The Himalayan Rescue Association's (HRA) clinic in Pheriche, Nepal (4243m) is one of a number of high altitude medical posts where demands for services are increasing. Every year international doctors see over 1000 patients, assisting local people with basic health needs and providing emergency care for trekkers with both altitude-related and general illnesses and injuries. This article describ...

Lectotypes of twenty-eight names of taxa currently recognized or synonymized in Cardamine are designated as part of the work on the account of the genus for the Pan-Himalayan Flora. Among them, the previous first-step lectotypification of the name Cardaminecalthifolia is finalized. In cases when specimen images are available online, stable identifiers for specimens, other permanent links, or li...

A comparison of attachment, engorgement and moulting success of Amblyomma hebraeum larvae fed on domestic chickens and Himalayan giant white rabbits indicates that chickens are better hosts than the rabbits. Moreover the time needed for detachment of all engorged larvae is significantly less for chickens than for the rabbits. No evidence of induced immunity was found in chickens on re-infestati...

Very large databases are required to store massive amounts of data that are continuously inserted and queried. Analyzing huge data sets and extracting valuable pattern in many applications are interesting for researchers. We can identify two main groups of techniques for huge data bases mining. One group refers to streaming data and applies mining techniques whereas second group attempts to sol...

We assess biodiversity status of Rotifera known from India to-date based on our studies various regions this country and evaluation other viable records, highlight notable features biogeography richness. The Indian fauna reveals 434 valid species belonging to 68 genera 25 families thus indicates the most biodiverse vis-àvis south Southeast Asia, records ~25% ~41% global regional biogeographic i...

25 Modeling and simulation of a network interface handling two priority levels. We propose a scheme called Double Queue Scheme to reduce the eeects of local jobs' communication on the performance of parallel jobs. It divides the only one input and output queues in traditional network interfaces into two ones. One is for the communication of parallel jobs, and the other is for the communication ...

sensitivity analysis might be considered as one of inevitable steps in modelling since it would help to determine the behaviour of model, which was developed for further application. sensitivity analysis was not paid much attention in studies that have been conducted for modelling the relationship between stream water quality and land cover except machine learning techniques such as artificial ...

With the help of ERS 1 and 2 tandem data, we have produced DEM and glacier movement of two major Himalayan glaciers in India. The glaciers showed good correlation but the surrounding areas had more decorrelation. Contours generated with ERS 1 and 2 SAR tandem data are comparable with topographic maps. We have used SRTM DEM to study the glacier movement involving two-pass differential method. Th...