THE IMPACT OF YOGIC PRACTICES ON SPECIFIC MATHEMATICAL AND PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS AMONG OBESE FEMALE STUDENTS IN INDIAN COLLEGES

This research set out to answer the question, "What effect does yoga have on physiological variables related to obesity among college learners in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu?" For this study, the researchers enlisted the help of thirty overweight female students from the Vinayaka Missions Research Foundation university in Salem, Tamil Nadu, India. Participating students came from five separate accredited universities and had ages ranging from eighteen to twenty-two. Thirty patients were split evenly involving an experimental group and a control group using a random selection process. Hence, fifteen subjects made up each group. The procedure for giving the test was explained to each participant

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Management of root-lesion nematode Pratylenchus coffeae in six commercial cultivars of banana through organic and inorganic amendments.

The field experiment was conducted over two crop cycles on six commercial cultivars: ‘Robusta’ (AAA), ‘Rasthali’ (AAB), ‘Poovan’ (AAB), ‘Nendran’ (AAB), ‘Karpuravalli’ (ABB) and ‘Monthan’ (ABB). The cultivars were planted in clay soil in a field infested with P. coffeae at National Research Centre for Banana (NRCB) farm in Podavur, Trichy. The experiment was laid out in a randomized block design. There were 6 treatments replicated three times with five beds per replication and eight plants per bed. The treatments were: T1: 25% FYM1 + 75% inorganic (urea) T2: 25% neem cake + 75% inorganic T3: 25% FYM + 25% neem cake + 50% inorganic T4: 25% FYM + 50% neem cake + 25% inorganic T5: 25% FYM + green manure + 75% inorganic T6: 100% inorganic (200 g N/434 g urea)The root-lesion nematode Pratylenchus coffeae is considered one of the economically important nematode pests of banana and is reported to have spread through infested corms. In India, the nematode is known to occur on banana and plantain in all the states of South India, Gujarat, Orissa, Bihar and Assam (Sundararaju 1996). Crop losses caused due to P. coffeae in cv. ‘Nendran’ were reported to be 25.4% (Sundararaju et al. 1999). Several chemical products have been developed to manage this nematode, but they are expensive, cause environmental pollution and are health hazards. Organic farming is gaining in importance because of its beneficial effects, notably reduced use of chemical fertilizer and improved soils (better physicochemical properties and increased beneficial micro flora). Organic amendments and plant residues have been showed to reduce plant parasitic nematodes in several crops (Singh and Sitaramaiah 1973, Vemana et al. 1999, Adekunle and Fawole 2002). However, few studies looked at the effect of organic and inorganic fertilisers on plant growth and yield in banana, and on plant parasitic nematodes. In the present study, the effect of organic and inorganic amendments were tested on six commercial cultivars of banana infested with P. coffeae

On the number of groups of a given order

AbstractLetting G(n) denote the number of nonisomorphic groups of order n, it is shown that for square-free n, G(n) ≤ ϕ(n) and G(n) ≤ (log n)c on a set of positive density. Letting Fk(x) denote the number of n ≤ x for which G(n) = k, it is shown that F2(x) = O(x(log4x)(log3x)2), where logrx denotes the r-fold iterated logarithm