Micronutrient malnutrition is a major health problem in India. Indian children and women suffer from anemia, deficiency of iron which creates an adverse effect on health. One of the main reasons for such situation is lack of availability of iron rich food. In such circumstances,...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/41168
Ohmic heating is a novel technology for food processing. This review paper summarizes the research progress and application in ohmic heating technology used in food processing. Ohmic heating is an electrical resistance heating method for the heat treatment of food products. When...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/40664
The study is to measure the academic goal orientation of undergraduate Students of College of Home Science, Hyderabad. The purposive sampling method was used for selection of the sample. A Questionnaire developed by Was (2006) was used to measure the goal orientation among studen...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/40912
Anambra Basin located in the South Benue Trough is a Post Santonian synclinal sedimentary fill containing over 5000 m thick of Upper Cretaceous to Recent sediment. The study involved the use of field observation, sedimentological, petrographical and biostratigraphic studies of th...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/39413
Aims: To detect and isolate the dermatophyte species that affect Arabian Dromedary Camels in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia and to study its zoonotic potential. Methods: A herd of thirty camels, including ten animals with ringworm, were investigated and were divided into 4...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/41288
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...
Open access
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...
Open access
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...
Open access
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...
Open access
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...
Open access
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...
Open access
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...
Open access
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...
Open access
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...
Open access
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...
Open access
Research Article10.9734/CJAST/2018/40273