Archives-September 2016

Azolla is very known biofertilizer for rice cultivation it can enrich soil N2 content and for the soil fertility. In view of this, an invitro study was carried out on morphometric studies on Anabaena azollae present in two species of Azolla fern (A.microphylla, and A. fulicolides). The selected Azolla species were grown in standard medium prepared with garden soil, cow dung, super phosphate and its combinations in separate containers. The matured Azolla cultures were observed for its growth profile viz. number of leaflets per plant and fresh & dry weight of whole plant on 15d and 21d. Followed by, the morphometric study on symbiotic cyanobacteria present in the leaf cavities of two species of Azolla was determined through observing average number of cyanobaterial filament in the leaf cavity of azolla, length of each cyanobacterial filament, number of vegetative cells and number & position of heterocyst in each cyanobacterial filament.

Brinjal (Solanum melongena L.) is an important solanaceous crop of tropics and sub tropics. An extensive survey of brinjal growers was carried to know the constraints in brinjal cultivation. The lack of suitable HYVs, technical knowhow, quality irrigation water and plant protection was the four most important factors which were found to be responsible for low productivity. To fulfil this gap a FLD (front line demonstrations) was designed during 2012-2013 on Brinjal cv. Gujarat Hybrid Brinjal-1 at ten selected farmer’s field. The main objective of FLD was to popularize good agriculture practices (GAP) among the farmers. The yield of Brinjal cv. GHB-1 was recorded 270.80q/ha from demonstration plots as compared to local check (195.50qt/ha). The percentage increase in yield over local check was demonstrated in variety GHB-1 (38.51). The highest gross return, net return and cost benefit ratio were recorded Rs. 1, 02,300 /ha, Rs. 60,100/ha and 2.42 as compared to local check respectively. The “mean knowledge score” of farmers was increased significantly by 32.42% after implementation of frontline demonstrations.

Many advance colorimetric analytical techniques or methods are available to estimate/determine environmental pollutants like selenium, vanadium, thallium, iodine, sulphur dioxide, pentachlorophenol, carbon tetrachloride, mercury. Many researchers opined to make use of automatic or continuous air monitoring station. Central Pollution Control Board established many CAAQMS in all over India, but for operation of these stations is generally required skilled persons as well as a huge amount is required to install CAAQMS. According to CPCB the installation of CAAQMS approximately 1.1 crore rupees and 8 lakh rupees for operation and maintenance annually was met. Low cost method for estimation of sulphur dioxide (SO2) is being used right now in manual monitoring stations in India. The study applies the feasibility of the alternative low cost method; Rhodamine-B has been used as a simple and sensitive colorimetric reagent for the estimation of sulphur dioxide. The results have significantly indicated that the use of NCS method for the alternative to TCM method could able to save around 3.54 crores rupees per year from proposed 1352 manual Air monitoring stations in India.

This study analyses the effect of media exposure and perceived bias on performance rating of the Modi government that was elected in 2014 in India. A sample of Coimbatoreans (N = 210) was chosen for the survey. Results showed that media exposure had a positive and direct effect on performance rating, while bias had a significant but negative effect. Such perceived media bias also had an ability to alter the political affiliation of the people, which in turn affected the performance rating, positively. Political participation of the people also exerted a direct effect on public perception about media bias towards the ruling Modi government.

Ductus Caroticus, the embryonic dorsal aorta between points of junction with the third and fourth branchial arch arteries normally disappears in early embryonic life. If persist, it forms a thin strand of tissue without lumen, called a “ligamentum caroticum” or a short communicating vessel with lumen, a ductus, as a fair-sized artery, called the “arteria muscularis cervicis”. In anomalous condition, it persisted as a wide open vessel, between the third and fourth branchial arch arteries and it is treated as “Clinical significant anomalies” in the branchial arch arteries. The present study aimed to through insight knowledge about this unusual variant.

Heavy metal copper is the third most widely used metal in industries next to aluminium and iron. It finds its use in various industries like electroplating industries, battery manufacture, smelting, ship building, electrical transmission, construction of transportation vehicles, construction industry etc. The permissible limit of copper in water for human consumption as per World Health Organisation (WHO) is 0.05 to 1 mg/lit. Beyond this limit, the presence of Cu (II) ions is carcinogenic and toxic to human health. Therefore, there is a need to remove copper from waste effluents before allowing it to enter into any water body. The present study deals with the removal of copper by adsorption on neem leaves (Azadirachta indica) in batch experiment, by low-cost and high-capacity removal of Cu(II) ions from wastewaters. The influence of contact time, adsorbent dosage, effect of pH of solution and temperature effect were studied. Adsorption mechanism is found to follow the ‘Freundlich’ adsorption isotherm, indicating a multi layer adsorption process. Percentage removal of Cu (II) ions is found to be 88.516% at pH 3 for 0.1gm of Neem Leaf powder (NLP) dosage. The results obtained from this study shows that Neem leaf powder is an effective and economical adsorbent for copper removal from industrial wastewater.

Social and physical status of a woman is always considered as very important factor for affecting the fertility. And it becomes more important when we talk about developing countries like India. Our study consists of fertility influenced by women status in EAG states of India.In consideration of that study we use the weighted data of EAG states reported in NFHS-III (2005-06). In that perspective we have approximately 54000 sampling units in which approx. 45000 females are considered as not pregnant and not in amenorrhea. For this we take women population in between age group 15-49 years. A multivariate model was fitted for living children for different socio-demographic variables taken as influencing factors. For background characters we consider 8 different variables on basis of socio- demographic status norms. There is significant association in between contraception use to the living children in light of background characters controlling. Within the range of 95 percent confidence interval the odds ratio for education and living children for those who ever used any contraception is 1.77 (1.71-1.82)and 6.65 (6.39-6.95) respectively. By which we can define a significant association between ever using contraception to education and living children based on women’s socio-demographic status. This implies that if the strength of status of women make uplift then fertility condition will be better in population

All living beings so made that we cannot live in isolation of our environment, our body are made up of all elements available in environment. And any disturbance in purity of environmental component can makes the hazard in our lives. It has posed a great problem to the existence of humans, plant, animal and other form of life on the earth although the prime support for the survival of human being is environment. The process of and side effect of environmental degradation may seems very slow which may not give effect in our life time but will make life of our own next generation miserable. Therefore now there is a need to increase awareness and understanding of the environmental along with responsible attitude toward the sustainable management of environment and natural resources of planet earth. The present study has delimited to study the level of environmental awareness regarding environmental components, services, pollution etc. among the rural and urban respondent of one of the district of Tamilnadu, India. Keywords: Environmental awareness, environmental components, services, pollution, rural and urban.

Our research indicates that mostly violence occurs due to negligence and people not getting equal rights. In today’s Organizational society we can observe that also the political leaders motivate the people to do violence. we collect data through questionnaire. We are using the inquiry mode of research in which we use the qualitative approach. That approach provides us with the primary data through questionnaires. The data source is basically the students and employees who are doing internships and already serving at different organizational levels that related to the manufacturing sector and also from the young generation aging between 19 – 35 years who are job less or in search of it. The sampling technique we are using is the proportionate stratified sampling. Our studies show that people are violent for getting equal rights. Three common reasons for violence: to resolve the problem of getting rights, to react against the discrimination and to get justice or to take revenge. Self-defense is also the factor which can arouse the violence .Research shows that a powerful person always do violence because of force and power they have and they shows that they will do such things which they want and according to desire. In order to address these issues in an effective way, we must first recognize that violence and abuse are human problems. This research shows that the violence may occur due to illiteracy also. Education creates a sense of humbleness and polite behavior. When a person has no education they behave desperately, will not bear other people mistakes. Education plays a vital role in reshaping the personality. So the research which we conducted shows that education has major effects on the occurrence of violence. One main factor which also cause of violence is that there is no unity in the Organizational society .Organizational society is divided even on the little things so we need to reunite if we want peace in the Organizational society.

The paper unveils that conversations among the students were characterized by complex exchange of statement of facts, or ideas which often conveyed via the device of declarative. Also, the participants engaged in requests, commands, exclamations and questions. These clause types convey the speakers’ mood using the modal verbs. Modal verbs were used to assess speakers’ attitude towards their propositions. The data for the paper was gotten from live debates produced by Sri Lankan secondary school students. The speeches were taped and transcribed into written variants so as to analyze it. English modals are so complex as they posed difficulty in their comprehension especially to English as a second/foreign language speakers. The polyfunctionality of modal markers seemed to be motivated by the Sri Lankan secondary school students’ discourse community norms, conventions, goals and the grammar of English which were strategized by the speakers’ communicative styles. The participants demonstrated their linguistic proficiencies through mechanisms of unassertiveness, and persuasion so as to avoid total commitments to a particular point of view which they expressed. Overwhelmingly, the paper revealed that declarative clause was utilized.