Practices regarding colostrums and pre-lacteals among gadaba and konda dora tribes of vizianagaram district
- L. Giridhar
- Medicine
- 2012
A cross-sectional study on Gadaba and Konda Dora tribal populations at random from 95 tribal villages in Vizianagaram district of Andhra Pradesh finds that the practice of discarding of colostrums and introducing the pre-lacteals to their babies is still exists.
Antenatal Care Utilization of Savara Tribe Women: A Most Vulnerable Tribe of Andhra Pradesh
- K. Narayana, L. Giridhar, K. Harika
- Medicine
- 28 June 2015
The knowledge, attitude and accessibility related to the utilization of antenatal care (ANC) service among Savara tribe women in the Srikakulam district is identified and more awareness about the importance of consumption of IFA tablets is needed.
A Novel Approach to OCR using Image Recognition based Classification for Ancient Tamil Inscriptions in Temples
- L. Giridhar, Aishwarya Dharani, Velmathi Guruviah
- Computer ScienceArXiv
- 4 July 2019
This proposed work focuses on improving optical character recognition techniques for ancient Tamil script which was in use between the 7th and 12th centuries and incorporates Google's text to speech voice engine to produce an audio output of the digitized text.
Perceptions towards family planning – a study on tribal women from Andhra Pradesh.
- G. Lakshmi, Sambasiva Rr, L. Giridhar
- Medicine
- 2011
The attitude of the tribal women about temporary and permanent birth control methods is low and the vasectomy sterilization is found to be very low and is 0.7% among savara men 2.6% adopted by Jatapu men.
Effects of Deforestation on Chenchu Life
- M. Ratnam, D. V. Rao, L. Giridhar
- Environmental Science
- 28 March 2014
Deforestation is an environmental issue which received much attention globally from anthropologists, environmentalists, ecologists, planners, administrators, natural scientists and social scientists.…