Abstract
Background: Road traffic accidents are a major health hazard in the world. Everyday thousands of people are killed and injured on our roads.
 Objective: Our study aimed to determine attitude and behaviour of road traffic accident among high school student in Riyadh.
 Methodology: school based cross sectional study sample size was 197 among high school students in Diriyah, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. high school students of Diriyah province. Inclusion level was 29 and 30 year of high school students. Exclusion was female and staff. Sample Technique was systematic random. Data collection using pretested, preceded questioner and analysed using SPSS version 20. P-value of less than 0.05 was considered significant result.
 Results: 96.5% of participants showed a good level of knowledge toward traffic regulation. 83.25% of participants showed a good attitude. 53.8% of participants were fully aware of the traffic signs. 51.3% of participants had an accident before. 26.9% had driving license.
 Conclusion: The majority of our respondent showed good level of knowledge regarding of traffic regulation, the minority of participants has driving license, almost half of participants use mobile phone while driving, most of participants don't use seat belt.
 Keywords: Attitude, Behaviour, Accidents, Traffic.
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The black pepper (Piper nigrum Linn., ‘Maricha’ in Sanskrit) is one of the most renowned culinary spices
Background & Method: The present study was conducted at Dept. of Pharmacology, Sri Aurobindo Institute of Medical Sciences & Research Centre, Indore
Result: Pentazocine given in combination with piperine intraperitoneally showed significantly greater increase in reaction time as compared to pentazocine given in combination with piperine orally at 4 hr (p < 0.05).Sertraline given in combination with piperine intraperitoneally showed slightly greater increase in immobility period (58%) as compared to sertraline given in combination with piperine orally (51%), not significant (p > 0.05)
Summary
The black pepper (Piper nigrum Linn., ‘Maricha’ in Sanskrit) is one of the most renowned culinary spices. As already mentioned Black Pepper (Piper nigrum L.), a native South Indian spice belonging to the family Piperaceae, has been widely used in human diet for thousands of years. It is a flowering herb used mainly as a food adjunct, food preservative and insecticide. In India the ground black pepper is commonly found on nearly every dinner table It has been a component of several preparations used in traditional medicine. Recent research has provided support for some of the traditional uses of pepper in medicine and has uncovered the probable mechanisms responsible for them
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