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The pressures of law enforcement put officers at risk for high blood pressure, insomnia, increased levels of destructive stress hormones, heart problems, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and suicide, University at Buffalo researchers have found through a decade of studies of police officers. UB researchers now are carrying out one of the first large-scale investigations on how the stress of police work affects an officer's physical and mental health, funded by a $1.75 million grant from the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH). The National Institute of Justice added $750,000 to the study to measure police officer fatigue and the impact of shift work on health and performance. John M. Violanti, Ph.D., research associate professor in UB's Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in the School of Public Health and Health Professions, is principal researcher of the study, called the Buffalo Cardio-Metabolic Occupational Police Stress (BCOPS) study.

2007-08 NON-SBI : UCO (1.76), UBI (1.99) (L); Union bank of india,(5.39) IDBI (8.86) (H) SBI group : State bank of Saurastra (0.74), Bikaneer and Jaipur(2.73) (L) Hyderabad (4.35), Indore (3.73) (H) All NON-SBI: 3.77 crores SBI :3.62 crores Criteria: Profit per employee Source Ref: http://rbidocs.rbi.org.in/rdocs/Publications/PDFs/87122.pdf Students: Rajiv Biswal (Non-SBI) and Deb Kumar Saha(SBI)

I have prepared the following 10 parameters based on ratio scale and they are assumed to be correlated with each other. So they can form a meaningful structure. One can use if for assessing effectiveness of psychology department in university. 1. Total teachers/Total Students; 2. Total Classrooms /Total students; 3. No. of Professial courses/Total Teachers; 4. No. of students obtained more than 55% >/Total students; 5. No. of Professial courses/No. of teachers; 6. No. of Professial courses(if experimental)/No. of experimental labs; 7. No. of journal publications/No. of teachers; 8. Amount of grants received for attending conferences/No. of teachers; 9. Utilization of amount/Amount of grants received for publications; 10.Utilization of amount for training,workshop,seminars/Amount of grants received for the same.

18th April, 2009 Negative intrusive thoughts One theory of OCD is fighting against negative intrusive thoughts. Today, one patient of 37 years having preference to Rabindrasangeet is asked to sing a song. She has started singing " Aloker ei jharnadharay dhuiye dao". She has said that most frequently she sings this song. After analysis of the song, it appears that patient is trying to come out from the negative intrusive thought that she is dirty. This poor self concept is conditioned with faulty superstitions maintained by her mother during her first statge of menstruation. Patient is deconditioned with the faulty reinforcements using that Rabindrasangeet. The result is very interesting. Yesterday, patinet takes more than 10 hours in toilet, today, she takes 2 and half hours. ================================================================================= 28th July, 2008 Response prevention is the best treatment of OCD to dirt. With this assumption, I have used music therap