Genotyping of highly polymorphic autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) markers is a potent tool for elucidating genetic diversity. In the present study, fifteen autosomal STR markers were analyzed in unrelated healthy male Gorkha individuals (n = 98) serving in the Indian Army by using AmpFlSTR Identifiler Plus PCR Amplification Kit. In total, 138 alleles were observed with corresponding allele f...

Preterm birth (PTB) is the most common cause of neonatal morbidity and mortality worldwide. Approximately half PTBs linked with microbial etiologies, including pathologic changes to vaginal microbiota, which vary according ethnicity. Globally more than 50% occur in Asia, but studies microbiome its association pregnancy outcomes Asian women are lacking. This study aimed longitudinally analyzed c...

The main objective of the study is to enhance the mevastatin production using Plackett-Burman (PB) and central composite design (CCD) by Aspergillus terreus in submerged fermentation (SmF). Eight nutrients were chosen for a PB design with 12 experimental runs. A maximum mevastatin production of 170.4 mg L-1 was obtained in PB design. Response surface methodology (RSM) is a sequential procedure ...

Contrary to previous description based on the Mandarin model of syllable-tone system, Xinyingpan, a dialect of Prinmi (a Tibeto-Burman language of China), has been discovered to possess a melody-tone system (or “pitch-accent” system) akin to that of Japanese. Targeting the crux of the unusual characteristics of this melody-tone system, where neutralization of two tonal categories in citation fo...

BACKGROUND The Tibeto-Burman (TB) populations are one of the four major linguistic population groups of India. They are considered belonging to different stocks and show wide variation in culture and language; however, their genetic relationship, antiquity and migration history among the regional populations has been little investigated. Molecular genetic studies are expected to clearly show th...

Since its introduction by Stone (1974) and Geisser (1975), cross-validation has been studied and improved by several authors including Burman et al. the most widely used and best known is generalized cross-validation (GCV) (Craven & Wahba, 1979), which establishes a single-pass method that penalizes the fit by the trace of the smoother matrix assuming independent errors. We propose an extension...

Orthogonal Latin hypercubes (OLHs) are available for only a limited collection of run sizes. This paper presents a simple algorithm for constructing orthogonal designs that are nearly Latin hypercubes. The algorithm is based on the approach developed by Steinberg and Lin for OLH designs and can generate designs for all run sizes for which a Plackett-Burman design exists. The designs have good u...

On 5th September last, at 7 J P. M., a thin Burman woman named Ma Oung, aged 50 years, was brought in by the police with a deep transverse incised wound at the nape of her neck, said to have been inflicted by her husband in a fit of jealousy with a dak, cutting the skin, the trapezius and Splenius capitis and colli muscles on both the sides, a few posterior fibres of the right sterno-mastoid mu...

Cellulases are a complex of enzymes necessary for the complete solubilization cellulose in sugars, thus playing key role natural carbon cycle through hydrolysis lignocellulosic structures. The aim this study was to evaluate increase capacity Talaromyces amestolkiae CMIAT 055 produce cellulases by optimizing components culture medium containing banana pseudostem as an inducer, well different agi...