Effect of barley malt, chickpea and peanut on quality of Barley based beverage

The present investigation had been done to optimize the effect of barley malt on production of barley based beverage. Malting of barley was carried out by steeping the cleaned and bold grains in tap water at 16°C for 2-3 days. The steeped grains were also germinated at 16°C for 2-3 days and the grains showing optimum growth were sorted out and kilning was done at 60°C for 1 day. Different levels of malted grain (i.e. 0, 1, 2, and 4 %) in barley extract were optimized. It was found that addition of 4 g malt to the extract was found to be effective in decreasing the viscosity and avoiding the formation of gruel like structure. There was non significant sensory change found on addition of roasted malt grain. Amylase activity of malt significantly increased on increasing time and no reducing sugars resulted at 90°C. Nutritive value of malted beverage was improved over control. Total soluble solids (TSS), viscosity, protein, fat, reducing sugar and total sugar of malted beverage was significantly increased as compared to control. Malted beverage was more organoleptically acceptable than control. Final beverage was made with 4 g malt, 25 g bengal gram and 15 g peanut per extract from 100 g barley with addition of sugar to 17°brix and homogenizing for proper mixing was autoclaved. Thus, malting could be an appropriate food-based strategy

Exploration of multitrait antagonistic microbes against Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici

Fusarium wilt is one of the major diseases of tomato causing extensive loss of production. Exploration of agriculturally important microbes (AIMs) for management of the tomato wilt is an ecofriendly and cost effective approach. In the present study, a total 30 Trichoderma and 30 bacterial isolates were screened in the laboratory for their biocontrol activity against Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici (FOL). Out of all the isolates tested, Trichoderma asperellum BHU P-1 and Ochrobactrum sp. BHU PB-1 were found to show maximum inhibition of FOL in dual culture assay. Both the microbes also exhibited plant growth promoting activities such as phosphate solubilisation, production of siderophore, hydrogen cyanide (HCN), indole acetic acid (IAA) and protease activity. These microbes could be evaluated further in greenhouse and field studies for their potential use in management of Fusarium wilt of tomato

Congenital anomalies in a tertiary care hospital in North East region, India

Background: Congenital anomalies are important cause of morbidity and mortality in newborns and are defined as structural and functional abnormalities including metabolic disorders present at birth. These defects are of prenatal origin resulting from defective embryogenesis or intrinsic abnormalities in the process of development and are associated with various risk factors.Methods: Our study is a cross sectional study done at Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal over period of 3 years from January 2015 to December 2017. Aim of study was to find out incidence of congenital anomalies and proportions of different types of congenital anomalies. Outcome was studied in relation to maternal age, religion, parity, and gestational age, sex of the baby, outcome and sex of the baby.Results: Total numbers of congenital anomalies were 257 babies out of 29879 births giving the incidence of 0.86%. Most common congenital anomalies in this study are musculoskeletal followed by craniospinal, genitourinary, cardiovascular and gastrointestinal. It was more common in preterm babies and parity 1-3, more common in 21-30 years of maternal age. Consanguinity was seen in 7 out of 257 patients.Conclusions: Congenital malformations are a major cause of still births and infant mortality. Targeted scan should be done at 18-20 week to find out anomalies and reduce the prevalence. There should be widespread education in the community regarding the common congenital malformations, their outcomes and possible available mode of treatmen

Synergistic effect on static and dynamic mechanical properties of carbon fiber-multiwalled carbon nanotube hybrid polycarbonate composites

Carbon fiber (CF) and multiwalled carbon nanotube (MWCNT)-reinforced hybrid micro-nanocomposites are prepared through melt mixing followed by injection moulding. The synergistic effect on both the static and dynamic mechanical properties with MWCNT/aMWCNT and CF reinforcement in a polycarbonate matrix is investigated by utilizing dynamic mechanical analysis, and flexural and tensile measurements. The enhancement in the flexural modulus and strength of the composite specimens as compared to pure PC for maximum loading of CF is 128.40% and 39.90%, respectively, which further improved to 142.94% and 42.60%, respectively, for CF-functionalized MWCNTs. Similarly, the storage modulus of the composite specimens reinforced with a maximum loading of CF and CF-functionalized MWCNTs show an increment of 176.57% and 203.33%, respectively over pure PC at 40 degrees C. Various types of parameter such as the coefficient C factor, degree of entanglement and adhesion factor have been calculated to analyze the interaction between fillers and the polymer matrix. Composite specimens containing 2 wt% of functionalized MWCNTs show a lower C value than the as-synthesized MWCNTs, which is indicative of a higher effectiveness of functionalized MWCNT-containing composite specimens. These results are well supported by optical microscopy and Raman spectroscopy by confirming the distribution of reinforcement

Customer Satisfaction in Life Insurance Market in Mizoram

This study is based on a customer survey which was limited to the policyholders of the Life Insurance Corporation of India (LIC) belonging to Mizoram, a small State of Northeast region in India. The main purpose of the study is to understand the perceptions and satisfactions of the LIC customers in respect of certain aspects such as the difficulties involved in obtaining personal loans from LIC, time required in completing a transaction in the branch office, employee behaviour, competitive products and complaining behaviour. LIC should continuously assess whether it possesses the right employee skills, motivation and customer oriented culture. This would enable the market leader in positioning its products in a right way so that customers get the value they are looking for

Phytochemical study of Hydroalcoholic extract of Mansoa alliacea (Lam.) Leaf

Today’s era of science in which everyone is busy to get luxurious life style, here the people of India have not much knowledge about actual effect of this plant. Today normally Mansoa alliacea (Lam.) used in many part of the world, but this plant is also found in Chattishgarh in India. Lahsun Bel or Jangali Lahsun are a very important folk medicine in India. Mansoa alliacea (Lam.) is an important drug is not namely mentioned in the traditional medicinal texts. It is a very efficacious plant remedy for the pain and inflammatory conditions like arthritis and rheumatism as well as it also can be used in cold, flu and fever. Generally leaves are used in form of infusion or decoction. Roots are used in the preparation of cold maceration and tincture andgenerally taken as a whole body tonic. The plant has antibacterial,anti-cholesterolemic, antifungal, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, anti-rheumatic, antispasmodic, antitussive and antiviral used traditionally. Whole part of Jangali Lahsun or Lahsun Bel are used for medicinal purpose. Pharmacognostic study or phytochemical investigation of these leaves has not been performed yet. The present work deals with the qualitative phytochemical evaluation of the leaf of Mansoa alliacea (Lam.) and establishment of its quality parameters

A study of congenital anomalies in a tertiary care hospital in North East region, India

Background: Congenital anomalies are important cause of morbidity and mortality in newborns and are defined as structural and functional abnormalities including metabolic disorders present at birth. These defects are of prenatal origin resulting from defective embryogenesis or intrinsic abnormalities in the process of development and are associated with various risk factors.Methods: Our study is a cross-sectional study done at Regional Institute of Medical Sciences, Imphal over period of one and half years from May 2016 to October 2017. Aim of study was to find out incidence of congenital anomalies and proportions of different types of congenital anomalies. Outcome was studied in relation to maternal age, religion, parity, gestational age, sex of baby, outcome and birth weight of baby.Results: Total numbers of congenital anomalies were 91 out of 13658 births. Incidence of congenital anomalies was 0.66%. Most common congenital anomaly was cleft lip (17.6%) followed by CTEV (13.2%) and was more common among male term babies. These were most common in 18-24 years of maternal age group (34.1%) followed by 30-34 years (26.4%) and among women of parity P0-P2.Conclusions: Congenital malformations are a major cause of still births and infant mortality. A level II targeted scan should be done at 18-20 weeks to find out anomalies and reduce the prevalence. There should be widespread education in the community regarding the common congenital malformations, their outcomes and possible available modes of treatment.

Mechanical, electrical and thermal properties of graphene oxide-carbon nanotube/ ABS hybrid polymer nanocomposites

Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), functionalized carbon nanotubes (FCNTs) and graphene oxide-carbon nanotube (GCNTs) hybrid Bucky paper (BP) reinforced acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) composites are prepared via vacuum filtration followed by hot compression molding. The nanomechanical, electrical and thermal properties of these BP reinforced ABS composites are studied. The nanoindentation hardness and elastic modulus of GCNTs-ABS hybrid composites reached to 389.98 +/- 91.79 MPa and 7669.6 +/- 1179.12 MPa respectively. Other nanomechanical parameters such as plastic index parameter, elastic recovery, the ratio of residual displacement after load removal and displacement at maximum load are also investigated. The improved nanomechanical properties are correlated with Raman spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). It is found that GCNTs and their composites showed the higher value of defect density. The maximum value of defect density range for GCNTs and GCNTs-ABS is (297.4 to 159.6) and (16.0 to11.6), respectively. The higher defect density of GCNTs indicates that the interfacial interaction between the ABS, which was further correlated with electrical and thermal properties. Additionally, the through-plane electrical conductivities of MWCNTs, FCNTs and GCNTs based ABS composites were 6.5 +/- 0.6, 4.5 +/- 0.7 and 6.97 +/- 1.2 S/cm respectively and thermal conductivities of MWCNTs, FCNTs and GCNTs reinforced ABS composites; 1.80, 1.70 and 1.98 W/mK respectively. These GCNTs-ABS composites with this value of thermal conductivity can be used in various applications of efficient heat dissipative materials for electronic devices

A Hierarchical Meta-model for Multi-Class Mental Task Based Brain-Computer Interfaces

In the last few years, many research works have been suggested on Brain- Computer Interface (BCI), which assists severely physically disabled persons to communicate directly with the help of electroencephalogram (EEG) signal, generated by the thought process of the brain. Thought generation inside the brain is a dynamic process, and plenty thoughts occur within a small time window. Thus, there is a need for a BCI device that can distinguish these various ideas simultaneously. In this research work, our previous binary-class mental task classication has been extended to the multi-class mental task problem. The present work proposed a novel feature construction scheme for multi mental task classication. In the proposed method, features ar

Structural and optical properties of ionic liquid based hybrid perovskitoid: a combined experimental and theoretical investigation

Herein, we report a novel layered lead bromide, (CH3CH2)3N+Br−(CH2)2NH+3)PbBr3, where bulky organic cations, (CH3CH2)3N+Br−(CH2)2NH+3), amino-ethyl triethyl ammonium [aetriea] were not only incorporated between the inorganic layers but also sandwiched within the inorganic [PbBr6]4− octahedral layered structure. The UV-Visible, photoluminescence spectroscopy (PL), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and a field-emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) result show that the new perovskitoid has a microrod shape with an estimated bandgap of ∼3.05 eV. The structural and optoelectronic properties of the [aetriea]PbBr3perovskitoid were further corroborated by first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) data show good stability of the [aetriea]PbBr3perovskitoid. Time-resolved photoluminescence (TRPL) decays from new [aetriea]PbBr3perovskitoid showing 6 ns average lifetime. These results suggest that doubly charged cation hybrid perovskite materials are potential candidates for optoelectronic applications