Archives-February 2021

The present study examined the relationship between self-efficacy and locus of control in light of gender differences among college students. The data of 80 college students (40 males & 40 females) were drawn from in and around Fatehgarh Sahib. General Self-efficacy Scale & Rotter’s Locus of control Scale were used for the study. The t-test and correlation analysis were used for statistical investigation. Results indicated that a significant negative relationship has been found between self-efficacy and locus of control. Overall, males had higher level of self-efficacy as compared to females. Also, male students reported more internal locus of control than females.

The ‘Jallikattu’ Movement (2017) in TamilNadu, India has been a social movement as it could be broadly classified as a movement that primarily took the form of non-institutionalised collective political action striving for political or social change. To study the 'jallikattu' movement, one requires the pre-exposure to the operation dynamic of contemporary social movements with reference to their grievance structures, organisational status, resource mobilisation position, and mobilising structures. ‘Jallikattu’ and the movement associated with it have been widely and regularly covered by the mass media, but the critical and creative analyses have been quite lacking. This has been articulated and addressed in the following lines of media involved and its move parallelly, key aspects of the media effect on the protestors with the protest dynamic and media paradigm and is there cause of delegitimization of the m movement. The present study deals with the social political movement and the protest event analysis PEA is adopted for methodological approach. PEA is an unobtrusive technique that could handle even the unstructured matter as data. It is context sensitive and can cope with large volumes of data. The protest Event analysis has been adopted as the best empirical and theoretical approach for testing and expanding the theory of focusing on mechanisms and processes. The protest event analysis PEA is an innovation from the political process theory allowing mapping of the occurrences and characteristics of protests across geographical areas, across issues/ movements, and over time.

The present study was conducted to investigate in monitoring the effect of vegetable wastes, Probiotics and Bioflocs on the growth and performance parameters of Pacific white shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei in 90 day feeding trail experiments. Due to the addition of vegetable wastes, Probiotics and Bioflocs into the culture operation significantly increased the growth potentials in shrimp. The vegetables are known to contain biomolecules including lipids, carbohydrates, proteins, minerals, vitamins and phytonutrients which were forming as rich sources to shrimp growth and maintenance. In the present study the vegetable wastes were substituting the fishmeal contents in the feed formulation and also successfully catering the needs of the growth, molting, metabolic requirements of shrimp. Due to the addition of probiotics and bioflocs into the culture operation also facilitates not only the maintenance of hygienic aquatic environment and also increases the production of heterotrophic bacterial growth and large quantities of planktonic forms, which in turn will be useful as supplementary feeding materials and subsequently increase not only the growth rates and also productivity. The growth parameters such as weight gain, specific growth rate, feed conversion efficiency, protein efficiency rates were significantly (P<0.05) higher in probiotic and biofloc added feeds compared to vegetable waste formulated feed. Feed conversion ratios were shown to be decreased in probiotic (2.15) and biofloc (1.93) added feeds compared to vegetable waste (2.54) formulated feeds in the present investigation. The energy utilization parameters, such as feeding, absorption, conversion, excretory and metabolic rates were significantly (P<0.05) higher compared to vegetable waste incorporated control feed. So, vegetable wastes may be considered as an ideal replacement for fishmeal in the formulation of shrimp feed along with the addition of probiotics and bioflcos for successful promotion of growth potentials for shrimp L. vannamei culture operation.

This research aims to prepare TENCEL/Cotton textile (50/50) against microbes and to use the best processing components to obtain the best specifications. Different concentrations of monochloroacetic acid and sodium carbonate were used to replace (OH) groups with (COOH) groups to prepare the textiles for binding with materials (CuSo4) or (AgNo3),made Microbiological examination on all samples by a Zone of Inhibition Test, and the results showed that the highest microbial resistance and the least microbial growth is the concentration (2 mol/l) in (B.cereus), (Penicillium) microbes, while the (S.entridis) and (Aspergillus) microbes were equal microbial resistance at concentrations (1, 1.5, 2 mol/l).

This study aims to see the effect of price, service quality, promotion and the relationship between benefits on customer loyalty and satisfaction as an intervening variable to see how loyalty is given to consumers. The sampling technique used is the Accidental sampling method.The data collection technique is to collect data directly with the field method (field research) in which the questionnaire is distributed directly to consumers of Toko usaha muda represented by 120 respondents.

The causative agent for the ongoing coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-COV-2). SARS-COV-2 makes entry into host cell via ACE2 receptor. The binding interaction of SARS-COV-2 with ACE2 receptor has been presented along with the mechanism of viral infection. In addition to lungs, other tissues viz heart, brain, kidneys etc. become potential targets of SARS-COV-2 infection owing to the expression of ACE2 in them. Understanding of damage in such tissues has been addressed along with some preventive therapeutics.

In this article computational study by using DFT on Exalite – 392A is reported. The quantum mechanical analysis of various energies of molecule in ground state was calculated by using DFT technique. The effect of the solvent on optimized geometry, Mulliken charge distribution in ground and excited state were analysed. With the help of computed highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) - lowest unoccupied molecular orbital (LUMO) gap of Exalite – 392A in different medium, we can analysed solvation energy, ionization potential, electron affinity, chemical hardness, electron chemical potential, electronegativity and global electrophilic. UV-Vis spectrum was obtained by using TDDFT technique. The total electron density (TED), potential distribution over molecule by electrostatic potential (ESP) positions of molecule were obtained from molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) and frontier molecular orbitals (FMO) simulated. Main objective is to determine their electronic, thermodynamic and spectroscopic parameters on the basis of the DFT quantum chemical studies and also we are studying the effect of solvent and solute-solvent interactions. This molecule is helpful in designing of lasers.

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