was assessed in three sessions conducted on 3 separate days at the same time of the day. …”
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Pattern of winter depression among Kashmiri patients by Majid Shafi Shah, Mushtaq A Margoob, Fazle Roub Bhat, Mansoor Ahmad Dar

“…Materials and Methods: It was a cross-sectional study among fifty patients attending an outpatient clinic of a tertiary care hospital in Kashmir, North India. Patients were diagnosed with SAD as per the diagnostic and statistical manual, 5th version, and were assessed for the clinical pattern of winter depression; months of September to May. …”
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Decolonizing the Gender and Land Rights Debate in India: Considering Religion and More-than-Human Sociality in Women’s Lived Land Relatedness by Catrien Notermans, Luna Swelsen

“…This article links the feminist debate on women’s land rights in India to the current academic debate on critical human-nature relationships in the Anthropocene by studying how married Hindu women weigh the pros and cons of claiming land in their natal family and how they practice their lived relatedness to land in rural Udaipur (Rajasthan, North India). The article disentangles the complex issue of why women do not respond eagerly to Indian state policies that for a long time have promoted gender equality in the domain of land rights. …”
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Clinicopathological Profile of the von Willebrand Disease in a Tertiary Care Centre in Varanasi by Pawan K. Pandey, Vijai Tilak, Mahima Yadav, Neelu Kashyap

“…Objective The von Willebrand disease (vWD) is one of the most common inherited bleeding disorders in India; however, the diagnostic tests and its interpretation require specialized laboratory and personnel which are not readily available in the eastern part of North India. The purpose of this study is to estimate the relative prevalence of vWD and study the clinical and laboratory features including advanced diagnostic tests. …”
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Liver function tests at admission as marker of severity and prognosis in COVID-19 patients – A retrospective analysis by Pratibha Himral, Rajesh Bhawani, Manisha Bhardwaj, Nikhil Sharma

“…Method: We retrospectively analysed the hospital records of 344 patients with moderate to severe COVID-19 illness admitted to a Dedicated COVID Hospital in North India. Results: Out of 344 patients included in the study, 59.9% were males. …”
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Post traumatic stress symptoms and heart rate variability in Bihar flood survivors following yoga: a randomized controlled study by Joshi Meesha, Singh Nilkamal, Telles Shirley, Balkrishna Acharya

“…Due to heavy rain and a rift on the banks of the Kosi river, in the state of Bihar in north India, there were floods with loss of life and property. …”
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Stigma and self-esteem in patients of bronchial asthma by Gunbirpal Singh Sidhu, Kranti Garg, Vishal Chopra

“…A prospective, cross-sectional study was conducted in a tertiary care centre of semi urban area of north India during 2021-2022. Three hundred cases of bronchial asthma and 50 healthy controls were enrolled. …”
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Integrating Hydrological Connectivity in a Process–Response Framework for Restoration and Monitoring Prioritisation of Floodplain Wetlands in the Ramganga Basin, India by Manudeo Singh, Rajiv Sinha

“…We have implemented the proposed method in 3226 wetlands in the Ramganga Basin in north India. Further, we have applied specific selection criteria, such as distance from the nearest stream and stream density, to prioritise the wetlands for restoration and monitoring. …”
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Perception of multi-stakeholders towards clean milk production practice at field conditions in Indian dairying by PRAKASHKUMAR RATHOD, MAHESH CHANDER

“…The study included primary data of 360 dairy farmers, 80 research scientists and 40 extensionists in North India and also relevant secondary data. The study revealed that perception of scientists and extension experts was more favourable towards relevance, profitability and sustainability of CMP, while the perception of farmers was less favourable towards CMP. …”
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