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In the present study the biochemical compositions of farm raised pabda (FP) and wild pabda (WP) caught from Gomti River of Tripura, India was analyzed to record their proximate compositions in terms of environmental and seasonal... more
In the present study the biochemical compositions of farm raised pabda (FP) and wild pabda (WP) caught from Gomti River of Tripura, India was analyzed to record their proximate compositions in terms of environmental and seasonal variations. Farm raised pabda (FP) and WP with similar length and weight were collected from College of Fisheries Tripura. The different biochemical, macro and micro mineral contents were examined monthly samples from July-2012 to February-2013. The parameters were recorded namely moisture, ash and protein content. The results showed that there was no significant differences (p>0.05) in FP and WP, except in lipid content which was higher in FP (6.73-7.32%) than in WP (5.35-7.26%). The seasonal variation in proximate composition was recorded as there was gradually increase in the protein and lipid content from the month July to February whereas the moisture content was decreased at same time. Similarly the mineral concentration showed the higher in WP comp...
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The present experiment was conducted in rectangular cemented tanks (5 x 4 x 1m) each for five months to evaluate growth performance of amur common carp (Cyprinus carpio) and mrigal (Cirrhinus mrigala) with major carp in polyculture... more
The present experiment was conducted in rectangular cemented tanks (5 x 4 x 1m) each for five months to evaluate growth performance of amur common carp (Cyprinus carpio) and mrigal (Cirrhinus mrigala) with major carp in polyculture system. The experiment included three treatments in triplicates viz. T1: mrigal, catla (Catla catla), rohu (Labeo rohita), silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) and silver barb (Puntius gonionotus) at 6:3:6:2:3; T2: amur common carp, catla, rohu, silver carp and silver barb at 6:3:6:2:3; and T3: mrigal, amur common carp, catla, rohu, silver carp and silver barb at 3:3:3:6:2:3. Results showed that mean weight gain and specific growth rate of mrigal and amur common carp were higher in T3 compared to T1 and T2 and that of silver carp was significantly (P<0.05) higher in T2 than T1 and T3. Net gain biomass, daily weight gain and net fish yield in T2 and T3 were significantly higher than T1. The highest net gain biomass, daily weight gain and net fish y...
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Fish is one of the most important foods in human diet because of its high nutritional quality. They are the well known source of a group of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) especially omega-3 and omega-6, which can prevent... more
Fish is one of the most important foods in human diet because of its high nutritional quality. They are the well known source of a group of polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) especially omega-3 and omega-6, which can prevent atherosclerosis and thrombosis. These fatty acids have preventive effects on coronary heart diseases, autoimmune disorders, arrhythmias, lowering plasma triglyceride levels and blood pressure. Almost all the minerals present in fish which is required our body. The minerals present in fish iron (Fe), Calcium (Ca), Zinc (Zn), Phosphorus (P), Selenium (Se), Fluorine (F), Iodine (I). These minerals are with high bioavailability; they can easily absorbed by the body. In this review up-to-date information about importance of fish in human nutrition and beneficial effect of essential fatty acid in human health is also reviewed.
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The system identification is a broad area of research in various fields of engineering. Among them, our concern is to identify the aircraft dynamics by means of the measured motion and control variables using a new approach which is based... more
The system identification is a broad area of research in various fields of engineering. Among them, our concern is to identify the aircraft dynamics by means of the measured motion and control variables using a new approach which is based on the support vector machine (SVM) regression. Due to the computational complexity of SVM, it is suggested to adopt the advanced version of SVM i.e. least square support vector machine (LSSVM) to be used for system identification. LSSVM regression is a network-based approach which requires a user defined kernel function and a set of input-output data for its training before the prediction phase like a neural-network (NN) based procedure. In this paper, LSSVM regression has been used to identify the non-linear dynamics of aircraft using real flight data.
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The important groundnut producing states of the country are Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. These states together account about 80 per cent of the total... more
The important groundnut producing states of the country are Gujarat, Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab. These states together account about 80 per cent of the total area and 74 per cent of the total production of groundnut in the country. The present study was conducted with the objective to study the extent of utilization of different information sources by the groundnut cultivators in Jaipur district of Rajasthan. It was found that the majority of farmers had medium extent of utilization of different sources of information. The most utilized source of information by the farmers was neighbors, followed by salesmen and dealers, village extension worker, television and radio. The most of utilized formal interpersonal sources of information were salesmen and dealers. The most utilized informal interpersonal sources of information were neighboursand relative and friends. The most utilized mass media sources of inform...
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Every year huge quantities of fruit waste are generated by fruit Industries. These wastes are can be recover as natural antitoxins which would be beneficial to the society and individual. Antioxidants from fruit wastes have attracted the... more
Every year huge quantities of fruit waste are generated by fruit Industries. These wastes are can be recover as natural antitoxins which would be beneficial to the society and individual. Antioxidants from fruit wastes have attracted the attention of researchers as they are cheaper in cost, easy to derive, and do not have any side effects. Thus the current investigation was focused on to extract natural antioxidant and evaluates their properties through various in vitro assays. The pomegranate peel exhibited higher total phenolic content (TPC) of 160.80 mg/g GAE while the orange peel (OPE) showed lower. Total flavonoid contents OPE showed the highest (2.955 mg/g quercetin equivalent), while the PPE showed 0.98mg/g quercetin equivalent. The DPPH radical scavenging activity exhibited a dose dependent activity. The PPE extract showed the radical scavenging activity of 94.25 at the concentration of 35μg/mL whereas the same at the same concentration BHA showed inhibition of 95.59% which ...
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Lucknow a capital of Uttar Pradesh has vast potential of fish faunal diversity and offers considerable scope of inland fisheries development. Aquaculture activities in rural for most of the fisherman area. In order to establish fish... more
Lucknow a capital of Uttar Pradesh has vast potential of fish faunal diversity and offers considerable scope of inland fisheries development. Aquaculture activities in rural for most of the fisherman area. In order to establish fish faunal diversity of Lucknow a preliminary, data have been collected with the help of local fish farmers and market survey. Various lentic and lotic water bodies of different locations of the district for 9 months during 2014-2015 have been collected. During the study period, 83 fish species belonging to 58 Genera, 21 Families and 8 Orders have been identified. Cypriniformes was found the dominated Order with 56 species (68%) followed by Perciformes 9 species (11%) and Clupeiformes 6 species (7%). The present study showed that Lucknow possesses rich fish diversity but proper conservation measures are required to maintain sustainability and richness of the species diversity of the district.
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Water quality information in aquatic ecosystem is crucial in setting up guideline for resource management. The biota in the surface water is governed entirely by various environmental conditions that determine the selection of species as... more
Water quality information in aquatic ecosystem is crucial in setting up guideline for resource management. The biota in the surface water is governed entirely by various environmental conditions that determine the selection of species as the physiological performance of the individual organisms. This study explores the water quality status and pollution sources in Sur Sarovar (Keetham) Lake, Agra (Uttar Pradesh), water quality parameters analyze of five sampling zone was done from water samples collected monthly from September 2014 to July 2015. The primary production of organic matter, in the form of phytoplankton and macrophytes is more intense in Sur Sarovar (Keetham) Lake. In contrast to the chemical quality of water bodies, which can be measured by suitable analytical methods, biological quality is a combination of both qualitative and quantitative characterization. The present piece of research work is initiated on pollution status at Sur Sarovar (Keetham) Lake by interference...
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The maximum likelihood estimators are commonly used in the estimation of aerodynamic model coefficients but, their performance depends on the initial guess values and the noise level of the data. Some of its variants are iterative in... more
The maximum likelihood estimators are commonly used in the estimation of aerodynamic model coefficients but, their performance depends on the initial guess values and the noise level of the data. Some of its variants are iterative in nature hence, computational cost is higher. An alternative investigation is performed with the artificial neural network (ANN) where an accurate non-linear mapping is produced with the input-output dataset. And further, the trained network is utilized in the Gauss-Newton based optimization process to estimate the optimal paramters. Our objective of the research is to produce an optimal neural network for non-linear mapping of the quasi steady stall data of aircraft and further, used it to estimate the aerodynamic coefficients. Finally, the validation of the estimates is presented with their Cramer-Rao bounds.
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The parameter estimation of unstable aircraft using extreme learning machine method is presented. In the past, conventional methods such as output error method, filter error method, equation error method and non-conventional method such... more
The parameter estimation of unstable aircraft using extreme learning machine method is presented. In the past, conventional methods such as output error method, filter error method, equation error method and non-conventional method such as artificial neural-network based methods have been used for aircraft’s aerodynamic parameter estimation. Nowadays, a trend of finding an accurate nonlinear function approximation is required to represent the aircraft’s equations-of-motion. Such type of nonlinear function approximation is usually achieved using artificial neural-network which is trained with the aircraft input-output flight data using a training algorithm. The accuracy of estimated parameters, which is achieved using the trained network, is highly dependent on the generalisation capability of the network which can be improved using extreme learning machine based network in contrast to artificial neural-network. To estimate the unstable aircraft parameters from the simulated flight d...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the estimation methodology with a highly generalized cost-effective single hidden layer neural network. Design/methodology/approach The aerodynamic parameter estimation is a challenging... more
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the estimation methodology with a highly generalized cost-effective single hidden layer neural network. Design/methodology/approach The aerodynamic parameter estimation is a challenging research area of aircraft system identification, which finds various applications such as flight control law design and flight simulators. With the availability of the large database, the data-driven methods have gained attention, which is primarily based on the nonlinear function approximation using artificial neural networks. A novel single hidden layer feed-forward neural network (FFNN) known as extreme learning machine (ELM), which overcomes the issues such as learning rate, number of epochs, local minima, generalization performance and computational cost, as encountered in the conventional gradient learning-based FFNN has been used for the nonlinear modeling of the aerodynamic forces and moments. A mathematical formulation based on the partial ...
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A large number of bacterial illnesses may arise from the consumption of seafood that has either been contaminated at source or which becomes contaminated during the processing, handling, and retail chain. Such... more
A large number of bacterial illnesses may arise from the consumption of seafood that has either been contaminated at source or which becomes contaminated during the processing, handling, and retail chain. Such illnesses may arise from infection with the bacteria themselves or by the ingestion of toxins formed in the foodstuff prior to consumption. Seafood commodities, wild and farmed, produced from bivalve mollusks, crustaceans, cephalopods or finfish; represent some of the most important protein sources in human nutrition, having a reputation as healthy and nutritious products (Huss, 2003). Seafood-borne diseases of microbiological origin can be caused by viable organisms and/or by toxins that they produce, which enter the gastrointestinal tract. Some seafood commodities are inherently more risky than others owing to many factors, including the nature of the environment from which they come, their mode of feeding, the season during which they are harvested, and how they are prepared and served. The risk of disease from these agents varies by pathogen, dose, host and characteristics of the seafood matrix (HPA, 2009).
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the antifertility efficacy of Coccinia indica and its possible mechanisms of action on testicular functions in Parkes male mice. Mice were orally administered 50% ethanolic leaf extract... more
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the antifertility efficacy of Coccinia indica and its possible mechanisms of action on testicular functions in Parkes male mice. Mice were orally administered 50% ethanolic leaf extract of Coccinia indica (200 and 500mgkg(-1) body weight day(-1)) or distilled water (controls) for 35days. To assess reversibility, additional mice were treated with 500mgkg(-1) body weight of Coccinia or distilled water for 35days and sacrificed 56days later. Several male reproductive parameters such as motility, viability, morphology and number of spermatozoa in the cauda epididymidis, histopathology, serum level of testosterone, and fertility indices were evaluated; further, activities of 3β- and 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenases, western blot analyses of StAR protein, cytochrome P450scc enzyme and of caspase-3, germ cell apoptosis by TUNEL, and lipid peroxidation and antioxidant enzymes activities in the testis were assessed. Toxicological parameter...
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Pal. J., Verma, H, Vijay Kumar Munka, Satyendra Kumar Maurya, Deepayan Roy, Jitendra Kumar (2014). Biological Method of Chitin Extraction from Shrimp Waste an Eco-friendly low Cost Technology and its Advanced Application, International... more
Pal. J., Verma, H, Vijay Kumar Munka, Satyendra Kumar Maurya, Deepayan Roy, Jitendra Kumar (2014). Biological Method of Chitin Extraction from Shrimp Waste an Eco-friendly low Cost Technology and its Advanced Application, International Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Studies, 1(6): 104-107.
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Antifertility effects of Dalbergia sissoo in male mice were investigated. Adult Parkes strain male mice were orally administered aqueous leaf extract of Dalbergia sissoo (50 and 100 mg/kg body weight/day) or distilled water or no... more
Antifertility effects of Dalbergia sissoo in male mice were investigated. Adult Parkes strain male mice were orally administered aqueous leaf extract of Dalbergia sissoo (50 and 100 mg/kg body weight/day) or distilled water or no treatment (controls) for 35 days (n = 5/group). Motility, viability and number of spermatozoa in the cauda epididymidis; testis histology; serum level of testosterone; and toxicological parameters were evaluated. To assess reversibility, more mice were treated with 100 mg/kg body weight of Dalbergia sissoo or distilled water (n = 5/group) for 35 days and sacrificed 56 days later. Fertility was also assessed separately. Histologically, testes of Dalbergia-treated mice showed dissimilar degenerative changes in the seminiferous tubules. Significant reductions were noted (i) in epididymal sperm motility, viability and number, and (ii) in serum level of testosterone in Dalbergia-treated mice compared to controls. However, serum levels of alanine aminotransferase, aspartate aminotransferase and creatinine, and haematological parameters were not affected. Also libido of Dalbergia-treated males showed no change, but their fertility was markedly suppressed. By 56 days of treatment withdrawal, alterations induced in the above parameters returned to control levels. Dalbergia sissoo treatment caused reversible suppression of spermatogenesis and fertility in P mice, without eliciting detectable toxic effects.
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Male reproductive health refers to a man's ability to procreate, and to bring a living being into existence. Male reproductive health has social and psychological impact on normal life (Smith et al., 2009). A normal male reproductive... more
Male reproductive health refers to a man's ability to procreate, and to bring a living being into existence. Male reproductive health has social and psychological impact on normal life (Smith et al., 2009). A normal male reproductive health is a compound result of normal ...