Drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparum parasite poses a great problem for the malaria control programme of any country. The most commonly used antimalarial drugs, viz. chloroquine (CQ) and sulphadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) have been rendered ineffective and are replaced by the artesunate-based combination therapy (ACT). In India, artesunate is combined with SP (ASP). Nevertheless, CQ is continued t...

RNA polymerase II (RNAPII) transcription has been proposed to occur at transcription factories; nuclear focal accumulations of the active, phosphorylated forms of RNAPII. The low ratio of transcription factories to active genes and transcription units suggests that genes must share factories. Our previous analyses using light microscopy have indicated that multiple genes could share the same fa...

Economic historians tend to explain the rise of the cooperative form in agriculture from the advantage of cooperative over private factories in reducing transaction costs with suppliers. This study provides a first test of this thesis using data on 1130 dairy factories in The Netherlands. Indeed, we find that cooperative factories performed significantly better than private factories. The persi...

In Indian legislative history the year 1986 will be remembered for passing a revolutionary Act for consumers i.e. The Consumer Protection Act, 1986. After enactment of this statute the vacuum in law fulfilled with respect to any specific law for settlement of consumer disputes. This act provides three-tier redressal machinery for speedy settlement of grievances of consumers. Year 2013 is the si...

Native American children in the United States have been adopted by non-Indian families at rates that threaten the preservation of their Indian history, traditions, and culture. The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which established restrictive parameters that govern the placement of Native American children into foster care and adoptive homes, was ratified in an effort to keep American Indian f...