Redefining the Sexual Orientations in Hanif Kureishi’s The Buddha of Suburbia

The paper will study Kureishi's treatment of gender and sexuality from the perspective of his character's sexual orientation. I will examine his first novel, The Buddha of Suburbia, to find out the sexual orientations of his characters. Kureishi's body of work has touched upon nearly every aspect of sexuality in his novels. He has gone very deep to portray his character's sexual orientation without any restriction. He uses his writing ability to put such critical themes of sexuality like homosexuality, bisexuality, lesbianism into his novels. Kureishi has experimented with his character's deep sexual idiosyncrasies like orgies and infidelity in their sexual relations. His protagonists get their sexual identities after going through many social, political, and cultural upheavals

Mobile Tower Exposure affects on memory and Motor Co-ordination on Mice

Mobile is now become as an integral part of our daily life and mobile users have been increasing day by day globally. In India, mobile base stations and their installation are irregular and unregulated. Result from STM (Short term memory) and LTM (Long term memory) test, sowed significant change in Mobile Tower Radiation Treated Mice (MTRTM) as compared with without MTR treated mice. The numbers of mistakes done by MTR-TM group of mice were higher than the control. After measuring the muscular strength by using rotating hanging wire test, the result revealed that calculated time of fall from wire and compare this time with control and radiated set of mouse. Three trials were done with same set of mouse at one week intervals. In all the three trials, the average difference between control and radiated mice for muscular strength was significant (p < 0.05). Path movement was more random in MTR-TM and also observed less activity than without treated control mice

Mobile Tower Exposure affects on memory and Motor Co-ordination on Mice

Mobile is now become as an integral part of our daily life and mobile users have been increasing day by day globally. In India, mobile base stations and their installation are irregular and unregulated. Result from STM (Short term memory) and LTM (Long term memory) test, sowed significant change in Mobile Tower Radiation Treated Mice (MTRTM) as compared with without MTR treated mice. The numbers of mistakes done by MTR-TM group of mice were higher than the control. After measuring the muscular strength by using rotating hanging wire test, the result revealed that calculated time of fall from wire and compare this time with control and radiated set of mouse. Three trials were done with same set of mouse at one week intervals. In all the three trials, the average difference between control and radiated mice for muscular strength was significant (p < 0.05). Path movement was more random in MTR-TM and also observed less activity than without treated control mice

Pathogenic and morphological variability among the isolates of Fusarium udum (Butler) causing wilt of pigeonpea (Cajanus cajan)

Wilt is the most serious disease causing irreversible losses and lethal damage to the crop in Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and the West Bengal states of Eastern India. Because of the existence of high pathogen variability, management of the disease using resistant cultivars will be a challenging task. For breeding resistant varieties, knowledge of pathogen variability in the particular crop area is essential.  In present study, fifteen isolates viz., Fu-9, Fu-10, Fu-27,Fu-32, Fu-42, Fu-49, Fu-63, Fu-72, Fu-73, Fu-74,Fu-75,Fu-84, Fu-86, Fu-87, Fu-97of Fusarium udum  obtained from wilt infected pigeonpea plants of Bihar, Jharkhand, Orissa and West Bengal of Eastern India were assessed for the phenotypic variation.  The isolates exhibited considerable variations in cultural and morphological characters viz., radial growth, mycelial color, sporulation, size and shape of macroconidia. Pathogenic variability on soil inoculated pot grown plants of pigeonpea resulted in 12.0 to 57.1 percent wilt incidence. The isolates also exhibited significant variations in symptoms like drooping of shoots, latent period, timing of fungal invasion, vascular clogging, drooping of shoots, and wilt establishment etc.  Based on the wilt incidence, the fifteen isolates were distinguished into pathogenic groups. Fu- 10, Fu-27, Fu-32 and Fu-49  were found highly pathogenic and predominantly causing the typical wilt symptoms of more than one 31% wilt incidence. The present study indicates the existence of variability among isolates of vascular wilt pathogen collected from Eastern region of India.

Single cell fertilizer (SCF): Evidence to prove that bio-molecules are potent nutrient for plant growth

Fertilizers of various kinds are used for the cultivation of crop plants for hyper production of plant based food materials. The study used bio-molecules made in a bacterial cell. The experimental results showed tremendous effect on plant growth. These cellular molecules were made by treating the bacterial cells with lysozyme and protenase K. The wet/weight was increased in multiple folds compared to that of control sets. The fold of increase was 4.79 for rice, 2.77 for wheat, 1.89 for gram and 1.89 for pea when bacterial cellular molecules were used as fertilizer

Multifaceted role of matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs)

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs), a large family of calcium-dependent zinc-containing endopeptidases, are involved in the tissue remodeling and degradation of the extracellular matrix. MMPs are widely distributed in the brain and regulate various processes including microglial activation, inflammation, dopaminergic apoptosis, blood-brain barrier disruption, and modulation of α-synuclein pathology. High expression of MMPs is well documented in various neurological disorders including Parkinson\u27s disease (PD), Alzheimer\u27s disease (AD), Japanese encephalitis (JE), and Glaucoma. Although potentially critical, the role of MMPs in neuronal disorders is under-investigated. The present review summarizes the role of MMPs in neurodegeneration with a particular emphasis on PD, AD, JE, and Glaucoma

Spatiotemporal characteristics in systems of diffusively coupled excitable slow-fast FitzHugh-Rinzel dynamical neurons

In this paper, we study an excitable, biophysical system that supports wave propagation of nerve impulses. We con- sider a slow-fast, FitzHugh-Rinzel neuron model where only the membrane voltage interacts diffusively, giving rise to the formation of spatiotemporal patterns. We focus on local, nonlinear excitations and diverse neural responses in an excitable 1- and 2-dimensional configuration of diffusively coupled FitzHugh-Rinzel neurons. The study of the emerg- ing spatiotemporal patterns is essential in understanding the working mechanism in different brain areas. We derive analytically the coefficients of the amplitude equations in the vicinity of Hopf bifurcations and characterize various patterns, including spirals exhibiting complex geometric substructures. Further, we derive analytically the condition for the development of antispirals in the neighborhood of the bifurcation point. The emergence of broken target waves can be observed to form spiral-like profiles. The spatial dynamics of the excitable system exhibits 2- and multi-arm spirals for small diffusive couplings. Our results reveal a multitude of neural excitabilities and possible conditions for the emergence of spiral-wave formation. Finally, we show that the coupled excitable systems with different firing characteristics, participate in a collective behavior that may contribute significantly to irregular neural dynamics