Alligator weed Alternanthera philoxeroides (Mart.) Griseb (Amaranthaceae) is being reported for the first time from Kashmir, India. Alternanthera philoxeroides was collected in 2008 during the vegetation survey of Wular Lake, a wetland of international importance under Ramsar convention. Alternanthera philoxeroides is a noxious invasive weed widespread throughout the world. We suggested that al...

A very severe epidemic of cholera attacked Kashmir in 1935; an extensive report has been prepared but, as its publication will take time, we have thought it desirable to publish this note which deals mainly with certain aspects of protection conferred by the use of anti-cholera vaccine. Before dealing with these points a few preliminary remarks are necessary. The epidemic started on 26th June, ...

Address for Correspondence: Dr. Ashfaq Ul Hassan, MBBS MD, Lecturer SKIMS Medical College Bemina Srinagar, Kashmir, India. E-Mail: [email protected] Access this Article online Quick Response code Web site: *1 MBBS MD, Lecturer, SKIMS Medical College Bemina Srinagar, Kashmir, India. 2 MBBS, Medical Consultant, Islamic University of Science and Technology, Awantipora, Kashmir India. 3 Prof...

On account of their ecological, economical and cultural significance, grasslands are an important mark and a unique heritage in Jammu and Kashmir. However, the details of distribution of vast reserves of soil organic carbon (SOC) in these ecosystems are not well known because most of the previous investigations on these ecosystems have been devoted towards highlighting their importance as repos...

Authors' Affiliations: 1 Department of Developmental, Molecular and Chemical Biology 8 Tufts University School of Medicine; Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts 9 University; Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Department of 10 Biological Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; , 6 Department of Biochemistry, University 11 of Kashmir, Kashmir, India; 7 Dep...

This paper qualifies the effect of different convection schemes and center-domains on the simulation of winter precipitation over Iran using RegCM3 numerical climate model. It is compressible, finite difference with hydrostatic equilibrium in sigma coordinate with a semi-implicit algorithm for reduction of horizontal diffusion. Iran experienced two dry and wet periods during winters of 1997 and...

Esophageal cancer is one of the most common cancers worldwide. It is a multifactorial disease, and no single agent has been identified so far as the sole cause of the cancer. Many factors like smoking, the consumption of alcohol, fungal-contaminated, spicy and various nitrosamine-containing food stuffs and hot beverages, nutritional deficiency of some vitamins like β-carotene, vitamin A, C and ...

Over a three year period (1 July 1986 to 30 June 1989) all newly diagnosed and histologically proved cases of oesophageal and gastric cancer were recorded prospectively. Some 1515 cases of oesophageal cancer (1050 men and 465 women) and 966 cases of gastric cancer (789 men and 177 women) were registered. Seven patients had simultaneous oesophageal and gastric cancer. Age standardised incidence ...

The pattern of fluvial incision across the Himalayas of central Nepal is estimated from the distribution of Holocene and Pleistocene terraces and from the geometry of modem channels along major rivers draining across the range. The terraces provide good constraints on incision rates across the Himalayan frontal folds (Sub-Himalaya or Siwaliks Hills) where rivers are forced to cut down into risi...