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Growth of the king seerfish (Scomberomorus commerson) from the South East Coast of India
Length frequency data of Scomberomorus commerson collected from April 1984 to March 1987 from artisanal fisheries using three types of gill nets, hook and line, shore seine and shrimp trawls are analysed. Assuming that the length frequencies of combined gears will give distributions unaffected by selectivity data were pooled and analysed by the Bhattacharya method
Methods of shell cleaning and polishing
From very early time in the history of mankind molluscan shells have been used for various purposes. Primitive
man who lived in the cave used shells as ornaments, vessels and weapons. Ancient tribes used conch and triton
shells as trumpets to summon people
Effect of demonstration in transferring fish processing technology
A group of 28 fisherwomen who attended demonstration on three subjects, namely, preparation of fish wafers, fish pickles and fish soup powder showed significant knowledge and skill gain for all the three messages. The total knowledge and skill gain was maximum for preparation of fish wafers followed by that for preparation of fish soup powder and fish pickles
Relative retentivity of knowledge in fish processing by fisherwomen
Retention of knowledge in the preparation of fish pickle, fish wafers and fish soup powder for an experimental group of 20 fisherwomen selected from three fishing villages was studied. The knowledge retention immediately after exposure and also at intervals of 15 days and 30 days after exposure differed significantly
Two Parallel Finite Queues with Simultaneous Services and Markovian Arrivals
In this paper, we consider a finite capacity single server queueing model with two buffers, A and B, of sizes K and N respectively. Messages arrive one at a time according to a Markovian arrival process. Messages that arrive at buffer A are of a different type from the messages that arrive at buffer B. Messages are processed according to the following rules: 1. When buffer A(B) has a message and buffer B(A) is empty, then one message from A(B) is processed by the server. 2. When both buffers, A and B, have messages, then two messages, one from A and one from B, are processed simultaneously by the server. The service times are assumed to be exponentially distributed with parameters that may depend on the type of service. This queueing model is studied as a Markov process with a large state space and efficient algorithmic procedures for computing various system performance measures are given. Some numerical examples are discussed
Study of the relative effectiveness of extension methods in educating fisherwomen
Three experimental groups from three different fishing villages were selected and administered with three extension treatments on two messages, namely, production of fish wafers and fish pickles. There was a significant knowledge gain in the subjects taught through different extension methods. It was observed that lecture aided with slides induced maximum knowledge followed by lecture aided with charts and lecture alone. Among all, the young and highly educated women gained maximum knowledge
Training needs of traditional marine fishermen in Kerala
Training needs of 80 fishermen in 25 subject areas revealed a mean training need score of 23.0l; 95% wanted to get trained. The training needs were fairly strong in all subject areas, with the highest demand being for fishery engineering. Training need was also high for areas related to fishery technology. Most of the fishermen preferred to have the training at their own village, and in the months of June or July for an average period of 20.85 days. Education and income were positively related to intensity of training needs whereas age, number of family members, number of employed family members and experience in fishing were negatively correlated with it. These six variables explained 27 of the variance in training need intensity
Spatial fluctuations at vertices of epithelial layers: quantification of regulation by Rho pathway
In living matter, shape fluctuations induced by acto-myosin are usually
studied in vitro via reconstituted gels, whose properties are controlled by
changing the concentrations of actin, myosin and cross-linkers. Such an
approach deliberately avoids to consider the complexity of biochemical
signaling inherent to living systems. Acto-myosin activity inside living cells
is mainly regulated by the Rho signaling pathway which is composed of multiple
layers of coupled activators and inhibitors. We investigate how such a pathway
controls the dynamics of confluent epithelial tissues by tracking the
displacements of the junction points between cells. Using a phenomenological
model to analyze the vertex fluctuations, we rationalize the effects of
different Rho signaling targets on the emergent tissue activity by quantifying
the effective diffusion coefficient, the persistence time and persistence
length of the fluctuations. Our results reveal an unanticipated correlation
between layers of activation/inhibition and spatial fluctuations within
tissues. Overall, this work connects the regulation via biochemical signaling
with mesoscopic spatial fluctuations, with potential application to the study
of structural rearrangements in epithelial tissues.Comment: 8 pages, 3 figure
Waste to Energy
Incineration of municipal and industrial solid waste for the purpose of reducing the waste volume is not a new technology, but has not been used extensively in the United states. Landfi lls are the most common method of s olid waste disposal. Many of the existing nat ion's landfills are reaching their capacity and developing new landfills is becoming increasingly expensive. Municipalities and industries are now investigating the use of solid waste incinerators and some have constructed and started operation of these facilities. To help to stabilize or reduce the costs of these f a cilities, heat from the burning waste is used to generate steam and electricity.Industrial Engineering and Managemen
Transition metal chelates as accelerators for epoxy resin systems—studies with cobalt (III) acetylacetonate
Cobalt(III)acetylacetonate serves as an accelerator for anhydride curable epoxy resin system and the rate of curing is found to increase with enhanced concentrations of the metal chelate. There is also an appreciable reduction in the cure gel time. Kinetic studies based on thermal analytical techniques reveal that the overall curing process follows first order kinetics. Based on the kinetic results a cure schedule has been proposed. It is also observed that the electrical, mechanical, and thermal properties of the cured epoxy system are not altered by the presence of the metal chelate at the concentration studied
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