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...

Thk Asylums in the Punjab are situated at Lahore and Delhi. The former is the larger, having a daily average population of 238*09 as compared with 111*23 in the latter. The report on the Lahore Asylum points to rather an unsatisfactory condition of affairs. The buildings are unsuitable, the expenditure was high, and the warder establishment worked b'dly. There were 40 deaths, the highest number...

S OF SIKH STUDIES: JULY-SEPT 2010 / 542 NS 38 better health levels compared to the people living in Southern states like Kerala and Tamil Nadu where one could see much better education and health related indicators than that of Punjab (Brar, 2002). Since the mid-1980s in Punjab, the under-currents of political turmoil, severe state resource crunch and nonresponsive administration in the state o...

A study of the basic and derived anthropometric indices among the healthy adults (20-30 years of age) of amritsar city (punjab) having family history of hypertension.

Recently, a butterfly, Two spot Plum Judy Abisara bifasciata (Moore, 1877), (Lepidoptera: Riodinidae: Riodininae) was sighted at Chamrour, Ranjit Sagar Conservation Reserve, Punjab an altitude of 460 m ASL for the first time and species is new addition to Butterflies Punjab.