Transient receptor potential vanilloid-3 (TRPV3) is a thermo-sensitive ion channel expressed in skin keratinocytes and in a variety of neural cells. It is activated by warmth as well as monoterpenoids including camphor, menthol, dihydrocarveol and 1,8-cineol. TRPV3 is described as…

The Naucoridae are most interesting and fascinating aquatic water bugs known as water creepers, needle bugs and toebiters. In view of the studies of Naucoridae fauna from other parts of world, the study of Indian Naucoridae is of a great…

Angiogenesis, or the formation of new blood vessels out of pre-existing capillaries, is a sequence of events that is fundamental to many physiologic and pathologic processes such as cancer, ischemic diseases, and chronic inflammation. With the identification of several proangiogenic…

Fuzzy logic control technology has been widely and successfully utilized in numerous industrial applications. Since fuzzy logic with humanlike but systematic properties can convert linguistic control rule based on expert knowledge into automatic control strategies, it can be well applied…

The capital you don't see on the Balance Sheet of an organization is in three forms: Human Capital (the collective skill, knowledge attitudes and behavior of the people in the organization), Information Capital (the resources and processes in place that…

Instructors are often unaware of the negative impact that their own pedagogical practices can have on their students—practices that can lead to student subjugation. I contend that, for instructors to move from Freire’s (1970) notion of the traditional banking concept…

 Researchers with experiential disability knowledge increasingly engage in socio-medical research. In this paper the author discusses her experiences with employing her own lived experiences with disability in academic and non-academic research projects. Incorporating one’s own lived experiences in research implies…

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Security has been major concern of mankind for decades. Various techniques have introduced to provide possible solutions and this list is growing everyday. Most of these techniques are preventive and are mainly used to raise alarms. With growing knowledge and…

p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Background: Cutaneous Curvularia is a rare fungal infection which presents itself as erythematous, non-tender, non-pruritic, ulcerative lesions. To the best of our knowledge, only a few cases reported in the literature have occurred in immunocompromised…