Occurrence and extracellular enzyme potential of Actinomycetes of a thermoltalerant, northern region of Karanataka, Inida

Occurrence and extracellular enzyme activities of a thermotalerent actinomycetes isolated from thermal spring of compost pit area, hair, feathers dumping places and municipal wastes of Gulbarga and Bellary (Northern part of Karnataka) and tested their degradability against hair and feather. A total of 67 actinomycetes were isolated, out of these 57 actinomycetes screened exhibited amylase, protease, chitinase, cellulase and keratinase activity determined in the petriplate using on starch casein agar (SCA) and nutrient agar media (NA). Out of 57 actinomycetes, 50 isolates showed amylase, 54 protease, 50 chitenase, 52 cellulase and 41 isolates showed keratinase activities respectively. The Maximum keratinase activity shows VSAC-12, this study shows that the isolates were found to be capable using keratin substrates as sole source of carbon and energy for further investigation

A study on Extent of Participation and Perception of Farmers on Benefits of IWMP (Integrated Watershed Management Programme)

Watershed is a basin-like landform defined by highpoints and ridgelines that descend into lower elevations and stream valleys. Watershed development involves conservation, regeneration and judicious utilization of natural resources. It aims to bring about an optimum balance between the demand and use of natural resources so that they remain sustainable over time. Ex-post-facto research design was adopted for the study with the objective to find out the extent of participation of watershed farmers in Integrated Watershed Management Programme (IWMP) and to find out its benefits. Majority of the watershed farmers had medium level of participation in IWMP followed by low and high participation. The independent variables viz., age, education, farming experience, training received, socio-political participation, efficiency of group leadership, group cohesiveness, decision making pattern and hard work oriented-ness were found positively and significantly related with the extent of participation of watershed farmers in IWMP

Performance Enhancement of Cisc Microcontroller

Increase in the speed of the system always demands for a major alteration on the existing system, which result in overall cost of the implementation of a system. Generally, CISC controllers are used for control operations, which have large number of instruction sets and take a large amount for processing due to its multiple sizes. For very high speed of controlling these controllers may fail to operate properly. The alternate solution is the RISC controllers, which are considerably faster than the normal CISC controllers. But these controllers have got various limitations as less instruction operations, complex register operation, costlier than the CISC controller etc. The only solution to this problem is the enhancement to the operational speed of a CISC controller, by enhancing the overall controller operation. Additionally, today�s controller doesn�t support the floating-point operation for signal processing. The enhancement of existing CISC controller by pipelining the overall operational flow of a CISC microcontroller and it includes the enhancement of UART. This research work is to be implemented using VHDL language and simulated using Active-HDL tool for functional verification

A STABILITY-INDICATING AND VALIDATED REVERSE-PHASE HIGH-PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHIC METHOD FOR THE SIMULTANEOUS ESTIMATION OF PHENYLEPHRINE AND FEXOFENADINE IN BULK AND TABLET DOSAGE FORMS

ABSTRACTObjective: A simple and accurate stability indicating reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography method was developed and validatedfor the simultaneous estimation of phenylephrine and fexofenadine in pharmaceutical dosage forms.Methods: Chromatography was carried out on an ODS C-18 column (4.6 mm×250 mm, 5 µ particle size) with a isocratic mobile phase composed oforthophosphoric acid buffer, acetonitrile, (75:25% v/v) at a flow rate of 1 mL/minutes. The column temperature was maintained at 30°C and thedetection was carried out using a photodiode array detector at 210 nm.Results: The retention times for phenylephrine and fexofenadine were 2.096 minutes and 4.241 minutes, respectively. The percentage recoveriesof phenylephrine and fexofenadine were 100.63% and 99.84%, respectively. The relative standard deviation for assay of tablets was found to be<2%. The detection and quantification limits were found to be 0.10 and 0.31 µg/mL for phenylephrine and 0.01 and 0.03 µg/mL for fexofenadine,respectively.Conclusion: Thus, the method was fast, accurate, precise, and sensitive; hence, it can be employed for routine quality control of tablets containingboth drugs in quality control laboratories and pharmaceutical industries.Keywords: Phenylephrine, Fexofenadine, Stability indicating method, Validation method, Reversed-phase high performance liquid chromatography

An Efficient Fingerprint Identification using Neural Network and BAT Algorithm

The uniqueness, firmness, public recognition, and its minimum risk of intrusion made fingerprint is an expansively used personal authentication metrics. Fingerprint technology is a biometric technique used to distinguish persons based on their physical traits. Fingerprint based authentication schemes are becoming increasingly common and usage of these in fingerprint security schemes, made an objective to the attackers. The repute of the fingerprint image controls the sturdiness of a fingerprint authentication system. We intend for an effective method for fingerprint classification with the help of soft computing methods. The proposed classification scheme is classified into three phases. The first phase is preprocessing in which the fingerprint images are enhanced by employing median filters. After noise removal histogram equalization is achieved for augmenting the images. The second stage is the feature Extraction phase in which numerous image features such as Area, SURF, holo entropy, and SIFT features are extracted. The final phase is classification using hybrid Neural for classification of fingerprint as fake or original. The neural network is unified with BAT algorithm for optimizing the weight factor

An Efficient Fingerprint Enhancement Technique Using Wave Atom Transform and MCS Algorithm

AbstractFingerprints are widely and successfully used for personal identification. This is mainly due to their individuality, stability through life, uniqueness among people, public acceptance and their minimum risk of intrusion. Fingerprint technology is a biometric technique utilized to identify persons based on their physical traits. The physical patterns of this technique consist of ridges and valleys that exist on the surface of fingertips. Fingerprint images are direction-oriented patterns formed by ridges and valleys. The eminence of the fingerprint image is determined by the sturdiness of a fingerprint authentication system. In order to improve the limitations of existing fingerprint image enhancement methods an efficient technique is proposed to deal with low quality fingerprint images. The proposed methodology can be divided into three modules. In the first module, the fingerprint image is subjected to denoising process where Wave atom transform is utilized. After the completion of this process the image enhancement is performed with the help of optimization algorithm. In our enhancement approach, a Modified Cuckoo Search (MCS) algorithm is used as an optimizer. This helps to look for the best gray level distribution that maximizes the objective function

Integration of Object Oriented Host Program with Network DBMS

AbstractSeveral mapping techniques are in use for the storage of objects in Network Database Management System (NDBMS). Though there is a generation gap between the evolution of NDBMS and Object Oriented Technology (OOT), both are either analogous or complementary to each other. Therefore the mapping technique to map class diagram onto Bachman diagram has been evolved. Host program accessing the database and accessing the independent data file may differ in the number and use of attributes and classes. Hence along with the mapping techniques, the implementation subsets of structural and behavioral aspect are to be considered. Moreover, the persistent closure (connected dependent objects) is to be maintained during the storage and retrieval of the objects. Thus, the mere mapping technique is not sufficient for the storage and retrieval of objects as the host program has to establish the relevancy of the database with respect to its authorized subset. In this paper, we have made an attempt to develop a guidelines to assist the programmer to determine the closure of every mapped class and accordingly to design the persistent constructor and loader for the storage and retrieval of the objects respectively. The persistent closure is determined by the type of interrelationship (degree of cohesion) between objects (classes) is identified. For illustrative portion of the class diagram depicting the business process and its implementation in the NDBMS, a table containing the implemented classes with their connected classes is prepared, and then the guidelines are proposed to integrate object oriented host program to access the database through NDBMS

Impact of spermiogram and sperm function test in idiopathic recurrent pregnancy loss

Aims: To evaluate the role of sperm factors in idiopathic recurrent pregnancy loss cases. Methods: We recruited 100 male subjects where their female partners experienced 2 or more idiopathic pregnancy losses. Recurrent pregnancy loss (RPL) males were grouped into two groups RPL1 (individuals having 2 abortion) and RPL2 (individuals having more than 2 abortions). Fifty volunteers who had fathered child/children prior to the study without the history of recurrent pregnancy loss and unassisted pregnancies were considered as control group. We grouped RPL males into two categories age below 35 years and above 35 years to test whether age plays any role on RPL. Routine semen parameters and sperm function test were performed for all the subjects. Statistical analysis was performed using Independent- Samples T test. Results: Insignificant differences were observed in seminal volume, pH, motility and sperm count but vitality test scores were significantly lesser in both RPL groups when compared to control group. For all three sperm function test both the RPL group showed lesser scores when compare to control. RPL2 group showed more abnormalities when compared to RPL1 group. We did not identify any significant difference for any of the parameters between two age group of RPL males. Conclusion: Our results recommend the screening of both partners simultaneous in RPL cases for the better diagnosis and treatment