Impact of Rural Employment Guarantee Schemes on Seasonal Labor Markets: Optimum Compensation and Workers’ Welfare The recent enactment of the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act in India has been widely hailed a policy that provides a safety net for the rural poor with the potential to boost rural income, stabilize agricultural production and reduce rural-urban migration. This paper, models...

The fetal liver kinase 1 (FLK-1)(+) hemangioblast can generate hematopoietic, endothelial, and smooth muscle cells (SMCs). ER71/ETV2, GATA2, and SCL form a core transcriptional network in hemangioblast development. Transient coexpression of these three factors during mesoderm formation stage in mouse embryonic stem cells (ESCs) robustly enhanced hemangioblast generation by activating bone morph...

The Si(0001) face and C(000-1) face dependences on growth pressure of epitaxial graphene (EG) grown on 4H-SiC substrates by ethene chemical vapor deposition (CVD) was studied using atomic force microscopy (AFM) and micro-Raman spectroscopy (μ-Raman). AFM revealed that EGs on Si-faced substrates had clear stepped morphologies due to surface step bunching. However, This EG formation did not occur...

Abstract Background Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the gold standard treatment for symptomatic cholelithiasis including pancreatitis. Symptomatic gall stones patients have up to 20% risk of having common bile duct (CBD) too. Although, guidelines been laid down management suspected CBD stones, in practice there a lot variability and lack standardisation. The waiting list Magnetic resonance chol...

The Electron Gamma Shower (EGS) Code System at SLAC is designed to simulate the flow of electrons, positrons and photons through matter at a wide range of energies. It has a large user base among the high-energy physics community and is often used as a teaching tool through a Web interface that allows program input and output. Our work aims to improve the user interaction and shower visualizati...

Using a lysine-specific cleavable cross-linking reagent ethylene glycolbis(sulfosuccimidylsuccinate) (Sulfo-EGS), we studied conformational motion in the surface loops of Escherichia coli FepA during its transport of the siderophore ferric enterobactin. Site-directed mutagenesis determined that Sulfo-EGS reacted with two lysines, K332 and K483, and at least two other unidentified Lys residues i...

EGS is a very common Monte Carlo code, used in the simulation of Nuclear Medicine devices. Simulation techniques are particularly useful, in order to optimize collimator configuration and camera design in Single Photon Emission studies. Using the EGS code, users must define the geometry where particles are transported. This can be both a very hard task and a source of inefficiency, especially i...

BACKGROUND Racial disparities in surgical care are well described. As many minority patients are also uninsured, increasing access to care is thought to be a viable solution to mitigate inequities. The objectives of this study were to determine whether racial disparities in 30-/90-/180- day outcomes exist within a universally insured population of military-/civilian-dependent emergency general ...

BACKGROUND Aerosolization of seafood and subsequent inhalation, during processing is a potential high-risk activity for allergic respiratory disease. OBJECTIVES To quantify total thoracic particulate, protein concentration and specific fish (pilchard, anchovy) antigen concentrations in fish processing plants; to determine the correlation between these exposure metrics; and to identify the maj...