Tobacco use is a major public health challenge in India with 275 million adults consuming different tobacco products.Government of India has DOUGH ROLLER taken various initiatives for tobacco control in the country.Besides enacting comprehensive tobacco control legislation (COTPA, 2003), India was among the first few countries to ratify WHO the Fra
This paper examines how the evolution of architectural generative design processes aim to apply similar physical and geometrical principles of biological processes taking place during development and to translate them to fabrication processes.In analogy to the reaction-diffusion mechanism for biological pattern prediction, the logic of stripe is us
Wearing safety rope while working at the loft and over the side of a ship is an effective means to protect seafarers from accidents.However, there are no active and effective monitoring methods on ships to control this issue.In this article, a one-stage system is proposed Backpack to automatically monitor whether the crew is wearing safety ropes.Wh
In the previous article [Y.-X.Wang and W.-T.Li, J.Differential Equations, 251 (2011) 1670-1695], the authors have shown that the set of positive stationary solutions of a cross-diffusive Lotka-Volterra cooperative system can form an unbounded fish-hook shaped branch $Gamma_p$.In the present paper, we will show some criteria for the stability of pos
Weed species easily establish in crops with a similar life cycle.Especially mono-cropping provides best conditions for such weeds.In maize this is true for Echinochloa crus-galli, which is a C4 plant and one of the worst weeds worldwide.In Germany E.crus-galli is one of the few typical weed species in maize.When recurrent herbicide treatments are a