Decisions for investment, buying and selling of properties depend upon the market value of that property. Issues arise in arriving at the actual value of the property as well as computing the rate of returns from the estate. Addressing valuation related issues through an understanding of behavior of real property rates provide the means to explore the quality of past decisions and to make valid...

The probabilistic distribution of the thunderstorm phenomenon during the pre-monsoon season (1 March to 18 June) over Pune, a tropical Indian station, has been examined with the help of Markov chain models using daily thunderstorm data for a period of 11 years (1970–80). The data have also been tested using Akaike’s information criterion. This test has clearly indicated that the first-order Mar...

Ashish A. Kulkarni, Bhaskar Roy, Poornima S. Rao, Gregory A. Wyant, Ayaat Mahmoud, Madhumitha Ramachandran, Poulomi Sengupta, Aaron Goldman, Venkata Ramana Kotamraju, Sudipta Basu, Raghunath A Mashelkar, Erkki Ruoslahti, Daniela M. Dinulescu, Shiladitya Sengupta. Laboratory for Nanomedicine, Division of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Cambridge, MA,...

Thornwaldt’s cyst occurs in the midline of the nasopharynx (space behind nasal cavity).Although it is relatively uncommon and majority are asymptomatic, it may cause significant symptoms. We present a case of young male who presented with history of snoring, stuffy nose and unusual heaviness in head. He had a history of irregular clinician consultation due to transferable nature of his job. On ...

Continuous surveillance of influenza was carried out in Pune between 1978 and 1990. Most of the cases were identified during investigation of 16 outbreaks of influenza in Pune over this period. The majority of cases were children. Ten of the outbreaks occurred during rainy seasons. A total of 290 isolates consisting of several antigenic variants of influenza type A (H3N2), type A (H1N1), and ty...

This paper describes how the NGO Shelter Associates and an organization of women and men slum dwellers worked together to collect information on each household in slum settlements in Pune and Sangli and to map this, along with infrastructure and service provision and each slum’s position within the city. This permitted data on slums to be superimposed on these cities’ development plans using a ...

The radon and its progeny concentrations are measured near the surface of the earth at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, India. In-situ measurements of the meteorological parameters such as temperature and relative humidity are also made simultaneously. The concentrations show maxima in the early morning hours when the turbulence mixing is the minimum; whereas in the afternoon...