Reasoning about natural language requires combining semantically rich lexical resources with world knowledge, provided by ontologies. In this paper, we describe linking of WordNets of Indian languages with an upper ontology SUMO (Suggested Upper Merged Ontology). This creates multilingual resource for Indian languages which can be used in various natural language processing applications. This p...

Observed upper ocean currents south of Sri Lanka exhibit large, irregular fluctuations with periods of days to weeks. An ocean model driven by daily surface winds is able to reproduce the observed fluctuations. We find from model experiments that low frequency (30-50 day) intraseasonal variability (ISV) arises when Rossby waves radiated from the eastern boundary are amplified by hydrodynamic in...

Chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) and hydrographic data from the World Ocean Circulation Experiment (WOCE) Indian Ocean expedition are used to evaluate contributions to decadal ventilation of water masses. At a given density, CFC-derived ages increase and concentrations decrease from the south to north, with lowest concentrations and oldest ages in Bay of Bengal. Average ages for thermocline water are z...

this report provides the first record of the exotic sucker fish p. pardalis from the cauvery river system, tamilnadu state, india. information on the assumed presence of this invasive species based on sightings of a hitherto unknown species by local people and fishermen in stretches of cauvery river have been confirmed by our study. sailfin sucker fishes are popular among pet traders and aquari...

Introduction Heat and salt are distributed and circulated throughout the world’s oceans via the global thermohaline circulation. The oceans adjacent to southern Africa form an important component of this circulation. The Agulhas Current is the western boundary current of the South Indian Ocean and acts as a link between the Indian and Atlantic oceans in the following way. South of Africa the cu...

A new species of the copepod genus Tortanus (Atortus) (Copepoda: Calanoida), T. (A.) insularis, is described from the coastal region of Rodrigues Island, Mauritius, an isolated island in the south-western Indian Ocean. This new species can be assigned to an Indian faunal element, the recticauda species group, in the Indo-West Paci¢c recticauda species complex. It exhibits the closest relationsh...

Indian tick typhus, an emerging zoonotic disease, is a type of rickettsial spotted fever (SF). Between 1996 and 1998, serological testing amongst residents of south India, who presented with pyrexia of unknown origin confirmed that SF continues to occur in south India1. Subsequently, Indian tick typhus (ITT) has been reported in Pune district of Maharashtra2, Himachal Pradesh3, in a French trav...

OBJECTIVE To examine the cardiorespiratory response to exercise in healthy South Indian school children. DESIGN Prospective study. SETTING Cardiopulmonary Medicine Unit, Tuberculosis Research Center, Madras. SUBJECTS Data was obtained on 47 girls and 48 boys in the age group 7 to 14 years. INTERVENTION The children performed a graded maximal exercise stress test on a computerized treadm...

In this paper, the South Indian crude drug samples of Prsniparni, Sahacara, Hapusa and Renuka are evaluated. Their accepted source, alternative sources along with botanical and chemical constituents for the S. Indian source plants are provided. Suitable photographs of the crude drugs and the herbarium specimens are also provided of facilitate identification.

Helicobacter pylori is a successful human gastric pathogen that is associated with the development of gastric cancer. The draft genome sequences of 42 H. pylori clinical strains isolated from South Indian rural populations will provide further insights into the evolution and genetic makeup of Indian H. pylori strains.