Ethnobotany

Traditional medicines and natural products from ethnomedicinal plants have great significance in recent time. Various forms of medicines like Ayurveda, traditional Chinese medicine, kampo, Unani, have been plasticising in recent days due to their effectiveness against various human ailments and also have blossomed into the regulated systems of traditional medicine. This chapter reviews the relationship of plants and humans, along with their cultural relationship and role of the traditional medicines, by exploring the methodologies and various concepts for the discovery of various drugs. Further, this will also illustrate traditional medicines that have their incomparable advantages over the modern allopathic medicines.

Review of Online Food Delivery Industry of India

Earlier people used to go to the hotel, but the scenario has changed drastically in last few years. Due to changes in lifestyle and recent pandemic situations the lifestyle of Indians has changed considerably. This has given tremendous boost to the online food delivery business. In recent time, India has witnessed rapid increase in number of food delivery startups, supporting the aspirations of millions of urban citizens of India. Currently Indian food delivery market is occupied by global, national as well as local business establishments in this food delivery industry. Zomato, Foodpanda, Swiggy, Uber Eats, Domino’s, Pizza Hut and Mc Donald’s are a few major names which are predominant. The users get wider choice of all the online available hotels through menu of the restaurants at a very reasonable cost and that too at their home. It saves time, travelling cost of the users. All this process of food delivery system comprises few fundamental components. Among that the first is the cooking of the food product as per the requirements of the online customers and delivering these food products through online platform is the basic business model which is used. As the customer’s choices are varying with time this system will be evolving with innovative ideas to meet the changing requirements and expectations of the customers. This business models uses basically requirement of the customers; motivating them for bringing the dynamism within the market as well as within the food industry and delivering the food through the delivery personal. For ensuring the success of this online delivery model the entrepreneurs has to ensure few things which includes certain features which will be; taking care of various aspects of market as well as technological aspects. Also the opportunities and challenges that will be faced by this online food delivery system will be more clear as the time will pass. The sustainability about this food delivery business models will be depending on the benefits which will be provided to the customers and user and how much it continues to attract the venture capitalist and various investors in this online food delivery business.

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT): Its History, Evolution and Future Perspectives in Evolving World

The Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation (HSCT) is known to be a very complex practice which involves the transplantation of multipotent stem cells from a donor to the recipient. For the very recent time period this field has changed into its better form i.e. it has immensely proved itself for the medical care of certain hematological as well as immune-deficiency syndromes. Right now, HSCT is a broadly acknowledged treatment for some dangerous illnesses. It in this manner addresses a genuine helpful expect numerous patients. Due to this widening latitude of transplantation, it has certainly drawn the attention of medical crowd as it now being synchronized in many parts of the world. The present work provides a review of the development strategies of HSCT.

COVID -19: REPLICATION INHIBITORS AS PROMISING THERAPY FOR SYMPTOMATIC PATIENTS

COVID-19 is unprecedented pandemic threading the mankind existence in the recent time, with globally reported (256,966,237) confirmed cases, including (5,151,643) death, as of 22 of November 2021(WHO. 2021). The COVID-19 vaccine doses administered globally were (7,408,870,760) doses as of 22 of November 2021 (WHO. 2021). Strategy to face this serious threat include prevention of getting infection and rational treatment of symptomatic infected ones. Treatment can adopt one or all of the three strategies; prohibiting the virus from entry into the human cells, halt replication of the virus inside the human cells, and neutralizing the inflammatory and other effects of the virus pathogencity. Replication inhibitors are important tool in the tools box against COVID-19, however they are not substitute for vaccination against COVID-19 and other adopted preventive measurements. Still prevention is the best medicine for any disease. The aim of this review is to further explore the replication inhibitors as emerging tools for treatment of symptomatic cases of COVID-19. Many encouraging results have emerged from recent clinical trials. This may help to bridge the gap in existence knowledge and stimulate further discussion to enhance conducting more clinical trials for the treatment of COVID-19 and repurpose already existing other viral replicating indictors for treatment of COVID-19. Remdesivir, Molnupiravir and Paxlovid are promising viral replicating inhibitors drugs for treatment of symptomatic COVID-19 patients. Since Molnupiravir and Paxlovid are given orally as five days short course, are significantly of great value for low-income countries

Functioning of Local Government in Bangladesh: Legal and Practical Spheres

Local government is a fundamental part of Government and undeniable part of development in all spheres of a country. While most of the constructions in the worlds pronounce various provisions of having local government, it’s got more significance in recent time. Moreover, without overall participation of the population of a country, development of all sectors can’t be achieved. Participation of grassroots people are encouraged and ensured by local institutions. It also provides the opportunities to the population oriented of making policies and implementing decision better for them which is ultimately a step forwarding sustainable development. Since the time of independence from Pakistan in 1971, Bangladesh has local government system in the constitution of the country. Various amendments regarding local government have been brought basically when regimes changed. Thus, till to date, the constitutional provisions have been far dream from the reality. In the very root level the local government established maintaining the constitutional provisions can extend the practice of democracy. Thus, following constitutional scheme and to enhance good governance at all levels of the society, it’s ripe time for the concerned authority to be more conscious to establish local government.

Computer Vision Approach for Detecting Adulteration of Ghee with Foreign Fats – A Survey

Ghee is pure clarified fat derived from milk, yogurt and fresh cream. It is most commonly used milk fat product in India. The consumption and production of ghee is consistently increasing by 10% in our country in every year. In comparison to other milk fat product, ghee is expensive and short in demand because of its pleasant taste or high nutrition value. Due to its high cost and demand in market, there are high possibilities to adulterate it with cheap fats like vegetable oil/animal body fats. The adulteration detection of ghee is becoming a serious issue to chemists. Several analytical and instrumental methods are available for the detecting adulteration in ghee based on chemical principles. On the basis of study, it was observed that analytical methods are not suitable to detect the adulteration level of <15%. In recent time, digital image analysis is introduced in the field of adulteration detection in food products. A very few studies found in the area of milk fat adulteration detection with foreign fats using image analysis. Various studies found related to detection of adulteration in Oils (like Extra virgin olive oil, sesame oil etc.) with cheap oil using the various color models (like CIELAB, RGB, HSV, CMYK) and machine learning algorithms.

Doklady bojovej činnosti z obdobia 2. svetovej vojny v priestore medzi Trnavou a Trstínom (juhozápadné Slovensko). Možnosti aplikácie metódy KOCOA

At the recent time, the battlefield archaeology belongs to the slowly developing and establishing branches of Slovak archaeology. Thank to only few zealous researches gains this field of interest consistently more attractiveness among researchers. The main efforts are concentrated on describing and documentation of military activities or preservation and protection of battlefield relics. Nevertheless, researchers abroad focus on different issues and use spatial analyses to reconstruct or understand strategies of combatants. In the following text we try to demonstrate one of these analyses known as KOCOA. An area between Trnava and Trstín (South-western Slovakia) where on April 1945 German military troops tried to stop advancing Soviet units was chosen as a model area. By means of KOCOA analysis we will try to predict locations which were considered appropriate for defence. These locations, confronted with LiDAR-derived images, can provide evidence of field fortifications which can be subjected to subsequent scientific research, preservation and protection.

Effects of Plant Growth Retardants on Development of Poinsettia ”Christmas Feeling” Cultivar

The poinsettias were cultivated years ago as medicinal and ornamental plants, too; but in the recent time are in the light of world flower assortment surprising with new shapes and colors in the cold season. The ornamental values of these plants are given by bracts which can have the same size as foliage leaves or even larger. The tendency of floral industry consists in obtaining high quality ornamental plants with superior marketable price. In these regards, the role of plant growth retardants in regulating the growth of poinsettia is important to obtain healthy, compact bushes and extended decoration period. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the effects of plant growth retardants on poinsettia. Five treatments with different retardants were applied as drench or spray. In the experiment four replicates and a total of 144 poinsettias were used. Treatments with paclobutrazol (60 mg/l sprayed), daminozide (2500 mg/l sprayed) and chlormequat chloride (1000 mg/l sprayed), showed the best results in case of marketability.

Nature and Extent of International Diversification: Empirical Evidence from India

The paper aims to measure the extent of international diversification achieved by Indian companies in the recent time period. The study also investigates the nature of international diversification of companies during their transition beyond national boundaries. This evaluation of the firm’s nature and extent of internationalization is further extended to cover the period of COVID-19 as well. The Jacquemin and Berry Entropy Approach (1979) is applied to operationalize the firm’s international diversification. It facilitates the measurement of both inter-region and intra-region diversification. World Bank Geographical Region Classification Framework (2018) has been used to facilitate the applicability of the approach applied. Results indicate that Indian companies were inclined to grow beyond their home territories. However, the extent of international diversification is low as ‘Internationally Low Diversification (ILD)’ reveals to be the most popular strategy amongst Indian companies. Nature depicts a preference for relatedness than unrelatedness for overseas expansion as firms prefer intra-region expansion as compared to moving inter-region. Stagnation and halt are witnessed in the global expansion of companies in the period of the pandemic. The present study is novel as it comprehensively evaluates the international growth strategies preferred by Indian companies in the pre-pandemic and the pandemic period.

A literature review on esthetics in complete denture

Denture esthetics in the field of prosthodontics has become a prime most demand of the edentulous patients in the recent time. The different processes that are required in the fabrication of complete denture in terms of esthetics constitutes from impression making, selection of teeth, occlusion, proper vertical dimension, accurate recording of the occlusal plane and a good smile line.