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

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Authors: P. L. Malge & G. N. Kulkarni

ABSTRACT The study was conducted to know the impact of water distribution on farmer’s socioeconomic conditions and cropping pattern across Indi branch canal of upper Krishna project command area. The Sample size comprised of 135 farmers, selected using multi- stage random sampling method. Field level data were elicited for the agricultural year 2013-14 through personal interview method. For analyzing the data collected tabular analysis was employed. Relatively a large (37.77 % to 48.89 %) proportion of them across different reaches were aged more than 50 years and 41.48 per cent were illiterates. With respect to occupation, large proportion of head reach farmers pursued dairy (42.22 %). The extent of land degradation noticed was more in head reach (12.82 %) out of the owned land. It was noticed that, in the head reach of the canal system kharif and bi-seasonal crops occupied a large proportion of the cropped area (45.54 and 37.57 %).

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Authors: Wasfi Dh. Abid –Ali

ABSTRACT This study aimed to evaluate the protective effects of ethanolic extract from Silybum marianum seeds (sylimarine) from north of Iraq against NiCl2 toxicity induced his to pathological changes in liver and kidney of male rabbits. Thirty adult male rabbits were used as experimental animals to investigate the ameliorative effects of sylimarine against toxicity of NiCl2 on liver and kidney. The results elevated that rabbits received nickel chloride(1 mg /100gm B.W ) orally for 35 day showed his to pathological changes on tissue cells of liver and Kidney while silymarine extract (0.1mg/100gm B.W) ameliorated tissue damage.

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Authors: B.Lenka, Pitambar Swain, B.C.Das & K.Shweta

ABSTRACT 100 WDCS members, having done dairying activities for 1 year or more were selected from 10 WDCS, through purposive sampling techniques. The majority of WDCS members (55 percent), belong to the middle age group (36-50 years). 16 per cent of WDCS members had high level knowledge on housing, followed by 69 per cent of WDCS members had medium level knowledge and 15 percent had low level knowledge of housing activities. 67 per cent of women dairy farmers had medium level knowledge on feeding, 19 percent members had a high level of knowledge on feeding and 14 per cent having low level knowledge on feeding practices, 72 percent women had medium knowledge about breeding practices as well as A.I., 13 percent were having low level of knowledge and 9 per cent women members were having a high level of knowledge on breeding practices. 73 percent of WDCS members had medium knowledge of health care practices of dairy cows, followed by 15 percent having high knowledge on dairy health care practices. Only 12 percent of WDCS members had low level knowledge on dairy health care practices. 62 per cent of WDCS members were having a medium level of knowledge on marketing of milk, followed by 23 per cent of WDCS members possessing high level knowledge. However, only 15 percent of WDCS members were having low level knowledge. When mean knowledge level is calculated among 5 activities of management practices, data revealed that highest mean (5.55 marks out of 10 marks) was secured by WDCS members on marketing activities, followed by 5.34marks out of 10 marks, on housing, 5.26 marks out of 10 marks on feeding, 5.04 marks out of 10 marks on health care and 4.78 mark out of 10 marks on breeding. Thus, on an average, 68.60 percent of the respondents had medium level knowledge of all the above five activities, whereas 16.4 percent respondents had high level knowledge and13.80 per cent respondents had low level knowledge, respectively. Correlation study revealed that, variables like age, family type, occupation, number of dairy animals, income from dairying, income from agriculture and other sources had positive correlation with knowledge level on dairy management practices. However, theeducation had negative correlation with knowledge level on dairy management practices. But, the variables like occupation, number of dairy animals, income from dairying, agriculture and other sources are significantly associated with the knowledge level on dairy management practices, among WDCS members at the 5 % level of significance

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Authors: Mohit Sharma, Ajay Bhargava & Rahul Kabra

Biochemical and enzymatic changes are observed in the blood and other body fluids such as C.S.F., Vitreous fluid, Synovial fluid, etc. which usually start immediately or shortly after death. In this study, we have tried to find out the correlation of sodium, potassium, ascorbic acid and alkaline phosphatase in vitreous humour with time since death (PMI).

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Authors: V. Manivasagan, K. Saranaya, D. Ganesh Sapkota, T. Monesh Kumar & Ravindragouda Patil

Textile industry effluents contain high levels of dyes which are recalcitrant and toxic to aquatic flora and fauna. Besides, they also contain very high levels of total dissolved solids (TDS), total suspended solids (TSS), COD, BOD and hardness. As per some estimates, about 10-15% of dyes end up in the effluents during their synthesis and dyeing processes. Biological treatment by employing microbes is a better alternative, when compared to conventional physical and chemical methods of effluent treatment. In the present study, efforts were made to understand the efficacy of immobilsed microbial cells upon the degradation of textile effluent. One of the commonly used azo-dyes namely, “Reactive Brilliant Red X3b”present in the untreated textile industry effluent was used as a representative dye in the present study and Bacillus cereus was the bacterium used for degradation. The effluent sample was collected from Tirupur, Tamil Nadu, India bears latitude-longitude coordinates as 11.1085° N, 77.3411° E. Very high levels of COD of 821 mg/l and very high levels of BOD of 211 mg/l were recorded for the effluent sample. In the present study, highest biodegradation was achieved at 96 hours of incubation at 20 grams concentration of the bio-beads containing entrapped Bacillus cereus.

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Authors: KaushalUpadhyay, ManjuNegi & Nidhika Thakur

To know the response of different grafting methods under different growing conditions at different time, a field experiment was conducted at the Fruit nursery, Department of Fruit Science,V.C.S.G Uttarakhand University of Horticulture and Forestry, Bharsar, Uttarakhand during 2015-2016.The experiment was laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design (Factorial) comprised of eighteen treatmentscombinations and three replications. Among all the treatments cleft grafting under polyhouse conditions during February performed best. The cleft grafting under polyhouse condition during February gave earliest sprouting of grafted plants (40.38 days) with maximum number of leaves per graft (114.47), number of branch per grafted plant (16.60), minimum dead sprouted grafts (40.38 %), maximum saleable plants (91.40%), maximum survival of grafts (38.87%), longest shoots (68.49 cm), maximum shoots diameter (0.97 cm) and maximum leaf area(31.75 cm2).The minimum dead graft after sprout (15.46 %) was recorded in veneer grafting under polyhouse in February.

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Authors: Geetashree Bori

For designing the man-machine interface in an industry, it is essential to ensure the compatibility of man and machine to safeguard his health, safety, comfort and efficiency. Handloom weaving is dependent on manual labor; by and large the major contribution comes from women. The present study was conducted on women workers, who perform the activities in the handloom industry of Lakhimpur district of Assam. The objective of the study was to measure the hand anthropometryandthe grip strength of women weavers while performing weaving activities on handloom. Various parameters observed were weight, height, time, body mass index (BMI), and hand anthropometry and grip strength. A sample of 40 women workers of Lakhimpur district Assam was selected for the study through multistage random sampling. Statistical analyses of the data are employed through frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, and critical difference and co-efficient of correlation. Mean values of anthropometric measurements for different hand dimensions did not show a wide variation within the range except hand circumference and hand depth. The present study was found to significantly differ from the reference value except some measurements as hand length and length of finger to crotch level. Maximum decrease in grip strength was found to be 10.46kg for right hand grip and10. 07kg for left hand grip while drawing the reed to and fro, and 6.62kg for both hands for throwing the shuttle where as minimum decrease in grip strength was found to 6.02kg for left hand, 5.32kg for right hand and 3.7kg for both hands while been getting.

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Authors: Depuru Bharathi & BurraVijitha

Environmental health consists of preventing or controlling disease, injury and disability related to the interactions between people and their environment. The interactions of humans with the environment affect quality of life and the longevity of life. Globally, nearly 25 percent of all deaths and the total disease burden can be attributed to environmental factors. Environmental health involves understanding the impacts of environmental and human-made hazards and protecting human health and ecological systems against these hazards. Environmental risk factors are such as air, water and soil pollution, chemical exposures, climate change and ultraviolet radiation. It is essential to prevent the environmental health risks in the surrounding environment. Hence, steps are to be taken in creating awareness about hazards and also to manage the risks. Efforts should be taken to reduce the exposure to toxic substances and hazardous wastes, which are fundamental to environmental health.

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Authors: Prafulla Kumar Padhi, Subash Chandra Nath & Vijaya Lakshmi Mohanty

It is necessary to find out the percentage of non respondents in the whole survey and the causes of non response. The rejection to the questionnaire is not the actual rejection of their religiosity, attitude and behaviour. The forced choice method is applied to answer few questions, which justify their religiosity and CSR attitude and CSR behaviour. The body language and facial expression of non respondent SMEs executives express hidden qualities of their attitude and behaviour. The materiality of their sudden rejection to the survey process also says either positive and negative attitude or behaviour of SMEs executives. The attitude of non respondent SMEs executives’ is evaluated minutely to gather the never unfolded supreme attitude and behaviour of SMEs executives’ CSR attitude and CSR behaviour. The personal contact and personal non contact give importance for this study.