Fifty years ago, Punjab embarked on its famous Green Revolution, leading the rest of India in that innovation, and becoming the country's breadbasket. Now its economy and society are struggling by relative, and sometimes even absolute, measures. Using the original Green Revolution as a benchmark, this paper discusses five areas of challenge and promise for a new round of agricultural innovation...

A brief survey of abnormal hemoglobin variants among the major ethnic groups of Karachi was conducted; 202,600 subjects were studied. Patients with low hemoglobin (Hb), low mean cell volume (MCV) and mean cell hemoglobin (MCH) including anemia, microcytosis, hypochromic hemolysis and target cells, were refered for the identification of hemoglobinopathy by molecular methods. Population screening...

1Dekiwadia Hospital, Rajkot, Gujarat; 2Fortis Hospital, Mohali, Punjab; 3Vascular Surgeon – Daya Hospital, Jubilee Mission Medical College, Trichur, Kerala; 4Department of Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Christian Medical College & Hospital, Ludhiana, Punjab; 5Interventional cardiologist Jaslok Hospital, Breach Candy Hosptial, Sir H.N. Hospital, Saifee Hospital, Mumbai.; 6First Choice Vasc...

Nailer, Surgeon Henry Augustus Fitzroy, M.B., Civil Surgeon, Chingleput, to act as Resident Surgeon, General Hospital. Nandi, Surgeon S. C., to the officiating medical charge of the 40th Bengal Infantry, vice Surgeon F. D. C. Hawkins. Prain, Surgeon D., to the officiating medical charge of the 42nd Assam Light Infantry, vice Surgeon D. F. Barry, appointed Garrison Surgeon, Fort William. Morice,...

1 University G. Marconi of Rome, Dermatology and Venereology, Rome 00192, Italy; 2 Medical Institute of the Ministry of Interior, Dermatology, Venereology and Dermatologic Surgery; Onkoderma, Private Clinic for Dermatologic Surgery, Dermatology and Surgery, Sofia 1407, Bulgaria; 3 Krankenhaus Dresden-Friedrichstadt, Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Dresden, Sachsen, Germany; 4 Univers...

This paper tests the efficiency of insurance markets in the Pakistan Punjab by examining how crop choices are affected by the presence of price and yield risk. We estimate reduced-form and structural models of crop choices. Although we cannot reject the hypothesis that village members efficiently share risk among themselves, production choices are shown to depend on risk. Existing risk sharing ...

By Surgeon-Major T. E. B. Brown, Principal, Medical School, Lahore; late Chemical Examiner for the Punjab. Of late years a method of poisoning has been used in some t)<\rta c\f Punjab, which is not described in books. It lias neipany been employed for the destruction of cattle, but in a few cases human beings have been killed in the same way. It consists in the introduction of some irritant poi...

In the present study 22 rural athletes of four different states of India have been studied for 23 anthropometric parameters--weight, height, sitting height, six diameters, six circumferences and eight skin and subcutaneous tissue folds. Rural athletes of Punjab and Haryana have been found to be comparable pertaining to all the anthropometric variables. Athletes of Madhya Pradesh show minimum va...

Gurdas Singh, Dr. Jaiteg Singh Regional Institute of Management and Technology (RIMT), Mandi Gobindgarh, Punjab, INDIA. Associate Professor, Department of Computer Applications, Chitkara University Punjab, INDIA. _______________________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT: Semantic Web ontologies are extensively used to drive Decision Support System, Data In...

cause of the mortality of the province, and are the prime source of the bulk of the sickness amongst its people. Moreover they are not all of one kind, nor produced by the same causes. I have already alluded to the different kinds of fever as divisible into the two great classes of malarious and specific, according a*, on the one hand, they depend for their origin and growth upon meteoric and c...