OBJECTIVE To test the hypothesis that reduced fetal growth leads to altered plasma insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) concentrations in childhood. DESIGN A follow up study of 4 year old children whose birth weights were recorded, and of 7 year old children whose weight, length, head circumference, and placental weight were measured at birth. SETTING Pune, India, and Salisbury, England. ...

Savitribai Phule Pune University is known for its biodiversity in Pune. In the present study, we have analyzed changes which occurred on campus and surrounding area over last 40 years. Of 90 bird species reported Khadki pond 1976, failed to notice 34 2018. A major reason decline diversity could be habitat from low scrub jungle, fallow lands grassland buildings, roads, exotic plantations. Increa...

The relationship of lightning with rainfall and temperature is investigated on the basis of a four-year (2004– 2007) data set over the Pune region. It is found that the annual variations of stroke count and rainfall both are bimodal with the first peak value of rainfall showing a one month time lag from the first peak value of stroke count. This is attributed to the prime period of the onset ph...

This is a written version of the review talk given at the meeting on " Interface of Gravitational and Quantum Realms " at IUCAA, Pune during December 2001. The talk reviewed the recent work of Martin Bojowald on Loop Quantum Cosmology.

Five difference species of plants are known as Kade-Chirayet in different parts of Pune and neighbouring districts. Botanical identification of all the five species is presented in this paper.

Background: There is considerable rise in elderly population as per 2011 census of India and majority of them are residing in rural areas. Objective: To study health problems amongst the elderly population of Rural areas of Pune, Maharashtra. To study pattern of addictions amongst the elderly population of rural areas of Pune, Maharashtra. Materials and methods: A community based cross-sectiona...

An architectural framework for implementing a distributed observatory control system is presented here. It has been partially realized and tested in the 2m optical and infrared Observatory at Pune, India.

PuMPE is a comprehensive resource that provides integrated information on metabolome of bacterial systems. The genome data is annotated to infer metabolic pathways using in-house tools and web-based sources. PuMPE introduces a novel aspect of metabolic categorization. It is the first resource to provide metabolome-based tree computed by comparing metabolome between bacteria. PuMPE has metabolic...

1 Ms. Arti B Waghode, M.E. (Digital System), JSPM’s JSCOE Pune, Maharashtra, India 2 Assistant Professor. C A Manjare, Dept. of E&TC Engineering, JSPM’s, JSCOE, Pune, Maharashtra, India ---------------------------------------------------------------------***--------------------------------------------------------------------Abstract Finger knuckle print can be incredibly beneficial for person i...