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K. Mishra , A. Mishra , G. S. Padhi

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Studies were undertaken on processed Kendu (Diospyros melanoxylon Roxb.) leaves of various qualities as practised by the Forest Department of Government of Orissa, with regard to size, texture, colour, moisture, chlorophyll content etc. and the nature of mycobial contamination. The results indicated that, out of four broad categories of leaves studied (M-I&II, M-III, Q-IV and rejected samples) M-I&II quality leaves have the highest chlorophyll pigment and lowest moisture content with lowest fungal contamination. Chlorophyll content of leaves decreased with fall in quality of leaves but fungal population and moisture content showed reverse trend. Fungal population increased with fall in quality of leaves. Various species of Aspergillus were found to be the dominant flora in all the leaf samples, along with species of Penicillium, Curvularia and Cladosporium, Aspergillus flavus a fungus known for production of aflatoxin was found to be present in Q-IV leaf samples in low percentage (about 10%).

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Jitendra Singh , P. Bhatnagar , P. S. Chauhan , A. Mishra , C. K. Arya , S. K. Jain , A. Kavita

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Maturity has important implications in harvesting fruits at proper stage so as to have developed proper marketing as well as quality attributes. Immature fruits are more prone to shrivelling and mechanical damage and develop inferior flavour when ripe. Overripe fruits tend to become soft with more susceptible to postharvest physiological disorders than fruits picked at the proper maturity. Thus, for all kinds of fruits, harvest maturity is important Different fruits manifest different signals at the time of maturity. A phasic variation is noted in shape, size, colour, flavour, TSS, acidity, ascorbic acid, polyphenol, tannin, enzyme activity, nutrient composituion, etc. as the fruit approaches harvest maturity Of course, growers perception works well in judging maturity. Actually, a fruit is considered worth harvesting when it attains proper stage of maturity in terms of physical and biochemical parameth quality.

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Maturity Standards , Harvesting, Fruits, Biochemical Changes, Ripening

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A. Mishra ¹, A. Kumar ¹, A. Rawat ¹

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1 Department of Animal Applied Sciences, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, 226025, IN

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A. Mishra ¹, K. P. Joy ¹

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1 Department of Zoology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi-221005, IN

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Mature folliculated oocytes were incubated with two catecholestrogens, 2-hydroxyestradiol-17b and 2-methoxy-estradiol-17b and catecholamines; dopamine, noradrenaline and adrenaline in concentration and duration studies. The hydroxyestrogen stimulated germinal vesicle break down (GVBD) in a concentration (1-20mM/ml) and duration (0-30hr) dependent manner; 5mM/ml concentration induced 80% GVBD in 24hr.

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K. V. P. Rao ¹, A. Mishra ¹, S. Manjunath ², P. B. Kirti ³, A. Dutta-Gupta ¹

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1 Department of Animal Science, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500046, IN
2 Central Instrumentation Laboratory, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500046, IN
3 Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500046, IN

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Spodoptera litura is a serious polyphagous pest of cultivated plants. It's wide distribution, host range and high level of insecticide resistance makes the management of this insect very difficult. More over pesticides generally used for the management of insect pests also have side effects on nontarget organisms including human. So it is increasingly important to develop ecofriendly strategies to control the pest. One such approach is use of protease inhibitors (Pis) from plants. These Pis bind to insect gut proteases and inactivate them, resulting into amino acids starvation, growth retardation, reduced reproductive ability and eventually death of the insect.

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A. Mishra ¹, K. Rao ¹, V. Prasada ¹, A. Dutta-Gupta ¹

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1 Department of Animal Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad-500046, IN

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A variety of plants respond to attacks from herbivorous pests by synthesizing substances that deter their visitors from further feasting.

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S. S. Deshpande ¹, A. Mishra ², M. Mishra ²

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1 Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Nabi Bagh, Berasia Road, Bhopal - 462038 (M.P.), IN
2 M.L.B. College, Bhopal (M.P.), IN

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Nutrition education has been defined as educational measures for inducing desirable behavioural changes for the ultimate improvement in the nutritional status of individuals and family.

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S. S. Deshpande ¹, A. Mishra ¹, M. Mishra ¹

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1 Central Institute of Agricultural Engineering, Nabi Bagh, Berasia Road, Bhopal - 462 038 (M.P.), IN

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Nutrition plays an important role in the physical, mental and emotional development ot human being. Food consumption is one of the important determinants of nutritional status, hence dietary assessment forms an integral part of nutrition surveys.

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D. K. Nafde ¹, L. P. Rajput ², O. P. Gupta ², A. Mishra ²

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1 Department of Food Science & Technology, Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University, Jabalpur, M. P. 482004, IN
2 Department of Food Science & Technology Jawaharlal Nehru Agricultural University Jabalpur M. P. 482004, IN

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The physical properties like dimension, density, bulk density, porosity, frictional properties of grains are important in their processing, handling and storage. Few of these physical properties also influence the cooking and eating quality of its rice. For getting optimum yields in milling and for proper cooking, the knowledge of their physical properties is important, which needs to be investigated in the recently released varieties of paddy.

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S. B. Dash ¹, H. Saini ², T. C. Panda ³, A. Mishra ⁴

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1 CUTM, Paralakhemundi, R.Sitapur - 761211, Odisha, IN
2 Department of Computer Science and Technology, Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan - 173234, Himachal Pradesh,, IN
3 Department of Mathematics, Ravenshaw University, Revenshaw College Campus, College Square, Cuttack - 753003, Odisha, IN
4 Department of Mathematics, CUTM, Paralakhemundi, R.Sitapur - 761211, Odisha, IN

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Background/Objectives: Cloud virtualization is a creative and one of the altogether accomplished improvements in the current figuring environment. It provides a virtualized environment based on Service Level Agreement (SLA) to cloud. Methods/Statistical Analysis: Infrastructures of Physical machines are rapidly replacing by Virtual machines (VMs) for their abilities to emulate hardware environments, share hardware resources, and utilization of a variety of operating systems. Accordingly, giving security to the cloud virtual machines and clients’ information is one of the essential difficulties to data frameworks. This manuscript describes about the mathematical ontology based upon the attacked VMs and infectious VMs which predicts the trustworthiness of the IaaS virtual platform. Findings: The proposed work will diminish the dangers to the VMs in the cloud surrounding independent of the client’s security and applications approach. Application/Improvements: It will fundamentally guarantee the level of the security of VMs in a cloud situation which assists the cloud administration suppliers to take the fast choices and about the up-degree of the counter assault estimations.

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Cloud Computing, Cloud Virtualization Security, Mathematical Ontology, Predator-Prey Model, SLA

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Y. K. Sharma ¹, A. D. Deodhar ¹, A. Mishra ¹

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1 Crop Quality Breeding Laboratory, Department of Plant Breeding and Genetics, J. N. Krishi Vishwa Vidyalaya, Jabalpur, M. P, IN

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Triticale is a man made cereal obtained by the crosses of wheat (Triticum) with rye (scale). Some properties like productivity potential is acquired from wheat and hardiness from rye.

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A. Mishra ¹, S. Tiwari ², S. Tyagi ¹

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1 Department of Environmental Science, School of Vocational Studies and Applied Sciences, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, UP, 201312, IN
2 Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, New Delhi Branch, 110060, IN

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Objectives: To improve the accuracy of atmospheric visibility forecast over New Delhi for Republic Day ceremony, a statistical model is developed for fog (visibility < 1000 m) forecasting based on meteorological elements and mass concentration of Particulate Matter (PM). Methods/ Statistical Analysis: Mass distribution (μg/m³) from 0.3 to 20 μm of PM were measured simultaneously along with the meteorological elements in New Delhi during the month of January 2014 and 2015 to get an appreciation of their role in the atmospheric obscurity. The best possible multiple regression model for predicting visibility dependent on depression temperature, wind speed, thermal inversion and mass concentration of PM_2.5 is developed using statistical software package Origin and MS office Excel. Findings: The average visibility during 0700 h to 1300 h on Republic Day is found to be 2000 m ± 1400 m. The daily mean concentrations of PM₁₀ and PM_2.5 during 22 to 27 January in the year 2014 and 2015 were found to be 1.23 to 5.20 times and 1.22 to 4.80 times higher than the daily Indian national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). The correlation coefficient (r) and coefficient of determination (r²) values of 0.88 and 0.77 respectively suggest that visibility < 1000 m can be predicted satisfactorily using multiple regression model based on various meteorological elements and pollutants. Application/Improvement: This study will provide a better knowledge and guidance to aviation meteorologists and aviators on visibility pattern during Republic Day ceremony. It will also enhance the accuracy of visibility forecast and contribute towards flight safety.

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Depression Temperature, Particulate Matter, Thermal Inversion, Visibility, Wind Speed.

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Ak. Mishra , A. Gupta , V. Gupta , A. Mishra

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Oxadiazole derivates play vital role in biological field such as anti - microbial, anti - viral, anti - tubercular, anti - inflammatory and anti - convulsant activity. Therapeutic significance of these clinically useful drugs in treatment of inflammation encouraged the development of some more potent and significant compounds. oxadiazole derivatives are remarkably effective compounds for inflammation and analgesic activity. Extensive biochemical and pharmacological studie s have confirmed that these molecules are effective in inflammation. This comprehensive overview summarizes the chemistry of different derivatives of substituted oxadiazole along with their anti - inflammatory activity.

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Oxadiazole Derivatives, Chemistry, Design, Anti - Inflammatory Activity.

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A. Mishra ¹, M. Rout ², D. R. Singh ¹, S. Jana ³

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1 Department of Mining Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology (ISM), Dhanbad-826 004, IN
2 Sarpi Colliery, Bankola Area, Eastern Coalfield Limited, District Barddhaman 713 363, IN
3 Gulf Oil Corporation Limited, Kolkata 700 107, IN

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Opencast mining accounts for about 86% of the produced coal in India. Most of the opencast mines in the country use bulk emulsion explosives. The total consumption of explosives in India is around 550,000 tonnes annually. It has been shown that detonation velocities vary with the density of the emulsion explosive. Here we describe experiments that have been conducted to understand the influence of velocity of detonation of emulsion explosives on fragmentation of blasted muckpile over a range of densities. The density of explosives was varied from 0.6 to 1.1 g/cc which resulted in the variation of detonation velocity from 3262 to 4624 m/s.

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Blasted Muckpile, Detonation Velocity, Emulsion Explosives Density, Opencast Mines.

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P. S. Brahmanand ¹, Biswaranjan Behera ¹, Shivendra Kumar Srivastava ², R. B. Singandhupe ³, A. Mishra ¹

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1 ICAR-Indian Institute of Water Management, Bhubaneswar 751 023, IN
2 ICAR-National Institute of Agricultural Economics and Policy Research, New Delhi 110 012, IN
3 ICAR-Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur 440 010, IN

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The cultivated land utilization index (CLUI) for all the districts of Odisha, India during 2013–14 was estimated in this study. The average state CLUI value (0.585) indicated the scope of improving resource utilization, though 67% of the net cropped area is sown twice. All the districts of the state were classified under four scenarios with various combinations of cropping intensity and CLUI. Growing long-duration crop varieties under conditions of ample water availability and, more short-duration less water-requiring crops under limited water supply will improve resource utilization. The results pave the way for analysis of CLUI at a national level for efficient resource utilization by formulating cropping patterns based on water availability.

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Cultivated Land Utilization Index, Cropping Intensity, Crop Diversification, Water Resource Management, Water Availability.

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