Volume 8 | Issue 11 |

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Abstract: Organic agriculture in developing countries has increased in past decades especially due to the high demand of or- ganic products in developed countries. This article attempts to present motivational factors influencing the farmers in the conversion to organic tea farming using both primary and secondary sources, for information through interviews with 196 tea farmers in Jitpur and Mangalbare area of Ilam district as well as tea consultants and promoters in this district as a case study. All of farmers have converted their tea farms into organic production for the last five years. It was found that there were different influencing factors for the conversion of their firms into organic tea cultivation. Which include environmental awareness; bright market prospects, economic benefit, health consciousness and sustainability so, while planning programs for the development of the organic tea production in Nepal, policy makers should consider the support of farmers' institutions, provision of training to farmers and raise farmers' awareness about the environmental, economic and health benefits of organic farming.

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Organic farming, conversion, motivational factors, orthodox tea.

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Economic development and quality of life Economic science alone will not provide satisfactory answers to the problems posed by environmental economics. The economist can no longer ignore the ecological consequences of a certain type of economic development, and the ecologist will not ignore the economic and social problems posed by the application of an effective environmental policy. The idea of human progress should no longer be confused with the concept of economic growth. To do this, it will be necessary to re-examine the complex and delicate relationships between man and his environment so that man can move towards a type of development which is not detrimental to his environment. The essential balances of matter and energy flows in natural and man-made ecosystems must be restored or preserved. We must acquire a better knowledge of the effects of human activities on the different ecosystems, and, consequently, intensify research of an interdisciplinary nature. In addition, growth and development models need to be reconsidered. In the case of the environment, as in that of development, it is now necessary to distinguish between the essential and the superfluous. This is an additional reason for advocating a holistic approach to environmental problems.

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Environmental Economics, Quality of life, Ecological, Environmental policy, Environmental management, Development

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A triorganotin (IV) complex [R3SnL: R=Ph] has been synthesized by the reaction of triphenyltin (IV) chloride with biological potent imidazol base ligand 2-(2-hydroxyphenyl)-4, 5-diphenyl imidazole (HL) derived from benzil, salicyladehyde and ammonium acetate. The geometry of the complex has been proposed on the basis of elemental analysis and spectroscopic techniques (IR, 1H NMR, UV and Mass spectra). On the basis of these studies it revealed that Imidazol ligand act as N/O donor system and coordinated to tin atom in bidentate fashion with trigonal pyramidal geometry around Tin atom. To compare the biopotency of the complex, Imidazol ligand and its complex were also tested for antimicrobial evaluation against bacteria and fungi. The activity data show that the metal complex is found to be more potent biocides than the parent ligand.

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Triorganotin(IV) complex, Imidazol, Biopotency, Spectral studies

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Vartnigat Ashudhiuo Ke Kaaran

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India is the second-largest in population and many crops Indian farmers can cultivate and Most of the farmers cultivate cotton in large numbers but the cotton leaf disease is the major problem in the past few decades and that results in a loss of crops, their productivity and money as well. The Cotton leaves are affected by the disease named Cercospora, Bacterial blight, Ascochyta blight, and Target spot. General observation by farmers may be time-consuming, expensive and sometimes inaccurate. The Cotton leaf Disease Detection and identifying the disease at an early stage is a very difficult task for the farmers. If the infection or disease on the crops was not identified by the farmers at the initial level then it will be harmful to the crops as well as for farmers

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Convolution Neural Network, Keras, Tenserflow, MATLAB, Cotton Leaf disease

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This study focused on occupational hazards associated with PABOD Brewery Company in Port Harcourt, in Rivers State. The descriptive cross-sectional survey design was adopted for the study. The sample size for this study was four hundred. Data was collected using a self-developed questionnaire and analyzed using descriptive statistics such as frequencies, percentages, mean and ANOVA test was used for testing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The finding of the study showed a moderate level of occupational hazards associated with workers in PABOD Brewery Company. The tested hypotheses showed a significant difference between age of workers and occupational hazards in PABOD brewery company [F(16, 373) = 20.029; p<0.05], and a non-significant difference between employment status of workers and occupational hazards in PABOD brewery company [F(3, 386) = 1.948; p>0.05]. It was concluded that age influences occupational hazards, while employment status has a non-significant influence among workers in PABOD Brewery Company. It was recommended that the Federal Government, PABOD Brewery Company management and health agencies should identify factors that contribute to sources of occupational hazards and reduce the impact of occupational hazards such as providing more staff to adequately cover units in order to reduce physical and psychosocial hazards, providing clear and specific job description.

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Occupational hazard, Brewery Company, Port Harcourt, Rivers State

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In this paper, we have seen that now days Construction industry is always trying to find new, better and economical material to manufacture new product, which is very beneficial to the industry. Today a significant growth is observed in the manufacture of composite material. With this energy conservation, corrosion risk, sustainability is important when a product is changed or new product is manufactures. Glass fibre (GF) is one of the high performance non-metallic fibres made by fusing (co-melting) silica with minerals. Glass fibre reinforced concrete (GFRC) offers more characteristics such as light weight, good fire resistance and strength. In future it is very beneficial for construction industry. Many applications of glass fibre are residential, industrial, highway and bridges etc. Most of the studies preferred parameters like addition of glass fibres into the concrete with various proportions represented the positive as well as negative improvements in mechanical properties of concrete. However, the researchers could not exhibit the improvement in properties like compressive strength, modulus of elasticity, flexural strength, tensile strength, toughness, early age cracking etc. Even though these properties are important for desired quality of concrete, to overcome this, use of optimum percentage glass fibres in concrete. In present work different percentages of glass fibres were added for M-30 grade of concrete. The experimental study were carried out by casting the cubes in different proportions of glass fibres and glass fibre mesh and the results were obtained to find out optimum percentage of glass fibres. The glass fibres were added into the concrete in proportion of 0, 0.5 %, 1.0 % and 1.5 % by volume at an increment of 0.5 %. A comparative study of various experimental results was carried out.

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cement, coarse aggregate, fine aggregate, water and glass fibre

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Shaqeeqa (Migraine) causes severe throbbing pain or a pulsing sensation, usually on one side of the head, associated with nausea, vomiting, and extreme sensitivity to light and sound. This is also known as Sudae Nisfi, Adhasisi (Hemicrania), Sudae Ghasyani (Sick Headache). It has been estimated that the lifetime prevalence of migraine is about 20% in female and 6% in males. A classical migraine starts with prodrome of malaise, lethargy, vague yawning, giddiness followed by the aura of a focal neurological event, and then a severe throbbing unilateral headache associated with photophobia, nausea and vomiting. It may last for few hours to several days. Migraine variants are numerous in modern medicine but here in Unani, It is of two types shaqeeqa har (due to blood or bile) and shaqeeqa barid (due to phlegm or black bile) mainly. Unani physicians have described various etiologies of migraine in their manuscripts. Identification and avoidance of these causes and precipitating factors certainly cure the disease. Unani System of Medicine has broad range of treatment modalities viz Regimental therapy, Dietotherapy, Pharmacotherapy and surgery to eliminate shaqeeqa.

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Migraine, Shaqeeqa, Akhlat-e-Arbaa, Humours, Mizaj

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The Data Science is showing us the upward mark in terms of popularity, and efficiency in dealing with e-contents. The Natural Language Processing is playing vital role in e-content data manipulations. The reading of e-contents by the users is mostly preferred in their regional language, where numerous foreign and Indian Regional languages come in lime light. We are proposing a system which will lead students to get up-to-date recent Marathi e-news in summarized way, as it is the regional language of Maharashtra, India. It is observed that very less work has been done in Marathi language text summarization. This paper emphasises on the processing of e-news to get extractive summary.We have followed TextRank algorithm to get summary by providing ratio which will be the value between 0 and 1.

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TextRank, Automated Text Summarization (ATS), Information Retrieval, Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA), LINGO (Label Induction Grouping).

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This paper presents the University of Science and Technology of Southern Philippines initiative towards the adherence to the Philippine Qualification Framework (PQF). The study articulated the struggle for academic and professional identity of industrial technology program in the absence of Policies, Standards and Guidelines from the Commission on Higher Education. Such predicament is also confronted with the gap between the levels of educational qualifications described in the PQF wherein the transition in the vocational education to the baccalaureate degrees is scrutinized. The objective of the initiative is to develop a technology-based programs in conjunction with the Outcomes-based Education and the PQF. The university followed the concept of Develop a Curriculum in the program development taking into consideration the inputs from the industry and other stakeholders at the same time emphasizing the differentiating characteristics of Sydney and Dublin Accords in the crafting of program outcomes in the course syllabus. A technology program continuum was also develop describing the transitional year level of technology programs offered in the university wherein the first three years are classified as Diploma program with yearly exit options. At the end of the three-year technician-based engagement the students may opt to proceed to the corresponding baccalaureate degrees in technology, teacher education and engineering or exit for employment. The outcome of the study resulted to the offering of five (5) technology programs that started in School Year 2018-2019 duly approved by the Board of Regents of the university.

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continuum, qualification framework, outcomes-based, technician-based, technology-based

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