Defatted ground nut, soybean and palm kernel cakes were stored for three months at ambient, refrigeration and display conditions. Samples were assayed for nutritive, aflatoxins and microbiological properties. Proximate parameters significantly (p<0.05) reduced with storage. Mineral composition reductions of 3.0-35.00%, 1.2-18.75% and 6.2-64.25% were observed for ambient, refrigeration and display condition storage respectively. There was a significant (p<0.05) increase in both bacterial and fungal counts with increased storage duration. Aflatoxin B1 contents of 21.65-49.26, 14.57-27.24 and 29.14-61.32 μg/kg were detected in cakes stored at room, refrigeration and display condition respectively while the Aflatoxin B2 contents were 9.85-14.13, 3.24-10.02 and 12.96-17.04 μg/kg respectively. Proper storage/handling of feed ingredients should form a core component of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) of feed production in tropical countries. The regulatory agencies in these countries should enforce a revised GMP in order to guarantee a more healthy and productive populace.

Assessing the quality of external software before integrating it in to the project development is very challenging now days. As IT industry is moving towards newly evolving tool named SaaS(Software as a Service) , the risk of integrating the external software to the project development has been increased. Presently integration of external software is going on, but they use the trad itional way of collecting the feedbacks to identify whether to use that external software into the project or not, which may produce an unfair results at the end of project deployment. So in this perspective we are going to propose an automated framework to rate and select a service by identifying quality and reputation .And we mainly focused on addressing the risk in proposing external software by using quality and reputation of it.

Dynamic price discrimination adjusts prices based on the option value of future sales, which varies with time and units available. This paper surveys the theoretical literature on dynamic price discrimination, and confronts the theories with new data from airline pricing behavior, Consider a multiple booking class airline-seat inventory control problem that relates to either a single flight leg or to multiple flight legs. During the time before the flight, the airline may face the problems of (1) what are the suitable prices for the opened booking classes, and (2) when to close those opened booking classes. This work deals with these two problems by only using the pricing policy. In this paper, a dynamic pricing model is developed in which the demand for tickets is modeled as a discrete time stochastic process. An important result of this work is that the strategy for the ticket booking policy can be reduced to sets of critical decision periods, which eliminates the need for large amounts of data storage.

Background : Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is a leading cause of lower respiratory tract disease in infants and young children. Both the magnitude , intensity of infection and the host response to RSV infection determine the severity and intensity of disease. Objective : Our goal was to evaluate the effect of immune response (RSV IgA) and inflammatory mediators (LT-E4), in addition to the influence of host factors on the severity of the disease. Methods : This was a randomized, prospective study in two Iraqi pediatric hospitals. One hundred and twenty –three infants (mean age: 6.99±0.62 ,71 boys & 52 girls) ,with a first episode of acute bronchiolitis were randomly divided into eight treatment groups: oxygen plus intravenous fluid, montelukast pediatric chewable tablet,salbutamol syrup,salbutamol nebulizer ,combination of both oral plus nebulized salbutamol,dexamethasone IV injection, hydrocortisone IV injection, and azithromycin suspension. Control infants with non respiratory diseases were also studied for comparisons. The measured parameters was RSV IgA titer, LT-E4 titer, and a variety of environmental and host factors that may contribute to the severity of RSV bronchiolitis.Severity of bronchiolitis was based on the quantization of lowest O2 saturation and the length of hospital stay. Results : There were significant increase in RSV IgA values in patients (1.58 ± 0.24 U/mL) compare to the control (0.36 ± 0,03 U/mL);also there were a significant increase in the leukotriene E 4 values in patients (2.66 ± 0.52 ng/ml) compared to the control infants(0.15 ± 0.007 ng/ml). Age was found to be a significant factor in the severity of infection. The younger an infant was, the more severe the infection tended to be as measured by the lowest oxygen (O2) saturation. We also found that infants exposed to postnatal cigarette smoke from the mother had a lower O2 saturation than those not exposed. Although a history of maternal atopy seemed to be protective. Conclusi

Selected methods for measurements magnetic quantities in HTc superconductors are discussed. First one is based on an analysis of the magnetic hysteresis curves, while second follows from the investigations of the dynamic anomalies of the current-voltage characteristics in slowly varying magnetic field.

The aim of this paper is to illustrate the evolution and brief history of Lean and Six Sigma and trace it to its role at present. Also, the paper gives its arguments why they are not mere whims or fads that fade away with the passage of time. The findings in the paper suggest that the implementation of these philosophies of management in industries and other business processes help these enterprises in the reduction of cost and in the of working on improvement of the quality issues. Thus using these two strategies, either individually or together to maximize the gain of an organization may be a logical conclusion. In the present work, we have tried to show that these two strategies are helpful to satisfy cost and quality constraints whether related to products or services and are not just fads, as have been considered to be by some of its critics.

The application of Rainfall–Potential evapotrans- piration (P-PE) model to yam (Dioscorea rotundata) production was carried out in an on-farm yam trial during the 2006-2007 and 2007-2008 cropping seasons in Abeokuta, South-western Nigeria. The experiment was a 3 x 2 factorial arrangement of three varieties of yam (Efuru, Ise-osi and Oniyere), two planting dates (early and late). The resulting 6 treatments were replicated three times with 14 mounds in each plot, in randomized complete block design. The general model for selecting the planting date of each yam cultivar in the two experimental years was 0.1PE

PE, the physiological parameters and hydrothermal agro-climatic indices measured during the different phenological stages of yam grown were analyzed with respect to the various treatments. The result showed that model T1 defined as Σ(P-0.1PE) ≤ 10mm appeared as the best model that significantly (P < 0.05) influenced emergence rate, phenological growth and tuber yield. The implications of the study for appropriate schedule of farm operations vis-à-vis agronomic practices for yam cultivation have been noted.

Ritchie’s Archipelago, being the part of South Andaman, shows a variety of marine biodiversity in each of its thirteen islands. These islands show a great deal of scleractinian life on its continental shelf in a fringing pattern. The study will help up to get a summarized data of scleractinian diversity of this archipelago. The will be to take conservatory measure for the proper sustainable development of coral reef of the islands. A Total of 168 species of scleractinian corals were recorded during the study period from the study areas. Shannon –Weaver Diversity index (H¯) of Scleractinian corals ofthe islands was recorded between 4.718 and 6.556, indicating very high coral diversity of those places. Similarity index (S) was also ranges from 29.41% to 73.89%, suggeststhe existence of species strong links between islands. Ritchie’s Archipelago is a group of islands which shows a variety of scleractinian corals. high level of species co-existence which harbours with the other associated faunal communities for their survival. The diversity of scleractinian corals in the Ritchie’s Archipelago is discussed in detail in this paper.

3G is the third generation of wireless technologies. It comes with enhancements over previous wireless technologies, like high-speed transmission, advanced multimedia access and global roaming. 3G is mostly used with mobile phones and handsets as a means to connect the phone to the Internet or other IP networks in order to make voice and video calls, to download and upload data and to surf the net. 3G phones commonly have two cameras since the technology allows the user to have video calls, for which a user-facing camera is required for capturing him/her. Unlike with Wi-Fi which you can get for free in hotspots, you need to be subscribed to a service provider to get 3G network connectivity. We often call this kind of service a data plan or network plan. Thus this paper not only aims to contribute to the already vast field of 3 G Network Connectivity in an effective manner to help but also summarizes.

HCCI engines have great potentials in high efficiency with ultra-low NO and particulates emissions and high flexibility in using various fuels. They operate on the basis of auto-ignition and therefore the fuel chemical kinetic is the main ignition controller. Thus initiation of combustion is a determining parameter in the prediction of combustion behavior. The main focus of the present study is to comprehensively investigate the impact of exhaust gas recirculation, fuel reforming and compression ratio on the combustion behavior of HCCI engines using ethanol as fuel. Results show that the increase of EGR delays the ignition timing, slows down the combustion reaction rate and reduces the temperature and pressure in cylinder. Also associating with the effect of exhaust gas fuel reforming, it is shown that hydrogen in the form of reformed gas helps in lowering the intake temperature required for stable HCCI operation. Also, the addition of hydrogen advances the start of combustion in the cylinder. Consequently, it is elucidated that increasing the compression ratio results in advancing the ignition timing, decreasing the burn duration and increasing the temperature and pressure. It is worth noting that the obtained results from the present model have the great compatibility with experimental data.