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This study investigates the predicted effects of climatic factors during convenient intervals (in days) on cotton flower and boll production compared with daily observations. Also, covers the statistical relationship between climatic variables and aspects of cotton production and the effects of climatic factors prevailing prior to flowering or subsequent to boll setting on flower and boll production and retention in cotton. Further, cotton flower and boll production as affected by climatic factors and soil moisture status has been considered. Evaporation, sunshine duration, relative humidity, surface soil temperature at 1800 h, and maximum air temperature, are the important climatic factors that significantly affect flower and boll production. The least important variables were found to be surface soil temperature at 0600 h and minimum temperature. The five-day interval was found to be more adequately and sensibly related to yield parameters. Evaporation; minimum humidity and sunshine duration were the most effective climatic factors during preceding and succeeding periods on boll production and retention. There was a negative correlation between flower and boll production and either evaporation or sunshine duration, while that correlation with minimum relative humidity was positive. The soil moisture status showed low and insignificant correlation with flower and boll production. Higher minimum relative humidity, short period of sunshine duration, and low temperatures enhanced flower and boll formation.

We are very happy to announce that from 6th April 2015, Dr. M.J.Jijin has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Extractions and Impactions. Dr. M.J.Jijin currently working as Dental Surgeon, C.H dental care, Malappuram (Dist), Kerala. The appointment of Dr. M.J.Jijin as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. 

We are very happy to announce that from 11th September 2013, Dr.C.Surendra Dilip has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Chemistry. Dr.C.Surendra Dilip is currently working as Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, Anna University, BIT Campus, Tiruchirappalli. The appointment of Dr.C.Surendra Dilip as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal. Please send any expressions of interest to elixirpublishers@gmail.com. Sincerely Editor-in-Chief

The purpose of conservation tillage is to reduce the intensity of tillage operations and increase the amount of crop residue on soil surface. One of the characteristics of soil in arid and semi-arid areas is the lack of organic matter. Crop residue management is one of the soil fertility and improvement methods that is achieved by conservation tillage. Compared to residue burning, maintaining crop residue on or near the soil surface under no-tillage and minimum tillage methods will improve the organic carbon, Soil structure and activity of micro-organisms. Soil organic matter in a temperate and humid area increased by 16% and in a temperate and dry area increased by 10% than conventional tillage systems.

Load balancing using clustering can increase network scalability. This paper attempting to apply efficient techniques of load, energy and security such that network life can be increased with security and also its reliability. Continuous aggregation is required in sensor applications to obtain the temporal variation information of aggregates. It helps the users to understand how the environment changes over time and track real time measurements for trend analysis. Existing secure aggregation schemes conduct one individual verification for each aggregation result. Due to the high frequency and the long period of a continuous aggregation in every epoch, the false temporal variation pattern would incur a great communication cost. In this paper, we propose a clustering technique which will balance the load among the cluster by using some backup nodes. The backup high energy and high processing power nodes replace the cluster head after the cluster reaches to its threshold limit. This approach will increase the network lifetime and will provide high throughput and in the continuous aggregation, the attacker could manipulate a series of aggregation results through compromised nodes to fabricate false temporal variation patterns of the aggregates .We detect and verify a false temporal variations pattern by checking only a small part of aggregation results to reduces a verification cost. A sampling based approach is used to check the aggregation results and we also proposed a security mechanisms to protect the sampling process.

We report the case of Mr. FL aged 60 , former smoking with 15 packs / year weaned ago 30 years, no particular medical history who underwent total cystoprostatectomy bladder tumor infiltrating the muscle 14 years ago enterocystoplasty with it .

The study focuses on the relevance of forensic accounting as a tool on fraud management in Nigeria, and how effective it has been in fraud management so far. Forensic accounting is still although recently flourishing in Nigeria. Notwithstanding, so many public owned organizations have adopted its use, especially because of the level of fraud and corruption in Nigeria. The study applied survey design. For the analysis, data were generated by the administration of questionnaire to some public organizations (both the federal and state) including ministries, departments and agencies of government domiciled in Imo state of Nigeria. The analysis of the data employed the use regression and analysis of ANOVA (Analysis of Variance). The study revealed among other things that the application of forensic accounting is fraud management has not been effective considering the level of fraud and corruption in Nigeria. The empirical studies here also revealed that there is a positive relationship between forensic accounting and fraud. With time, the application of forensic accounting will be so developed in Nigeria as to be more effective and efficient in fraud management. Nawaz (2011) shows that forensic accounting at the moment is playing a very important role in preventing the business entities from indulging in any of the irregularities like the manipulation of the financial statements, the misrepresentation of the annual reposts, as well as the false presentation of profits in order to entice the investors and blanks (Window Dressing or Creative Accounting). Since forensic accounting is new in Nigeria a strong system of internal control is the most effective method of fraud prevention. Key Words; Forensic Accounting, Fraud Management.

Ontologies have become the best modeling tool, in many applications majorly semantic web. Creation of ontology remains as a difficult task. Ontology bootstrapping is one of the technique, depends on a set of pre-defined textual sources like web services. The advantage of web services usually consists of both WSDL and free text descriptors. And these are evaluated by three methods namely TF/IDF, web context generation and the bootstrapping technique. The bootstrapping method using large repository of real-world web services has a drawback of revisiting of the concepts again and again. Our proposed method for ontology creation with an revisiting avoidance algorithm, this algorithm helps us to overcome from revisiting strategies in the bootstrapping ontologies. The introduced algorithm will produce the efficient result as described this is paper.

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