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The objective of this study was to determine the effect of Aspergillus niger (A. niger) degraded citrus pulp on the performance, nutrient utilization, haematological and serum biochemistry on layers. A total of two hundred and fifty two (252) laying birds that were thirty (30) weeks old were randomly allocated to the diets. Degraded and undegraded citrus pulps were used to formulate rations for laying birds for six weeks. There were seven treatments and treatment 1 was the control with 0% citrus pulp (CTP) inclusion level. The degraded and the undegraded CTP were used at 3, 5 and 7% inclusion levels. Thirty six birds were allocated to each of the diets with three (3) replicates at 12 birds each. A. niger mycelium was inoculated on milled citrus pulp by solid state fermentation method (SSF) for seven (7) days and the product was used as the degraded sample. The crude protein, gross energy, NFE and ash of the degraded citrus pulp rose from 14.10 to 16.14%, 2.88 to 3.79 Kcal/kg, 58.21to 61.31% and 4.61 to 5.11% respectively while the crude fibre content reduced from 8.15 to 6.41%. Result on performance of birds revealed that there were significant (P<0.05) differences in egg production and feed intake. The highest egg production (89%) was recorded by the birds placed on 7% inclusion level of degraded citrus pulp (DCTP) while the least value (84%) was found in birds placed on birds fed 7% undegraded CTP (UCTP). The highest feed consumption (4.8 kg/bird/week) was found in treatment with highest level of UCTP (7%). In egg quality parameter, it was observed that there were significant (P>0.05) differences in weight of egg, weight of yolk, albumen and shell thickness. In the haematological and serum biochemistry, it was observed that there were significant (P<0.05) differences in parked cell volume, mean corpuscular volume and total protein.

Fourteen accessions of Moringa oleifera Lam. made up of thirteen accessions collected from four geographical regions of Ghana and one from India were propagated and characterised using descriptors of International Plant Germplasm Resource Institute, IPGRI, with slight modifications. Analysis of variance showed significant differences in eighteen agro-morphological traits while similarity was observed in three qualitative morphological traits. General linear modelling analysis grouped the accessions into two distinct clusters based on phenology, vegetative, and pod morphological characteristics. Phenological and pod yield data were found to be reliable markers in distinguishing among the moringa accessions. The results of the characterisation showed the existence of an intra-specific diversity of the fourteen accessions of moringa studied. Cluster analysis based on morphological data revealed one major and one minor cluster with a genetic diversity (dissimilarity) range of 0.483 to 0.997. From principal component (PC) analysis, PC1 and PC2 contributed 55.50% and 23.27% respectively, with total variation of 79.27. However, each accession showed specificity to its regions of collection, and therefore implies these moringa accessions are not mixed up but could be considered as pure breeds.

Phishing is considered a form of web threats that is defined as the art of mimicking a website of an honest enterprise aiming to obtain user’s confidential credentials such as usernames, passwords and social security numbers. Social engineering and technical tricks are commonly combined together in order to start a phishing attack. The phishing attack starts by uploading the post on social network site which contain fraud URL that seems authentic to potential victims advising them to meet site and update or validate their information by following a URL link. The fraud user posts their comment on social network service that contains URL which are malicious. These malicious URL some time it contains malware or virus. When user clicks on these fraud URL Then viruses enter into user system and system gets affected. The proposed system Extraction of feature set for detecting fraud URL using ANN in social networking services effectively detect fraud URL with high accuracy.

This paper traces the colonial perspective in Amitav Ghosh’s The Glass Palace, a historical novel that presents the colonization of Burma and its impact on the royalty as well as the commoners. Post Colonial Literature is a body of literary writing that deals with the problems and consequences of the European colonization of the Middle East, Asia and Africa. The novel deals with the European greed and the cruelty of colonization as it unfolds over a period of hundred years of pre-colonial, colonial and post-colonial Burmese history from the late 19th century to the end of the 20th century. It describes the effortlessness with which the country is captured by the British and the Burmese royalty deported to India and the aftermath of this incident in the lives of people. Through the life of RajKumar, the protagonist of the novel, the author unfolds the poignant accounts of people scattered through post- imperialist dislocation in various parts of the Asian Continent. The natives are presented as victims rather than foes of the colonizers. This paper presents the sordid reality of imperialism and its destructive effect on the social, psychological and ecological aspects of human life. The aspirations and disappointments of the colonized people are also brought forth as they try to ‘figure out their place in the world’

The titanium dioxide powder was prepared on p-type porous silicon by sol-gel process. The morphology of TiO2 sensing film surface was imaged by atomic force microscope (AFM) model AA3000 SPM from Angstrom Advanced Inc. The average roughness of the film surface is 25 nm. The X-ray diffraction (XRD) patterns shows of TiO2nano-particalprepared by the solgel method arepolycrystalline, the anatase phase with the preferential orientation of the crystallites along the [101] direction,at2? =25.253°theresultisinagreementwiththe ASTM Card (PDF 21-1272).The resistance of the TiO2nano-partical sensors reduces with the presence of vapor ethanol.

This article sets out to address the question of what are problems of freshmen in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia(UTM). The study focuses on an involving all freshmen of education faculty in UTM. To satisfy the purpose of this study, Mooney problem check list (MPCL) was used. The results shows that Home and Family problems had the highest rate among this population. In contrast, Health and Physical Development problems had the lowest rate among them. Other categories of problems among the students have been discussed in the study. A few suggestions also have been highlighted in the studies for the future research.

Four stations were recently investigated at Abraka using Vertical Electrical Sounding (VES) for detailed studies for the analysis of the resistivity response of the earth due to buried cables (wires) in the ground. The cable is characterized by specified axial impedance and is assumed to be infinite in length. A configuration of a current point source in an infinite region was considered. The result shows that the metal conductor or cable channels a major portion of the current flow thereby leading to profound departures from the apparent resistivity curves calculated from idealized homogeneous and layered structures. It was observed that it is not advisable to carry out VES survey in an area where there are metallic conditions or pipes since they channel part of the current flow and distort the potential field distribution.

Different media vehicles are used to influence the consumer buying choice and attitude formation. Television is one of the most vital and widely used medium of communication. The present study aims to find out the influence of television advertising on consumer attitude formation and purchase intention particularly in the telecom sector in Odisha. The survey was done to both mobile handset buyers and mobile service buyers with sample 675 and 657 respectively. The data is analyzed through Descriptive Statistics, ANOVA and Post Hoc Tukey test. The result indicated that the more the respondents agreed with the cognitive factors the more is the attitude towards the television advertisement; there is a significant difference between the mean of attitude for different groups of respondents who strongly agree, somewhat agree, neither agree nor disagree, somewhat disagree and strongly disagree with the each of the cognitive factors. The study also revealed that mean of attitude and mean of purchase intention vary for each of the category in the demographic variables.

Writers have long been interested in dealing with the adverse effects of science on the life of the human race. Earlier, the science achievements on various fields of life were looked at positively. However, sci-fi writers, since H. G. Wells' dark pessimistic view of man's future under the control of scientists, robots, or computers altered the general perspective, have been concerned with the undeniable damaging consequences of man's complete reliance on advancement of technology in managing his life. Douglas Adams believed that science should be viewed as dangerous and destructive because it neither ameliorated man's life nor it kept as it is; rather, devastated not only man's achievement throughout history, but also brought all humans' hopes of perfection to a horrible end. The Hitchhiker Guide to the Galaxy is clearly a document that condemns the destructive science that is responsible for the massacres perpetrated in many parts of this world. This paper, therefore, attempts at detecting Adams's views of man's future life, bearing in mind all the radical changes that are still taking place in this life.

Stress?Strain response of sands focusing sand’s shearing stress, angle of shearing resistance, dilatancy and contraction during volumetric changes etc. is of highly research interest due to its application in soil modelling and prediction of soil hazards even in a case of soil liquefaction. In this research paper, grain size and state of compactness (loosest and densest) influence on the stress?strain response of 8 (eight) different and specific sized granular sand grain have been researched by analyzing the results of a digital direct shear test corresponding to a constant strain rate of 0.5 mm / minutes and increasing normal load (5 kg, 10 kg and 15 kg). In a bird’s eye view of the results, shearing stress (irrespective of compaction state) increases only 4 % from smaller to larger grain whereas approximately 30 % increase is discernible in dense grain than that of loose grain (irrespective of grain size). Larger sized grain possesses approximately 1.5 times more angular shear resistance than smaller size but in densest state it is about 2 times more. Authors have opined that, Though both the grain size and state of compactness (loosest and densest) affects the stress?strain response, state of compactness reveals more significant influence. In a dilation?contraction region, a loose grain contracts (18 %) while a dense grain contracts initially (15 %) but finally dilates (21 %) for an increase of size during plastic volumetric deformation of the grain.