The ovigerous females of Upogebia (Upogebia assisi) were collected from Pacha (24o 50 54"N, 66o 43 E) on October 6 and 7, 1994 and 1995 respectively. They were kept for rearing under laboratory conditions at room temperature (25-32oC) in the filtered seawater with salanity of 35-36 parts per thousand (ppt) and pH 7.8-9. Development of larvae proceeds from first to three or four zoeal and p...

From Partition to the present day, India has displayed an ability to sustain democratic forms of government and politics. There have been no military bids for power and even Mrs. Gandhi’s months of emergency rule, which many thought perilously close to a dictatorship, was ended by the electors’ verdict in 1977. Despite phases of acute domestic strain and communal violence, the assassination of ...

T he main objective of this paper was the investigation of the impact of the trade openness on economic growth in Pakistan. We have been employed both the Johensen and Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) Co-integration together with ECM Techniques for the period 1975-2016. The empirical estimated results are the sound evidence that there exists a short...

M. Suhail Zubairy, Girish S. Agarwal, and Marlan O. Scully Institute for Quantum Studies and Department of Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA Department of Electronics, Quadi-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan Physical Research Laboratory, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad-380009, India Department of Chemistry, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544, USA (Recei...

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in females all over the world with approximately one million new cases each year as well as one of second leading causes of death among females. In Pakistan, the most frequently diagnosed cancer among females is also breast cancer, accounting for nearly one in nine female patients. Its incidence in Pakistan is 2.5 times higher than that in neighboring cou...

368 www.thelancet.com/infection Vol 17 April 2017 1 Haider S, Hassali AM, Iqbal Q, et al. Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever in Pakistan. Lancet Infect Dis 2016; 16: 1333. 2 Müller MA, Devignot S, Lattwein E, et al. Evidence for widespread infection of African bats with Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever-like viruses. Sci Rep 2016; 6: 26637. 3 Mourya DT, Yadav PD, Shete AM, et al. Cross-sectional se...

BACKGROUND/AIMS To estimate and compare price differences between legal and illicit cigarettes in 14 low- and middle-income countries (LMIC). DESIGN A cross-sectional census of all packs available on the market was purchased. SETTING Cigarette packs were purchased in formal retail settings in three major cities in each of 14 LMIC: Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, ...