Vol 5 Issue 3 July 2017-September 2017

Abstract: The descriptive study was conducted on 58 nursing students to assess the knowledge regarding neonatal resuscitation among nursing students at Dasmesh College of Nursing, Faridkot. Questionnaire was prepared to assess the knowledge regarding neonatal resuscitation. Sampling technique was non-probability purposive sampling. The data was collected and analyzed by using SSPS version 20 by descriptive and inferential statistics Chi square value. The study had revealed that majority of students have average knowledge (60.34%), good knowledge (31.03%) and poor knowledge (8.62%). There is significant association between gender, class of students and profession of parents but non significant association between age, source of information, and previous exposure to neonatal resuscitation, previous year score and interest of students in subject.

Keywords: Neonate; Resuscitation; knowledge; Nursing Students.

Title: A Descriptive Study to Assess the Knowledge Regarding Neonatal Resuscitation among Nursing Students at Dasmesh College of Nursing, Faridkot, Punjab, India.

Author: GURKIRAN KAUR, AMANPREET KAUR, RAJWINDER KAUR, NARENDRA KUMAR SUMERIYA, NAVNEET KAUR

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Abstract: Gear is a machine element used to transmit motion and power between rotating shafts by means of progressive engagement of projections called teeth. Gears are classified according to the relative position of the axes of the shaft, type of gearing, peripheral velocity of the gears and position of teeth on gear surface. Presently gears are suffered by backlash the amount by which the width of a  tooth  space  exceeds  the  thickness  of the  engaging tooth on the pitch circles, undercut a condition in generated gear teeth  when any part  of the fillet  curve lies inside of a line drawn tangent to the working profile at its lowest point and interference is an important aspect of kinematics  of gearing. When the  gear tooth tries  to dig below the base circle  of mating  gear then the gear tooth action shall be non conjugate  and violate the fundamental  law  of gearing   this  non  conjugate  action  is called the interference . These defects can be eliminated by increasing the pressure angle, by increasing the addendum of mating gear and another way of increasing the load capacity of transmissions is to modify the involute geometry. This has been a standard practice in sophisticated gear design for many years; the nomenclature describing these types of gear modifications can be quite confusing with reference to addendum modification or profile shift. An  additional  alteration  that  is  very  rarely used  is  to make the  gears  asymmetric with different pressure  angles for each side of the tooth. In this study, geometric design of asymmetric gear involute meshing is done. This method is appropriate for the geometric design of spur gears with a small teeth number and is based on the generalized model of involute meshing.

Keywords:  Pressure Angle, Gear Tooth Profile, Involute Meshing.

Title: Design and Validation of Involute Spur Gear with Asymmetric Teeth to Improve Bending Load Carrying Capacity

Author: Mr. H. B. Borhade, Dr. R. R. Navthar

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Abstract: Milk production is one of the major income generating activities for smallholder dairy farmers in Rwanda but the sector is currently facing production and marketing challenges. Contract farming has been introduced as solution. However, low participation has hindered dairy farmers from getting optimum benefits accruing from contract farming not only low participation but the determinants of participation in contracting are still under research. The aim of this study was to analyze the determinants of participation in contract farming to the smallholder dairy farmers in Nyagatare District, Eastern Province of Rwanda. A multi stage sampling techniques were employed to select respondents. Structure questionnaires were employed to collect data from 211 .Probit model was used to determine factors influencing farmers ‘participation, results from the probit model suggests that factors influencing farmers participation mainly include; uncertainty related to price, farm size, herd size of cross breeds, distance to milk collection centers, distance to water source, experience in dairy farming and trainings in forage management. The study concludes that in order to increase participation in contract farming, there is need for diary policy to consider existing knowledge, assets of the farmers and decentralize milk Collection Centers.

Keywords: Contract farming, Probit.

Title: Determinants of Participation in Contract Farming Among Small Holder Diary Farmers in Rwanda

Author: Eric Ntaganira, Jaya Shukla, Robert Mbeche, Mbabazi Mbabzize, Kanuma Taremwa

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Abstract: The Beyond Zero campaign initiative complement the existing health services providers to improve access to and quality health services to a zero state of maternal and child mortality, and zero new HIV infections, these mobile clinics provide free services on prenatal, antenatal and postnatal care. However, limited resourceful information of where a mobile clinic is located inconveniences most patients.

This paper studies the existing mobile clinics and proposes a Location Based Services application to locate the beyond zero campaign mobile clinic via a SMS inquiry, scheduled activities and supplementary information as an outreach program for beyond zero campaign patients. A web based prototype application was developed using several web technologies: HTML, JavaScript, XML, PHP and MySQL.

The results obtained from the testing phase showed that 75% of the participants were satisfied with the application ease of use from its simple Short Message inquiry of the location using any kind of phone, regardless of whether the phone is a smart phone or a feature phone, timely message reply, and real time location with street name and route. 83.3% of the participants were satisfied with the structuring, the location inquiry and patient enrolment with Short message reminders of scheduled clinic appointments.

It is recommended that a pilot application should first be tested with a given sample participants especially in counties where low turnout of patients was recorded at beyond zero campaign mobile clinics. Afterwards a viable production application should be implemented to test its viability in locating the mobile clinic.

Keywords: Beyond zero campaign, Location based services, Open Location Services Platform, SMS.

Title: SMS Location Based Services: A Case of Beyond Zero Campaign Mobile Clinic

Author: Victor Muriuki, Dr. Christopher Chepken

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