Despite declining infant-mortality rates and a cottage industry of publications devoted to improving parenting/childcare, birthrates in the U.S. and Western Europe continue to fall. But the present inquiry is directed less to the disappearance of actual children than to that more fragile and contested state of childhood. Changes in the spaces reserved for childhood might be compared to the eros...

T he cell therapy industry (CTI) is no longer a cottage industry; it is a distinct and sustainable component of the global healthcare sector (1). Today, CTI prospects are strong, with annual revenues exceeding US$1 billion/year, supported by improving investor sentiment and public support (1–3). The next phase of CTI growth — toward a multibillion-dollar global industry — will depend on the bio...

The most important factor for economic development of a country is its industrialization. In the process of industrialization, emphasis is given to the three major groups of industries; large-scale industries, small-scale industries and cottage industries. We propose to study in this paper the problems and prospects of small-scale and cottage industries in Uttar Pradesh, where large and medium ...

easily fill an article or, indeed, a monograph. This systematic screen for developmental mutations has revolutionized developmental genetics, and it provides a veritable Who’s Who of developmental regulatory genes, each of which has given rise to an entire cottage industry of research. Of course the two papers also led directly to a Nobel Prize, which just means that they have good taste in Sto...

Detection and separation of metals from fresh water and industrial effluents has become a pre-requisite for any nation in the world. In and around the city of Hyderabad (Sindh), Pakistan, the home as well as cottage industry which consumes chemicals containing the copper, mercury, cadmium and lead are freely dumped into local ravines and canals unchecked for many years. The process is polluting...

This study, conducted in Nyanza Gulf of Lake Victoria, assessed ecological succession and dynamic status of water hyacinth. Results show that water hyacinth is the genesis of macrophyte succession. On establishment, water hyacinth mats are first invaded by native emergent macrophytes, Ipomoea aquatica Forsk., and Enydra fluctuans Lour., during early stages of succession. This is followed by hip...

It has become somewhat of a cottage industry over the last fifteen years to understand the rate of growth of the number of subgroups of finite index in a group G. Although the story began much before, the recent activity grew out of a paper by Dan Segal in [36]. The story so far has been well-documented in Lubotzky’s subsequent survey paper in [30]. In [24] the second author of this article, Se...