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Quail is a robust small bodied and easy to keep the bird. They can adapt to any climatic condition. Therefore the growth performance and carcass characteristics of this bird was determined using One hundred and twenty (120) Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) were raised on a deep litter system. Two experimental diets (starter diet and layer diet) were given to the birds. The average weight and performance characteristics of the birds were determined. Carcass characteristics of selected birds (five males and five females) were slaughtered when the birds reach six (6) weeks of age. According to the results obtained, sex did not have any significant (P>0.05) effect on the performance characteristic. Also, most of the parameters of the carcass characteristic were not influenced (P>0.05) by sex. Age was found to have significant (P<0.05) effect on the performance characteristics. It was discovered that most of the body measurements were good estimators of each other because of the positive phenotypic correlations existing among them. The increment in body weight was found supportive of the haematological parameter.

The two World Wars and the devastation they bring to the Western mind results in a kind of revision or better to say in abandoning the worldviews and ideologies remained for centuries and the consequently in rebuilding of a new system of thought and rationale in all the aspects of man's life. These profound changes do not leave an stone unturned and also manipulate the field of literature and finally affect the field of Drama and produce a unified body of works categorized by Martin Esslin in 1961 under the title of "the Theatre of Absurd". This Study intends to investigate the quality of the Absurdism of such a kind in the plays of the British Playwright Harold Pinter in hope of dealing with the strategies he applies in his crafting; the strategies that are innovative and as used for the first time take the name of Pintersque.

Carbon monoxide poisoning an important cause of accidental injury worldwide, and hazards to health, causes many damages in body system. This study was conducted in Al kamleen area where a lot of red brick factories are located along the Blue Nile river bank in the east of the area. The study aimed to investigate PEF at a high CO concentration area. the study area was divided by two lines parallel to the river bank, 500 meters distance from each other into three zones A, B and C from north to south. Also it was divided from east to west by five imaginary lines to give six squires in each zone. The reading for CO concentration was determined for each square. PEF value determined by using PEF fluemeter across summer and winter. CO in air was found to be significantly higher levels of CO concentration in air were detected throughout the year in all zones. PEF values of study group significantly lower than references data and control group; in winter Mean ± SDwere420.4±88.7 and references 552.0±83.1, a reduction to the references was 63.8%. In summer Mean ± SD were 414.0±86.2 and references were 549.0±85, a reduction to the references was 24.6%. The Mean ± SD of control group were 468.4±77.4.The reduction in PEF for study group in winter as compared to the reference were 10.3% and for summer were 11.5% air CO was significantly exceeds the WHO recommended standards. Lower PEF value in study group in winter and summer were associated to high CO concentration which emitted from red brick kilns in Alkamleen area.

Surface water resources play a crucial role in potable water delivery to many communities in Ghana. They support recreational, agricultural, and industrial water needs. However, several interrelated factors of spatial and temporal variation impact on and control the quality of these water bodies. Due to lack of protection, surface water bodies are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change and anthropogenic activities. This study sought to evaluate the main factors influencing the hydrochemistry of the Pra, Ankobra, and Tano rivers of the south-western rivers system using statistical, spatial, and conventional hydrochemical plots. The results revealed high turbidity and TSS levels in the rivers reaching values of 4645 NTU and 3615 mg/l, respectively. Significant levels of Fe exceeding recommended WHO guideline level was also identified. The main hydrochemical facies in the rivers were Ca-HCO3 (47%) and Mg-HCO3 (44%), with relative abundance of the order Ca > Mg > Na > K for the cations and HCO3 > Cl > SO4 for anions. Precipitation, mineral dissolution in the soil zone, and anthropogenic activities, particularly artisanal mining, were identified as the main factors influencing the quality of these rivers. However, irrigation assessment shows that the rivers are of excellent quality for irrigation.

Graphene zinc oxide composites have been successfully synthesized via a hydrothermal reaction using graphite zinc chloride as starting materials. These prepared composites with different ratios of graphene and zinc oxides were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), Raman and solid UV-Vis spectroscopies, and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA). The TGA analysis reveals that the intercalation of ZnO into graphene layer expands the d – spacing between graphene sheets and reduces the oxidation temperature. The results from XRD, Raman spectroscopy show that composites possess both characteristics of graphene and ZnO, and there is existence of interaction between ZnO and oxygenated functionalities on graphene sheets. In the photocatalytic reaction, the composite containing 10% in mass of ZnO exhibits the highest photocatalytic efficiency of 97.13% after 13 hours exposing to sun light

This paper proposes an image hiding technique that exhibits good quality with higher embedding capacity. In this technique, both secret and cover images are divided into non overlapping blocks. The secret image is embedded into a cover image block by block using Range Normalization Technique. This technique exhibits advantages of high embedding capacity with less computational complexity. Compared with the existing algorithms, the quality of the stego and reconstructed image is found to be good.

The current interest in numerous studies focuses on deliberating the knowledge about entrepreneurship in graduating students around the world. Even the eminent role of education in the field of entrepreneurship redeem with opportunities to gain knowledge, skills and career aspiration needed for business start-up or new venture but somehow Indian education system failed on implementation. The study reveals a significant impact on graduates’ business start-up. In this study, we examine the knowledge of entrepreneurship amongst the graduating student of India. Moreover, a descriptive survey has been provided using the Chi-Square test. Further, data were analyzed with the help of descriptive statistics and logistic regression. In addition to this, testing of hypothesis is also given. Moreover, also recommend the need of role in entrepreneurship from government and tertiary institutions in shaping the strategy to assist students to start their venture while in school and after graduation through the incubator program. Hence, encouragement to aspiration towards business start-up helps in developing society towards self-employment.

Concrete columns confined by single layered stirrup are commonly used for increasing the strength and ductility in seismic areas. Recent experiments have developed hope in the use of double stirrup confinement technique in enhancing the strength and ductility of the columns. In the present study, 12 numbers of double confined concrete square column specimens of high strength concrete, of size 150x150x450 (mm), were cast and tested under uni-axial compression. The columns were reinforced with 6 mm and 10 mm diameter of 500 MPa grade as transverse and longitudinal reinforcements respectively. Varied shapes of inner transverse reinforcement such as square, diamond, circular and spiral with square shaped outer layer stirrup, have been studied. The findings reveal that variation in shapes, contributed to greater compressive strength and better ductility of double layered stirrup confined concrete columns.

Studies were carried out to evaluate the effect of post harvest processing conditions on yield and quality of Curcuma longa (L.) rhizomes infusettes. A material balance was determined for four production processes including or not peeling and blanching. Sliced and dried rhizomes were packaged on tea bags and the products quality was monitored using reference methods. Production yields ranged from 38.39 to 76.87% with higher values obtained from unpeeled and blanched rhizomes. The moisture content varyed from 3.15 to 3.75 % m/m with a significant difference (P< 0.05) between the peeled and blanched samples which got lower values compared to the others. Microbiological analyses revealed that all samples were of satisfactory quality. Phytochemical screening showed that the presence or absence of metabolites was not influenced by these processing conditions. Peel removal caused mass loss of 33% without blanching but the tea bags obtained from this process had higher intensity of yellow-orange color. Peeling, blanching and drying were operations that affect not only the yield but also the quality of Curcuma longa (L.) rhizomes infusettes.

This paper investigates the influence of terrorist activities taking place in Pakistan on KSE (Karachi Stock Exchange) for the period of 01/2005 to 12/2010 using the GARCH & GARCH- EVT to identify the relationship between these two variables, the study establishes that the terrorist activities adversely affect the financial markets and in case of KSE, it is highly significant relation. Reason for the negative relationship exists because of the foremost increase in number of terrorism attacks in Pakistan.