Life Sciences

Sericulture is one of the most important rural industries practiced since several decades. It has certain inherent advantages of bivoltine double hybrids rearing in Madanapalli area through Institute Village Linkage Programme in field levelwill be implemented during the current 12th plan period for 100 farmers per each programme. The programme has been introduced at central silk board and state DOS level to educate sericulturists, still a wide gap exists between the recommended technology and actual adoption by sericulturists.

Objective(s): To determine the effectiveness of family health nursing based education program on nurses’ performance at primary health centers in AL-Muthanna Health Directorate. Methodology: A quasi-experimental design was carried throughout the present study with the application of test-retest approach of pre-test, post-test1and post-test2 for the study and control groups, from the period of March 25th 2015 through June 30th 2016. A purposive sample, of (52) Diploma nurses, is selected throughout the use of non-probability sampling approach.

Visiting the protected areas like National Parks, Wildlife Reserves, Conservation areas, Buffer zones is a part of scientific education. It is the practical method of learning i.e. learning by direct observation. Protected areas are the resourceful places where from the people of different field gain the knowledge from the different point of view. It helps to create awareness to the large mass of people towards the vulnerability of a wide variety of flora, fauna, geography, climate, socio-economy, tourism etc.

The terracotta art owe a very ancient lineage and bear a long tradition of excellence and unique craftsmanship. Bankura has a rich cultural heritage of handloom industry and handicrafts. It is world famous for Baluchari textile, conch shell carving, bell metal engraving and exquisite terracotta temples. The ethnicity, emblematic design depicting mythological folk-tales, rural life styles represents a culmination of artistic expressions. Though this craft is enjoying a ready market both at home and abroad, there are some grey areas demanding immediate attention.

The seasonal variations of physico-chemical parameters were studied during July 2014 to June 2015 in the Agniar estuary (Lat.10° 20' N Long.79° 23’E ) Adirampattinam southeast coast of India. The atmospheric and water temperature ranged from 28.8ºC °C to 35.2°C and 26°C to 31.4°C respectively. The pH ranged between 7.3 and 8.6. The DO was ranged from 3.8 to 7.3 ml/l. Salinity fluctuated between 1.5‰ and 33.8‰. The DO was found to be low in summer and high during monsoon season. Similarly temperature, pH and salinity were low during monsoon and high during summer season.

The seasonal variations of heavy metal distribution were studied during July 2014 to June 2015 in the Agniar estuary (Lat.10° 20' N Long.79° 23’E) Adirampattinam southeast coast of India. The range of distribution of copper in the estuarine water and sediments are found to be 3.8 to11.6 µg/g and 33.3- 41.1 µg/g respectively. In both water and sediment maximum concentration of copper was observed in November 2014. The minimum concentration of copper was observed during March 2015 in water and June 2015 in sediments.

The median lethal concentration (LC50/96h) of Chromium Chloride for the estuarine clam, Mactra violacea was recorded to be 2.4 mg/l.  Acute chromium exposure (0.24 mg/l = 1/10th of LC50/96h) to M. violacea caused histological alterations in the chief metabolic organ namely digestive gland.  Histological studies showed that the digestive gland tissues suffered more on 72h and 96h exposures than 24h and 48h exposures.  Distinct histomorphological alterations namely epithelial degeneration, necrosis, vacuolation and granular cytoplasm were noticed in acute treated digestive diverticula of M.

Acid lime (Citrus aurantifolia) is grown different agro-climatic situation in West Bengal. The crop is commonly affected by citrus canker caused by Xanthomonas axonopdis pv. citri. There was variation in severity of the disease in different orchards. Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri isolated from five different orchard showed variation in respect to virulence and enzymatic activity. Isolates of the pathogen were XacJP from Jagannathpur, Paschim Medinipur, XacJ from Jaguli, Nadia, XacK from Kalyani, Nadia, XacMON from Mondouri, Nadia, XacMHP from Mohanpur, Nadia.

Rice is a major component of the agricultural sector in particular and the overall economy in general. Rice is one of the most important staple food for more than half of the world’s population and influences the livelihood and economies of several billion people. Paddy loss due to flooding in Bangladesh and India alone amounts to an estimated 4.0 million tons per year enough to feed 30 million people. Over 20% of rice land in Bangladesh is prone to floods which occur every year (IRRI 2010). Such produce is often sold at low price causing economical loss to the farmers.

This paper presents the results of studies on the ability to handle cyanide in metal plating wastewater in the Thanh Thuy village of Thanh Oai district, Hanoi city. The results showed that water hyacinth plants are capable of well growing in the water of pH from 6.00 to 7.00. This plant can be applied for treat cyanide in metal plating wastewater with the concentration about 0.190 mg/L. The water hyacinth with the 2days of age can be applied in treating cyanide with the highest efficiency, reached 89.4 %.