Scholars' Press

The last few decades have seen a flurry of activity in the synthesis and development of Plant growth promoting rhizobacteria and their derivatives as biocontrol agent. Various strategies can be envisaged to synthesize by exploiting the reactivity of this organisms with their derivatives by various researchers. Biocontrol agents and its derivatives were also reported to have promising bioactivities, including antibiotic production, antibacterial, siderophore and hormoes producing properties, primary and secondary metabolites producing activities. The aim of this book is to provide a brief knowledge about plant growth promoting rhizobacteria and their derivatives. We have included the PGPR and their characterization by various biometric parameters in soybean and mungbean. This study is carried out by Dr. Aarti Thakkar at Department of Microbiology and Biotechnology, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad (Gujarat). We hope the readers can enjoy this text and find it useful in their respective studies.

This Monograph is the outcome of a Research Project undertaken by the author at National Institute of Bank Management, Pune, India. The author in this monograph has tried to incorporate various issues of corporate bond market, focusing in India. Even if the financial system in India is very strong, as reflected through its efficient, developed and vibrant financial market, the corporate bond market segment is still at a very nascent stage, and therefore requires a serious concern from different group of market players. This monograph not only helps the reader to understand the nature of corporate bond market in India, vis-a-vis the other developed and emerging markets worldwide, but also to understand the current scope of this market, followed by the future challenges expected to be faced to ensure a reasonable and consistent growth of this market. This book will be helpful for Financial Market Practitioners, Regulators, Academics, Students of Finance and Business Management.

This book describes a study examining the narratives of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and typically developing peers across listeners and communicative context. Four children, 8 to 11 years of age, with ASD and average non-verbal cognitive ability were language-age matched with similar chronological age, typically developing peers. Participants generated narratives from a wordless picture book, story-retell of a short film, and a personal experience told to peer- and adult listeners. Narratives were analyzed for story length, causal statements, internal states, character references, irrelevant information, and examiner prompts. No significant group differences occurred on measures of length, internal states, irrelevant information, or prompts. Children with ASD were less likely to include causal statements in story retell and wordless picture book narratives told to adults and were more likely to use inaccurate or ambiguous references to characters in personal narratives told to an adult listener than their typical peers. Narratives of children with ASD were similar on measures of length, internal states, causal statements, use of irrelevant information and prompts.

The last few decades have seen a flurry of activity in the synthesis and development of Plant growth promoting bacteria and fungi and their consortia as biocontrol agent. Various strategies can be envisaged to synthesize by exploiting the reactivity of this organisms with their derivatives by various researchers. Biocontrol agents and its derivatives were also reported to have promising bioactivities, including antibiotic production, antibacterial, siderophore and hormones producing properties, primary, secondary and volatile metabolites producing activities. The aim of this book is to provide a brief knowledge about plant growth promoting consortia and their formulations in different carriers. We have included their characterization of different formulations in plant growth promotion and in biological control by various biometric parameters in soybean and mungbean in pot and field trials.

This book suggests a new diagnostic approach to solve the myth of unexplainable pigmentations in the hidden area based on a clinicopathological study. The dilemma of of the three entities: Erythema Dyschromicum Perstans, Idiopathic Eruptive Macular Pigmentation and Lichen Planus Pigmentosus, finally resolved in a practical algorithmic approach that can be applied easily in the clinical practice.

Pollution is one of the burning issues of the present century and it has to be mitigated for the welfare of both present as well as future generation. Some studies acclaimed that pollution and economic growth keeps a direct relationship. This invites a question: what should be the optimum level of economic growth? However, EKC hypothesis suggests that after reaching a certain stage of economic growth, environmental pollution takes downward phase. Having this background, what will be the normative aspects centring a particular industry? The book thus deals with several conceptual issues regarding ¿industry environment and society¿ relationship including a case study of a paper mill. Under the case study an attempt has been made to investigate socio-economic and environmental impact of the concerned paper mill in terms of environment, health, property value, quality of life and net-socio-economic benefit. The work is based on suitable methodology which is easy to understand. It is firmly believed that the book would help the researcher concerning with area of industry-environment relationship and general readers also find interest with the contents of the book.

The last few decades have seen a flurry of activity in the synthesis and development of Plant growth promoting bacteria and fungi and their production as plant growth promoters. Various strategies can be envisaged to synthesize by exploiting the reactivity of this organisms with their derivatives by various researchers. Biocontrol agents and its derivatives were also reported to have promising bioactivities, including antibiotic production, antibacterial, siderophore and hormones producing properties, primary, secondary and volatile metabolites producing activities. The aim of this book is to provide a brief knowledge about plant growth promoting rhizobacteria and their derivatives in promotion of biometric parameters of Glycin max L. We have included their characterization of different parameters in plant growth promotion and by various biometric parameters in soybean in pot and field trials.

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a multifaceted aspect of computer vision and machine learning, which encompasses group activity pattern discovery, interpersonal interaction analysis, human gesture and action recognition. It has proliferating demands from wide applications, such as visual surveillance and security, entertainment, healthcare systems, video indexing, human-computer interaction and video retrieval. So over the last decade, a diversity of approaches has been developed to investigate the HAR. We overcome their limitations by proposing new robust features and the algorithms to build the unified HAR framework. Features play a vital role in HAR. Global features are generated using the entire video sequence while ignoring explicit temporal information but they capture the oriented and holistic underlying patterns. We found that HAR can be improved by fusing extra temporal information with global representation.

3-D video in day to day life will enhance the way we represent real-world sceneries and provide more natural conditions for human interaction. Therefore, 3-D video has the potential to be the next killer application in multimedia communications. However, the demand for resources (e.g. bandwidth), 3-D quality evaluations and providing error protection are challenges to be addressed. Thus, this book discusses the issues and potential solutions related to transmission of 3-D video over communication networks including compression, quality evaluations, error resilience and error concealment.

It is theoretically justified that the personality needs and adjustment of teachers directly and indirectly affected by the cause of stress.The stress among teachers mainly depends upon the teachers personality needs and adjustment. The present book titled as "Relationship among Teachers Stress, Personality needs and Adjustment¿ is based on the rationale which has been derived on the basis of some research findings and assumptions. This book will provide an insight into the nature of stress among teachers and can help to reduce the feeling of stress among them so that they can perform their duties successfully. The book focused the responsible factors for stress among teachers. It was analysed by the educational schools and colleges with teachers to combat stress, to improve their working conditions. The teachers may also increase the adjustment among the troubled situations and try to prevent the stress.

The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between metacognitive beliefs and thought control strategies with test anxiety: the mediating role of perfectionism in gifted male and female high school students in Kerman in 2017. The present study is descriptive and correlational. The statistical population of this study consisted of gifted male and female students of gifted schools in the first and second years of high school in district one of Kerman city in the age range of (12-18) years with a volume of 2400 people. According to the population size and sample size, 331 people were considered based on Morgan table. Participants were randomly selected in a multi-stage cluster within each cluster.

'Trees of Agra' depicts the entire tree line of Agra comprising photographs and description of 161 trees spotted growing in the gardens, public places, the historical monuments like Taj Mahal, Sikandra, Shahjehan Park, Rambagh, Dayalbagh, educational institutions, hotels, road sides, reserve forest and the country side of Agra district.All the plants included in this book have been grouped in different well established families of plant kingdom. In all, there are 48 families,including one from monocotyledons and three from gymnosperms, representing so many trees in and around Agra. These families are arranged alphabetically for Angiosperms and Gymnosperms separately.The description of each family gives basic clues for identification of trees belonging to that family. Each family bears a common name, given in the bracket along with its order to which this family belongs, number of genera & species is also mentioned after the bracket. Likewise each plant has a common name, botanical name and the family name. The photograph of each plant in the form of figure also has the name of the place. Thus this book will help the readers to identify these trees in other places also.