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Textile City Tirupur in Tamil Nadu Tops in Pollution Generation

...let out into the nearby rivers is free of only the coloured suspension and continues to carry a large amount of invisible dissolved materials. According to A Thangapandian, TNPCB Divisional Engineer: 'All the units have installed a system, which is called pre-treatment system. All dyeing and bleaching units...

Autistic Kids can Understand Other People Through Stereotypes

...s based on drawings representing males and females coloured in either pink or brown. The researchers asked questions such as: "Here are two children, David and Emma. One of them has four dolls. Which one has four dolls"" The answer Emma conforms to gender stereotypes, the answer David does not. Each child c...

Research on Fruit Bats

...era Rousettus (rousette fruit bat), Eidolon (straw coloured fruit bat), and Epomophorus (epauleted fruit bat) completely lack blue cones, they possess only green cones. "With just one cone type, spectral discriminations are not possible, so these species must be colour blind", says Leo Peichl. "A loss of blue...

Force-feeding a Scourge Among Mauritanian Nomads

...ing in the stalls selling everything from brightly coloured veils to fake Chanel sunglasses. 'Just 15 years ago, women didn't work at all but now all these women are working because life in the city is very expensive,' she said. But despite this, women are still finding ways of fattening themselves up. ...

organic kiwifruits promote health

...enols, the healthy compounds found in red wine and coloured berries. They also had a higher overall antioxidant activity, as well as higher levels of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and important minerals compared with their conventionally grown counterparts (Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture DOI 10.10...

Party Over –now Its How to Get Ove’ the Hangove!

...with U.S. National Institutes of Health. Lighter coloured alcohol like gin,vodka,white wine seem to be less intoxicating than the more mature deeper coloured alcoholic drinks, that have more ‘congeners’. Congeners are toxic byproducts of the fermentation pro...

Girl Complained of Rolling Down Stones Instead of Tears While Crying

...o stones. Interestingly, the girl had brought some coloured stones and we are going to conduct tests on them as well. The tear glands will also be checked thoroughly before drawing a final conclusion," Titiyal told IANS. Savitri will be admitted to AIMMS' R.P. Centre of Ophthalmology. "We are going to adm...

Yellow Fruits And Vegetables Help In Fight Against Loss Of Eyesight

...ot actually help a person in the dark but brightly coloured yellow and green vegetables do have the ability to enhance sight. Researchers have explained that sweet corn, broccoli, peas and squash contain the compounds lutein and zeaxanthin, which might offer protection against damage to eyesight later in life...

US Senate Approves Embryo-research Plan Despite President's Refusal

... life and oppose the measure. Tuesday's vote was coloured by election-year politics and personal views that cut across party lines. The House of Representatives - Republican-controlled, like the Senate - had passed the bill last year. White House spokesman Tony Snow reiterated before the vote that Bush wo...

World Cup Fans go for Patriotic Hairstyles

...o a fuzz just a few millimetres long. Each side is coloured black, red and gold. "I did it to wish our team good luck and because it's so exciting to have the World Cup happening here," he explains. "I'll wash it out before work or else I suppose my boss would tell me off." With wispy hair, colours look r...

Colourful vegetables lower asthma risk

Colour is always pleasurable to the eye and so are coloured veggies for the body. // According to a study led by Dr. Isabelle Romieu of the National Institute of Public Health in Cuernavaca, Mexico, it has been found that women consuming plenty of tomatoes, carrots and leafy greens appear less likely to hav...

Colour Of Urine Can Reveal The Health Status Of The Patients

...cularly in summer," Foot said. Dark brown or tea coloured urine can indicate infection in patients who have undergone heart or valve operations because it suggests the patient is haemolysing, or breaking down red cells. Urine that turns black when exposed to air can also be a sign of alkaptonuria, a rare ...

Mind your looks for Bush visit, as world is watching

... read out included wearing dark blazers with light coloured shirts, polishing shoes, a neat hair cut and, in case someone looks closely, clean trimmed nails. Women were given specific instructions too - no slippers, and their best saris with sandals. "Your saris should not be too gaudy," their officer said. ...

Food Grains Project To Tackle Malnutrition In India

...e been teaching them how to grow and eat an orange coloured potato, developed by the Peru-based International Potato Centre.' Rice is the staple food for half of the world and of 65 percent of people in India. Value added rice has been developed in the Philippines and India and is being tried in Bangladesh ...

Study Suggests Filtering Out Useless Information To Enhance Memory

...d computer tasks asking them to remember arrays of coloured squares or rectangles, their brain activity was recorded. Participants were told to hold in their mind two red rectangles while ignoring two blue ones. It was found that without exception, every individual with a good visual memory excelled at keepi...

Indians are certainly having their greens and eating them too!

...alad bowls in Indian hotels // . Salad leaves and coloured bell peppers are becoming hot favourites for toss-it-up-your-way spreads. Judging by the salad bars at buffet spreads, it's clear that greens offer a wave of flavours for every palate. Infact, lots of Indians want salad to be an essential part of din...

Scientists Have Found A Way To Make Junk Food Healthier

...mpound that is a tasteless and odourless off-white coloured powder, reports science portal EurekAlert. The alginate was proved to strengthen mucus, the body's natural protection of the gut wall. It could slow down digestion and the uptake of nutrients in the body. The alginate is high in fibre and has prov...

"An Armour against pleasure, and a cobweb against infection" – Has the condom withstood the test of time

...hane condom for men was launched in the US.Slowly coloured and flavoured condoms were also introduced. ...

New Eye Surgery Gives Hope To Short-Sighted

... Conventional contact lenses rest on the iris, the coloured portion of the eye. Provided by Swiss company Staar Surgical, 95 percent of the 300 participants in a three-year trial had either perfect or near-perfect vision after trying the lenses. Earlier versions of the implants were deemed risky because s...

Early detection of colorectal cancer may be hindered by coloured toilet disinfectants

...l cancers at an early stage could be attributed to coloured toilet disinfectants. Researchers claimed that nine out of ten bowel and colon cancers detected early can be successfully treated and that once the cancer has spread cure rates drop dramatically. The National programme// for detection of colorectal c...

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