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Botanical Medicine in Clinical Practice
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 937

Botanical Medicine in Clinical Practice

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2008
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  • Publisher: CABI

The potential benefits of plants and plant extracts in the treatment and possible prevention of many leading health concerns are historically well known and are becoming more widely studied and recognized within the medical community. It is these studies that led to the first compilation of new research developments, identifying new extracts and uses for plants in disease prevention and treatment. This major comprehensive reference work contains contributions from more than 150 clinical and academic experts covering topics such as treatments of cancer and cardiovascular diseases, as well as historical plant use by indigenous people supported by recent scientific studies. Authors review the safety and efficacy of botanical treatments while idenifying the sources, historical supportive data and mechanisms of action for emerging treatments. Written by researchers currently carrying out identification and biomedical testing, this is the most up to date text on the latest research from all over the world. It is an essential resource for health care practitioners and herbalists, as well as researcher, students and professionals in botany and alternative medicine.

Fall of Ice from the Sky
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Fall of Ice from the Sky

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2021-06-06
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  • Publisher: Notion Press

Reports of the Incidents of fall of large ice blocks from the sky have been appearing in media since times. These ice chunks, also known as “Blue ice” or “Aircraft Ice” happen to be the frozen mixture of human bio-waste and liquid disinfectant, that emerge in the form of the leakage from the defective toilet lines from a commercial airliner or any other transport category aircraft carrying passengers. The book gives an account of more than 600 such cases of ice fall worldwide extracted from various languages. Many people believe that the colour of ice blocks fallen from the aircraft toilets must be Blue or Green, but as a matter of fact, it could be of any colour, blue, green, yellow...

Daughters of the Brothel
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 206

Daughters of the Brothel

Have you ever been to a Red-light District? “My nath utrai (Taking off the nose ring) was performed when I was twelve or thirteen. The initial days were tough but now it gives me pleasure. I have inherited the art of making love from my grandmother.” -Roopal, a sex worker from the Bedia community in brothel number 56. Nath Utrai ceremony is nothing but the auction of the girl by the highest bidder near Bharatpur in Rajasthan. “Everyone believes that all hijras are castrated, but this is not true. We call it nirvana . Castration is usually optional. It cannot be forced upon a hijra .” -Sharmila, a eunuch from the streets of Varanasi. The narrator spends a considerable amount of time i...

The Other Side
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 136

The Other Side

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2024-10-30
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  • Publisher: Notion Press

Written by a doctor-medical teacher-poet, the poems give one a front seat behind the corridors of medicine and medical education • Charts his sojourn from a budding medical student to his tryst with mental health to his becoming a medical teacher, an educationist and a poet • Poems are a tribute to those serve medicine with devotion and as their calling • Poems raise questions and sometimes provide answers to some of the flaws in medicine and medical education Experience the full gamut of emotions from joy, struggle, optimism, suffering, pride and resilience The reader is guaranteed comfort, inspiration, meaning within these pages

Alternatives to Antibiotics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 574

Alternatives to Antibiotics

This book discusses prospective alternative approaches to fight bacterial infections to minimize the indiscriminate use of conventional antibiotics. It offers the current knowledge on research and development of alternative antibacterial agents such as probiotics, nanobiotics etc. while it also discusses newly emerging trends such as phage therapy, antibody therapy etc. The book highlights on the phytochemicals with potent antibacterial activities as alternatives to conventional antibiotics. Chemical modification to develop next generation antibiotics with enhanced efficacy has also been included. Such modifications are reported to overcome the inherent resistance of the parent antibiotics. ...

The Book of Aspiration - Vol 2
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 269

The Book of Aspiration - Vol 2

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2023-04-29
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  • Publisher: Notion Press

“… Work hard, honestly, and give of yourself generously. I am truly grateful to Ved Arya for compiling these stories of fifteen highly inspirational leaders who are living examples of this principle…” - Amit Chandra, Chairperson, Bain Capital India & Co-founder, A.T.E. Chandra Foundation “… This volume describes many unsung heroes in government, and several business persons/ philanthropists, who have made remarkable contributions to development in India. This reaffirms the power of collaborative action between government, business, and civil society, to beat poverty, and regenerate the environment.” - Vijay Mahajan, Co-founder, PRADAN, Founder, BASIX

Legally Victimising National Monuments
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 272

Legally Victimising National Monuments

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-05-30
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  • Publisher: Notion Press

Can Parliament and the Union Government deprive Indians of their cultural heritage right to monuments? How has this deprivation been achieved by using the legislative process? Has the judicial culture of the Supreme Court been able to return to Indians this cultural heritage right? Can nationally important monuments be protected in a contrary political economy? How to retrieve and restore to Indians the fundamental right to the distinct culture of monuments by understanding what a monument is?

Wheelchair provision guidelines
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 108

Wheelchair provision guidelines

These Wheelchair provision guidelines aim to support improved accessto appropriate wheelchairs, for all those in need, including children, older persons, people with mobility disabilities, and those with chronic health conditions. They are relevant for all countries and apply to all wheelchair users and types of wheelchairs. They emphasize that the best outcomes in wheelchair access occur when wheelchair users have the benefit of an individual process of assessment, fitting, training and follow up, provided by trained personnel. Their purpose is to ensure that wheelchair users have timely access through wheelchair services that are people-centred and responsive to their needs. Target audiences are those with a role in planning, delivery, monitoring and evaluation of wheelchair provision. This includes policy-makers, wheelchair service personnel, and wheelchair user representative organizations.

Genomics of Cereal Crops
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 366

Genomics of Cereal Crops

This volume details different genomic methods and resources to explore cereal genomics. Chapters guide readers through crop genomes, Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies, protocol for CRISPR editing, transgenic wheat, NGS approach, virus induced gene silencing (VIGS), genomic tools, computational prediction of ncRNAs (miRNAs & ceRNAs) in cereal crops, genotyping-by-sequencing (GBS), Bayesian method, single cell sequencing, genome-wide association study (GWAS), QTL interval mapping, whole genome bisulfite sequencing, genome imprinting, and methods for study the receptor-metabolite interaction. Authoritative and cutting-edge, Genomics of Cereal Crops aims to be a useful and practical guide to new researchers and experts looking to expand their knowledge.

The Routledge Handbook of LGBTQ Identity in Organizations and Society
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 658

The Routledge Handbook of LGBTQ Identity in Organizations and Society

Sexuality, gender, gender identity, and gender expression are fluid constructs, and the ways in which identity development intersects with organizations and exists in society are complex. The book is comprised of a range of multi-disciplinary and globally inspired perspectives representing leading-edge scholarship by authors from over a dozen countries on a range of issues and contexts regarding LGBTQ identity and experience. It is intended for a wide readership: those who are in LGBTQ-related academic fields; those who want to broaden their coursework by offering supplemental readings that center the perspectives of LGBTQ identities; and those who want to acquire knowledge and education on ...