Pulses Production Technology: Status and Way Forward

Bt technology -the way forward

Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is a Gram-positive soil bacterium, has been isolated from a range of habitats including soil, grain dust, phylloplane and dead insects. It is characterized by its ability to produce crystalline inclusions called ‘’endotoxin proteins” during sporulation. The crystalline inclusions (Cry and Cyt proteins), along with the spores, have a great potential to control a numbe...

Vaccination against parasites – status quo and the way forward

Although vaccination against various pathogens is integral to health management of swine, vaccines against parasites have not yet been commercialized for the use in pigs. The incentive to develop and commercialize anti-parasitic vaccines in swine are twofold; on the one hand parasitic diseases which are economically important, such as ascarosis and neonatal coccidiosis, could be controlled in a...

Mathematical Modeling of Strong Ground Velocity Pulses using Spectral Decomposition and Forward Directivity Effects

Introduction The nature of near-field earthquake records is very complicated and uncertain. Due to this complexity, the prediction of the real structural responses has become very difficult. Based on the analysis of the physical characteristics of near-field records, it is possible to use the simplified mathematical models. Near-field ground motions which are often associated with a progressiv...

The Way Forward Is the Way Back

“T viewer should see the object as I saw it, but with a lot of room for his own interpretation....The painting is like a very clear mirror which is barely visible but unmistakably there,” reflects Spanish painter Antonio López García (b. 1936) (1). “I am nostalgic for an art of our times in which a greater number of people can participate” (1). Part of a contemporary movement rooted in the trad...

Thalidomide--the way forward.