The aromatic infrared bands (AIBs) centred at 3.3, 6.2, 7.7, 8.6 and 11.2 microns are ubiquitous in diverse interstellar sources including HII regions, reflection nebulae, planetary nebulae, star forming regions, interstellar medium (ISM) of Milky Way as well as external galaxies....

Kojic acid represents an attractive multifunctional skeleton for development of biological active compounds. Inventors have prepared great varieties of kojic acid derivatives with selective properties....

This book emphasizes various aspects of EDM for the fabrication of advanced ceramics such as current status of EDM behaviour of advanced ceramics, production of ceramic powders by EDM technique, various modeling studies and material removal mechanisms of EDM....

Ferritic stainless steel is used as a cheaper substitute of austenitic stainless steel. Due to increasing application of this material its fabricating properties have also became important. In this book the weldabitity of the ferritic stainless steel have been investigated. The book covers the following topics: 1....

This study reports the production, purification and application of cellulases from Trichoderma viride under still culture liquid state fermentation technique using microcrystalline cellulose and cheap and easily available waste material, as growth supported substrate....

There has been growing menace of antibiotic resistance in recent past owing to a number of reasons such as self medication and non-compliance on parts of patients with regard to complete dosage regimen. Medicinal chemists are hard pressed to bring about new molecules to cater to this need....

Erythromycin producing bacteria Saccharopolyspora erythraea strain MTCC No. 1103 was purchased from MTCC, Chandigarh. Sporulation of this bacteria was done on Oat meal Agar medium at a temperature of about 30?C. Optimization of the fermentation conditions was performed with different parameter,like temperature, pH, time etc....

Cephalosporins beta – lactums, broad-spectrum antibiotics. After penicillin, cephalosporins are the most important ?-lactams inducing IgE-mediated reactions. Cephalosporins are antibiotics characterized by a cephem ring system in which a beta–lactam ring is fused to a dihydrothiazine ring....

The preservation of large collections of microbial cultures is often a major problem in most food & pharmaceutical industries . Variation in physiological or in morphological characteristics is frequently an undesirable consequence when stock cultures are held for some time, unless special methods are used in the preservation process....

Microorganisms are responsible for the manufacture of various foods of man. The biochemical reactions of microorganism helps in the process of production of foods. Microorganisms helps in several industries like medicine industry, jute industry. Hormones, Vitamins, Vaccines are also manufactured from microorganisms....

Antibacterial activity of various fruits orange [C.reticulata] pomegranate [Punica granatum], grapefruit (Citrus paradisi) and lemon (Citrus limon ) were evaluated against pathogenic bacterial and fungal strains namely Salmonella typhi, Streptococcus epidermidis, Staphylococcus aureus, Bordetella bronchiseptica and Candida albicans....