Poverty in India 2008-04-23 07:57:09 Poverty is one of the main problems which have attracted attentionof sociologists and economists. It indicates a condition in which aperson fails to maintain a living standard adequate for his physicaland mental efficiency. It is a situation people want to escape. Itgives rise to a feeling of a discrepancy between what one has and whatone should have. The term poverty is a relative concept. It is verydifficult to draw a demarcation line between affluence and poverty.According to Adam Smith - Man is rich or poor according to the degreein which he can afford to enjoy the necessaries, the conveniences andthe amusements of human life.Even after more than 50 years of Independence India
still has theworld's largest number of poor people in a single country. Of itsnearly 1 billion inhabitants, an Read more:Poverty
Guidlines for developing 3D QSAR Model in DS Catalyst 2008-04-22 01:14:16 The objective here is to develop an automated method for selecting a training set that can be used for Catalyst
hypothesis generation from a large collection of compounds.Training set selection from a given SAR data is the first step in deriving a predictive QSAR model. The quality of the resultant model is highly dependent upon the molecules which are used to derive the model; therefore, selection of these compounds must be done very carefully.Guidelines for 3D QSAR Model Generation in Catalyst 3D QSAR (HypoGen) model generation within Catalyst requires the following guidelines in order to select molecules for hypothesis generation: At least 16 compounds to assure statistical significance of the pharmacophore model Activity range of the compounds should span at least 4 orders of magnitude Read more:developing
Why I Will Never Have a Girlfriend 2008-04-21 06:15:35 Why I Will Never Have a Girlfriend
This is a question that practically every male has asked himself atone point or another in his life. Unfortunately, there is rarely a hardand fast answer to the query. Many men try to reason their way throughthe dilemma nonetheless, often reaching a series of ridiculousexplanations, each more self-deprecating than the last: "Is it becauseI'm too shy, and not aggressive enough? Is it my opening lines? Am I aboring person? Am I too fat or too thin? Or am I simply ugly andcompletely unattractive to women?" When all other plausibleexplanations have been discounted, most fall back on the time-honouredconclusion that "there must be Something Wrong™ with me" beforeresigning themselves to lives of perpetual chastity.[2]Not the author, though
India's economy - Open wide 2008-04-15 06:53:20 JUST five years ago India
was bracketed with Pakistan as one side of a potential nuclear war, and itseconomy
was seen as a hopeless also-ran in a hypothetical race for growth withChina. Now India finds itself in the same Western intellectual parenthesis asChina itself: both fast-growing economies, both hugely populous—and both athreat and an opportunity to the rest of the world. For publishers, India'semergence has become something of an emerging market in its own right. Therehas been a deluge of books seeking to explain the country's transformation: bybusinessmen, diplomats, journalists, political scientists and the occasionalemerging-market opportunist. What has been missing is a comprehensivesingle-volume chronicle of the history of economic policy in India sinceindependence in 1947
IIIT ALLAHABAD RANKED 8TH BY INDIA TODAY 2008-04-14 07:14:27 India Today, India's leading magazine has ranked IIIT Allahabad among the Top 10 Engineering Institutes of India.It has been ranked 8thafter the seven IIT's. The most important fact to be considered is thatIIIT-A is the youngest institute to be included in India Today's top 10ranking. It was established just 8 years ago in 1999.Last yearalso IIIT Allahabad was ranked 11th by Nasscom-Dataquest ranking andwas ranked 4th by the same in Placements. It is a matter of fact thatIIIT-A has one of the best placements in India as many of the leadingcompanies of the world visit the campus for placements.IIIT-A students have made their mark in every field related to Computer Science and Information Technology.Ithas produced one of the best programmers from India with one of theIIIT-A teams representin
The Other Side of Drug Discovery 2008-04-28 05:34:24 The shop seemed to be full of all manner of curious things—but the oddest part of it all was, that whenever she looked hard at any shelf, to make out exactly what it had on it, that particular shelf was always quite empty: though the others round it were crowded as full as they could hold. "Things flow about so here!" she said at last in a plaintive tone, after she had spent a minute or so in vainly pursuing a large bright thing, that looked sometimes like a doll and sometimes like a work-box, and was always in the shelf next above the one she was looking at.—Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass, 1863"What do you suppose is the most successful drug in the last 5,000 years?" Tamas Bartfai asks me. This question almost seems like one of those obvious ones that you Read more:Discovery
TASHAN - the movie and my day yesterday 2008-04-28 00:34:27 I went to chikpet yesterday and did some shopping as I am going home tomorrow. My friend/colleague Dr. kaustubh and I were totally exhausted at the end of it. We were in the heart of busiest part of the city called 'City Market'. The name says it. Train of buses parked on one side of the road and vendors selling their petty items on the other side with great zeal. It was a busy day for them. The footpath was littered heavily and we had to literally plan the most efficient path at least 50 steps ahead, applying all the algorithms that we had learnt. I stood still and closed my eyes and concentrated on the noises...I could here not less than 10,000 different types of those. While the sun was lurking in the sky right over us, the only idea we had in our mind was to somehow teleport ourselves Read more:movie
Sidhuism! 2008-05-07 01:13:39 A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef. A revolutionary idea is usually one with its sleeves rolled up. After marriage, the other man's wife looks more beautiful. Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth. Anybody can pilot a ship when the sea is calm. As uncomfortable as a bum on a porcupine. Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt. Crowd's gathered outside my home at 3am, and my wife was so worried she called the police, but it was simply jubilant fans congratulating her for marrying a national hero. Even a cock crows over his own dunghill. Experience is like a comb that life gives you when you are bald. Ganguly has thrown a drowning man both ends of the rope. He will fight a rattlesnake and give it the first two bites too. I am a sepoy and will f
India must leverage its talent pool to gain leadership in basic research, 2008-05-08 06:49:56 Chennai: "India
needs to leverage on its huge talent pool in order to gain a leadership position in basic research, especially in biotechnology and bioinformatics fields" said Nobel Laureate Dr Sidney Altman at an interactive session on "What Business and Society canlearn from research" organised by the Confederation of Indian Industry.Dr Altman had shared a 1989 Nobel Prize for Chemistry with Dr Thomas R Cech for the Discovery of Enzymatic RNA.Speaking at the event, Dr Altman said that the biotechnology sector has both wet process and dry process based industries. The later suits well India as much as the former, because, India is already a recognized leader in the Information Technology (IT).Already nations like Singapore, Australia and China are making significant in
I saw ironman yesterday! 2008-05-09 05:19:04 Let's face it, Super Hero movies nowadays are either hit ormiss. There are the ones that absolutely dominated; Batman Begins, Spider-Man,and X-Men. Then there are the ones that we'd rather not thinkabout/mention in public; Elektra, Cat Woman, Dare Devil,etc. With all the trailers and press releases for the countless comic bookmovies on the horizon, it's totally expected to be nervous about which oneswill be great and which ones will suck, but rest assured - Iron Man isincredible. Incredible in that 'you're on a bus and you realize you have exact change' kindof way. Out of all the crap floating around in theaters right now, Iron Manis breath of fresh air in a huge way. Take all the badassity of Bruce Wayne, subtract theemo, and you get Downeys perfect portrayal of Tony Stark - A boozing,wom
STRUCTURE-BASED DRUG DESIGN - Detailed information about ligand-protein interactions is speeding the drug discovery process 2008-05-09 01:34:12 In structure-based drug design, the three-dimensional structure of a drug target interacting with small molecules is used to guide drug discovery. "Structure-based drug design represents the idea that you can see exactly how your molecule interacts with its target protein
," says Raymond Salemme, founder, president, and chief scientific officer of Three-Dimensional Pharmaceuticals in Exton, Pa. This structural information
can be obtained with X-ray crystallography or nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR). Ideally, these two techniques complement one another. However, most companies that are specializing in structure-based drug design focus on only one method of structure determination, at least initially. DRUG TARGET L LuxS—a metalloenzyme involved in bacterial quorum se Read more:interactions
DIT’s scheme to aid bioinformatics research 2008-05-09 01:16:56 Pune, May 1 In an effort to support the growthof Bioinformatics discipline in India, the Department of InformationTechnology (DIT) has come up with a 'multiply grant scheme', which willsupport the researchers as well as industry to tackle some of the keyproblems in the field of Bio-informatics. AK Chakravorthy, adviser and group coordinator, DITinformed about the scheme on Tuesday. He was in the city to inauguratea symposium arranged by C-DAC on 'Genes to Drugs: In-silicoapproaches'. Chakravorthy talked about the DIT's vision onBioinformatics growth in India. "There is a need to address theproblems of young researchers, who are not in position to create thebusiness model of their inventions. We want the industry people, forthat matter even the small and medium entrepreneurs, should co Read more:bioinformatics
The beautiful birds I have seen... 2008-05-13 00:29:17 Paradise Flycatcher. It was the most breathtaking sight to see this elegant bird flying in the mangoe groves near my village in MaharashtraGolden Oriole Spotted this bird on the Amblica tree in front of our home in my villageCoppersmith A very common bird spotted on the guava trees in front of the window of my study at Nagpur home.Black Drongo This one is a whimsical customer...very funny!Hoopoe.S
Auroville...a universal city in the making! 2008-05-12 07:50:00 Auroville is a universal township in the making
for a population of up to 50,000 people from around the world.How did Auroville begin?The concept of Auroville - an ideal township devoted to an experiment in human unity - came to the Mother as early as the 1930s. In the mid 1960s the Sri Aurobindo Society in Pondicherry proposed to Her that such a township should be started. She gave her blessings.
Arikamedu Excavation Point 2008-05-12 04:07:37 Arikamedu is located 3 km. south of Pondicherry, situated on the bankof a river named Virampattinam it has been identified with the port ofPodouke of the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea and Ptolemy. Wheelerexcavated this site with an objective to find out the remains ofmaritime contacts between ancient India and Rome and also to establisha datum line for the Indian antiquities (Wheeler, 1946).The s Read more:Excavation
On Becoming Extinct 2008-05-12 02:44:26 Radhu dada and I were sitting in my garden indulging in our favorite sport : SOS : Satirizing of Society. I decided to change tracks and asked him, “Dada don’t you think NDTV, by launching the Save the Tiger Campaign, is doing a great job of protecting our national animal.”“Yes. I would have been equally happy if they would also unleash a campaign to protect our national game. At the rate Read more:Becoming
, Extinct
Drug Discovery Process 2008-05-12 02:36:07 Drug discovery & development can be divided into two stages: new lead discovery (preclinical research) and new prouct development (clinical development).*Research Planning The management team researches the market and established therapeutic targets, budgets and resources.My understanding Biologists play an key role in deternming the target because not all protein are drugable. They need to Read more:Discovery
, Process
Reducing the ‘what ifs’ in drug discovery 2008-05-12 02:31:11 Drug discovery was the main aim of any pharma company, prior to the advent of the doctrine that companies could have a profitable business model without selling a drug they actually ‘invented’. A pharma company could just make changes in the ‘process’ and have a ‘generic’ version of a drug. This doctrine was supported by most of the developing economies in order to protect their popula Read more:Reducing
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Rising food prices: After Rice, Bush blames India 2008-05-14 02:25:31 Prosperity in countries like India
is ‘good’ but it triggersincreased demand for ‘better nutrition’, which in turn leads to higherfood prices, US President George W Bush said. The comments come close on the heels of US Secretaryof State Condoleezza Rice's controversial statement that ‘apparentimprovement’ in the diets of people in India and China and consequentfood export caps is among Read more:Rising
Indians Find U.S. at Fault in Food Cost 2008-05-14 02:19:28 Instead of blaming India and other developing nations for the rise in food prices, Americans should rethink their energy policy — and go on a diet.That has been the response, basically, of a growing number of politicians, economists and academics in this country, who are angry at statements by top United States officials that India’s rising prosperity is to blame for food inflation.The debate Read more:Indians
, Fault
Yahoo’s Answer to Google’s Universal Search is Glue 2008-05-16 02:17:33 Sometimes the only way to get new products out the door at a bigcompany like Yahoo
is to launch it far away from HQ. That’s whathappened with Yahoo Glue, a new way to present search results morevisually that Yahoo is experimenting with on its Yahoo India site. Much like Google
’s UniversalSearch
that brings in results from images, videos, maps, news, or othersources as appropriate. It is also
Cargo Hub to come in Nagpur 2008-05-16 01:59:58 A FEW years from now, Nagpur, a city knownfor its oranges, will be prominent for an altogether different reason.Slowly, but surely, Nagpur, chosen for being at the country'sgeographical centre, is on its way to becoming a major multi-modalcargo hub airport. The Maharashtra Airport Development Company (MADC), headed bythe Chief Minister, is i
T-G-I-F 2008-05-26 06:07:09 A business man got on an elevator. When he entered, there was a blond already inside who greeted him with a bright,"T-G-I-F."He smiled at her and replied,"S-H-I-T."She looked puzzled, and repeated,"T-G-I-F," more slowly.He again answered,"S-H-I-T."The blonde was trying to keep it friendly, so, she smiled her biggest smile and said as sweetly as possibly, &qu
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