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R. S. Rathi , A. K. Misra , Somnath Roy , S. K. Verma , S. K. Singh

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Parkia roxburghii G. Don is a lesser known multipurpose tree species of family Mimosaceae. It grows abundantly in the North Eastern region of India, especially in Manipur, Mizoram and Nagaland. It has significant economic values as vegetable, medicinal, Industrial and fire wood in this region. It is a fast growing, easier to grow and hardy in nature. It produces a crop even under adverse soil and climatic conditions. This tree is suitable for reclamation of abandoned Jhum lands and also as agro-forestry plantations. If properly exploited, it can serve as supplementary source of vegetable proteins and edible oil.

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Tree Bean, Parkia roxburghii, North East India, Underutilized Vegetable

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R. N. Thatoi , S. Sahu , A. K. Misra , G. S. Padhi

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Leucaene leucocephala shows poor growth and nodulation capacity in iron mine waste soil of Orissa due to poor nutrient content and toxic effect of heavy metal iron accumulation. Inoculat on of two VAM species e.g. Glomus mosseoe and Glomus fasciculotum to Leucaena plants grown in iron mine waste soil and garden soil induced differential growth responses. Out of two VAM fungi inoculated G. mosseae in general improved growth, nodulation and rhizobial population in the rhizosphere of Leucaena plant while treatment with G. fasciculatum induced negative impact. However G. mosseae inoculation appeared to retard nodulation and rhizobial population in the rhizosphere when grown in pure iron mine waste soil. Treatment of mine waste soil with sand (50%) was seen to improve plant growth under control and VAM treated conditions.

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P. S. Rao , A. K. Misra

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A. K. Misra , O. P. Sharma

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P. S. Rao , A. K. Misra

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A. K. Misra , M. G. Karnik , N. P. Dobhal

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M. G. Karnik , A. K. Misra

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Treatments to remove the bitterness of the Maple wood (Acer caesium) have been tried to make the wood suitable for Tooth-pick industry. Boiling with water has been found to be the best treatment.

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A. K. Misra , M. G. Karnik

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R. S. Rathi , S. Roy , S. K. Singh , A. K. Misra

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R. S. Rathi ¹, S. Roy ¹, P. S. Mehta ², A. K. Misra ¹, K. S. Negi ², A. Rayal ²

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1 National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources, Regional Station, Umiam-793103 Meghalaya, IN
2 National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources Regional Station, Bhowali - 221 031, Nainital, Uttarakhand, IN

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An ethno-botanical survey was carried out in Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri districts of North Bengal region of West Bengal, India during the period of October 31 - November 8, 2012. The present survey has revealed 43 species of medicinal plants largely, used by the natives in these districts. These plant species are used to cure various diseases/ailments as medicines in their day to day life. This plant wealth was conserved by the natives in different ways such as in their house compound/ kitchen gardens/ dooryards/ backyards as medicinal and ornamental plants. During the survey, it was observed that medicinal plants and related ethonbotanial information was declining very fast due to change in their life style, unawareness and lack of interest of new generation. The surveyed districts of North Bengal region, warrants conservation in order to preserve the medicinal plant wealth and related traditional health care system.

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Medicinal Plants, Traditional Healthcare System, North Bengal, Cooch Behar and Jalpaiguri.

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Amit Kumar ¹, A. K. Misra ¹, Satyanarayana Paidi ¹, Jitendra Kumar ¹

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1 Department of Entomology, Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa, SAMASTIPUR (BIHAR), IN

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Field experiment was conducted at the Research Farm, Rajendra Agricultural University, Pusa. Pest activity started from 30^th standard week and continued upto 41^st standard week, meanwhile it reached peak twice in 34^th and 37^th standard week. Thereafter, its population declined and finally no population was recorded. Correlation and multiple regression between weather parameters and the population of male yellow stem borer moth revealed that maximum temperature (°C), minimum temperature (°C), relative humidity (%) at 7 hr, relative humidity (%) at 14 hrs, rainfall (mm) and evaporation (mm) were positively correlated to the tune of 0.273, 0.453, 0.075, 0.478, 0.339 and 0.122, respectively with the population of male moth of yellow stem borer, whereas, sunshine (hr) was negatively correlated (-0.453) to that. Weather parameters were found to contribute about 34.60 per cent male moth population fluctuation of Scirpophaga incertulas when acted together. Further, the IPM package reduced the infestation (4.20, 8.82, 9.31% DH and 9.41% WEH) caused by rice yellow stem borer in respect to untreated control (4.88, 23.75, 27.68 % DH and 22.72 % WEH) at 15, 30, 50 and 90DAT. Moreover, IPM package gave higher yield (50.25 q/ha) as compared to the control (41.80 q/ha). It was also observed that net profit over the control was Rs. 11,825 with cost benefit ratio 1:2.27 with IPM package in both the years of study.

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Yellow Stem Borer, Sex-Pheromone Trap, Rice, IPM, Relative Humidity, Rainfall.

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T. Kar ¹, A. K. Misra ¹

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1 Department of Dairy Bacteriology, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, Mohanpur Campus, Mohanpur, Nadia, W.B. 741252, IN

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Polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) rich oils like sunflower or safflower oils are not only projected in the advertising media as "heartfriendly" but also use of these oils are often prescribed by cardiologists as the sole cooking medium. Traditional cooking oils have been made responsible to be atherogenic whereas refined vegetable oils have been promoted as "heart-friendly" because of their PUFA content. Unfortunately, this has not improved the situation and in fact, the prevalence of the diseases is alarmingly increasing to almost epidemic proportions. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary to review recent research data to unearth the actual beneficial effects of these oils, if any.

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T. Kar ¹, A. K. Misra ¹

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1 Department of Dairy Bacteriology, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, Mohanpur, Nadia - 741 252, West Bengal, IN

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In India whey is obtained mainly as a by-product in the manufacture of chhana, paneer and to a lesser extent from cheese. Disposal of whey poses a serious problem to the dairy industry all over the world because of high organic matter in it. It has been estimated that whey has a biological oxygen demand (BOD) of 38,000 ppm as compared to 200 ppm for the domestic sewage and therefore, whey disposal has become a costly proposition. Use of whey in food system has been under active consideration of dairy product processors in recent years because of the growing global food shortages, increased whey processing cost for disposal and antipollution regulations.

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T. Kar ¹, A. K. Misra ¹

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1 Department of Dairy Bacteriology, West Bengal University of Animal and Fishery Sciences, Mohanpur, Nadia, 741252, West Bengal, IN

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The utilization of whey is important from the view point of human nutrition, especially for therapeutic purposes, economy and also with respect to environment pollution. Use of cheese whey as beverage for therapeutic purposes can be traced back to ancient Greeks. Hippocrates, in 460 B.C., prescribed whey for an assortment of human ailments. Use of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus in the manufacture of yoghurt have been extensively studied throughout the world. Regular consumption of this product is believed to be effective both in prevention and treatment of various illness in man viz. gastrointestinal disorders, hypocholesterolemic effect antitumour effect reduced protein allergencity, treatment of vaginal discharge, a cure for osteoporosis etc. Although yoghurt bacteria can grow well in whey use of these organisms in the preparation of whey drink is very limited.

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Shilpy Agrawal ¹, R. S. Raw ², Neeraj Tyagi ¹, A. K. Misra ¹

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1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad – 211004, Uttar Pradesh, IN
2 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ambedkar Institute of Advanced Communication Technologies and Research, Delhi – 110031, IN

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In Vehicular Ad Hoc Network (VANET), vehicles on the road provide mainly two types of services to drivers or passengers inside vehicles, namely, safety and comfort services. Safety messages are time-critical, therefore in this paper we have proposed a novel Fuzzy Logic based Greedy Routing (FLGR) protocol which assists in delivering safety messages to the destination vehicle with minimum delay. The proposed FLGR is a multi-hop routing protocol that uses multiple metrics of neighbor vehicles to decide which neighboring vehicle will be the approximate best next-hop node for further forwarding the packets. We have used the concept of fuzzy logic that helps in decision making in VANETs. Fuzzy logic deals with reasoning that is approximate rather than fixed and exact. Fuzzy logic variables may have truth values that range in degrees between 0 and 1. The fuzzy logic inference system became important and useful when the values of the decision criteria are not only vague but uncertain in nature. FLGR is used within the communication range of the current forwarding node that employs fuzzy logic for selecting the best next-hop node in multi hop VANETs. We have used the fuzzy logic tool box of MATLAB to evaluate our protocol. Metrics such as distance, speed, direction, and position of next-hop forwarding node are put into fuzzy logic system. Thus, our protocol helps in finding the approximate best next-hop node for routing the safety messages by employing fuzzy logic. It selects the next-hop node having maximum distance, speed, and progress and minimum angular deviation of nodes towards destination from current forwarding node. Further, FLGR is more suitable for safety applications in vehicular networks.

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Fuzzification, Fuzzy Logic, Greedy Routing, Membership Functions, Routing Protocol, Vehicular Ad hoc Networks

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Vijai Singh ¹, A. K. Misra ², Varsha Singh ³

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1 Computer Science Department, IMS Engineering College, Ghaziabad – 201009, Uttar Pradesh, IN
2 Computer Science and Engineering, Department MNNIT Allahabad UP, Teliarganj, Allahabad – 211004, Uttar Pradesh, IN
3 IT Department, JSSATE, Noida – 201301, Uttar Pradesh, IN

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Objectives: Cardiac Image Segmentation field have a lot of difficulties when we take the big changes in sequences of images that are of different types. In image sequences, Segmentation of objects which are not fixed is more challenging. To handle such situations, use of Improved Genetic Algorithm for Image Segmentation of Cardiac images is presented.Methods: We propose an algorithm based on Improved Genetic Algorithm, for segmentation of medical image sequences, which uses K-mean clustering. For clustering in the feature space, we used feature vector of two- dimension. Findings: In our paper, for Cardiac Image Segmentation, we are presenting a state of art review of various methods and techniques. Various sequences of Cardiac image have been Registered, and then for segmentation process, single image is used. Novelty/Improvement: Satisfactory results have been given by the experiments done on Cardiac images.

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Cardiac Image Segmentation, Clustering, Genetic Algorithm, Image Segmentation.

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