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

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Authors: B. PRADHAN, S. P. SANGRAM SINGH, MISS PLABITA RAY, D. V. SINGH & T. BADJENA

The contracting sugar industries in Odisha are continuously providing technical expertise, proper guidance, close monitoring, supplying crop inputs and procuringproduce with remunerative price benefitting both the contracting firms and contracted growers. A study conducted with 80 each of contracted and non-contracted growers revealed that there were no significant developments of the contracted growers in sugarcane cultivation under contract farming. Poor responses were observed towards developments on technological, economical, material possession and farm activities in comparison to socio-cultural aspects. The contracting sugar industry officials essentially need to enrich the knowledge and skill competency of the sugarcane growers along with liaoning with credit institutions for financial support and input dealers for timely supply of additional quality inputs enabling the growers for better crop management accelerating production and income leading to their developments

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Authors: RUMANA SULTANA & SHAFIUL ALAM

Flood in river Padma is one of the very complex hydrologic processes. The present study aimed at understanding flood hazard characteristics in the river Padma. To obtain this objective, secondary data about water level and discharge in river Ganges have been collected and analyzed. Flood frequency analysis was done. Very vulnerable flood with more than 70000cumec water discharge occurred five times during the year 1960 to 2010 and the flood frequency is >4.23. Havoc flood with a water discharge of 50001-60000cumec occurs 22 times during the year 1960 to 2010 and the flood frequency is 1.13 to 2.01. The return period of the extreme flood event (with highest discharge) is 10 years. The return period of the flood with second highest discharge is 8 years. Analyzing the water level data it is clear that during the year 1960-2010 water level crossed the danger level for 21 times

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Authors: SIDDHESH M. MAHADIK

Holy basil (Ocimum tenuiflorum) is an aromatic plant in the family Lamiaceae which is native to the Indian subcontinent and widespread as a cultivated plant throughout the Southeast Asian tropics. This plant leaves have powerful antibacterial, antifungal and anti-inflammatory properties. In ayurvedic medicine, holy basil has been used to treat a variety of conditions – everything from the common cold to bronchitis to fever to certain digestive complaints, including ulcers. Multiple scientific studies examining the property, of ocimum tenuiflorum of combating stress, have found that supplementation with various extracts of holy basil decrease stress hormone levels, corticosterone in particular.[7] Therefore, in this research article the natural plant extract of the leaves is subjected to the method designed by me to calculate the number of oxygen molecules present in it. The examine of this plant extract by applying simple calculations is found and it was observed that the leaves of holy basil contains very high number of oxygen molecules which probably a reason which contributes human body to restore the oxygen molecules in great amount that’s why the plant leaves proves beneficial to human body from any angle.

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Authors: VIDYA V SANGANNAVAR& SANNAPAPAMMA KJ

Wool is natural protein fibre which is highly extensible, flexible and resilient in nature. The natural crimp and resilience of wool fibres help to maintain high loft and thermal insulation of fabrics. UAS sheep breed, a product of crossing Southdown, Bannur and Deccani breeds developed at University of Agricultural Sciences (UAS), Dharwad was selected for the study. The UAS breed wool has very low tensile strength and elongation, to enhance the optimum utilization and improve the properties of UAS sheep breed fleece was blended with other synthetic and natural fibres. The scoured and pre-carded UAS sheep breed fleece was blended with acrylic, r-PET and jute fibres in varied proportions viz., 70/30, 60/40 and 50/50through sandwich/stack blending technique. The blended fibres were subjected to woolen carding system and spun on hand charaka and friction machine. Control and nine blended yarns were subjected to Uster evenness tester to assess the total yarn imperfections. The results revealed that among the test samples, both hand spun and friction spun wool/ jute blends in varied proportions exhibited significantly less unevenness percentage, thin places, thick places than the r-PET and acrylic.

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Authors: PALLAVI SINGH , PAUL VIRGINIA, SHEIKH SARITA & PAUL AJIT

Osteoporosis is the most common skeletal disorder affects both sexes, but most importantly affects female who feel more rapid loss of their bone mass during the early years following menopause. The greatest loss of bone density occurs in women during perimenopause and is related with low level of estrogen in the blood, a condition of menopause. So this study was designed to observe the strength of association between the menopausal status of the women and the prevalence of osteoporosis and relative risk of developing this disease among the pre and post-menopausal women of Allahabad District. This study was a case control study among the pre and post-menopausal women of Allahabad District aged between 35-65 years. All the respondents of the study, who came to the referral hospital’s outpatient department during the free BMD check-up camps by P-DEXA scan, were purposively selected for the study. The diagnosed patients of osteoporosis were identified as cases. The controls of the study were all participants that were identified as free from less bone mineral density after undergoing the P-DEXA scan. The results of the study revealed that post-menopausal status of the women had a strong association with the occurrence of osteoporosis (OR=8) and they had 3.3333 times more risk to develop this disease in comparison with pre-menopausal women (OR=0.125). So it was concluded that post-menopausal women had greater risk of developing osteoporosis and it is recommended to pre and post-menopausal women to go through the DEXA screening of the BMD for early detection of loss of bone mineral density and adopt healthy dietary pattern and appropriate lifestyle modifications to reduce this loss.

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Authors: RAHAT AFZA & RENU VERMA

Low birth weight (LBW) has been defined by the World Health Organization (WHO 1992) as weight at birth of less than 2500 gm. LBW at birth may be the outcome of either preterm birth (before 37 weeks of gestation) or retarded fetal (intrauterine) growth. LBW is associated with multiple problems such as fetal and neonatal mortality or morbidity. We undertook a retrospective studied or analysis of protein intake of women during gestational age and LBW (low birth weight) data available at the five hospitals situated in Ujjain city. The women who attended the ante-natal checkup or came for delivery were from the rural and peri-urban population of Ujjain district of Madhya Pradesh, India. We also investigated the association between LBW, protein & protein supplements intake during gestation age. Information on all pregnant women who came for pre-natal check-ups and who delivered a child at the obstetrics and gynecology facility in the hospital during the period January 2015 to January 2016 were included in the analysis. Out of the total registered 200 cases of respondents, 111 (55.5%) women who followed or 89 (44.5%) women who are not followed all the inclusion criteria of the study were considered for data analysis and results were expressed by mean test. Among the newborns delivered to the mothers included in the study, 114 (57 %) were LBW, i.e., below 2500 although 86 (43%) had a normal a birth weight. As per the retrospective analysis we can conclude that, maximum weight gain of fetus occurs during the last 3 months of pregnancy. If pregnant women can be provided more additional protein and protein supplement, and proper maternal checkup during the pregnancy, the incidence of LBW can be reduced significantly.

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Authors: JIŘÍ VOPAVA & MÁRIA JÁNEŠOVÁ

The article describes compared to non-scheduled aero transport - aerotaxi with aerolines in terms of price, time on the road and safety. There are listed the advantages and disadvantages aero taxi, potential customers and other factors that may affect the customer's choice for aerotaxi

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Authors: SWATI SHARMA & RUCHIRA SHUKLA

A study was undertaken to examine the economics of storage in onion supply chain in the Sikar district which is one of the major onion growing district of Rajasthan. A total sample size of 75 onion growers was taken from Sikar district. In Sikar district generally farmer’s store onion in storage (under ambient conditions) in the months April to September every year after harvesting the onion crop. The out of the total quantity of marketed surplus (11595.20q), 3556.25q onion produce was stored by the onion growers (30.67 per cent) in onion storage at farm level by the sample farmers during April to September, 2011 period at different locations in Sikar district. 15.96% of onion is lost during storage period owing to post harvest losses. Maximum return from onion marketing was received during September month (36.01%) due to shortage of produce in market. An overall average profit of 12.82% was obtained by onion growers during six months storage period. The major reasons for storing onion by farmers were for home consumption (95.7%) and to reap benefits of higher prices (91.3%). Majority of farmers (65.2% %) adopted improved methods of storage. About 91.3% farmers reported that lack of knowledge about proper scientific methods for storage of onion was the major problem faced by farmers.

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Authors: J.P. SINGH HARIDWARI & B.N. WARIS

This study attempts to assess the level of denaturation of ovalbumin in a chicken egg. The intensity of denaturation induced by urea and βME(β-mercaptoethanol) was measured at pH 7.0. Ovalbumin is identified as a Serpin class of protein. The denaturation by “ultrasonics” and “densitometry” in terms of partial specific volume, u 0 , and partial specific adiabatic compressibility, S b , of ovalbumin molecule in buffer solution and mixture of denaturant-buffer solution. The average hydration contribution to u 0 and S b was determined as functions of temperature using measured and calculated parameters by application of linear regression analysis. The negative values of u 0 were obtained due to the low concentration of ovalbumin and high value of hydration effect, while positive value of S b showed a significant contribution of the cavity effect in case of compressibility of protein molecule. The maxima obtained for the partial specific volume of ovalbumin in buffer versus temperature was shifted from 315 K to 323 K on addition of βME in ovalbumin-buffer solution, which reflects conformational changes due to breakage of disulfide bridges. The magnitude of S b of ovalbumin increase with increase of concentration of protein and on addition of βME. These changes support the idea of conformational change of denatured protein. The partial specific adiabatic compressibility of ovalbumin decrease with increase of temperature upto 323 K and then increases, the extent of decrease is higher in presence of βME indicating the flexibility of ovalbumin increases on addition of βME, so it becomes more susceptible to digestion. In general, our results emphasize the conformational fluctuation, changes in free energy of denaturation and the hydration properties of ovalbumin in presence of denaturants urea and βME. The partial specific adiabatic compressibility of ovalbumin decrease with increase of temperature upto323K and then increase, the extent of decrease is high in presence of βME indicating the flexibility of ovalbumin increase on addition of βME, so it becomes susceptible to digestion.