STRUCTURAL ELUCIDATION AND ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY STUDIES OF LEAF EXTRACTS OF WITHANIA SOMNIFERA


Selfish altruism, fierce cooperation and the predator

This paper suggests a new way to think about a famous question: what explains cooperation in nature and in particular in humans? I argue that, for an evolutionary biologist as well as a quantitative social scientist, the triangle of two ‘teammates’ in the presence of a predator (passing and shooting in two-on-one situations) is one of the funda

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Generalization of the least uncomfortable journey problem

Abstract The variational problem of the least uncomfortable journey between two locations on a straight line is simplified by a choice of the dependent variable.It is shown that taking the position, instead of the velocity, as the optimal function of time to be determined does away with the isoperimetric constraint.The same results as those found w

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