202 research outputs found

    Does vitamin E have a role in treatment and prevention of anemia?

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    Vitamin E is a highly effective fat-soluble vitamin with a variety of cellular membrane stabilizing-antioxidant and non-antioxidant functions. Vitamin E has been suggested to prevent the oxidation of polyunsaturated fatty acids in red blood cell (RBC) membrane, thus inhibiting the premature erythrocytelysis. Animal studies have shown that treatment with vitamin E results in increased number of colony forming units of erythroid precursors, enhanced erythropoiesis and improved blood hemoglobin levels in these animals. Several clinical trials have indicated that vitamin E might be used therapeutically as a potential erythropoietic agent for decreasing the premature erythrocyte hemolysis by reducing the fragility of erythrocytes. By this way, it improves the post-supplemental blood hemoglobin and hematocrit levels in some of the anemic human subjects, including low birth weight premature infants, Patients suffering from various types of inherited hemolytic anemia, chronic renal failure Patients on hemodialysis and apparently healthy mildly anemic subjects

    Quantifying The Tourism Potential And Satisfaction Of Tourists From Wildlife Tourism Destinations: A Study Of National Parks And Wildlife Sanctuaries Of J & K, UT Of India

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    Assessing the tourism potential of wildlife tourism destinations of Jammu and Kashmir is crucial for successful and sustainable tourism planning and development. Tourism potential indicates the development and success of tourism in various regions and destinations. The present study deals with the mathematical model evaluation of the tourism potential as well as SPSS (Statistical package For Social Sciences) of the wildlife tourism destinations of Jammu and Kashmir. The primary objective of the study is to evaluate the tourism potential of the wildlife destinations, Frequency of satisfied tourists and Satisfaction of tourists at wildlife destinations with the attributes of destinations. The model employs the weighted sum method (WSM) to calculate potential tourism values, for analyzing the frequency and satisfaction SPPS software was incorporated in the analysis for getting mean score. A simple random sampling technique with a structured questionnaire (N = 400) was used to accomplish the research objective. 15 wildlife sanctuaries and 4 national parks were taken into consideration were from the questionnaire were collected from the tourists. destination attributes (Environmental) got score 0.90-0.92 except E6 (Cleanness at destinations) which got lower grade. Followed by the Physical aspect of the destination such as Quality of Roads Availability of Food near Wildlife Destinations, Availability of local Cuisines and Availability of Multiple Cuisines (Grade Score in-between 80-90). In case of social and cultural attributes the results got the grades of 0.90 which very close to 1 that indicates that wildlife destinations of Jammu and Kashmir are having huge potential in social and cultural attractiveness. Overall, the findings determine the significance of enhancing the need to enhance the quality of destination attractiveness attributes like cleanness at wildlife destination, Availability of Tourist Information Centers, Availability of Shopping Facilities and Availability of General Market near Wildlife destinations Jammu and Kashmir to utilize the tourism potential of Wildlife Tourism Destinations of Jammu and Kashmir fullest. &nbsp

    Metacognitive Instruction and Students’ Achievement in Solving Mathematical Word Problems

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    Mathematics is considered as an important subject of elementary curriculum throughout the world due to its use in different fields of life. The compulsory component of mathematics is mathematical word problems. Word problems are considered as the difficult part of mathematics not only by students but mathematics teachers as well. Special teaching strategies are required to teach mathematical word problems to cope with the recent educational standards. Metacognitive instruction for teaching word problems has been proved affective by different educationists and researchers of world. Metacognitive instruction uses the hypothetical definition of metacognition, metacognitive knowledge and metacognitive skills and practicing of self addressed questions. Students are practiced to ask a series of self addressed questions while solving word problems about: understanding, connection, strategies, and reflection. The present study was an attempt to experiment metacognitive instruction for teaching mathematical word problems on sixth class students at Govt. High School Abbottabad and to check its effectiveness as compared to traditional method of teaching. The study used true experimental research design; specifically the pretest-posttest control group design with 80 subjects (40 + 40) and data was collected and analyzed by t-test and descriptive analysis. The finding of study proved metacognitive instruction as an effective method for teaching mathematical word problems at elementary level

    Impact Assessment of Covid-19 Pandemic on Perception and Travel Behavior of Tourists with Strategies for Resilient Recovery of Jammu And Kashmir, India

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    The purpose of this study is to investigate the influence of the Covid-19 pandemic on changes in tourist perceptions and travel behaviour when visiting Jammu and Kashmir during the unlocked phase of Covid-19. This study is intended to be nice. This pilot study included 208 travellers who were chosen on a non-probabilistic basis. A Chi-square test of goodness of fit, as well as content analysis, were performed on the collected data. According to the findings, the current COVID-19 epidemic will have an impact on travelers\u27 perceptions and behaviour intentions in terms of economic expenditure, health and hygiene, modes of buying, travel patterns, travel partners, and destination choices. Finally, the study\u27s important findings and practical implications for the management of the Covid-19 issue are detailed, and future research directions are offered based on the study\u27s findings and limitations. To the best of our knowledge, this paper is the first exploratory investigation of the effects that the Covid-19 health issue is projected to have on tourist travel behaviour in Jammu and Kashmir

    Assessment of Antimicrobial Competence of Epiphytes and Endophytes from Osmium basilicum and Trigonella foenum graecum

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    Plant-associated bacteria are an unexplored group of microorganisms that has enormous potential. These bacteria are the source of finding new antimicrobial substances. The present study aimed to isolate and characterize the epiphytes and endophytes from Osmium basilicum and Trigonella foenum graecum plants and to determine their antimicrobial potential against pathogenic bacteria from Nishtar Hospital Multan, Pakistan. The sum of 18 stems and roots along leaf specimens were assembled as of the plant\u27s Osmium basilicum plus Trigonella foenum graecum as of the distinct locales of the Multan city. Overall 73 bacterial strains were isolated and their colony morphology, gram staining, spore staining, and characterization were done. Further 10 epiphytic strains and 14 endophytic strains were selected based on their antimicrobial potential intended for a thorough examination. The activity of the selected microbial isolates was determined against pathogenic bacteria K.pneumoniae, MRSA, E.coli, S .aureus, S.typhimurium as of Nishtar hospital. Out of all strains, only one epiphytic and two endophytic bacterial isolates (methanolic extracts) (obr, obl3, and tfen2 were isolated from root, leaf, and root of Osmium basilicum and Trigonella foenum graecum correspondingly inhibited altogether gram-positive besides gram-negative pathogenic microbes involved in this investigation. The hunt to find novel compounds from plant bacteria will open new horizons in the industrial and agricultural sectors

    Impact of television advertisement on unhealthy weight control behaviors and eating disorders: mediating role of body image

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    This research is conducted to analysis the impact of Television Advertisement on Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors and Eating Disorder with the mediating role of Body Image. The research is conducted to analyze the mediating impact of body image satisfaction on the relation of other variables. This research is conducted from the urban population of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. A Total of 280 questionnaires were floated in the population, out of which 267 were received back. The data was analyzed by employing correlation dn regression analysis. The results showed that body image partially mediates the relationship between Television Advertisement and Unhealthy Weight Control Behaviors and fully mediate the relationship between Television Advertisement and Eating Disorder. This research will help marketers to analyze the dynamics of advertisement and also in understanding the negative outcomes of their certain practices

    EWOM and brand awareness impact on consumer purchase intention: mediating role of brand image

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    The basic purpose of this research is to analyze the impact of electronic word of mouth (eWOM) and brand awareness on customer purchase intention with the mediating role of brand image. The research is conducted to analyze the full or partial role of mediator on the said relationship. This research is basically conducted on customers of mobile users of Rawalpindi and Islamabad. To check this relationship a total of 300 questionnaires were floated in four universities of twin cities, of which 262 questionnaires with a response rate of 87.33% were received back on which mediation analysis has been performed. The results show full mediating impact of brand image on Electronic Word of Mouth (eWOM) and customer purchase intention relationship, while partial mediating role of brand image on relationship of brand awareness and customer purchase intention has been observed. This research will help marketers in implementing better marketing techniques for boosting customers purchase intention

    Impact of egg size on the quality of eggs, chicks, and post hatch overview of offspring during the mid stage of yield (45th week) in Hubbard broiler breeders

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    Background: Egg size is the most significant component in influencing the performance of the laying flock. Though commercial broiler farming is in operation, little is known about how breeder hatching egg size at mid (45 week) stage of production period affects on egg quality, chick quality and post-hatch Hubbard broiler performance.Methods: At the age of 45 weeks, hatching eggs (n=930) from a commercial broiler breeder flock were collected and classified into three egg weight categories: small (60.25±0.25g), medium (65.10 ± 0.31g), and large (70.07 ± 0.61g). These eggs more classified into 2 categories, eggs for quality parameters and eggs for incubation & posthatch performance parameters.Results: Eggs from the small egg group had a higher shell weight percentage. The shape index and specific gravity were impacted by egg size, with larger eggs having lower values. Both male and female chicks' weight and length were significantly influenced by egg size. Data of the body weight gain indicated that as broilers age, the influence of egg size on post-hatch performance of chicks’ decreases. Up until age 21, female chicks' body weight gain was highly influenced by egg size. The feed conversion ratio of female chicks at day 21 of life was considerably impacted by various egg-weight categories, while it had no effect on male and female chicks at day 35.Conclusion: Egg size favourably influenced the features of the chicks (weight and length) but had no impact on the broilers' final live body weight, feed conversion ratio, feed consumption, or mortality

    Game chromatic number of Cartesian and corona product graphs

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    The game chromatic number χg\chi_g is investigated for Cartesian product G□HG\square H and corona product G∘HG\circ H of two graphs GG and HH. The exact values for the game chromatic number of Cartesian product graph of S3□SnS_{3}\square S_{n} is found, where SnS_n is a star graph of order n+1n+1. This extends previous results of Bartnicki et al. [1] and Sia [5] on the game chromatic number of Cartesian product graphs. Let PmP_m be the path graph on mm vertices and CnC_n be the cycle graph on nn vertices. We have determined the exact values for the game chromatic number of corona product graphs Pm∘K1P_{m}\circ K_{1} and Pm∘CnP_{m}\circ C_{n}
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