Praveen Kumar
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3582279 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Praveen Kumar |
| NOMBRES | Praveen |
| APELLIDO | Kumar |
| FIRMA | KUMAR P |
| AFILIACIONES | Boston College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2477-7856 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 64 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
How does rural governance adaptively address multiple rural development objectives? - The case of Qingshan Village, China
The Invisible Palette
This theoretical treatise examines strategic merging of financial alchemy and human resource management (HRM) in the visual and performing arts industry in terms of the so-called invisible palette. The paper is based on the knowledge of cultural economics, the creative industries, and the HRM literature, which defines the role of financial innovation and creative human capital in contributing to sustainability, innovation, and the creation of mul…
Self-Confidence and Aggression
This study examined the levels of aggression and self-confidence among athletes who throw and jump. Sixty athletes from Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, 30 of whom were throwers and 30 of whom were jumpers, were chosen for the study. They ranged in age from 18 to 25. The Self-Confidence Inventory (Basavanna, 1975) was used to gauge the athletes' self-confidence, and the Buss and Perry Aggression Questionnaire (BPAQ, 1992) was used to g…
Socioeconomic dynamics of beedi rolling in a Southern Indian state
This study aims to understand the work patterns and job-related challenges encountered by women who roll beedis, primarily from low-income households in India. Given the risks associated with beedi rolling and the government’s efforts to reduce tobacco use, this study sought to shed light on how these workers and their families may be impacted. Additionally, this study aims to investigate the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on families dependent…
Infants less than 6 months of age at risk of poor growth and development
box The 2023 WHO guideline on wasting and nutritional oedema includes four recommendations and four good practice statements on the management of infants less than 6 months of age at risk of poor growth and development, prioritising this vulnerable yet often neglected group
Infants and children 6–59 months of age with severe wasting and/or nutritional oedema
box The 2023 WHO guideline on wasting and nutritional oedema includes four new recommendations, three updated recommendations and three new good practice statements for the management of severe wasting and nutritional oedema in infants and children 6–59 months of age
Impact of altitudinal gradients on composition, biomass and soil nutrients of Cedrus deodara forests in the Northwestern Himalaya
Himalayan forest ecosystems provide a wide range of ecological services, including climate regulation, water purification, biodiversity conservation and the production of forest goods. These ecosystems are critical for maintaining ecological balance and human well-being. Sustaining these functions requires healthy floristic composition, high biological productivity and balanced nutrient cycling. This study evaluates the vegetation structure, biom…
Using Surveillance Data to Estimate Infectious Disease Burden
A Survey of Literature
The literature review is significant in understanding the past evolution and the current state of knowledge regarding the given discipline or subject. However, every research article published by anyone contains certain part of literature review concerned with their respective area of study. The main aim the study is to provide the comprehensive review of literature regarding monetary policy transmission mechanism in India. For this purpose, the …
Introduction to the Sectoral Effects and Operating Mechanism of Monetary Transmission in India
Given the complexity and sophistication of India's economy, especially, the efficiency of monetary transmission in the country has drawn greats interest. Under this study, a sectoral analysis is conducted to understand how changes in monetary policy affect many spheres of the economy. This analysis also underlines the variations in gearbox systems. The intensity of financial inclusion, intensity of dependency on formal credit, and intensity of wh…
Evolution of Monetary Policy Framework in India Since Independence
The monetary policy framework plays a major role in shaping the economic sphere of a country. The economic journey of India is self-evident due to the dynamic nature of monetary policy formulation and its implementation in response to the evolving economic conditions, internal and external to India. This paper gives a very comprehensive examination of the monetary policy framework evolution of India since the establishment of the RBI (Reserve Ban…
Dynamics of aboveground vegetation biomass and carbon stocks along the altitudinal gradients and overstorey composition types in the temperate Himalayan region
Forests, covering approximately thirty percent of the Earth's total surface area, are the world's largest carbon sink and a crucial player in mitigating climate change through carbon sequestration. However, human activities, both developmental and anthropogenic, have resulted in forest degradation, resulting in biodiversity loss, and increased carbon dioxide concentrations in the temperate Himalayan region, where reliable estimates of above-groun…
Transition to E-mobility and green energy generation for emission reduction
Volunteer programs, empowerment, and life satisfaction in Jordan
Through visual maps and scenarios of change, the study demonstrates a participatory approach to localizing knowledge and evaluating programs. This is key to improving scientific enquiry and public policy
Role of personal network attributes in adoption of clean stoves among Congolese refugees in Rwanda
Does volunteering impact refugee women's life satisfaction, empowerment, and wellbeing? Experimental evidence, local knowledge, and causal reasoning
This program evaluation integrates scientifically-rigorous and culturally-relevant methodologies to identify impacts, local knowledge systems, and causal pathways of influence. This helps clarify how and why volunteering works in real-life situations across cultural contexts, calling attention to what programs seek to achieve, how they avoid volunteer burden, and why they generate social change
Covid-19 vaccine confidence project for perinatal women (CCPP)—Development of a stepped-care model to address Covid-19 vaccine hesitancy in low and middle-income countries
Background: COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy (CVH) is common among perinatal women in low and middle-income countries (LMICs), but it is often unaddressed. This could be due to a lack of feasible, scalable, and acceptable interventions and models for CVH in LMICs. Our study aimed to develop a CVH intervention model that can be implemented in LMICs using existing human healthcare resources. Methods: A literature review was conducted on aspects of vaccin…
Advocacy counterstrategies to tobacco industry interference in policymaking
A Media Analysis of the Covid-19 Tobacco Sales Ban in South Africa
The South African government introduced a nationwide lockdown in March 2020 to mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Among other restrictions, the government banned the sale of tobacco products. The ban lasted for nearly five months. We performed a Google search using the keywords smok*, puff*, lockdown, tobacco, and cigarette* for articles published in English from 23 March 2020 to 18 December 2020. This yielded 441 usable online media articles. We i…
Exploring Naturalistic Diffusion of an Evidence-Based Mental Health Intervention across Peer Networks of Youth in Sierra Leone
Findings suggest that diffusion of evidence-based intervention components can occur naturally among peers in post-conflict LMIC settings. Developing tools to promote the diffusion of the most transferrable EBI components across peer networks could help maximize the benefits of mental health interventions for youth adjustment and resilience in post-conflict settings
Awareness, attitudes and practices relating to Article 5.3 of the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control among members of tobacco control committees in a southern Indian state
Awareness of international guidance designed to prevent the TI influence on health policy among policymakers in this Indian state is low. Respondents from non-health departments were less aware of TI CSR. Those in health departments were more receptive towards taking a TI role in the future
Spatial variability of soil properties and delineation of management zones for Suketi basin, Himachal Himalaya, India
A Study of the Mediating Effect of Work Stress on Work-life Conflict and Turnover Intention in the Private Higher Education Sector in India
The main focus of this study is to analyze the impact of work-life conflict on turnover intention and examine the impact of work stress as a mediating variable among the teaching employees of private higher education institutions. The current study drew upon samples of 145 teaching employees of private higher education institutions in the education sector of Haryana. A questionnaire was administered to gather the necessary information. Data was e…
Can community based solar energy initiatives deliver on women's empowerment in India? Evidence from rural Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh
The empowerment of women as an outcome of efforts towards realizing clean energy access is understudied and merits systematic investigation. To develop a local ecosystem for sales and services of energy technologies, a multi-state solar lamp initiative provided technical and entrepreneurial training to assemble, sell and repair solar lamps in rural communities of India. At the end of the project, women were encouraged to start their own energy en…
Social networks, empowerment, and wellbeing among Syrian refugee and Jordanian women
In response to large-scale refugee crises, frameworks for development assistance have promoted women’s empowerment, wellbeing, and social inclusion. A productive research agenda lies in analyzing social networks: it is unknown how women structure their social ties within refugee and host communities, and whether social networks matter for their sense of empowerment and wellbeing. In 2022, we surveyed Syrian refugee (n = 106) and Jordanian (n = 10…
Social networks, empowerment, and wellbeing among Syrian refugee and Jordanian women
In response to large-scale refugee crises, frameworks for development assistance have promoted women’s empowerment, wellbeing, and social inclusion. A productive research agenda lies in analyzing social networks: it is unknown how women structure their social ties within refugee and host communities, and whether social networks matter for their sense of empowerment and wellbeing. In 2022, we surveyed Syrian refugee (n = 106) and Jordanian (n = 10…
Does volunteering impact refugee women's life satisfaction, empowerment, and wellbeing? Experimental evidence, local knowledge, and causal reasoning
This program evaluation integrates scientifically-rigorous and culturally-relevant methodologies to identify impacts, local knowledge systems, and causal pathways of influence. This helps clarify how and why volunteering works in real-life situations across cultural contexts, calling attention to what programs seek to achieve, how they avoid volunteer burden, and why they generate social change
Sustained uptake of clean cooking practices in poor communities
Awareness about Minimum Support Price and Its Impact on Diversification Decision of Farmers in India
In this article, we have analysed farmers' awareness about Minimum Support Price (MSP) and its impact on diversification of crops grown in India. We used nationally representative data collected by National Sample Survey Office, 70th round data. The data revealed that only 23.72 and 20.04 per cent of farmers in the rural agricultural households in India are aware of MSP of crops grown by them in kharif and rabi season, respectively. From the resu…
Sustained uptake of LPG as cleaner cooking fuel in rural India
Variability, Feedback, and Cooperative Process Dynamics
The goal of this article is to develop a framework that enables us to better understand the rich set of interactions that occur between physical and biological systems embedded in the water cycle. We begin by acknowledging that water is both a medium and a driver of interactions in the natural environment, and that the two roles are fundamentally different. As a medium, water provides habitat and life support to living systems while the variabili…
Longitudinal growth dynamics of term symmetric and asymmetric small for gestational age infants
The poorer postnatal auxological attainments of SGA infants as compared to normal infants reveals continuation of effect of intra-uterine nutritional insult during infancy, which measured significantly more in symmetric than asymmetric SGA infants.
Poverty, gender, and empowerment in sustained adoption of cleaner cooking systems
Volunteer programs, empowerment, and life satisfaction in Jordan
Through visual maps and scenarios of change, the study demonstrates a participatory approach to localizing knowledge and evaluating programs. This is key to improving scientific enquiry and public policy
Can community based solar energy initiatives deliver on women's empowerment in India? Evidence from rural Assam, Bihar, Jharkhand and Uttar Pradesh
The empowerment of women as an outcome of efforts towards realizing clean energy access is understudied and merits systematic investigation. To develop a local ecosystem for sales and services of energy technologies, a multi-state solar lamp initiative provided technical and entrepreneurial training to assemble, sell and repair solar lamps in rural communities of India. At the end of the project, women were encouraged to start their own energy en…
Critical transition in critical zone of intensively managed landscapes
Impact of Agro Climatic and Socio-Economic Variability on the Nutritional Status of Inhabitants in the Garhwal Himalayas
The Garhwal Himalayas are a part of a unique ecosystem, with sharp agro-climatic variations within a very small geographical area (53,485 km2). The varied agro-climatic situations result in different cropping systems and socio-economic lifestyles that could likely affect the nutritional status of the people living in this region. This article will attempt to explore the impact of these variables (namely, age, family size, education, income, calor…
Variability, Feedback, and Cooperative Process Dynamics
The goal of this article is to develop a framework that enables us to better understand the rich set of interactions that occur between physical and biological systems embedded in the water cycle. We begin by acknowledging that water is both a medium and a driver of interactions in the natural environment, and that the two roles are fundamentally different. As a medium, water provides habitat and life support to living systems while the variabili…
Antidiabetic activity of Paspalum scrobiculatum Linn. in alloxan induced diabetic rats
Prenatal Substance Abuse
This Technical Report was retired March 2019. Prenatal substance abuse continues to be a significant problem in this country and poses important health risks for the developing fetus. The primary care pediatrician’s role in addressing prenatal substance exposure includes prevention, identification of exposure, recognition of medical issues for the exposed newborn infant, protection of the infant, and follow-up of the exposed infant. This report w…
Adherence to antiretroviral therapy and its determinants in children with HIV infection – Experience from Paediatric Centre of Excellence in HIV Care in North India
The objective of this study is to assess adherence to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in HIV-infected children using the pill count method, and determine factors leading to adherence failure. Records of 106 children living with HIV (CLHIV) age 6 months were reviewed. Average adherence to ART by pill count method over preceding six months was calculated and re-assessed by 3-day recall method. The caregivers of 105 children and one child himself were …
Dynamics of sustained use and abandonment of clean cooking systems
The Institutional Review Board of Washington University in St. Louis has exempted community based system dynamics modeling from review
Sustained uptake of LPG as cleaner cooking fuel in rural India
Poverty, gender, and empowerment in sustained adoption of cleaner cooking systems
A review of multi criteria decision making (MCDM) towards sustainable renewable energy development
Awareness about Minimum Support Price and Its Impact on Diversification Decision of Farmers in India
In this article, we have analysed farmers' awareness about Minimum Support Price (MSP) and its impact on diversification of crops grown in India. We used nationally representative data collected by National Sample Survey Office, 70th round data. The data revealed that only 23.72 and 20.04 per cent of farmers in the rural agricultural households in India are aware of MSP of crops grown by them in kharif and rabi season, respectively. From the resu…
Longitudinal growth dynamics of term symmetric and asymmetric small for gestational age infants
The poorer postnatal auxological attainments of SGA infants as compared to normal infants reveals continuation of effect of intra-uterine nutritional insult during infancy, which measured significantly more in symmetric than asymmetric SGA infants.
Dynamics of sustained use and abandonment of clean cooking systems
Clean cooking technologies—ranging from efficient cookstoves to clean fuels—are widely deployed to reduce household air pollution and alleviate adverse health and climate consequences. Although much progress has been made on the technical aspects, sustained and proper use of clean cooking technologies by populations with the most need has been problematic. Only by understanding how clean cooking as an intervention is embedded within complex commu…
Trade-offs and Synergies Between Economic Gains and Plant Diversity Across a Range of Management Alternatives in Boreal Forests
Sustained uptake of clean cooking practices in poor communities
Radiocarbon and Stable Carbon Isotopes of Labile and Inert Organic Carbon in the Critical Zone Observatory in Illinois, USA
We applied the high temperature pyrolysis-combustion technique to partition the total soil organic carbon (SOC) into labile and inert carbon pools for accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon (AMS 14 C) dating and stable carbon isotope (δ 13 C), SOC, and carbonate carbon (CC) content analyses to examine SOC variability at a Critical Zone Observatory site in Illinois, USA. The AMS 14 C dates of labile and inert carbon in the top 1.55 m overlap ex…
Critical transition in critical zone of intensively managed landscapes
A green public transportation system using E-buses
Relationship between mid-upper arm circumference and BMI for identifying maternal wasting and severe wasting
Objective: To assess the strength of correlation and agreement between mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) and BMI, and determine suitable MUAC cut-offs, to detect wasting and severe wasting among non-pregnant adult women in India. Design: Cross-sectional studies were conducted in five high-burden pockets of four Indian states. Setting: Prevalence of malnutrition among women and children is very high in these pockets and the government plans to im…
Does involvement of local community ensure sustained energy access? A critical review of a solar PV technology intervention in rural India
Harnessing emerging technologies to reduce Gulf hypoxia
Individualized dosimetry in children and young adults with differentiated thyroid cancer undergoing iodine-131 therapy
Objectives The amount of Iodine-131 to treat young patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) has not been established so far. The purpose of this study was to perform and compare blood dosimetry by “Hanscheid’s approach”and lesion dosimetry by “Maxon’s approach”. Methods Seventy-one DTC patients ≤21 years were given diagnostic activity of 74 MBq 131 I followed by whole-body scan (WBS) at 2 h (pre-void), 24 h, 48 h, and ≥72 h. Pre-therapy …
Underpinning the relevancy of the Nirf rankings in higher education management institutions in India
We tried to explore the connection between National Institute Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings and students' enrolments using a sample of the top 75 NIRF ranked Management Institutions in India. For this purpose, we performed six different OLS multivariate regression analyses. However, the article did not provide any evidence of linkage of NIRF rankings with students' enrolments. Moreover, the multivariate regression results also revealed that t…
Health and economic impact of air pollution in the states of India
BACKGROUND: The association of air pollution with multiple adverse health outcomes is becoming well established, but its negative economic impact is less well appreciated. It is important to elucidate this impact for the states of India. METHODS: We estimated exposure to ambient particulate matter pollution, household air pollution, and ambient ozone pollution, and their attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years in every state of Ind…
Contemporary Socio-Economic Challenges and Legal Intervention to Nomadic Tribal Community
Nomadic, de-notified and semi-nomadic tribes are considered to be the earliest inhabitants of any nation. Their sacrifices and sufferings in the past and present have resulted in a developing nation that we are today. Despite that, today, the nomadic tribal communities are the worst sufferers because of the lack of education, livelihood, occupation, fundamental rights, legal rights,etc.; they are considered to be the least developed. Failure in i…
Rapid Evaluation and Validation Method of Above Ground Forest Biomass Estimation Using Optical Remote Sensing in Tundi Reserved Forest Area, India
Optical remote sensing data are freely available on a global scale. However, the satellite image processing and analysis for quick, accurate, and precise forest above ground biomass (AGB) evaluation are still challenging and difficult. This paper is aimed to develop a novel method for precise, accurate, and quick evaluation of the forest AGB from optical remote sensing data. Typically, the ground forest AGB was calculated using an empirical model…
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