Blackgram (Vigna mungo L.) is one of the major pulse crops grown throughout India. Prediction seed vigour and field emergence before sowing important for assured yield. A standard germination test time-consuming does not always show lot potential performance, especially if conditions are optimal. There need advanced technology, which can give a precise result in short period. The experiment was...

The two papers that inspire this comment piece appear at an interesting time in the study of power structures early middle ages. topic itself has seen renewed vigour among scholars throu...

In May, 1999 James Greig Arthur, University Professor at the University of Toronto was awarded the Canada Gold Medal by the National Science and Engineering Research Council. This is a high honour for a Canadian scientist, instituted in 1991 and awarded annually, but not previously to a mathematician, and the choice of Arthur, although certainly a recognition of his great merits, is also a reco...

A pioneer of ageing research, August Weismann has established two rather opposing concepts for aging and even today both gather numerous followers. One is the adaptive concept, according to which ageing has evolved to cleanse the population from old, nonreproductive consumers. The other, non-adaptive concept suggests that ageing is due to greater weight on early survival / reproduction rather t...

were responsible for the transmission of a large number of human and animal diseases. A major proportion of mortality among men and animals is definitely attributable to the attacks of these pests. Besides mortality their direct effect on human life and economy, due to decreased vigour and work is enormous. Moreover, in live animals, they directly inflict a variety of forms of physical damage; ...

importance of these factors is afforded by the reports of cases operated on by Tudor Edwards.1 History.?The symptoms in Mr. J. F., aged fortytwo years, asserted themselves with alarming vigour first on 15th May, 1935, by an hour's expectoration of foul pus and blood. He collapsed that evening, and the trouble kept him in bed for eight weeks. There had been mild pain over the lower left ribs for...