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A Study on The Utilization of Lactic Acid Bacteria Fermented Sea Weed As Aqua Feed For Growth and Disease Resistance in Oreochromis Niloticus
Consumption of fermented foods are known to provide various health benefits. Fermentative microbes present in traditional foods are reported to confer health benefits. The present study was aimed to isolate a novel potent probiotic strain from the homemade fermented Indian recipe Moor Kuzhambu and Pickle, and its characterization to elucidate the efficacy of isolate in cholesterol and heavy metal reduction. Cultures isolated from Pickle (CK2) and Moor Kuzhambu (CK3) were newlineidentified as different strains of Pediococcus pentosaceus using 16S rDNA newlinesequence based bacterial identification method. The isolated strains exhibited newlinetolerance to gastric juice and was able to exhibit a broad range of tolerance to newlinevarying temperatures, pH, NaCl, solvent, phenol, trypsin, and artificial gastric newlinejuice. Cell surface studies such as auto aggregation, co-aggregations, and cell newlinesurface hydrophobicity determined the ability of the strains to aggregate on to intestinal cell surface and manifest competitive pathogen displacement. Remarkable biofilm reduction of 48% to 80% was observed in the probioticsupplemented samples. Similarly, a reduction of 80% to 85% free cholesterol was newlinenoted in cholesterol assimilation assays, and heavy metal (Cu+, Pb+, Zn+ and Fe+) newlineassimilation ability was observed. Pediococcus pentosaceus MK459541 strain newlineCK2 and (MK459539) CK3 were assessed for EPS synthesis, structural characteristics, antioxidant properties and heavy metal assimilation abilities. Maximum yield of EPS was observed in carbon source Xylose for CK3 and fructose for CK2. Similarly, EPS production was found to maximum when bacteria newlinewere supplemented with meat extract (CK2) and yeast extract (CK3). FTIR results exhibited the presence of functional groups such as Imine/Oxime group, carboxylic group, Halo groups, Nitro compounds, etc. Further studies on EPS CK2 and EPS CK3 revealed a strong antioxidant capacity of 73.92% to 97.75%. Heavy metal assimilation ability of the EPS was found to be strong and in decreasing order as follows Cu+, Fe+ and Zn+. -
A study on the voting patterns and the impact of Kormangala smart votescampaign in ward 151, Kormangala , Bangalore /
The study on the voting patterns and the impact of Koramangala Smart Votes campaign, in Koramangala Ward 151, Bangalore. This aims at studying the voting pattern of the residents of Koramangala from two wards 151 and 147. Koramangala Smart Votes, a campaign which was conducted by the Smart Vote members to help the residents vote and vote for a right candidate by distributing profiles and organizing debates connecting the residents and the contesting candidates. The impact of this campaign has been assessed with the help of Lok Sabha and BBMP elections 2010 and the voter turn out in wards 151 and 147. To measure the impact, the researcher has done a quantitative and comparative study among the residents of wards 151 and 147 with a sample size of 60 respondents from each ward. It could be observed that Education helps to create better democratic environment and the Koramangala Smart Votes campaign was fairly successful in getting the residents to vote for the BBMP elections 2010. -
A study on the weak form efficiency of metals & mining sector in bse
This study has been conducted to observe whether the weak form of efficiency holds true when the Metals & Mining sector is examined for the same. Data is collected for a 5 year period which ranges from 1st April 2014 to 31st March 2019. A total of 1232 observations have been taken from the three selected companies of the Metals & Mining sector of the BSE, namely, Coal India Ltd, Hindustan Zinc Ltd and JSW Steel Ltd. Jarque-Bera test is used to check whether the data is normally distributed or not. Augmented Dickey Fuller test has been used to establish whether the data series possesses stationarity or not. Finally Runs test and Autocorrelation tests are used to check whether the Metals & Mining sector of BSE is weak form efficient or not through the three representative companies. Upon analyzing the data through Runs Test, except for JSW Steel Ltd, the other two companies are identified to contain randomness in their data series. Autocorrelation test also suggests that the future stock prices can be predicted only to a minimal extent for the three representative companies. Based on the derived results, it is concluded that the Metals & Mining sector of BSE does not contain any statistical dependencies between its past and future stock prices and it is found to be weak form efficient. 2021, Badebio Biotechnololgy Ltd. All rights reserved. -
A STUDY ON UPPER DEG-CENTRIC GRAPHS
The upper deg-centric graph of a simple, connected graph G, denoted by Gud, is a graph constructed from G such that V (Gud) = V (G) and E(Gud) = {vivj : dG(vi, vj) ? degG(vi)}. This paper introduces and discusses the concepts of upper deg-centric graphs and iterated upper deg-centrication of a graph. I??k University, Department of Mathematics, 2025; all rights reserved. -
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A Study on Upper Domatic Number and Its Variants in Graphs
For a graph G = (V, E), a vertex partition and#8673; = {V1, V2, . . . , Vk} is an upper domatic partition if Vi dominates Vj or Vj dominates Vi or both, for every Vi, Vj 2 and#8673;, whenever i 6= j. The upper domatic number D(G) is the maximum order of an upper domatic partition of G. This thesis consists of studies on upper domatic number and its variants in graphs. The bounds of D(G) in terms of order, size, !(G) and #(G) are established. The class of graphs with equal upper domatic newlinenumber and clique number is characterised. The relation between upper domatic number and minimum degree of the graph is explored. The case when the upper domatic number and domatic number are equal is investigated and the graphs for which D(G) and the domatic number d(G) coincide are characterised. Apart from the relation between the D(G) and other graph parameters, the upper domatic number of some special classes of graphs including unicyclic graphs, complement of cycles and powers of graphs is determined. Transitivity, Tr(G), a variant of upper domatic number is defined as the maximum number of sets in a vertex partition {V1, V2, . . . , Vk} such that Vi dominates Vj where 1 i lt j k. The results from the study on this concept include characterisation of graphs with transitivity at least k, exact values of transitivity of few classes of graphs, few upper bounds of transitivity of graphs, the transitivity of trees and an algorithm to determine the same. Along with this, the concept of total upper domatic number is introduced as a new variant of upper domatic number. The total upper domatic number is the maximum order of a total upper domatic partition of G which is an upper domatic partition such that the graph induced by each partite set does not contain any vertex of degree zero. Basic properties and bounds of upper domatic number in terms of order and maximum degree are discussed. Further, the total upper domatic number of some special classes of graphs is determined. -
A Study on Wear Behavior of Al7075, Boron Fiber and Silica Particle Reinforced HMMC
The purpose of this work is to ascertain development and wear characteristics of hybrid aluminum composites (Al7075) reinforced with silica particles and boron fiber, which could lead to application within high-performance applications. Hybrid composites fabricated by using the liquid metallurgy. Silica content was varied at 0%, 2%, 4%, and 6% by weight, while the boron fibers were used at 1%, 3%, 5%, and 7% by weight. The dry sliding conditions wear tests were executed with the following parameters: load (1040 N) & sliding velocity (0.52.0m/s). Results showed that the composites with 4% silica and 5% boron fibre revealed a 28% decrease in wear loss at 10 N compared to Al7075, indicating a maximum improvement in wear resistance. By performing statistical analysis with ANOVA, the loads were found to be the major contributor of 48.02% to wear loss, followed by silica content and sliding velocity as 24.91% and 22.38%, respectively. SEM confirmed uniform dispersion of reinforcement, very low porosity, and good interfacial bonding. It is observed that hybrid Al7075 composites exhibit enhanced strength and wear resistance, thus well suited for severe applications requiring light weight, tough materials. The Institution of Engineers (India) 2025. -
A Study on Women Consumers' Preferences Towards Visual Media (With Reference to Chennai City)
Journal of Business Management & Social Sciences Research, Vol-1 (3), pp. 38-49. ISSN-2319-5614 -
A Study on Work Engagement among the School Teachers
Work engagement is a measurable degree of an persons positive or negative emotional attachment to their job, colleagues and organization which profoundly influences their willingness to learn and perform at work. Now a days it is observed that the commitment and dedication of the teachers in their profession as decreasing. It is also seen that teacher turnover is also becoming high. Even though the teachers in the schools were paid good, the turn over seems to be increasing. The study here tries to investigate the relationship with the work engagement and the socio demographic characteristics of teachers where the demographic variables could explain the relationship between the dimensions of work engagement. Descriptive research design is being used in the study . This design is helpful to identify the socio demographic characteristics and its relationship between the Work engagement among School teachers . The sample consisted of 100 school teachers who having more than one years of experience and the sample was selected by using the convenient sampling method. The study was done using the UWES Scale developed by Wilmar Schaufeli and Arnold Bakker in 2003 and nineteen other questionnaires were developed to know the other factors contributing to work engagement. The resourceful work environment can foster teachers work engagement. Consequently, the study shows that the older experienced married teachers shows the high level of work engagement where the educational qualification has no much role in it. This means that the young generation is not much interested in the profession with a a passion rather than they themselves consider it as a job. The work engagement can be increased among them through making interventions like improving and enhancing effective job and personal resources. -
A Study on work engagement of secondary school teachers in relation to their psychological well-being, leadership behaviour of principals and organizational health
Organizational success is determined by work engagement and psychological well-being of the workforce. Efficient leadership and a healthy teaching environment determine the professional conduct of school teachers. Work engagement not only reflects teachers performance but also implies the performance of pupils and the school. Work engagement depends on the congeniality of the working conditions. The present study explores work engagement of 516 secondary school teachers working in Bengaluru, India. The Work and Well-being survey (UWES) was used to measure teachers work engagement by assessing their vigour, dedication, and absorption. The scale of psychological well-being scale (developed by Ryff) was employed to evaluate in terms of self-acceptance, positive relation with others,autonomy,environmental mastery, purpose in life and personal growth.The leadership behaviour of principals questionnaire was used to measure in terms of consideration and initiating structure. The Organizational health Inventory was employed to quantify the Organizational health at the institutional, managerial, and technical levels. Results from the regression analysis suggest that work engagement of teachers was positively correlated and significantly influenced by psychological well-being, leadership behaviour of principals and organizational health. -
A study on work engagement of secondary school teachers in relation to their psychological well-being, leadership behaviour of principals and organizational health /
Organizational success is determined by work engagement and psychological well-being of the workforce. Efficient leadership and a healthy teaching environment determine the professional conduct of school teachers. Work engagement not only reflects teachers’ performance but also implies the performance of pupils and the school. Work engagement depends on the congeniality of the working conditions. The present study explores work engagement of 516 secondary school teachers working in Bengaluru, India. -
A study to identify Critical Factors affecting Performance of Low Cost Airlines in India
The main objective of the study is to identify the critical factors affecting performance of low cost airlines in India For this purpose, the research focused on the low cost airline industry with regards to their macro environment, its strategic aspects and an analysis of the industry The study incorporated the Porters Five Forces Model to study the five forces having an impact on the industry and thus directing a firms strategic actions The study also conducted an industry analysis from the point of view of travel agents through questionnaire A customer satisfaction survey was also done to know their satisfaction levels and loyalty to a particular airline. This is achieved by the adoption of primary research techniques including surveys and interviews of the industry specialist and customers and secondary research including reading the existing literature on the subject, industry reports and articles published in journals A critical analysis of the industry highlighted the factors having an impact on the industry as a whole The porters five forces analysis revealed the current and future trends for the industry and provided an understanding for future survival strategies for the airlines. Industry professionals state that the Airline industry is in infancy stage They have a long way to go The factors such as airport infrastructure, massive expansion plans, aggressive growth strategies, demand and supply patterns and the exchange rate mechanism affects their performance But the highest factor restricting the growth of any airline is the high price of ATF All the three- industry professionals, travel agents and consumers believe that LCCs have benefited the industry providing low fares and making air travel affordable They are quite positive about the times ahead and hope that the industry will bounce back Consumers are quite satisfied and content with the offerings As suggested by a consumer that they should be named as ??value for money airlines and not LCCs The Porters Five Forces analysis revealed that there are high entry barriers as this is a highly capital intensive industry and that buyers and suppliers both have high bargaining power There is moderate threat of substitute like railways looking at the future potential of the aviation sector The analysis further revealed that the market is highly competitive with very few players and to reach the customers expectations the players have to cut their prices most often thus creating an imbalance in the cost and revenue Also, unhealthy competitive practices prevail in the industry which hamper the overall growth process and thus affect the performance The research provided insight on the future opportunities and the several future industry success and survival factors The research also gives further scope of the study and thereby concludes that there needs to be a consensus so that both the regulatory bodies and the airlines are benefited thus promoting growth and prosperity of the country. Dissertation Layout: The first chapter of the dissertation titled ??Introduction primarily covered a range of aspects from history to the LCC situation globally and then following it traces to India thus leading to the statement of the problem and the objectives of the study The second chapter ??Review of Literature covered the previous research on the factors impacting the performance of low cost airlines The third chapter ??Research Methodology covered the data collection process, sampling description and the methodology for data analysis The fourth chapter titled ??Data Analysis and Interpretation covered the customer satisfaction and industry analysis The fifth chapter ??Summary and Conclusion listed the major findings, implications and limitations, scope for further research and conclusion drawn from the research. Keywords: LCCs, critical factors, performance, airlines, low cost, ATF, aviation. -
A study towards constructing a reproductive health account as sub-account of health at sub-district level of India
Reproductive health is a state where everyone of the reproductive age cohort can make informed choices based on their reproductive health needs and reach a state of bliss and well-being. Informed choices are a possibility only if there is awareness regarding options of healthcare available. Awareness further indicates capacity to measure the worth of the options available in hand. One major aspect of measuring this worth is dominated by the financial aspect of awareness. -
A Study towards constructing a reproductive health account as sub-account of health at sub-district level of india
Reproductive health is a state where everyone of the reproductive age cohort can make newlineinformed choices based on their reproductive health needs and reach a state of bliss and newlinewell-being. Informed choices are a possibility only if there is awareness regarding options of healthcare available. Awareness further indicates capacity to measure the worth of the options available in hand. One major aspect of measuring this worth is dominated by the financial aspect of awareness. In other words, expenditures incurred on reproductive health should be an information for all stakeholders to understand, analyse and arrive at informed newlinechoices. It has been unanimously felt that this domain of health needs more sustained efforts in terms of research into the specific components of expenditures. One such instrument which has been suggested is to construct a system of reproductive health accounts which TOVCI can track the fund movements among the different actors operating in the sector of reproductive health. Reproductive health accounts at local and contextual levels, has to conform to the existing national framework of health accounting so as to lend itself to inter and intra-regional comparisons. It consists of a group of matrices which capture origin of funds from financial sources to the destination where funds will ultimately be used on health functions, based on accounting boundaries of space, activity and time. This study attempted to construct a reproductive health account at sub-district levels in the district of Ramanagara in the state of Karnataka, India. Two sub-districts, Ramanagara and Channapatna were chosen for this purpose based on their health and reproductive health indicators. Primary data was collected from a household survey based on probability proportional to size sampling method. Questionnaires for data collection were borrowed from World Health Organization Guide to producing Reproductive Health Account. -
A succinct analysis for deep learning in deep vision and its applications
Introduction: Deep learning methodologies can achieve forefront results on testing deep vision issues, for instance, picture portrayal, an object area, face affirmation, Natural Language Processing, Visual Data Processing and online life examination. ConvNet, Stochastic Hopfield network with hidden units, generative graphical model and sort of artificial neural network castoff to absorb competent information coding in an unproven way are deep learning plans used in deep vision issues. Objection: This paper gives a succinct survey of without a doubt the most critical Deep learning structures. Deep vision assignments, for instance, object revelation, face affirmation, Natural Language Processing, Visual Data Processing, web-based life examination and their utilization of this task are discussed with a short record of the historic structure, central focuses and impairments. Future headings in arranging Deep learning structures for Deep vision issues and the troubles included are analysed. Method: This paper consists of surveys. In Section two, Deep Learning Approaches and Changes are audited. In section three, we tend to portray the uses of Applications of deep learning in deep vision. In Section four, Deep learning challenges and directions are mentioned. At long last, Section five completes the paper with an outline of the results. Results and Conclusion: Though deep learning can recall a huge proportion of data and info, its feeble cognitive and perception of the data makes it a disclosure answer for certain applications. Deep learning despite everything encounters issues in showing various erratic facts modalities at the equal period. Multimodal profound learning is an extra notable heading in progressing deep learning research. IJCRR. -
A Survey Instrument for Ranking of the Critical Success Factors for the Successful ERP Implementation at Indian SMEs
Bioinfo Business Economics, Vol-1 (1), pp. 06-12. ISSN-2249-1775 -
A survey of blockchain: concepts, applications and challenges
With the development of Bitcoin, organisations, be it businesses or institutions, are centring on leveraging Bitcoins blockchain technology to non-monetary based applications to improve efficiency of the activities. Having various benefits like anonymity, decentralised, audibility etc. Blockchain technology can be vastly implemented in various sectors other than financial too. This paper gives an overview the blockchain technology. It briefs about various technical concepts used in the blockchain, its types and where it can be used. It also discusses some proposed applications of the technology and tools or frameworks that can be used to develop such. It also presents the limitations of the technology. Copyright 2023 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. -
A Survey of Sentiment Analysis from Social Media Data
In the current era of automation, machines are constantly being channelized to provide accurate interpretations of what people express on social media. The human race nowadays is submerged in the idea of what and how people think and the decisions taken thereafter are mostly based on the drift of the masses on social platforms. This article provides a multifaceted insight into the evolution of sentiment analysis into the limelight through the sudden explosion of plethora of data on the internet. This article also addresses the process of capturing data from social media over the years along with the similarity detection based on similar choices of the users in social networks. The techniques of communalizing user data have also been surveyed in this article. Data, in its different forms, have also been analyzed and presented as a part of survey in this article. Other than this, the methods of evaluating sentiments have been studied, categorized, and compared, and the limitations exposed in the hope that this shall provide scope for better research in the future. 2014 IEEE. -
A survey of the studies on Gallai and anti-Gallai graphs
The Gallai graph and the anti-Gallai graph of a graph G are edge disjoint spanning subgraphs of the line graph L(G). The vertices in the Gallai graph are adjacent if two of the end vertices of the corresponding edges in G coincide and the other two end vertices are nonadjacent in G. The anti-Gallai graph of G is the complement of its Gallai graph in L(G). Attributed to Gallai (1967), the study of these graphs got prominence with the work of Sun (1991) and Le (1996). This is a survey of the studies conducted so far on Gallai and anti-Gallai of graphs and their associated properties. 2021 Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University.