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Numerous studies revealed diversified nature of health condition among tribal in India. This paper attempts to explore to what extent the MDGs related to health become realistic and how much they are paradoxical towards tribal people. Whether, the initiatives undertaken to achieve desired health status for tribal population in India needs retrospective and prospective analysis. Have the government and development agencies translated the policy decision into committed plan of actions and reviewed programme and strategies to ensure the needs and rights of tribal people?

The aim of this article is to analyze the interaction of various enablers (drivers) in management and handling of e-waste in India, which paves the way for an efficient e-waste management either by effective recycling/reuse or through safe and secure disposal for sustainable development. After review of literature on e-waste management in India and other countries, major driving factors of e-waste management have been identified.

This paper addresses the Solar Actvity cause and effect of climate change and their various impacts. Earth’s Sunspots are the coldest part of the Sun and usually develop in pairs. The magnetic field in sunspots stores energy that is released in solar flares (SFs)/coronal mass ejections (CMEs). As a result, solar source activities usually occur in a cycle that mimics the 11-year sunspot cycle (SC). The solar energy that drives the weather system, scientists naturally wondered whether they might connect climate changes with solar variations.

Health is very important for humans, but sometimes treatment of disease becomes necessary. People have faced cancer before, in the last centuries, but these days cancer is more widespread. Because of this scientists are trying to find treatments to cure cancer. They need to study cancer cells and genes and do research so it will lead them to get lots of results. They therefore decided to build a biobank as store for human samples.

With 17,504 islands (12,000 inhabited) and 95,181 km of coastline, Indonesia represents an amazing maritime country, and of crucial proportion in managing their coastal zones, small islands and ocean. Culturally the coastal zones are mixed ethnically, and socially a zone of conflicting interest which arose in all level of bureaucrat and stakeholders. Indonesia’s coastal and small island ecosystems and their marine biological diversity is core of national assets. If our use of them is well managed, they can meet a broad range of economic, social and cultural aspirations.

This paper discusses the OFDM in wireless communication. It includes Bit Error Rate and Symbol Error Rate verses ratio of bit energy to noise power spectral density (Eb/No) for different communication channels like AWGN channel, Rayleigh multipath Channel, combined Rayleigh multipath with AWGN channel and Rician Channel. The BER is 10-5, 10-4.5, 10-4 and 10-3 respectively for above communication channels at 30dB of SNR. This simulation is designed on MATLAB 9 version with 64-point FFT. The coding which is done in this paper is STTC for MIMO.

The parameter estimation method that based on the minimum residual sum of squares is unsatisfactory in the presence of multicollinearity. In (1970) Hoerl and Kennard introduced an alternative estimation approach which is called the ridge regression (RR) estimator. In RR approach, ridge parameter plays an important role in the parameter estimation. Many researchers are suggested various methods for determining the ridge parameter for the RR approach and they generalized their methods to be applicable for the logistic ridge regression (LRR) model. Schaeffer et al.

The plant extracts of Curcuma longa L., a perennial herb is a member of the Zingiberaceae (ginger) family. The methanolic extracts were investigated for its anti-inflammatory and antipyretic activities in animal models. The extract at different doses used showed good anti-inflammatory activity which has been done significantly, by the formation of paw edema induced by carrageenan model. Anti-inflammatory effects of plants were monitored every hour after carrageenan injection. These results were also comparable to Indomethacin, the reference drugs used in this study.

It has been found that the conventional software engineering models such as for example Waterfall model, Prototyping, Incremental, Spiral, Rational Unified process (RUP) and Extreme programming (XP) cannot be used directly or not applicable for the development of web based systems.

Generally, weed control is conducted in the form of hoeing or chemical control. Hoeingis difficult and performed using manpower; on the other hand, chemical control has harmful effects on the environment. In this study, the hot foam application was employed as a method for weed control. For this method, first a hot foam machine with a digital indicator was produced. Wild oats (Avena fatua), English ryegrass (Lolium perenne), and wild clover (Medicago sativa) were separately planted in three control pots and in three hot foam application pots.