The present study reports the folk medicinal uses of the fruits of plants growing on the Banaras Hindu University main campus (India) which spreads over 1,350 acres of land area. A total of 17 plant species belonging to 15 genera and 14 families were recorded on the university campus whose fruits are therapeutically used against different ailments. Myrtaceae, Rhamnaceae and Solanaceae were the dominant families of the plants on the university campus whose fruits are used as folk medicines. Fruits of the plants of tree habit are medicinally more useful than the fruits of the plants of herb and shrub habits.

Surface tension is the physical property of the surface of a liquid to resist an external force. The intermolecular bonds or cohesive forces between the molecules of a liquid cause surface tension; this tension is due to intermolecular forces, which are the same forces that cause molecules to compress into a liquid.  Factors having influence on surface tension includes chemical nature, temperature and presence of solute. Chemical nature like polar solvents tends to increase surface tension in other hand an increase in temperature tends to cause surface tension to fall.

Ten upland New Rice for Africa (NERICA) and three upland non-NERICA rice genotypes were evaluated at three locations of six environments in north western Ethiopia from 2009 to 2011 to identify stable and high yielding genotypes for possible release and to identify mega environments.  Randomized complete block design with three replications was used.  GGE (G= genotype plus GE= genotype-by-environment interaction) biplot methodology was used for graphically display of yield data. The combined analysis of variance revealed that environment (E) accounted for 32.2% of the total variation while G and GEI captured 20.3% and 21.1%, respectively. The first 2 principal components (PC1 and PC2) were used to create a 2-dimensional GGE biplot and explained 56.9 % and 20.6% of GGE sum of squares (SS), respectively. Genotypic PC1 scores >0 detected the adaptable and/or higher-yielding genotypes, while PC1 scores <0 discriminated the non-adaptable and/or lower-yielding ones. Unlike genotypic PC1 scores, near-zero PC2 scores identified stable genotypes, whereas absolute larger PC2 scores detected the unstable ones. On the other hand, environmental PC1 scores were related to non-crossover type GEIs and the PC2 scores to the crossover type. Among the tested genotypes 3, 2, 11, 13, 8 were found to be desirable in terms of higher yielding ability and stability in descending order. Based on GGEbiplot analysis, the test environments were classified in to three mega-environments. Mega -1  included environment  WO-1 (Woreta) with  genotype 9 as  a winner; Mega-2 constituted  environments such as  WO-3 and WO-5 (Woreta)  with  genotype 2 as a winner  and  Mega-3 contained  environments including  PA-2,PA-6(Pawe)  and ME-7(Metema) with  genotype 8 as winner. However, it is not justifiable to consider two mega-environments within one specified area. So that Mega environments 1 and 2 should be treated as one. The result of this study can be used as a driving force for the national rice breeding program to design breeding strategy that can address the request of different stakeholders for improved varieties through either exploiting or avoiding the effect of GEI.  Among the tested genotypes in this study, three candidate genotypes (2, 3 and 8) were selected and verified considering their better performance in terms of grain yield, stability, farmers’ preferences and other desirable agronomic traits. Of which, genotype 2 has been officially released for large scale production with the common name ‘’NERICA-12’

One of the features which starts to emerge is the question of equilibrium points, and the question of whether they are stable or unstable. It must be clear to you that this is a matter of very considerable practical importance; if we are studying a system, perhaps a biological one involving the functioning of an organ in the body, or the concentrations of reagents in a cell, perhaps an economic one involving inflation, the difference between a system which runs wild and one which settles down is usually more important than the details of just how long it takes to do either of these things

Embryonic stem cells, as their name suggests, are derived from embryos. Most embryonic stem cells are derived from embryos that develop from eggs that have been fertilized in vitro—in an in vitro fertilization clinic—and then donated for research purposes with informed consent of the donors. They are not derived from eggs fertilized in a woman's body