Assessment of quality of higher education in hostile environment: an analysis on provincialised colleges under Assam University Silchar     

Prasun Das  Srabanti Mukherjee  Suprabir Dutta Roy 《Quality in Higher Education》2016,22(1):36-48

Historically low average pass rate has been a perennial challenge for the universities and provincialised colleges in the North-Eastern states of India (Assam, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tripura, Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh). Pass rate refers to the proportion of students promoted from one semester to the next and also the proportion of students who pass the final examination to be a graduate. The paper attempts to trace the key parameters for quality improvement for higher education in the region and subsequently augment the pass rate. An inductive content analysis was conducted based on focus group interviews at various levels at Assam University, Silchar and its affiliated provincialised colleges. The four broad categories thus identified (academic, administrative, socio-economic and placement issues) were subjected to Pareto 80-20 principle to identify the issues that are to be given priority for evolving the system. The study would help the administrators to measure the quality of higher education system in a hostile environment characterised by adverse topography, political disturbances, skewed distribution of income, widespread poverty and lack of literacy.  相似文献   

An easy, rapid and cost-effective method of microtitration     

Mala Das Sharma  Ch. Dhanamma 《Resonance》2005,10(10):78-83

An economical and less time consuming microtitration method is presented. The method has been applied to two types of titration, viz., neutralization and complexometric. The results obtained by the new method are comparable to those obtained by conventional method using burette and pipette. It is proposed that this method can be implemented in high school and undergraduate classes as the quantities of chemicals consumed are far less and the experiment can be completed within the given laboratory period.  相似文献   

Diagnostic efficiency of amylase and type IV collagen in predicting chronic pancreatitis     

Subir Kumar Das  Sowmya Varadhan  L. Dhanya  Sukhes Mukherjee  S. Mohana  V. Balakrishnan  D. M. Vasudevan 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2009,24(1):60-64

Chronic pancreatitis, an irreversible inflammatory disease of the pancreas, is associated with the replacement of the destroyed parenchyma by extended development of fibrosis. Despite marked progress in diagnostic tools, no consensus has been reached in diagnosis of chronic pancreatitis. In this study we examined the hematological and biochemical parameters among 40 chronic pancreatitis patients within 18 to 67 yrs. ESR level and ALP activity was elevated in 40% cases. Serum amylase activity increased in 32 patients and it showed significant correlation with ALP (r=0.458, p=0.003), CA-19.9 (r=0.556, p<0.001), and calcium level (r=−0.472, p=0.002). Type IV collagen level in chronic pancreatitis also elevated (164.4 ± 55.5 ng/ml) and showed negative significant correlation with calcium level (r= −0.505, p=0.001). However, no significant correlation was observed between amylase activity and type IV collagen (r=0.289, p= 0.07).  相似文献   

Correlation between Apgar score and urinary uric acid to creatinine ratio in perinatal asphyxia     

Pallab Basu  Sabyasachi Som  Nabendu Choudhuri  Harendranath Das 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2008,23(4):361-364

A randomized case control hospital based study was conducted over 12 months time on 31 asphyxiated and 31 normal newborn to see whether urinary uric acid can be used as a marker of perinatal asphyxia and can be correlated with the clinical diagnosis by Apgar score. Uric acid and creatinine were estimated in spot urine within 24 hours after birth in both cases and controls. A ratio between concentrations of uric acid to creatinine was estimated and compared between cases and controls. It was found that the ratios were significantly higher in cases than controls (3.1± 1.3 vs 0.96± 0.54; P < 0.001) and among asphyxia patients, a significant negative linear correlation was found between the uric acid to creatinine ratio and the Apgar score (r = −0.857, P < 0.001). So urinary uric acid to creatinine ratio can be used as an additional non-invasive dispace, easy and at the same time early biochemical marker of birth asphyxia which biochemically supports the clinical diagnosis and severity grading of asphyxia by Apgar score.  相似文献   

Reading different orthographies: an fMRI study of phrase reading in Hindi–English bilinguals     

Uttam Kumar  Tanusree Das  Raju S. Bapi  Prakash Padakannaya  R. Malatesha Joshi  Nandini C. Singh 《Reading and writing》2010,23(2):239-255

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Plane curves of some geometrical significance and associated differential equations     

Jyoti Das 《Resonance》2010,15(6):573-580

Loci of points in the Euclidean plane are determined from prescribed relations of the points with given points, and/or, lines. The dependence of these relations on parameters lead to the diffrential equations representing the family of loci under concern. Incidentally most of the diffrential equations thus obtained are nonlinear ordinary diffrential equations.  相似文献   

Attitudes of secondary school teachers towards inclusive education in New Delhi,India     

Nisha Bhatnagar  Ajay Das 《Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs》2014,14(4):255-263

This study was undertaken to determine the attitudes of secondary regular schoolteachers towards the inclusion of students with disabilities in New Delhi. A total of 470 teachers, working in schools managed by a private organisation in Delhi, returned the completed survey. A two‐part questionnaire was used in this study. Part one gathered information relating to personal and professional characteristics of the teachers. Part two was a 16‐item Likert scale titled, Attitudes towards Inclusive Education Scale. The major finding of the study was that the teachers in Delhi had positive attitudes towards the inclusion of students with special needs. This study also indicated that the teachers who were more positive about inclusive education were male, younger teachers (less than 40 years of age), less experienced (less than 10 years) and had postgraduate qualifications. In addition, the teachers who had a contact with a person with a disability and those who did not have a focus on disability during their preservice teacher education programmes were more positive towards inclusive education.  相似文献   

Classroom     

Santanu Das  N. Kumar 《Resonance》2014,19(8):764-774

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Validation Protocol: First Step of a Lean-Total Quality Management Principle in a New Laboratory Set-up in a Tertiary Care Hospital in India     

Das B 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2011,26(3):235-243

Method validation is pursued as the first step in establishing Lean-Total Quality Management in a new clinical laboratory, in order to eliminate error in test results. Validation of all the new tests were done (with particular reference to alkaline phosphatase) by verifying reference intervals, analytical accuracy and precision, inter-assay and intra-assay variations, analytical sensitivity, limit of detection, linearity and reportable range, i.e. (i) Analytical measurement range (AMR) and (ii) Clinically reportable range (CRR). Our obtained reference range was within that of the manufacturer’s and showed high degree of analytical accuracy between two laboratories (r ² = 0.99). Precision was comparable with the manufacturer’s claim with inter-assay variation CV 1.04% and intra-assay variation CV 1.54%. Lowest limit of detection was 1.0324 ± 0.007 with CV 0.34%. AMR was also verified with CV 1.26 and 0.69%, for level 1 and level 2 control sera, respectively. The assay was linear with different dilutions. Lean concept was also verified with high recovery percentage. Validation ensures that accurate and precise results are reported in a clinically relevant turn around time.  相似文献   

Effects of Long Term Ethanol Consumption on Cell Death in Liver     

Das SK  Mukherjee S  Vasudevan DM 《Indian journal of clinical biochemistry : IJCB》2011,26(1):84-87

Apoptosis plays an important role in cellular homeostasis. In this study we have investigated whether apoptosis is a contributory factor to alcohol induced liver damage. Long term ethanol (1.6 g/kg body weight/day) exposure augmented liver apoptosis as reflected by high frequency of positive TUNEL staining nuclei and by an increased activity of caspase-3 and -8. Our study provides evidence that long-term ethanol consumption triggers apoptotic process in the liver.  相似文献