Accurately predicting the Indian monsoon is limited by inadequate understanding of underlying processes, which feed into systematic model biases. Here we aim to understand dynamic and thermodynamic features associated with progression monsoon, using 2016 as a representative year, help convection-permitting simulations Met Office Unified Model. Simulations are carried out in 4 km resolution limi...

Economic imbalances and social disparities are a common feature of developmenteconomies, particularly those which have historical antecedents of colonial rule. The study ofregional imbalances is given focus especially to Southeast Asian countries owing to its renewedimportance in the global order. Post independent India had to tackle with several problems at theoutset, regional imbalance and ec...

I October 2001, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell addressed a conference of humanitarian nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Washington, D.C. There, he remarked “I want you to know that I have made it clear to my staff here and to all of our ambassadors around the world that I am serious about making sure we have the best relationship with the NGOs who are such a force multiplier for us,...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Dengue virus activity has never been reported in the state of Goa. The present study was carried out to document a multilevel geographic distribution, prevalence and preliminary analysis of risk factors for the invasions of Aedes aegypti in Goa. METHODS A geographic information system (GIS) based Ae. aegypti surveys were conducted in dry (April 2002) and wet (July 2002...

Abstract Thyroid storm (TS) is a rare and life-threatening condition due to profound hypermetabolic state, leading decompensation of homeostasis. It commonly associated with precipitating factor such as surgery, trauma, or infection. Occasionally, the clinical presentation may be non-specific, thus causing potential delay in diagnosis. This could problematic condition’s high mortality rate, esp...

S ome have argued that physicians have difficulty regulating themselves (an argument recently echoed by the ACGME, in fact), and they often point to physician laboratory and radiology self-referral abuses that occurred throughout the 1980s as their major talking point. These discussions led to a series of federal laws, referred to collectively as the Stark Laws (after California Congressman Pet...

This paper presents the cumulative impact of poor quality on the cost of product duly taking the case of Indian automobile sector. There are number of factors which are effective in improving the quality of product of automobile industries such as leadership , customer focus , supply chain management , product and process management etc. The cost of quality places a fundamental role to make the...

This study explored the extent to which student emotion management factors and normative orientation (belief that chat rooms have normative standards of conduct similar to face-to-face interaction) circumscribe the sending of hostile messages within electronic relay chat rooms on the Internet. A questionnaire survey collected data from 114 undergraduate and graduate students from a large univer...

The number of U.S. specialty hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers has been increasing. Advocates of these facilities believe that they will increase competition and improve health services. General hospitals, however, complain that specialty facilities select only the most profitable patients, which reduces general hospitals’ ability to pay for care of the uninsured and other unprofitable s...