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Production Of Biogas From Slaughterhouse Waste In Lalitpur Sub-metropolitan City

Abstract: Energy is the driving force for the development in all countries of the world. Biochemical processes, like anaerobic digestion, can also produce clean energy in the form of biogas from the waste generated from different sources. Waste generated from Slaughter House (SH) can also be used as feed for anaerobic digestion. There are a number of SH in Lalitpur Sub metropolitan City (LSMC), which generates a huge amount of waste every day. But no means have been developed to treat the waste for energy recovery. Thus, this research intends to study the feasibility of biogas production from SH present in LSMC. The amount of biogas that can be produced from 23 SH present in LSMC is 103.2 m3 per day. The result shows that the average organic waste generated from each slaughter house is obtained to be 117 kg per day. Laboratory analysis of the samples was done to determine the pH, Total Solid (TS), Volatile Solid (VS) and Carbon Nitrogen (C:N) ratio and the values were 7.2, 24.5%, 79.5% and 22.7 respectively. Anaerobic digestion process was conducted in a mini digester of 20 liter capacity. One of the reactors was filled with SHW slurry and other with Cow dung (CD) slurry for comparative evaluation of the technology. The study was conducted in a batch reactor, for a period of 43 days, with daily average temperature varying between 200C to 280C. The experimental investigation shows the biogas yield from SHW is higher in comparison to CD, which is a proven technology in Nepal. The specific biogas yield from SHW was 0.201 m3/kg VS which is higher in comparison to CD, having 0.18 m3/kg VS. The average methane content of SHW was 55.8%, which is in par with the methane content of CD.
Effect of fertigation and mulching on yield and yield attributes studies in papaya under South Gujarat conditions

A study was undertaken to evaluate yield and yield attributes of papaya cv. Red Lady (786) with respect to fertigation and mulching as per the treatments viz., 1 factor three levels of N and K @ 100, 80 and 60% of recommended dose (200:200:250), 2 factor two levels of splits and 3 factor two levels of mulching of black plastic mulch @ 20% area coverage (50 Micron(μ) and it was analyzed in randomized block design with factorial concept. An overall result of yield attributes of papaya was found higher value in the treatment fertigation level @ 100% recommended dose fertilizer. Adoption of fertigation level @ 100% recommended dose of fertilizer (200g N, 200 g P 2 O 5 and 250 g K 2 O) recorded significantly highest average fruit weight (1.13 and 1.10 kg) and fruit yield (74.34 and 69.34 tonne/ha) in both the locations as compared to control.
Migrants ’ Remittances and Economic Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Migrants’ Remittances to developing countries have exceeded 200 billion U.S. dollars according to the World Bank. Despite the importance of these flows, few studies have investigated their potential positive effects on economic development of the migrants’ origin countries. Specifically, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has received little attention in studies and discussions on remittances. This could be explained by the relatively small share of remittances received by this region, only 6% of remittance flows to developing countries in 2008. Studies on this subject have been mostly in the form of case studies at the microeconomic level of individual countries or in the form of reports even if the region receives 21 billion dollars of remittances with an increase of almost 254% between 2003 and 2008 as estimated by the World Bank. The objective of our study is to contribute to the weak and recent literature on macroeconomic impact of migrants’ remittances in Sub-Saharan Africa by estimating the impact of remittances on the long term growth. Our sample consists of 28 SSA countries that have sufficient data for the period 1980-2004. Data are from World Development Indicators 2006 (World Bank) and various other data sources. We used Two Stage Least Stage (TSLS) instrumental variable method to estimate the growth equation. The econometric results show that remittances do not have direct positive impact on economic growth in SSA. However, remittances may have indirect positive impact on growth through several channels such as investment or education.
Overexpression of MPc 1 inhibits the proliferation , migration , invasion , and stem cell-like properties of gastric cancer cells

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Occurrence and abundance of thrips, whitefly and their natural enemy, Geocoris Spp. on cotton crop at various localities of Sindh, Pakistan

Present studies were carried out on occurrence and abundance of insect pests, thrips, Thrips tabaci, whitefly, Bemesia tabaci and their predator, Geocoris spp. , on cotton, Gossypum arborium L. Results revealed that thrips, whitefly and their natural enemy populations varied with different dates and plant’s phenology. At Tando Allahyar, thrips and whitefly population was very low (3.00+0.15, 1.00+0.35 per leaf) in 2nd week of April, but peaked during last week of July (75.6+0.78, 24.45+55), respectively. Predator, Geocoris remained minimum (1.00+0.14) in 3rd week of April and maximum (12.00+0.85) in last week of July. Likewise at Crop Protection Field, Sindh Agriculture University, Tandojam, thrips and whitefly population was minimum in 1st week of May (15.55+0.52, 5.56+0.42) and reached at peak (191.6±0.85, 91.6±0.85), respectively on last week of August. Predator, Geocoris population was minimum (4.00+0.60) in 1st week of May and maximum (25.6±0.59) during 3rd week of August. Temperature and humidity varied during different dates and time to play imperative role in increasing thrips, whiteflies and their predators.
Availability of Heavy Metals in Soils and their Uptake by Vegetable Species

Head lettuce, bush beans and celery were grown in subsequent years in an experimental field on anthropogenously uncontaminated or heavy metal contaminated soils at a mean pH of 6.3 ± 0.1. The contaminated plots were made up by amending or replacing the upper 20 cm soil layer with heavy metal contaminated alluvial top soil. Contamination includes Cd, Zn, Pb and Cu. Phytoavailable fractions of these elements were extracted with 1 M ammonium nitrate. Cd, Zn, Pb and Cu were also determined in the leaves of all three species as well as in bean pods and celery bulbs. The results show that plant uptake of Cd and Zn increased with increasing soil contamination while the uptake of Pb was low. No dependence of Cu uptake on total soil Cu content could be seen within the given contamination range. The relationship between Cd, Zn, Pb and Cu in plants and ammonium nitrate soil extracts was determined by twofactorial linear regression where r was approximately 0.8 for Zn, 0.7 for Cd and 0.5 for Pb whereas no relationship was found for Cu. For the pot experiments carried out in a greenhouse two different soils (loamy sand, silt loam) were amended with 5 and 10 % metallurgical slag and adjusted to pH levels around 7 and 5 while controls did not contain slag. Phytoavailable heavy metal fractions were extracted from soil samples using ammonium nitrate or Calcium chloride + DTPA (CAT). Spinach was grown on these soils and the concentrations of Cd, Zn, Pb and Cu in the shoots correlated with their concentration in the soil extracts. The uptake of these elements by the plants increased with increasing slag amendment and decreasing pH. Strong depression of growth was observed at a pH around 5 in all treatments of the lighter and in the slag treatments of the heavier soil. In the slag treatments this was accompanied by increased endogenous Cd and Zn concentrations. The plant content of Cd, Zn and Pb correlated better with the ammonium nitrate extractable soil fraction of these elements than in the field experiments (r > 0.9). Correlations based on the CAT extractable fraction of Cd and Zn yielded values for r around 0.5 while it was only 0.1 for Pb. As in the field trials correlations for Cu were very poor with both extraction methods. + This paper contains in part data from the undergraduate thesis work of the following students: Lars Schade, Andrea Kampf, Ralf Krämer, Ursula Veenker, Kirsten Homola, Axel Milius, Kathrin Eichholz and Dagmar Lehmann.
The Impact of Successful Implementation of New Manufacturing Practices and Company ’ s Structural and Environmental Characteristics on Performance

The increasing adoption of new manufacturing practices such as TQM, JIT, FMS raises questions as to how successfully companies implement them and whether these practices do lead to performance improvement. A study of a moderate size sample of Korean manufacturing companies shows that the executional levels of the new practices positively affect the performance. Our analysis also finds that the structural characteristics (the complexity of production and the level of automation) adversely affect performance while the competitive environment does not have a significant impact. The success of these practices, however, is not determined solely by the way these practices are implemented. A more interesting question is whether competition and structural characteristics influence the impact of the new practices on performance. We find that the positive impact of the new practices is greater for companies with higher levels of production complexity and/or automation. In other words, the need for successful implementation of the new practices is greater for those companies. The competition, however, does not show a positive interaction effect with the executional levels of the new practices. We also investigated whether teamwork and employee empowerment positively affect the new practices’ impact on performance. Unlike the findings of previous research, we do not observe any positive effect of teamwork and employee empowerment on performance.
Using Clickers in a Large Business Class

As more and more institutions are integrating new technologies (e.g., audience response systems such as clickers) into their teaching and learning systems, it is becoming increasingly necessary to have a detailed understanding of the underlying mechanisms of these advanced technologies and their outcomes on student learning perceptions. We proposed a conceptual model based on the technology acceptance model to understand students’ use behavior and satisfaction with clickers. The valid response from 138 second-year business students of Digital Marketing module taught in a British university, where clickers are extensively used in the teaching and learning process, made the basis for data analysis. The results provided a strong support for the proposed model with a reasonably adequate variance (i.e., adjusted R2) of 67% on behavioral intentions and sufficiently high variance on use behavior (i.e., 86%) and user satisfaction (i.e., 89%).
The Impact of foreign direct investment on income convergence: evidence from provinces of Vietnam

The study examines the issues of income convergence across 18 provinces of Vietnam during 2000-2015 period, and the effect of foreign direct investment using data from the General Statistics Office. The objectives of this paper are twofold: First, to know whether the provinces of Vietnam are jointly converging in terms of absolute beta, conditional beta as well as sigma coefficients. Second, the role of foreign direct investment in the income convergence process is investigated. Our results show that Vietnam’s provincial incomes appeared to be diverging rather than converging during the period of consideration both in terms of sigma and beta. However, the divergence trend slowed down in 2006-2015, when Vietnam has strongly integrated with the world economy. Foreign direct investment seems to help alleviating the seriousness of the divergence process in Vietnam but the contribution of FDI to the alleviation of income divergence is quite weak.
Paeonol induces apoptosis of ovarian cancer cells through the AKT / GSK-3 β signaling pathway

Cisplatin-centered systemic chemotherapy is generally considered the essential method of ovarian cancer therapy. However, due to the high proportion of chemotherapy resistance and the associated side effects of chemotherapy, some patients choose to quit the systemic chemotherapy rather than to suffer through the therapeutic process. The overall survival (OS) remains dispiritedly unchanged for the past few decades. Paeonol is a main effective element extracted from a Traditional Chinese herbal medicine, the root cortex of Paeonia suffruticosa Andrews, and it has many pharmacological effects. In our research, we investigated the underlying mechanisms of Paeonol in suppressing proliferation and inducing apoptosis. We also aimed to ascertain whether its antineoplastic effect is associated with the activation of caspase-3/9 and the AKT/GSK-3β signaling pathway in ovarian cancer cells. We observed anticancer effects with proliferation inhibition and induced apoptosis on A2780 cells in a doseand timedependent manner after treatment with Paeonol. These effects were associated with decreased levels of phosphorylated-Akt and phosphorylated-GSK-3β. Flow cytometry results showed that the ‘S’ phase fraction increased while ‘G0/G1’ and ‘G2/M’ fractions decreased in a dose-dependent manner compared to the control after treatment with Paeonol for 48 h. In addition, Western blot analysis showed that treatment with increasing doses of Paeonol led to up-regulation of cleaved caspase-3/9 in protein expression, suggesting that apoptotic proteins caspase-9 and -3 directly mediate Paeonol induced ovarian cancer cells apoptosis, and their activations are essential. In conclusion, our study supports the prescription of Paeonol as a nutritional supplement for synergistic antineoplastic effects against ovarian cancer.
Chemical Erosion of Carbon Material Irradiated with Low Energy Atomic Hydrogen

Experiments on erosion and dust formation of the carbon materials have been performed using high power inductively coupled plasma of low plasma temperature (~1 eV) and high atomic hydrogen flux of ~10 ms. Chemical sputtering yield with atomic hydrogen irradiation was roughly estimated to be 0.001-0.004, which is as high as that obtained by ion beam and fusion plasma experiments. When diamond coated graphite is irradiated by the irradiation of low energy hydrogen atoms, the chemical erosion of material has hardly occurred.
Adhezivní materiály pro lepení ortodontických zámků Adhesive materials for orthodontic bonding

Curently there are available three basic types of adhesive materials for bonding of orthodontic brackets composite resins, compomers andresin modifiedglass ionomer cements. The aim ofthe article is to describe principál physical and chemical features ofthe materials mentioned, themethodoftheir processing and indications for their USe. (Ortodoncie 2004, 13, No. 2, p. 26-34) Klíčová slova: adhezivní materiály, lepení ortodontických zámků, pevnost vazby adhezivních materiálů
Agricultural Academy EFFECTS OF CAPSULE MATERIALS ON THE TEXTURAL AND SENSORY CHARACTERISTICS OF KASHAR CHEESE RIPENED WITH ENCAPSULATED LIPASE AND PROTEASE

Akin, M. S. , M. B. Güler-Akın, 2017. Effects of capsule materials on the textural and sensory characteristics of Kashar cheese ripened with encapsulated lipase and protease. Bulg. J. Agric. Sci., 23 (2): 330–337 In this study, lipase and protease enzymes cocktails encapsulated in k-karragenan, gellan and sodium alginate by using emulsion and extrusion techniques were added in cheese milk together with rennet. The effects of the encapsulating material and ripening period on the textural and sensory characteristics of Kashar cheese were investigated. The study demonstrated that capsule materials signifi cantly affected textural and sensory characteristics of Kashar cheese ripened with encapsulated enzyme cocktails. Cheeses treated with k-carrageenan capsules showed poor textural properties and the lowest sensory scores. Sodium alginate capsules disrupted under cheese manufacturing conditions appeared to be more suitable in accelerating cheese ripening than gum capsules.
CONSISTENT INSERTION OF BOND-SLIP INTO BEAM FIBER ELEMENTS FOR BIAXIAL BENDING

In this paper a new reinforced concrete beam finite element that explicitly accounts for the bondslip between the reinforcing bars and the surrounding concrete is presented. The element formulation combines the fiber section model with the finite element model of a reinforcing bar with continuous slip. The section model retains the plane section assumption, but the steel fiber strains are computed as the sum of two contributions: the rebar deformation and the anchorage slip. The proposed finite element includes material nonlinearities in the concrete, steel and bondslip constitutive laws. The formulation applies to both monotonic and cyclic loads, and is therefore suitable for the seismic analysis or reinforced concrete structures in which the rebar slips must be accounted for. Since each longitudinal steel bar is monitored separately, the model applies to any cross sectional shape and extends to both uniaxial and biaxial bending. First, the theoretical framework is presented, then a correlation study with an experimental test on a cantilever column with circular cross section is discussed. This study shows that the prediction with the new model is in good agreement with the experimental test, while the original fiber model with perfect bond overestimates the hysteretic energy dissipated during the loading cycles.
Retesting parent training: does parental training increase parents' self-concept

Ronald G. Stockwell; Retesting Parent Training: Does Parental Training Increase Parents' Self-Concept ? ; 1999; J. Klanderman Ph.D. and R. DiHoff, Ph.D.; Master of Arts, Rowan University. Similar to studies by Gordon and others, the purpose of this study was to retest and reinvestigate whether parent training increased the self-esteem of participants. Two groups (sample (n = 15) and control (n = 10)) were preand post tested (at 10 and 9 weeks respectively), using the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale: 2. Both groups showed: high educational achievement and were Caucasian/White; the sample was 13 women, 2 men, while the control was 9 men and 1 woman; and, most reported above average incomes. The scores were analyzed using a repeated measures t test and non-parametric analysis, which did not find training to increase self-esteem, but showed a tendency to reduce CON (conflict). All of the sub scores from the TSCS:2 were found to be significantly correlated, and IDN (identity) appeared to be most significant. The conclusions were that one instrument is not sufficient to determine if training increases self-esteem and longitudinal studies may be of interest to future researchers.
The E � ect of Minimum Wages on Low-Wage Jobs : Evidence from the United States Using a Bunching Estimator ú December 30 , 2017

We propose a novel method that infers the employment e ect of a minimum wage increase by comparing the number of excess jobs paying at or slightly above the new minimum wage to the missing jobs paying below it. Using state-level variation in U.S. minimum wages, we implement our method by providing new estimates on the e ect of the minimum wage on the (frequency) distribution of hourly wages. First, we present a case study of a large, indexed minimum wage increase using administrative data on hourly wages from Washington state. Then we implement an event study analysis pooling 138 minimum wage increases between 1979 and 2016. In both cases, we find that the overall number of low-wage jobs remained essentially unchanged. At the same time, the direct e ect of the minimum wage on average earnings was amplified by modest wage spillovers at the bottom of the wage distribution. Our estimates by detailed demographic groups show that the lack of job loss is not explained by labor-labor substitution at the bottom of the wage distribution. We also find no evidence of disemployment when we consider higher levels of minimum wages. However, we do find some evidence of reduced employment in tradable sectors. In contrast to our bunching-based estimates, we show that conventional studies can produce misleading inference due to spurious changes in employment higher up in the wage distribution. úWe thank David Autor, David Card, Sebastian Findeisen, Eric French, Hedvig Horvath, Gabor Kezdi, Patrick Kline, Steve Machin, Alan Manning, Suresh Naidu, James Rebitzer, Michael Reich, Janos Vincze, and participants at WEAI 2016 Annual Meetings, CREAM 2016 conference, Boston University Empirical Micro workshop, Colorado State University, IFS-STICERD seminar, University of California Berkeley IRLE, University of Mannheim, and University of Warwick for very helpful comments. Dube acknowledges financial support from the Russell Sage Foundation. Dube and Lindner acknowledge financial support from the Arnold Foundation. § dcengiz@econs.umass. edu, ‡ adube@econs.umass. edu, §§a.lindner@ucl.ac. uk,† bzipperer@epi.org
The Neotropical Ornithological Society DIET OF THE COMMON TERN ( STERNA HIRUNDO ) DURING THE NONBREEDING SEASON IN MAR CHIQUITA LAGOON , BUENOS AIRES , ARGENTINA

– The Common Tern breeds widely across the Northern Hemisphere in colonies all along North America, Europe and Asia. Common terns breeding in the Atlantic coast of North America migrate during the boreal winter to the Southern Hemisphere, showing a wide nonbreeding distribution that includes the Atlantic coasts of Argentina and Brazil. The coast of Buenos Aires Province (Argentina) constitutes the main wintering area of the species in South America. In Mar Chiquita Lagoon, their diet was assessed by the analysis of regurgitated casts collected on nonbreeding grounds. A total of 538 pellets were analyzed, containing 1092 prey. About 88% by number of prey were fish, 11.4% were adult insects and 0.5% were crustaceans. Adult Coleoptera, Odonata, Orthoptera, Hemipthera and Lepidoptera was the main insects found in the diet. A total of nine fish species were identified. Argentine anchovy (Engraulis anchoita) represented 70% by number and 51% of the consumed biomass of fish. The average length of fish prey was 80.1 ± 17.0 mm. With respect to habitat, 78% of the prey came from marine foraging habitats while the other 22% were from estuarine environments. Forthcoming studies will include the develop-
IMPROVEMENT OF THE ANALYTIC VLASOV SOLVER DELPHI

The simulation code DELPHI is an analytic Vlasov solver which allows to evaluate the beam transverse stability with respect to impedance effects. It allows to perform fast scans over parameters such as chromaticity, damper gain or beam intensity for a given impedance model and particle distribution. In order to improve the simulation code, new longitudinal particle distributions have been implemented. The simulations results obtained with these distributions are compared to theoretical predictions. An additional post-processing of DELPHI’s output has also been implemented, allowing to reconstruct the signal seen by head-tail stripline monitors, in particular in presence of bunch-by-bunch damper. The results are compared to theoretical models, to PyHEADTAIL simulations and to measurements performed in the LHC. INTRODUCTION Vlasov’s Equation Vlasov’s equation describes the conservation of the local phase space with respect to time