Baseline ecological studies of Pondicherry mangroves are important for monitoring, management and conservation of mangrove ecosystems. A brachyuran crab faunal assemblage at four stations of Pondicherry mangroves is described and monthly samplings were made during September 2008 – August 2009. Totally 22 species of brachyuran crabs belonging to 12 genera and 5 families were recorded crabs bel...

The tabular approach and interpretation of results, as mentioned, according to varying MAT titres is a standard practice in any laboratory situated in a leptoendemic area including at ours at JIPMER, Pondicherry. We too take single high titre of 1:400 as positive. Nevertheless, the problem with MAT will be one of availability of facility, as mentioned in our original article. Thus, ELISA IgM wi...

Nineteen representative water samples were collected from surface and ground water sources, covering urban, rural area, shallow and deep aquifers in Pondicherry region. The samples were analysed for various pesticide residues such as HCH, Aldrin and DDT. Both surface and ground water sources found to exhibit the residuals of various pesticides. The residual levels oforganochlorine pesticides we...

SRIRAM POTHAPREGADA Department of Pediatrics, Indira Gandhi Medical College and Research Institute, Pondicherry 605 009, [email protected] REFERENCES 1. Mothers feed newborn babies donkey milk. Times of India 2008 May 6; Chennai: Page 6(Col-1) 2. Curative donkey milk in high demand in Chennai. Times of India 2011 Jan 25; Chennai: Page 4(Col2). 3. Haroon S, Das JK, Salam RA, Imdad A, Bhutt...

Mathematical simulation models for transmission and control of lymphatic filariasis are useful tools for studying the prospects of lymphatic filariasis elimination. Two simulation models are currently being used. The first, EPIFIL, is a population-based, deterministic model that simulates average trends in infection intensity over time. The second, LYMFASIM, is an individual-based, stochastic m...

We consider a batch arrival queueing system with three stage heterogeneous service provided by a single server with different (arbitrary) service time distributions. Each customer undergoes three stages of heterogeneous service. As soon as the completion of third stage of service, if the customer is dissatisfied with his service, he can immediately join the tail of the original queue. The vacat...