Ragas Dental College & Hospital commonly called "RDC Chennai", is a dental college located at the outskirts of Chennai, India. It is affiliated to The Tamil Nadu Dr. M.G.R. Medical University. It was founded by Dr. B.P. Rajan, a conservative dentist, in 1987 in Radhakrishnan Road, Chennai. Its first Dean was Dr. Vasanta Rao.
Aadeel Akhtar (born 15 January 1987) is a neuroscientist and electrical engineer. He is CEO and founder of the bionics company PSYONIC. In 2021, he was named one of MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 and was featured in Newsweek’s “America's 50 Greatest Disruptors: Visionaries Who Are Changing the World.”
Menucha Publishers is an Orthodox Jewish English-language publishing company based in Brooklyn, New York. Originally founded as a distributor for Targum Press, in 2011 after Targum's shutdown. Menucha established itself as an independent publishing company while continuing to distribute original Targum titles. Subsequently, they began reprinting Targum books in a more modern style.
In the 1990s books were published using "Targum/Feldheim" on the back cover and (using a backslash) "Targum\Feldheim" on the inside title page. Targum Press was the publisher while Feldheim Publishers was the distributor.
The company releases fifty books annually, of which 75% are children's books. Its editor-in-chief is Esther Heller.
Targum (1984–2008)
Targum Press was founded in 1984 by Moshe Dombey, a rabbi who at the time was a lecturer at yeshiva Ohr Somayach and Neve Yerushalayim seminary. Targum relied on Feldheim Publishers as its distributor.
Targum/Menucha (2008–2011)
In 2008, they turned to Menucha Publishers, owned by Hirsch Meir Traub, to run all of the American distribution.
Targum (2011–present)
In 2011, Targum, which had been struggling financially, shut down, while Menucha still had all their distribution inventory (however, Targum was reopened soon after by Akiva Atwood). They were therefore able to continue operations, buying books directly from Targum's original printer.
TargumPress.com in 2022 redirected to TargumPublishers.com, saying "35 years of the Finest Jewish Books."
Menucha (2011–present)
Menucha was able to work with authors – some new and some that had previously published with Targum – to publish books with them.
The MenuchaPublishers website has a shopping cart app.
Companies
Menucha Classroom Solutions (MCS) was created by Menucha Publishers in 2017 "to raise literary standards and enhance every ELA classroom by providing appropriate literature and educational material to classrooms around the globe". MCS selects books excluding those with violence, immodesty, abuse, or foul language. Secular books are rated on a scale of one to four, considerations being references to non-Jewish holidays, Christianity, internet and television, and language considered improper according to some standards.
Another product of Menucha Publishers, the Jewish Book Box delivers a box of 2–5 books to subscribers' doors monthly. The boxes include both secular and Jewish titles.
Elasmobranch cestodes are parasitic tapeworms (class Cestoda), which infect elasmobranchs (sharks, rays and skates). While elasmobranchs are the definitive hosts, other organisms may be infected in earlier stages of the life cycle of these cestodes.
In 2010, there was a discovery of two species that belong to this group of tapeworms to have infected bivalve mollusks in South Carolina. Lab samples were taken from this event in 200 clams which were measured and necropsied. Following the test, two species of tapeworm plerocercoids (Duplicibothrium spp) and merocercoids (Rhodobothrium spp) were observed. The plerocercoids occupied the digestive gland ducts and merocercoids were found beneath the mantle of the Molinia lateralis, the clams from S. Carolina.
Sources cited
- de Buron, Isaure. Roth, B. Patricia. Bergquist, C. Derk. Knott, M. David. Mulina Lateralis (Mollusca: Bivalvia) die-off in South Carolina: Discovery of a vector for two Elasmobranch Cestode species. J. Parasitol., 99(1), 2013, pp. 51–55. American Society of Parasitologists 2013.