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This paper tries to study and compare the financial health of the selected companies with the help of financial ratios in FMCG industry. FMCG market is expected to grow 9-10 per cent in 2020. FMCG�s urban segment grew by 8 % whereas rural segment grew 5 per cent in the quarter ending September 2019, supported by moderate inflation, increase in private consumption and rural income. The study selected top FMCG companies namely Dabur India Limited and HUL. The study has highlighted the various financial parametersand identified the significant relationship among them. The variable selected for the correlation and regression analysis has been selected on the basis of the existing literature. The variables are working capital current assets are fixed assets, inventor, miscellaneous expenses, employee cost, power and fuel cost, selling and administrative cost, net sales and net profit. Besides this multiple linear regression has also been applied to measure the impact on net profit as dependent variable and other are considered as independent variable. The SPSS 22 software has been used for the analysis of the data.

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Financial Performance, FMCG, Correlation, Multiple Linear Regression,

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The term efficiency means how effectively and efficiently a bank uses its resources to increase its profitability and productivity. For an analytical view, profitability and productivity complement each other and are interrelated. In India, the earliest instances of analysis of efficiency of banks was done by Luther Committee in the year 1977 which examined the productivity, efficiency and profitability of the nationalised banks from 1969 to 1975 on the basis of selected set of efficiency indicators. This paper aims to analyse the efficiency of selected private sector banks in India with respect to seven key performance indicators. Keeping in mind the limitations of secondary data sourced from published reports and websites, to analyse the computed efficiency and productivity ratios, F-Test single factor analysis of variance ( ANOVA) has been used as a statistical measure. For the convenience of the study, only a set of five selected private sector banks viz, ICICI bank, HDFC bank, AXIS bank, FEDERAL bank and YES bank have been incorporated based on the technique of random sampling. The study has been confined for a period of five financial years starting from 2015-16 to 2019-20. The study resulted with a mixed response with regard to the efficiency of the banks in terms of profitability and productivity and demanded an improvement in some banks as the banks have not succeeded in acquiring full efficiency in all the years of study.

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Efficiency, Profitability, Productivity, Private sector banks, Performance indicators, Single-factor ANOVA

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This paper criticizes the authoritarian rules prevalent in India since pre-independence. The purpose of this paper is to probe the condition of women as highlighted in the contemporary Indian novel �Difficult Daughters� by Manju Kapur. This work of literature stresses on the plight of women and how they are objectified and considered worthless. The writer vividly describes how the first character in the novel is metaphorically compared with a fruit-bearing tree, the similarity between the two being, just as a tree is expected to bear fruits seasonally, Kasturi was expected to bear babies yearly. Her life was merely her own, she was a puppet controlled by her husband and his family. The three protagonists in the novel tell the readers about miseries faced by women in three different generations. Kasturi is not modern in thinking hence she does not want her daughter to be modern in her thinking. The core idea of feminism is that women should have equal rights, power, and opportunity but patriarchy and its subsets deprive them of their basic rights. Here the writer has successfully portrayed the conflict of traditional modernity in her characters, she chooses the urban Indian middle class and represents the majority of the population.

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feminism, authoritarian, patriarchy

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Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) play vital role in economic developments in India. As per the information received from the Central Statistics Office (CSO), Ministry of Statistics & Programme Implementation (MOSPI), the Share of MSME Gross Value Added (GVA) in total GVA during 2016-17 was 31.8%.1According to Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics (DGCIS) the Share of MSME related Products in total Export from India during 2018-19 is 48.10%.To provide Financial assistance to MSME SIDBI paly Crucial role . This research paper Highlighted role of SIDBI in providing Financial assistance to MSME.

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MSME, SIDBI, LOAN, MSMED Act.

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Polymeric composites reinforced with natural fibers have raised more attention as the alternative building materials in this project, natural fiber composites prepared from jute and glass fiber sandwich panel. This project presented the bending behavior of the newly developed sandwich panel, Light weight sandwich laminated panels are increasingly being used as structural materials for a wide variety of applications in marine, aerospace, automobile, transportation and electronic packing sectors. The introduction of intermediate layer helped the sandwich panels to sustain a larger strain prior to reach their ultimate loads, resulting in a higher deformation capability.

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Glass fiber, Aluminum honeycomb, Epoxy resin.

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Coronaviruses have caused two large scale pandemics severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) in last two decades. It was thought that SARS-related coronaviruses (SARSr-CoV) is mainly found in bats. Previous studies have shown that some bat SARSr-CoVs have the potential to infect humans. The current outbreak of viral pneumonia in the city of Wuhan, China, was caused by a novel coronavirus designated 2019-nCoV by the World Health Organization, as determined by sequencing the viral RNA genome. Many initial patients were exposed to wildlife animals at the Huanan seafood wholesale market, where poultry, snake, bats, and other farm animals were also sold. Here we have taken an attempt to understand the genetic structure of 2019-nCoV and subsequent sequence analysis of multiple regions of its genome to identify unique motifs, receptor binding domain, hypervariable region which may direct some insight to future research for developing effective treatment against this novel coronavirus. We have identified unique motif in spike protein, multiple hypervariable regions, amino acids polymorphism in ORF8. These may affect the conformation of the peptide and shed some light to cross species transmission, and subsequent host adaptation

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Genomics, sequence analysis, 2019-nCov, transmission

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Abstract: Kerala � The God�s Own Country � is filled with the presence of music, dance, musical instruments, temple arts and temple rituals. The history of various traditional art forms rests in the soil of Kerala. About eighteen musical instruments are known as �Kshetra Vadyam�. It includes �Deva vadyam� and �Asura Vadyam� from which the distinct place for �Chenda� can be acknowledged by observing where it is present. It might be �Chenda�s resonance that make the seventeen �Ashtadasha Vadyam�s to below the �Chenda�. Some of the musical instruments which are being used for Pooja rituals in temples are also being used for some classical dance forms in Kerala. The study of such musical instruments and the classical dance forms associated to it are the foundation of this journal. Some musical instruments are used only outside the temple and some are used inside the temple only. �Sopana Sangeetham� is one of the popular among �Kshetra Sangeetham�. Only one musical instrument is used in �Sopana Sangeetham� ie Idakka. Idakka is a musical instrument which is inevitable in �Mohiniyattam� concert. Idakka is only used in �Kathakali� when female role is presented. The �Chenda� is an inevitable musical instrument in �Kathakali�. Altogether, five musical instruments in �Pakkamaelam� are used when �Kathakali� is staged from which four are �Kshetra Vadyam�s, �Chenda�, �Idakka�, �Madhalam�, �Chengila� and the one which is excluded in Kshetra Vadyam�s is �Ilathalam�. In �Krishnattam�, which is staged only in the surroundings of the Temple.�Idakka�, �Thoppi Madhalam�, �Sudha Madhalam�, and �Chengila� are borrowed from �Kshetra Vadyam,�s. �Mizhav� is a Kshetra Vadyam which is very important musical instrument for staging Kerals�s unique and traditional art forms, �Koodiyattam� and Nangyar Koothu�. Other than �Mizhav�, Idakka, Kuzhithalam, Conch, and Karumkuzhal are the musical instruments in Koodiyattam and Koothu.

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Ashtadasha Vadyam�s - Eighteen musical instruments.

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Abstract Digit sucking is a natural phenomenon and is one of the most common learned patterns of behavior seen in children of preschool age. If digit sucking habit persists beyond the time permanent teeth begin to erupt, it may cause malocclusion. When the thumb is inserted into mouth mandible is positioned downward. The digit creates pressure on incisors blocking their effective eruption while allowing excessive eruption of the posterior teeth. The upper incisors are proclined and the lower incisors are retroclined. Starting from counseling to appliance therapy, sample treatment modalities have been reported in the literature. This case report describes a 5year-old girl who reported to our department with a history of thumb sucking habit which was intervened with the use of fixed habit breaking appliance.

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Habit breaking appliance, Thumb sucking, Proclined and Retroclined teeth.

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One of the most complex challenges faced by today�s interconnected and interdependent common village is organized crime, which essentially constitutes to be nothing less than a guerrilla war against society. Organized crime in itself has multiple branches within, including illegal wildlife trade, terrorism, money laundering and trafficking and its impact can deter the very core of human society- from human safety to institutionalizing evils of corruption to having an adverse impact on the environment. The authors of this paper endeavor to establish the spread of organized crime as a phenomenon of increasing globalization and its further facilitation by the use of technology. The paper focusses on the recent increase in the industry of illegal wildlife trade and terrorist financing as substantiated upon in the recent reports released by FATF, keeping in mind the international jurisprudence and the challenges faced by them in addressing these transnational crimes and attempt to make a case for stricter implementation of legal instruments and concerted and coordinated efforts amongst nations to address the same.

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Globalization, Organized Crime, FATF, Terrorism, Money-Laundering, Illegal Wildlife Trade

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Pesticides are documented to have strong impact on the physiological, biological, biochemical and morphological parameters of insects. This study reviews the sub-lethal impact of Cypermethrin (a synthetic pesticide) on various biological parameters of Callosobruchus chinensis. The designed insect was exposed to sub-lethal dose of Cypermethrin. The exposure did not produce immediate mortality of the insect, but had prolonged effects on its biological parameters. The laboratory analysis was carried out with LC10, LC20 and LC30 of the designed pesticide at a room temperature of 25-27 oC and relative humidity of 60-70%. The mean rate of oviposition decreased from control = (96 � 2), LC10 = (92 � 2) to LC20 = (79 � 2) and LC30 = (63 � 3). The percentage of egg development into larvae showed significant decline from control = (94%) to LC10 = (81%), LC20 = (67%) and LC30 = (55%) respectively. In the same way the percentage of adult emergence from the 4th instar larvae of C.chinensis showed significant decline from control (95.00 � 2.00%), LC10 (88.00 � 2.50%), LC20 (55.00 � 2.60%) and LC30 (40.00 � 2.85%). Similarly the mean life span of adult females decreases from control = 12.50 � 0.125 to LC10 = 8.25 � 0.190, LC20 = 6.50 � 0.150 and LC30 = 4.30 � 0.125. Since chemical pest control method is quick, easy and inexpensive, but it is associated with several negative effects on environment therefore in view of the environmental modifications that have significantly impacted our ecosystem, insect population and other beneficial non-target organisms, it is necessary to evaluate the lethal and sub-lethal effects of many pesticides frequently, as this will help to determine the dose response status of insect pests for preference and design of chemicals for control programme.

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Callosobruchus chinensis, storage pest, cow pea, synthetic pesticides, sub-lethal, oviposition, larva, adult, life span.

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