Bauhinia purpurea (purple bauhinia).

Author(s):  
Julissa Rojas-Sandov

Abstract B. purpurea is widely distributed throughout the Indo-Pakistan subcontinent, and has been introduced into other tropical and subtropical regions, including Africa, South-East Asia and Australia. It is a medium-size multipurpose tree, which besides timber and fuelwood provides fodder, food, tannin and gum The bark, roots and flowers have medicinal properties. B. purpurea is widely planted as an ornamental tree in parks, gardens and homesteads, and along avenues. It can be propagated by direct seeding or planting out stumps or nursery-raised container seedlings. Air layering has also given promising results.

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nick Pasiecznik

Abstract D. sissoo is a very useful multipurpose tree, extensively planted as single trees or in village woodlots, and in linear or block plantations, in countries of south Asia, particularly Pakistan and India (from the Indus to Assam). It has also been introduced, with varying degrees of success, into mainland South-East Asia, Java and Africa (Soerianegara and Lemmens, 1993). It is a fast-growing gregarious tree which can easily be propagated from seed, seedlings, stumps, and root or shoot cuttings. According to Chaturvedi (1956) "shisham (D. sissoo) is a friend of the farmer, as well as the forester; a tree which pays rich dividends". Economic returns from farmland plantations of this species in Pakistan are moderately high (Siddiqui, 1993).


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo A. Ventosa-Febles ◽  
Nicole Cordero-Ramos

Abstract Polyalthia suberosa is a shrub or small tree, native to south and south-east Asia. It has been introduced widely in tropical counties as a cultivated ornamental plant (it also has medicinal properties). In the New World it is present in the wild in Florida, Hawaii and Cuba; in the latter country it is classified as invasive, but there appears to be no information about any adverse effects that it may have.


2020 ◽  
pp. 29-40
Author(s):  
T. R. Sridevi Krishnaveni ◽  
R. Arunachalam ◽  
M. Chandrakumar ◽  
G. Parthasarathi ◽  
R. Nisha

The state tree of Tamil Nadu, Borassus flabellifer L. is a nature’s gift to the mankind. It is plant that serves various ecological, medicinal, economical and sociological benefits to the society. It a plant of heaven that could sustain adverse climatic conditions and withstand natural calamities. It is one among the most beneficial species that has economical and medicinal value for each and every part. It found widely in tropical and arid countries ranging from India through South-East Asia to New Guinea. The plant has a very close connection with the rural livelihood and cottage and agro based industries of Indian economy. The utility of the plant could be widely classified into Non-edible, edible and value addition based uses. This paper attempts to give a birds eye view about palmyra’s distribution, nutritional and medicinal properties, different utility forms and the impact on rural livelihood.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  

To determine the immunization status of pediatric patients under age of 5 years visiting pediatric department of tertiary care hospitals in South East Asia. The aim of this study was to appreciate the awareness and implementation of vaccination in pediatric patients who came into pediatric outpatient Department with presenting complain other than routine vaccination. we can also know the count of patients who do not complete their vaccination after birth. we can differentiate between vaccinated and unvaccinated patients and incidence of severe disease in both groups. Immunization is a protective process which makes a person resistant to the harmful diseases prevailing in the community, typically by vaccine administration either orally or intravenously. It is proven for controlling and eliminating many threatening diseases from the community. WHO report that licensed vaccines are available for the prevention of many infectious diseases. After the implementation of effective immunization the rate of many infectious diseases have declined in many countries of the world. South-East Asia is far behind in the immunization coverage. An estimated total coverage is 56%-88% for a fully immunized child, which is variable between countries. Also the coverage is highest for BCG and lowest for Polio.


2014 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 230-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles E. Jarvis ◽  
Joanne H. Cooper

It had long been believed that none of the bird, egg or nest specimens that had been in the collection of Sir Hans Sloane at his death in 1753 had survived. However, a specimen of a rhinoceros hornbill, originally in Sloane's hands, was discovered in the Natural History Museum's collections in London in 2003, and three more Sloane hornbill specimens have subsequently come to light. In addition, we report here a most unexpected discovery, that of the head of a woodpecker among the pages of one of Sloane's bound volumes of pressed plants. The context suggests that the head, like its associated plant specimens, was probably collected in south-east Asia about 1698–1699 by Nathanael Maidstone, an East India Company trader, the material reaching Sloane via William Courten after the latter's death in 1702. A detailed description of the head is provided, along with observations on its identity and possible provenance.


Writing from a wide range of historical perspectives, contributors to the anthology shed new light on historical, theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to the documentary film, in order to better comprehend the significant transformations of the form in colonial, late colonial and immediate post-colonial and postcolonial times in South and South-East Asia. In doing so, this anthology addresses an important gap in the global understanding of documentary discourses, practices, uses and styles. Based upon in-depth essays written by international authorities in the field and cutting-edge doctoral projects, this anthology is the first to encompass different periods, national contexts, subject matter and style in order to address important and also relatively little-known issues in colonial documentary film in the South and South-East Asian regions. This anthology is divided into three main thematic sections, each of which crosses national or geographical boundaries. The first section addresses issues of colonialism, late colonialism and independence. The second section looks at the use of the documentary film by missionaries and Christian evangelists, whilst the third explores the relation between documentary film, nationalism and representation.


2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-73
Author(s):  
Michelle Ann Abate ◽  
Sarah Bradford Fletcher

Since its release in 1963, Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are has been viewed from a psychological perspective as a literary representation of children's inner emotional struggles. This essay challenges that common critical assessment. We make a case that Sendak's classic picturebook was also influenced by the turbulent era of the 1960s in general and the nation's rapidly escalating military involvement in Vietnam in particular. Our alternative reading of Sendak's text reveals a variety of both visual and verbal elements that recall the conflict in South East Asia and considers the significance of the book's geo-political engagement.


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