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Private cord blood banking discouraged
The chances of self-use when stored in private banks are low


Quantum leap into future for computers
A CANADIAN company with substantial venture capital backing claims to have built a ``quantum computer'' that will ultimately solve problems beyond the power of conventional systems. While most scientists believe a useful system is at least 20 ...
3D: old games given a new lease of life
USUALLY, A stereo effect is incorporated to a game or a video during the production phase, like in the popular Shrek3D video. The new depth dimension provided by a stereo picture application for 3D games developed by VTT Technical Research ...
IT TRENDS
Take computing back to nature
A British university has spun off the world's largest research group on evolutionary algorithms
Agriculture

FARMER'S NOTEBOOK
Aquaculture: netting profits despite scarce resources
Silt from a 30-cent fishpond can be used as manure for a hectare
Managing serpentine leaf miner
THE AMERICAN serpentine leaf miner is capable of inflicting severe damage to several crops such as cowpea, redgram, blackgram, soybean, tomato, brinjal, bhendi, snakegourd, bittergourd, pumpkin, cotton and castor. The females, during feeding ...
FARM QUERIES
Inducing nut formation
Apply 2 kg of super phosphate and potash each, 1 kg of urea and 50 gms of borax 2 feet away from the trunk of the tree once every six months and water regularly. Readers are invited to send their queries with full postal address to `Farm ...
FARM QUERIES
Infestation in Hibiscus
You may spray a mixture of 2 ml of either monocrotophos or methyl parathion or dichlorvos and about 2 gms of mancozeb diluted in one litre of water on alternate days twice a week. Readers are invited to send their queries with full postal ...

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