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S. Pal ¹, S. Chattopadhyay ¹, K. S. Chakrabarty ¹, D. Basu ¹, S. Ghosh ², S. Chatterjee ³

Affiliations
1 Medical College, WB University of Health Sciences, Kolkata, IN
2 Bangur Institute of Neuroscience, WB University of Health Sciences, Kolkata, IN
3 Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, IN

Abstract

The most common incomplete cervical spinal injury is central cord syndrome. As defined by Schneider et al in 1954, there is disproportionately greater motor deficit in the upper limbs than in the lower limbs. In this prospective study, 26 in-patients with cervical spine injury with greater motor loss in the upper limbs following the injury were selected. Based on clinical status and radiological findings, 19 were operated upon. Results at 6 weeks and 6 month follow up are discussed. Overall, the results of surgery in these cases were rewarding.

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Phani Bhusan Jamatia ¹, B. S. Hansra ², D. Basu ³, Dipak Nath ⁴

Affiliations
1 Department of Agriculture, Agartala (Tripura), IN
2 Amity International Centre for Postharvest Technology and Cold Chain Management, Amity University, Noida (U.P.), IN
3 Department of Extension Education, Bidhan Chandra Krishi Viswavidyalaya, Noida (U.P.), IN
4 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Divyodaya, West Tripura (Tripura), IN

Abstract

The study was carried out in all the erstwhile 4 (four) districts namely South Tripura, West Tripura, Dhalai and North Tripura with 240 potato farmers to ascertain adoption level of recommended practices TPS technology by the potato farmers, find out the relationship between personal characteristics of TPS farmers and adoption of TPS cultivation practice and reasons for nonadoption of TPS technology by the potato farmers. Out of 240 potato farmers 186 potato farmers have adopted the TPS technology fully (75 nos.) or partially (111 nos.). As per overall adoption, 40.32 percent of TPS farmers had high adoption behavior on TPS cultivation practices followed by medium adoption behaviour (33.33 %). Category wise, 48.00 per cent of the total marginal farmers (131 nos.) and 36.67 per cent of the total small farmers (75 nos.), 16.00 per cent of the total medium farmers (31 nos.); and 1.33 per cent of the total big farmers (3 nos.) have adopted TPS technology fully. The adoption of TPS cultivation technology was found to be positively and significantly correlated with their education, social participation, innovativeness, scientific orientation, economic motivation, knowledge at 1 per cent level of significance and mass media participation and contact with extension agency at 5 per cent level of significance. Different TPS cultivation practice wise maximum adoption were found in time, spacing and depth of seed sowing in nursery bed. Reasons for non-adoption of TPs technology by different categories of potato farmers showed that complexity in nature of technology, scarcity in skilled labour, lack of technical skill, risky technology and non-economical, no knowledge and lack of awareness were the major reasons for non-adoption of TPS technology in the study area.

Keywords

Potato Farmers, Extent of Adoption, Credit Orientation, Economic Motivation, Innovativeness, Scientific Orientation, TPS Cultivation Practices.

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R. N. Banerjee ¹, K. K. Chattopadhyay ¹, D. Basu ¹

Affiliations
1 Mechanical Engineering Department, Jadavpur University, Kolkata - 700032, IN

Abstract

The quality characteristics are made up of different types of sets and can be classified as variables from the instrument measurements based on infinite natural sets, and attributes for non conforming descriptions based on the binary or natural sets. However, there is also a type of quality characteristics-linguistic-which is used in this paper for the subjective estimations of casting defects. The goal of this paper is to show how a fuzzy set theory can be applied to well-known powerful techniques of the quality control, using linguistic data for the casting defects.

Keywords

Fuzzy Set Theory, Pareto Analysis, Control Chart, Design of Experiment.

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P. C. Saren ¹, D. Basu ¹

Affiliations
1 Zoological Survey of India, M-Block New Alipore, Kolkata – 700053, IN

Abstract

Darjeeling district lies in the northern part of west Bengal between 26°33’ - 27°13’ N and 88°2' - 88°56’ E with a geographical area of 3148 km² approximately. The Darjeeling district falls on Sub-Himalayan region, extended over on elevation of 50 to 3800 m. About 20% of the total geographical areas is under good forest and 10% open forests.

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