Estimates of the burden of Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib) in children in Pakistan are limited. A prospective surveillance was set up in 8 sentinel sites in Karachi and Hyderabad in January 2004. A total of 1481 children aged < 5 years underwent lumbar puncture for suspected acute bacterial meningitis. Specimens from 237 (16.0%) children met the criteria for probable bacterial meningitis, a...

In continuation of our search for biologically active molecules from terrestrial sources, we have investigated the creeping perennial herb Phyla nodiyora (Linn) Greene (Verbenaceae) ("Lippia nodiyora (Linn.) Mich), which grows widely in India. The leaves of P. nodiyora were collected from Bhadrachalam forest in October 1998. The plant was identi"ed by Prof. M. Prabhakar, Plant Anatomy and Taxon...

1 Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, USA and Acharya N G Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad, India. 2 Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Auburn University, Auburn, USA. 3 Department of Biological Sciences, Auburn University, Auburn, USA. 4 International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Hyderabad, India. 5 Depart...

ISSN: 0975-766X Available Online through Research Article www.ijptonline.com CHRONOPHARMACEUTICAL RELEASE OF THEOPHYLLINE FROM PULSATILE CAPSULAR DEVICE BASED ON PROGRAMMABLE ERODIBLE PLUG: INFLUENCE OF VARIOUS POYLMERS AND PLUG POSITION Amit Bhat*, KPR Chowdary, Shobharani.R.H, Lakshmi Narasu Department of Pharmaceutics, Bharat Institute of Technology (Pharmacy), Mangalpally (V), Ibrahimpatnam...

The Information Technology (IT) industry has played a major role in India’s recent economic growth. However, the pattern of growth and cluster formation is not uniform across the country. While Bangalore emerged as a natural cluster, the governments in Hyderabad and Kolkata had to demonstrate entrepreneurial leadership qualities to create clusters there. This paper identifies the factors that c...

Having just completed 1,000 Litholapaxies, I venture to submit a short account of the operation, its difficulties, its complications and its results. There are few places in India which offer greater opportunities for the performance of this operation than Hyderabad in Sind. And this fact leads me to discuss very briefly why vesical calculi should be so 'prevalent in this district. Although cas...

In this paper, we report our participation in Update Summarization, Knowledge Base Population and Recognizing Textual Entailment at TAC 2009. This year, we enhanced our basic summaization system with support vector regression to better estimate the combined affect of different features in ranking. A Novelty measure is devised to effectively capture relevance and novelty of a term. For Knowledge...

In this paper we report our performance at DUC 2007 summarization tasks. We participated both in the query-focused multidocument summarization main task and in a pilot update summary generation tasks. This year we used a term clustering approach to better estimate a sentence prior. We used only the sentence prior which is query independent, in the update summarization task and found that it’s p...

In this paper, we report our participation in Knowledge Base Population at TAC 2012. We adopted an Information Retrieval based approach for the Entity Linking and Slot Filling tasks. In Entity Linking we identify potential nodes from the Knowledge Base and then identify the mapping node using tf-idf similarity. We achieved very good performance in the Entity Linking task. For Slot Filling task ...