IMPACT : International Journal of Research in Applied, Natural and Social Sciences

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Authors: MANJUNATH & BHASKAR N JOSHI

The study involves avifauna of Chandrampalli dam (Chincholi taluk, Gulbarga district). The objective of the study included evaluate of species composition, relative abundance and distribution of avifauna of the chosen area. Line and point transect technique method were used for the survey purpose. A total of 51 species of birds belonging to 11 orders and 26 families were recorded. The Species consisting 34 resident, 8 winter and summer migrants were identified. Among the birds recorded in this study, 25 species were insectivorus, 9 omnivorus, 6 piscivorous, 2 carnivorus, 10 frugivorus, and 8 grainivorus.

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Authors: TRIGUNA PATHAK, K. BORANA & T. ZAFAR

Narmada River is the largest Westward flowing river of India. It is also referred as the life line of Madhya Pradesh. Present study was aimed to generate information on the ichthyofauna of Western region of the river Narmada. During the study period, 58 fish species have been identified belonging to 38 genera, 16 families and 6 orders. The fishes caught are divided into commercially important species like Labeo rohita, Catla catla, Cirrhinus mrigala; locally important species like Tor spp., Channa spp., Mystus spp. etc. and ornamental fishes like Nandus nandus, Nemacheilus botia, Salmostoma bacaila, Colisa fasciatus etc. Tor tor and Chitala chitala, once abundant in the river, now are registered under endangered condition. Varying distribution patterns of different species of fisher have been observed at various segments of the river. Therefore, the present study indicates towards the necessity of the study of fish diversity for conservation and management of fish germplasm.

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Authors: FATLINDA SHKURTI & ILIRA LLUPA

Albania has been going through a long transitional period, economic priority has changed deeply recently making its fast rise in the tourism area. The trendy tourism is characterized by the rise in the tourist number and the exploitation of the space, creating conditions for a longer stay of the tourists in one place. The population increase and the building of many unplanned tourism capacities are dangerous to the natural areas. The tourism is a consumer of the natural area but it has to preserve some primary qualities of the nature. In this article we are going to talk and analyze the resources, the development and the features of the tourism in the district of Vlora. We have analyzed the role of natural and human factors in the tourism sector, the rational exploitation of the resources and the creation of stable development. We treat the importance of the tourism in the region economy, the decrease of the unemployment, the rise of the social life, the society emancipation, the improvement of the way and level of the living of the population. Analyzing the indicators of the actual condition, the realization of a modern tourism requires a great and complex infrastructure, from the experience and leading point of view, the financial needs, investments, the personnel training etc. From these aspects it is obvious that the development of the tourism should be based in modern concepts, with double goals of entwining the natural potential and the human potential toward the international market and its parameters. The article aims to show the implementation in the strategy of tourism development in the geo area of Vlora district.

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Authors: HEMAVANI C & B. THIPPESWAMY

Efficacy of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungus (AMF), Acaulospora lacunosa was evaluated for the biological control of soil-borne plant pathogen Cercospora arachidicola in groundnut plant. For this investigation pot culture technique was followed. Soil based mixture of AMF, Acaulospora lacunosa was inoculated onto the root of groundnut plant. In results the colonization by AMF significantly resulted into decreased incidence of disease caused by Cercospora arachidicola. The growth of groundnut showed marked increase in the shoot and root length, fresh and dry weight due to AMF colonization.

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Authors: YAHYA ABDEL RAHMAN AL-SATARI

The Jordanian rangeland has been deteriorated due to successive drought and human misuse. The present study was conducted at Al-Majjediah village during 2012 and 2013 and aimed to study the effect of intercropping fodder shrubs and barley in the grazing productivity and stocking rate using different cropping systems. The study was analyzed using Randomized Complete Block Design including planting methods. High significant differences had noticed of fresh and dry yield between years. Year 2012 was more productive than 2013. Survival % was higher for Salsola, and Salsola-barley compared with Atriplex, and Atriplex-barley systems. Atriplex and Salsola had more fresh and dry yield compared with Atriplex-barley, and Salsola-barley systems. In the other side, Atriplex-barley and Salsola-barley treatments showed high significant differences for biological yield, total dry yield and stocking rate. In addition, stocking rate was higher for Atriplex-barley and Salsola-barley in comparison with Atriplex, Salsola and barley systems. Intercrop barley with fodder shrubs isn’t recommended under rangeland conditions or low rainfall areas. Further studies are required to investigate the effect of soil plowing for barley planting, supplemental irrigation and nutritive value improvement.

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Authors: HUMBERTO FERREIRA ARQUEZ

Classically renal arteries are a pair of lateral branches from the abdominal aorta. Each kidney is supplied by single renal artery and a single renal vein However, current literature report great variability in renal blood supply, the number of renal arteries and the arrangement of hilar structures on the left side. In the present paper is described a case of origin of three renal artery found in the both sides; on the right side the main renal artery and the upper branch took their origin from a common trunk coming out of the lateral aspect of the abdominal aorta, the lower branch took origin from the anterior aspect of the abdominal aorta. On the left side the three renal arteries had separate origins of the abdominal aorta, three renal arteries gives rise to 7 branches. Both found three kidney renal vein, but In the left kidney was found three renal veins, which formed a common trunk that ran obliquely passing behind the abdominal aorta (retro – aortic) and draining into the inferior vena cava, further at the hilum was found embracing the main renal artery and the upper arterial branch. Proper knowledge of variations of the arteries supplying the kidney is essential not only to the anatomists but also to surgeons.

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Authors: K. LALITHA, R. PUSHPAMALA & R. JAMUNA RANI

The Worm Ascaris lumbricoids is the most common intestinal parasite in the World infecting and estimated 3.5 billion people. It is also largest of the worms reaching an average of 40 cm (16 inches) in length. It can be as a pencil and weight almost as much. It is pink with bright red “speed” stripes. Females grows in intestine producing an enormous a No. of eggs estimated to be 27 million in her life time of a year.

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Authors: SAMIRA BRAHIMI

Throughout Aisha, her first collection of short stories, Ahdaf Soueif represented Aisha, the protagonist, as conforming to the portrait of the stereotyped Arab Muslim woman as a sex-subject, submissive, and maudlin character, confining her vision to the boundaries of her cocooned self-epitomizing a self-centered vision of the world. The main queries that were probed within the following investigation are: How did Aisha’s encounters with the other incarnated mainly in her male counterpart, time and space impede her ability to understand the other, herself and the world around? How did these very encounters allow her an enlightened vision of the set forth elements to forge a new start? The current investigation attempted answers to the set forth queries throughout The Returning, the first narrative in the collection.

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Authors: SHORUNKE MUYIWA MUSADDIQ

Clouds are rapidly becoming a platform of choice for hosting increasingly complex application software and services. Among the attractive features they offer are elasticity and pay-as-you-go model, which allow businesses to gain access to vast computing resources with minimum upfront investment, and operational costs. Although a great deal of progress has so far been made with respect to the low-level technological underpinning of the clouds, today’s clouds are still considered to be insufficiently trustworthy to serve as a computing platform for critical infrastructure (such as e.g., financial or power grid) operators and public administration sectors. Cloud computing has evolve to minimize IT expenses and to provide agile IT services to individual users as well as organizations. It moves computing and data away from desktop and portable PCs into large data centers. This technology provides the opportunity for more innovation in lightweight smart devices and it forms an innovative method of performing business. Cloud computing relies on the internet as a medium for users to access the required services at any time on pay-as-you-go pattern. Nevertheless this technology suffers from threats and vulnerabilities that hinders the users from solely relying on it. Various malicious activities from illegal users have threatened this technology such as data misuse, inflexible access control and limited monitoring. The occurrence of these threats may result into damaging or illegal access of critical and confidential data of users. This research paper describes the various types / methods of cryptographic encryption that would benefit users who might want to switch to the cloud or are currently using the cloud platform.

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Authors: SURBHI MATHUR & SUMIT K CHOUDHARY

Whether a forensic document examiner should express an opinion regarding authorship on the handwritten documents of unfamiliar language has been a matter of debate since the very origin of science. There is a clear division among the experts of the discipline of whom some are in favour of rendering opinion and the rest strongly against it. The consideration further complicates when this question is raised in a scenario like that of Indian linguistic diversity, where an examiner generally familiar with a single language is upto the challenge of examining documents of more than 18 languages, each of them incredibly different from the others. Thoroughly evaluating the possibilities and limitations via examining 50 such documents pronouncing their link to 10 different Indian scripts- Bangla, Gujarati, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Punjabi, Oriya, Assamese & Urdu, the authors strongly endorse the inspiration of examination of these unfamiliar scripts and rendering a conclusive opinion by the document experts. The manuscript clearly outlines what it requires to successfully examine this special class documents and how such conscientious efforts smoothens the process of administration of justice.

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Authors: SUKHBIR KAUR & VARSHA NIGAM

Laccase is an enzyme that has potential ability of oxidation. There are diverse sources of laccase producing organism like fungi, plants and microorganism. The possibility of using crude laccase in the dechlorination of chlorine-based bleached kraft hard wood pulp was investigated. The present work comprises the laccase enzyme production by isolated ligninolytic fungal strain SL2 and SL4 and its industrial application. Experiment was conducted on bleaching of kraft hard wood pulp with laccase enzyme (122.33 IU/ml) produced by ligninolytic fungal strain SL4 which shows brightness, whiteness and improvement along with CLO2 reduction. The addition of laccase inducer Cuso4 in to the culture medium led to an increase dechlorination activity.

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Authors: ABDULHAFID M. ELDERNAWI, M. JAMEL RIOUS & KHALIL IBRAHIM AL-SAMARRAI

Naturally occurring diatomaceous earth (diatomite) has tested as potential sorbent for several heavy metals and the intrinsic properties were improved by different modification concepts. Where in recent years, contamination of ground and surface water with heavy metals (not biodegradable) and tend to accumulate in the organisms is becoming a major concern. The chemical analyses of the bulk samples are shown as follow were taken from the Subkhat Ghuzyayil deposited in Libya, which is characterized by the expansion and evolution by the late Quaternary age. Silica, alumina and iron oxide were the main constituents of the samples. The SiO2 content corresponds to both diatomaceous silica and alumina-silicate minerals present in the samples, Al2O3 to alumina-silicate minerals, and Fe2O3 to the high amounts of chlorite and vermiculite present in the samples. The CaO and MgO contents are low due to the absence of carbonate minerals. Both are associated with the presence of Ca-smectite, whereas CaO may correspond to the presence of subsidiary Na–Ca feldspars. The loss on ignition (LOI) of the samples is mainly s The Na2O and K2O content are mainly attributed to the presence of feldspars and illite.

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Authors: URMILA PANDEY, R. P. SINGH & R. A. YADAV

Optimized structures for all the four possible conformers of 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl) benzothiazole have been computed using the DFT method at the B3LYP/6-311++G** level. With these optimized structures vibrational parameters have also been computed. Comparative studies of conformer dependent vibrational fundamentals have been carried out.

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Authors: ADEMOLA ABDULKAREEM, T. O. AKINBULIRE & A. F. AGBETUYI

Cable manufacturing in a developing country like Nigeria today is faced with a number of problems that affect the quality of cables produced from extrusion to insulation of conductors. The main cause of the problems is the low and variable output rate from extruder causing non-uniform conductor diameter which results in insulation surface appearance defects. These defects manifest in form of pimples, dimples, cracking, air cavity, voids and porosity within the plastics which are insulation. The conductor insulation normally used is the Polyvinyl chloride (PVC) which is normally sourced locally or imported. The locally produced PVC is cheaper in cost than the imported one but at the expense of quality due to inconsistency in the percentage combination of plasticizers, fillers, stabilizers, lubricants, and other additives required for producing quality PVC resin for cable applications. If the local manufacturers of PVC are not patronized, it will lead to employees losing their jobs and most likely their family income with other attending societal ills. The work in this paper takes a close to look at what should be done to improve the quality of locally produced PVC at little or no increase in cost. It has been discussed while working with one of the manufacturers that the required additives to produce an acceptable level of quality PVC resins for cable application are not optimally combined proportionately. In order to improve the quality of local plastics, optimum proportion of the required additives for quality cable insulation were experimentally determined at a comparable cost and better additive material consumption. The ratio of weight per charge (Kg/charge) of additives especially plasticizer and chalk gave a good output comparable in quality to the imported ones. The test results obtained from the analysis of the local plastics with optimum proportion of additives are comparable to the imported one. The analysis is based on insulation test, cost savings, material consumption/wastages, viscosity, melt temperature, flows and pressure requirements associated with extrusion process of thermoplastic.