Lichens are a stable symbiotic association between photobiont (algae and/or cyanobacteria) and mycobiont (fungi). They utilized in traditional medicine for ages documented various pharmacopeia throughout the world. India is having rich diversity of lichen species represented by about 2400 species. The tribal inhabitant around forests other difficult terrains acquired unique knowledge use much w...

Background and objectives: Salvia suffruticosa is a perennial plant from Lamiaceae family. Many Salvia species have been employed as medicinal plants; despite the medicinal potentials of S. suffruticosa, there is limited studies regarding its phytochemical profile or biological properties. The aim of the present study was to investigate the chemical c...

Biological activities of 17a-acetoxy-6-chloro-pregna-4,6-diene-3,20-dione (chlormadinone acetate ; CMA) were investigated in comparison with those of 17a-acetoxy-6a-methylpregnane-3,20-dione (medroxyprogesterone acetate ; MAP). CMA produced marked progestational activity either subcutaneously or orally in the uterine carbonic anhydrase test, and its relative potency is approximately 30 times th...

This paper is concerned with the problem of supporting, through I.T., those organization processes which co-ordinate creative and intuitive human activity. It describes the implementation in an I.T. system of a behavioural metaprocess, and its use to bring about change to an enacting instance of a simple process. That process is called Simple Banking, and it is expressed in an active model whic...