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TOXICITY IN PLANTS AND OPTIMAL GROWTH UNDER FERTILIZER

  • Bhattacharya, D.K.
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.16 no.1_2
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    • pp.355-369
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    • 2004
  • The paper determines by control-theoretic means the optimal dose of fertilizer to be used to two plants for maintaining optimal revival of their growths, which are retarded mainly due to the toxicity contributed by the plants jointly.

Absence of P53 Gene Mutations in Exons 5 - 7 Among Breast Cancer Patients of Bengalee Hindu Caste Females, West Bengal, India

  • Roy, Abhishikta Ghosh;Sarkar, B.N.;Roy, Rakesh;Rao, V.R.;Bandyopadhyay, A.R.
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.13 no.9
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    • pp.4477-4479
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    • 2012
  • Background: The high incidence and relatively good prognosis of breast cancer has made it the most prevalent cancer in the world today. A large number of distinct mutations and polymorphisms in the p53 gene have been reported worldwide, but there is no report regarding the role of this inherited susceptibility gene in breast cancer risk among the Bengalee Hindu Caste females of West Bengal, India. Aim of the Study: We investigated the distribution and the nature of p53 gene mutations and polymorphisms in exons 5-7 in a cohort of 110 Bengalee Hindu breast cancer patients and 127 age, sex and caste matched controls by direct sequencing. Results: We did not observe any mutations and polymorphisms in our studied individuals. Conclusion: We therefore conclude that mutations in exons 5-7 of p53 gene are rare causes of breast cancer among Bengalee Hindu caste females, and therefore of little help for genetic counseling and diagnostic purposes.

Insecticidal Efficacy of Porteresia coarctata (Roxb.) on Bio-chemical Alteration of Spodoptera litura (Fab.)

  • Bhattacharyya Atanu;Goswami Arunava;Dihidar Shankar;Adhikari Sujit;Banerjee Sudip Kumar;Talapatra Soumendra Nath;Barik Bikas Ranjan;Bhattacharya Subir Kumar;Chandra Asit Kumar
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.14 no.1
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    • pp.9-13
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    • 2007
  • Hexane extract of Porteresia coarctata (Roxb.) exhibits a toxic effect on the tissues of Spodoptera litura (F) while fed at the dose of 1000 and 2000 ppm thoroughly mixing with castor leaves (Ricinus communis L) after dissolving in DMSO at late fourth instar whereas only DMSO treated castor leaves were fed to control group. The larvae were put to rear at $28^{\circ}C{\pm}1^{\circ}C$, $76{\pm}4%$ R.H. under 12 L + 12 D photoperiodic regime. In test group insects substantial reduction of protein and DNA content was marked in fat body and midgut tissues compared to DMSO treated control group. The significant biochemical alterations in the midgut tissues and fat body of test group insects indicate the insecticidal property of the said plant extract that could be tested in facilitating the phenomenal stride in Integrated Pest Management.

Effect of Microsporidian Infection on Reproductive Potentiality on Mulberry Silkworm, Bombyx mori L. (Lepidoptera: Bombycidae) in Different Seasons

  • Chakrabarti, Satadal;Manna, Buddhadeb
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.17 no.1
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    • pp.157-163
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    • 2008
  • Infection of pathogenic microsporidia, Nosema bombycis and Nosema mylitta (Chakrabarti and Manna, 2006) decreased egg production, fecundity, hatching % and increased sterile eggs in heavily infected mulberry silkmoth, Bombyx mori L. On an average a disease free moth laid upto 442.67 eggs with high hatching % (99.53) and less sterile eggs ($0.47{\sim}2.00%$). While an infected moth laid less number of eggs ($7.00{\sim}412.00$) with low hatching % ($32.437{\sim}98.643$) and high sterile eggs ($2.143{\sim}129.571$). Fecundity of disease free laying was highest (468.714) during season-1 then gradually decreased during season- 2 (414.000) to season- 3 (404.285). But fecundity of an infected laying was highest during season-2 and hatched eggs were lowest during season-2. Higher inoculums concentration of N. mylitta infected to 5th stage larva of mulberry silkworm drastically decreased the fecundity in season - 3 and lower inoculums concentration of N. bombycis decreased the fecundity in season-1 and 3. Season-3 was most effective season to decrease the fecundity and increase sterile eggs when both temperature and humidity were fluctuated from the optimum level.

Investigation on nanoadhesive bonding of plasma modified titanium for aerospace application

  • Ahmed, Sabbir;Chakrabarty, Debabrata;Mukherjee, Subroto;Joseph, Alphonsa;Jhala, Ghanshyam;Bhowmik, Shantanu
    • Advances in aircraft and spacecraft science
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    • v.1 no.1
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    • pp.1-14
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    • 2014
  • Physico-chemical changes of the plasma modified titanium alloy [Ti-6Al-4V] surface were studied with respect to their crystallographic changes by X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM).The plasma-treatment of surface was carried out to enhance adhesion of high performance nano reinforced epoxy adhesive, a phenomenon that was manifested in subsequent experimental results. The enhancement of adhesion as a consequence of improved spreading and wetting on metal surface was studied by contact angle (sessile drop method) and surface energy determination, which shows a distinct increase in polar component of surface energy. The synergism in bond strength was established by analyzing the lap-shear strength of titanium laminate. The extent of enhancement in thermal stability of the dispersed nanosilica particles reinforced epoxy adhesive was studied by Thermo Gravimetric Analysis (TGA), which shows an increase in onset of degradation and high amount of residuals at the high temperature range under study. The fractured surfaces of the joint were examined by Scanning electron microscope (SEM).

Influence of Temperature and Relative Humidity in Infection of Nosema bombycis (Microsporidia: Nosematidae) and Cross-infection of N. mylitta on Growth and Development of Mulberry Silkworm, Bombyx mori

  • Chakrabarti, Satadal;Manna, Buddhadeb
    • International Journal of Industrial Entomology and Biomaterials
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    • v.17 no.2
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    • pp.173-180
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    • 2008
  • The influence of temperature and relative humidity in infection and cross-infection of Nosema bombycis and N. mylitta respectively in mulberry silkworm, Bombyx mori L. on larval mortality, multiplication of pathogens, larval weight and growth rate in three different seasons were studied. Seasons were selected in such condition, when very less fluctuations between minimum and maximum temperature and minimum and maximum relative humidity ($25{\sim}28^{\circ}C$ and $65{\sim}72%$ R.H) was observed i.e., season-1. Fluctuations between minimum and maximum temperature were less ($28.05{\sim}34.50^{\circ}C$) but R.H % was more ($55{\sim}81%$) in season-2. Fluctuations between minimum and maximum temperature and R.H % were more ($20.00{\sim}40.5^{\circ}C$ and $64.00{\sim}90.00%$) in season-3. Growth rate of microsporidian-infected silkworm is directly related to the prevailing temperature and relative humidity in silkworm. Silkworm can tolerate slight variation of temperature but slight variation of relative humidity disfavours the development of silkworm and favours the multiplication of pathogens.

Embryo Culture of Taxus wallichiana (Zucc.)

  • Datta Mukul Manjari;Jha Sumita
    • Journal of Plant Biotechnology
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    • v.6 no.4
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    • pp.213-219
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    • 2004
  • Zygotic embryos were excised from immature and mature seeds of the Himalayan yew, Taxus wallichiana. The embryos germinated precociously when kept in darkness for 5 weeks and developed into full seedlings within 10-12 weeks. The highest rate of embryo germination ($81\%$) was obtained in modified Lloyd & McCown' s woody plant medium containing macro and micronutrients at half strength supplemented with $1\%$ activated charcoal, which supported both the best embryonic growth ($43\%$) and seedling development ($32\%$). However, the supplementation of basal media with kinetin, thidiazuron, 6-benzyl aminopurine or $GA_3$ had no effect on the germination of the embryos. The embryos derived from immature seeds germinated but the frequency of embryonic growth was better in mature seeds. Stratification of seeds effected precocious germination of embryos. Seeds kept at $4^{\circ}C$ for 1 week germinated earlier and at a higher frequency irrespective of the stage of seed maturity, while the germination rate declined with prolonged cold treatment for 1 month at that same temperature. Analysis of taxanes in germinating seedlings revealed that root tissues contained high levels of taxol, 10-deacetyl-baccatin ill and baccatin ill as compared to shoots. Thus embryo culture technique appears to overcome the lengthy dormancy requirement of T. wallichiana seeds.

GOMME: A Generic Ontology Modelling Methodology for Epics

  • Udaya Varadarajan;Mayukh Bagchi;Amit Tiwari;M.P. Satija
    • Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.61-78
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    • 2023
  • Ontological knowledge modelling of epic texts, though being an established research arena backed by concrete multilingual and multicultural works, still suffers from two key shortcomings. Firstly, all epic ontological models developed till date have been designed following ad-hoc methodologies, most often combining existing general purpose ontology development methodologies. Secondly, none of the ad-hoc methodologies consider the potential reuse of existing epic ontological models for enrichment, if available. This paper presents, as a unified solution to the above shortcomings, the design and development of GOMME - the first dedicated methodology for iterative ontological modelling of epics, potentially extensible to works in different research arenas of digital humanities in general. GOMME is grounded in transdisciplinary foundations of canonical norms for epics, knowledge modelling best practices, application satisfiability norms, and cognitive generative questions. It is also the first methodology (in epic modelling but also in general) to be flexible enough to integrate, in practice, the options of knowledge modelling via reuse or from scratch. The feasibility of GOMME is validated via a first brief implementation of ontological modelling of the Indian epic Mahabharata by reusing an existing ontology. The preliminary results are promising, with the GOMME-produced model being both ontologically thorough and competent performance-wise.

ON A CLASS OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL TRANS-SASAKIAN MANIFOLDS

  • De, Uday Chand;De, Krishnendu
    • Communications of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.27 no.4
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    • pp.795-808
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    • 2012
  • The object of the present paper is to study 3-dimensional trans-Sasakian manifolds with conservative curvature tensor and also 3-dimensional conformally flat trans-Sasakian manifolds. Next we consider compact connected $\eta$-Einstein 3-dimensional trans-Sasakian manifolds. Finally, an example of a 3-dimensional trans-Sasakian manifold is given, which verifies our results.