the current study aims to measure the efficiency of primary health care units completed in health sector of rural azad jammu and kashmir (ajk) and to compare it across developed and deprived regions.operational efficiency and beneficiary efficiency of a total of 32 basic health units (bhus) were measured through data envelopment analysis (dea) by using different input and output variables. inde...

Films are an important medium for the portrayal and representation of politics. Kashmir, known its natural beauty, became essential destiny Bollywood films. Many films were made in 1960s with Kashmiri protagonists. Most era apolitical, but post-1990s period, on Kashmir reflected politics too. One is Haider, based Shakespearean play - Hamlet. This film was acclaimed by critics as bold job direct...

-1 The residues of hexaconazole dissipated below quantification level of 0.008 μg g and waiting periods of 8.13 and 7.45 days are suggested for Golden Delicious and Starkrimson cultivars at recommended dose in Kashmir. Theoret ical m a x i m u m r e s i d u e contribution TMRC (the theoret ical maximum amount of a pesticide in the daily diet of an average person) values were found to be 17.57 a...

The purpose of this work was to evaluate the antimicrobial potential of endophytic fungi isolated from different high value medicinal plants of Kashmir valley. Evaluation of some endophytes has been carried out for their possible antimicrobial activity from various parts of medicinal plants belonging to Kashmir valley (India). A total of twenty eight fungal endophytes were isolated from the dif...

A total of 480 samples, comprising 429 faecal samples from healthy adult birds and 51 tissue samples from dead birds, were collected from four government poultry farms in the Kashmir valley from September 2007 to April 2008. In all, 33 Salmonella isolates were obtained. Of these, 28 (84.85%) isolates were Salmonella Gallinarum, 3 (9.09%) were Salmonella Enteritidis and the remaining 2 (6.06%) w...

Fresh aerial parts of Angelica glauca, growing wild in Kashmir valley in higher Himalaya (Jammu and Kashmir, India), collected at flowering stage from different locations, on hydro-distillation provided a refreshing light pale coloured essential oil with characteristic floral woody flavour. The oil was found to be a complex mixture of mono- and sesquiterpenes and 34 compounds accounting for nea...

Actinomycetes are considered as one of the most diverse groups of filamentous bacteria capable of thriving into different types of ecological niches due to their bioactive potential. The main objective of the present study was Isolation and Screening of Actinomycetes from soil of Dal Lake of Kashmir region and characterized for morphological identification and evaluated for antibacterial activi...

This article compares communication technologies within and across crises, using evidence from contemporary postings in 68,022 blogs and news feeds and using a semiautomatic method to detect words that increase in usage during a crisis. Three case studies from 2005 are used: the July 7 London attacks, the New Orleans hurricane, and the Pakistan-Kashmir earthquake. The results highlight the info...

Discuses the design and development of a database created for storage and retrieval of information about individual journal articles published in about 138 Indian and foreign current journals, 28455 journal issues existing in the back files section and full text of 356 theses available in electronic format at the Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology of Kashmir (SKUA...