HETEROSIS STUDIES FOR YIELD AND YIELD COMPONENTS IN GREENGRAM [Vigna radiata (L.) Wilczek]

Twenty eight hybrids of greengram along with their eight parental lines in 8 x8 half diallel fashion excluding reciprocal crosses were studied to assess the extent of heterotic effects over mid and better parent for yield and nine component characters. Out of 28 F1 hybrids, two crosses BM-4 x PDM-139 and RMG-1035 x RMG-1045 showed superior per se performance with significant positive heterosis for seed yield and most of the yield contributing characters. IPM 99-125 X ML 131 exhibited high heterosis for100 seed weight and harvest index, where as cross RMG 344 X RMG -1045 showed excellent heterosis for plant height and pods per cluster. Based on heterotic studies, the best direct yield contributing character were pods per cluster, pods per plant, plant height, 100 seed weight and harvest index. These hybrids could be utilized for developing high yielding mungbean cultivars

Event Based Rumor Detection on Social Media for Digital Forensics and Information Security

Advancement in information technology such as social networking is on one side is powerful source of news and information and on other side have posed new challenges for those policing cybercrime. Cybercriminals and terrorists are spreading rumors that is unreal or even malicious information on social network which can bring massive panic and social unrest to our community. The rumor detection problem on social network has attracted considerable attention in recent years. A different type of rumors has different characteristics and need different techniques and approaches to detect. In this paper, we proposed an efficient approach to detect event based rumor on social media like Twitter. Experiment illustrates that our event based rumor detection method obtain significant improvement compared with the previous work

A Cross-Sectional Study to Assess Awareness and Practices Related to Prevention of COVID-19 Amongst Local Vendors around Medical and Dental Establishments

INTRODUCTION: Even as the world is returning to normalcy after COVID-19, there is still a need to be cautious and adopt proper hygiene practices and social distance norms. AIM: To assess the awareness and practices related to prevention of Covid-19 amongst local vendors around medical and dental establishments in Northern India. MATERIALS AND METHOD: This cross-sectional study was conducted over a period of  one month using a pre-tested and pre-validated questionnaire. Vendors near ten medical and dental establishments in north India were contacted by standardized volunteers to prevent bias. They were located within the range of 250 meters on both sides of these facilities through convenience sampling.  Data was coded, entered in MS excel, descriptive statistics were applied. Statistical tests included the student’s independent t-test and multiple logistic regression. P value was kept significant at <0.5 and software used was SPSS version 23.0. RESULTS: Most vendors were males (76.7%), were operating shops on rent (47.7%) and had passed middle school (40.2%). A Majority of them were aware of common symptoms (99.4%), while 90.1% were aware about the mode of transmission. All vendors knew about the availability of the vaccine (100%). and 78.2% of the vendors were fully vaccinated, while 04 (1.3%) were not vaccinated yet. However, only 60% (p=0.03) of the vendors practised hand washing, distancing from sick, no handshake, use a cloth while coughing/sneezing as preventive measures. CONCLUSION: There is still a need for continuous education of the food vendors regarding proper and hygienic practices as well as mask wearing to fight off this dreaded pandemic and return to normalcy as soon as possible