के मा प्रौ सं के विशाखपट्टणम अनुसंधान केंद्र का मात्स्यिकी क्षेत्र में योगदान

के मा प्रौ सं के विशाखपट्टणम अनुसंधान केंद्र का मात्स्यिकी क्षेत्र में योगदा

Is it worth treating category I failure patients with category II regimen?

Background: Very little information is available on the drug susceptibility profile among patients who are treated with standardized short-course chemotherapy regimens under programme conditions. Methods: Sputum samples were collected from new sputum smear-positive patients declared ‘failure’ after treatment with Category I regimen under tuberculosis control programme using DOTS strategy from a rural area of Tamil Nadu. Results: Of 1463 patients started on Category I regimen between May1999 and December 2002, 74 cases were declared as ‘failures’ (smear positive at 5/6 months of treatment). We collected sputum samples from 60 (81%) of 74 ‘failures’ and 27% (16 of 60) of them were culture-negative for M tuberculosis and 17% (10 of 60) had organisms resistant to Isoniazid and Rifampicin (MDR TB). Conclusion: Based on the drug susceptibility profile at the time of ‘failure’, treating Category I ‘failures’ with Category II regimen with close monitoring appears to be justified

Vaishnava Temples in the Scriptures of Thirumangaiyazhwar

Thiruvillipputtur, Periyazhavar temple’s gopuram is a symbol of Tamil Nadu, a state where Saivism and Vaishnavism flourished.  Vaishnava temples chanted by the twelve Aalwars are called Divya Desams and the temples chanted by the Thirumuraigal are called Thirumurai Thalangal.  Total there are 108 temples in Divya Desam. Of these there are 46 temples in the Chola country.  Tirumangai Alwar sang many songs about such sanctuaries. He is notable among the twelve Alwars. In this article titled "Vaishnava Temples in the Scriptures of Tirumangaiyazhwar", is said about the visit of Thirumangaiyazhwar to the shrines, and the fact that he saw the three three devotees in the temple and fell in love with them in devotional ecstasy and sang heartily about devotees and about the shrines. The article clearly states how Thirumangaiyazhwar has sung about Tirupati Perumal, Tirunaraiyur Nambi who excelled in the service of stone carvings, Tirucherai Saranathan who appeared as a groom and about Tirukannapurathan in his hymns

Low frequency 1/f noise in doped manganite grain-boundary junctions

We have performed a systematic analysis of the low frequency 1/f-noise in single grain boundary junctions in the colossal magnetoresistance material La_{2/3}Ca_{1/3}MnO_{3-delta}. The grain boundary junctions were formed in epitaxial La_{2/3}Ca_{1/3}MnO_{3-delta} films deposited on SrTiO_3 bicrystal substrates and show a large tunneling magnetoresistance of up to 300% at 4.2 K as well as ideal, rectangular shaped resistance versus applied magnetic field curves. Below the Curie temperature T_C the measured 1/f noise is dominated by the grain boundary. The dependence of the noise on bias current, temperature and applied magnetic field gives clear evidence that the large amount of low frequency noise is caused by localized sites with fluctuating magnetic moments in a heavily disordered grain boundary region. At 4.2 K additional temporally unstable Lorentzian components show up in the noise spectra that are most likely caused by fluctuating clusters of interacting magnetic moments. Noise due to fluctuating domains in the junction electrodes is found to play no significant role.Comment: 9 pages, 7 figure

In Vitro Effects of Antagonistic Microorganisms on Fusarium oxysporum [Schlecht. Emend. Synd & Hans] Infecting Arachis hypogaea L.

In  an  attempt  to develop  biocontrol  system  for  management  of Fusarium wilt in groundnut, Trichoderma viride, Trichoderma harzianum, and Pseudomonas fluorescens were evaluated for their antagonistic  activity against  Fusarium  oxysporum in vitro .The conidia of Fusarium oxysporum  were found  to  be inhibited by all the  three  antagonistic microorganisms. Among  them,  highest percent  inhibition of  conidial  germination was brought out  by Trichoderma viride [89.4%] followed by Trichoderma harzianum [85.7%] and Pseudomonas fluorescens [83.15%]and inhibition of radial mycelial growth were 86.6%, 84.0%,  60.0% respectively.This inhibition is due to the volatile and non volatile metabolites and cell wall degrading enzymes produced by Trichoderma spp . Antagonistic  activity of Pseudomonas  spp.against Fusarium oxysporum is mainly due to the antibiotics, Fe-chelating siderophores and hydrogen cyanide

ADVERTISEMENT EFFECTIVENESS: "IMPACT OF CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENT AND ADVERTISEMENT EFFECTIVENESS ON CONSUMER PURCHASE BEHAVIOUR"

Abstract Advertisement is the key for promoting any product or service to the consumer. It greatly attracts consumer to purchase product from the marketer. The usage of celebrity in advertainment strongly influence the purchase behaviour of consumer in long run. The presence of celebrity in an advertisement stimulate consumer and possessing him to purchase the product or service. The objective of the present study is to assess the role of celebrity endorsement and advertisement effectiveness in influencing consumer purchase behaviour in the city of Bangaluru. The study adopted stratified random sampling method and collected around 240 samples after segregating the city into four zones. To assess the celebrity endorsement 12 determinant have been observed which were factorised into two dominant factors, while advertisement effectiveness has been measured with eight variables which were factorised into two dominant factors namely Glorious and Transparency Factor and Hallmark and Significance Factor. The consumer purchase behaviour have been measured using ten determinants and are factorised into two factors namely Engrossment and Apprising Factor and Willingness and Involvement Factor. The outcome of multiple regression and SEM shows that both celebrity endorsement and advertisement effectiveness have significant influence on Consumer Purchase Intention of Celebrity Endorsed Product. It is suggested that market need to focus more on faithfulness and integrity of the advertisement which in turn attract and uphold the existing customer in long run. To enhance the reaches of the advertisement among the consumers, marketer should focus on positivity of the product contents

Diagnostics of gear faults using ensemble empirical mode decomposition, hybrid binary bat algorithm and machine learning algorithms

Early fault detection is a challenge in gear fault diagnosis. In particular, efficient feature extraction and feature selection is a key issue to automatic condition monitoring and fault diagnosis processes. In order to focus on those issues, this paper presents a study that uses ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) to extract features and hybrid binary bat algorithm (HBBA) hybridized with machine learning algorithm to reduce the dimensionality as well to select the predominant features which contains the necessary discriminative information. Efficiency of the approaches are evaluated using standard classification metrics such as Nearest neighbours, C4.5, DTNB, K star and JRip. The gear fault experiments were conducted, acquired the vibration signals for different gear states such as normal, frosting, pitting and crack, under constant motor speed and constant load. The proposed method is applied to identify the different gear faults at early stage and the results demonstrate its effectiveness

Preclinical Study of Siddha Drug Bosana Kudori Mathirai for it’s Anti-Ulcer, Anti-Spasmodic & Anti Diarrhoeal Activities.

“SIDDHA SYSTEM OF MEDICINE” is ancient medical system prevailed in southern parts of India. This system is put forward by great siddhars. Who were ancient scholars in spirituality medicine and alchemy. Siddha is a first system to emphasis. Health as the perfect state of physical, psycological, social and spiritual component of human being. The trial drug of Bosana Kudori Mathirai was selected for the elaborate study of its efficacy on Gunmam from the literature review physicochemical, biochemical, pharmacological, microbiological, instrumental analysis, it has been good, anti ulcer, anti spasmodic and anti diarrhoeal activity and hence be effective for Gunmam