Human civilization is facing the problem of kidney stones since ancient ages. Although mortality rate is not so high, yet it affects the victim's quality of life. The patient suffers from intense pain and many other symptoms modifying his life style and affecting his socioeconomic status. Many drugs and invasive methods have also been developed for the treatment, but these are highly costly and...

The desert ant Cataglyphis fortis has at least three types of navigational strategy that can guide it between its nest and a familiar food site. The initial strategy after first finding a food site is based on a path integration memory of the position of the food site with respect to the nest. A second strategy is based on visual snapshot memories of features viewed from near or on the way to t...

Bushes are considered as the first example of a truly nested datatype, i. e., a family of datatypes indexed over all types where a constructor argument not only calls this family with a changing index but even with an index that involves the family itself. For the time being, no induction principles for these datatypes are known. However, the author has introduced with Abel and Uustalu (TCS 333...

A long term study has been carried out for over a decade across various tea gardens, located in different parts of Indian Himalayan Region (IHR), with a focus on rhizosphere microbiology of tea. Occurrence of ‘negative rhizosphere effect’ exerted by the established tea bushes, in contrast to the normal stimulatory effect exhibited by the plants in general as well as young tea bushes, is the fir...

________________________________________________________________________________ Abstract Grazing levels and rotational schemes need to be tailored to each individual farm or pasture, and more studies are needed on the resilience of rangelands and on separating the effects of grazing and climate. The direct short-term impact of three rates of stocking (4, 8 and 16 Small Stock Units-SSU/ha) was ...

The cranberry weevil, Anthonomus musculus Say (Coleoptera: Curculionidae), is a key (univoltine) pest of highbush blueberries in the northeast United States. To date, however, no trapping system has been developed to successfully monitor this pest. In 2012–2014, studies were conducted in commercial highbush blueberry farms in New Jersey to 1) evaluate the efficacy of various commercially availa...

The blueberry gall midge, Dasineura oxycoccana Johnson, is a serious pest of rabbiteye blueberries in Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi, and a potential pest of southern and northern highbush blueberries. Its damage has been observed with increasing frequency in highbush blueberry plantings in the Great Lakes region, including in Wisconsin and in Michigan. Unlike in rabbiteye blueberry plantin...

Locally, Gomutra Silajit is known under the name “RAKTAMANDALAM”. Literally, it means ‘Blood Patch’ or ‘Blood coloured Matter’. In fact, the Ayurvedic texts refer to its colour as that of ‘Japakusuma’ – the China Rose, botanically known as Hibiscus rosasinensis Linn. (Telegu: Mandara). For this reason the local name referring to its colour as ‘Rakta’ (Blood) is apt. The above treatise also indi...

Vegetation as an essential positive sustainable element of urban spaces has recently gathered increased attention from landscape architects and urban planners. Vegetation growing in urban settings can bring environmental benefits that enhance the health and well-being of citizens through, for example, improved air quality, increased thermal insulation for buildings, reduction of the urban heat-...

The event bush is a new method of artificial intelligence proposed specially to meet the needs of geosciences, from basic research to communication with nonprofessionals. First results of its application as well as combination of event bush with mathematical and logical formalisms are encouraging, and the method has shown some advantages to existing approaches, as well as an ability to unite th...