Industrialization is a procedure which contributes to the economy of a country and plays a pivotal role in theexpansion of wealth and economic growth of a community. Textile industry has acted as the ...backbone of the industrialsector of Pakistan and has contributed a lot in the regional growth especially in Punjab. The present study is aimed toassess the role of locational factors that have proven favorable in the growth and successful development of textileindustry in Jaranwala tehsil, Faisalabad district. An empirical research design was selected and Jaranwala tehsil waschosen as the study area. Both primary and secondary data sources were used, and primary data were collected througha fully-structured questionnaire. Five sample sites were selected, and 75 textile industries were visited, and data wereobtained by interviewing the administrative staff of the respective textile units. The collected data were further arrangedand tabulated by using Microsoft Excel 2010, SPSS 20; Paired sample T test was performed to check the significancebetween types of industries and factors affecting the location of surveyed textile industries. Distributional and thematicmaps were prepared with the help of Arc GIS 10.1. The result of the study showed that availability of raw material,cheap labor and better climatic conditions were the most favorable factors for the location of industries in the studyarea. The study recommends the further work on other types of industries following same pattern in order to understandtheir economic progress in regional growth and development of the study area.
Objective: To investigate the herbal drugs utilization by health care students at AIMST University, Kedah D.A., Malaysia. Method: Analysis was carried out by using a Software Package for Statistical ...Analysis, Version 20. A total of 801 health care students were interviewed. Results: A total of 801 healthcare students were interviewed. The result showed that 796 (99.5%) used herbal drugs while 5 (0.5%) were not using herbal drugs. The male respondents were 229 (100.0%) and female 567 (99.1%) were utilized herbal drugs 28.8%, 71.2% respectively. The ethnicity showed 541(99.3%) and used herbal drugs 68.0% more as compare to other races. The highest utilization of herbal drugs was 75.4% within the age groups of 21-25 years. The faculty of pharmacy respondents 321 (99.4%) utilized herbal drugs 40.3% more as compare to other faculties. The third-year respondents 277 (99.3%) showed more utilization of herbal drugs 34.8%. Mostly students respondent were living in-campus 588 (99.3%) utilized herbal drugs 73.9%. Mostly respondents used herbal drugs in cough and common cold than headache, diarrhoea, common flue, fever/ chill and muscular pain. Most of respondents agreed upon mild illness 436 (54.4%), economics cost 390 (48.7%), and familiar with treatment option 348 (43.4%). Conclusion: The herbal drugs are popular self-treatment remedies among health care students.
The purpose of this randomized clinical trial was to compare the effect of xylitol containing and sugar free brands of chewing gum on the salivary Colony Forming Unit (CFU) count of streptococcus ...mutans (SM) and lactobacilli (LB) cariogenic organisms in a group of Egyptian school children of different ages.
This pragmatic randomized controlled trial (parallel group design) was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the Faculty of Dentistry, Ain Shams University.
42 high caries risk children (DMFT/dmft/deft of 3 or more) were randomly allocated to either the xylitol or polyol group. Each main group was divided into three equal subgroups. Each subgroup comprised a block of seven children of the same age group as follows: Nursery group aging 3–6 years, junior primary school group aging 6–9 years and senior primary school group aging 9–12 years. Salivary analysis was carried out at baseline and after three weeks of daily gum chewing to all participating children by recording his/her stimulated salivary flow and salivary CFU counts of SM and LB bacteria.
Compared to polyol gum, xylitol gum showed lower SM CFU counts. LB CFU counts were not affected by either gum types. However, there was no statistically significant difference between the two chewing gum groups in the different ages and regardless of age.
Xylitol gum is more effective in decreasing SM count in saliva compared to polyol gum wheras both sugarless chewing gums show similar effect on LB species.
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