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Female Education and Risk Factors of Noncommunicable Diseases across India: An Exploration
(Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India (APTI), 2026) Phadte, Manisha; Rath, Seema
Non-communicable diseases are rapidly rising worldwide, causing serious public health concerns that must be addressed. Past studies exhibit the relation between education and the prevalence of non-communicable diseases and the associated risk factors. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the influence of female education on risk factors such as overweight/ obesity, increased blood sugar, elevated blood pressure, tobacco and alcohol use linked to the incidence of non-communicable diseases across 28 states of India by using the data from National Family Health Survey 5. Materials and Methods: The present study uses National Family Health Survey 5 (2019-21) data. Different groups of female education and various risk factors resulting in non-communicable diseases have been considered to analyse their association. Results: Linear regression analysis revealed a statistically significant association between female education and the risk factors for non-communicable diseases except for alcohol consumption. Conclusion: Education is linked to overweight/obesity, increased blood sugar and elevated blood pressure among females. Therefore, effective awareness programs and promotional activities along with improvement in female education need to be undertaken to help women self-manage risk factors causing non-communicable diseases.
Resistivity enhancement in c-axis-grown nanograin Mn–Zn ferrite thin films generated through radio frequency sputtering technique
(Springer Nature, 2026) Joseph, Jaison; Mordekar, Rajashri Karmali; Mahadevan Pillai, V. P.
Ultra-thin ferrite materials synthesis, with physical properties tailored to specific applications is expected to drive innovations in manufacturing techniques and production processes for electronic components and devices. The specific physical properties inherent in ferrite thin films heavily rely on the choice of the target material for film fabrication, selection of fabrication techniques, and the precise deposition parameters employed. Consequently, we resolute to utilize nano-particle ferrite powder as the target in radiofrequency sputtering technique, for producing MnxZn1−xFe2O4 thin films having nanograins and specific grain orientation along c-axis, on a quartz substrate. Remarkably, we observed a substantial increase in resistivity, by a factor of 2 to 3, in thin-film ferrite material compared to the base materials used for its fabrication. This enhanced resistivity is likely an outcome of grain boundary effects that stem from peculiar film growth along c-axis at minimal film thickness, ranging from 590 to 830 Å, wherein the planar transport of charge carriers becomes predominantly prominent.
One Nation One Subscription: A Paradigm Shift in India’s Access to Scholarly Resources
(Skylark International Publication, 2025) Faras, Ajit; Gaude, Shushma; Dhuri, Keshav R.
The One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) initiative, launched by the Government of India in 2025, marks a watershed moment in democratizing access to scholarly information. By centralizing and negotiating national licenses with leading publishers, ONOS aims to provide nearly 1.8 crore students, researchers, and faculty across government-funded academic and research institutions with seamless access to over 13,000 journals. This article presents a comprehensive analysis of ONOS, exploring its historical context, objectives, implementation strategies, anticipated impact, challenges, and global comparisons. The study underscores the transformative potential of ONOS for the Indian research ecosystem and offers recommendations for maximizing its effectiveness and sustainability.
Real cost of de-globalisation
(Dempo, 2026-01-17) Ansari, Gulam Goush
Evaluating the Resident Support for CulturalTourism Through a Revised Social ExchangeTheory Approach
(Walter de Gruyter, 2025) Gaonkar, Sadanand; Sukthankar, Sitaram V.
The Social Exchange Theory (SET) has been pivotal in understanding residents’ support for tourism development. However, there is a need to understand the various factors determining residents’ support for cultural tourism. This study mainly proposes a revised SET framework that includes residents' community attachment, community involvement, perceived cultural impact, attitude towards cultural tourism, and attitude towards cultural tourists, as well as their influence on resident support for cultural tourism. The study also investigates, firstly, the simple mediating effect of residents’ perceived cultural impact between community attachment and residents’ support for cultural tourism and between community involvement and resident support for cultural tourism; secondly, the parallel mediating effect of residents’ attitudes toward cultural tourism and tourists between residents’ perceived cultural impact and residents’ support for cultural tourism; and thirdly, the serial mediating effect of residents’ perceived cultural impact and attitude towards cultural tourism; residents’ perceived cultural impact and attitude towards cultural tourists, between community attachment and residents’ support for cultural tourism, and between community involvement and residents’ support for cultural tourism. Primary data was collected through a questionnaire from a total of 500 respondents; 467 of those responses were deemed legitimate. The analysis is carried out using PLS-SEM in Smart PLS 4. The study results showed that residents' community attachment, community involvement, attitudes towards cultural tourism, and tourists are the significant positive factors influencing residents' support for cultural tourism. In contrast, residents perceived cultural impact does not significantly contribute to the residents’ support for cultural tourism. The study also revealed that the residents’ perceived cultural impact does not significantly mediate the relationship between community attachment and residents’ support for cultural tourism and between community involvement and resident support for cultural tourism. However, the residents’ attitudes toward cultural tourism and cultural tourists parallelly mediate the relationship between residents’ perceived cultural impact and residents’ support for cultural tourism. Moreover, the residents’ perceived cultural impact and attitude towards cultural tourism; perceived cultural impact and residents’ attitude towards cultural tourists, serially mediate the relationship between community attachment and residents’ support for cultural tourism, and between community involvement and residents’ support for cultural tourism. The study concludes that for cultural tourism to gain stronger support, tourism policymakers and planners must deeply understand residents’ attitudes toward cultural tourism and tourists, as well as their involvement and attachment to cultural tourism. These factors significantly influence the level of support residents provide to the cultural tourism industry, either positively or negatively. The study’s primary contribution lies in testing the revised SET model in Goa, India, an emerging cultural tourism destination, and offering valuable insights to inform effective cultural tourism planning and policymaking.