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Study was carried out to assess the hypoglycaemic effect of supplementing palm sugar daily for the period of thirteen days and the long- term effect of palm sugar on twelve NIDDM subjects. The effects of withdrawal of palm sugar in these subjects after a period of fifteen days was also assessed plasma glucose were estimated before and after supplementation and at the end of withdrawal period. Information regarding age, sex, family history of diabetes, dietary pattern and life style details was collected from the subjects using on interview schedule. When the subjects were classified on the familial incident of diabetes, 75% did not have a familial incident of diabetes, whereas, 25% had a familial history of diabetes, 16.6% of the subjects were smokers. It is seen that the mean fasting plasma glucose levels have decreased in the values when compared between the initial and the final day of supplementing palm sugar. After 15 days withdrawal period it is seen that the mean fasting plasma glucose levels have raised from 129.5 on the 31st day to 136.6 at the end of withdrawal period. In the same way the mean postprandial plasma glucose levels have raised from 200 on the 31 st day (end of the supplementation period) to 208. 75 at the end of withdrawal period. The supplementing palm sugar for 30 days have shown a glucose lowering effect and when withdrawn for 15 days the glucose levels have raised to a higher level nearer to that tested on the initial day.
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Floral Biology and Seed Development of Swietenia macrophylla King
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Swietenia macrophylla King – a valuable tropical timber species produce seeds in small quantity with annual variations. Despite of approximately 126-210 flowers per inflorescence, only one to two fruits develop generally. The reasons are not known. We, therefore, had undertaken a detailed study on the structure and development of flowers and fruits and pollination mechanism for the first time. Results showed that mahogany is monoecious with unisexual flowers borne on the same inflorescence in the ratio of 2 male: 1 female. The period between floral initiation and fruit maturity was 8½ months. Flower drop, heavy immature fruit fall within a fortnight after fertilization and the insect, Hypsipyla robusta infestation during early stages of development are the main causes for low seed production in mahogany
Scientometric Analysis on the Social Network Research Output
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The author investigated the social network paper included web of science from 2004-2013, with help of Histcite software. Histcite is an analytical and visualization tool that enables analysis of and helps and searcher most significant work on a topic and traces its evaluation. It also helps to identify highly productive and highly cited authors in an chosen area of research top and high impact journals and prominent institutions and most importantly highly cited papers based on local citation scores (LCS) and Golbal citation Scores(GCS)
EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION ON THE EFFECT OF ALKANE BLENDING ON PERFORMANCE, COMBUSTION AND EMISSION CHARACTERISTICS OF FOUR STROKE DIESEL ENGINE
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In today’s relevance, it is obligatory to devise the use of diesel in an environmentally benevolent way. So, in this experimental investigation, an attempt was made to increase the combustion efficiency, and thereby to increase the performance and to reduce the exhaust emission by blending an alkane known as n-pentane at 10% by volume with diesel. The performance, combustion and emission characteristics observed while using blended fuels were analyzed and compared with that of diesel as fuel without adding the alkane. The performance analysis reported that, at 80% load, the brake thermal efficiency was increased by 3.684% for the blending of 10% n-pentane with diesel. The maximum heat release rate and peak cylinder pressure were decreased whereas the cumulative heat release was increased for the blended fuel. The emission test concluded that, the smoke density was increased by 0.781% for the blending of 10% n-pentane with diesel. The NOx emission was decreased by 14.634% while using the blended fuel.
GLOBAL LITERATURE PRODUCTIVITY ON WHITE SPOT SYNDROME VIRUS (WSSV) DURING 1999 – 2013: A SCIENTOMETRIC STUDY
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This study analyses publications on WSSV during 1999-2013. The least number of publications were published in 1999 (15) with 494 Total Local Citation Scores (TLCS) and 702 Total Global Citation Scores (TGCS) and the highest number of publications were published in 2011 (136) with 222 TLCS and 574 TGCS. The highest number of citation scores was in 2006 with 1,065 TLCS and 1,865 TGCS. Multiple authors were predominant on the WSSV research. The Degree of Collaboration is 0.978. Overall, 2,421 authors contributed 1,115 publications, out of which, C. F. Lo scored first rank and contributed 60 (5.4%) publications with h-index 24. Interestingly, 1,115 publications were published in 162 journals, among which, Aquaculture scored first place with 155 (13.9%) publications with 1,239 TLCS and 2,121 TGCS. There were 639 Institutions which contributed the 1,115 publications. Among them, Chinese Academy of Science, Beijing, China occupies first place with 68 (6.1%) publications with 531 TLCS and 1,025 TGCS. Further, 40 countries contributed the 1,115 publications. Peoples Republic of China stood first place with 373 (33.5%) publications with 2,618 TLCS and 4,411 TGCS, followed by India with 180 (16.1%) publications with 1,163 TLCS and 1,738 TGCS. In document type, original article was predominant with 1,044 publications with 8,639 TLCS and 15,095 TGCS. English papers dominated with 1,110 publications with 8,842 TLCS and 1,5990 TGCS. There were 16,241 cited references on the WSSV. Out of these, Lo, C. F, 1996, Disease of Aquatic Organisms,V27, P215, DOI 10. 3354/dao027215 was cited 265 times in Web of Science databases.
A9.GLOBAL LITERATURE PRODUCTIVITY ON WHITE SPOT SYNDROME pdf
Strings of Echoes: A Critical Study on Shashi Tharoor’s Riot
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Shashi Tharoor made him reflect on Indian ways of life in a close but distant perspective. Riot is a powerful novel – set in and around a riot in India in 1989 — about love, hate, cultural collision, religious fanaticism, the ownership of history, and the impossibility of knowing the truth by the award – winning author of The Great Indian Novel. Riot is a well, researched book with a compelling hard-driving narrative – love, cultural collision, xenophobia, man’s social and political independence are some of its concerns that endeavour to weave history with the illusion of truth and romance, mingling the lives of the different characters caught up in love and communal war, and most of all, in search of their identity. The clash between the private and the public, between one’s individual beliefs and the beliefs of others is thus a confrontation that sometimes results in a riot and this is what the novel emphasizes. A study is made here to study the narrative form, he chronicles, the mystery of Priscilla Hart’s death through the often contradictory accounts of a dozen or more characters, all of whom relate their own versions of the events surrounding her killing. Like his two previous novels, The Great Indian Novel and Show Business, Riot probes and reveals the richness of India. In plot, style and characterization, Shashi Tharoor’s Riot is a brilliant tour de force.
Nutritional and sensory quality of selected micronutrient-rich recipes ( pancake, dhokla and idli) supplemented with dried cauliflower green leaf powder
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Brassica oleracea L.var. botrytis is one of the most common and popular vegetable grown in India but still, neglected by people in their consumption pattern. In view of this, an attempt was made to utilize ( cauliflower greens) to develop low cost fibre rich products for people suffering from micronutrient deficiency and to assess the sensory quality of developed products. The fresh collected cauliflower green leaves were washed and sun dried for 5-7 days to dry them. In the study, DCGLP biochemically analysis for moisture -3.40gm, protein- 21.6gm, crude fibre- 10.23gm, iron- 42mg (values as per 100gm). Three recipes (pancake, dhokla and idli) were supplemented with / without 2g and 5g DCGLP per serving and sensory evaluation was done with the help of 9 point hedonic rating scale in reference to appearance, taste, texture and flavour by 9 panel of semi trained judges. The prepared recipes were found to be acceptable at 2 g incorporation of DCGLP.
Key words: Brassica oleracea, (DCGLP) Dried cauliflower green leaf powder.
UPTAKE AND ACCUMULATIONS OF CADMIUM AND NUTRIENT CONTENTS OF GREEN GRAM UNDER CADMIUM TOXICITY
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In the pot culture experiment, green gram (Vigna radiata L.) plants were grown up to 45 days, in experimental soil amended with various levels of cadmium (viz, 10, 25, 50, 75 & 100 mg kg1). The inner surface of pots was lined with a polythene sheet. Each pot contained 3kg of air dried soil. Six seeds were sown in each pot. All pots were watered to field capacity daily. Plants were thinned to a maximum of two per pot, after a week of germination. Control plants were maintained separately. Showed this experiments cadmium at all levels (10-100 mg kg-1) tested, decreased the macro (nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium) and micro (copper, iron, manganese and zinc) nutrient contents of treated plants compared to untreated plants. Cadmium content of the green gram plants increased with an increase of cadmium level in the soil.
A13 UPTAKE AND ACCUMULATIONS OF CADMIUM AND NUTRIENT CONTENTS pdf
BIOTECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT AND CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY
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India has over 45,000 wild species of plants and 77,000 wild species of animals recorded and these Comprises of about 6.5% of the world’s known wild life. India’s biological heritage is impressive not only in its dynamic diversity, but also in its uniqueness. And biodiversity considering different values like Environmental value, productive value, Ethical an aesthetic values. These values are helpful to human and animal conception and requires major source of food, medicine, horticultural and ornamental uses, timber, fiber, dyes and other chemical, fuel uses. This need not be surprising considering the fact that in the last few decades. And India has lost at least 50% of its forests. In addition overexploitation, hunting of natural sources, is poisoning by pesticides, excessive botanical and zoological collection, displacements by exotics causing biodiversity loss. In this point of view Biotechnology can play an important role in culturing and conserving biodiversity. The taxonomic systems based on DNA and RNA sequence data is main basis for biodiversity characterization and assessment. It has working big tool for identification of desirable and elite genes located up in wild relatives of domesticated macrobes and microbes. They have further made possible to domesticated taxa to produce transgenic that have increased agricultural biodiversity performance, quantity, productivity, Ecosystem management and resistance to abiotic and biotic stresses of all kinds. In this point of view the current study reveals biotechnology is a tool for conserving biodiversity and Ecosystem balance, improving rare species percentage.
A12 CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY pdf
PHYTOCHEMICAL AND GC-MS ANALYSIS OF LEAF EXTRACT OF Mimosa pudica L.
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The aim of the study was to investigate the Mimosa pudica leaves for phytochemical compounds and GC-MS analysis. The presence of phytochemical compounds was screened by qualitative methods. The analysis of fractions by Gas Chromatography- Mass Spectrometry coupled system (GC-MS). The structure of 52 compounds was proposed. Analyzed Mimosa pudica species showed the presence of 1, 3, 5 cycloheptatriene – 4-pentenal, 2-methyl, 1-propene, 1-Butanol, 3-methyl-acetate, vanillin tyrosine, Acetic acid, Cyclopentanol, Phytol etc. other major and minor constituents were also present.