Value of voteCorporate controlEmerging marketsWe examine the effect of the 2005 Banking Regulation Amendment Bill and the 2011 Banking Laws Amendment Bill proposals for removal of the 10 percent voting rights cap in Indian Banks. The 2011 Banking Laws Bill was first introduced in 2005, but lapsed...
6,7. However, taxonomists estimate that the known representatives compose only a small portion of the total of protists on Earth today, and that the diversity of this group is greater than that of metazoans6,7.
Trap cropping (TC) is a pest control strategy where the pest species is diverted from the main crop with attractive plants and controlled there (Hokkanen1991; Shelton and Badenes-Perez2006). At the end of the 1960s,Lygusspp. were the first crop pests that were successfully controlled with th...
Biofouling has been referred to as “the Achilles heel” of reverse osmosis (RO) membrane technology; the main cause being polyamide RO membranes lack of chlorine tolerance. Biofouling increases the operating cost of water treatment by increasing RO system feed pressure (i.e., energy demand) and...
Malaria parasites such as Plasmodium falciparum have exerted formidable selective pressures on the human genome. Of the human genetic variants associated with malaria protection, beta thalassaemia (a haemoglobinopathy) was the earliest to be associated w
Dietary magnesium (Mg) deficiency is more prevalent than generally suspected, and can cause cardiovascular lesions leading to disease at all stages of life. The average American diets is deficient in Mg, especially in the young, in alcoholic persons, and in those under stress or with diseases or...
of antimicrobial resistance repeated itself many times over in the years to come, with many other antibiotics and for a wide range of pathogens. At the same time, ambitious programs to eliminate malaria suffered setbacks for a variety of reasons in various parts of the world. 6 Similarly, ...
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the leading causes of morbidity and mortality worldwide; however, treatment development is hindered by the heterogenous nature of TBI presentation and pathophysiology. In particular, the degree of neuroinflammation
Radionuclide contamination is a concerning threat due to unexpected nuclear disasters and authorized discharge of radioactive elements, both in the past an
Another, recently often used term addresses “stress tolerant” species. Both Grime (2001) and Reynolds (1997) define “stress-tolerance” as mineral nutrients stress, but of course there is the possibility to be tolerant to other kinds of stress. Nevertheless, noone defines the intensity of str...