Considering the growing need to identify alternative bio-nutritional sources, 15 wild edible fruits consumed in deciduous forest zone of India were evaluated for their nutritive value in order to prioritize edible wild fruits suitable for domestication. The result showed significance of wild fruit species as important source of nutrient for rural poor. The nutritional value of many wild fruits ...

The Indonesian pastime of keeping wild birds as pets is threatening the long-term survival of many songbird species on the islands of Java and Bali. Here we present the results of a large-scale household survey of bird-keeping in the six largest cites of Java and Bali that investigates: (1) the scale and conservation significance of bird-keeping and (2) the relative merits of regulatory versus ...

The identity of Ceropegia hirsuta in Thailand has been questioned. Although this plant is quite similar to the original C. from India, being entirely hirsute, with yellowish-shaded flowers, a curved, funnel-shaped corolla tube, and broad lobes shorter than there are several clear differences morphological traits between materials collected type further specimens India. Moreover, s.s. restricted...

cold roll-forming is a process in which the roll of sheet is formed by passing continuously through the set of rotary rollers without changing thickness in a cool way until it is formed to the desired profile. in this paper a parametric study on the section twist angle in roll-forming the non-symmetric channel is presented, using finite element simulation. at first finite element simulation res...

The vast majority of the longitudinal growth of a typical mammalian long bone occurs at the ends of the bone in platelike structures termed growth plates. Both growth plates, one at the proximal end and the other at the distal end, are peripheral extensions of the primary center of ossification, a structure that arises in the midportion of the cartilaginous anlage of the bone-to-be during early...