Agency.?The Uttar Pradesh Government gave a grant of Rs. 10,000 to the State Branch of the Indian Red Cross Society. A Family Planning Sub-Committee has been formed at the Headquarters. It has 10 members, six of whom are ladies. The Chairman of the U.P. Legislative Council was nominated Chairman of the Sub-Committee. The other members comprise of a Lady M.L.C. and 8 doctors representing the Ser...

Text-to-speech synthesis in Indian English is useful for delivering messages stored in computers and web to the Indian users unfamiliar with standard English accent. Such work is going on at TIFR and the paper reports the salient features of the front-end language processor that generates pronunciation plus stress information. The important components of the language processor are the parser to...

Most maternal lineages of present-day Indians derive from a common ancestor in mtDNA haplogroup M that split into Indian, eastern Asian, Papuan, and Australian subsets 40,000-60,000 mtDNA-years ago. The second major component in Indian maternal heredity lines traces back to the split of haplogroup U into Indian, western Eurasian and northern African variants approximately at the same time. The ...

TITLE Secukinumab efficacy and safety in Indian patients with moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis: sub-analysis from FIXTURE (Full Year Investigative Examination of Secukinumab vs. Etanercept Using Two Dosing Regimens to Determine Efficacy in Psoriasis), a randomized, placebo-controlled, phase 3 study. BACKGROUND Evidence has suggested Interleukin (IL)-17A to be an important effector cytokine...

Nalidixic acid-resistant Salmonella typhi NARST infections increase minimal inhibitory concentrations of fluoroquinolones, due to chromosomal mutations in the gene encoding DNA gyrase, and can lead to a delayed treatment response. This in turn alters the course of the disease allowing for a protracted period of illness and the occurrence of complications. In this case report, we present a patie...

In recent years, WHO and other individual researchers have advocated estimation of health system performance through stochastic frontier models. It provides an idealized yardstick to evaluate economic performance of health system. So far attempts in India have remained focused at state level analysis. This paper attempts a sub-state level analysis for an affluent Indian state, namely Punjab, by...

We analyzed prospective data on 17,228 European patients who sought treatment at GeoSentinel sites from 1997 to 2007. Gastrointestinal illness (particularly in tourists), fever (those visiting friends and relatives [VFRs]), and skin disorders (in tourists) were the most common reasons for seeking medical care. Diagnoses varied by country of origin, region visited, or categories of travelers. VF...

In this paper we describe the detailed information of NLP-NITMZ system on the participation of DPIL shared task at Forum for Information Retrieval Evaluation (FIRE 2016). The main aim of DPIL shared task is to detect paraphrases in Indian Languages. Paraphrase detection is an important part in the field of Information Retrieval, Document Summarization, Question Answering, Plagiarism Detection e...