Metal foams are known to exhibit multifunctional behavior. It can offer a unique combination of several properties that cannot be achieved by one conventional material at the same time e.g. ultra-low density, high stiffness and capability to absorb crash energy, and excellent sound absorption properties. These unique combinations of properties indicate its various potential applications such as ultra light structures, in impact/blast absorption systems, and for sound absorption etc. Metal foam is a generic term for a class of material, which can be classified in terms of their structures,...

Phosphorus (P) is the second major nutrient after nitrogen that limits plant growth. It is one of the least available and the least mobile nutrient for the plants in the soil. Use of chemical fertilizer has led to health and environmental hazard. Many soil microorganisms (viz., bacteria, actinomycetes and fungi) have the ability to solubilize inorganic phosphatic compounds and make them available to growing plants. Phosphate solubilizing fungi (PSF) are superior to their bacterial and actinomycetes counterpart for P solubilzation both on precipitated agar and in liquid. These fungi can be...

Scientific Essay from the year 2008 in the subject Business economics - Miscellaneous, grade: none, NIL, course: Business management, 46 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: India's growth story as a medical tourism hub is a relatively newer one. With significant cost advantages, availability of quality medical treatment with the most-advanced medical technology coupled with India's well-known tourist destinations and rich cultural heritage, medical tourism does provide a motive sufficient enough to allure those foreign patients who either want to avoid the long waiting...