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M. B. Jabez ¹, S. K. Mathanghi ², K. Sudha ¹, K. S. Venkatesh ¹

Affiliations
1 College of Food and Dairy Technology, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, CHENNAI (T.N.), IN
2 Department of Food Engineering, College of Food and Dairy Technology, Tamil Nadu Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, CHENNAI (T.N.), IN

Abstract

Mango fruit leather was prepared by incorporation of Ocimum sanctum (Tulsi) for better textural and sensory properties. The mango fruit leather was incorporated with the leaf extract of O. sanctum at different concentrations of 5, 10, 15 and 20 percentages. The natural antioxidants present in the O. sanctum leaf extracts that was incorporated in the fruit leather showed extended shelflife over three months when compared with control, without any added preservatives at ambient temperature. Also the storage stability of the product was studied under two flexible packages of polypropylene and polyester out of that the products packed in polypropylene showed better storage stability.

Keywords

Mango Fruit Leather, O. sanctum, Polyester, Polypropylene.

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B. Nagarajan ¹, K. Sudha ², V. Ramya ²

Affiliations
1 Dept. of CA., Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Tamil Nadu, IN
2 Bannari Amman Institute of Technology, Sathyamangalam, Tamil Nadu, IN

Abstract

Vehicle class identification is an important task in pattern recognition. Identifying vehicle with cluttered background affects accuracy of the overall system. Removal of cluttered background from images gives better results in vehicle class identification. In this paper, the cluttered background and mild occlusions are removed from the static images. Statistical features are extracted from the background removed images. The statistical feature of master image is correlated with the features of images from the standard UIUC (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) database. This paper addresses the issues to identify vehicle class of real-world images containing side views of cars class with that of non-cars class. Critical evaluation of the proposed method has improved to an accuracy of 91.7%.

Keywords

Vehicle Identification, Cluttered Background Removal, Statistical Features, Occlusions, Correlation Coefficient.

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K. Sudha ¹, R. Buvaneswari ², P. V. Pothigaimalai ¹, N. Subasri ²

Affiliations
1 Sengamala Thayaar Educational Trust Womens College, Mannargudi, IN
2 Srimad Andavan Arts & Science College (Autonomous), No.7 Nelson Road, T.V.Kovil, Trichy – 05, IN

Abstract

Gold has been used throughout history as money and has been a relative standard for currency equivalents specific to economic regions or countries, until recent times. Many European countries implemented gold standards in the latter part of the 19th century until these were temporarily suspended in the financial crises involving World War I After World War II, the Bretton Woods system pegged the United States dollar to gold at a rate of US$35 per troy ounce. The system existed until the 1971 Nixon Shock, when the US unilaterally suspended the direct convertibility of the United States dollar to gold and made the transition to a fiat currency system. The last currency to be divorced from gold was the Swiss Franc in 2000. Since 1919 the most common benchmark for the price of gold has been the London gold fixing, a twice-daily telephone meeting of representatives from five bullion-trading firms of the London bullion market. Furthermore, gold is traded continuously throughout the world based on the intraday spot price, derived from over-the-counter gold-trading markets around the world (code "XAU"). The following table sets forth the gold price versus various assets and key statistics on the basis of data taken with the frequency of five years.Gold is the most popular as an investment. Investors generally buy gold as a hedge or harbor against economic, political, or social fiat currency crises (including investment market declines, burgeoning national debt, currency failure, inflation, war and social unrest). The gold market is subject to speculation as are other markets, especially through the use of futures contracts and derivatives. Gold price has shown a long term correlation with the price of crude oil. This suggests a reason why gold is sold off during economic weakness.

Keywords

XAU, Economic, Investment Returns.

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K. Sudha ¹, D. Maniazhagu ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Physical Education and Health Sciences, Alagappa University, Karaikudi, Tamilnadu, IN

Abstract

Background: Due to the lack of physical activity now a day’s many youngsters are having health issues to do their regular activities. Muscular endurance and proper body composition are important to enable the person to carry out different type of day to day activities and sport activities all over the life time. The sport training is the way to develop one’s health and physical fitness to live a healthy.

Purpose: To identify the 12 weeks training effects of circuit training combined with different neuromuscular activities on muscular endurance and body composition of school girls.

Method: This is an intervention study carried out to compare effects of 4 groups. Group 1 (n=15), who trained circuit training (CT), group 2(n=15), who trained circuit training combined with resistance band (CT-RB), group 3(n=15), who trained circuit training combined with skipping rope (CT-SR) and group- 4(n=15) control group (CG). The pre and post test data was collected for the muscular enduranceand body composition.

Results: The difference between pre and post test was significant (p< 0.05) in the intervention groups and insignificant (p>0.01) in control group.

Conclusion: The circuit training combined with resistance band and skipping rope produced greater improvement on muscular endurance and reduced percentage of body composition

Keywords

Circuit Training, Resistance Band, Skipping Rope, Muscular Endurance, Intervention.

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