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M. P. Singh

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M. P. Singh , T. Johri

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M. P. Singh , Prashant Singh , Anjana Singh

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Three years of extensive exploration study for invasive alien species in Varansi district has been summarized in this article. 120 important alien species are recorded with their legitimate botanical names, families, origin, habit, habitat and uses. Some important plants are Ageratum conyzoides L., A. houstonianum Mill., Alternanthera pungens Kunth., Argemone mexicana L., Chenopodium album L., Croton bonplandianum Baill., Eichornia crassipes solms, Lantana camara L., Parthenium hysterophorus L., Calotropis gigantea (L.) R. Br., Cassia occidentalis L., Cryptostegia grandiflora R.Br. etc.

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Invasive Alien Species, India, Uttar Pradesh, Varanasi

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K. I. Singh ¹, C. H. Singh ¹, M. P. Singh ¹, M. K. Gupta ¹

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1 Department of Entomology, College of Agriculture, Central Agricultural University, Imphal 795004, Manipur, IN

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The predation efficiency of five species of coccinellids, namely, Coelophora biplagiata (Swartz), Coccinella transversalis F., Menochilus sexmaculatus (F.), Cryptolaemus montrouzieri Mulsant, and Chilocorus nigrita (F.), against cowpea aphid, Aphis craccivora Koch, was evaluated in the laboratory. Maximum consumption of A. craccivora (65.20 ± 0.59 to 214.60 ± 2.60) was observed in C. biplagiata released under various predator densities, whereas C. montrouzieri consumed the minimum numbers (19.40 ± 0.36 to 84.60 ± 0.73). C. biplagiata was closely followed by M. sexmaculatus and C. transversalis. It was also observed that C. biplagiata, M. sexmaculata and C. transversalis exhibited higher predation efficiency with a mean aphid consumption of 43.60 ± 0.46 to 485.80 ± 5.18, 41.20 ± 0.33 to 377.00 ± 3.35 and 40.60 ± 0.96 to 370.00 ± 3.74, respectively, under different prey densities of 45 to 720. When C. biplagiata was released, significantly lowest aphid population (23.06) was recorded, followed by M. sexmaculatus (35.26), C. transversalis (43.00) and C. nigrita (49.13) as against unreleased control (191.86). The highest aphid population (54.26) was recorded in the treatment where C. montrouzieri released.

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Aphis craccivora, Cowpea, Feeding Efficiency and Predaceous Coccinellids.

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M. P. Singh ¹, P. P. Bhojvaid ¹, S. R. Reddy ¹, Jawaid Ashraf ¹

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1 Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, IN

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The shift from decrease to a trend of increasing forest cover associated with economic development of a nation or to a geographical region is referred to as forest transition. Studies indicate that earlier stage of human development is marked by high forest cover and low deforestation but increase in incomes accelerate the rate of deforestation leading to loss of forest cover; but at incomes beyond a certain level, the rate of deforestation reduces; then the trend reverses and a slow increase in forest cover is seen. Evidences of Indian forest transition were tried to be traced from the Land Use and Land Cover Change for the period 1880-1980. Supplementing this data with the recent forest cover data of FSI from 1990 onwards, an attempt has been made to characterize forest transition in India. Deforestation was the dominating aspect in the initial temporal phase (till 1980), large scale afforestation/rehabilitation, social forestry and agro-forestry programmes of the state and central governments dominated the temporal phase of forest transition in India during the period of 1980-2000. Conservation and sustainable management of forests dominated the later phase 3 (Beyond 2000). Timber production from government forests gradually declined about 2 million m from the forests (excluding trees outside forests) in 2010 while most of the wood produced in the country come from trees outside forests (TOF) grown in private lands under agro-forestry, along the roads, canal, homesteads, etc. It's predicted that in a business as usual scenario, the forest transition in India will follow the trend as established in the last three decades and it is projected that the forest cover will increase to 71.34 million hectare in 2020. Forest transition trajectory in the forest transition curve indeed serves an easy instrument for testing the effectiveness of government interventions and policy implications.

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Afforestation, Conservation, Forest Cover Change, Forest Transition, Deforestation, Forest Degradation, Policy Implications

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M. P. Singh ¹, S. P. S. Rawat ¹, R. K. Tiwari ¹, N. Q. Qazi ¹, S. P. Rai ¹, J. V. Tyagi ¹

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1 Climate Change and Forest Influence Division Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, 248006, Uttarakhand, IN

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The purpose of this study was to establish rainfall-runoff relationship amongst the hydro-meteorological and vegetation characteristics and other site parameters at micro-watershed level. It brings out the assessment impact of forest on hydrological behavior. Efforts were made through present study, in which two micro-watersheds namely Arnigad (Dense Oak Forest) and Bansigad (Degraded Oak Forest) near Mussoorie, India were monitored continuously for the period of three years. The present study indicated that a dense forest cover regulates stream flow and controls the high peak flows, resulting in delayed discharge peaks which makes stream perennial and sustainable.

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Rainfall-runoff Relationship; Oak Forest; Key Words: Degraded Forest; Hydrological Processes; Micro-watershed

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M. P. Singh ¹, R. Jaiswal ¹, S. Mandal ¹

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1 School of Pharmacy, CEC, Bilaspur - 495009, Chhattisgarh, IN

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There is no effective drug for treatment of certain infections like AIDS, hepatitis, and other viral infections. For other infections the drug (mainly antibiotics) being used are becoming ineffective due to development of microbial resistance, necessitating the search for newer drugs. Any such new drug will be available only at an exorbitant cost due to the product patent norms under WTO agreement. This work is to prove the immunomodulatory property of Allium sativam in wistar rats by studying the Delayed Type Hypersensitivity (DTH), Humoral Antibody titre (HA), Total Leukocyte Count (TLC), and Differential Leukocyte Count (DLC) In The Aqueous Extract of Allium sativam. bulbs. The effect of this extract were comparable to the standards drug Levamisole all the data represents the Immunostimulatory activity of aqueous extract of the bulb of Allium sativam.

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M. P. Singh ¹, S. R. Reddy ¹, Jawaid Ashraf ¹

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1 Forest Research Institute, Dehradun, IN

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S. S. Rathore ¹, A. R. Vijan ¹, M. P. Singh ¹, B. N. Prabhu ², K. N. Misra ¹

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1 Geochemistry Division, KDM Institute of Petroleum Exploration, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., Dehra Dun - 248 195, IN
2 Regional Chemical Laboratory, EKBC, ONGC, Sibsagar, Assam - 785 640, IN

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Precambrian basement from well HBM-1 in the Heera oil field of Mumbai offshore basin has been dated by Rb-Sr and K-Ar methods. Five granulitic basement samples from three conventional drill cores have yielded Rb-Sr isochron age of 502±25 Ma with an initial Sr ratio of 0.70855±0.00013. This age has been interpreted as the time of granulite facies metamorphism of the basement rocks in the region. Two whole rock samples from the basement of this well have yielded mutually concordant K-Ar ages of 505±16 Ma and 507±17 Ma. The K-Ar ages are significantly similar to Rb-Sr age obtained from this well, suggesting complete isotopic reequilibration around 500 Ma ago. The time of secondary thermal heating around 500 Ma ago in the basement of Heera field coincides with the widespread Neoproterozoic (Pan-African) thermo-tectonic event extending from the Arabian Peninsula and eastern Africa covering Madagascar, southern India, Sri Lanka and East Antarctica. This study widens the limit of the Pan-African zone, which hitherto was thought to be confined to the western part (presently southern part) of the Indian subcontinent, towards further east.

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Neoproterozoic, Pan-African Granulite Metamorphism, Rb-Sr and K-Ar Geochronology, Heera Oil Field, Mumbai Offshore Basin.

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A. R. Vijan ¹, S. S. Rathore ¹, K. C. Vig ¹, M. Bansal ¹, M. P. Singh ¹, B. N. Prabhu ²

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1 Geochemistry Division, KDM Institute of Petroleum Exploration, Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd., Dehra Dun - 248 195, IN
2 Regional Chemical Laboratory, ERBC, ONGC, Sibsagar, Assam - 785 640, IN

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The importance of dating glauconites is that they are formed under low sedimentation rates connected with marine transgression and are commonly associated with unconformities and other stratigraphic breaks. This paper presents the first quantitative age estimation of glauconite samples separated from subsurface cores of Goru and Pariwar Formations of Jaisalmer basin, Rajasthan, India. SEM studies, X-ray diffraction patterns and high K₂O content (6.8 to 7.4%) of these samples indicate that they are highly evolved and are ideal for isotopic dating.

The Rb-Sr age of 108 ± 5 Ma and average K-Ar age of 103 ± 3 Ma obtained for the gtauconites from the Goru Formation are indistinguishable within error and agree with their biostratigraphic age. Glauconites from the upper most part of the Pariwar Formation give an average K-Ar age of 106 ± 3 Ma (early Albian), which is slightly lower than their biostratigraphic age.

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Geochronology, Glauconite, Goru and Pariwar Formations, Jaisalmer Basin, Rajasthan.

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Prashant Singh ¹, M. P. Singh ²

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1 Department of Botany, Udai Pratap (Autonomous) College, Varanasi, IN
2 Mahatma Ghandhi Kashi Vidhyapeeth University, Varanasi (U.P.), IN

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R. K. Anand ¹, Neelam Khare ², S. V. Dwivedi ¹, M. P. Singh ¹, Rajiv Umrao ²

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1 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Sonbhadra, At: CRS Tissuhi, Marihan, Mirzapur, U.P., IN
2 School of Forestry and Environment, Sam Higginbottom Institute of Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Allahabad, IN

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Sonbhadra is one of the important districts in Uttar Pradesh, where characteristic feature of growing trees in the farm land under traditional agroforestry system is continuing since generations. Present study was done to find out adoption status of predominant agroforestry practice in the district. Total 300 farmers were selected from six blocks of the district by a multistage sampling and semi-structured questionnaire survey was conducted among them. Madhuca latifolia, Butea monosperma and Tectona grandis trees were found highly adopted under agri-silviculture system on farmlands of the study area, wheareas, Emblica officinalis and Psidium guava were given first preference by the respondents for future adoption under agroforestry. Low water requiring crops were generally grown in combination with tree component under different agroforestry systems. Farmer prefer boundary planting and scattered planting pattern to grow tree species in their farmland under agroforestry system. Policy problem, shading effect, lack of market facility, long gestation period of tree and difficulty in cultural operation were expressed as main constraints in growing and further expansion of agroforestry trees on farm land in the district Sonbhadra.

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Traditional Agroforestry, Species Adoption, Scattered Planting, Constraints.

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Mayank Singh ¹, O. P. Singh ‘Vatsa’ ¹, M. P. Singh ¹

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1 Department of Botany, T. D. (P.G.) College, Jaunpur-222 002, U. P., IN

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The paper deals with an evaluation of magnitude of periodic change in biomass and productivity of litter in the neglected or abandoned land (Site-I) and winter season cultivated land or crop lands (Site-II) at 'Gujar Tal' lake margin Jaunpur (U.P.). The slight sloping lake-land ecotones of both the sites were distinguished into two zones, i.e. upper and lower. The peak biomass value of litter at Site-I was 79.44 g.m^-2 in the upper zone and 43.12g.m^-2 in the lower zone both in the month of May. The maximum litter accumulation during the fallow period of Site-II was 52.46g.m^-2 in October in the lower zone after recession of flood-water. In contrast, in crop period of Site-II, it was 59.12 g.m-2 and 69.15 g.m-2 at the age of 120 days in upper and lower zones, respectively. The peak productivity value of litter at Site-I was 1.50g.m^-2day^-1 in the upper zone and 0.70 g.m^-2day^-1 in the lower zone both in the month of May. The highest productivity values of litter of plant community in the fallow lands of Site-II were 1.25g.m^-2day^-1 in upper zone in the month of March, and 1.10g.m^-2day^-1 in October in the lower zone. The net productivity of litter during crop period of Site-II was 2.63 and 2.98 g.m^-2day^-1 at the age of 15 days of crop during November in the upper and lower zones. The annual litter production at Site-I was 87.67 g.m^-2yr^-1 in the upper zone followed by 67.79 g.m^-2yr^-1 in the lower zone. Their respective peak annual production at Site-II was 91.12 and 141.24 g.m^-2yr^-1. Analysis of variance for litter biomass at Site-I showed that variation due to zones and months both was significant (p<0.001), while at Site-II it was not significant both due to months and depths.

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Litter Production, Productivity, Biomass, Lake Margin Ecosystem.

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O. P. Sharma ¹, M. P. Singh ¹

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1 Department of Psychology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, IN

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Tourism is travel for recreation, leisure, religious, family or business purposes, usually for a limited duration. Tourist behavior may be socio-psychologically interpreted through a definition of the social role of the tourist, of tourist motivation, and, of social contact between tourists and hosts. Such a social psychology of tourist behavior emphasizes the deep-ischolar_mained tradition which interprets human behavior as a phenomenon largely determined by the interpersonal context in which each individual finds himself. A tourist is he who is circumstanced to sleep outside his own house. Motivation theory, Maslow's need hierarchy theory and push and pull theory play major role is tourism need. Understanding of why people travel, what they seek from their travel and what are their expectation from their place of visit gives the Tourism industry a new prospect to develop their tourist spots keeping the psychological factors of tourism in mind.

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Tourist, Tourism, Psychology, Motivation for Tourism.

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Sudhish Rai ¹, Ashish Vaishnav ², Anish Chandy ², Mamta Singh ², M. P. Singh ²

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1 School of Pharmacy, Chouksey Engg. College, Bilaspur, CG, IN
2 School of Pharmacy, Chouksey Engineering College, Bilaspur, (CG), IN

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Preliminary phytochemical screening of leaves of Premna corymbosa Rottl demonstrated the presence of alkaloid, glycosides, flavanoids, steroids and triterpenoids. Antipyretic cativity of ethanolic extract of Premna corymbosa rottl. Leaves was tested by Brewer's yeast induced pyrexia method.decrease I temperature produced by ethanolic extract in a dose of 100, 200 mg/kg in male rat was measured and compared with reference standard paracetamol(25 mg/kg).

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Premna corymbosa Rottl, Antipyretic Activity, Brewer’s Yeast Induced Pyrexia.

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Kumar Debasis ¹, M. P. Singh ¹, Prabhat Kumar ¹, Sachin Bhaskar ²

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1 Department of Computer Science and Engineering, National Institute of Technology Patna - 800005, Bihar,, IN
2 IMPACT College, Patna – 801503, Bihar,, IN

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Wireless sensor networks are prone to different types of attacks from malicious sources. These attacks are aimed at generating incorrect data or modifying legitimate data that is in transit in the network. A Sybil attack is a type of attack on WSNs where a malicious node either fabricates some new identities for itself or steals identities of some legitimate nodes. It can be countered in three basic methods. The first method verifies if a particular identity actually belongs to a real unique entity. The second method manages the cost and profit of acquiring identities. The third method focuses on confining the effects of the Sybil attack. However, these methods may not be used in wireless sensor networks directly. This is so because there are restrictions on the computational and storage capabilities of sensor nodes. Currently some of the principal detection schemes that are used in wireless sensor networks are radio resource testing, verification of key sets for random key predistribution, registration and position verification. The radio resource verification defense can be broken with custom radio hardware, and validation may be costly in terms of energy. Position verification can only put a limitation on how many Sybil nodes an attacker can generate unless it is able to very precisely verify node positions. Node registration needs human effort to securely add nodes to the network, and involves a way to securely maintain and query the current known topology information. The proposed method proposes a new approach to authenticate a sensor node based on a cryptographic hash function. It detects Sybil nodes so that they are isolated and any type of Sybil attack is avoided. This method performs well in terms of energy and memory usage when compared to previous methods.

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Cluster Head, Hash, Random String, Sybil Attack, Sybil Node

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Shio Kumar Singh ¹, M. P. Singh ², D. K. Singh ³

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1 Maintenance Engineering Department (Electrical), Tata Steel Limited, Jamshedpur-831001, Jharkhand, IN
2 Computer Science and Engineering Department, National Institute of Technology, Patna, Bihar, IN
3 Electronics and Communication Engineering Department, Birsa Institute of Technology, Dhanbad-828123, Jharkhand, IN

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Recent technological advances in communications and computation have enabled the development of low-cost, low-power, small in size, and multifunctional sensor nodes in a wireless sensor network. Since the radio transmission and reception consumes a lot of energy, one of the important issues in wireless sensor network is the inherent limited battery power within network sensor nodes. Therefore, battery power is crucial parameter in the algorithm design to increase lifespan of nodes in the network. In addition to maximizing the lifespan of sensor nodes, it is preferable to distribute the energy dissipated throughout the wireless sensor network in order to maximize overall network performance. Much research has been done in recent years, investigating different aspects like, low power protocols, network establishments, routing protocol, and coverage problems of wireless sensor networks. There are various routing protocols like location-aided, multi-path, data-centric, mobility-based, QoS based, heterogeneity-based, hierarchical routing, hybrid routing, etc., in which optimal routing can be achieved in the context of energy. In this paper, the focus is mainly driven over the survey of the energy-efficient hierarchical cluster-based available routings for Wireless Sensor Network.

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Wireless Sensor Networks, Cluster Head, Cluster-Based Routing, Hierarchical Clustering, Base Station.

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M. P. Singh ¹

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1 K.S.S. College, Lakhisarai-811311 (Bihar), IN

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Image in poetry is the making of a picture in terms of words. It is a device for making the experience of life vivid and life like. Poets deficient in this art of image making fail in their vocation. It exploits different sensory perceptions and pin down his experiences with precision and thereby evokes a living and pulsating picture of life. A.N. Dwivedi says: “Imagery serves twin-purposes together-that of ‘ornamentation’ and that of arousing ‘aesthetic pleasure’ in the reader” (2000:65). The process of ‘image-making’ involves the skilful use of metaphors, similes, contrasts, and may be equated to ‘picture-making’ or ‘concretization of emotions’. Symbol is the use of an object for signifying something that is beyond the literal denotation of the object. It is a potent tool arising out of the vibrant imaginative perception of reality. A work of art without proper symbolism is as worthless as a flower without fragrance. How ever rich and profound a thought may be it has a very little significance in the realm of art and literature unless it is woven into the fabric of images and symbols. History is replete with instances that most of the poets thrived and rose to eminence with the help of putting thoughts into the pattern of images and symbols.

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A. K. Singh ¹, M. P. Singh ²

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1 RCUES, Lucknow University Campus, Lucknow, IN
2 Shri Ram Swaroop Group of Professional Colleges, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, IN

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Urban local governments are entrusted with a set of responsibilities of providing basic urban amenities and services to the people. They are dependent on states and centre for grant in aid and loans as the own resources of ULBs are grossly inadequate. There is mismatch between functions and municipal resources. The efforts for additional resource mobilization to fulfil the commitments by the ULBs are not adequate due to various factors. The ULBs are becoming dependent on transfers and fiscal devolution from central and state governments to meet out their financial requirements. Central Government has launched Missions and schemes for infrastructure development in selected cities and towns with massive financial investment. These schemes envisage strengthening of urban local bodies through introducing reforms and stepping up concrete efforts for additional resource mobilization. Thus, it is necessary to reduce dependence of local bodies on government support. They should effectively exploit the revenue potential through rationalization of assessment norms, simplification of procedures; rebate on timely payment, revision of old levies and taxes etc. Municipal governments may be allowed to enjoy fiscal autonomy with freedom of choice in regard to imposing new taxes and revising tax rates. It is argued that municipal bodies are not financially strong enough to tap capital market for undertaking infrastructure works which involve huge capital investment, long gestation period. But the provision of marketing borrowing will certainly motivate the municipal bodies to revamp their financial strength to mobilize resources from market. There is also need to encourage private sector involvement in the development, strengthening and creator of urban infrastructure. Against this backdrop, present paper purports to examine the emerging trends in municipal finances in Uttar Pradesh.

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Urban Local Government, Infrastructure Development, Private Sector, Municipal Income.

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D. P. Singh ¹, P. K. Upadhyay ², M. P. Singh ³, Ashutosh Srivastava ⁴

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1 C.D.I.C., Lakhpera Kota, B. Ganj, Pratapgarh (U.P.), IN
2 Department of Soil Science, Mahatma Gandhi Chitrakoot Gramodaya Vishwvidyalya, Chitrakoot (U.P.), IN
3 Krishi Vigyan Kendra, Pratapgarh (U.P.), IN
4 Dr. R.M.L. Avadh University, Faizabad (U.P.), IN

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A field experiment entitled “Effect of phosphorus and sulphur level on growth and yield of Mustard (Brassica juncea coss.)” variety Varuna, was conducted at the research plot of Kulbhaskar Ashram Post graduate farm Allahabad (U.P.)during the Rabi Season 2008-09 and 2009 - 10 India . The experimentwas laid out in a Factorial Randomized Block Design having four levels of phosphorus (0, 25, 50 and 75 kg ha^-1) and sulphur (0, 20, 40 and 60 kg ha^-1) each with three replications. The phosphorus and sulphur were applied throughDAP and gypsum, respectively. Indian mustard variety Varuna was sown on 11^th October, 2008 with the seed rate of 5.0 kg ha^-1. The plant height, dry weight per plant, number of siliqua plant^-1, seed yield and stover yield increased significantly at 50 kg phosphorus and 40 kg sulphur ha^-1. Over without P and with 25 and 75kg ha^-1. P. and without S with 20kg and 60 kg S ha^-1, respectively.

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Phasphorus, Sulphur, Stover.

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M. P. Singh ¹, Vijay Kumar Bharati ²

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1 Department of Library and Information Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Central University, Lucknow, IN
2 Central Library, MGKVP, Varanasi; and Department of Library and Information Science, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Central University, Lucknow, IN

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The paper seeks to map and visualize the published research on Plagiarism indexed by Scopus database during 2010-2019. A total of 1882 articles were retrieved using keyword search TITLE: (plagiarism). Microsoft Excel is used for graphical representation of the data for document type and funding agencies, etc. and the VOS viewer science mapping framework (Van Eck & Waltman, 2010) is used for analyzing the research trends and collaboration among scientists, organizations, and countries. Research on Plagiarism is growing. The USA is the biggest collaborative country that has a larger number of scholarly publications followed by United Kingdom, India, China, Thailand, Spain, and Australia.

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Academic Integrity, Bibliometrics, Ethics, Mapping, Plagiarism, Plagiarism Detection.

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D. K. Chaturvedi ¹, M. P. Singh ²

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1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Dayalbagh Educational Institute (Deemed University), Dayalbagh, Agra, IN
2 Faculty of Engineering and Technology, Dr. Ambedkar University, Agra, IN

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This paper deals with a system which monitors the health condition of a three phase induction motor by using infrared thermal images. Here two systems, real time and off line, are proposed to monitor the temperature variations and analyze the hot regions beyond the rated temperature in the three phase induction motor using infrared thermograms. This system helps to monitor the variation of temperature at the different parts of the induction motor. Abnormal temperature rise in any parts indicates the faults. This technique helps to prevent the parts of induction motor before any catastrophe would happen in the future. The color based segmentation technique is used to identify abnormal hot regions in the thermograms of three phase induction motor. A changing red color intensity algorithm is also implemented to recognize the hot spots and also the change in hotness in a particular area of induction motor to declare the health of that particular area. Similarly the conditions of various areas in the machine all together monitor the overall health of the Induction motor.

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Feature Selection, Fault Diagnostics, Health Monitoring, Intelligent System, Thermal Image.

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