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Marine macroalgae (seaweeds) are renewable resources of our Earth and make a substantial contribution to marine biodiversity. Seaweeds are presently considered as the plant-based and alternative form of food, due to the presence of nutrients including carbohydrates, protein, vitamins, and minerals as well as a rich source of health-promoting compounds to control or cure the wide spectrum of disorders and diseases. About 11, 000 species of seaweeds have been reported worldwide. Among them, ca 221 of seaweed is cost-effectively important and utilized in the various broad field of science. In India, a total of 865 species of seaweeds, belonging to 234 genera were reported so far from the various coastal states. In respect of this, the current study endeavoured to itemize the presence of therapeutically and economically significant seaweeds from the coastline of Andhra Pradesh. Andhra Pradesh contains the second-largest coastline (ca 973Km) among the states of India, next to Gujarat. It comprises various kinds of rocky bodies, which may perform as the suitable substratum for the enormous diversity of marine macroalgae. The rocky bodies stretched from Visakhapatnam to the Srikakulam districts. A total number of 112 stations were selected to furnish the inventory of marine macroalgae between March 2017 and August 2019. Based on the perusal of literature collection, a total of 58 species found to be the monetary potential with bioprospecting capability and being used for biological activities including antibacterial antiviral, antifungal anticoagulant antitumor, anti-inflammatory, etc. Further, the present study reviews and enumerates the consumption and utilization of seaweeds correlation with their aspects on the nutritional range, economic, and biological values.

The present study is based on an empirical survey of 150 self help groups in the 4 districts of north Karnataka region covering 400 members (100 members from each district) with a focus on two major aspects of the (SHG) covered by the study viz., motivational factors and purpose for joining the SHG and the financial assistance to members by the SHG and their utilization. The major purposes for which the selected members joined their respective SHGs included financial security, enhancing their social status, increasing self esteem, attaining power and increasing family business/trade. Responses of the members are almost indicative of all these socio-economic purposes. Major motivational sources for joining the SHG included own decision, friends, relatives, caste leaders, panchayat chairman / members, Anganwadi teachers, NGOs, bank officials and others. The study revealed that ‘own decision’ and ‘friends’ were the major sources of motivation for joining the SHGs. The area of assistance needed by SHG members have been wide ranging including using own and bank finances for loan advancing to members, providing raw materials, ensuring supply of electricity through Karnataka Electricity Board(KEB), arranging training, providing marketing information ,technical assistance etc. Large number of respondent members of SHGs have obtained bank loan through SHGs. Major Purposes of obtaining loan related to dairy business and agriculture. The overall results of the survey indicated a positive impact in membership of SHG on the respondents’ socio economic status as a result of their membership and involvement in SHGs.

In this paper, we apply our generalized theorem on summability to derive some approximation formulae of the series involving quadruple hypergeometric function K12. This work may be useful in the field for computation of the solution of hydrodynamical problems. 2000 AMS Classification: 32A05, 33C47, 33C70, 33C90, 40A05, 40A25, 40D05.

This study is aimed at investigating the differential amount of importance which materials developers should attach to semi-technical, technical, and core vocabulary in ESP books. To do so, two major authentic introductory books prepared for the students of political science have been examined carefully in terms of their proportion of semi-technical, technical and core vocabulary. In order to examine the utility of books currently taught in the Iranian universities, two preparatory ESP books developed for the Persian students of political science were, also, scrutinized in terms of their proportion of semi-technical, technical, and core vocabulary. Put in another way, an attempt was made to investigate the degree of representativeness of ESP books in terms of the abovementioned types of vocabulary. After the word counts the authentic and ESP books were compared with each other. Results showed that the 40,000 words counted in the two authentic books were comprised of: 63% core vocabulary, 22% semi-technical vocabulary, and 15% technical vocabulary. The 40,000 words counted in the two preparatory ESP books were comprised of 56% core vocabulary, 33% semi-technical vocabulary, and 11% technical vocabulary. Results obtained from the frequency counts in this study lend support to the idea that technical vocabulary by virtue of its small proportion should not assume much import— if not ignored in its entirety. Notwithstanding, materials developers are suggested to place a higher priority on semi-technical, as this type of vocabulary is more frequent and variable.

Background: Uncontrolled diabetes is a major health problem with more than million of death occurs due to opportunistic fungal infection annually. The risk of opportunistic infections increases with high sugar level in diabetic patients causes high morbidity and mortality. These fungal infection increases with geographical location, which varies from region to region. This research was carried out to view the occurrence of fungal infections among diabetes patients in central Nepal. Methods: this is a tertiary care centre based descriptive study carried out in the Department of Microbiology, CMS-TH, Bharatpur, Nepal over a period of two year from (January 2018 to December 2020). A total of 300 clinically fungal infection suspected uncontrolled diabetes samples were enrolled for our study. Informed written consent was taken from individual patients for the research. Fungal isolation and identification was done as per standard Microbiological procedure. Result: Out of 300 clinically suspected opportunistic fungal infection in diabetes patients only showed 60 patients fungal culture positive, giving an incidence of (20.0%). The majority of infections were by saprophytic fungal species of Candida 37(61.7%) followed by Aspergillus 9(15.0%), Cryptococcus 5(8.3%) and Mucor 3(5.0%) in that order. Only 2(3.3%) Trichosporon and Fusarium each; and 1(1.7%) Pseudoallescheria boydii were also isolated from skin and soft tissue infections of diabetes patients. One 1(1.7%) dematiaceous unidentified fungus was also identified. Conclusion: The opportunistic fungi mostly isolated from diabetes patients were Candida, Aspergillus, Cryptococcus and Mucor species. Trichosporon, Fusarium; and Pseudoallescheria boydii were least isolated from different clinical samples. 

In recent times the production sectors (PS) have started to concentrate not only on product production but also on an additional perspective that is research and product analysis in multidimensional aspects. The PS before commencing the production process have now started to find the ways and means of enhancing the product’s features and also they have began to analyze the propagation extent of the product that is the level of the reach of the product. The main notion of carrying out such activities is to produce novelty products. To achieve this PS seek the assistance of many consultancies or they establish research centre in their production environment. Conventional Inventory models do not satisfy the present needs of PS therefore inventive inventory model considering associated costs of research and product analysis have to be formulated. To fulfill this, inventory model is formulated with Decagonal Fuzzy Numbers to overcome the existing uncertainty. In this paper a new approach of Pascal’s Triangle Graded mean Approach is used for Decagonal Fuzzy number. Also Decagonal fuzzy number gives a better optimal value than all other types of fuzzy number.

This paper proposed the Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) type multiple stabilizers to damp inter-area and intra-area low frequency oscillations in power system utility. To improve power system stability, optimal tuning of the PID type stabilizer gains and non-smooth nonlinear parameters is importance and a challenging task to accommodate variations in the power system dynamics, mainly when multiple PSSs are applied. Because, it is a computationally expensive combinational and nonlinear optimization problem. In this paper, Elitist Gravitational Search Algorithm (EGSA) is proposed to optimize multiple PID type PSSs gains tuning problem, simultaneously in order to reduce stabilizer design effort and find the best possible solution. The EGSA is a novel meta-heuristic stochastic optimization algorithm and simulates the masses cooperate using a direct form of communication through gravitational force to find the best possible solution within a reasonable computation time. It provides both global and local search by changing the velocities over time to determine distance and direction of agents (masses) for significant increasing the probability of finding the optimal solution and efficiently avoiding local optimum to a large extent. To optimize of multiple PSSs gains a nonlinear time domain-based objective function under various operating conditions is considered. It is solved using EGSA technique that has strong and robust search capability than the other heuristic optimization algorithm, as well as is being easy to implement. The effectiveness of the proposed EGSA based stabilizers is investigated on a two-area four machine power system through the nonlinear time domain simulation and some performance indices under different operation condition and system configurations. The performance of the proposed stabilizer is compared with those of standard Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) and PSO with time variant acceleration coefficients based designed PSSs to illustrate its robustness and damping quality. The results analysis reveals that the EGSA based tuned PID type PSS is effective and achieves good low frequency oscillations damping capability. Moreover, it is superior that of the PSO method in terms of accuracy, convergence and computational effort.

In Indian context, culture, traditions, customs and taboos influenced meat consumption to a great extent especially in rural societies. The cultural differences within a state and between states are also accountable for variations in meat consumption patterns. A study was performed to ascertain the preference of consumers towards the meat purchasing locations among rural, semi-urban and urban households in Karnataka with sample size of 90 meat eating respondents and 30 non-meat eating responds. The Garrett’s ranking technique was adopted for the present study. The results showed that the respondents of rural and semi-urban area had better opportunity to purchase meat at retail shops whereas the respondents of urban area had opportunity to purchase meat at supermarkets due to their living conditions, standard life style and work nature.

RTS beverages were prepared using fermented carrot juice and sweet lime. Carrots were fermented with Streptococcus lactis and Lactobacillus plantarum at ambient temperatures with 2 percent bacteria and 2.5 percent salt for 24-48 hours. Juice of the fermented carrots was combined with sweet lime juice in 50:50 (V1 and V4), 75:25 (V2 and V5) and 25:75 (V3 and V6) ratios. The beverages were prepared as per FPO specifications and organoleptically evaluated. The TSS value of RTS beverages ranged between 140B to 210B. There was no microbial growth in RTS beverages prepared with fermented carrots up to 30 days of storage. The increase in microbial load after 45 days of storage was negligible and safe for consumption; however the increase was substantial in the standard.

Osthol, 7-methoxy-8-(3-methylbut-2-enyl) coumarin, was isolated from the root parts of Prangos pabularia and was subjected to modification in the isopentenyl side chain to get an aldehyde 2- Methyl-4-(7-methoxy-2-oxo-2H-chromen-8-yl)-but-2-en-1-al (1). The structures of osthol and compound 1 were elucidated on the basis of MS, IR, 1H and 13C-NMR spectroscopy. Compound 1 on bio-evaluation displayed significant antimicrobial and antifungal activity.