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We are very happy to announce that from 6th November 2017, Dr. Preeti Nilesh Surkutwar has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Management. Dr. Preeti Nilesh Surkutwar working as Assistant Professor, Sinhgad Institute of Management and Computer Application, India. The appointment of Dr. Preeti Nilesh Surkutwar 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.

We are very happy to announce that from 9th June 2018, Dr. S. Kalaiselvan has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Chemistry. Dr. S. Kalaiselvan working as Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry, SNS College of Technology, Coimbatore, India. The appointment of Dr S.Kalaiselvan 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.

We are very happy to announce that from 14th April 2017, Dr. S.K. Manju bargavi has joined the team of Elixir Editorial Advisory Board. He/She will carry a special responsibility for dealing with manuscripts based on Computer Science. Dr. S.K. Manju bargavi working as a Senior Lecturer & Research in Department of Computer Science, Eritrea Institute of Technology, Asmara, North East Africa. The appointment of Dr. S.K. Manju bargavi as member Editorial Advisory Board strengthens the links and will make it easier for prospective authors to establish contact with the journal.

Feed restriction is one of the methods used in commercial treatment in poultry breeding industry to reduce the cost of production. This study was carried out to examine the effect of feed restriction on growth performance characteristics of broiler chickens. A total of sixty Anak broiler chicks were used. The birds were allotted into four dietary treatments in a Completely Randomized Design (CRD). Each treatment was replicated three times with five birds per replicate. The dietary treatments were identified as T1, T2, T3 (which was commercial diet from Vital feed industry) and T4. The study lasted for a period of 8 weeks which includes 2 weeks of acclimatization prior to the starting of experiment. Birds on T1 were on ad libitum feeding throughout the experimental period, T2 were on 70% ad libitum for the first 21 days followed by ad libitum feeding for the last 21 days, T3 were on 70% ad libitum throughout the experimental period and T4 were on 70% of commercial diet + 30% sun-dried maize sievette throughout the experimental period. Analysis of data showed that the final body weight of T1 and T4 were significantly difference among other treatments (p<0.05). Feed intake values of T1 and T4 were significantly (p<0.05) higher than T2 and T3. Feed efficiency did not differ between treatments. Result on carcass quality revealed that there was a significant difference between the slaughtered weight of T1 and other treatments. But similarities existed between T2 and T4. No significant differences were found between T1, T2 and T4 for the breast, drum stick/thigh, wing and gizzard weight but T3 remains the lowest among the treatments. From the result, birds on T1 had the highest feed intake followed by T4, T2 and T3. T3 had the least net return. Based on this experiment, T4 was found to be of more economic value.

The aim of this paper is to determine the effect of salinity on the growth of some previously known petroleum biodegrading Bacillus sp. under laboratory condition where petroleum hydrocarbons are the sole source of carbon.Bushnell-Hass (BH)mineral salt media consisting of different NaCl concentrations (0.0 to 0.4 mole/liter or ML^-1) were prepared and supplemented with 2% kerosene/diesel/engine. The media were then inoculated with the bacteria namely Bacillus pasteurii, B. badius, B. cirroflagellosus, B. circulans and B. brevisindividually. After 7 days of incubation, bacterial growth was determined by measuring the optical density (OD) of the media at 620 nm. We found that salinity has a great impact on the growth of the bacteria under investigation. A NaCl concentration ranging from 0.05 to 0.3 ML^-1was found to have a positive impact on the growth all 5 Bacillus sp.NaCl concentrations below and above the said range were found to be growth limiting.Interestingly our findings indicate that the maximum growth of a bacterium depends not only on the optimum salinity level but also on the type of petroleum hydrocarbons provided.The findings of this study are important for understanding the impact of salinity on the biodegradation process of petroleum hydrocarbons and to develop optimized application approaches to sweep such pollutants from contaminated sites.

One of the progress important channels in organization productivity improving is. Human resource productivity, the driving force of progress and development organization. This study is to explain some of the ways to improve productivity, the institutional methodology is used, and emphasized that the path to improved productivity, the institutional reform passes. Institutionalism view that, based on the belief that these institutions are, the worldview of people to determine, therefore, ideals and goals of each individual, strongly influenced by institutions that influences the direct and their indirect , has grown. The study acknowledges that a number of factors, the productivity of human resources effective, the main efficient institutions, to improve productivity, the reform of the institutions are: The educational institution: as a way to solve nodes work, the reward: to motivate to do useful work, and the generator and regulations: as an official body may, construction and improvement work in other institutions, to formally recognize forgive documented.

In the present study we have evaluated effect of different plant diets on the amount of food consumption, absorbed, converted and metabolized in the fresh water fish Cyprinus carpio. We discussed the feeding rate, absorption rate, conversion rate and metabolic rate of fished when they consumed different foods, and the absorption and conversion efficiency were observed. The maximum absorption efficiency was observed in the potato fed fish and the minimum was observed in the radish fed fish. But maximum conversion efficiency was noticed in cabbage.

Culture is a complex issue that essentially includes all of a group’s shared values, attitudes, beliefs, assumptions, artifacts, and behaviors. Culture is broad — encompassing all aspects of its internal and external relationships—and culture is deep in that it guides individual actions even to the extent that members are not even aware they are influenced by it. Scholars tend to agree that the root of any organization’s culture is grounded in a rich set of assumptions about the nature of the world and human relationships. This study sought to establish the effect of organizational culture in the performance of the County Government of Taita Taveta. The research design which was employed is a descriptive one involving a cross sectional survey. The target population was 1,513 staff of the County Government. The sampling technique to be used will be stratified random sampling. Also, Primary data collection will be used and the data collection instrument to be utilized will be a structured questionnaire. The sample size will be 384 employees across the cadres of the County Government. The data will be interpreted, analyzed using standard deviation and the linear regression analysis model and then presented using tables, charts and graphs.

The study was guided by the following specific objectives: the effects of customer focus, top management commitment, people management and process management on the performance of construction projects. The descriptive research design was used in the study. The study was carried out in Kiambu County. Questionnaires were used as the tools of data collection. Questionnaires were used to collect data from the employees of the construction firms. Quantitative data was analyzed using descriptive statistics which entailed use of frequencies and percentages. Inferential statistics where the researcher employed Chi-square and The Spearman Rank Order tests were used. The study found out that; most of the respondents were of the view that their organizations placed a major emphasis on communication and training processes with a view of enhancing customer focus. The top management was fairly evaluated on quality performance. The capacity of their project teams in terms of periodic training needs assessment to ensure sustainable construction projects performance. The organizations had put in place fair mechanisms to ensure that the team members fully comprehended the business processes within the organizations. The study recommended that: the construction companies should seek to place greater emphasis on customer focus. This is by way of always aligning their quality management practices and ethos on the clients’ needs with a view of seeking to ensure maximum satisfaction and repeat buying. The top management in the construction industry should seek to always lead by example and from the front in seeking to enforce quality standards.

The Interacting Boson Model is applied to the even isotopes . Excitation energies, electromagnetic transition strengths, quadrupole and magnetic dipole moments, and ?(E2/M1) multipole mixing ratios, monopole transitions and mixed symmetry states have been described systematically. It is seen that the properties of low-lying levels in these isotopes, for which the comparison between experiment and IBM-2 calculations is possible, can be satisfactorily characterized by the Interacting Boson Model-2.