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Nrdc to Commercialise Herbal Beer & Lipstick

The Natural Product Development Division (consisting of pharmacognosy, Elthno pharmacology and phytochemistry) of national Botanical Research Institute (NBRI), Lucknow is engaged in the development of scientifically validated and standardized value added diverse herbal product with the objectives of converting our rich bio-diversity and the associated traditional knowledge and wisdom to economi...

Interactive whiteboards: Real beauty or just "lipstick"?

There has been extensive investment by governments and individual schools in interactive whiteboard technology in developed countries premised on the assumption that their use in education will impact positively on learners’ achievements. Developing countries, such as South Africa, keen to raise attainment among their learners are following suit. While at least one of the nine provinces in Sout...

Modeling of Natural - lipstick formulation by artificial neural network

An artificial neural network (ANN) was applied in conjunction with experimental data from mixture experimental design to predict the melting point of lipstick formulation. The experimental data were utilized for training and testing of the suggested model. By using performance of ANN, the optimum parameters were pitaya seed oil 25 w/w%, virgin coconut oil 37 w/w%, beeswax 17 w/w%, candelilla wa...

Putting Lipstick on Pig: Enabling Database-style Workflow Provenance

Workflow provenance typically assumes that each module is a “black-box”, so that each output depends on all inputs (coarse-grained dependencies). Furthermore, it does not model the internal state of a module, which can change between repeated executions. In practice, however, an output may depend on only a small subset of the inputs (finegrained dependencies) as well as on the internal state of...

Allergic contact cheilitis caused by ditrimethylolpropane triethylhexanoate in a lipstick.