Bijay Kumar Behera,a Priyanka Das,a Jitendra Maharana,a Prasenjit Paria,a Shambhu Nath Mandal,a Dharmendra Kumar Meena,a Anil Prakash Sharma,b Rijith Jayarajan,c Vishal Dixit,c Ankit Verma,c Shamsudheen Karuthedath Vellarikkal,c,e Vinod Scaria,d,e Sridhar Sivasubbu,c,e Atmakuri Ramakrishna Rao,f Trilochan Mohapatrag Biotechnology Laboratory, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Kol...

Molecular markers associated with artemisinin resistance in Plasmodium falciparum are yet to be well defined. Recent studies showed that polymorphisms in K13 gene are associated with artemisinin resistance. The present study was designed to know the pattern of polymorphisms in propeller region of K13 gene among the clinical isolates collected from urban Kolkata after five years of ACT implement...

This article contributes to the growing literature on youth sexualities and intimacy, by centring lived experiences of self-identified gay in eastern Indian city Kolkata. It draws interview narratives thirteen between ages 19 26, living Kolkata, unpack two inter-locking ways which these sexual minority co-construct intimacy within urban space: (a) as verbal non-verbal disclosure (b) embodied in...

a Laboratoire de Mathématiques Appliquées aux Systèmes, École Centrale Paris, 92290 Châtenay-Malabry, France b School of Computational and Integrative Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi-110067, India c Department of Biomedical Engineering and Computational Science, Aalto University School of Science, P.O. Box 12200, FI-00076 AALTO, Espoo, Finland d Condensed Matter Physics Divisio...

Oral cancer is most common cancer in males and third most common in females, the main causative agent being use of chewing betel quid (BQ). The micronucleus (MN) assay in exfoliated buccal cells is a useful and minimally invasive method for monitoring genetic damage in humans. Micronuclei (MN) have been proposed as good biomarker to assess cytogenetic damage. MN formation has been observed in c...

Dengue is one of the major public health threats in Kolkata. Every year, blood samples with dengue-like illness are referred to us from different medical colleges and hospitals in Kolkata for the detection of dengue infection in them. In 2010, a total of 378 samples were referred to us for that purpose. All the samples were tested for the detection of IgM antibodies by ELISA method, followed by...

Economic analyses of cholera immunization programmes require estimates of the costs of cholera. The Diseases of the Most Impoverished programme measured the public, provider, and patient costs of culture-confirmed cholera in four study sites with endemic cholera using a combination of hospital- and community-based studies. Families with culture-proven cases were surveyed at home 7 and 14 days a...

Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Kolkata and rural West Bengal engaging with literature mobile phones the global South, gender sexuality India, this article seeks to und...

The Kolkata Paise Restaurant Problem is a challenging game in which n agents decide where to have lunch during their break. not trivial because there are exactly restaurants, and each restaurant can accommodate only one agent. We study this problem from new angle propose novel strategy that results greater utilization. Adopting spatially distributed approach the restaurants uniformly entire cit...