Marketing System and Efficiency of Indian Major Carps in India

The Kolleru Lake area (KLA) in Andhra Pradesh being a predominant centre for carp culture is known as the ‘Carp Pocket of India’. This paper has described the highly efficient fish marketing system prevalent in the KLA and has compared it with the marketing of Indian Major Carps (IMC) in other major aquaculture states like West Bengal and Orissa and marine states like Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu. The marketing channels, market intermediaries, price spread and marketing efficiency have been presented. A comparison of the marketing channels at several fish markets has revealed that the price spread for IMC from Kolleru is highest at the Mumbai market and lowest at the Coimbatore market. Consequently, fishermen’s share in consumer price has been found highest for Coimbatore at 61.54 per cent and lowest for Mumbai at 47.06 per cent. Similarly, the marketing efficiency was the highest for Coimbatore at 2.60 and lowest for Mumbai at 1.89. Retail price for KLA carps has been found lower than locally cultured carps at various areas, reflecting the efficiency of the marketing channel in providing cheap fish transported over large distances and through a large number of intermediaries. The reasons for the efficient IMC marketing system at KLA have been discussed and the study has recommended the development of efficient fish marketing system in other parts of the country.Agricultural and Food Policy,

Dry Port Location Factor Determination using Delphi in Peninsular Region

Locating a dry port depends on various criteria such as distance, modes of transport, cost associated, environmental, geographical, and social concerns. The paper\u27s primary purpose is to identify the location-specific attributes impacting dry port locations, particularly in peninsular India, where seaports are very close to each other. The paper\u27s objective has been achieved through a four-cycle Delphi survey and criticality through linear ranking and consistency through Kendall’s ‘W’. Initially, the criteria are identified through a systematic literature survey. They are then sieved within a focus group consisting of five experts with experience of more than twenty years in port operations. Final vetting of the criterion is done through a Delphi survey; the experts with a mutual interest in the subject but from different backgrounds are included. The final vetted list is determined. In the last two rounds of the survey, the rankings were determined, a consensus was reached, and the final rank was obtained. The results indicate that proximity and economic criteria are the most crucial in the chosen geography, which contradicts the developed regions, where the environmental criterion dominates. However, the environmental criteria have been ranked third. Even though the Delphi method is an age-old method used in many literatures in different contexts, it is not used in a dry port problem in the peninsular region. Consensus building is significant in strategic decisions, like dry port location selection. Since this study involves multiple stakeholders from diverse backgrounds and a subjective opinion was required, the Delphi method and linear ranking have been adopted

Irreducible tensor approach to spin observables in the photoproduction of mesons with arbitrary spin-parity s{sup {pi}}

A theoretical formalism leading to elegant derivation of formulas for all spin observables is outlined for photoproduction of mesons with arbitrary spin-parity sπ. The salient features of this formalism, based on irreducible tensor techniques, are (i) the number of independent irreducible tensor amplitudes is 4(2s+1), (ii) a single compact formula is sufficient to express these amplitudes in terms of allowed electric and magnetic multipole amplitudes, and (iii) all the spin observables, including beam analyzing powers as well as the differential cross section, are expressible in terms of bilinear irreducible tensors of rank 0 to 2(s+1). The relationship between the irreducible tensor amplitudes and the helicity amplitudes is elucidated in general and explicit expressions for the helicity amplitudes are given in terms of the irreducible tensor amplitudes in the particular cases of pseudoscalar and vector meson photoproduction. The connection between the irreducible tensor amplitudes introduced here and the well-known Chew-Goldberger-Low-Nambu amplitudes for photoproduction of pseudoscalar mesons is also established

Empirical Determination of Threshold Partial Wave Amplitudes in pp→ppωp p \to p p \omega

Using the model independent irreducible tensor approach to $\omega$ production in $pp$ collisions, we show theoretically that, it is advantageous to measure experimentally the polarization of $\omega$, in addition to the proposed experimental study employing a polarized beam and a polarized target.Comment: 6 pages, 1 Table, Latex-2

To implement an Analyzer for evaluation of the performance of Recent Web Development Frameworks

Everything you see, click, and interact with on a website is the work of front-end web development. Client-side frameworks and scripting languages like JavaScript and various JS libraries like AngularJS, jQuery, Node.js, etc. have made it possible for developers to develop interactive websites with performance improvement. Today the use of web is raised to such an extent that web has evolved from simple text content from one server to complex ecosystem with various types of contents spread across several administrative domains. This content makes the websites more complex and hence affects user experience. Till now efforts has been done to improve the performance at server side by increasing scalability of back-end or making the application more efficient. The performance of client side is not measured or just tested for usability. Some widely used JavaScript benchmark suites for measuring the performance of web browsers. The main focus of such a benchmark is not to measure the performance of a web application itself, but to measure its performance within a specific browser. There is wide variety of literature being available to measure the complexity of web pages and determining the load time. The aim behind our project is that to characterize the complexity of web pages built using different web development technologies like AngularJS, jQuery, AJAX (Client side web development technologies) so as to compare and analyze the usage of proper web development technique. In this paper we have used AngularJS as a case study to evaluate its performance against other frameworks like jQuery and AJAX

FUNGUS MEDIATED SYNTHESIS OF SILVER NANOPARTICLES USING ASPERGILLUS FLAVUS AND ITS ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY AGAINST SELECTIVE FOOD BORNE PATHOGENS

In the present study, the aqueous extract of Aspergillus flavus was employed for the mycosynthesis of silver nanoparticles (AgNps). The fungal extract of A. flavus acts as a reducing agent for the synthesis of AgNps. The biologically synthesized AgNPs was well characterized using various techniques such as, UV–Visible spectrophotometer, TEM, EDX and XRD. The synthesized AgNPs was found to be spherical in shape with a size range between 10 to 40 nm, and presence of elemental silver was also confirmed by the EDX spectrum. The mycosynthesized AgNps showed great extent of antibacterial property against the selected food borne pathogenic strains. The results obtained revealed that the maximum antibacterial activity of AgNPs was found against B. subtilis followed by S. aureus. From the present study results, it is clear that the synthesized AgNPs possessing good antibacterial activity could be more effective in applications such as antibacterial food packaging materials. Keywords: Aspergillus flavus, AgNPs, Antibacterial activity, TE

Micro Expression Spotting through Appearance Based Descriptor and Distance Analysis

Micro-Expressions (MEs) are a typical kind of expressions which are subtle and short lived in nature and reveal the hidden emotion of human beings. Due to processing an entire video, the MEs recognition constitutes huge computational burden and also consumes more time. Hence, MEs spotting is required which locates the exact frames at which the movement of ME persists. Spotting is regarded as a primary step for MEs recognition. This paper proposes a new method for ME spotting which comprises three stages; pre-processing, feature extraction and discrimination. Pre-processing aligns the facial region in every frame based on three landmark points derived from three landmark regions. To do alignment, an in-plane rotation matrix is used which rotates the non-aligned coordinates into aligned coordinates. For feature extraction, two texture based descriptors are deployed; they are Local Binary Pattern (LBP) and Local Mean Binary Pattern (LMBP). Finally at discrimination stage, Feature Difference Analysis is employed through Chi-Squared Distance (CSD) and the distance of each frame is compared with a threshold to spot there frames namely Onset, Apex and Offset. Simulation done over a Standard CASME dataset and performance is verified through Feature Difference and F1-Score. The obtained results prove that the proposed method is superior than the state-of-the-art methods