Complex polysaccharides such as agar, alginate, carrageenan, cellulose, xylan, and chitin are abundantly represented in the marine ecosystem. Degradation of these complex polysaccharides into oligosaccharides is achieved ...

Casino tourism is one of the recently emerging forms of tourism in many parts of the world. Casinos help in increasing visitations and increasing revenues to stakeholders including governments. The revenues help in destination ...

The purpose of this study was two-fold. First, it explained the relationship between service quality and benefit perception. Second, it studied the role of customers' intent in the relationship. Following a descriptive ...

The marine nitrogen cycle is important ecologically as nitrogen is a nutrient required by phytoplankton, which as primary producers, form the basis of the marine food chain. Nitrate and nitrite ions are utilised as terminal ...

This paper in bioethical dimension of tropical disease management, attempts to present the importance of understanding the origin, prevalence, morbidity, and mortality of various tropical Zoonotic diseases in former ...

Extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) and X-ray magnetic circular dichroism (XMCD) spectroscopy have been employed to understand the factors responsible for martensitic transformation in Ni–Mn based ferromagnetic ...

Ni sub(2)Mn sub(1+x)Z sub(1-x) (Z = In, Sn or Sb) undergo martensitic transformation with transformation temperature (T sub(M)) scaling with the average valence electron per atom (e/a) ratio. However, the rate of increase ...

The paper describes the variations in ecological parameters and their possible role on vertical distribution of meiobenthic communities in the estuarine marshy environment at Goa. The investigations conducted during post ...