Overweight and obesity are known to be risk factors of hypertension. The aim of this study was to investigate the association between body mass index and blood pressure among HT patients who attending medical clinics, ...

Stroke and acute coronary syndromes (ACS) share risk factors, but population-based data on differential associations with stroke subtype and ACS are limited. We studied pre-morbid risk factors in stroke subtypes and acute ...

The psychologist Jean Piaget called the cognitive development changes during adolescence the formal operations stage, during which adolescents become adept at mentally manipulating the world around them and systematically ...

Feng-Shui art is a ritual that is practiced worldwide at present. This Feng-Shui art is included part of Chinese culture. Feng is wind and shui is water in Chinese culture. There are two concepts namely ‘Yin and Yang’ ...

The Dravidian language family and the present languages belonging to this family have a long history. Tamil has a distinctive place among the widely spread languages in the world, and it this special place is evidenced ...

Though the Pali canonical literature stands for tolerance towards the Brahmanism, pluralistic teachings are infrequent. However, the Yassaṃdisaṃ-sutta of the Aṅguttara-Nikāya (AN) describes five basic qualifications that ...

The paper focuses on the ways in which gender is constructed in selected postcolonial literary texts: The Quilt, Ten Rupees, and Mozelle. Gender construction is distinctive in some postcolonial texts. Colonial rule caused ...

Most of the tertiary level students joining English as a Second Language (ESL) classes expect to gain speaking ability. Yet, despite the encouragement provided to them to achieve this objective, they remain silent in ...