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Medicinal Plants Used by Traditional Healers of West Jaintia Hills District of Meghalaya, India
Abstract: A survey was conducted to record the medicinal plants used by traditional medicine practitioners in the West Jaintia Hills district of Meghalaya. A total of 44 species were recorded, out of which 2 were pteridophytes. Zingiberaceae was the most dominant family with 5 species. 48% of the medicinal plants used were herbs, followed by trees (20%) and shrubs and climbers (16% each). Underground parts and leaves of plants are mostly …
Published in Research and Reviews : A Journal of Life Sciences · Vol. 9, Issue 1, 2019 · pp. 156–164 Read article
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Baseline Study about Basic Facts on HIV/AIDS
Abstract: AIDS education is important, especially for young generation; and school is the most important means of reaching out to them. This also applies to the recovering alcoholics and drug users who had been correlated with lifetime tendency towards high risk sexual behaviors. It is easy to think that AIDS is only meant to be worried by drug users, the LGBT community, or people having a lot of sexual partners. This …
Published in Research and Reviews : A Journal of Immunology · Vol. 10, Issue 1, 2020 · pp. 30–41 Read article
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Parental Response Towards Substance Using Children: Pilot Study
Abstract: The study was conducted to explore parental responses towards their children, who were recognized Substance Users in a treatment programme. A structured questionnaire was provided to the involved parents, who self-administered it during a single session each, after due discussion and explanation by the researcher. Appropriate consent was taken from the participants. A sample size of 35 patients at Kripa Foundation centre was selected through ‘Snowball Sampling’, from different areas …
Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Health Professions · Vol. 7, Issue 2, 2017 · pp. 47–63 Read article
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A Customer Opinion Categorization Framework for Indigenous Items of Jaintia and Khasi Hills
Abstract: An online shopping web-portal can be the best way to promote the indigenous and traditional handmade items of different districts of Meghalaya state. Using this kind of website, different buyers and sellers can utilize the facilities provided by such platforms for selling and buying their products online. In this work, we have not put much more emphasis on the implementation details or developing part of the whole website, but here …
Published in E-Commerce for Future & Trends · Vol. 6, Issue 1, 2019 · pp. 7–15 Read article
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Rainfall Forecasting Using Optimized Support Vector Regression Technique
Abstract: Abstract—Rainfall prediction has been an important area of research in the field of hydrology. In this article an attempt is made to apply Support vector regression (SVR) in annual rainfall forecasting and comparing its performance with other models like Random forest regression (RFR) and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) model. This study proposes an approach by combining grid search technique with SVR model. Grid search technique carefully tunes the SVR’s hyper …
Published in Journal of Web Engineering & Technology · Vol. 6, Issue 2, 2019 · pp. 29–33 Read article
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Molecular Identification and Characterization of a Rice Field Cyanobacterium for its Possible Use as Biofertilizer in Acidic Environment
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Published in Research and Reviews: A Journal of Microbiology and Virology · Vol. 1, Issue 3, 2011 · pp. 1–12 Read article
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Leaf Analysis in Citrus: Recent Development
Abstract: This article encompasses nutrient diagnosis through leaf analysis and leaf nutrient composition. The corresponding leaf nutrient values expressed in % were: N (2.23–2.49), P (0.10–0.11), K (1.86–2.12), Ca (2.12–2.32), Mg (0.28–0.38), and in ppm Fe (148.2–179.8), Mn (72.2–84.8), Cu (10.4–18.6), and Zn (24.2–38.8) representing eight states viz., West Bengal, Sikkim, Assam, Meghalaya, Tripura, Mizoram, Arunachal Pradesh, and Manipur. Nutrient constraints in the form of nitrogen, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, copper and …
Published in Research & Reviews : Journal of Agricultural Science and Technology · Vol. 10, Issue 3, 2021 · pp. 35–43 Read article
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The Bhut Jolokia Chilly and the Capsaicin Factor
Abstract: AbstractThe Bhut Jolokia was accepted by Guinness World Records in 2007 as the world’s spiciest chilly. It has a hotness of 1,041,427 SHU (Scoville Heat Units). The chilly is grown and eaten in India’s northeastern states such as Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Nagaland, Manipur, Meghalaya, Sikkim and Tripura, referred as the hot spots for chilly diversity due to their unique ecological conditions and also, in countries like Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. …
Published in Research & Reviews : Journal of Herbal Science · Vol. 8, Issue 3, 2019 · pp. 9–12 Read article
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Antimicrobial Potential of Methanolic Extract of Barringtonia acutangula (L.) Gaertn Fruits
Abstract: Barringtonia acutangula is a middle-sized plant which is distributed in Meghalaya, Assam, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar and Odisha, used in treatment of various ailments. The present work has investigated the antimicrobial activity of methanol extract of Barringtonia acutangula fruit against six resistance bacterial strains such as Enterococcus faecalis, Staphylococcus aureus, Acinetobacter bumannii (Gram positive) and Citrobacter freundii, Enterobacter aerogenes, Escherichia coli (Gram negative). The antibacterial activity was evaluated by …
Published in Research & Reviews: A Journal of Pharmacognosy · Vol. 3, Issue 3, 2016 · pp. 13–18 Read article