Introduction of New Sampling Design Representational Image New Delhi, Oct 23: The National Statistics Office (NSO) is set to revise the sampling design for the Periodic Labour Force Survey (PLFS) ...

A large-scale release of a biological agent can result in contamination of a wide area and would require significant time and resources for recovery. There are several decision support tools and ...

To protect public health following a wide-area chemical, biological (pathogen and/or biotoxin), or radiological (CBR) contamination incident, environmental sampling and analysis results are used to ...

The specific monitoring design (the choice of location and timing of sample collection) that best meets project objectives will depend on the type and scale of the project and the degree to which ...

Detecting gene–environment interactions with rare variants is critical in dissecting the etiology of common diseases. Interactions with rare haplotype variants (rHTVs) are of particular interest. At ...

There was controversy recently over how sound data collection procedures in India are, especially when it comes to some of the important national level surveys. An article (by Shamika Ravi, Member of ...

With this approach, a second site (a baseline reference site) in a very similar watershed is monitored. Changes in the BMP site are compared to this baseline. The monitoring approach is greatly ...