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- Phytochemical Content, Antioxidant Activity and Reducing Power of Five Ethnic Medicinal Plants of Manipur
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1 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
1 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Home Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
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Asian Journal of Home Science, Vol 11, No 1 (2016), Pagination: 127-135Abstract
Phytochemical content, antioxidant activity and reducing power of five ethnic medicinal plants of Manipur was analysed to study the antioxidant content commonly used by the traditional healers for the treatment of different inflammatory diseases and ailments. Antioxidant activity of methanolic extracts of five medicinal plants was investigated by using DPPH method which ranged from 47.82±0.041 per cent to 72.62±0.08 per cent inhibition. The phytochemical contents like total alkaloids, total flavonoids, total phenol, total carotenoids content ranged from 5.95±0.01 to 16.11±0.01 mg caffeine/100g on dry weight, 34.95±0.02 to 228.15±0.02 mg quercetin (QE)/100g on dry weight, 88.46±0.01 to 225.50±0.01 mg catechol equivalents (CE)/100g on dry weight, 0.81±0.005 to 3.80±0.005 mg/100g, respectively. Pearson correlation revealed a positive correlation between total phenol content, total flavonoids content, total carotenoids content and free radical scavenging activity (DPPH) of five medicinal plants extracts. However a negative correlation was found between total alkaloids content and free radical scavenging activity of medicinal plants extracts. The reducing power five medicinal plants extracts was statistically significant and positively correlated with DPPH free radical scavenging activity (r = 0.651; p<0.01). The study revealed that the plants with higher antioxidant activity (DPPH) showed high absorbance. Higher absorbance indicates more reducing power.Keywords
Phytochemicals, Free Radicals, Antioxidant, Reducing Power, Medicinal Plants.
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- Impact of Nutrition Counselling on Food Adequacy of Expectant Hypertensive and Diabetic Patient
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1 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Community Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
1 Department of Food Science and Nutrition, College of Community Science, Assam Agricultural University, Jorhat (Assam), IN
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Food Science Research Journal, Vol 9, No 2 (2018), Pagination: 322-326Abstract
Nutrition intervention is considered the cornerstone of treatment for all women with pregnancy complications. Educating pregnant women on proper consumption of nutrients and a healthier lifestyle will help promote a healthy pregnancy. The objectives of this study is to assess the impact of nutrition counselling on food adequacy of pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH) and gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) patients and a 24 hour recall questionnaire was used to assess the food intake among patients. Twenty two PIH and GDM patients were selected and equally divided into two groups, i.e., experimental group and control group. Nutrition counseling was imparted for three months (experimental group) at 30 days interval. The mean daily intake in the experimental group for pulses had no significant change, while cereals, milk and milk products, meat, fish and poultry, fruits, green leafy vegetables and other vegetables was increased significantly and that of ischolar_mains and tubers, fats and oils and sugar and jaggery decreased significantly. However, the control group had no significant change for pulses, cereals, milk and milk products, meat, fish and poultry, fruits, green leafy vegetables, other vegetables, ischolar_mains and tubers and sugar and jaggery while a significant decrease was observed in the mean daily intake of fats and oils.Keywords
Nutrition Counseling, Pregnancy Induced Hypertension, Gestational Diabetes Mellitus, Daily Food Intake.References
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- The State of India’s Foreign Trade during the Post Reform Period:An Empirical Analysis
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Pranati Das
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Manash Roy
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1 Department of Economics, North Eastern Hill University, IN
2 Department of Economics, Assam University, IN
1 Department of Economics, North Eastern Hill University, IN
2 Department of Economics, Assam University, IN
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Indian Journal of Economics and Development, Vol 7, No 8 (2019), Pagination: 1-7Abstract
Objectives: The present study tries to throw light on the direction, nature, share and variation of India’s foreign trade with rest of the world during the post reform period.
Methods/Statistical analysis: An analysis of India’s balance of trade position is made at disaggregate level with different category of countries like OPEC, OECD, Eastern Europe, Developing countries and the other types of countries. A statistical analysis in the form of ANOVA is carried out for examining variation in the level of India’s export and import with rest of the world.
Findings: The empirical findings of the study show that though India is facing deficit balance of trade with rest of the world throughout the study period but the volume of trade deficit has widened mainly after 2002-03. India has enjoyed a trade surplus with OPEC, OECD, Eastern Europe, Developing countries and other type of countries during some points of time. The study has also found that India is having surplus balance of trade mostly with the developing and other type of countries. The study has also found that export and imports sharing of India among different countries are found statistically highly significant. The share of India’s export and import is also found to be shifted more towards developing and other type of countries in recent times and thus representing the dominance of these two countries in India’s current foreign trade situation. The findings of the present study are unique in the sense that it tries to analyse India’s balance of trade position by disaggregating the rest of the world into different groups.
Application/Improvements: The present study recommends that efforts must be put in raising India’s level of export to those countries where her products have relatively higher demand and she must look for some import substitution measures in case of those countries upon which she is heavily relying upon her import. The scope of improvement of the present study lies in exploring the causes of variation in the level of India’s foreign trade with the rest of the world.
Keywords
Foreign Trade, Post Reform Period, Nature of Trade, Balance of Payment, Share of Trade.Full Text
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