Tropics

It is a graphical representation of biomass (total amount of living or organic matter in an ecosystem) present in unit area in different tropic levels. Typical units for a biomass pyramid could be grams per meter2, or calories per meter2. The pyramid of biomass may be 'inverted'. For example, in a pond ecosystem, the standing crop of phytoplankton, the major producers, at any given point…

1869 (Gordon, 1941; Bruce et al., 1942; Hoeppli,1963). The common English name for T. penetrans is sand flea .Many local names like jigger , chique ,chigoe ,puce-chique ,nigua ,chica etc. indicate that tungiasis has long been a common disease in tropics (Soria and Capri,1953;Matias, 1989;Mashek et al.,1997). Epidemiology of…

African nations at the Berlin Conference. 5. Often colonial territory was seized without the consent of the home government by a. ex-slave traders motivated to make money on the colony. b. journalists trying to gather news information in the tropics. c. scientists doing research in remote regions of Africa and Asia. d. colonial officers deciding on their claim to a piece of territory.* e. mercenaries and escaped convicts. 6. Among the cultural motives for the New Imperialism was a…

69 learning zone adult nursing discbarge, nausea and/or vomiting. In acute infections the patient will be pyrcxial and systemically unwell. Hepatitis Hepatitis is a disease affecting the liver. Hepatitis A isinfectious, occurs mainly in the tropics and is transmitted through infected iood, water, faeces and urine. Hepatitis B is transmitted via sexual intercourse with a carrier and by infected blood, forexampie, through sharing needles or tattooing ( Wyatt et al 2005 ). Hepatitis A is the…

Other languages spoken in India come from the Austro-Asiatic and Tibeto-Burman language families. India has no national language. Hindi, with the largest number of speakers, is the official language of the government. English is used extensively in business and administration and has the status of a "subsidiary official language"; it is important in education, especially as a medium of higher education. Each state and union territory has one or more official languages, and the constitution…

In a fairly short duration Bharati Mukherjee has received a respectable attention from the critics around the world. She is described as a ‘voice’ of expatriate- immigrant sensibility. She has stayed in different places, and lived through various cultures. In her journey as a writer her creative sensibility has undergone many changes, a continuous quest from ‘expatriation to immigration’. As a writer her concern can be seen in the lives of South- Asian immigrants in the USA and Canada and the…

Neither Dale Carnegie nor the publishers, Simon and Schuster, anticipated more than this modest sale. To their amazement, the book became an overnight sensation, and edition after edition rolled off the presses to keep up with the increasing public demand. Now to Win Friends and InfEuence People took its place in publishing history as one of the all-time international best-sellers. It touched a nerve and filled a human need that was more than a faddish phenomenon of post-Depression days, as…