"There's gold in them thar hills".

There's still gold in them thar pills.

Straw into Gold: Lessons Learned (and Still Being Learned) at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy.

What lessons have we learned at the Manitoba Centre for Health Policy (MCHP) about knowledge translation (KT) over the past 20 years, and what is our vision for the future? How does that KT interrelate with our other activities - research and the Population Health Data Repository? Who first noticed that "there's gold in them thar hills," and what did they do about it? How did we weave administr...

New Gold in Them Thar Hills: Testing a Novel Supply Route for Plant-Derived Galanthamine

Many secondary plant compounds are synthesized in response to stressed growing conditions. We tested the feasibility of exploiting this feature in a novel strategy for the commercial production of the plant alkaloid galanthamine. Experimental lines of Narcissus pseudonarcissus were established under marginal upland permanent pasture at four different sites. Over 80% of bulbs successfully establ...

Preliminary Petrological Studies of Basement Rocks, Thar Coal Basin, Thar Parkar District, Sindh, Pakistan

The basement rocks encountered in exploratory boreholes drilled for exploration and evaluation of coal deposits in Thar Parkar district, Sindh Pakistan have formed the basis for present studies. The basement complex was penetrated through eighteen boreholes at drill depth range from 112 to 279 meters. These rocks were identified in field as Pink and Grey Granites.. The basement rocks are of Ign...

Detection of Himalayan thar using a thermal infrared camera

The thermal characteristics of thar and their alpine habitat (including expanses of bare rock) were determined as a function of time throughout the night, by measurements from imagery acquired with a thermal video camera. Measurements were also made on thar in a farm environment, to determine the radiant temperature difference between their considerably hotter heads and cooler bodies. Thermal i...