Archives-January 2015

A field experiment was conducted at KVK, Srinagar during two consecutive Kharif seasons to study the “Effect of integrated nutrient management for Soybean (Glycine max L.) under temperate conditions”. The experiment was laid out with 18 treatment combinations viz., three levels of each of recommended doses of inorganic fertilizers (50, 75 and 100% RD) and organic manures (control, FYM 10 t ha-1 and Dalweed 10 t ha-1) and two levels of biofertilizers (control and dual inoculation with Rhizobium + PSB) in randomised complete block design with three replications. The results revealed that grain and straw yield increased significantly with increase in the recommended inorganic levels. Application of FYM @ 10 t ha-1 showed significantly superior results over other organic treatments. Dual inoculation with Rhizobium and PSB showed significantly superior results over no inoculation. Yield attributing characters viz. 100-seed weight and number of nodules showed significant increase with increasing levels of recommended inorganic fertilizers. Application of 75% recommended inorganic fertilizer level showed highest 100-seed weight over other levels. Among organics, FYM (10 t ha-1) was found superior over Dalweed (10 t ha-1) for yield attributes. Oil and lysine content was found superior with application of 75% recommended inorganic fertilizers over other levels, Protien content increased with increasing levels of recommended inorganic fertilizers. Among organics FYM (10 t ha-1) yielded significantly superior results for seed quality than dalweed (10 t ha-1).

The focus of this paper is to explore different types of matrix operations of fuzzy neutrosophic soft sets and composition method to construct the decision making for medical diagnosis.

Asthma is one of the major health problem in the developed countries, 15 million of the affected asthmatics. Hence a study was conducted to determine the breath holding time, forced vital capacity (FVC), and peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) among patients with bronchial asthma. A Qualitative study design was adopted and the study was conducted in Chest OPD, Sri Ramachandra Hospital. The result suggest that Breath holding time may be thought of as being relatively constant inspite of the large standard deviation. Hence the Nurses play an vital role in imparting the knowledge of complementary and alternative therapy ( Yoga etc., ) to them.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the role and the scope of the application of data mining predictive science and medicine in a bid to build, evaluate, and the exploitation of data mining models in this regard. In this study to examine the related works in the field of prediction data mining in medicine, who recently published and is trying to highlight important issues and summarize methods and algorithms applied in the form of a series of training. According to the study of used in this study, in most cases to explore knowledge in the medical data from a combination of such as smart algorithms artificial neural network and the decision in the direction of the optimal - the former methods have been used.

The main objective of this study is to analyze the impacts of organizational changes towards employees’ performance in the banking sector in Malaysia. The factors that will be discussed in this study include communication, leadership, procedural justice, employees’ development and tolerance to change. The location that been selected are Penang and Perak. A sample size of 450 respondents in the questionnaire had been conducted. The questionnaire was design and distributed through randomly sample to employees. The Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) software had been used in order to run the reliability analysis, frequency analysis, explaining the correlation coefficient analysis and test of hypothesized relationships among the dependent variable and the independent variables. As a result, it had been found that communication, procedural justice, employees’ development and tolerance to change has positive significant relationship with employees’ performance. On the other hand, leadership has the negative significant relationship with employees’ performance.

The aim of this study was to determine the amount of input-output energy used in broiler production and to make an economic analysis for broiler production in different sizes of farms in Iran. Data were collected from 70 producers, using face to face questionnaire method in Ardabil province. The surveyed farms were classified into three groups of small (less than 15000bird), medium (15000 to 30000 bird) and large farms (more than 30000 bird). The results indicated the total average energy input and output of 154and 27 GJ (1000bird)-1, respectively. The highest share in energy consumption belonged to fuel (61%) followed by feed (35%) and electricity (3%). Also, the results showed that large farms use the least amount of total energy per 1000bird; while, the highest energy output was obtained from medium farms. The share of direct, indirect, renewable and non-renewable energies was 64.62%, 35.38%, 35.28% and 64.72% respectively. The average energy use ef?ciency and productivity were calculated 0.18 and 0.02 kg MJ-1, respectively. Cost analysis showed that total average cost of production was 3349 $ (1000bird)-1. The bene?t-cost ratio and productivity were 1.09 and 0.77 kg $-1, respectively. Mainly, the large farms had the highest energy ratio (0.21) and benefit to cost ratio (1.11); indicating a better management of energy and input consumptions in these farms.

The normal distribution is a very commonly occurring continuous probability distribution. Normal distributions are extremely important and are used in the natural and sciences related real valued random variables whose distributions are not really known. In this paper the Bivariate Normal distribution is used and the probability density functions for the exponent term q(x,y) are find out. Here Prolactin and Cortisol are considered as bivariate normal and the typical contour for the corresponding quadratic function q(x,y) for the Acupuncture- Prolactin and Cortisol, Control – Prolactin and Cortisol, Prolactin – Acupuncture and Control and Cortisol – Acupuncture and Control cases in the In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer Treatment days is given in the application part. The PDF obtained for the four cases in the In Vitro Fertilization and Embryo Transfer treatment is a part of an ellipse with the positive correlation.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) has only recently been seen as a multi-systemic rather than a respiratory system disease. It is acknowledged that the inflammation which occurs and installs in COPD leads to remodeling of the airway, with consequent impaired pulmonary mechanism and obstructed air flow.

In this study, we used ten medicinal plants (Azima tetracantha Lam. (Salvadoraceae ), Corchorus aestuans Linn.(Tiliaceae), Garcinia mangostana Linn. (Guttiferae), Guazama ulmifolia Lam. (Sterculiaceae), Cardiospermum halicacabumLinn. (Sapindaceae), Pimenta dioica Lindl.(Myrtaceae), Phyla nodifera (L) E.Greene (Verbenaceae), Scoparia dulcis Linn. (Scrophulariaceae), Croton bonplandianus Baillon (Euphorbiaceae), and Clerodendrum inerme Linn. (Verbenaceae) were screened for its potential antibacterial activity against clinically important microbial pathogens like Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus pyogenes, E. coli, Proteus mirabilis, Salmonella typhi, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Klebsiella pneumoniae. The antimicrobial activity was determined in organic (Petroleum ether, Benzene and Chloroform), alcoholic (methanol) and aqueous extracts of these ten medicinal plants. The aqueous extracts showed minimum antimicrobial activity when compared to other extracts. The methanolic extracts of P.dioica showed the maximum activity against Staphylococcus aureus. The present study suggested that these medicinal plants represent may be used to find bioactive compounds from natural products that might lead to the development of new drugs against bacterial diseases.

A novel depicts a wide range of imaginary characters concerning the behaviour of human beings in real life. An individual who takes delight in interpreting novels can gain knowledge and obtain worldly wisdom. Also, since the reader is exposed to several situations, most of them being real-life circumstances, he/she gets an opportunity to acquire and enhance the soft skill sets required for both personal and professional lives. What is resolutely believed by the employers and colleges these days is that a student of technology must possess few most important identities of soft skills which cannot be overlooked, especially the soft skills like communication skills, leadership qualities, time management, interpersonal skills and presentation skills. Offering training in soft skills through children’s literature facilitates the students in putting up their behavioural skills in a superior style.