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In this paper an attempt has been made to study the efficiency of randomized block designs with two missing values. Consequently, we have obtained explicit expressions for the variances of the elementary treatment contrasts, average variance and the loss of efficiency in randomized block designs due to two missing values. Further we have also tabulated the loss of efficiency for various values of and where are respectively representing the number of treatments and the number of blocks in the randomized block designs.

The most important principle in public participation activities, capacity and mobilization of local communities through social structuring and new organization of people accepted by rural communities. Carbon sequestration project strategy based on a bottom-up planning and that executive strategies based on three principles of development needs, environmental issues and socio-economy issues has been reclamation and participatory management of natural resources. The research aimed to measurement Beneficiaries tendency of watershed in Gurpan area than participation in international carbon sequestration project and it factors affecting implementation in the area. The required data were collected with using a questionnaire. Statistical community consisted of 2335 person and sample size is 330 person which obtained by simple random sampling method. The dependent variable of this research, Persons tendency to participate in implementation of carbon sequestration project and the independent variable of individual, agricultural, economic, social ,educational and extension characteristics of persons and persons knowledge, persons attitude, and persons tendency to participate in the project. For reliability of the questionnaire used the comments of professors and experts. And its validity was assessed by Cronbach's alpha test. To express descriptive characteristics factors, were used descriptive statistics of frequency, percentage, mean and standard deviation according to the measurement scale. The results showed that the respondents' knowledge of the project is moderate, attitude in the upper and positive, and tendency to participate in the project and tendency to the formation of rural development groups is moderate. In general, the tendency of people to participate in this project was moderate to high. Whatever the more knowledge of persons about the project, tendency of persons are more positive, and therefore will be more tendency to participate in the project.

Originally developed as an antibiotic Minocycline has shown a variety of aspects that makes Minocycline a versatile molecule with diversified roles. Beside an antibiotic it has proven to be beneficial in different disorders and the potential of Minocycline to attenuate the severity of disease like stroke, cerebral ischemia, multiple sclerosis, spinal-cord injury, Parkinson’s disease, epeilepsy, traumatic brain injury, Huntington’s disease, and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and Alzheimer’s disease makes it a centre of fascination in research circles. Despite progress in understanding the pathogenesis of several neurological disorders, our knowledge of the mechanisms leading to neuronal cell loss, glial dysfunction, and vascular remodeling is incomplete. In this review, we describe the evidences and various mechanisms which may be responsible for the efficacy of Minocycline in several neurological disorders and introduce the emerging investigation of minocycline in clinical neurology. The encouraging results of minocycline in experimental neurology make it a potential therapeutic target in human neurological diseas

Bullwhip effect is a phenomenon of increase in variation of demand as one move up the supply chain. Bullwhip effect has adverse effects on the sustainable growth of the industries. Bullwhip effect is very predominant in case of seasonal products. In this paper author has identified the major factors that affects the Bullwhip effect, and has derived a Multi-level model of these factors, on the basis of their contextual relationship, using Interpretive Structural Modelling (ISM) technique.

The objective of this paper is to explore the role networking play in making small scale business activities more sustainable. Using a sample of 320 women small scale business operators from the Mfantsiman district of Ghana, the study adopts the multinomial logit as well as ordinary least square (OLS) estimation techniques to determine the effects of number of network on start-up capital and credit amount. The central focus of the paper is to discuss the role of networking in making women more innovative in sourcing for start-up and top-up capital for business activities. The paper establishes that belonging to more than three networks significantly reduces the quantum of credit that women business operators can access thus it is one network that significantly determines credit size for business expansion but at the start –up stage, more networks is vital in sourcing for start-up capital from other sources. The paper recommends that networking should be used by women not only at the start-up stage but also the later stages when financing needs becomes more crucial for business expansion, it is important for women to stay with an established network. Besides networking, the paper offers recommendations on ‘flexible’ repayment schedule as a way of increasing credit duration for greater access to loans. The paper offers policy recommendations to assist in building stronger entrepreneurial network in order to ensure sustainable entrepreneurship.

In this paper, quasi T-flat, the xi T- flat, and phi T-flat trans-Sasakian manifolds are studied. It is proved that quasi T-flat, the xi T- flat, and phi T-flat trans-Sasakian manifolds are Einstein under the condition

The partial substitution of the ureter using a pediculated double short segments of the ileum is a technique used to re-establish ureteral transit and preserve the renal unit, following the resection of extensive ureteral lesions. Standard surgical procedure for an ileoureteroplasty consists of isolating an ileal duct of equal or greater length than the ureteral defect and interposing it in the urinary tract in an isoperistaltic direction.Monti described a surgical technique that allows for the creation of catheterizable stomas in continent urinary diversions, using the Mitrofanoff principle. These passageways were created from one or several 2.5 cm long ileal sections by means of their detubulization and transverse retubulization.

Evidence from literature suggests that despite the fact that women are key players in entrepreneurial activities and make significant contributions in the economic development of many nations around the world, non-availability of long-term finance and long procedures to access financial help have been identified as major constraints faced by women entrepreneurs. Cooperatives societies has been identified as veritable instruments which provide business finance for the growth and development of women enterprises .Therefore this study evaluated the impact of cooperative societies on the performance of women entrepreneurs in Lagos State, Nigeria. Data were sought through structured questionnaires and analysed using tables, frequencies, percentages, charts while chi square was used to test the study hypothesis. The findings of the study revealed that though cooperatives are accessible to majority of the women entrepreneurs, the amount of loans obtainable from cooperatives were inadequate for the entrepreneurs. Furthermore, the chi square analysis showed that the ?2_ calculated value of 61.26 is greater than the ?2_ critical value of 13.28 at 0.01level of significance, implying that cooperative societies have significant effect on entrepreneurs. Therefore it is recommended that the federal government should consider developing policies that will create an enabling environment for the development and proper operation of cooperative thrift and credit societies and other group initiatives and the management of cooperative societies should be helped to have a new business orientation and also encouraged to attend and benefit from seminars, adult education and literacy programs.

Digital image processing is now increasingly being used in electron accelerators to characterize electron beam. Measurement of electron beam parameters like beam size, beam centroid with high accuracy is required to optimize accelerator performance. Measurement accuracy of these parameters using digital image processing is limited by the noise present in the images. Reduction of noise without altering the features present in the image is a desired goal of image processing. In this paper we evaluate the noise reduction capability of median, mean, gaussian and wiener filters from digital images of electron beam image. The images were collected from Transport Line-1 in Indus Accelerator Complex at Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT), Indore, India. We also evaluate the effect of these filters on the measurement accuracy of beam parameters like beam size and beam centroid. It has been observed that performance of median filter for noise reduction is better than mean, gaussian and wiener filter. Median filter also creates less distortion in beam size and centroid of the beam in comparison with other filters.

The present work deals with the results of experimental investigations on steel fiber reinforced self compacting concrete. Effects of these fibers on various strengths of concrete were studied with varied fiber content from 0.5 to 3% at a specific interval with weight of cement. Strengths considered for investigation were compressive strength, flexural strength, split tensile and bond strength and tests on fresh concrete were also conducted. Ductility of concrete is found to increase in the fiber reinforced self compacting concrete as observed from the load deflection study. The Poisson’s ratio is found to vary within the specified limits with static modulus of concrete relation between flexural shear strength and all other strengths are developed. A comparison result of steel fiber reinforced self compacting concrete and that of normal self compacting concrete shows the significant improvement in the results of various strengths.