Kumar Krishna, in appreciation

Kumar Krishna, in appreciation

It is with admiration and fondness that we dedicate this special issue of ZooKeys to Professor Kumar Krishna, dean of Isoptera research. This collection of papers is a humble testament of appreciation by the various biologists who are dedicated to studying termites, insects that are popularly maligned but actually of profound behavioral and ecological importance. Kumar’s influence extends beyon...

A true plural being – A life profile of P. R. Krishna Kumar

Gurdjieff called man a plural being because he considered men as divided in themselves, with hundreds and thousands of “I”s. But only an extraordinary man can have many “I”s of uniquely diverse characteristic features, recognize and maintain a fine balance and successfully use them for the sake of the society. P. R. Krishna Kumar, the head of Arya Vaidya Pharmacy (Coimbatore) Ltd. is such a bei...

Aditi Krishna

Ana Fernandes Krishna B

In this paper, we investigate incentives other than altruism that developed countries have in improving technologies speciÞc to developing countries. We develop a simple model of international trade between two regions, in which all individuals have similar preferences over an inferior good and a luxury good. The poor region has a comparative advantage in the production of the inferior good, an...

Ashim Kumar

Complementary and Alternative medicine (CAM) is a highly visible part of contemporary health care and has got an important role in palliative cancer care (Pal and Mittal, 2003). No longer restricted to the lay sector and the medical fringe, such practices can be found in mainstream hospitals and cancer centers (Pal, 2002a). In the United States and in other more developed countries many million...