Archives-September 2020

An organized Banking sector of any country act as a catalyst for the economic development of the country, Indian Banking sector is the most important component of Indian financial system which work on many dimensions for the economic development of the country including mobilization of savings to the Indian financial system through wide network of Branch Banking that leads to availability of funds to investment purposes and capital formation for the developing country like India, where as the performance of Indian banking sector is not up to the mark from more than five years, so the present study aim is to examined the effect of bank’s specific ratios and selected parameters of corporate governance mechanism on Earning per Share (EPS) of selected eight Indian banks. Earnings per share (EPS) has taken as dependent variables to know financial performance of eight selected Indian Banks. Whereas gross nonperforming assets (GNPA) and Dividend Payout Ratio (DPR) were taken as bank specific independent variables, On the other hand board independency (BIND), Frequency of board meeting (FBM) and capital adequacy ratio (CAR) were considered as parameters of corporate governance. The present research using Panel multiple regression techniques to analyze the factors affecting the earning per share (EPS) during the period 2010 – 2019, On the basis of Hausman test the null hypothesis - random effect model is appropriate is rejected due to (p<0.05)and alt hypothesis-fixed effect model was accepted and found appropriate for the model applied for the study. The study revealed the following result¬- Board independency (BIND) is positively related with the earning per share but statistically insignificant but frequency of bard meetings (FBM) and dividend payout ratio (DPR) are positively related with the EPS as well as statistically significant, capital adequacy ratio (CAR) and gross non-performing assets (GNPA) are negatively related with EPS but CAR is insignificant and GNPA is statistically significant. 

The advancements in surgical nephrology in the management of numerous renal pathologies in the form of vascular reconstruction, renal transplants, nephron sparing surgeries, etc and the indispensable use of non invasive MDCT technology in detecting the variations in renal arteries anatomy has validated the study. Assessment of the anatomical variants of bilateral renal arteries in Indian population cohort on MDCT angiography and its clinical implications. 110 subjects were included in the study. The subjects were in the age group of 20 to 50 years. There were 60 (55%) male and 50(45%) female subjects. Normal and variant anatomy of renal arteries was studied using a 40 slice multidetector CT scanner. 76(69%) patients had single renal artery on right side, two renal arteries in 32(29%) patients and three renal arteries in 2(1.8%) patients. On the left side 87(79%) patients have single renal artery, 19(17%) patients have two renal arteries and 4(3.6%) patients have three renal arteries. No correlation with respect to the sex of the subjects was found. Knowledge of the renal artery anatomy is crucial in attaining the precision in renal related surgeries and MDCT renal angiography is the ideal modality of choice as it is not only accurate but also provides a detailed anatomical road map of the vascular anatomy.

Leaf and stem extracts of Catharanthus roseus and Murraya koenigii were taken for the comparison of their corrosion inhibition efficiencies on Aluminium in hydrochloric acid solution. Weight loss and thermometric methods were employed for these investigations. 1M and 2M for weight loss and 1M and 2M concentrations of HCl solutions were taken for thermometric analysis. Inhibitor concentrations were taken 0.1%, 0.3%, 0.5% and 0.7% in these methods. Results show good agreement mutually and illustrate that the corrosion inhibition efficiency of leaf and stem extracts of Catharanthus roseus was more as compared to that of Murraya koenigii. Further, results revealed that corrosion inhibition efficiency increases with the increase in the concentration of the acid as well as those of inhibitors. Maximum efficiency was found for 2M concentration of HCl at 0.7% concentration of leaf extract of the Catharanthus roseus whereas minimum efficiency was found for 1M concentration of HCl at 0.1% concentration of stem extract of the Murraya koenigii.

Induced mutations through physical and chemical mutagens is one of the sophisticated and convenient approach to induce desirable variability in plants compared to the conventional methods. Induced mutagenesis has served an important source in producing high yielding mutants. The present experiment was conducted to induce, isolate and analyse the high yielding mutants of Vicia faba L. var. Vikrant and PRT-12 of M3 generation using single and combination treatments of gamma rays and ethyl methanesulphonate (EMS). The leaves of plants are known to carry out the most important processes of plants relating to yield and productivity. The pigments like chlorophyll and carotenoids play key roles in the process of photosynthesis. Biochemical analysis like estimation of chlorophyll and carotenoid contents, nitrate reductase activity (NRA) and protein profiling of the leaves of high yielding mutants were carried out using different methods and approaches. High yielding mutant plants were selected from the lower doses/concentrations of both single and combined treatments of ?-rays and ethyl methanesulphonate (EMS). Increased levels of pigments and NR activity were observed in the variety Vikrant as compared to PRT-12, after treatment of the mutagens. Furthermore, SDS-PAGE analysis of leaf proteins of the mutants of the variety Vikrant showed higher polymorphism and number of protein bands as compared to variety PRT-12. Altogether, the increase in leaf protein content may enhance crop yield.

Dexmedetomidine is an alpha 2-adrenoceptor agonist with sedative, anxiolytic and analgesic properties.1 This article reviews the use of dexmedetomidine in pediatric patients and its use in critical care. We will focus on the clinical experience of the drug in children and its role in sedation in Pediatric intensive care unit and for procedural sedation. 

The aim of this study is to validate the psychometric properties of the short form of the Coolidge axis II inventory in clinical and non-clinical populations. The short form of the Coolidge axis II inventory is a 70-item self-reporting tool for measuring personality disorders based on DSM book criteria. In the study of the psychometric properties of this instrument the mean internal scale reliabilities (Cronbach's alpha) was obtained for both clinical and non-clinical population (n = 630) 0.79 and for clinical population (N = 120) 0.82. The average retest reliability (two weeks) of this instrument was 0.80. There was good convergence validity between these tools with the personality diagnostic questionnaire 4 (PDQ 4). In addition, the structural validity results showed that this tool has a good structural validity. This tool has good validity and reliability in both clinical and non-clinical samples.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the psychometric questionnaire of Beck et al. (1990) personality beliefs. This tool is a 65-item self-report questionnaire to assess beliefs related to personality disorders. In the study of psychometric properties of this instrument the mean internal scale reliabilities (Cronbach's alpha) for both clinical and non-clinical populations (n=630) was 0.791 and for the clinical population (N=115) was 0.790. The mean test-retest reliability (two-week) of this instrument was 0.795. There was a good convergent validity between these tools and short form of the Coolidge Axis II Inventory. In addition, the results of structural validity showed that this tool has a suitable structural validity. This tool has good reliability and validity for both clinical and non-clinical samples.

With the spread of the Corona virus worldwide, concerns about the consequences of the virus on the physical and mental health of individuals have increased widely. In addition to the problems that poses to individuals and society in terms of physical health, the virus can also have a direct or indirect effect on people's mental health. The present study was conducted to investigate the effects of this virus on the mental health of individuals during the corona virus epidemic. In this study, 550 individuals were evaluated using mental health assessment tools at different time points to investigate the effect of time in epidemic conditions on mental health.

The study of mineral contents of fresh and dried tilapia fish (Oreochromis niloticus) from Mcaiver Market, Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State, Nigeria were determined. The tilapia fishes were shared into two parts: one part was used to determine the mineral content of the fresh fish and the other part was oven dried before the analysis of mineral contents of both fishes. The minerals detected were in the order Na>Ca>K>Mg>Zn>Fe. It was observed that dried tilapia fish was more nutritional than the fresh tilapia fish. Dry tilapia fish should be consumed rather than fresh tilapia fish for proper nourishments.

Kallmann's syndrome (KS) is an inherited disorder distinguished by an association of hypogonadotropic hypogonadism and anosmia or hyposmia. This altered sense of smell is due to the absence or poor development of olfactory bulbs and girdles; the olfactory grooves are absent in their anterior portion with variable development in the posterior region. In this article, we report a case of Kallmann's syndrome in ten years old male patient who presented at the endocrinology department with pubertal delay and clinical findings suspecting Kallmann's syndrome. With hormonal assays, magnetic resonance imaging was performed as a useful adjunct to the diagnosis in the hierarchy of tests, which shows in our case characteristic findings of KS. The treatment is primarily aimed at restoring, normal pubertal development, and, in some cases, normal fertility, but unfortunately, no cure is available concerning olfactory disorders.