Biopesticidal potential of green chemicals against Callosobruchus analis (f.) (Coleoptera: Bruchidae): Poster

Pulses have 20-27% proteins which is 2- 3 times higher than traditional cereals. These constitute the main source of proteins for developing countries, like India where per capita consumption of the animal protein is low, thus they are rightly considered the poor man’s meat. India is largest pulse consumer, importer and producer country of the world occupying an area of 228.47 lakh hectares with the production of 17380 million tones every year. With the United Nations declaration of 2016 as International Year of Pulses to replace the social evil of malnutrition by legume, the research pertaining to the biology and bio intensive management of bruchids pests has become increasingly important. Therefore, laboratory bioassay of essential oils which are regarded as “Green Chemicals” extracted from Zanthoxylum armatum DC., Rabdosia rugosa Wall. ex Benth, Artemisia maritima Linn. and Colebrookea oppositifolia Sm. by hydro distillation was carried out against Callosobruchus analis (F.) to evaluate biopesticidal potential in terms of oviposition and progeny deterrence and ovicidal activities. There was a significant difference in the number of eggs laid on treated and control sets and among the different treatments of essential oils. Z. armatum at 100 µl/ml allowed the bruchid to lay only 19.15±3.6 eggs as compared to 82.35±4.5 in control and proved to be most effective treatment with 76.74% oviposition deterrence. R. rugosa and A. maritima oil were found most effective in reducing the egg hatchability to 48.00±3.2 and 49.52±2.2% respectively at a lowest dose of 10 µl/ml. Egg hatching inhibition percentage increased with an increase in concentration of all the treatments. R. rugosa oil at 100 µl/ml proved to be most effective in reducing the adult emergence with 85.48% progeny deterrence followed by A. maritima showing 81.67% deterrence. All the tested essential oils revealed a wide range of bioactivities against the bruchid pest.Pulses have 20-27% proteins which is 2- 3 times higher than traditional cereals. These constitute the main source of proteins for developing countries, like India where per capita consumption of the animal protein is low, thus they are rightly considered the poor man’s meat. India is largest pulse consumer, importer and producer country of the world occupying an area of 228.47 lakh hectares with the production of 17380 million tones every year. With the United Nations declaration of 2016 as International Year of Pulses to replace the social evil of malnutrition by legume, the research pertaining to the biology and bio intensive management of bruchids pests has become increasingly important. Therefore, laboratory bioassay of essential oils which are regarded as “Green Chemicals” extracted from Zanthoxylum armatum DC., Rabdosia rugosa Wall. ex Benth, Artemisia maritima Linn. and Colebrookea oppositifolia Sm. by hydro distillation was carried out against Callosobruchus analis (F.) to evaluate biopesticidal potential in terms of oviposition and progeny deterrence and ovicidal activities. There was a significant difference in the number of eggs laid on treated and control sets and among the different treatments of essential oils. Z. armatum at 100 µl/ml allowed the bruchid to lay only 19.15±3.6 eggs as compared to 82.35±4.5 in control and proved to be most effective treatment with 76.74% oviposition deterrence. R. rugosa and A. maritima oil were found most effective in reducing the egg hatchability to 48.00±3.2 and 49.52±2.2% respectively at a lowest dose of 10 µl/ml. Egg hatching inhibition percentage increased with an increase in concentration of all the treatments. R. rugosa oil at 100 µl/ml proved to be most effective in reducing the adult emergence with 85.48% progeny deterrence followed by A. maritima showing 81.67% deterrence. All the tested essential oils revealed a wide range of bioactivities against the bruchid pest

Transgressing the Contours of Domesticity

Tracing the history of women, it becomes evident that all through the age-old practices, women have been expected of erasing their own identity in an environment where the male patriarch is the sole authority of the society. The society have targeted woman and made her understand that her ordeals are her destiny. Among a plethora of feminist writers, Yashpal has marked a niche in the literary world by unveiling the dreadful representation of women in the Indian society through his writings. His writings give an idea about his anxiety for the prejudices she faces in the Indian society. This paper proposes to highlight the retaliation of the female characters against gender discrimination by seeking an equal space and status for themselves. They break away from the conventional social norms, refuse to abide by the suffocating rules laid down by the traditionalist social order. His characters are customary born and brought up in a conventional milieu. Their consciousness to uphold the honour of the family does not stop them to unshackle themselves from the prejudiced value structure and annihilated cultural representation of gender in the pursuit of liberty and self-identity. The literary words of Yashpal voice the stubbornness of the women to not yield to the social norms and smash them completely. The paper elucidates how strongly they struggle to break away from subjugation and life of dilapidation

Terrorism as a Media Specific Event: Performative Frames of Uri and Pulwama Reportage in Indian News Media

The Uri attack in 2016 and the Pulwama attack in 2019 by terrorist in Jammu and Kashmir have brought to the center-stage the Kashmir conflict as a core issue between the two South Asian neighbors, India and Pakistan. This research analyzes the mediatized indulgence of terror in reporting of these two incidents in television and print media. The politics of representation in this analysis entails that these frames do not just involve reportage but an act of performance, how events are choreographed and predated on emotions and sentiments as cultural practices mobilizing its effective economy. This paper through the prism of media-industrial-terror complex draws upon the theory of critical events and focuses on how particular events – Uri and Pulwama activate and mobilize a discursive master narrative of Pakistan inspired/directed terrorism by ascribing a particular meaning to the war on terror. The semiotics of media reporting of Uri and Pulwama is analyzed through the tripartite motive quotient of gham (remorse), gussa (anger), and garv (pride)

FrameOUT and FrameOUTDB: A web based application and repository for the identification and analysis of frameshift mutations

Frameshift, one of the three classes of recoding, leads to waste of energy, resources and activity of biosynthetic machinery. In addition, some peptides, probably cycotoxic synthesized after frameshifts, results in diseases and disorders like muscular dystrophies, lysosomal storage disorders, and cancer. Hidden Stop Codons that occur naturally in coding sequences among all organisms, are associated with the early termination of translation for incorrect reading frame selection and help to reduce the metabolic cost related to the frame-shift events. Hidden stop codons and their association with numerous diseases. These codons are associated with the early termination of translation for incorrect reading frame selection and help to reduce the metabolic cost related to the frame-shift events. There are lots of appearances of hidden stops in mitochondrial genomes and we tried to study this putative event in mitochondrial genomes of vertebrates. To reduce this gap, this work presents an algorithmic web based tool to study hidden stops in frame-shifted translation for vertebrate mitochondrial genomes through respective genetic code system. FrameOUT (FO), an algorithmic web based application, predicts mutations in a user input sequence, be it a diseased or a normal sequence by implementation of Hidden Markov Model. FODB is a collection of all available Frameshift events and their association with various diseases

A Survey on Lock Screen for User Authentication Method in Android

1973 Motorola makes the first handheld mobile device. A gap was given until current smart phones started coming up in the 90s. Since then, it has been an avalanche of smart phones, with every manufacturer trying to fight for the greater market share. With Android at the helm of all the buzz, nobody gives a thought to the fact that these would resume of one?s identity. Take away somebody?s smartphone, and you have taken away a greater part of his life. This brings us to the whole security aspect of it. The measures which Smartphone manufacturers have taken to ensure their safety probably in the wrong hands still leaves a lot of questions and calls for analysis

Shadow Detection using DWT with Multi-Wavelet Selection & user Configurable Variance Parameters

Moving cast shadows are a noteworthy worry in today's execution from expansive scope of numerous vision-based observation applications in light of the fact that they exceedingly troublesome the item characterization assignment. A few shadow identification strategies have been accounted for in the writing amid the most recent years. They are for the most part partitioned into two spaces. One more often than not works with static pictures, though the second one uses picture arrangements, to be specific video content. Regardless of the way that both cases can be similarly dissected, there is a distinction in the application field. The main case, shadow identification strategies can be misused to get extra geometric and semantic signs about shape and position of its throwing article ('shape from shadows') and the restriction of the light source. While in the second one, the primary reason for existing is normally change discovery, scene coordinating or reconnaissance (for the most part in a foundation subtraction connection). In our examination we have fundamentally focusssed on the identification of shadow from the facilitating so as to move article through a video observation test multi-wavelet choice and client configurable difference parameters. In our test client can pick the diverse wavelets and change parameters. Edge model based super determination technique is utilized to improve results. Additionally the impact of advanced watermarking is concentrated on for the super-determined VOP(Video articles planes). Various experiments have been proposed and figured out a best system for video reconnaissance application. Our proposed super determination (SR) system gives preferred results over bilinear and bi-cubic routines

Deformation Effect on Proton Bubble Structure in N = 28 Isotones

Purpose: To study the effect of nuclear deformation on proton bubble structure of N = 28 isotones and and compare it with the spherical limits. The reduction of depletion fraction due to deformation can be explained by studying the relative differences in the central densities.Methods: In this work, we have employed relativistic Hartree-Bogoliubov (RHB) model withdensity-dependent meson-exchange (DD-ME2) interaction and separable pairing interaction. We have performed axially constrained calculations to investigate the deformed proton bubble structure in 40Mg, 42Si, 44S, and 46Ar, isotones of N = 28 shell closure.Results: We have observed that the nuclear deformation play againsts the formation of bubble structure. In the spherical limits, the isotones of N = 28 shell closure have pronounced bubble structure with large value of depletion fraction. But, the increase in deformation leads to the disappearance of bubble structure. The internal densities in deformed nuclei are found to increase with deformation which can be related to the decrease in depletion fraction.Conclusion: By using RHB model, we have investigated the ground state and proton bubble structure of N = 28 isotones. In 44S, and 46Ar, the 2s1/21d3/2 states get inverted due to the weakning of spin-orbit strength. Due to strong dynamical correlations, arising from deformation, the central depletion of proton density is greatly affected in these isotones. The decrease in depletion fraction can be related to increase in the internal density due to deformatio

Fault modeling and parametric fault detection in analog VLSI circuits using discretization

In this article we describe new model for determination of fault in circuit and also we provide detailed analysis of tolerance of circuit, which is considered one of the important parameter while designing the circuit. We have done mathematical analysis to provide strong base for our model and also done simulation for the same. This article describes detailed analysis of parametric fault in analog VLSI circuit. The model is tested for different frequencies for compactness and its flexibility. The tolerance analysis is also done for this purpose. All the simulation are done in MATLAB software

Role of closed subcutaneous drain in prevention of surgical site infection in perforation peritonitis

Background: Surgery for perforation peritonitis is associated with the highest rates of infective complications, especially surgical site infection. SSI occurs due to failure of obliteration of dead space during abdominal wound closure resulting in formation of hematoma and seroma collection in the surgical wound viz. abdominal wound in cases of perforation peritonitis. This acts as a good culture medium for bacterial organisms to grow and cause wound infection. The bacterial pathogens can be either from intra-abdominal sepsis or nosocomial in origin. Closed suction drains can be used effectively to eliminate dead space in the wound and evacuates the seroma or hematoma collection, thereby reducing chances of SSI and also helps in early detection of SSI by inspecting the nature of drain output. Aim was to evaluate the role of closed suction drains in prevention of SSI in cases of perforation peritonitis. Methods: Comparative study of 60 cases of perforation peritonitis divided into two equal groups (Group A patient with closed suction drain in subcutaneous space vs. Group B patient without closed suction drain). Outcomes of SSI were compared. Results: The incidence of SSI in Group A was 33% whereas in Group B was 70%. 40% cases in SSI in Group A whereas 76% cases of SSI in Group B developed wound dehiscence. Most cases of SSI was diagnosed on POD 2 for Group A and on POD 4 for Group B. Conclusions: The study supports use of closed suction drain in perforation peritonitis for prevention, early detection and appropriate management of SSI