Life Sciences

Production sago starch from Indonesia reached 585,000 tons in 2015 has become the largest in the world. However sago starch has a weakness that is brownish color, unpleasant smells and soft texture. The weaknes can be overcome by adding laccase in the bleaching process. The purpose of this study is production of laccase from edible mushroom from market in liquid fermentation. Materials used are Plurotusostreatus mushroom, Agaricusbisporus and Rhyzopusoligosporus obtained from the market.

The Implication of appropriate site for industrial use is critical to environmental health. Determination of factors such as population, geospatial characterisation including climate are the baseline statistics needed to generate thematic map layers. Assessment of terrain provides information for optimum spatial utilization in line with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Geostastical data acquired from investigation were imported into appropriate software’s such as Rockworks 16, Microsoft excel, Global mapper and Arc-GIS.

Kaumarbhritya is one of the branch of Ashtang Ayurveda which deals with care of the infants, children; their diseases and management. Though Kashyapa Samhita is considered as the main text of Kaumarbhritya but it is not available completely. So, we have to go through Brihat Trayi to gain complete knowledge. Sushruta Samhita, is a part of Brihattrayi, created by Acharya Sushruta gives detail description of Ashtanga Ayurveda and placed Kaumarbhritya at 5th position in it.

Improving seed resistance to water shortage can enhance forage production and sustainability in arid and semi-arid agricultural lands. This three-year field, laboratory and greenhouse study proposes applying surfactant to effectively prevent the detrimental impacts of severe drought conditionson early plant development. Seeds retrieved from six parental plantsof berseem clover (Trifolium alexandrinum L.) developedunder I100 (100% irrigation water)/I100+s (irrigation water plus surfactant), I75/I75+s and I50/I50+s treatments in the field.

The article provides an exergy analysis of the concentration of solar radiation. For the first time, the flux of solar radiation is characterized by its own temperature (radiation), and its exergy is determined within the framework of the canonical Carnot cycle. Based on a new treatment of the temperature of the radiant heat flux, an analytical expression is obtained for the radiation temperature of the solar radiation flux, both for direct solar radiation and for diffuse radiation. The dependence of the density of direct solar radiation on the "mass of the atmosphere" is found.

The present paper deals with the structure of soil algal community in four farmlands located in Khasi Hills, Meghalaya. The chosen farmlands were corn field (Zea mays L.), rice field (Oryzasativa Linn.), vegetable farm (Solanumtuberosum L., Lactucasativa L. and Brassica oleracea var. capitata f. alba) and citrus plantation (Citrusreticulata Blanco.). A total of 158 algal taxa have been identified, out of which Chlorophyta+Xanthophyceae members (64 taxa) form the major group, followed by Bacillariophyceae (62 taxa) and Cyanobacteria (32 taxa).

Rural fresh water and sanitation (RFWS) is one of important issues, especially in the context of climate change (CC). This work aims to establish vulnerability indicators to CC of RFWS via exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity indicators.

The aim of the current study is to determine the effect upon experimental meat product samples (flat sausage) prepared with start bacterial cultures, sterilized through irradiation under their biological effectiveness. The experimental types of meat were divided into 3 groups: flat sausage with Megacarn starters, flat sausage with Lactina starters and flat sausage without starters. These groups have been irradiated with 4kGy gamma rays. Biological experiment with white male mice weighted 20 - 30 g, took place.

The energy performance of a building is determined on the basis of the calculated or actual annual energy that is consumed in order to meet the different needs associated with its typical use. it includes the heating energy needs, cooling energy needs , energy needed to avoid overheating to maintain the envisaged temperature conditions of the building and domestic hot water needs.

This project is designed to demonstrate the technology used in metro train movement which are used in most of the developed countries. This train is equipped with a microcontroller that enables the automatic running of the train from one station to another. This proposed system is an autonomous train and it eliminates the need of any driver. Thus, any human error is ruled out. In this project microcontroller from 8051 family has been used as CPU. Whenever the train arrives at the station it stops automatically.