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Probiotic properties of the riboflavin producing Lactobacillus fermentum strain isolated from yoghurt sample
Get PDFThe probiotic properties of the riboflavin producing lactic acid bacterium, Lactobacillus fermentum MTCC 8711 were evaluated. The strain was resistant to the acidic environment with the pH of 3.5 and more than 100% survivability of the cells was observed after 4 h. Similarly, 85% survivability was observed in the presence of 0.3% (w/v) bile salts. The strain exhibited β- galactosidase activity by blue colored colony formation in the MRS agar plates with X-gal and IPTG. Further, it was found to be a medium acidifier with a DpH value of 0.96 after 5 h of growth. The strain was also able to reduce the cholesterol up to 50% in the presence of cholesterol and bile salts. Since the strain possesses the basic properties of the probiotics and produces riboflavin, it could be considered as a better starter culture in the fermented food industry. Probiotic properties of the riboflavin producing Lactobacillus fermentum strain isolated from yoghurt sampleS. Jayashree*, K. Jayaraman and G. KalaichelvanSchool of Biosciences and Technology, VIT University, Vellore-632 014, Tamil Nadu, India*Corresponding Author, Email: [email protected]; Phone- 91-416-220- 2901; Fax- 91-416-224-3092Cite This Article as: S. Jayashree, K. Jayaraman and G. Kalaichelvan. 2010. Probiotic properties of the riboflavin producing Lactobacillus fermentum strain isolated from yoghurt sample. J. Ecobiotechnol. 2(2): 11-16.ÂÂ
Uncovering and recovering the popular romance novel
No full textUniversity of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. December 2008. Major: English. Advisor: Dr. Timothy Brennan. 1 computer file (PDF); v, 373 pages, appendix.Popular romance novels are a twentieth- and twenty-first century literary form defined by a material association with pulp publishing, a conceptual one with courtship narrative, and a brand association with particular author-publisher combinations. The theme of romantic love in romance novels forms the basis of a drama involving the extra-private worlds of the protagonists (financial, civic, and familial). The framework of the romantic relationship allows the genre to study the challenges these spheres face over the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. A comprehensive look at the genre's history and diversity, as well as its reception in different readership communities, undergirds this analysis of three tropes involving the romance hero--capitalist, soldier, and heterosexual. The analysis proves the genre's struggle with an economic, political, and social ideology that has gathered force over the last hundred years. Though popular as well as academic critiques of the genre disparage its formulaic sexual content or its attachment to the ideology of middle class morality, its very nature as "commodity literature" helps challenge conservative thought on capitalism, national defense strategies, and sexual orientation.
The dissertation also considers the impact of the dust jackets and paperback covers of romance novels on non-romance readers. A survey of this material history suggests that it has contributed to derogatory opinions on the genre; in particular, the genre has been indicted because of the "bodice-ripper" covers that adorn many romance novels rather than for the actual content. A look at reader and author discussions on the genre, alongside textual analysis of selected works, proves that romance fiction is not fixated on a clichéd plot and descriptions of sexual intercourse; it involves complex themes that are disguised as stereotypical genre elements. Readers' online debates demonstrate how this romance "formula," albeit a function of the genre's commodification, engages them in addressing quandaries related to societal preoccupations. The concluding study of romance reading in India further supports the possibility of multiple, even liberating, readings that can empower romance readers.Kamble, Jayashree. (2008). Uncovering and recovering the popular romance novel. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/47092
Journal of Proteomics & Bioinformatics- Open Access www.omicsonline.com Research Article JPB/Vol.1/November 2008 Correlation between the Sucrose Synthase Protein Subfamilies, Variations in Structure and Expression in Stress-derived
No full textCopyright: © 2008 Jayashree B, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Sucrose synthase is a key regulatory protein, and a potential biomarker for abiotic stress response in plants. These metabolic enzymes have been extensively examined for their varied functional roles. The upregulation of this P i- and adenylate-independent glycolytic enzyme in different environmental contexts has also been extensively characterized. Here we present an analysis of the evolutionary features of sucrose synthases in an effort to correlate variations in sequence to the structure and function of this protein and its potential implication for the stress response mechanism in plants as evidenced from transcript distribution studies. An analysis of the evolutionary characteristics of this enzyme is useful given the role of this protein in sugar sensing, sugar import to sink tissues and plant development. Based on the secondary structural features of sucrose synthases and mapping of sequence variations in the context of the fold of these proteins, we note evolutionarily conserved amino acids of potential functional significance. In addition, we also observe the presence of target peptides i
Computational Sanskrit & Digital Humanities : Selected Papers Presented at the 17th World Sanskrit Conference, July 9-13, 2018
No full textEdited volume featuring the proceedings of the Computational Sanskrit & Digital Humanities section of the 17th World Sanskrit Conference. Contents: 1. Preface / Gérard Huet and Amba Kulkarni 2. A Functional Core for the Computational Aṣṭādhyāyī / Samir Sohoni and Malhar A. Kulkarni 3. PAIAS: Pāṇini Aṣṭādhyāyī Interpreter As a Service / Sarada Susarla, Tilak M. Rao and Sai Susarla 4. Yogyatā as an absence of non-congruity / Sanjeev Panchal and Amba Kulkarni 5. An ‘Ekalavya’ Approach to Learning Context Free Grammar Rules for Sanskrit Using Adaptor Grammar / Amrith Krishna, Bodhisattwa Prasad Majumder, Anil Kumar Boga and Pawan Goyal 6. A user-friendly tool for metrical analysis of Sanskrit verse / Shreevatsa Rajagopalan 7. Improving the learnability of classifiers for Sanskrit OCR corrections / Devaraja Adiga, Rohit Saluja, Vaibhav Agrawal, Ganesh Ramakrishnan, Parag Chaudhuri, K. Ramasubramanian and Malhar Kulkarni 8. A Tool for Transliteration of Bilingual Texts involving Sanskrit / Nikhil Caturvedi and Rahul Garg 9. Modeling the phonology of consonant duplication and allied changes in the recitation of Tamil Taittirīyaka-s / Balasubramanian Ramakrishnan 10. Word complementation in Classical Sanskrit / Brendan Gillon 11. TEITagger: Raising the standard for digital texts to facilitate interchange with linguistic software / Peter M. Scharf 12. Preliminary Design of a Sanskrit Corpus Manager / Gérard Huet and Idir Lankri 13. Enriching the digital edition of the Kāśikāvr̥tti by adding variants from the Nyāsa and Padamañjarī / Tanuja P. Ajotikar, Anuja P. Ajotikar and Peter M. Scharf 14. From the Web to the desktop: IIIF-Pack, a document format for manuscripts using Linked Data standards / Timothy Bellefleur 15. New Vistas to study Bhartṛhari: Cognitive NLP / Jayashree Aanand Gajjam, Diptesh Kanojia and Malhar KulkarniNon UBCReviewedFacult
Studies On Bio-Active Molecules From Microbes
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Biochemical analysis of proteins in Sapodilla (Manilkarazapota) fruit.
No full textThis Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Indigenization process of alcoholism treatment from the American to the Indian context
No full textThe education given to social work students in developing countries has been the subject of much recent study. In the earlier half of this century, professional social work was transferred from the developed world to developing countries. Much of this technology transfer was based on the belief that social work had a universally relevant methodology and an international professional identity. The consequences of this transfer are many. It has caused conflict and confusion in issues of social work practice in countries like India, Taiwan, China, and the Philippines, to name a few. In response to these conflicts social work educators have argued for the need to take into account the indigenous elements of the social, cultural, economic, and political aspects of the country for relevant social work education and training."This piece of research examines the process of indigenization of an American model of alcoholism treatment to the socio-cultural context of an Indian setting. By analyzing the history of technology transfer in India and the cultural issues which influence the lives of the people, the researcher looks at the goodness-of-fit between Western knowledge and Indian social work practice. Through focus groups and interviews with social workers in India and the United States the researcher tries to capture the process by which social work becomes ""home-made"" in India. This project reiterates the need to indigenize social work knowledge, and also emphasizes that it is essential to tap into practitioners' practice wisdom for knowledge building in social work."Made available in DSpace on 2011-05-07T14:10:31Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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Sweat gland morphology and physiology in diabetes, neuropathy, and nephropathy: a review
No full textContext: Sweat glands (SGs) play a vital role in thermal regulation. The function and structure are altered during the different pathological conditions.
Objective: These alterations are studied through three techniques: biopsy, sweat analytes and electrical activity of SG.
Methods: The morphological study of SG through biopsy and various techniques involved in quantifying sweat analytes is focussed on here. Electrical activities of SG in diabetes, neuropathy and nephropathy cases are also discussed, highlighting their limitations and future scope.
Results and Conclusion: The result of this review identified three areas of the knowledge gap. The first is wearable sensors to correlate pathological conditions. Secondly, there is no device to look for its structure and quantify its associated function. Finally, therapeutic applications of SG are explored, especially for renal failure. With these aspects, this paper provides information collection and correlates SG with pathologies related to diabetes. Hence this could help researchers develop suitable technologies for the gaps identified
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