Objective: To evaluate the effect of socially marketed faucet fitted to earthen vessel / sodium hypochlorite solution on diarrhea prevention at rural household level as a social intervention for diarrhea prevention under ‘Community Led Initiatives for Child Survival (CLICS) program. Methods: Unmatched case-control study was carried out in 10 villages of Primary Health Centre, Anji, located in r...

To summarize evidence discussed elsewhere in this volume, past climate change can be detected on time scales of decades to hundreds of millions of years. Theories as to the causes for such changes extend back almost as far as the observations. James Croll (1867) was the first to seriously examine the role 164 CLIMATE CHANGE, CAUSES

Experiment was conducted in 0.0-ha earthen ponds to promote growth performance of silver carp and Cyprinus carpio big head (cyprinid) plus phytoplankton zooplankton were estimated a pond receiving mixed fertilizer with vermicomposting, 6000 12000 kg per/ha/year (VC6 VC12) 6000, without vermicomposting (CO6and CO12). All treatments compared finally. Significant differences found diversity abunda...

The objective of the study was to determine if methyltestosterone (MT) can be detected in the treatment environment and, if so, for how long after treatment. Oreochromis niloticus fry with a mean initial length of 9.5 mm were stocked into adjacent cages in an earthen pond at Auburn University, Alabama, at 2,000 fry cage-1 and fed for 28 days a feed containing 60 mg MT kg-1 or a non-treated feed...

An experiment was conducted in eighteen 200-m2 fertilized earthen ponds at the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, from March through October 2000. This experiment was designed to assess the efficiency of snakehead (Channa striata) in controlling recruitment of mixed-sex Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus) in ponds and to assess growth and production characteristics of Nile tilapia in mon...

Effect of cooking, fermentation, dehulling and the use of utensils on flavonoids (quercitin and pelargonidin) - antioxidants present in pearl millet (Pennisetum typhoideum) rabadi, along with proximate composition and sensory acceptability of the product were studied. Study revealed an increased ash and flavonoids and reduced crude fibre after cooking in all samples, while fermentation enhanced...

A feeding trial was conducted towards optimization of feeding regimes for semi-intensive culture of Mozambique tilapia in earthen ponds in order to improve pond and effluent water quality, and reduce feeding cost. Fifty Mozambique tilapia fingerlings with an average weight of 17.8 ± 1.6 g were stocked in each of the 40 hapas. The experimental layout consisted of five feeding treatments of 20, 4...