Do rainfed production systems have lower environmental impact over irrigated production systems?: On -farm mitigation strategies.

The intensive agriculture practices improved the crop productivity but escalated energy inputs (EI) and carbon foot print (CF) which contributes to global warming. Hence designing productive, profitable crop management practices under different production systems with low environmental impact (EI and CF) is the need of the hour. To identify the practices, quantification of baseline emissions and the major sources of emissions are required.

Pest scenario of Helicoverpa armigera (Hub.) on pigeonpea during future climate change periods under RCP based projections in India.

Gram pod borer, Helicoverpa armigera (Hub.) is the major insect pest of pigeonpea and prediction of number of generations (no. of gen.

Root resection - Exploring ways beyond extraction.

One of the crucial challenges that any present-day general dentist confronts is the treatment determination between extracting a tooth and placement of a dental implant or by conserving the natural tooth with an interdisciplinary approach. The rising concern amongst the patients towards preserving their dentition has driven the clinicians towards providing treatment options that are more appropriate and conservative and at the same time does not hamper its functional needs. This report highlights one such way of preserving the periodontally compromised natural tooth with just resecting the diseased part of it and also conserving the proprioceptive capacity of the tooth.

Comparison of root surface roughness produced by air polishing combined with hand instrumentation or ultrasonic instrumentation: an in vitro study.

The aim of this study was to examine the surface roughness produced by root debridement during periodontal maintenance therapy. The root surface roughness produced by hand scaling and subsequent glycine powder air polishing (GPAP) was compared with that produced by ultrasonic scaling and subsequent GPAP. Fifty extracted incisor and premolar teeth were collected and randomly allocated to the following 5 groups (n = 10 per group): 1, hand scaling followed by GPAP; 2, ultrasonic scaling followed by GPAP; 3, hand scaling alone; 4, ultrasonic scaling alone; and 5, no treatment.

Intercropping for management of insect pests of castor, Ricinus communis, in the semi-arid tropics of India.

Intercropping is one of the important cultural practices in pest management and is based on the principle of reducing insect pests by increasing the diversity of an ecosystem. On-farm experiments were conducted in villages of semi-arid tropical (SAT) India to identify the appropriate combination of castor (Ricinus communis L.) (Malpighiales: Euphorbiaceae) and intercropping in relation to pest incidence.

Predicted equations for ventilatory function among Kuching (Sarawak, Malaysia) population.

Spirometry data of 869 individuals (males and females) between the ages of 10 to 60 years were analyzed. The analysis yielded the following conclusions: 1. The pattern of Forced Vital Capacity (FVC) and Forced Expiratory Volume in One Second (FEV1) for the selected subgroups seems to be gender dependant: in males, the highest values were seen in the Chinese, followed by the Malay, and then the Dayak; in females, the highest values were seen in the Chinese, followed by the Dayak, and then the Malay.

Complications of anaesthesia and surgery for laryngotracheo-oesophageal cleft.

Laryngotracheo-oesophageal cleft presents great difficulty in airway management. Tracheostomy and/or bilateral endobronchial intubation to secure the airway and a feeding gastrostomy are essential to sustain life until major definitive surgery can be planned. We describe the anaesthesia for these emergency life saving procedures in a 1.