INTRODUCTION Agriculture is the keystone of the Indian economy. Ensuring food security for more than1 billion Indian populations with diminishing cultivable land resource is a herculean task. This necessitates use of high yielding variety of seeds‚ balance use of fertilizers‚ judicious use of quality pesticides along with education to farmers and the use of modern farming techniques. It is estimated that India approximately loses 18 percent of the crop yield valued at Rs.900 billion due to pest attack
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The Buzz on Colony Collapse Disorder Denise Collins According to the National Geographic News website‚ the domestic honey bee population has decreased 50% in as many years (Roach‚ 2004). Many reasons are blamed for the decrease in honey bee numbers including diseases and pesticides. Scientists have given the decline in honey bee population phenomenon a name‚ Colony Collapse Disorder. While some experts maintain that Colony Collapse Disorder is a nuisance and not a catastrophe‚ it is a serious
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References: 1. Darrell D. Ebbing & Steven D. Gammon (2009). General Chemistry Ninth Edition. Boston‚ MA & New York‚ NY: Houghton Mifflin Company. Chapter 18‚ page 732. 2. Raymond Chang (2005). Physical Chemistry for the Bioscience. Edwards Brothers‚ Inc. Chapter 3‚ page 46 – 47. 3. Hans Kuhn‚ Horst-Dieter Forsteling & David H. Waldeck (2009). Principles of Physical Chemistry. New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons‚ Inc. Chapter 17‚ page 559. Precaution steps 1) We
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-에볼라 바이러스 취사율 Ebola virus is one of the four ebolaviruses known to cause disease in humans. It has the highest case-fatality rate of these ebolaviruses‚ averaging 83% since first described in 1976‚ although fatality rates up to 90% have been recorded in one epidemic (2002–03). There have also been more outbreaks of ebola virus than of any other ebolavirus. - 사망자 26 September 2014 – The United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) today said it is intensifying its cooperation with a wide range
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Species: Empirical Evidence for the Ease of Speciation. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES‚ 363: 2971 – 2986. Snow A. A. & Palma P. M. (1997) Commercialization of Transgenic Plants: Potential Ecological Risks. BioScience‚ 47: 86 – 96.
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Nursing‚ vol. 21‚ no. 2‚ pp. 70-81. Sachdeva‚ S. 2008‚ ’The dermatoses of pregnancy.(Review Article) ’‚ Indian Journal of Dermatology‚ vol. 53‚ no. 3‚ p. 103. Stables‚ D. & Rankin‚ J. 2010‚ Physiology in childbearing : with anatomy and related biosciences‚ 3rd edn‚ Bailliere Tindall‚ Edinburgh. Staroselsky‚ A.‚ Nava-Ocampo‚ A.A.‚ Vohra‚ S. & Koren‚ G. 2008‚ ’Hemorrhoids in pregnancy ’‚ Can Fam Physician‚ vol. 54‚ no. 2‚ pp. 189-90. Tiran‚ D. 2003‚ ’Product focus. Self help for constipation
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Invasive species always have varying impacts on the ecosystem to which they are introduced. The introduction of the blue catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) has been treated with opposition from some due to its potential to wipe out native species‚ thus affecting the balance of the ecosystem in question. However‚ many believe that the value of the blue catfish as a sport and commercial target fish outweighs the harm done to the native populations or ecosystems. As the blue catfish is a predatory fish with
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96.BP case study: An example of a TNC 1. Different stages in the company’s operations ● Use sophisticated technologies and triedtotrue techniques to find gas under the Earth’s surface ● use topographical maps‚ aerial photography‚ sound waves‚ 3D projections and other tools to help form an educated guess about the size‚ shape and consistency of the oil or natural gas that lies beneath the Earth. ● plan and build a production facility‚ taking environmental‚ social and logistical factors
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Designer Babies Bring your partner‚ grab a seat‚ pick up your baby catalog and start picking. Will you go for the black hair or brown? Would you prefer tall or short? Comical or intelligent? Boy or Girl? And do you want them to be a muscle-yielding sports aficionado? Or a slender and intelligent book worm? When you ’re done selecting‚ head to the counter and it ’s time to start creating your new child. Does this sound like a scary thought? With rapid advances in scientific knowledge of the human
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of α-agarase from Altermonas agarlyticus strain GJ1B. Bioresource Technology 79:47-51. 4. Hozoda‚ A.‚ M. Sakai‚ and S. Kanazawa. 2003. Isolation and characterization of Agar-degrading Paenibacillus spp. Associated with the Rhizosphere of Spinach Bioscience‚ Biotechnology‚ Biochemistry 67:1048-1055. 5. Jingbao‚ L.‚ H. Feng‚ L. Xinzhi‚ F. Xiaoyan‚ M. Cuiping‚ C. Yan‚ and Y. Wengong. 2007. A simple method of preparing diverse neoagaro-oligosaccharides with β-agarase. Carbohydrate Research 342:1030-1033
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