Ijlal Muzaffar. Review of "Sarai Reader 02: The Cities of Everyday Life" by Ravi Vasudevan, Ravi Sundaram, and Jeebesh Bagchi.

Schistosomiasis By Ravi Chavali

Etiologic Agent Schistosomiasis is a disease caused by parasitic worm of genus Schistosoma [1]. It belongs to phylum Platyhelminthes, class Trematoda and genus Schistosoma [2]. Most human infections are caused by the three species: S. mansoni, S. haematobium, and S. japonicum [3]. There are two more species S. intercalatum and S. mekongi known to cause Schistosomiasis [3]. The most infections c...

The Transportation Primitive Ravi

2009 winner: Ravi Desai.

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2009 JCS Prize is Ravi Desai, for his paper entitled ‘Cell polarity triggered by cell-cell contact via E-cadherin’ (Desai et al., 2009). The $1000 prize is awarded annually to the first author of the paper that is judged by the Editors and Editorial Board to be the best published in the Journal that year. To be considered for the prize, the firs...

Review of Ravi Batra, The Great Depression of 1990

The Great Depression of 1990 was on the New York Times best-seller list for non-fiction in the summer of 1987. It follows a standard formula for best sellers in forecasting: Forecast a great disaster, and include a formula for redemption. If the disaster occurs, you can say, "I told you so." If it doesn't occur, you say, "It is good that they listened to my advice. I saved them." How can you lo...

“the effect of risk aversion on the demand for life insurance: the case of iranian life insurance market”

abstract: about 60% of total premium of insurance industry is pertained?to life policies in the world; while the life insurance total premium in iran is less than 6% of total premium in insurance industry in 2008 (sigma, no 3/2009). among the reasons that discourage the life insurance industry is the problem of adverse selection. adverse selection theory describes a situation where the inf...