background: we aimed to determine the frequency of liver copper storage diseases in iranian children with cryptogenic chronic liver disease (cld). materials and methods: one-hundred and twenty children (52 girls, 70 boys; age range: 3 months-14 years) with cld who attended children's medical center in tehran, iran during the years 1997 through 1999, were enrolled. all viral, metabolic and autoi...

We made a few remarks, in our last issue, on the subject ? "Fallen through"?that too often hopelessly irretrievable fate of so many Indian schemes. We were once inclined to fear that the case of the Sub-Assistant Surgeons had a prospect of falling through, at any rate for a time. Whilst the Medical Salaries Commission was sitting, the question was continually raised, whether it would be called ...

This paper analyses the measurement issues in education achievement, and integration of education goals and targets, in the context of human development in India. Measurement issues are distinguished by (a) choice of indicators and variables and (b) data used in estimation/projection/computation of indicators and variables in the global human development reports (HDRs) and in India’s national a...

A review of research in the field of Military Psychology and an appraisal of the recent trends indicate an ever increasing interaction of the sub-discipline with other applied fields of psychology and the discipline of psychology in general. However, a distinct lack of scientific reporting of the studies in Indian context is evident. The present paper is an attempt to overview Military Psycholo...

Although degenerative joint disease is known to be very frequent in temperate climates and is responsible for a large proportion of the rheumatic complaints in old people, little information is available on its frequency in tropical and sub-tropical populations. Geographical studies undertaken in Northern Europe and America have indicated regional difference, the radiological changes of osteo-a...

Development of a Branch and Price Approach Involving Vertex Cloning to Solve the Maximum Weighted Independent Set Problem. (December 2004) Sandeep Sachdeva, B.Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. Wilbert E. Wilhelm We propose a novel branch-and-price (B&P) approach to solve the maximum weighted independent set problem (MWISP). Our approach uses cl...

The polychaete tubeworm Hydroides elegans (Haswell) is a biofouling species with relatively limited larval dispersal. Four highly polymorphic microsatellite loci were used to make inferences about the migration and global population structure of 137 individuals from seven sub-populations located in the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans and in the Mediterranean Sea. The results of the genetic...