4. Epigraphic Discoveries in Mysore

Epigraphic Survey Giza

Since 1988 we have been excavating at Giza, 350 m south of the Great Sphinx and south of the gigantic stone Heit el-Ghurob ("Wall of the Crow"). The concession, 650 m north-south and 250 m east-west (16 ha), extends from the bottom of the slope where Zahi Hawass has excavated the "workers' cemetery" in recent years, to the modern paved road and houses of Nazlet es-Semman and Kafr Gebel. A subst...

Endemic Typhus in Mysore

Hans Zinsser's book Rats, Lice and History has depicted impressively the important role typhus in the cultural evolution of the human race. The epidemic form of the disease has even changed the history of nations. ^ certain uniformity in the symptomatology has pen established in the louse-borne epidemic j;0rm as a contrast to the numerous endemic forms. The manifestation of the tsutsugamushi ;^...

Discoveries in shRNA Design

To successfully apply RNAi, the very first step is to design functional siRNA or shRNA sequences targeting specific genes. Many characteristics of functional synthetic siRNAs have been identified, but it remains questionable if these characteristics can be equally applied to the design of functional shRNAs. Our three-phase algorithm was developed based on the characteristics of functional siRNA...

Mysore childhood obesity study.

We conducted this study to document the prevalence of obesity, overweight and underweight in the school children aged 5 to 16 years from Mysore. 5 Principal Investigators and 13 Co-Investigators trained the teachers of 139 schools (Private--111, Govt--28) to record the vital statistics of the children studying in their schools. A total of 43,152 school children (23,527 boys and 19,625 girls) we...

Mysore Declaration: capacity strengthening in nutrition.