This cross-sectional study examined the association between environmental lead measurements surrounding a Los Angeles County battery recycling facility and the blood lead levels of the children living nearby. Environmental lead measurements and blood lead levels of young children living in a community adjacent to a stationary lead source were compared to those living in a community without a st...

Any surgeon, able to tackle a cataractous eye successfully, will catch the public eye and and imagination in the Punjab. Partially this is due to the fact that every successfully operated-on eye is a living advertisement for the operator and specially the Punjab offers a splendid field for the purpose. Of the total of 31,397 selected operations performed in the whole of the Punjab during the ye...

tiendo podrían beneficiarse varias revistas españolas (entre l factor de impacto (FI), que mide la importancia de una publiación científica, es calculado anualmente por el Instituto ara la Información Científica (Institute for Scientific Informaion [ISI], Thomson-Reuters) para aquellas publicaciones a las ue da seguimiento y que son recogidas en un informe de itas llamado Journal Citation Repor...

The effect of different concentrations of hexavalent Cr on growth and biochemical parameters of two T. aestivum cultivars (Punjab-11 and Sehar-06) was investigated. No significant inhibition of seed germination was observed in both the cultivars at all the tested concentrations (P ˃ 0.05). A significant decrease in root length for both the cultivars was observed at all the Cr concentrations as ...

General perception about the colonial state to have impinged only upon the political and economic aspects of the colony is not the whole truth. The author scrutinizes the question of identity and the process of transformation it went through primarily because of the preference accorded to Urdu over the native Punjabi. He therefore interrogates Partha Chatterjee’s postulate of ‘inner domain’ or ...

Hemoglobin (Hb) D. Punjab [β121(GH4) Glu→Gln; HBB: C.364G>C] and β0-thalassemia 3.4 kb deletion are very rare in the Thai population. For the first time, the coinheritance of HbD-Punjab with β0-thalassemia 3.4 kb deletion was reported in a 7-year-old Thai girl. She had mild anemia (Hb 115.0 g/L and mean corpuscular hemoglobin 18.1 pg) with red blood cell microcytosis (mean corpuscular volume 52...

Navpreet Singh M. tech Scholar, CSE & IT Deptt., BBSB Engineering College, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, India (IKG – Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar) [email protected] Dr. Kanwalvir Singh Dhindsa Professor, CSE & IT Deptt., BBSB Engineering College, Fatehgarh Sahib, Punjab, India (IKG – Punjab Technical University, Jalandhar) [email protected] -----------------------------...

In this research we investigate the impact of television advertisements on children buying behavior. We visited different schools in Punjab, Pakistan and checked the response of children. A 5 point Likert scale questionnaire was designed. Different cities of Punjab were selected on random sampling basis. A total 250 questionnaires were circulated, and the response rate was 100 %. Design/Methodo...

Singal R*, Garg LN**, Singal RP***, Gupta S****, Shahi SR *****, Singal S******, Singh B******* * Department of Surgery, Maharishi Markandeshwer Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Mullana, Distt-Ambala, Haryana **Department of Otolaryngology (ENT), Maharishi Markandeshwer Institute of Medical Sciences and Research, Mullana, Distt-Ambala, Haryana *** Department of Orthopedics, C/o Dr. K...

Two species of genus Aulacophora Chevrolat, 1836 have been recorded from Pothohar tract of Punjab province of Pakistan. One species, Aulacophora lewisii Baly, 1886 is reported for the first time from different localities of Pothohar tract of Punjab Province of Pakistan. New locality records for Aulacophora foveicollis have also been added from Thal tract of Punjab. The main identification chara...