Background: Climate change mitigation and adaptation has become unavoidable globally and different land use management systems have to be managed accordingly on sustainable basis. In Jammu and Kashmir, livestock sector is emerging as important growth leverage to state economy and...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/40695
Aim: To evaluate the effects of different temperatures exposures on tissue protein and certain stress indicating enzymes of the earthworm Eudrilus eugeniae. Methodology: The tissue protein content, lipid peroxidation (LPX) level and activities of lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), acet...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/41230
Agricultural wastes are widely available in the form of crop residues (residual stalks, straw, leaves, roots, husks, sheaths, bagasse etc.). Significant amount of these by-products derived from agro-processing industries goes to waste. Improper disposition of such agricultural wa...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/41302
An experiment was conducted to standardize the protocol for in vitro callusing of two carnation (Dianthus caryophyllus L.) cultivars viz., ‘Scania’ and ‘Indios’. Different explants tried were leaf segments, nodal segments, shoot tips and apical shoots. Apical shoots were also use...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/39618
Image analysis is a state-of-the-art technique for seed quality testing. This tool provides vast usage in evaluation of various physiological and morphological characteristics of the seed with a more comprehensive perception. It is based on the extraction of numerical data from a...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/40945
Traditional (Artisanal) gold mining is of global health concern; there is little available information about the health problems in gold traditional mining in Sudan. This study aimed to evaluate of serum mercury and microalbuminuria in Sudanese traditional gold miners. A total of...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/41119
The monthly economic time series commonly contains the volatility periods and it is suitable to apply the Heteroscedastic model to it where the conditional variance is not constant throughout the time trend. The aim of this study is to model and forecast the currency in circulati...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/40358
The lattice structure optimization is based on the modification of three parameters: sizing, configuration and topology. Sizing is about the cross-sectional area of each element, configuration delimits the position of each node and topology is the structural shape that can be mad...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/40586
The out-turn of heat generation and Joule heating on natural convection flow through a vertical flat plate have been investigated in the given article. Joule heating and heat conduction due to wall thickness ‘b’ are esteemed as well in this analysis. With the intent to obtain sim...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/40125
With bagasse as carriers, a sequencing batch three phase fluidized bed biofilm reactor for cane sugar wastewater treatment has been investigated. The experiments showed that, with the initial COD, NH3-N and TP concentrations of 578.9~876.8 mg/L, 39.9~55.7 mg/L, 3.61~5.60 mg/L, re...
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Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/40273