Genetic diversity of 27 chickpea genotypes was studied through Mahalanobis D and Principal Component analysis. The genotypes under study fall into five clusters. The cluster II contained the highest number of genotypes (11) and Cluster I contained the lowest. Cluster I produced the highest mean value for number of pods per plant. The inter cluster distances were much higher than the intra clust...

We study the problem of releasing k-way marginals of a database D ∈ ({0, 1}), while preserving differential privacy. The answer to a k-way marginal query is the fraction of D’s records x ∈ {0, 1} with a given value in each of a given set of up to k columns. Marginal queries enable a rich class of statistical analyses of a dataset, and designing efficient algorithms for privately releasing margi...

Five apigenin-based C-gfycosylflavones were isolated from the leaves and pods of Prosopis chilensis and identified as vicenin-1, 6†-0-acetyrvicenin-l, vicenin-2, vitexin and isovitexin. 6*â€TM-0-ac«ryrvicenin-l could be a new acylated di-Cglycosylflavone and Vicerun-l is reported here for the first time in the genus Prosopis. The structures of the isolated compounds were established through ...

Inheritance of plant height, pod length, pod width, seed length and seed width was studied in a set of crosses grown during rabi 2007-08. F2 phenotypic data for plant height was a good fit to a phenotypic ratio of 1:4:6:4:1 and 1:2:1 respectively in two crosses studied indicating the involvement of more than two genes. Segregation of pod length in F2 generation of the cross ICGV 00350 x K 1340,...

Certain null singularities in ten dimensional supergravity have natural holographic duals in terms of Matrix Theory and generalizations of the AdS/CFT correspondence. In many situations the holographic duals appear to be well defined in regions where the supergravity develops singularities. We describe some recent progress in this area. Based on talks given at CTP Symposium, Cairo, Egypt (March...

Studies were conducted to evaluate effects of pod storage (as a means of pulp pre-conditioning) and fermentation time on the fermentative quality and appearance of Ghanaian cocoa beans. The fermentative quality (cut test and fermentation index [FI]) and colour (L, a, b) of the cocoa beans were studied using standard methods. Increasing pod storage and fermentation time significantly (P<0.05) in...

A br ie f su rvey of c u r r e n t inf luences on the implementat ion safety in fermentat ion process is made. The role of v a l i d a t ion, as in tended by the Food and Drug Adminst ra t ion of USA, in improv ing the safety of the process is d iscussed, wi th a case s tudy . I t is concluded tha t the va l idat ion exercise wil l improve the safety of the p roduc t to the consumer and in do i...

Amphibolite blocks from an Archaean (2.9 Ga) trondhjemite-agmatite complex in the Lewisian at Gruinard Bay have a varied trace element and R E E content. Whilst some of the variability is attributable to element mobility during high-grade metamorphism and subsequent trondhjemite magmatism, it is for the main part considered to be a primary feature of the amphibolites. The observed trace element...

Field studies with and without Bradyrhizobium was carried out with five mungbean varieties to observe the yield and yield attributes of mungbean. Five mungbean varieties viz. BARI Mung-2, BARI Mung-4, BARI Mung-5, BINA mung-2 and Barisal local, and the rhizobial inoculum (Bradyrhizobium strain BAUR-604) were used. The seeds and stover were dried and weighed adjusting at 14% moisture content and...

—An overview is provided of a symposium on the direction of research and management of Doublecrested Cormorants (Phalacrocorax auritus) heading into the 2000s. The current symposium built on previous efforts and described a number of focus areas of informational need, including cormorant impacts on natural resources, demographics of cormorants, assessment of control efforts, assessment of fish ...