The bio-defense technology described in this paper is based on a novel, very high intensity, pulsed Advanced UV Source (AUVS) that very rapidly and effectively destroys biological agents. The technology can be used to protect buildings against biological weapon (BW) attack and / or create safe zones within buildings. The technology can also be used to destroy some chemicals, and with additional...

Guava (Psidium guajava L.) is an important fruit crop of subtropical countries and cultivated extensively throughout India, it is grown almost in all the states. Bihar has the largest area (24.7 thousand ha.) under guava cultivation followed by Uttar Pradesh (18.5 thousand ha.) and Maharastra (14.8 thousand ha.). Various pathogens have been reported from the wilt affected plants from guava orch...

The growing threat of biological agents, new diseases, and food-borne pathogens has created an increasing need for rapid and sensitive detection before the target population becomes infected. The incident of the anthrax letters in October 2001, the emergence of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and the West Nile virus, and repeated occurrences of food-borne pathogens illustrate how neces...

Benzimidazole nucleus is one of the most important heterocycles exhibiting remarkable pharmacological activities. Numerous method for the synthesis of benzimidazole and also their diverse reactions offer enormous scope in the field of medicinal chemistry. Various reported biological activities (analgesic, anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic, anticancer, anthelmintic, antioxidant, antitubercular, an...

Anthrax is a zoonotic illness recognized since antiquity. Today, human anthrax has been all but eradicated from the industrialized world, with the vast majority of practitioners in the United States unlikely to have seen a case. Unfortunately, the disease remains endemic in many areas of the world, and anthrax poses a threat as a mass casualty-producing weapon if used in a biological warfare ca...

An agent-based approach is used to explain the formation of vortex swarms in biological systems. The dynamics of the multiagent system is described by 3N coupled equations, modeling for each agent its position, its velocity and its internal energy depot. The energy depot considers the conditions for active biological motion, such as energy take-up, metabolism, and energy conversion. The equatio...