January 2013

The textile industry is searching for innovative production techniques to improve the product quality. Nowadays, Micro fibers have set new trends in the textile industry and manmade fibers were upgraded to be superior to natural fibers both in appearance and also in the other physical and comfort properties. The blending of the micro denier polyester fibre along with cotton fibre is a popular one for research and it gives valuable performance with the main component fibre properties and additional micro polyester fibre properties.

Since the turn of the new millennium, there has been a steady increase in the use of plastic products resulting in a proportionate rise in plastic waste in the municipal solid waste streams in Ghanaian cities, including the Kumasi metropolitan area. The adoption of a more hygienic mode of packaging food, beverages, “iced water” and other products brought plastic packaging to replace the existing cultural packaging methods.

Allelopathic effects of two dominate weeds like wild mustard (Sinapis arvensis L.) and wild oat (Avena ludoviciana L.) on seed germination and seedling growth of wheat (Triticum aestivum L. Var. Chamran) were investigated at Department of Botany, University of Pune (M.S.), India in 2011. The results revealed that aqueous extracts of wild mustard and wild oat had caused drastic reduction in seed germination percentage, shoot and root length as well as dry weight of wheat seedlings. Maximum reduction was recorded at highest concentration of weed extracts.

This study was done for the aim of determining the fish species inhibiting in the Halti Beel, a famous wetland of northwest Bangladesh. A total of sixty-three fish species including 55 indigenous and 8 exotic species belonging to 8 orders, 20 families and 41 genera were recorded during the investigation period and listed with their nomenclature and systematic position. Cypriniformes and Cyprinidae were the dominant order and family in terms of species composition. Puntius sophore was the most abundant fish species accounting 8.03% of total catch.

FMF is characterized by recurrent fever, peritonitis, arthritis, pleuritis and secondary amyloidosis. Iliopsoas bursitis due to its unspecific symptomatology is an often-underdiagnosed entity in the chronic pelvic pain. Also one of the reason of the acute pelvic pain in reproductive age is ovarian cyst rupture. A 22 year old woman with FMF disease admitted to obstetric and gynecology department with chronic right hip and pelvic pain. Transvaginal sonographic examination showed free fluid in the pouch of Douglas that was presumed ovarian cyst rupture.

Geophagic clays are consumed by human beings and other members of the animal kingdom for a number of reasons such as mineral nutrient supplementation, relief of early morning sickness in pregnancy and craving. The objective of this study was to assess major elements in geophagic clays in order to know clays that were enriched or depleted in major elements of nutritional value. The major elements were determined by means of X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRFS).

The Toxicity of Congo red to earthworm, Megascolex konkanensis was studied. The toxicity was concentration dependent and the percent survival decreased with increasing concentration in water and soil. The concentration of congored which was sub lethal under normoxic condition became lethal under hypoxic condition. In soil, with increase in water content, a decreasing trend in LC50 value was observed. The severity of behavioral and morphological changes increased with increasing concentration of congored in water and soil.

In the present study compost samples of two mushrooms namely Buttton (Agaricus bisporus) and Shiitake (Lentinula edodes) were collected from Directorate of Mushroom Research (DMR) ,Chambaghat, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India. After screening cellulase producing fungi a total of 45 fungal isolates were isolated from compost samples, out of which 36 fungal isolates were purified and 23 isolates showed the cellulase activity. The isolates were identified as Trichoderma, Aspergillus, Rhizopus and Penicillium species.

Root and tuber crops form the major subsistence staples in larger parts of sub-Saharan Africa. However, in Nigeria, root and tuber production relies mainly on smallholders that have multiple practices to choose from while considering crops to be included in their cropping systems. This study examined factors influencing the inclusion of root and tuber crops in the cropping systems among farmers in Oyo state. Data were collected from 360 farmers randomly selected using a structured interview schedule. Frequency counts, percentages and Chi-square were used for the data analysis.

The Municipal Sewage water are discharged into low level areas, in streams and lands which finally accumulate in the form of large ponds and affects the environment. The sewage sample was collected from Singanallur station of sanganur canal of Coimbatore.1/10th of 72 hour LC50 value was taken as sublethal concentration for sewage water. After the experimental exposure (72hours, 10days, 20days) fishes were sacrificed and organs like gill, liver, kidney used for histopathological studies.

Glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c) is one of the parameter to assess the diabetic condition. In this study, the activities of carbohydrate metabolic enzymes were assessed and correlated with HbA1c in the red blood cells (RBCs) of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) patients. Thirty diabetic patients (taking insulin and different antidiabetic drugs) from Rajah Muthiah Medical College and Hospital, between the age 40 and 70 were chosen and they were not suffering from any other illness and fifteen non-diabetic control subjects of the same age groups were also chosen for comparison.

Morin, a bioflavonoid with antioxidant property, is a constituent of many herbs and fruits that are used as herbal medicines. It exhibits many biological activities and possibly even has protective effects against chronic renal diseases. The present study aims to study the protective effect of morin against ethanol-induced biochemical changes in kidney. Male albino rats were divided into four groups as follow; (1): control group, (2): control rats treated with morin (3) ethanol fed rats (4) ethanol fed rats treated with morin.

Introduction: Encephalitis refers to inflammation of Parenchymal brain tissue. Acute encephalitis begins abruptly (hours to days) whereas chronic encephalitis is insidious in onset, occurring over weeks to months.1 Objective: To document etiological, clinical and laboratory features in cases of Encephalitis in general and Japanese encephalitis in particular. Methods: Fifty Indian children below 15 years of age, with encephalitic features were investigated. They were treated in Bapuji Child Health Institute and Chigateri Government Hospital, Davangere.

This study was undertaken to explore the job satisfaction of lecturers. Present research compared job satisfaction of 30 contractual and 35 permanent lecturers on pay, promotion, supervision, fringe benefits, coworkers, nature of work, communication, contingent & rewards and operating conditions. These aspects of working environment contribute as factors of job satisfaction. Results indicated that there is significant difference between the contractual and permanent lecturer’s job satisfaction on the pay, fringe benefits and contingent & reward aspects.

Most of the theories in security market are based on the notion of rational investment decision behaviour from investors. But it has been observed that it is not the case always. A new area of research has come up which recognizes the psychological element in financial decision making and thus challenging the traditional models. This new area of study is known as behavioural finance and in the changing socio-economic and technological context; it is high time to study this new area of knowledge.

Neural networks are a new method of programming computers. They are exceptionally good at performing pattern recognition and other tasks that are very difficult to program using conventional techniques. Programs that employ neural nets are also capable of learning on their own and adapting to changing conditions. Neural nets may be the future of computing .A good way to understand them is with a puzzle that neural nets can be used to solve. Suppose that you are given 500 characters of code that you know to be C, C++, Java, or Python.

Physico-chemical properties and bacteriological examination of spring water was done from from Markanday region of Hamirpur District in Himachal Pradesh. Physico-chemical properties such as Total Dissolved solids (TDS), Dissolved oxygen (DO), Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD), Chemical Oxygen Demand (COD), Alkalinity, Hardness, Chloride and pH were determined and compared with World Health Organization (WHO) standard. Bacteriological examination was done by isolation of microorganism from water and identification by serotyping.

The present study deals with the macroscopic analysis of medicinal plants specifically betel leaf by using the techniques of Image Processing and Neural Networks. Any disturbance between the elements of human body leads to disease and the therapy lies in restoring the balance through the use of medicines of natural origin such as herbs and minerals. India is endowed with a rich variety of medicinal plants.

This study is an analytical descriptive research study to assess the attainment of peak performance of the Co-operative College of Kenya. The study aimed to achieve the degree of effectiveness of the interventions in ensuring that the organization works towards the employee profiles in the areas of commitment, confidence, competence, working conditions and communication and to determine the behavioral changes among the leadership and the employees after conducting the interventions to improve the overall performance of the Co-operative College of Kenya.

Service quality has got increased considerable attention within the education sector. Efforts to understand and assess the service quality in higher education have been undertaken in the recent years. The conceptualization of service quality, its relationship to the satisfaction, value constructs and methods of evaluation have become a central theme of education sector.

A study was conducted to assess the magnitude of heterosis for grain yield and its components over mid parent (MP), Better parent (BP) and standard heterosis (SH) in rice hybrids (Oryza sativa L.) through line x tester analysis. The present study comprised of three lines and ten testers. The resultant thirty hybrids along with their thirteen parents were evaluated during 2009 to 2010 in a randomized block design with three replications at Plant Breeding Farm, Department of Genetics and Plant Breeding, Annamalai University, Chidambaram.

The purpose of this study was to determine whether selected physical fitness components (coordinative ability, speed, strength, cardiovascular endurance and flexibility) can be utilized as prediction factors of long jump performance. Measurements were observed from 50 selected long jumpers sampled from Indira Gandhi Institute of Physical Education and Sport Sciences, University of Delhi. Test included shuttle run, 50m dash, standing broad jump, 12 minutes walk/ run (cooper test) and sit and reach. Analysis was done using t-test and product moment correlation at 0.05 level of significance.

This paper takes a keen look in network security and network security goals, why computers are insecure and type Of attack, how to improve network security . Securing your network and practical's what is Quota.

Field experiments were conducted to study the interaction of phosphorus, sulfur and zinc on growth and yield of rice in neutral and alkali soils. The treatments consisted of two levels of P2O5 (25, 50 kg/ha), two levels of S (20, 40 kg/ha) and four levels of Zn( 0,5,10, 15 kg/ha) besides an absolute control, thus totaling seventeen treatments. The results revealed significant interactions among P,S and Zn on growth and yield of rice. The growth and yield of rice was less when P, Zn and S were applied at lower rates, but improved with increasing levels of nutrients.

X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy and Fourier Transform Infra Red Spectroscopy (FTIR) were used, to characterize tropical ayous (triplochyton scleroxylon) and fraké (terminalia superba) sanded wood surface prior to gluing. As expected, O1s and C1s were the predominant species in the spectra of the two woods. C1s peak have been decomposed into several components. Earlier study reveled tree classes of carbon for frake.

Milk was analyzed for several parameters like pH, acidity, fat, protein, solids-not-fat, total solids and moisture content. The values obtained were found to be satisfactory in comparison to composition of normal cow milk. Cream was separated from milk using hand-operating cream separator. Analysis of cream showed satisfactory results in comparison to cream obtained by cream separation process. The cream was divided into three parts of which first was directly made ghee without culturing, second was cultured with dahi culture and third with yoghurt culture.

Some metals inputs within the solid waste dump were studied through the Pollution Load Index (PLI). High levels in cadmium (4.00±0.62 mg.kg-1), lead (138.43±51.5 mg.kg-1) and zinc (266.63±42.83 mg.kg-1) and low levels in copper (40.77±11.98 mg.kg-1) were measured within the soils at five sites against a control. The total concentrations in metals were measured in soil samples collected from the surface to 1.5 m depth. The measurements showed in total metal concentration decrease from surface to depth in lead, zinc and copper. Cadmium was measured to be constant with the depth of study.

Jawadhu Hills are a range of hills. One of the largest in the Eastern Ghats in Thiruvannamalai District, in the northern part of the state of Tamil Nadu. About 80 Km wide and 32 Km long and they are bisected into Eastern and Western sections by the Cheyyar and Agaram rivers tributaries of the palar. Several medicinal plants are rich in Jawadhu hills. The herital medicines to cure a disease used by various tribes are tribal medicines. These medicines are safe, eco-friendly and bio-friendly plants based products for various diseases of tribals.

The present investigation was attempted to focus on studies of allelopathic effect of some dominant, invasive weed species like Alternanthera tenella Colla., Croton bonplandianum Baill and Xanthium indicum Koen. from Baramati Tahsil, Dist. Pune, Maharashtra, India, on seed germination and seedling growth in mung bean. The allelopathic effects of leaf extracts of weeds not only affect the seed germination, but it also influences seedling growth in terms of root and shoot length, vigour index.

Heavy metals pollution to water and soils due to anthropogenic activities are threats to living organisms which needs to be tackled with a new emerging technology, referred as phytoremidiation, offers a cost-effective and environmental friendly way for clean up of contaminated areas with exploitation of green plants, which either accumulates or converts it to non toxic forms, but that incurred serious physiological and metabolic constraints in plants.

In this study, the effect of framed chain sawing system with optimized chain on timber size uniformity and surface roughness was analyzed and compared with the freehand chainsaw system and band saw as control. The surface roughness of sawn timber from three commonly sawn timber species (Eucalyptus saligna, Grevillea robusta and Prosopis juliflora) was determined by stylus tracer approach.