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The soil is one of the main reservoirs of microbial life. Typical garden soil has millions of bacteria in each gram. The most numerous microbes in soil are bacteria. Soil bacteria include aerobes and anaerobes with a wide range of nutritional requirements, from photoautotrophs to chemoheterotrophs. As usable nutrients and suitable environmental conditions (such as light, aeration, temperature) become available, the microbial populations and their metabolic activity rapidly increase until the nutrients are depleted or physical conditions change, and then they return to lower levels.

This paper deals with two new black mildew fungi, namely, Meliola cymbopogonigena infected the leaves of Cymbopogon sp. and Asterostomella salacigena infected the leaves of Salacia sp., collected from the Placherry Reserve forest in the Western Ghats of Kerala state are described and illustrated in detail.

Composites began to be used more and more in every day commodities like bath tubs, railings, electrical goods, sports equipment, aerospace and ship industry. Now their applications have enhanced says Tang et al. (1997). The greatest advantage of composite materials is their strength and stiffness combined with lightness. By choosing an appropriate combination of reinforcement and matrix material, manufactures can produce properties that exactly fit the requirements for a particular structure and for a particular purpose.

Haemorrhagic gastroenteritis (HGE) is caused by viruses, bacteria, endo-parasites and even by food allergy as well as irritant drugs. Clinical signs include fever, vomiting and severe bloody and foetid diarrhoea with marked dehydration. Present study was conducted to evaluate alterations in total leucocyte count (TLC) and differential leucocyte count (DC) in twenty six dogs, out of which thirteen dogs were naturally infected with haemorrhagic gastroenteritis and the rest were treated as control.

Geophysical study was carried out in some gully erosion sites within Orlu and environs with the objectives of identifying tectonic and neo-tectonic features, delineate their trends and evaluate their effect in gully development and propagation in the study area. Detailed geological field mapping was carried out to characterize the gullies and to estimate the strikes and directional trends of the gullies. Similarly, GIS interpreted Landsat-ETM imageries were also used to determine the lineaments and their trends in the study area.

This study investigated nutrient removal as well as nutrient balance in a vertical flow constructed wetland planted with Andropogongayanus, Chrysopogonzizanioides, Echinochloapyramidalis, Pennisetumpurpureum and Tripsacumlaxum for treating synthetic domestic wastewater. The experiment was conducted under pilot-scale composed of six beds constructed with bricks. Each bed was filled from the bottom to the top with 0.1 m of gravel and 0.6 m of white lagoon sand. Five beds were transplanted wile one unplanted was used as control.

The fetal period is essential for the development of muscle fibers and neuromuscular junctions (NMJs). This study evaluated the effects of maternal protein restriction during pregnancy and lactation on muscle fibers and NMJs of extensor digitorum longus (EDL) muscle in 21-day-old rat offspring. Wistar rats were divided into a control group consisting of animals born to dams fed a normal protein diet (17% protein) during pregnancy and lactation, and a restricted group consisting of animals born to dams fed a low-protein diet (6% protein) during pregnancy and lactation.

The aim of the present study is analysing the use of e-resources among college students. The sample was 888 college students selected from Chennai district, Tamil Nadu, India. Stratified random sampling method was adapted to select the sample for the present study. E-resource knowledge test questionnaire were used constructed and standardized by Dr.P.C. Nagasubramani (2015).

In The study identified the variables in the financial decentralization policy that have been neglected so as to render local government service delivery a nightmare in Uganda using the upcountry district of Mbale. The population comprised the district Municipality administration staff covering employees under the municipal council including those in the executive, welfare, office of the town clerk, finance, health, agriculture, education, works and transport, and internal audit department.