Wild Neurospora isolated from soil

Wild Neurospora isolated from soi

Women Entrepreneurship among the Context of Gender Aggressiveness, Opportunities and Hurdles of Informal Sector

Over the past decade, gender equality and women‘s empowerment have been explicitly recognized as key note only to the health of nations, but also to social and economic development.  Entrepreneurship amongst women has been a recent concern. Women have become aware of their rights and their work circumstances. However, women of the middle class are not too keen to alter their role in fear of social constraints the progress is more visible among upper class in urban cities. Our increasing dependency on service area has created numerous entrepreneurial opportunities especially for women where they can excel their skills with maintaining equilibrium in their life. This paper is an effort to know the Gender Competitiveness, Opportunities and Hurdles to women. Keywords: Agglomeration, Empowerment, Informal Sector, Women Entrepreneur

Post war economic development through sustainability development

Sri Lanka the former Ceylon has now returned back to its peaceful phase after quite a long period of civil war which had slowed down the growth of the nation and since the beginning of the post war era the government has taken initiatives for nation's development. As the world resources are getting depleted and the human wants are growing unlimited, it has become a need for every nation to use its resources efficiently. And sir Lanka has sharply recognized this need and is on its track now. The present paper attempts to reveal an overview on the topic ' Post war economic development1 focusing on the area of sustainability developments - Sri Lanka has immense untapped renewable sources of energy from biomass, wind, hydro, wave, ocean etc. President Rajapaksa has set National Energy Policy to promote energy efficiency since his reign. Initiatives are undertaken to generate 50% of total power through these indigenous resources by 2015. Since GHG emission from Sri Lanka is low, it has gained attention from UN FCCC and Annex 1 countries for implementing CDM projects. The ending of the war has developed more interest among investors now. At present 45 COM projects are being developed which has a capacity to eliminate 134,000 tones of C02. Experts estimate that Sri Lanka can earn 2,500 million rupees by trading around 2.5 million tones of C02 emission annually. Sri Lanka has rich natural resources of tea, coconut and rubber. With regards to tea, sustainability methods are set to efficiently use them and to improve their quality-methods for soil protection; implementing low pollution processing activities and banning chemicals that cause ozone layer depletion are some of them. Apart from these natural resources the beauty of the nation by itself acts as source for attracting tourist. Sustainability tourism is quite flourishing in the post war era. It meets three important criteria 1.Provision for employment. 2. Conserve the environment. 3. Provision of maximum joy for tourist. To conclude, efficient utilization of the natural resources available and also sustaining them can help Sri Lanka have a good future

The response of nonlinearly loaded antennas to repetitive HPEM excitations as obtained from equivalent circuit models

In this contribution the effects of repetitive pulse excitations on linearly and nonlinearly loaded antennas are studied on the basis of equivalent circuit models. In the known linear case, repetitive pulses can lead to an increase of the amplitudes of oscillations. These oscillations decay, if realistic quality factors are assumed, comparatively quickly. In the considered nonlinear case the effects of repetitive pulses can add up and persist along much larger time scales. This remarkable effect has no equivalent in the linear case.</p

Retention of foreign body in the gut can be a sign of congenital obstructive anomaly: a case report

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Small smooth objects that enter the gut nearly always pass uneventfully through the gastrointestinal tract. Retention of foreign objects may occur due to congenital obstructive anomaly of the gut.</p> <p>Case presentation</p> <p>We report here a child who presented with features of small gut obstruction which were attributed to a foreign body impacted in the intestine. At surgery, an annular pancreas was detected and the foreign body was found to be lodged in the distended proximal duodenum.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The reported case highlights the fact that an impacted radio-opaque foreign body in a child should warn the pediatrician to the possibility of an obstructive congenital anomaly.</p

Giant hepatic hydatid cyst with sub-fascial extension treated by open minimally invasive surgery: a case report

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Introduction</p> <p>Hepatic hydatid disease can be successfully treated by a variety of modalities.</p> <p>Case Presentation</p> <p>We report a case of a 60 year old male with giant hepatic hydatid disease who presented with a huge cystic mass in the upper abdomen. Diagnosis was confirmed by serology, ultrasonography and CT scan. The patient was treated successfully by open minimally invasive surgery with minimum breaching of the peritoneal cavity using a laparoscopic trocar to evacuate the cyst.</p> <p>Conclusion</p> <p>The use of a laparoscopic trocar through a small abdominal incision in selected patients with hepatic hydatid disease with subfascial extension can be a safe, minimally-invasive option of treatment</p

Penetration of the Stigma and Style Elicits a Novel Transcriptome in Pollen Tubes, Pointing to Genes Critical for Growth in a Pistil

Pollen tubes extend through pistil tissues and are guided to ovules where they release sperm for fertilization. Although pollen tubes can germinate and elongate in a synthetic medium, their trajectory is random and their growth rates are slower compared to growth in pistil tissues. Furthermore, interaction with the pistil renders pollen tubes competent to respond to guidance cues secreted by specialized cells within the ovule. The molecular basis for this potentiation of the pollen tube by the pistil remains uncharacterized. Using microarray analysis in Arabidopsis, we show that pollen tubes that have grown through stigma and style tissues of a pistil have a distinct gene expression profile and express a substantially larger fraction of the Arabidopsis genome than pollen grains or pollen tubes grown in vitro. Genes involved in signal transduction, transcription, and pollen tube growth are overrepresented in the subset of the Arabidopsis genome that is enriched in pistil-interacted pollen tubes, suggesting the possibility of a regulatory network that orchestrates gene expression as pollen tubes migrate through the pistil. Reverse genetic analysis of genes induced during pollen tube growth identified seven that had not previously been implicated in pollen tube growth. Two genes are required for pollen tube navigation through the pistil, and five genes are required for optimal pollen tube elongation in vitro. Our studies form the foundation for functional genomic analysis of the interactions between the pollen tube and the pistil, which is an excellent system for elucidation of novel modes of cell–cell interaction