Echinoderms are a major group of marine invertebrates that often play integral roles within the ecosystem. Studies about their occurrence, abundance, and distribution in Venezuela focused central-eastern coasts; hence aim this study is to describe echinoderm community north-western coast Gulf Venezuela. Samples were collected from three sites Venezuelan Guajira Peninsula (Castilletes, Porshoure...

Biochemistry Research Division, Department of Cancer Biology, Chief Department of Surgical Oncology (Speciality Clinic) & Director, The Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute, 3 Department of Oral Diagnosis and Dental Radiology, Government Dental College and Hospital Correspondence to: Dr. Prabhudas S. Patel, In-charge, Biochemistry Research Division, The Gujarat Cancer & Research Institute, Asarw...

Abstract This paper examines the relationship between democracy and economic growth in 30 Sub-Saharan African countries. As our proxy for democracy we first use the democracy index constructed by Freedom House and then check the sensitivity of our findings using, as an alternative proxy for democracy, the Legislative Index of Electoral Competitiveness (LIEC). We find support for the Lipset hypo...

Balssaxius habereri (Balss, 1903) has been newly reported in Korean waters. This species was previously known from the Pacific coast of northern Japan, Korea Strait, Yellow Sea, and Japanese coast of the East Sea. Specimens were collected from western Jeju Island using otter trawls at depths of 65–85 m. Regarding Korean axiid shrimps, a single species, Boasaxius princeps (Boas, 1880), previousl...

This paper discusses the issues and concerns related to the health of animals with respect to the rural areas of Gujarat based on the survey done by us. After discovering the concern we have proposed possible solution for the said issues. The solution uses the upcoming technology of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN). It shows how the upcoming technology can be integrated seamlessly in the rural env...

Dr. (Mrs.) MAYUrI B. KHAMAr: MBBS (1980), B J Medical College, Ahmedabad; MS (1984), M & J Institute of Ophthalmology, B. J. M.C., Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. Presently, Director, Glaucoma Centre, Raghudeep Eye Clinic, Ahmedabad and Associate Professor, School of Optometry, Nagri Eye Hospital, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. E-mail: bmkhamar@yahoo. com This paper was conferred with the AIOs-D...

In the present investigation, the abundance and molecular phylogeny of part of the culturable bacterial population involved in the dissolution of "miliolite", a bioclastic limestone, from Gopnath, India, was studied. Carbonate-dissolving bacteria were isolated, enumerated and screened for their ability to dissolve miliolite. Amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis (ARDRA) indicated 14 oper...

Stock assessment of Rhizoprionodon acutus (Ruppell, 1837) was made along with a few biological characteristics in the commercial landings during 2012-2014 from Gujarat waters of India to understand the population dynamics and stock status of the species. L∞, K and t0 estimated were 93.8 cm, 0.32 yr -1 and -1.3 yr, respectively. Total mortality rate (Z), fishing mortality rate (F) and natural mo...