43 research outputs found

    Exploring the Therapeutic Potential of Rosemary: An In-depth Review of its Pharmacological Properties

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    The pharmacological effects of rosemary plant period a wide range and include anti-inflammatory and antioxidant properties. Rosemary is shown to have its potential on Ischemic stroke because of its Anti-oxidant and Anti-inflammatory properties. It contains strong antioxidants such carnosol, which has anti-inflammatory properties, and Rosmarinus acid, which fights oxidative stress. Rosemary is an attractive possibility for treating disorders like oxidative-related diseases because of its dual activity. Additionally, Rosemary has shown neuroprotective qualities that aid in maintaining brain health and cognitive function. The aromatic components in its essential oil may improve concentration and memory. Rosemary has also been investigated for its potential in hair care, with research indicating that it can encourage hair growth. These rosemary Officinalis also have different chemical substances and compounds like Terpenes, Essential oils, Bicyclic monoterpenes, Monoterpenoids, Ester and also, we have different pharmacological activates they are Anti-oxidative, Anti-inflammatory, Anti-microbial, Anti-obesity, Anti-fungal, Anti-cancer, Anti-diabetic, Cardiovascular activity, Skin health, Neuroprotective, Gastrointestinal, Sperm motility, Anti-depressant, Anti-viral activity

    Marriage and the crisis of peasant society in Gujarat, India

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    This contribution takes marriage as the example of a crisis of production and reproduction in rural India. Through the juxtaposition of ethnography separated by six decades, we detail a shift away from land and agriculture as the primary markers of status among the Patidars of central Gujarat, western India, in favour of a hierarchical understanding of international migration. The paper discusses the disconnect between a cultural revolution in favour of migration, and the failure of many to live up to their own cultural standards. More broadly, we reflect on the forces that simultaneously strengthen and dissolve caste inequality in the context of India's uneven growth

    Relational approaches to poverty in rural India: social, ecological and technical dynamics

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    Poverty is now widely recognised as multidimensional, with indicators including healthcare, housing and sanitation. Yet, relational approaches that foreground political-cultural processes remain marginalised in policy discourses. Focusing on India, we review a wide range of relational approaches to rural poverty. Beginning with early approaches that focus on structural reproduction of class, caste and to a lesser extent gender inequality, we examine new relational approaches developed in the last two decades. The new approaches examine diverse ways in which poverty is experienced and shapes mobilisations against deprivation. They draw attention to poor people’s own articulations of deprivation and alternate conceptions of well-being. They also show how intersecting inequalities of class, caste and gender shape governance practices and political movements. Despite these important contributions, the new relational approaches pay limited attention to technologies and ecologies in shaping the experience of poverty. Reviewing studies on the Green Revolution and wider agrarian transformations in India, we then sketch the outlines of a hybrid relational approach to poverty that combines socio-technical and -ecological dynamics. We argue that such an approach is crucial to challenge narrow economising discourses on poverty and to bridge the policy silos of poverty alleviation and (environmentally) sustainable development

    Control, care, and conviviality in the politics of technology for sustainability

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    This article discusses currently neglected distinctions between control, care, and conviviality in the politics of technology for sustainability. We conceptualize control as the ambition to maintain fictitious borders between hierarchically ordered categories such as subjects and objects. This ambition is materialized into a wide range of Modern technological innovations, including genome editing and deep sea mining. Contrasting with control, we conceptualize values of care that constitute socio-technical practices where connections are prioritized over categories and hierarchy is countered with egalitarian commitment. In caring practices, objects are thus treated as subjects, often within political contexts that are dominated by ambitions to control. Building on care, we explore hopes for conviviality as mutualistic autonomy and decolonial self-realization to orient plural socio-technical pathways for moving beyond Modernity. We argue that such pathways are crucial for democratic transformations to sustainability. We illustrate our concepts using two brief case studies of agricultural developments. The first case discusses the politics of control in agricultural biotechnologies in Belgium. The second case reports on care within rural people's coping strategies in a south Indian "green revolution" landscape laden with control. In conclusion, we emphasize the need to situate attempted materializations of control, care, and conviviality in specific historical junctures. Situated understandings of the interplay between control, care, and conviviality can help realize sustainability that does not reproduce the centralizing, control-driven logic of Modern technocratic development

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    Not AvailablePlant viruses are the major yield-reducing factors for crop production including plant death. One of the most effective ways to control viral diseases is through host plant approach which has been successfully accomplished through genetic engineering of crops. In this review, an attempt is made to highlight the strategies followed to produce specific virus resistant crops and the developments in production of virus resistant transgenics. The technologies followed to develop virus resistant transgenic crops via Agrobacteriummediated transformation, post transcriptional gene silencing, replicase mediated resistance, nucleases to target viral gene sequences tools and genome editing are discussed. The development of virus resistant transgenic crops like cucurbits, maize, grapes, squash, sugarcane, tomato, tobacco, peanuts, watermelon including the commercially released virus resistant transgenic crops is presentedNot Availabl

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    Not AvailableGenetic improvement of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) through the use of biotechnological tools requires a reliable in vitro shoot regeneration system. Tissue culture protocols reported to date for sunflower suffer from low efficiency, poor reproducibility, genotype dependence and a tendency for flowering in vitro. The present study describes an efficient protocol system for shoot regeneration via direct adventitious shoot organogenesis from cotyledons of mature seeds of sunflower. About 169 media combinations comprising 12 different growth regulator combinations in various concentrations were assessed for induction of shoots from cotyledons derived from mature seeds and also from seedling tissues of 2–20-day-old seedlings. Appearance of shoots from seedling tissues was sporadic and the frequency of shoot regeneration was low. Cotyledon explants from mature seeds were consistent with regard to frequency of adventitious shoot regeneration and number of shoots per explant. A high frequency (93.86 %) of adventitious shoot regeneration was obtained within 2 weeks of culture initiation on Murashige and Skoog (MS) medium supplemented with 9.84 ÎŒM 2-isopentenyladenine (2-iP), 2.85 ÎŒM indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) and 0.45 ÎŒM thidiazuron (TDZ). Use of 2-iP in the shoot induction and elongation media prevented precocious flowering. Statistical analysis revealed significant effects of explant orientation, age of seedlings, and genotype on adventitious organogenesis. Maximum shoot regeneration was obtained when cotyledons from 0 and 1-day-old seedlings were placed with their adaxial surface in contact with the medium surface. The protocol developed was tested on 42 genotypes and found to be applicable to a wide range of genotypes. Histological studies indicated that the shoots originated predominantly through adventive organogenesis from the sub-epidermal and cortical regions.Not Availabl

    Information Retrieval Based Solutions for Software Engineering Tasks Using C Codebases

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    Comments are descriptions of laws that a human can understand fluently. It’s easier to identify important law blocks with comments. But, not everyone can write the comments duly. They aren’t streamlined along with the law. Having outdated comments in the law can affect confusion rather than explanation. This paper aims at removing comments which aren’t related to code and not useful using Natural Language Processing( NLP). NLP has come one of the most habituated ways in the analysis of textbooks. In NLP, comments are written from the surrounding code given, and Machine Learning algorithms are applied. A semantic analysis frame for comments using textual and structural features grounded on comment orders and code–comment correlation. A machine learning approach is used to determine whether comments are also consistent and not superfluous based on code and comment correlation
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