The present study reports a double enrichment cum selective isolation based protocol for successful isolation of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) from freshwater fish intestine where it exists in substantially lower population counts. The procedure involved enrichment of homogenized intestinal samples of freshwater fish in de Man, Rogosa and Sharpe (MRS) broth medium followed by further enrichment cu...

Edge detection is an important aspect in image processing. When a noisy image is presented for edge detection, the noise creates problem in the process of edge detection using conventional methods. One of the disadvantages of the conventional methods is that the noise is not removed automatically. The present paper proposes a novel approach for noise removal cum edge detection for both gray sca...

in the Kansas City, Missouri, office of Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. He received his B.S. degree (cum laude) in 1971 and his J.D. (cum laude) in 1978 from the University of Missouri— Columbia. Before entering private practice, he served in the Peace Corps and as a law clerk to the Elmo B. Hunter, U.S. district judge for the Western District of Missouri before entering practice. He concentrates h...

EXPERIENCE: 1992July 1997 Degree Laurea in Fisica, Universita' di Torino. Thesis on "Aspects of learning in realistic neural networks", supervisor Dr. Alessandro Treves(SISSA). Full marks cum laude. 1997October 1998 Master, Magister Philosophiae, SISSA, Trieste. Thesis on "Determination of optimal effective interactions between amino acids in globular proteins", supervisor prof. Amos Maritan. F...

Plasma total cholesterol, HDL cholesterol, glucose and total protein were estimated in (male) masons without any habits (normal masons) and masons with habits (cigarette smoking, alcohol consumption and betel-quid cum tobacco chewing) and compared with normal subjects. Masons had less total cholesterol and more HDL cholesterol when compared with normal subjects, which may be due to their occupa...