Following an overview on the fast changing global context of agriculture, and food and nutrition security, this paper provides a framework for identifying the set of essential international public goods for a well-functioning world agriculture and food system: natural resource management related to biodiversity, water, and soils; climate change adaptation and mitigation; trade and food reserves...

In this study, milk and rumen liquor of stray cattle were found to contain measurable concentration of PolyChlorinatedBiphenyls (PCB). A notable finding in this study is that stray cattle have high level of PCBs where as the PCB in control group can not be detected. Since, reduction in space in the urban areas has pushed the cattle population to fend themselves in the streets, bovine milk act a...

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) is a popular and powerful technique for measuring protein interactions. Recently, many photoactivatable fluorescent proteins that can be induced to change their emission properties after exposure to a particular light source have been developed and are finding useful biological applications. Day and colleagues combine these two techniques into a met...

voluminous quaternary extrusive rocks, associated with widespread volcanic activities, occur in the northwestern iran and across the turkish-iranian plateau. field and petrographic studies reveal that these volcanic rocks, consisting of basalt to trachyandesite, occur as lava flows, columnar basalts, and cinder cones in three distinct areas of northern (bazergan-maku-burlan), middle (chalderan)...