Conceptual Study of Garbhini Paricharya as per Harita Samhita

God has blessed the females with most valuable gift of motherhood. Ayurveda is the science which offers a specific routine to the pregnant woman and systematic supervision known as Garbhini Paricharya as pregnant woman’s diet and activities performed during the period of pregnancy reflect on the fetus. Hence in Ayurveda, our Acharyas have given great emphasis on Garbhini Paricharya or Antenatal care. Acharyas have thrown an immense light on the concept of type of diet, behaviour, conduct, medications during pregnancy that a pregnant woman should follow and avoid, known as Garbhini Paricharya. Basic objective of Garbhini Paricharya depicted in Ayurveda is to achieve a healthy progeny as well as to ensure the good health of mother and fetus during the period of pregnancy, during labor and in the postpartum period. In this paper we have described the monthly dietary regimen and lifestyle for whole nine months of pregnancy that is essential for the wellbeing of the growing fetus and pregnant woman according to Harita Samhita as well as the scientific aspects of the antenatal care. As antenatal care should be done in an integrated way i.e., as per modern science and as mentioned in Ayurvedic classics.

Knowledge and Adoption of Commercial Vegetable Growers in District Budgam, J&K

The study was conducted on 250 vegetable growers selected from ten villages of Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir. The basic objective of the study was to ascertain the knowledge possessed and adoption level of growers as well as the economic status of vegetable growers. The result revealed that 50.80 per cent of the respondents had medium level of knowledge, 48.40 per cent of respondents belonged to medium adoption category and majority of 60.80 per cent of the vegetable growers belong to the middle economic status group.

NABARD CONTRIBUTION IN AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO WATERSHED PROJECT UNDER RIDF SCHEME IN INDIA

The Government of the India is giving emphasis on ‘Growth with Social Justice’ with the basic objective of planning for the development of India since its independence and made significant strides in developing rural India through Five Year Plan. A Rural Infrastructure Development Fund (RIDF) was introduced in the budget of 1995-96. The RBI governs this fund through NABARD with corpus from the nationalized banks. The NABARD was setup by the Government of India as a development bank in July 12, 1982 which operates through its head office at Mumbai, 28 regional offices situated in state capitals and 391 district offices at districts levels. The mandate also covers supporting all other allied economic activities in rural areas, promoting sustainable rural development. The various functions of NABARD are supervisory functions, institutional and capacity building, role in training etc. The paper analyses some of the issues that arise in the context of utilization of the fund under watershed for farm irrigation in Agra District of Uttar Pradesh, India

INSURANCE MARKET DEVELOPMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH: EVIDENCE FROM WESTERN BALKANS REGION

The basic objective of the paper is the examination of mutual interdependence of the parameters on insurance market and the economic growth at the specific area of ex-Yugoslavia. Time horizon of the observation encompasses the period 2005-2019, and as the appropriate methodological framework the econometrics of panel data was used. Accompanying cointegration tests and tests of long-term effects have shown that the insurance sector and economic growth are long-term related, as well as that the insurance sector exerts positive and statistically significant influence on the economic growth. Additionally, it was shown that nonlife insurance realizes more significant effects on growth. To confirm robustness, causality test has shown that changes in insurance sector cause the changes in economic growth. Economic policy makers have an important task ahead of them, which consists in promoting insurance markets, improvement of regulation, and legislation framework that should contribute to the growth of economic activity in analyzed countries.

Allele frequency divergence reveals ubiquitous influence of positive selection in Drosophila

Resolving the role of natural selection is a basic objective of evolutionary biology. It is generally difficult to detect the influence of selection because ubiquitous non-selective stochastic change in allele frequencies (genetic drift) degrades evidence of selection. As a result, selection scans typically only identify genomic regions that have undergone episodes of intense selection. Yet it seems likely such episodes are the exception; the norm is more likely to involve subtle, concurrent selective changes at a large number of loci. We develop a new theoretical approach that uncovers a previously undocumented genome-wide signature of selection in the collective divergence of allele frequencies over time. Applying our approach to temporally resolved allele frequency measurements from laboratory and wild Drosophila populations, we quantify the selective contribution to allele frequency divergence and find that selection has substantial effects on much of the genome. We further quantify the magnitude of the total selection coefficient (a measure of the combined effects of direct and linked selection) at a typical polymorphic locus, and find this to be large (of order 1%) even though most mutations are not directly under selection. We find that selective allele frequency divergence is substantially elevated at intermediate allele frequencies, which we argue is most parsimoniously explained by positive—not negative—selection. Thus, in these populations most mutations are far from evolving neutrally in the short term (tens of generations), including mutations with neutral fitness effects, and the result cannot be explained simply as an ongoing purging of deleterious mutations.

Employment of Flake Ice Systems Including Natural Preservative Compounds for the Quality Enhancement of Chilled Seafood—A Review

Marine species deteriorate rapidly post-mortem as a consequence of a variety of biochemical and microbial breakdown mechanisms. Due to the increasing demand for high-quality fresh seafood, different strategies are now available to retard spoilage for as long as possible. The present study provides an overview of a recently proposed strategy based on the addition of natural compounds to marine species. In this strategy, different kinds of natural preservative compounds are included in the flake-ice medium that is commonly used for chilled storage. Natural sources tested for this purpose include low-molecular-weight organic acids and different kinds of extracts of plants, macroalgae, and by-products resulting from marine species commercialization. The preservative action of such treatments is analyzed according to the effect on different deteriorative mechanisms (i.e., lipid hydrolysis, oxidation, and microbial activity development), as well as on the resulting sensory acceptability and shelf-life time. The basic objective of this review is to provide an overview concerning the positive effect that the presence in an icing system of natural preserving compounds may have on the quality of chilled marine species. Furthermore, various potential avenues are proposed to develop the practical and commercial employment of this technological strategy.

Breakeven Point – Instrument in the Company Performance Analysis

In market economy, the purpose of any economic agent is to obtain profit from his economic activity. Profitability is considered a decisive tool for boosting the market economy mechanism, being a form of expressing the economic efficiency of the company to make a profit. Thus, the basic objective of the enterprise is profit and, in order to achieve the proposed goals, it is necessary to perform the analysis and periodic control of the activity, of the economic and financial situation, the state of performance within it. Depending on this, we consider optimal the use of the breakeven point in the performance analysis, an indicator that must be accepted as a financial instrument of analysis and control. In this article will be revealed the essence of the breakeven point, will be presented the importance, its forms of manifestation and calculation methods. A new interpretation in the calculation methods are proposed. Also, some productive situations will be presented depending on the breakeven point

The Role and Impact of Transportation to the Socio-Economic Development of the Colonial Government of Nigeria (1900 – 1960)

This study seeks to interrogate the motives, challenges, complexities and contribution of the transportation infrastructure to the socio-economic development of the colonial government of Nigeria between 1900 and 1960. Although a lot of literature exists on the contribution of transportation to the Nigerian colonial economy, yet, there has been no serious attempt to investigate the resistance to British demands which hurt the colonizer and of African initiatives to improve their socio-economic conditions through the transportation infrastructure. The impression is often created of a completely submissive colonial population simply complying with the colonial government instructions and demands for their produce, yet findings revealed that there were challenges and obstacles to the smooth-running of a result-oriented economic policy. The basic objective of this paper is to empirically articulate the extent to which the colonial transportation infrastructure was able to fulfill the motives/impact of these efforts to the socio-economic development and well-being of Nigerians at this period. Another objective of the work is to throw more light on the extent to which these infrastructures (transport) were able to promote or negate the interests and development of the colonial government of Nigeria. The study utilized both primary and secondary data and employed the simple descriptive analysis of the materials through the historical methodology. The work adopted the Solow Neo-classical Growth theory which attempted to measure the extent to which labor, capital and technology were able to influence the economic growth of Nigeria. On the whole, the work concluded that despite the claims of the British government of achieving the ‘dual mandate’ policy of ascertaining that commercial interests of both the home country Britain and the colony were guaranteed, yet to a greater extent the colonial government benefitted more to the disadvantage of the colony whose development was only marginal during this period.

Does the COVID-19 Pandemic Affect Food Safety Training of Food Sector Employees? Case Study

Food health safety has always been an important element for consumers. Enterprises in the food sector want to meet customer expectations and the requirements set out in national and international legislation and implement a variety of tools, methods, or techniques in their organizations. Increasing health safety and even improving the quality of produced food is possible through properly planned training of employees. This training should be tailored to the capabilities and needs of both employees and the enterprise. Nowadays, with the era of the COVID -19 pandemic, training in food safety becomes of particular importance, as the production of safe food is a basic objective to be taken into account by all employees. Under these circumstances, it seems appropriate to carry out additional training in the prevention of the spread of COVID-19 in the context of the health safety of the produced food. The aim of the present paper is to examine the subjective assessment of food employees regarding the amount and quality of food safety training in the COVID-19 pandemic. The research is a pilot study conducted at the turn of December 2020.

Participación de las familias, acción tutorial y orientación desde la justicia social

RESUMEN La participación o representación constituye una de las dimensiones fundamentales que conforman, junto con la redistribución y el reconocimiento, el concepto de justicia social, cuyo significado se ha expandido durante las últimas décadas gracias a múltiples aportaciones teóricas. En el marco de nuestra investigación, hemos analizado las pautas de colaboración y participación de las familias en los centros docentes, así como la acción tutorial y orientación educativa, al entender que ambos aspectos pueden contribuir positivamente a una mejora de dicha participación y al logro de una justicia social en educación. Reviste especial interés profundizar en el análisis crítico del discurso de los docentes, como forma indirecta de indagar en la praxis educativa, así como las variaciones y divergencias que aparecen entre lo normativo y lo factual. El objetivo básico de este trabajo se centra en identificar si la justicia social, desde la dimensión participativa, está presente en la práctica educativa y el discurso de los profesionales. Metodológicamente, se parte de un enfoque cualitativo que utiliza la Teoría Fundamentada como herramienta de análisis. Los datos han sido recogidos a partir de una muestra de profesionales de la enseñanza, incluyendo orientadores, utilizando la entrevista en profundidad. Los resultados muestran que la participación no se desarrolla en términos sustantivos, sino meramente formales, evidenciando las carencias existentes en el ámbito estudiado. Las conclusiones sugieren la necesidad de una mayor implicación del profesorado en el ámbito de la atención tutorial, desarrollando técnicas y dinámicas más participativas e inclusivas. Se concluyen líneas esperanzadoras donde el profesorado y los y las profesionales de la orientación pueden jugar un papel esencial en la mejora de las condiciones actuales.ABSTRACT Participation or representation constitutes one of the fundamental dimensions that make up, together with redistribution and recognition, the concept of social justice, whose meaning has expanded during the last decades thanks to multiple theoretical contributions. Within the framework of our research, we have analyzed the patterns of collaboration and participation of families in schools, as well as the tutorial action and educational guidance, understanding that both aspects can contribute positively to an improvement of said participation and the achievement of social justice in education. It is particularly interesting to deepen the critical analysis of teachers' discourse, as an indirect way of investigating educational praxis, as well as the variations and divergences that appear between the normative and the factual. The basic objective of this work is to identify whether social justice, from the participatory dimension, is present in the educational practice and discourse of professionals. Methodologically, it is based on a qualitative approach that uses Grounded Theory as an analysis tool. Data have been collected from a sample of teaching professionals, including counselors, using in-depth interviews. The results show that participation does not develop in substantive terms, but merely formal ones, evidencing the deficiencies in the field studied. The conclusions suggest the need for greater involvement of teachers in the field of tutorial care, developing more participatory and inclusive techniques and dynamics. Hopeful lines are concluded where teachers and educational counselors can play an essential role in improving current conditions.