This study mainly focused on lively society of kerala known as Mappila in southern India. The major parts community reside the Kerala state. Their culture and language are Malayalam people famous Malayalis. original homeland Mappilas it included from Cape Comorin to Mangalore part Karnataka State but here given important for living inside land kerala. early history goes through Arab when they l...

An efficient flood alarm system may significantly improve public safety and mitigate damages caused by inundation. Flood forecasting is undoubtedly a challenging field of operational hydrology and a huge literature has been developed over the years. In this paper, we first define ordered ideal intuitionistic fuzzy sets and establish some results on them. Then, we define similarity measures betw...

In this paper the authors attempt to clarify the botanical identity of Tamalaki, a controversial herb used in Kerala, in Ayurvedic medicine.

BACKGROUND India aims to reduce the infant mortality rate (IMR) to below 60 per 1000 live births by 2000. IMR is higher in northern India as compared with south Indian states like Kerala. Any further reduction in IMR needs identification of new strategies. The Ballabgarh project with an IMR of 36 in 1997 can help identify such strategies. OBJECTIVE To see the trend in reduction of neonatal mo...

This paper presents two important species of plants used by the Kanitribes of Agastyar hills of Trivandrum district of Kerala against snake-poison and insect bite.

BACKGROUND Tuberculosis is endemic to developing countries like India. Though the whole genome sequences of the type strain M. tuberculosis H37Rv and the clinical strain M. tuberculosis CDC1551 are available, the clinical isolates from India have not been studied extensively at the genome level. This study was carried out in order to have a better understanding of isolates from Kerala, a state ...

Aedes albopictus has been shown to be a vector for diseases which have been on the increase, such as dengue fever and chikungunya infection. We conducted a study of 100 homes from 2006-2009 to determine the breeding sites for Ae. albopictus mosquitoes in Calicut, Kerala, India. We found the larvae of Ae. albopictus mosquitoes most often in coconut shells and plastic waste, followed by tires, fl...

mosquito-borne encephalitic flavivirus of rural eastern, southeastern and southern Asia. Outbreaks of JE have occurred in many states in India1. An explosive insular outbreak of meningoencephalitis, mainly in children, occurred during early 1996 in the Kuttanad area of Alappuzha district, Kerala2. During the outbreak in May 2011, 24 cases were recorded between January and May 2011; one in Janua...