Vol 6 Issue 4 October 2018-December 2018

Abstract: Flours of soyabean, cornstarch, crayfish, plantain and dried fish (bonga) were mixed to obtain the traditional weaning food (TWF). The material balance method was used in obtaining the proportions of the flours for mixing with 70% cornstarch flour and 30% enriched soyabean. The proximate nutrient, some mineral concentrations, sensory evaluation and some vitamin composition of the formulated food were compared with Nestle Nutrend, a commercial weaning food (CWF). The TWF was superior in terms of protein and carbohydrate content but the CWF had more sensory scores. The moisture content of the TWF (9.72 + 0.09%) was significantly higher (P<0.05) than that of the CWF (3.46 + 0.02%) while the crude fibre and the fat contents were significantly higher in CWF when compared with TWF (P<0.05). the mineral analysis showed that potassium, iron and magnesium were significantly (P<0.05) higher in TWF while CWF had higher content of phosphorus, sodium and calcium (P<0.05). vitamin analysis showed that there was no significant difference in niacin, thiamine and ascorbic acid contents. The traditional weaning food is comparable to the commercial weaning food and can serve as a substitute to the commercial weaning food.

Keywords: Weaning food, Nutritional qualities, Sensory qualities.

Title: COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE NUTRITIONAL AND SENSORY QUALITIES OF A TRADITIONAL AND A COMMERCIAL WEANING FOOD

Author: Osuchukwu, C.O; Abiodun I.K; Obijuru, N.T; Ikonne, P.; Ukachi, C.I., Osuchukwu A.A

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Abstract: Acrylamide, a proven rodent carcinogen, was reported to have been found in commonly consumed carbohydrate-rich foods by Swedish National Food Association in 2002. The alarm raised escalated a lot of concern in public health. Acrylamide is a chemical compound formed in potatoes, cereals and bakery foods when processed by frying, baking or roasting at temperature above 120oC and at low moisture condition. The reducing sugars or its carbonyl derivatives and amino acid Asparagine are known to play important roles in its formation. Due to its high solubility in water, acrylamide is readily absorbed in the gastrointestinal tract, and can be metabolized in the body through conjugation with glutathione or biotransformation with Cytochrome P450 metabolic enzyme. The toxicity of acrylamide to health has been extensively studied. The neurotoxic, carcinogenic, genotoxic and effects on reproductive health are evident with symptoms ranging from central and peripheral neuropathy to anomalies caused in the genome of animals as well as human subjects. Available studies are not enough to conclude that acrylamide is carcinogenic in humans although in animals, cases of several types of cancer had been documented. The mitigation strategies of reducing acrylamide in foods include: the use of asparaginase, addition of antioxidant, increase in water activity of the food product, storing at 8 oC, baking at high relative humidity, blanching at 70 oC for 10 -15mins, and frying under low pressure conditions. This review covers acrylamide’s occurrence in various food products, dietary intake, formation, absorption, metabolism, health effects and its reduction strategies.

Keywords: Acrylamide, asparagine, reducing sugars, neurotoxic, carcinogenic, glycidamide.

Title: Acrylamide in Foods: Causes, Health effects and Reduction strategies

Author: Ifeyinwa Asogwa, Kehinde Aremu

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Abstract: Elevated ground water fluoride concentration and hydrochemical data are presented for groundwater samples, collected from different blocks of Birbhum district, West Bengal, India, belonging to different geological regions. Dubrajpur(unclassified gneiss), Rampurhat-1(Igneous). From Dubrajpur block total 31 samples including hotspring, dugwell and deeptubewell samples were collected during November, 2011 and from Rampurhat-1 block total 63 samples including shallow and deep tubewells were collected during February, 2011 for comparative  assessment of the groundwater fluoride status and overall chemical quality and suitability for domestic and agricultural use. Other parameters analyzed for pH ,Total Dissolved Solid (TDS), Electrical Conductivity(EC), Sulphate(SO₄^2-), Nitrate(NO₃^-), phosphate(PO₄^3-), Fluoride(F^-), Calcium(Ca²⁺), Magnesium(Mg²⁺), Sodium(Na⁺), Potassium(K⁺), Bicarbonate(HCO₃^-), carbonate(CO₃^2-), and Total Hardness(TH) using standard techniques. Obtained results show that among both Dubrajpur and Rampurhat-1 samples several parameters were found to be elevated. Sodium adsortion ratio (SAR) values were within the permissible limit in all the Dubrajpur samples but among Rampurhat-1 samples two were elevated (Asanjola and Madhabpur village). Rest of the samples were within the permissible limit. %Na and residual sodium carbonate (RSC) value were within the permissible limit among all the Dubrajpur samples but among the Rampurhat 1 samples %Na was found to be unsuitable (3 samples) and doubtful (3 samples). RSC value was found to be above 1 among 3 Asanjola, 3 Narayanpur and 2 Madhabpur village samples of Rampurhat-1. Birbhum district is a groundwater fluoride affected district and among several samples of both Dubrajpur and Rampurhat-1 block fluoride concentration was found to be elevated. Fluoride concentration seems to have a  positive relation to pH, sodium and carbonate whereas a negative relation to magnesium and calcium. The degree of weathering of the silicate minerals as indicated by the sodium acquired by the ground waters may have a decisive role in fluoride enrichment process. The overall obtained results of fluoride and other parameters reveal that Rampurhat-1 block is more worstly affected in comparison to Dubrajpur.

Keywords: Ground water quality, Fluoride concentration, related parameters, Dubrajpur and Rampurhat 1 block, Birbhum district, West Bengal, India.

Title: COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENT OF FLUORIDE CONCENTRATION AND HYDROCHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF GROUND WATER OF DUBRAJPUR AND RAMPURHAT-I BLOCK, BIRBHUM, WEST BENGAL, INDIA

Author: Sakuntala Chakrabarti, Pulak Kumar Patra

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Abstract: Provision of toilets under Integrated Low Cost Sanitation Scheme (ILCSS) to the households having no latrine is expected to inculcate the habit to leave open defecation besides making the surrounding pollution free. The study conducted in five urban local bodies in Odisha highlighted that toilets have been constructed under the ILCS Scheme as these areas were prone to open defecation. Before implementation of the scheme, the women members of the households find difficulty in defecating in the open. The ILCSS toilets gave them a great relief besides giving advantage to children. The households are motivated by family members, health workers etc. to make their ward open defecation free which would have been otherwise for spread of diseases. Majority of the beneficiaries are aware of the occurrence of the diseases due to open defecation. The beneficiaries viewed for increased funding, size and quality of construction etc. are to be improved to bring efficiency to the scheme. In spite of the bottlenecks in its implementation the ILCSS toilets restored the dignity, self esteem, safety and well being of woman as they used the facilities more than the men.

Keywords: Integrated Low Cost Sanitation Scheme (ILCSS), toilets, children, self esteem, safety and well being.

Title: Restoration of Dignity, Self esteem, Safety and Well being of Women through provision of Toilets: An explorative study in Urban and Semi Urban settings in Odisha

Author: Rashmi Mishra

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Abstract: The electroculture has emerged as one of the important tool to increase plant growth without using any chemical. Present study was also carried out to evaluate the impact of electric current of different volts (i.e. 1V, 2V, 3V and 4V) on germination and growth of Vigna radiata. Enhanced germination rate, biomass and chlorophyll concentration was recorded among the treated plants in comparison of controlled one. Out of all given treatments, plants treated with 3V and 4V showed the best results.

Keywords: Electroculture, Vigna radiate, Chlorophyll, Biomass, Voltage.

Title: The Effect of Various Electrical Fields on Seed Germination and Growth Rate of Vigna radiate

Author: Urvi Gupta, Dharamsinh Ninama, Abhishek Pandya

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Abstract: The objective of the present study is to compare the perception of television viewing media professionals towards New Knowledge Management and its associated factors Knowledge Creation, Knowledge Practice, Knowledge Sharing, Knowledge Worker, Knowledge Organization, Knowledge Access, Media Knowledge, and Knowledge Capture separately. The data related to this objective were analyzed with the help of mean, standard deviation, standard error and t-test. 336 respondents selected randomly amongst media professionals from the different domain of like Television, Radio, Print, Film and Internet/Digital. This study was survey in nature. Respondents were surveyed to know the perception towards New Knowledge Management and its Associated Factors.

Keywords: Perception of Television Viewing, New Knowledge Management & its Associated Factors.

Title: Perception of Television Viewing Media Professional towards New Knowledge Management & its Associated Factors: A Comparative Study

Author: Dr. Lalit Engle, Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Singh

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Abstract: This paper was set to assess knowledge of reproductive health (RH) among students in Colleges of Education in North East Zone of Nigeria. RH addresses human sexuality and reproductive processes, functions and system at all stages of life that ensures a healthy and satisfying safe sex life. The study was guided by two objectives and two research questions. Method. The ex-post-factor design was used for the study. Multi-stage sampling procedure was used to draw sample size of 554 respondents from six Colleges of Education in North East Zone of Nigeria. A researcher developed questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. The data was analyzed using Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) IBM version 20. Descriptive statistics was used to analyze demographic characteristics, while one tailed  sampled t-test was used to test hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Results: The study revealed that: students of Colleges of Education in North East Zone of Nigeria have significant RH knowledge on safe motherhood P= 0.000 (p< 0.05) level of significance. Knowledge of sexually transmitted infections among students in Colleges of Education in North East Zone was also significant at P = 0.000 (p< 0.05). The study recommended that Information, Education and Communication IEC activities aimed at increasing and maintaining knowledge of reproductive health matters through health education and counseling programs should be intensified by teachers and health care providers to students and youth in the community.

Keywords: Health, Reproductive health, Reproductive health knowledge Safe motherhood.

Title: ASSESSMENT OF REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH KNOWLEDGE AMONG STUDENTS IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION IN NORTH EAST ZONE OF NIGERIA

Author: Ibrahim Mohammed Mbitsa

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Abstract: With open courseware (OCW), anyone can access any course at any place in any language via internet. It may become a powerful tool to support e-learning as well as traditional classroom based learning. OCW was started by MIT as open educational resources. OCW is now expanded to many countries of world like China, Japan, Indonesia and India as well. Countries run open course ware either by translating MIT’s course ware to their languages or by producing their own. NPTEL started it in India in engineering, science and humanities streams. MHRD also started production and distribution of open course wares in India under National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) which can be accessed through Sakshat portal. The major objective of this study is to know the perception of students towards utilization of Open Courseware in institutions of higher learning. Keeping in mind this objective the investigator decided to survey students of higher learning institutions. The present study was survey in nature. The sample of the study comprised of 418 undergraduate and postgraduate students belonging to urban, semi-urban and rural areas. Findings concluded that student effectively utilized open courseware in terms of user-flexibility, choice-based access and content delivery.

Keywords: Open Courseware, open educational resources, students, higher learning institutions.

Title: Utilization of Open Courseware amongst Students of Higher Learning Institutions in India

Author: Dr. Narayan Patidar, Dr. Akhilesh Kumar Singh

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Abstract: Our contemporary culture places high value on wealth, which negatively influences the cognitions, emotions and behavior of our youth. Contemporary theorists have termed this wealth contagion as 'Affluenza' which changes the fabric of the society and negatively affects the developmental outcomes throughout individual’s life and poses serious threats to young adults. The present research has empirically explored how affluent and non-affluent differ on different dimensions of Narcissism. The data of 100 affluent & 100 non-affluent students identified with Mattison Affluenza Scale (2012), in the age range of 18-24 yrs., were collected from different colleges and universities of Punjab & Chandigarh. The narcissistic tendencies were assessed on seven dimensions of Narcissistic Personality Inventory (Raskin & Terry, 1988). It was hypothesized that affluent individuals would be high on narcissism as compared to their non-affluent counterparts. Unpaired t-test revealed that affluent and non-affluent differed significantly (t=24.17**) on narcissism. The global score on narcissism of affluent participants (M=32.04) came out much higher in comparison to global score of non-affluent participants (M=16.74). The findings are line with previous researches reporting that high level of affluence may play a significant role in narcissistic tendencies in youth due to their increases sense of entitlement and heightened feelings of uniqueness and individualism (Emmons, 1984; Raskin & Terry, 1988; Twenge et al., 2008).

Keywords: Affluenza, Non-Affluent, Narcissism, Unpaired t-test.

Title: The Ripple Effect: Wealth Contagion and Its Influence on Behavior

Author: Dr. Mamta Sharma

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Abstract: This study examines customers attitude for purchasing counterfeit cosmetic products. We studied the influence of personality and socio- economic factors on attitude. Data were collected from a sample of 598 respondents using a well-established questionnaire. Hypotheses were tested by utilizing multiple regression, exploratory factor analysis was used to evaluate customers attitude towards counterfeit cosmetic products. We have found that more price and value conscious, novelty seeker and seek status of famous brands one was, the more positive was an individual’s attitude towards fake goods. Findings revealed that selling as well as buying of counterfeit products is a crime and consumer attraction towards phony goods is directly proportional to their price. Socio-economic characteristics were also important in influencing attitude. Results demonstrated that education and lower income groups play a vital role in influencing consumers attitude. Conclusively, attitude with respect to counterfeit products was significant in influencing intention to purchase. 

Keywords: Consumer attitude, counterfeit products, factor loading, personal and socio-economic factors, purchase intention. 

Title: INFLUENCE OF PERSONALITY AND SOCIO-ECONOMIC FACTORS ON CONSUMER ATTITUDES TOWARD COUNTERFEIT COSMETIC PRODUCTS: A CASE OF BILASPUR TOWN IN HIMACHAL PRADESH, INDIA

Author: Ravi Kumar, Dr. Rakesh Kumar Shukla, (Prof.) Dr. Yashwant Singh Negi

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to define the various aspects of cultural tourism in Tamilnadu and to review them in the light of current conditions. The historical monuments represent the largest and most important aspect, which also involves the greatest recurrent expenditure on conservation and protection. The Formulation of our definition of cultural tourism was drawn up largely with the Indian and Foreign tourist in mind. Clearly, the aims and importance of domestic cultural tourism in Tamilnadu must be very largely educational. In a state like Tamilnadu with a vast population, poverty and illiteracy would be eradicated or changed with the help of this type of tourism which once was done by the pilgrimage. The Monuments had been classified into various different types on the basis of the priority given to them, due to their appearance in the present condition. Due to the surplus amount of monuments available in the state, it is a great hindrance for the tourists to select the necessary monuments that is to be visited in the first instance.

Keywords: Tourism, Heritage, Scheduling, Publications, Site Museums.

Title: The Role of Monumental Legacy in the Cumulative Progression of Cultural Tourism in Tamilnadu

Author: DR. E. INIYAN

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Abstract: This paper presents the case study about Buckingham canal within the Chennai city limits. The canal is subjected to immense degradation and pollution from a huge amount of domestic and industrial waste entering into it. The restoration of water quality is a major challenge to environmental managers. The study area is divided into 3 parts and identifies the critical pollutants affecting the canal during its course through the city. Solutions are recommended to minimize the critical parameters and make the canal purposeful.

Keywords: Degradation and pollution, restoration of canal, critical parameters, canal purposeful.

Title: FROM DETERIORATION TO RESTORATION - THE BUCKINGHAM CANAL

Author: Capt. N. Kumar, R. Rajapriyan, Saket Kumar Sharma, Thomas M.V

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Abstract: Sampling plans in which items that are put to test, to collect the life of the items in order to decide upon accepting or rejecting a submitted lots are called reliability test plans. In this paper, a reliability test plan is used for acceptance or rejection of a lot of products submitted for inspection in which the lifetime of the items follow New Weibull-Pareto Distribution. Here the proposed sampling plan can save the test time in practical situations. Minimum sample size required to accept or reject a submitted lot for a given acceptance number with producer’s risk is found. The test plan to determine the termination time of the experiment for a given sample size, producer’s risk and termination number is also constructed. The comparison of the reliability test plan over similar plans is established with respect to time of the experiment. Results are illustrated by an example.

Keywords: New Weibull-Pareto Distribution, Reliability Test Plan, Minimum Sample Size, Producer’s risk, Experimental time.

Title: RELIABILITY TEST PLAN FOR THE NEW WEIBULL-PARETO DISTRIBUTION

Author: K. Vijayadevi, S. Rajagopal

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