Author: Sunil K. Lal
Publisher: S. Karger AG (Switzerland)
Keywords: diseases, issues, infectious, asia, southeast, viral, emerging
Number of Pages: 149
Published: 2006-10-31
List price: $172.00
ISBN-10: 3805581750
ISBN-13: 9783805581752

Southeast Asia has been the breeding ground for many emerging diseases in the past decade, e.g. the avian flu (H5N1) in Hong Kong in 1997, Nipah virus encephalitis in Malaysia in 1998, and, above all, the SARS outbreak in Southern China in 2002. Risk factors contributing to this situation include being economically disadvantaged, sub-standard health care, changes in ecosystems, poor farming practices, but also increasing global travel and tourism. Currently, H5N1 is considered one of the greatest dangers to humans due to its wide host range, rapid mutation rate and increasing virulence - a glo

Author: Sunil K. Lal
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: coronavirus, sars, biology, molecular
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2010-02-19
List price: $199.00
ISBN-10: 3642036821
ISBN-13: 9783642036828

The SARS outbreak in 2002 caused unprecedented devastation and exhibited unusually high rates of morbidity and mortality. For the SARS coronavirus, the transmission vehicle was man. What added to the spread was man’s convenient, rapid and affordable ways of travel that caused the virus to spread globally in a short span of time. The SARS coronavirus jumped the species barrier, similar to many recent zoonotic diseases – avian flu, swine flu, Nipah and encephalitis virus. It is extremely important for us to understand the enemy before it strikes again in order to be able to combat such outbr

Author: Sunil Saxena
Publisher: Sage Publications Pvt. Ltd
Keywords: writing, headline
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2006-02-10
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0761934219
ISBN-13: 9780761934219

The importance of a headline for a news item hardly needs to be emphasized. It is perhaps the single most important factor that draws the reader?s attention to a story. Thus, while writing a compelling headline is a priority for anyone working on a news desk, this task is not easy to accomplish. This book treats headline writing as a craft that can be learned, a skill that can be honed and perfected. It examines in detail the basic elements of a headline and explains the best way to assemble them in order to write an arresting one. Sunil Saxena carefully examines the different kinds of headlin

Author: Sunil Kumar Jha
Publisher: Simple Guides
Keywords: customs, etiquette, guides, simple, nepal, amp
Number of Pages: 79
Published: 2006-10-30
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 1857333837
ISBN-13: 9781857333831

Customs and etiquette of Nepal

Author: Sunil Chaudhary
Publisher: Global Vision Publishing House
Keywords: justice, gender, economy, welfare
Published: 2009-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 8182202442
ISBN-13: 9788182202443

Author: Sunil K. Mathur
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: bioinformatics, statistical
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2010-01-26
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 0123751047
ISBN-13: 9780123751041

Designed for a one or two semester senior undergraduate or graduate bioinformatics course, Statistical Bioinformatics takes a broad view of the subject - not just gene expression and sequence analysis, but a careful balance of statistical theory in the context of bioinformatics applications. The inclusion of R  code as well as the development of advanced methodology such as Bayesian and Markov models provides students with the important foundation needed to conduct bioinformatics. Integrates biological, statistical and computational conceptsInclusion of R

Author: Sunil Khilnani
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: india, idea
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 1999-06-04
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0374525919
ISBN-13: 9780374525910

The key book on India in the postnuclear era, with a new Introduction by the author.Our appreciation of the importance of India can only increase in light of the recent revelations of its nuclear capabilities. Sunil Khilnani’s exciting, timely study addresses the paradoxes and ironies of this, the world’s largest democracy. Throughout his penetrating, provocative work, he illuminates this fundamental issue: Can the original idea of India survive its own successes?