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Papers by Lokendra Singh
Anaerobe, 2005
Low-ambient temperatures, o30 1C, are known to cause drastic reduction in the efficiency of anaer... more Low-ambient temperatures, o30 1C, are known to cause drastic reduction in the efficiency of anaerobic biodigesters due to lowgrowth rate of the constituent bacterial consortium. Immobilization of anaerobic bacteria has been attempted in the biodigester operating at 10 1C. Various matrices were screened and evaluated for the immobilization of bacteria in digesters. Anaerobic digestion of night soil was carried out with hydraulic retention time in the range of 9-18 days. Among the tested matrices, rubberized-coir was found to be the most useful at 10 1C with optimum hydraulic retention time of 15 days. Optimum amount of coir was found as 25 g/L of the working volume of biodigesters. Immobilization of bacteria on the coir was observed by scanning electron microscopy and fluorescent microscopy. The study indicates that rubberized coir can be utilized to increase biodegradation of night soil at higher organic loading. Another advantage of using this matrix is that it is renewable and easily available in comparison to other synthetic polymeric matrices.
Anaerobe, 2010
Clostridial organisms produce neurotoxins, which are generally regarded as the most potent toxic ... more Clostridial organisms produce neurotoxins, which are generally regarded as the most potent toxic substances of biological origin and potential biological warfare agents. Clostridium tetani produces tetanus neurotoxin and is responsible for the fatal tetanus disease. In spite of the extensive immunization regimen, the disease is an important cause of death especially among neonates. Strains of C. tetani have not been genetically characterized except the complete genome sequencing of strain E88. The present study reports the genetic makeup and phylogenetic affiliations of an environmental strain of this bacterium with respect to C. tetani E88 and other clostridia. A shot gun library was constructed from the genomic DNA of C. tetani drde, isolated from decaying fish sample. Unique clones were sequenced and sequences compared with its closest relative C. tetani E88. A total of 275 clones were obtained and 32,457 bases of non-redundant sequence were generated. A total of 150 base changes were observed over the entire length of sequence obtained, including, additions, deletions and base substitutions. Of the total 120 ORFs detected, 48 exhibited closest similarity to E88 proteins of which three are hypothetical proteins. Eight of the ORFs exhibited similarity with hypothetical proteins from other organisms and 10 aligned with other proteins from unrelated organisms. There is an overall conservation of protein sequences among the two strains of C. tetani and. Selected ORFs involved in cellular processes and metabolism were subjected to phylogenetic analysis.
World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2006
Acetobacter xylinum (Gluconacetobacter xylinus) is a bacterium that produces extracellular cellul... more Acetobacter xylinum (Gluconacetobacter xylinus) is a bacterium that produces extracellular cellulose under static culture conditions. The highly reticulated cellulose matrix along with the entrapped cellulose-forming bacteria is commonly referred to as a pellicle. The processed bacterial cellulose membrane/film was modified into a composite bacterial cellulose membrane (CBCM) for pervaporation separation of aqueous-organic mixtures. The CBCM was prepared by coating with alginate or alginate+polyvinylpyrrolidone and cross-linking with glutaraldehyde. The pervaporation performance was determined using aqueous-organic mixtures such as, 1:1 (v/v) water-ethanol, water-isopropanol and water-acetone. The pervaporation performance of the CBCM was more effective for zeotropic mixtures (water-acetone) in comparison to the investigated azeotropic mixtures (water-ethanol and waterisopropanol). The selectivity of CBCM was found to be 4.8, 8.8, 19.8 for water-ethanol, water-isopropanol and water-acetone mixtures, respectively. The permeation flux for the water-acetone mixture was found to be 235 ml/ m 2 /h. The present investigation demonstrated that the CBCM could be employed to concentrate azeotropic as well as zeotrope forming binary mixtures by preferential pervaporation of water, with low energy requirements in contrast to the established method of distillation. In addition, the effects of feed composition, operating temperature, membrane thickness, and method of CBCM preparation on pervaporation performance have been evaluated. Investigations with the CBCM revealed that 94.5% ethanol, 98% acetone and 98.5% isopropanol concentrations could be attained from the initial 50% aqueous mixtures of these chemicals by way of pervaporation. In the case of the isopropanol-water mixture the resolving property of the membrane was more evident as the concentration arrived at was 98.5%, in contrast to other binary mixtures. The surface characteristics of the CBCM were revealed by scanning electron microscopy. In view of its properties the CBCM can be useful for pervaporation separation of these chemicals at moderate temperatures and pressure. The CBCM could be employed in the downstream processing of heat-labile and flavor-imparting volatile molecules in the field of food biotechnology and fabrication of membrane bioreactors for on-line product purification. Further studies are under progress to use the membrane for the immobilization of food processing enzymes.
Recommendation is a process which plays an important role in many applications as WWW.The main ob... more Recommendation is a process which plays an important role in many applications as WWW.The main objective of this paper is to show various challenges regarding to the techniques that are being used for generating recommendations. Recommendation techniques can be classified in to three major categories: Collaborative Filtering, Content Based and Hybrid Recommendations. By giving the overview of these problems we can improve the quality of recommendations by inventing new approaches and methods, which can be used as a highway for research and practice in this area.
international journal of engineering trends and technology, 2014
In digital communication, the bandwidth efficiency is one of the most important parameter to meas... more In digital communication, the bandwidth efficiency is one of the most important parameter to measure different modulation schemes, while the separation of waveforms in time domain of existing modulation schemes make it difficult to improve their bandwidth efficiency. Hence, in past decade researchers and engineers continuously try to find out the way to solve out this biggest problem in the field of communication. Finally they were able to proposed such a scheme that is able to reconstruct the original signal in aliasing measurement, named as Compressive Sensing (CS). In this paper, we are using proposed scheme Compressive Modulation (CM) by combining Compressive Sensing (CS) with traditional OFDM in order to improve its bandwidth efficiency. Theoretical analysis and experimental results shows that bandwidth efficiency of OFDM is somewhat improved by using the proposed scheme (CS).
Aim: To evaluate blood glucose level after oral administration of Ethanolic extract of leaves of ... more Aim: To evaluate blood glucose level after oral administration of Ethanolic extract of leaves of Cestrum nocturnum for 4 weeks. Method: Extract of leaves of the trial drug was prepared with the help of soxhlet extraction technique using ethanol as a solvent. 18 Diabetes induced albino wistar rats were divided in three groups (Negative control, Test group and Standard Group). Negative control was administered 5 ml/kg/p.o. normal saline. Test group was administered 400 mg/kg/p.o. leaves extract of Cestrum nocturnum. Standard Group was administered 10mg/kg/p.o. metformin. Duration of treatment: 4 weeks. Evaluation: Blood glucose levels and body weights of rats were measured at the end of first, second, third and fourth week. Results: Oral administration of the extract for 4 weeks caused a significant (P < 0.01) reduction in blood glucose level in diabetic rats. The body weight of diabetic animals was also improved after daily administration of the extract.
Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 2021
International Journal of Environment, 2020
Inappropriate seed rate and sowing method contribute a significant role in low productivity of su... more Inappropriate seed rate and sowing method contribute a significant role in low productivity of sunflowers. So, a study was conducted to assess the effect of different seed rates and sowing methods on the yield of sunflower in Ghodaghodi Municipality ward no. 2, Sandepani, far-west province, Kailali, Nepal, during spring season in 2018. The three different seed rates (8 Kg/ha, 10 Kg/ha and 12 Kg/ha) combined with three different sowing methods (broadcasting, line sowing and ridge sowing). A randomized complete block design in a 3×3 factorial arrangement with three replicates per treatment was applied. The indigenous variety of sunflower was used as a test crop. The highest stem diameter was recorded with the lowest seed rate, which remained unaffected by different sowing methods. Head diameter, seeds per head and thousand-grain weight were maximum in plants receiving seed rate of 8 kg/ha. However, the highest (2.13 t/ha) and the lowest (1.76 t/ha) grain yield were achieved with the s...
Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research, 2019
Objective: Herbal drugs are more beneficial better than aspirin because this is an herb so no sid... more Objective: Herbal drugs are more beneficial better than aspirin because this is an herb so no side effect this drug and it is easy to collect or use to as herbal drugs. Words are inadequate to describe the motivation for my work given to my beloved guide. I would like to add special thanks to my guide Gauravbilwal, for their guidance, support, and encouragement. Purpose (Hypothesis): The main purpose of this article pays to attention for herbal drugs because they are naturally old effective drugs. As well as, Ayurveda treatment is very older effective technique. Design/Method: Haffner gave to this technique of determining analgesic are around in 1929. Procedure: This technique according to tail if clipped with any object and tightly or will be compression generation of pain in the tail as well as mice starting to bite that portion of its tail, and could evaluate and recorded the response how much it bites tail quickly or in potential. Using this simple yet important marvel, we may a...
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Les quatre premiers ont été convertis à partir de septembre 1952 pour augmenter leur capacité de ... more Les quatre premiers ont été convertis à partir de septembre 1952 pour augmenter leur capacité de transport bananier et les installations réduites à 12 passagers seulement. Leu Quirigua n a été le premier transformé après deux mois de travaux en décembre 1952. Le dernier mis en cale sèche pour travaux a été le u Talamanca R au début de cette année. C. Mis en service entre 1945-1947, d'une vitesse de 18 noeuds 112 et pouvant transporter 78.000 regimes et 12 passagers, d'un tonnage de 7.067 t. à 7.075 t., de 310.000 cbft. d'une longueur de 131 m 3, largeur 18 m 60 : ~ < .- ...
Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering, 2017
Present review highlights the role of fungi in biodegradation/decolourization of textile dyes and... more Present review highlights the role of fungi in biodegradation/decolourization of textile dyes and effluents. Though, fungi and bacteria both are the principal decomposer of xenobiotics in the environment but fungi are superior to bacteria in dyes degradation/ decolourization due to their superiority in the production of dyes degrading enzymes and as absorbent. The present study focused on the achievements and advancement on the fungal degradation/decolourization of textiles dyes and effluents by the application of potent fungal strains. The biodegradation through fungi or myco-remediation of textile dyes and effluents using potential fungi is comparatively cheap and environmentally safe process, to decompose or mineralize the hardly or less degrading compounds of synthetic dyes. Fungi play an important role to degrade/decolourize the synthetic dyes through enzymes as well as by the absorption, adsorption and accumulation of colourants from the effluents.
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2017
High frequency dielectric spectroscopy has been used to investigate the dielectric behavior of th... more High frequency dielectric spectroscopy has been used to investigate the dielectric behavior of the pure as well as the aqueous solutions of 2-ethyl-1-hexanol at 270 and 300 K. It was found that the strength of Debye peak decreases systematically with increasing concentration of water. This behavior has been explained on the basis of the fact that alcohol favors more reduced structure in presence of water. This result is consistent with the simulation work as well as low frequency dielectric results on alcohol-water system.
International Journal of Managment It and Engineering, 2011
This research addresses the factors concerning ‘Employee Satisfaction‘ that impact quality of wor... more This research addresses the factors concerning ‘Employee Satisfaction‘ that impact quality of work done and productivity in software organization in India. The research reveals employee satisfaction as an integral factor for organizations in India for obtaining competitive advantages in terms of both quality and productivity. Employee satisfaction is an attribute pertinent to the workforce, which proves to be a valuable asset for the development of any sector. It is intended that findings of this research can be used to bring improvements in the work being done in the IT industry. This may serve as a valuable contribution in uplifting the IT economy of India. This research focuses on the factors that cause employee satisfaction or dissatisfaction. Initially factors affecting employee satisfaction were identified from the literature review. After this the relationship of employee satisfaction with quality and productivity was analyzed for organizations in India.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, 2016
Twenty four lines were crossed with two testers in an L x T mating design to estimate the combini... more Twenty four lines were crossed with two testers in an L x T mating design to estimate the combining ability for seed yield in sunflower. Non-additive genetic variance played a preponderant role in the inheritance of all the characters studied viz., days to 50 % flowering, days to maturity, plant height, head diameter, volume weight, hundred seed weight and seed yield per plant. The lines 27, 436 and tester 234A can be considered as superior parents in the present study as they recorded high per se performance with positively significant general combining ability effect for seed yield/plant. Among the 48 hybrids evaluated, crosses viz., 234A x 436, 234A x 440 and 234A x 235 were considered as superior hybrids as they recorded high per se performance and significant sca effect for seed yield/plant.
Annals of Horticulture, 2015
The heritability (narrow sense), genetic advance and association of characters for 12 characters ... more The heritability (narrow sense), genetic advance and association of characters for 12 characters were estimated in a 10 x 10 diallel crosses in table pea. The range of heritability of yield contributing traits were recorded from 4.34 and 25.95 (number of pods per plant) to 83.57 and 79.54 pod length in F1 and F2 generation, respectively High estimates heritability were observed for days to flower and maturity of edible pods, node number of first pod formed, plant height, pod length, green pod yield per plant, harvest index and protein content in both F1 and F2 generations while number of productive branches per plant only in F2. It indicated greater contribution of additive genetic components except those traits which revealed high heritability indicated both additive and non-additive genetic components. Moderate heritability estimates were recorded for number of productive branches per plant, number of developed ovules per pod and shelling percentage in F1 and number of pods per plant in F2 generation. The maximum genetic gain coupled with high heritability estimates was recorded for plant height followed by green pod yield per plant in both F1 and F2 generations indicated the role of additive gene action, thus, the selection in early generation would be effective for improving these traits. The genetic advance in percentage of mean was moderate for all the characters except plant height and green pod yield per plant in both the generations. Green pod yield per plant showed positive and significant genotypic correlation with pod length and number of developed ovules per pod and negatively significant with plant height.
Broadband dielectric measurements for D-xylose-water mixture with x w = 0.30 & 0.40, were perform... more Broadband dielectric measurements for D-xylose-water mixture with x w = 0.30 & 0.40, were performed in the frequency range of 10 mHz to 10 MHz and in the temperature range of 150 K to 260 K. Differential scanning calorimeter was also carried out to see the thermal behavior of this aqueous solutions. Two relaxation processes were observed, in addition to the contribution of dc conductivity in the low frequency side. The lower frequency process, the so-called primary relaxation process (process-I), is responsible for the glass transition (T g) whereas the faster one or high frequency process (designated as process-II) is due to the reorientational motion of the water molecules.
Medical Science Research, 1994
Anaerobe, 2005
Low-ambient temperatures, o30 1C, are known to cause drastic reduction in the efficiency of anaer... more Low-ambient temperatures, o30 1C, are known to cause drastic reduction in the efficiency of anaerobic biodigesters due to lowgrowth rate of the constituent bacterial consortium. Immobilization of anaerobic bacteria has been attempted in the biodigester operating at 10 1C. Various matrices were screened and evaluated for the immobilization of bacteria in digesters. Anaerobic digestion of night soil was carried out with hydraulic retention time in the range of 9-18 days. Among the tested matrices, rubberized-coir was found to be the most useful at 10 1C with optimum hydraulic retention time of 15 days. Optimum amount of coir was found as 25 g/L of the working volume of biodigesters. Immobilization of bacteria on the coir was observed by scanning electron microscopy and fluorescent microscopy. The study indicates that rubberized coir can be utilized to increase biodegradation of night soil at higher organic loading. Another advantage of using this matrix is that it is renewable and easily available in comparison to other synthetic polymeric matrices.
Anaerobe, 2010
Clostridial organisms produce neurotoxins, which are generally regarded as the most potent toxic ... more Clostridial organisms produce neurotoxins, which are generally regarded as the most potent toxic substances of biological origin and potential biological warfare agents. Clostridium tetani produces tetanus neurotoxin and is responsible for the fatal tetanus disease. In spite of the extensive immunization regimen, the disease is an important cause of death especially among neonates. Strains of C. tetani have not been genetically characterized except the complete genome sequencing of strain E88. The present study reports the genetic makeup and phylogenetic affiliations of an environmental strain of this bacterium with respect to C. tetani E88 and other clostridia. A shot gun library was constructed from the genomic DNA of C. tetani drde, isolated from decaying fish sample. Unique clones were sequenced and sequences compared with its closest relative C. tetani E88. A total of 275 clones were obtained and 32,457 bases of non-redundant sequence were generated. A total of 150 base changes were observed over the entire length of sequence obtained, including, additions, deletions and base substitutions. Of the total 120 ORFs detected, 48 exhibited closest similarity to E88 proteins of which three are hypothetical proteins. Eight of the ORFs exhibited similarity with hypothetical proteins from other organisms and 10 aligned with other proteins from unrelated organisms. There is an overall conservation of protein sequences among the two strains of C. tetani and. Selected ORFs involved in cellular processes and metabolism were subjected to phylogenetic analysis.
World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2006
Acetobacter xylinum (Gluconacetobacter xylinus) is a bacterium that produces extracellular cellul... more Acetobacter xylinum (Gluconacetobacter xylinus) is a bacterium that produces extracellular cellulose under static culture conditions. The highly reticulated cellulose matrix along with the entrapped cellulose-forming bacteria is commonly referred to as a pellicle. The processed bacterial cellulose membrane/film was modified into a composite bacterial cellulose membrane (CBCM) for pervaporation separation of aqueous-organic mixtures. The CBCM was prepared by coating with alginate or alginate+polyvinylpyrrolidone and cross-linking with glutaraldehyde. The pervaporation performance was determined using aqueous-organic mixtures such as, 1:1 (v/v) water-ethanol, water-isopropanol and water-acetone. The pervaporation performance of the CBCM was more effective for zeotropic mixtures (water-acetone) in comparison to the investigated azeotropic mixtures (water-ethanol and waterisopropanol). The selectivity of CBCM was found to be 4.8, 8.8, 19.8 for water-ethanol, water-isopropanol and water-acetone mixtures, respectively. The permeation flux for the water-acetone mixture was found to be 235 ml/ m 2 /h. The present investigation demonstrated that the CBCM could be employed to concentrate azeotropic as well as zeotrope forming binary mixtures by preferential pervaporation of water, with low energy requirements in contrast to the established method of distillation. In addition, the effects of feed composition, operating temperature, membrane thickness, and method of CBCM preparation on pervaporation performance have been evaluated. Investigations with the CBCM revealed that 94.5% ethanol, 98% acetone and 98.5% isopropanol concentrations could be attained from the initial 50% aqueous mixtures of these chemicals by way of pervaporation. In the case of the isopropanol-water mixture the resolving property of the membrane was more evident as the concentration arrived at was 98.5%, in contrast to other binary mixtures. The surface characteristics of the CBCM were revealed by scanning electron microscopy. In view of its properties the CBCM can be useful for pervaporation separation of these chemicals at moderate temperatures and pressure. The CBCM could be employed in the downstream processing of heat-labile and flavor-imparting volatile molecules in the field of food biotechnology and fabrication of membrane bioreactors for on-line product purification. Further studies are under progress to use the membrane for the immobilization of food processing enzymes.
Recommendation is a process which plays an important role in many applications as WWW.The main ob... more Recommendation is a process which plays an important role in many applications as WWW.The main objective of this paper is to show various challenges regarding to the techniques that are being used for generating recommendations. Recommendation techniques can be classified in to three major categories: Collaborative Filtering, Content Based and Hybrid Recommendations. By giving the overview of these problems we can improve the quality of recommendations by inventing new approaches and methods, which can be used as a highway for research and practice in this area.
international journal of engineering trends and technology, 2014
In digital communication, the bandwidth efficiency is one of the most important parameter to meas... more In digital communication, the bandwidth efficiency is one of the most important parameter to measure different modulation schemes, while the separation of waveforms in time domain of existing modulation schemes make it difficult to improve their bandwidth efficiency. Hence, in past decade researchers and engineers continuously try to find out the way to solve out this biggest problem in the field of communication. Finally they were able to proposed such a scheme that is able to reconstruct the original signal in aliasing measurement, named as Compressive Sensing (CS). In this paper, we are using proposed scheme Compressive Modulation (CM) by combining Compressive Sensing (CS) with traditional OFDM in order to improve its bandwidth efficiency. Theoretical analysis and experimental results shows that bandwidth efficiency of OFDM is somewhat improved by using the proposed scheme (CS).
Aim: To evaluate blood glucose level after oral administration of Ethanolic extract of leaves of ... more Aim: To evaluate blood glucose level after oral administration of Ethanolic extract of leaves of Cestrum nocturnum for 4 weeks. Method: Extract of leaves of the trial drug was prepared with the help of soxhlet extraction technique using ethanol as a solvent. 18 Diabetes induced albino wistar rats were divided in three groups (Negative control, Test group and Standard Group). Negative control was administered 5 ml/kg/p.o. normal saline. Test group was administered 400 mg/kg/p.o. leaves extract of Cestrum nocturnum. Standard Group was administered 10mg/kg/p.o. metformin. Duration of treatment: 4 weeks. Evaluation: Blood glucose levels and body weights of rats were measured at the end of first, second, third and fourth week. Results: Oral administration of the extract for 4 weeks caused a significant (P < 0.01) reduction in blood glucose level in diabetic rats. The body weight of diabetic animals was also improved after daily administration of the extract.
Electronic Journal of Plant Breeding, 2021
International Journal of Environment, 2020
Inappropriate seed rate and sowing method contribute a significant role in low productivity of su... more Inappropriate seed rate and sowing method contribute a significant role in low productivity of sunflowers. So, a study was conducted to assess the effect of different seed rates and sowing methods on the yield of sunflower in Ghodaghodi Municipality ward no. 2, Sandepani, far-west province, Kailali, Nepal, during spring season in 2018. The three different seed rates (8 Kg/ha, 10 Kg/ha and 12 Kg/ha) combined with three different sowing methods (broadcasting, line sowing and ridge sowing). A randomized complete block design in a 3×3 factorial arrangement with three replicates per treatment was applied. The indigenous variety of sunflower was used as a test crop. The highest stem diameter was recorded with the lowest seed rate, which remained unaffected by different sowing methods. Head diameter, seeds per head and thousand-grain weight were maximum in plants receiving seed rate of 8 kg/ha. However, the highest (2.13 t/ha) and the lowest (1.76 t/ha) grain yield were achieved with the s...
Asian Journal of Pharmaceutical and Clinical Research, 2019
Objective: Herbal drugs are more beneficial better than aspirin because this is an herb so no sid... more Objective: Herbal drugs are more beneficial better than aspirin because this is an herb so no side effect this drug and it is easy to collect or use to as herbal drugs. Words are inadequate to describe the motivation for my work given to my beloved guide. I would like to add special thanks to my guide Gauravbilwal, for their guidance, support, and encouragement. Purpose (Hypothesis): The main purpose of this article pays to attention for herbal drugs because they are naturally old effective drugs. As well as, Ayurveda treatment is very older effective technique. Design/Method: Haffner gave to this technique of determining analgesic are around in 1929. Procedure: This technique according to tail if clipped with any object and tightly or will be compression generation of pain in the tail as well as mice starting to bite that portion of its tail, and could evaluate and recorded the response how much it bites tail quickly or in potential. Using this simple yet important marvel, we may a...
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2019
Les quatre premiers ont été convertis à partir de septembre 1952 pour augmenter leur capacité de ... more Les quatre premiers ont été convertis à partir de septembre 1952 pour augmenter leur capacité de transport bananier et les installations réduites à 12 passagers seulement. Leu Quirigua n a été le premier transformé après deux mois de travaux en décembre 1952. Le dernier mis en cale sèche pour travaux a été le u Talamanca R au début de cette année. C. Mis en service entre 1945-1947, d'une vitesse de 18 noeuds 112 et pouvant transporter 78.000 regimes et 12 passagers, d'un tonnage de 7.067 t. à 7.075 t., de 310.000 cbft. d'une longueur de 131 m 3, largeur 18 m 60 : ~ < .- ...
Journal of Applied Biotechnology & Bioengineering, 2017
Present review highlights the role of fungi in biodegradation/decolourization of textile dyes and... more Present review highlights the role of fungi in biodegradation/decolourization of textile dyes and effluents. Though, fungi and bacteria both are the principal decomposer of xenobiotics in the environment but fungi are superior to bacteria in dyes degradation/ decolourization due to their superiority in the production of dyes degrading enzymes and as absorbent. The present study focused on the achievements and advancement on the fungal degradation/decolourization of textiles dyes and effluents by the application of potent fungal strains. The biodegradation through fungi or myco-remediation of textile dyes and effluents using potential fungi is comparatively cheap and environmentally safe process, to decompose or mineralize the hardly or less degrading compounds of synthetic dyes. Fungi play an important role to degrade/decolourize the synthetic dyes through enzymes as well as by the absorption, adsorption and accumulation of colourants from the effluents.
AIP Conference Proceedings, 2017
High frequency dielectric spectroscopy has been used to investigate the dielectric behavior of th... more High frequency dielectric spectroscopy has been used to investigate the dielectric behavior of the pure as well as the aqueous solutions of 2-ethyl-1-hexanol at 270 and 300 K. It was found that the strength of Debye peak decreases systematically with increasing concentration of water. This behavior has been explained on the basis of the fact that alcohol favors more reduced structure in presence of water. This result is consistent with the simulation work as well as low frequency dielectric results on alcohol-water system.
International Journal of Managment It and Engineering, 2011
This research addresses the factors concerning ‘Employee Satisfaction‘ that impact quality of wor... more This research addresses the factors concerning ‘Employee Satisfaction‘ that impact quality of work done and productivity in software organization in India. The research reveals employee satisfaction as an integral factor for organizations in India for obtaining competitive advantages in terms of both quality and productivity. Employee satisfaction is an attribute pertinent to the workforce, which proves to be a valuable asset for the development of any sector. It is intended that findings of this research can be used to bring improvements in the work being done in the IT industry. This may serve as a valuable contribution in uplifting the IT economy of India. This research focuses on the factors that cause employee satisfaction or dissatisfaction. Initially factors affecting employee satisfaction were identified from the literature review. After this the relationship of employee satisfaction with quality and productivity was analyzed for organizations in India.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES, 2016
Twenty four lines were crossed with two testers in an L x T mating design to estimate the combini... more Twenty four lines were crossed with two testers in an L x T mating design to estimate the combining ability for seed yield in sunflower. Non-additive genetic variance played a preponderant role in the inheritance of all the characters studied viz., days to 50 % flowering, days to maturity, plant height, head diameter, volume weight, hundred seed weight and seed yield per plant. The lines 27, 436 and tester 234A can be considered as superior parents in the present study as they recorded high per se performance with positively significant general combining ability effect for seed yield/plant. Among the 48 hybrids evaluated, crosses viz., 234A x 436, 234A x 440 and 234A x 235 were considered as superior hybrids as they recorded high per se performance and significant sca effect for seed yield/plant.
Annals of Horticulture, 2015
The heritability (narrow sense), genetic advance and association of characters for 12 characters ... more The heritability (narrow sense), genetic advance and association of characters for 12 characters were estimated in a 10 x 10 diallel crosses in table pea. The range of heritability of yield contributing traits were recorded from 4.34 and 25.95 (number of pods per plant) to 83.57 and 79.54 pod length in F1 and F2 generation, respectively High estimates heritability were observed for days to flower and maturity of edible pods, node number of first pod formed, plant height, pod length, green pod yield per plant, harvest index and protein content in both F1 and F2 generations while number of productive branches per plant only in F2. It indicated greater contribution of additive genetic components except those traits which revealed high heritability indicated both additive and non-additive genetic components. Moderate heritability estimates were recorded for number of productive branches per plant, number of developed ovules per pod and shelling percentage in F1 and number of pods per plant in F2 generation. The maximum genetic gain coupled with high heritability estimates was recorded for plant height followed by green pod yield per plant in both F1 and F2 generations indicated the role of additive gene action, thus, the selection in early generation would be effective for improving these traits. The genetic advance in percentage of mean was moderate for all the characters except plant height and green pod yield per plant in both the generations. Green pod yield per plant showed positive and significant genotypic correlation with pod length and number of developed ovules per pod and negatively significant with plant height.
Broadband dielectric measurements for D-xylose-water mixture with x w = 0.30 & 0.40, were perform... more Broadband dielectric measurements for D-xylose-water mixture with x w = 0.30 & 0.40, were performed in the frequency range of 10 mHz to 10 MHz and in the temperature range of 150 K to 260 K. Differential scanning calorimeter was also carried out to see the thermal behavior of this aqueous solutions. Two relaxation processes were observed, in addition to the contribution of dc conductivity in the low frequency side. The lower frequency process, the so-called primary relaxation process (process-I), is responsible for the glass transition (T g) whereas the faster one or high frequency process (designated as process-II) is due to the reorientational motion of the water molecules.
Medical Science Research, 1994