Awareness of Farmers about the Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (With Special Reference of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand)

Primary Agriculture Credit Society is a basic unit and smallest cooperative credit institution in India. It works on the grass-root level (gram panchayat and village level). Primary Agriculture Credit Society is formed at the village or town level. It is the old cooperative credit system of India. Primary Agriculture Credit Society was designed to be a village-level credit society into which the farmers brought in share capital, deposits, and provide loans to each other. This study aims to assess the Awareness of Farmers about the Primary Agricultural Credit Societies with Special Reference to Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. 58% of farmers know about primary agriculture credit societies and this study will useful for the rural areas policymakers and this study will also useful for many other stakeholders

The Indian Premier League: What are the factors that determine player value?

This paper examines and tries to estimate the importance of various characteristics that go into attributing specific dollar values to cricketers. The auction process employed in the Indian Premier League enables one to associate players with specific monetary values and this paper uses various performance criteria to assess what the key variables are towards creating a highly valued cricket player. This paper finds that various batting statistics are of significance in addition to the age and nationality of players

Medicine adherence and associated factors in immigrants and refugees:a systematic review

Medicine nonadherence is a major contributing factor to morbidity and mortality. Almost half of the chronically ill patients are nonadherent to their medication. Vulnerable groups like immigrants and refugees are at a higher risk of poor medication adherence. This study aims to determine the rate of medicine adherence and the factors associated with medicine nonadherence in a population of immigrants and refugees. A protocol-led (PROSPERO ID: CRD42021285419) systematic review was conducted by searching PubMed, Medline, Embase, Scopus, CINAHL, and Cochrane Library for studies published between 1st January 2000 and 4th November 2021. PRISMA guidelines were followed. The NIH quality assessment tool and CASP checklist were used to quality assess the papers. Data were searched, screened, and extracted. Extracted data were tabulated for descriptive and narrative analyses. 15 studies were conducted across six countries including participants with various medical conditions. The rate of medicine adherence reported ranged from 10.1% to 74.5%. Higher rates of nonadherence were observed in immigrants and refugees compared to migrant and native groups. Socio-economic factors, including language proficiency, level of education, and financial burden, and patient-related factors involving cultural behaviours and beliefs were common themes for nonadherence among immigrants and refugees. Further research is required to address the effect of nonadherence on clinical outcomes. Studies should focus on using a consistent definition of adherence and the same objective methods to measure rates of adherence to allow for meta-analysis of data and definitive results. Healthcare professionals (HCPs) are recommended to target interventions at improving adherence and reducing modifiable risk factors in immigrants and refugees, thus reducing health disparities among the population

Hidden potential of fruit waste and its utilization

The global increasing population demands for more food production and food processing which consequently results in more food waste generation. The total waste produced in different stages of processing of food generally comprises of peels, pomace, seed, pulp, unused flesh and damaged food which is biodegradable in nature. These by-products are a good source of bioactive compounds like polyphenols, antioxidants and phytochemicals. They are the storehouse of complex carbohydrates, lipids, proteins and nutraceuticals depending on the nature of product produced for example poultry and meat industries are rich the source of proteins and lipids, fruits and vegetable processing industries are rich in bioactive compounds and cereal industries are good source of phenolic compounds and dietary fiber. The food waste or by-products are important source of colorants, fiber, flavoring and antimicrobials which are used in food industry as a source of food additives. The phenolic compounds present in by products of different foods exhibit anti-oxidant, anti-microbial, anti-inflammatory, immune-modulatory activity and play a major role in reducing the risk of cardiovascular problems, osteoporosis, thrombosis, platelets aggregation and diabetes in humans. By products from different industries can be used to develop value added products in India where poverty and malnutrition are the major issues. Developing effective policies for the utilization of food waste along the value chain can help reduce food waste problem and contribute towards food security and sustainability.Keywords: By products, Bioactive compounds, Food industry, Food waste

Pročišćavanje i karakterizacija ekstracelularne dekstran saharaze iz bakterije Pediococcus pentosaceus, izolirane iz tla sjeveroistočne Indije

The extracellular dextransucrase produced from Pediococcus pentosaceus, a new isolate from the soil in Assam, India, was purified and characterized. The enzyme activity of cell-free supernatant was 3.4 U/mL and specific activity was 0.6 U/mg. The crude enzyme was purified by a single-step fractionation using polyethylene glycols of different molecular mass. The specific activity achieved was 18 U/mg with 31-fold purification by PEG 400 and 26 U/mg with 45-fold purification by PEG 1500. The molecular mass of dextransucrase determined by non-denaturing SDS-PAGE was approx. 180 kDa. The dextran formation activity of the enzyme was confirmed by activity staining. Optimum conditions for dextransucrase activity were: pH=5.4, reaction temperature 30 °C, 5 % sucrose and 20 mM sodium acetate buffer. A concentration of 1 mM MgCl2 and 6 mM CaCl2 enhanced dextransucrase activity by 5 and 150 %, respectively. The chaotropic agent urea (7 M) and chelating agent EDTA (1 mM) resulted in the residual enzyme activity of 98 and 80 %, respectively. The organic solvents such as ethanol (50 %), DMSO (90 %), acetone (50 %) and acetonitrile (20 %) decreased the dextransucrase activity by 80, 91, 94 and 80 %, respectively.U radu je pročišćena i okarakterizirana dekstran saharaza iz bakterije Pediococcus pentosaceus, izolirane iz tla u gradu Assamu, Indija. Aktivnost je enzima u supernatantu bila 3,4 U/mL, a njegova je specifična aktivnost iznosila 0,6 U/mg. Sirovi je enzim pročišćen jednostupanjskim frakcioniranjem pomoću polietilen glikola različite molekularne mase. Utvrđena je specifična aktivnost enzima od 18 (pročišćenog 31 put pomoću PEG 400), odnosno 26 U/mg (pročišćenog 45 puta pomoću PEG 1500). Molekularna je masa dekstran saharaze određena pomoću SDS-PAGE, a iznosila je otprilike 180 kDa. Aktivnost je enzima potvrđena bojanjem nastalog dekstrana s Coomasie brilijant plavom bojom. Optimalni su uvjeti za aktivnost enzima bili: pH=5,4; temperatura reakcije od 30 °C; te dodatak 5 %-tne saharoze i acetatnog pufera (20 mM). Dodatak 1 mM MgCl2 i 6 mM CaCl2 povećali su aktivnost enzima za 5, odnosno 150 %. Inaktivirajući agensi, poput uree (7 M) i EDTA (1 mM) smanjili su aktivnost enzima na 98 odnosno 80 %. Organska su otapala također smanjila aktivnost enzima, i to: 50 %-tni etanol na 80 %, 90 %-tni DMSO na 91 %, 50 %-tni aceton na 94 % i 20 %-tni acetonitril na 80 %

Optimized image Embedding in QR Code with Secure Wireless Network

QR pictures familiar a modified procedure with insert QR codes into shading pictures with constrained probability of distinguishing proof oversight. Quick response (QR) codes have immediately ascended as a comprehensively used stock after and conspicuous evidence procedure in transport, collecting, and retail business ventures. QR codes are used as a part of a variety of employments, for instance, begin phone calls,download singular card information, getting to destinations, post information to casual groups, impersonate recordings or open substance documents. To direct the visual winding of the QR picture, the figuring utilizes half molding cloak for the decision of changed pixels and nonlinear programming systems to locally propel brilliance levels. A tractable model for the probability of error is made and models of the human visual system are considered in the quality metric used to propel the radiance levels of the QR image.Experimental results exhibit the exquisite defilement of the unwinding rate and the perceptual quality as a limit the embedding parameters

Static and Dynamic Properties of DNA Confined in Nanochannels

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation.October 2017. Major: Chemical Engineering. Advisor: Kevin Dorfman. 1 computer file (PDF); xvii, 144 pages.Next-generation sequencing (NGS) techniques have considerably reduced the cost of high-throughput DNA sequencing. However, it is challenging to detect large-scale genomic variations by NGS due to short read lengths. Genome mapping can easily detect large-scale structural variations because it operates on extremely large intact molecules of DNA with adequate resolution. One of the promising methods of genome mapping is based on confining large DNA molecules inside a nanochannel whose cross-sectional dimensions are approximately 50 nm. Even though this genome mapping technology has been commercialized, the current understanding of the polymer physics of DNA in nanochannel confinement is based on theories and lacks much needed experimental support. The results of this dissertation are aimed at providing a detailed experimental understanding of equilibrium properties of nanochannel-confined DNA molecules. The results are divided into three parts. In first part, we evaluate the role of channel shape on thermodynamic properties of channel confined DNA molecules using a combination of fluorescence microscopy and simulations. Specifically, we show that high aspect ratio of rectangular channels significantly alters the chain statistics as compared to an equivalent square channel with same cross-sectional area. In the second part, we present experimental evidence that weak excluded volume effects arise in DNA nanochannel confinement, which form the physical basis for the extended de Gennes regime. We also show how confinement spectroscopy and simulations can be combined to reduce molecular weight dispersity effects arising from shearing, photo-cleavage, and nonuniform staining of DNA. Finally, the third part of the thesis concerns the dynamic properties of nanochannel confined DNA. We directly measure the center-of-mass diffusivity of single DNA molecules in confinement and show that that it is necessary to modify the classical results of de Gennes to account for local chain stiffness of DNA in order to explain the experimental results. In the end, we believe that our findings from the experimental test of the phase diagram for channel-confined DNA, with careful control over molecular weight dispersity, channel geometry, and electrostatic interactions, will provide a firm foundation for the emerging genome mapping technology