Growth, yield and nutrient uptake of hybrid rice as influenced by nutrient management modules and its impact on economic of the treatments

Field experiment was conducted at Instructional Farm of Narendra Deva University of Agriculture and Technology, Kumarganj, Faizabad to develop nutrient management modules for efficient cultivation of hybrid rice. Results showed that growth and yield characters viz. plant height, number of tilers and panicles per hills were high-est under nutrient management module of 100% NPK + 5 t press mud (T3). Significantly higher grain and straw yield was recorded under treatment T3 over all the treatment except treatment T1, T2, T4, T5 and T6 which were recorded on par. Uptake of NPKS and Zn was significantly improved under treatments having organic manure along with inorganic levels (100%, 75% and 50% NPK) of fertilizer over alone levels of inorganic fertilizer. NPKS and Zn uptake was higher in treatment module T3 followed by treatment T2 (100% NPK + 10 t FYM ha-1). The net return Rs. 27373.70 ha-1 and 26087.0 ha-1 and benefit: cost ratio (1.53 and 1.45) was maximum in treatment T3 closely followed by T2. Findings of this study warranted that treatment module T3 resulted higher growth and yield of rice crop. Net return was also higher in this treatment

A Study on Rural Customer’s Behavior towards the Insurance Products (Genesis of Insurance Industries in India)

The Indian economy has been among the fastest growing economies of the world for over a decade with annual sustained growth rate of 7-8 percent of GDP. The life insurance market has seen an upward surge and the business have achieved an average growth rate of almost 40 percent after privatization in the year 2000. The opening of the insurance sector to private participation has generated considerable interest in this sector within and outside India. Though the reforms in the insurance sector came only at the end of the last decade, the process of change has been extremely smooth and now insurance industry is thriving with the public and private sectors competing with each other on a level playing field and this process has resulted in expanding the coverage, deepening the penetration and spreading the awareness about life insurance into the rural sector. The insurance industry has grown tremendously with increasing growth rates of industrialization, infrastructure, and savings rate and capital formation. India is on the threshold of rapid economic and social change

An Empirical Study on Consumer Behavior of Life Insurance Purchasing Decision

The Indian economy is one of the fastest growing economies in the world with GDP per capita growing at a rate of 7.1% per annum1. The country is also experiencing a demographic shift towards a younger population with about 35% of the population being between 15 and 34 years of age2 in 2017. In the next few decades, unprecedented numbers of young people are expected to enter the workforce, earn and save part of their earnings. India’s household financial savings were estimated to be about 8.1% of the Gross National Disposable Income (GNDI), or about $26 trillion in the financial year 2016-17. About a fourth of these savings are invested in insurance3. Thus, the insurance sector is large and will grow further in the coming years. Understanding consumer behavior and what influences purchase decisions is important for different players in this industry including regulators and insurance companies. Despite recent growth, the life insurance market in India has low penetration rates compared to many other countries. Financial inclusion is one of the primary concerns of policy makers across the world. Now the author has described several aspects about consumer behavior about Life Insurance at the event on purchasing

Orientation, Microstructure and Pile-Up Effects on Nanoindentation Measurements of FCC and BCC Metals

This study deals with crystal orientation effect along with the effects of microstructure on the pile-ups which affect the nanoindentation measurements. Two metal classes, face centered cubic (FCC) and body centered cubic (BCC, are dealt with in the present study. The objective of this study was to find out the degree of inaccuracy induced in nanoindentation measurements by the inherent pile-ups and sink-ins. Also, it was the intention to find out how the formation of pile-ups is dependant upon the crystal structure and orientation of the plane of indentation. Nanoindentation, Nanovision, scanning electron microscopy, electron dispersive spectroscopy and electron backscattered diffraction techniques were used to determine the sample composition and crystal orientation. Surface topographical features like indentation pile-ups and sink-ins were measured and the effect of crystal orientation on them was studied. The results show that pile-up formation is not a random phenomenon, but is quite characteristic of the material. It depends on the type of stress imposed by a specific indenter, the depth of penetration, the microstructure and orientation of the plane of indentation. Pile-ups are formed along specific directions on a plane and this formation as well as the pile-up height and the contact radii with the indenter is dependant on the aforesaid parameters. These pile-ups affect the mechanical properties like elastic modulus and hardness measurements which are pivotal variables for specific applications in micro and nano scale devices

Effect of interventions in improving awareness, knowledge and practices of ppfp among women and health-care providers in bihar:a pre-and post-intervention study

Background: Post-partum family planning (PPFP) within first 12 months of childbirth is known to improve maternal and neonatal health outcomes. This study evaluates the effect a package of PPFP interventions in improving level of awareness, knowledge and practices of post-partum women. Methods: A before and after intervention cross sectional study was conducted in 18 public health facilities and their catchment areas across 5 districts of Bihar. Participants included randomly selected postpartum women and purposively selected health service providers. A standard questionnaire was used to assess the level of knowledge, awareness and practices related to post-partum family planning before and after the intervention. Results: A total of 972 postpartum women, 27 doctors, 46 nurses, 89 Auxiliary Nurse Midwives (ANM) and 89 Accredited Social Health Activists (ASHA) as well as 981 postpartum women, 18 doctors, 53 nurses, 90 ANMs and 90 ASHAs were interviewed during baseline and end line respectively. This intervention package increased knowledge regarding postpartum return to fertility, modern FP methods and criteria of lactational amenorrhoea method. Also, the proportion of post-partum women who reported receiving FP counselling were increased. Conclusion: The findings of this study demonstrate that effective implementation of a package of PPFP interventions at a scale can lead to improvement in the knowledge and awareness levels of both health workers and post-partum women

Fuzzy Delphi and hybrid AH-MATEL integration for monitoring of paint utilization

This study investigates the unattended aspects of paint utilization selection criteria in industries. In today competitive business environment almost all companies focus towards sustainable manufacturing. The utilization evaluation and selection criteria for paint and its consumption reduction is the top priority for industry. Especially in automotive industries, paint shop stands as a centre for hazardous waste due to wastage of paint and thinner during the painting process. This research work focuses on optimizing consumption of paint by finding most important criteria affecting paint consumption and optimizing the same to achieve maximum paint yield. The study uses the routes of Delphi technique in a fuzzy environment to find out the most important criteria for paint utilization selection, so that maximize utilization and minimize consump-tion reduction of paint has been achieved. An integrated approach of AHP and DEMATEL methods has been implemented to prioritize the criteria and to familiarize the relationship within criteria. The outcomes of the study substantiate and proves that this study is the best way to select a particular paint utilization selection criteria for the paint shop and also to anticipate the optimal level of paint utilization.N/

Coupled Evolutionary Behavioral and Disease Dynamics under Reinfection Risk

We study the interplay between epidemic dynamics and human decision making for epidemics that involve reinfection risk; in particular, the susceptible-infected-susceptible (SIS) and the susceptible-infected-recovered-infected (SIRI) epidemic models. In the proposed game-theoretic setting, individuals choose whether to adopt protection or not based on the trade-off between the cost of adopting protection and the risk of infection; the latter depends on the current prevalence of the epidemic and the fraction of individuals who adopt protection in the entire population. We define the coupled epidemic-behavioral dynamics by modeling the evolution of individual protection adoption behavior according to the replicator dynamics. For the SIS epidemic, we fully characterize the equilibria and their stability properties. We further analyze the coupled dynamics under timescale separation when individual behavior evolves faster than the epidemic, and characterize the equilibria of the resulting discontinuous hybrid dynamical system for both SIS and SIRI models. Numerical results illustrate how the coupled dynamics exhibits oscillatory behavior and convergence to sliding mode solutions under suitable parameter regimes.Comment: arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2203.1027

Diversity of mosses in some selected regions of Nagaland (North-East India), India

During an investigation on mosses of some underexplored regions of Nagaland, 121 taxa of mosses belonging to 74 genera and 29 families have been identified. Atrichum crispulum Schimp. & Besch. and Plagiothecium neckeroideum var. niitakayamae (Toyama) Z. Iwats. are new records for India. Five taxa namely Fissidens crassinervis var. laxus (Sull & Lesq.) A. Eddy., Barbula inaequalifolia Taylor, Amblystegium saxatile Schimp., Dicranum orthophylloides Dixon and Fabronia madurensis Dixon & Vard. are reported for the first time from Eastern Himalaya, while 57 taxa are new additions to Nagaland

Analysis of personality traits as a risk factor in crash related trauma

Background: Due to increasing stress, individual personality traits are becoming a significant contributor to CRT (Crash Related Trauma). In the present study, we hypothesized that there will be no difference in personality characteristics of CRT patients and control subjects and there will be no association between trauma and personality characteristics of CRT patients.Method: A total of 119 cases and 112 controls of age >18 years were selected as per criteria decided. After obtaining ethical clearance, patients presenting to the emergency orthopedic unit were included in the study. After primary management allenrolled subjects were assessed by ICD 10 module screening questionnaire and analyzed for nine personality traits, subject to written informed consent.Results: Of all the cases enrolled 82.35% were males. Impulsive personality trait is found in 84.78% (39/46) cases. There were 46 motorcyclists out of 119 cases enrolled. Most of the personality traits showed a statistical significant association (p < 0.0003) with CRT.Conclusion: Majority of CRT victims attending orthopedic emergency unit at trauma center had impulsive and histrionic personality characteristics which accounted for 84.78% and 82.61% cases respectively. These traits showed a statistical  significant association with CRT.Keywords: Crash related trauma, personality traits, motorcyclist.Due to errors in the previous PDF especially in the 'Cite as' authors names, the PDF fulltext has been reloaded. This information is now correct