Volume 9 | Issue 1 |

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Climate change and variability are concerns of human being. The recurrent droughts and floods threaten seriously the livelihood of billions of people who depend on land for most of their needs. The global economy is adversely being influenced very frequently due to extreme events such as droughts and floods, cold and heat waves, forest fires, landslips etc. The natural calamities like earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions, though not related to weather disasters, may change chemical composition of the atmosphere. It will, in turn, lead to weather related disasters. In this study, the relation between agriculture and rainfall trends are analysed to identify and mitigate its adverse impacts.

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Rainfall , Climate variability , Climate change, Palakkad

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The study was carried out to construct a valid and reliable test in Life Science for secondary school students. The investigator conducted to construct and standardize an achievement test in Life Science for class IX students to measure their achievement. The achievement test and the lesson plans were developed on selected topics of Life Science from Class IX Text Book issued by WBBSE (West Bengal Board of Secondary Education) on the basis of the blue print prepared for the achievement test in the light of objectives. After the items were written, the investigator consulted the subject expert for checking the items framed with respect to the faulty language and defects in wordings and also to verify whether the items measure what was purports to measure at the level of achievement. Initially Eighty five (85) items were framed on selected topics of Life Science textbook. A blue-print was prepared for the achievement test in the light of certain objectives. Individual try-out of the first draft was done on six students. Discussions with the subject experts were held and the test was modified accordingly. The second draft with Seventy-six (76) items was administered on 20 students. Then the Item difficulty Value (DV) and Item Discrimination Power (DP) were determined by adopting Kelley�s (1939) method. On the basis of Item difficulty value, item discrimination power and also distractor analysis, the preliminary draft of the achievement test was again modified. In total 60 items having difficulty value (DV) ranging from 0.20 to 0.75 and the items ranging from 0.20 to 0.90 on the discriminatory power (DP) were retained in the achievement test. The reliability and validity of the test was also administered.

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Achievement test, Construction, Difficulty Value (DV) and Discriminatory Power (DP), Life Science, and Standardization.

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In this paper we extend the proof of potential and nonlinear potential pointwise gradient estimates for solutions to measure data problems whose prototype is given by . We show that in the case a pointwise gradient estimate is possible using standard, linear Riesz potentials. The proof is based on the identification of a natural quantity that on one hand respects the natural scaling of the problem, and on the other allows to encode the weaker coercivity properties of the operaotrs considered, in the case . In the case we prove a new gradient estimate employing nonlinear potentials of Wolff type

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Gradient estimates; nonlinear potential theory;epsilon-Laplacian; regularity thoery

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The aim of the study was to assess the awareness on preventive measures of worm infestation among mothers of toddlers at selected villages of thamballapalle mandal, Chittoor district Objectives: 1. To assess the knowledge regarding prevention of worm infestations among mothers of Toddlers. 2. To evaluate the effectiveness of structured teaching programme on knowledge regarding prevention of worm infestations among mothers of toddlers. 3. To find the association between pre and post test knowledge and socio demographic variables regarding prevention of worm infestations among mothers of toddlers. Methodology: By using convenient sampling technique a Pre- experimental one group pre-test post-test design was adopted, 60 mothers of toddlers were taken as samples, and data collection was done by using self structured questionnaire. Results: Out of 60 mothers in pre test 43(71.70%)had inadequate knowledge, 17(28.30%)had moderate knowledge In post test 46(76.70%) had adequate knowledge, 14(23.30%)had moderate knowledge Out of 60 mothers in pre test 40 (66.70%) had inadequate knowledge on practices, 16(26.70%) had moderate knowledge on practices, and 4(6.70%) had adequate knowledge on practices. In post test44 (73.70%) had adequate knowledge on practices, 16(26.70%) had moderate knowledge on practices. Conclusion:Knowledge and knowledge on practices were significant at p<0.01 level regarding prevention of worm infestation, hence hypothesis is accepted.

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Awareness, prevention, worm infestation, mothers of toddlers

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Salinization, Technology , Digital soil card, food security , agriculture , organic farming , groundwater, salt-effected .

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PGPR, Potassium solubilizing Bacteria, Kitchen Waste, chick pea plant.

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stem cells, knowledge, Self structured questionnaire

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What defines a person as being black? Identity, culture, skin colour, other people or something else? Only an individual can determine what defines him/ her. If the African- American people lived in a society that did not care about skin colour, there would not be a "black identity". Americans consider Africans as black not on the basis of African ancestry, but based on whether it's visible. Being black is definitely more than just an appearance, to be 'black' somewhere down in spirit, is to connect with the ancestors and know what has been taught, what you thought was truth. The writer James Baldwin had said "people are trapped in history and history is trapped in them." Some people reject the black identity and this has led to criticism from those who believe that they had a right and a voice to stand up for their race and culture and their individuality. This paper speaks about the antecedents of the black identity through the selected poems of African-American writers.

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Identity, culture, African ancestry, criticism, race, individuality, antecedents.

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[As Immanuel Kant says, �to recognize that autonomy is the highest human good, humans have to disentangle themselves from the �leading strings� by which the guardians priests, lawyers, and the rulers have made them �domesticated animals�. According to Kant, only the enlightened can form a state. In the recent times, what Myanmar is strongly lacking, is a strong civil society. Ashley South is in favor not only does the country lack a strong civil society but has also proposed ideas as to what would enable the country to have a civil society in the future. Albert P. Blaustein states that states should be based on civic, rather ethnic or national principle. This will enable the people to have an equal stand in the society. There should not be any �insider� or �outsider. If a country is not homogenous in terms of religion, language, ethnicity or culture, then there needs to be a largely felt commitment to the rights of minority groups. Therefore, in the recent times, there has been a call for the formation of the second Panglong Agreement minority concerns and d that would address the determine the ethnic principles for the future union. Suu Kyi�s idea of the second Panglong Agreement Conference was denounced by the state and therefore, the crisis of a union still stands firm in Myanmar. Further, according to Robert Conquest, even if democracy is brought about in a nondemocratic s democratic society, it cannot function without a fair level of political social stability (Conquest, 2004). The idea of Conquest is particularly true in the case of Myanmar because right after independence, when the country entered into democracy for a while, intense political instability and unrest resulted into the toppling of the newly formed democracy. Conquest further argues that there is a strong need to cultivate a civic culture in a civil society (when formed) in which various elements can express themselves politically. This idea can be strongly related to the recent situation of Myanmar where the country lacks both the civil society and the independence of the mass media. The answer to both the problems of the country would be invariably democracy but as of now, Thein Sien has taken steps to allow the mass media to express their views and carry on the reform process. If one has to imagine the prevalence of democracy in Myanmar in the future, even then, according to conquest, perfect social order is unobtainable in any democratic state]

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Myanmar, civil society, Panglong Agreement, Aung San Su Kyi

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ABSTRACT :- Tannins are polyphenols that are water soluble and are found in many plant foods. They have been reported to be responsible for reducing feed intake growth rate, net metabolizable energy, feed efficiency and protein digestibility in laboatory animals.[1]food high in tannis are also deemed to be of poor nutritional value tannins are a kind of compoundof polyphenols with a complex plant structure.tannins are mainaly categorised into two types hydrolisable tannins and condesed tannins on the bassis of their structure.hydrolisable tannins are properties to exhibit anticancer antigiogenic, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anti ulcerative properties.[3] condensed tannins are a mixture of polyhydroxyfavan-3-ol oligomers and polymers connected betwwen subunits of flavanoids by carbon bonds.[4] In tannins best drug example are catechu.

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:� Introduction of tannins,occurancxe of tannins�types of tannins,drugs,taxonomy,marphology,biological source,cultivation,chemical constituents,pharmacological activity,chemical test,uses

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