In India, freshwater environments are experiencing serious threats to biodiversity, and there is an urgent priority for the search of alternative techniques to promote fish biodiversity conservation and management. With this aim, the present study was undertaken to assess the fish biodiversity within and outside a river protected area, and to evaluate whether the protected river area provides s...

Savannas once constituted the range of many species that human encroachment has now reduced to a fraction of their former distribution. Many survive only in protected areas. Poaching reduces the savanna elephant, even where protected, likely to the detriment of savanna ecosystems. While resources go into estimating elephant populations, an ecological benchmark by which to assess counts is lacki...

Factors affecting aspartimide formation, such as protecting groups, acidity, basicity, and temperature, were studied using the model tetrapeptide, Glu-AspGly-Thr. The aspartyl carboxyl side chain in this tetrapeptide was either free or protected as a benzyl or cyclohexyl ester. Our results showed that the cyclohexyl ester led to far less aspartimide formation during acidic or tertiary amine tre...

We have analysed the recently available GONG p-mode frequencies and splitting coefficients for a period of three and half years, including the rapidly rising phase of solar cycle 23. The analysis of mean frequency shift with different activity indices shows that the shift is equally correlated with both magnetic and radiative indices. During the onset of the new cycle 23, we notice that the cha...

Address: 1President, World Psychiatry Association, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYU, 5th Avenue & 100th Street, Box 1091 New York, New York 10029-6574, USA, 2Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital Dresden, Fetscherstrasse 74, D-01307 Dresden Germany and 3Parkkrankenhaus Leipzig-Südost, Klinik für Psychiatrie, Morawitzstrasse 2, D-04289 Leipzig, Germany * Correspondin...