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A case study of the economics of a traditional prawn culture farm in the North Kanara district, Karnataka, India
Economics of a traditional prawn culture farm situated on the northern bank of Badagani river near Haldipur in the North Kanara district, Karnataka, India is studied. The farm extends over 0.78 hectare and has a single wooden sluice gate. Culture of Penaeus indicus, P. Monodon, Metapenaeus monoceros and M. Dobsoni was initiated in January and continued up to may 1979. The traditional practice of trapping and holding was followed in stocking the farm. In all, 375 kg of prawns valued at Rs. 10,470.00 !were harvested of which. 52% comprised P. indicus and P. monodon. A profit of Rs. 7,770.00 was earned by the entrepreneur after meeting expenditure on the farm. An overall review of the economics of prawn culture in the area is given
The Need for Compliance Verification in Collaborative Business Processes
Compliance constrains processes to adhere to rules, standards, laws
and regulations. Non-compliance subjects enterprises to litigation and financial
fines. Collaborative business processes cross organizational and regional
borders implying that internal and cross regional regulations must be complied
with. To protect customs’ data, European enterprises must comply with the EU
data privacy regulation (general data protection regulation - GDPR) and each
member state’s data protection laws. An example of non-compliance with
GDPR is Facebook, it is accused for breaching subscriber trust. Compliance
verification is thus essential to deploy and implement collaborative business
process systems. It ensures that processes are checked for conformance to
compliance requirements throughout their life cycle. In this paper we take a
proactive approach aiming to discuss the need for design time preventative
compliance verification as opposed to after effect runtime detective approach.
We use a real-world case to show how compliance needs to be analyzed and
show the benefits of applying compliance check at the process design stag
The Need for Compliance Verification in Collaborative Business Processes
Compliance constrains processes to adhere to rules, standards, laws
and regulations. Non-compliance subjects enterprises to litigation and financial
fines. Collaborative business processes cross organizational and regional
borders implying that internal and cross regional regulations must be complied
with. To protect customs’ data, European enterprises must comply with the EU
data privacy regulation (general data protection regulation - GDPR) and each
member state’s data protection laws. An example of non-compliance with
GDPR is Facebook, it is accused for breaching subscriber trust. Compliance
verification is thus essential to deploy and implement collaborative business
process systems. It ensures that processes are checked for conformance to
compliance requirements throughout their life cycle. In this paper we take a
proactive approach aiming to discuss the need for design time preventative
compliance verification as opposed to after effect runtime detective approach.
We use a real-world case to show how compliance needs to be analyzed and
show the benefits of applying compliance check at the process design stag
Collecfion of chickpea germplasm in Madhya Pradesh, India and their agronomic evaldation
Three-hundred-and-fifty-one seed samples of local chickpeas (Cicer arietinum L.) were collected in Madhya Pradesh, India, during 1986 and 1987 for the world germplasm collection maintained at ICRISAT Centre. These missions were joint efforts of the International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya(JNKVV), Jabalpur, and the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR), New Delhi. Vast variability was noticed for several morphoagronomic traits of chickpea during these missions. The collected samples were sorted out into relatively homogenous samples and later grouped into five homogenous sets for easy evaluation. These sets were evaluated for eight agronomic traits at ICR/SAT Centre (18°N) and Gwalior (26°N). The performance of accessions for seeds per pod and 100-seed mass were almost similar at both locations whereas other agronomic characters varied with locations. The accessions with superior performance in five sets and two locations were identified
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Aligning Monitoring and Compliance Requirements in Evolving Business Networks
Dynamic business networks (BNs) are intrinsically characterised by change. Compliance requirements management, in this context, may become particularly challenging. Partners in the network may join and leave the collaboration dynamically and tasks over which compliance requirements are specified may be consequently delegated to new partners or backsourced by network participants. This paper considers the issue of aligning the compliance requirements in a BN with the monitoring requirements they induce on the BN participants when change (or evolution) occurs. We first provide a conceptual model of BNs and their compliance requirements, introducing the concept of monitoring capabilities induced by compliance requirements. Then, we present a set of mechanisms to ensure consistency between the monitoring and compliance requirements when BNs evolve, e.g. tasks are delegated or backsourced in-house. Eventually, we discuss a prototype implementation of our framework, which also implements a set of metrics to check the status of a BN in respect of compliance monitorability
Sulforaphane Causes Epigenetic Repression of hTERT Expression in Human Breast Cancer Cell Lines
Sulforaphane (SFN), an isothiocyanate found in cruciferous vegetables, is a common dietary component that has histone deacetylase inhibition activity and exciting potential in cancer prevention. The mechanisms by which SFN imparts its chemopreventive properties are of considerable interest and little is known of its preventive potential for breast cancer. expression facilitated the induction of cellular apoptosis in human breast cancer cells.Collectively, our results provide novel insights into SFN-mediated epigenetic down-regulation of telomerase in breast cancer prevention and may open new avenues for approaches to SFN-mediated cancer prevention
Cellular Phenotype-Dependent and -Independent Effects of Vitamin C on the Renewal and Gene Expression of Mouse Embryonic Fibroblasts
Vitamin C has been shown to delay the cellular senescence and was considered a candidate for chemoprevention and cancer therapy. To understand the reported contrasting roles of vitamin C: growth-promoting in the primary cells and growth-inhibiting in cancer cells, primary mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEF) and their isogenic spontaneously immortalized fibroblasts with unlimited cell division potential were used as the model pair. We used microarray gene expression profiling to show that the immortalized MEF possess human cancer gene expression fingerprints including a pattern of up-regulation of inflammatory response-related genes. Using the MEF model, we found that a physiological treatment level of vitamin C (10−5 M), but not other unrelated antioxidants, enhanced cell growth. The growth-promoting effect was associated with a pattern of enhanced expression of cell cycle- and cell division-related genes in both primary and immortalized cells. In the immortalized MEF, physiological treatment levels of vitamin C also enhanced the expression of immortalization-associated genes including a down-regulation of genes in the extracellular matrix functional category. In contrast, confocal immunofluorescence imaging of the primary MEF suggested an increase in collagen IV protein upon vitamin C treatment. Similar to the cancer cells, the growth-inhibitory effect of the redox-active form of vitamin C was preferentially observed in immortalized MEF. All effects of vitamin C required its intracellular presence since the transporter-deficient SVCT2−/− MEF did not respond to vitamin C. SVCT2−/− MEF divided and became immortalized readily indicating little dependence on vitamin C for the cell division. Immortalized SVCT2−/− MEF required higher concentration of vitamin C for the growth inhibition compared to the immortalized wildtype MEF suggesting an intracellular vitamin C toxicity. The relevance of our observation in aging and human cancer prevention was discussed
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