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- Assistant Professor cum Junior Scientist
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January 2018 - March 2019
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Rice (Oryza sativa L.), a pivotal cereal crop globally, plays a crucial role in addressing nutritional deficiencies affecting half of the world’s 8.1 billion population. Developed nations combat these deficiencies through fortification programs, yet such initiatives remain economically unfeasible for developing countries. Hence, cost-effective stra...
Summarizing data frames by calculating various statistical measures, including measures of central tendency, dispersion, skewness(), kurtosis(), and normality tests. The package leverages the 'moments' package for calculating statistical moments and related measures , the 'dplyr' package for data manipulation, and the 'nortest' package for normalit...
This study aimed to determine the suitable-fit probability distribution for monthly total rainfall in the Kashmir regions of Srinagar, Qazigund, Kupwara, Pahalgam, Kukernag, and Gulmarg from 2010 to 2023. Five probability distributions were fitted: normal, log-normal, Weibull, gamma, and exponential. The goodness-of-fit statistics, such as the Kolm...
Alpine glaciers serve as critical indicators of climate change and play a vital role in regional and global hydrological cycles. This study focuses on the Suru basin in Ladakh, India, a region with a crucial network of alpine glaciers that serve as freshwater reservoirs. Utilizing high-resolution Sentinel-2 imagery and a Digital Elevation Model (DE...
Background
India grapples with an alarming burden of tuberculosis (TB), reporting 2.6 million incident cases in 2023, necessitating intensified efforts toward TB elimination. The prevalence of catastrophic costs, defined as expenses exceeding 20% of annual household income, varies widely. Our objective was to determine the association between catas...
Background
Tuberculosis (TB) remains a significant public health burden in India, with elimination targets set for 2025. Active case finding (ACF) is crucial for improving TB case detection rates, although conclusive evidence of its association with treatment outcomes is lacking. Our study aims to investigate the impact of ACF on successful TB trea...
Additive main effect and multiplicative interaction analysis revealed significant impact of environment (E), and consequently a significant GE interaction of tomato genotypes at major locations of Kashmir Division. The environment (E), genotype (G), and GEI significantly affect the plant yield/ha (p < 0.001). The environment explains approximately...
In the mining industry, dumper operators are exposed to combined noise and vibration, leading to discomfort. Dumpers are heavy earth-moving machines that are used for carrying bulky material in mining industries. Dumper operators are exposed to physical hazards such as vibration, noise, heat, and humidity, throughout their lifetime of work. Fifty-f...
Background
High-frequency hearing loss (HFHL) stands as a prevalent occupational morbidity globally, with numerous associated risk factors, some of which are modifiable. In the context of a comprehensive hearing conservation program, the initial steps involve early screening and identification of workers with these modifiable risk factors, aiming t...
Objectives: In an era characterized by dynamic technological advancements, the well-being of the workforce remains a cornerstone of progress and sustainability. The evolving industrial landscape in the modern world has had a considerable influence on occupational health and safety (OHS). Ensuring the well-being of workers and creating safe working...
The present experimental study was conducted in the research field at Faculty of Forestry, SKUAST- Kashmir,
located in the central part of Kashmir Himalayas with degraded landscapes. The study was conducted during the
year 2019–2021 aimed to study the effect of spacing and shading intensity on growth performance of Podophyllum hexandrum Royle. Th...
The present investigation "Effect of various concentrations of growth hormone (IBA) and types of cutting sections on rooting and growth of Platanus orientalis L. branch cuttings" was carried out at experimental field of Division of Forest Biology and Tree Improvement, Faculty of Forestry, Benhama during the years 2018 and 2019 to standardize optimu...
Background:
Mine workers face various health risks from occupational hazards, notably dust-related pulmonary dysfunction. This dysfunction is also attributed to diverse risk factors and health conditions. Despite the variety of underlying mechanisms, conflicting evidence persists regarding hypertension as a potential risk factor for such dysfuncti...
The current study was conducted to compare the performance of five nonlinear growth models, namely, Monomolecular, Logistics, Gompertz,
Richards, and Weibull for studying the area and production of the apple crop in Kashmir. Long-term data for the past 45 years pertaining to the
area and production of apple was obtained from the Directorate of Hort...
Starches were isolated from five oat varieties (SFO-1, SFO-3, Sabzar, SKO-20 and SKO-96) grown in North-Western Himalayas of India. Moisture content ranged from 9.25 ± 0.09 to 13.21 ± 0.11 %, indicating their shelf-stability. Results suggested >90 % purity of starches as was evident from values of ash, proteins, and lipids. Amylose content results...
Apple cultivation is one of the most significant means of subsistence in the Kashmir region of the northwestern Himalayas. It is considered as the backbone of the region's economy. Apple cultivation in the region is dominated by a late maturing cultivar “Red Delicious” which usually on maturity causes glut in the market. In order to bring new culti...
To verify, regulate and monitor processes, it is critical to use visual as well as analytical tools to identify outliers. The root cause analysis of a possible outlier should be done using analytical approaches to establish, if a suspect point is indeed an outlier and whether it should be deleted from the data set. While outliers can be spotted vis...
Sampling techniques play an important role in determining the efficiency of control charts. The study was designed to develop a new Shewhart-type x control chart to monitor processes using a newly developed cost-effective method of ranked set sampling namely Stratified Balanced Quartile Ranked Set Sampling (SBGQRSS). SBGQRSS is a recent sampling de...
Traditionally grown in soil, saffron cultivation has been plagued by limited arable land, variable climate conditions, and soil-borne diseases. Phenological studies of the crop during each of its growth stages are crucial for mitigating the detrimental consequences of climate change, to which saffron crop is extremely susceptible. These also help i...
The challenges of fighting poverty and enhancing food security in South Asia have made maize a strategic crop in this region. In this study, maize production in South Asia, encompassing Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka, was analysed and projected from 1961 to 2027 using state-space and ARIMA models. The...
Green mold (caused by Trichoderma harzianum) is a destructive disease in mushrooms which limits commercial production. The present investigation was carried out to verify the in vitro and in vivo effect of locally available botanicals and bacterial biocontrol agents against this disease. The in vitro evaluation of ethanol extract of botanicals agai...
Green mold (caused by Trichoderma harzianum) is a destructive disease in mushrooms which limits commercial production. The present investigation was carried out to verify the in vitro and in vivo effect of locally available botanicals and bacterial biocontrol agents against this disease. The in vitro evaluation of ethanol extract of botanicals agai...
Wicker willow craft, locally known as keani keam, is a handicraft from the Kashmir Valley, Jammu and Kashmir, India, involving weaving using willow reeds. Willow weaving is an indigenous industry of the Valley. The speciality of this craft lies in the fact that a willow product serves both as a decor and a household utility item to store and carry...
The diversity in germplasm can be effectively used to breed desirable cultivars and to challenge the consequences of the biological, physical and chemical stresses in the growing conditions. In the present study, 30 diverse French bean genotypes collected from different regions of Kashmir and three check varieties viz., Arka Arjun, Arka Sharath and...
The diversity in germplasm can be effectively used to breed desirable cultivars and to challenge the consequences of the biological, physical and chemical stresses in the growing conditions. In the present study, 30 diverse French bean genotypes collected from different regions of Kashmir and three check varieties viz., Arka Arjun, Arka Sharath and...
Apple phenology is greatly influenced by temperature. For quality apple production in the orchards, knowledge of the real timing of phenological stages is essential for scientific management decisions. In the Kashmir region, the year 2017 had a normal weather phenomenon, whereas the year 2018 had an erratic weather phenomenon wherein unusually high...
Atropa acuminata is an important medicinal plant having multiple medicinal values. Low viability and dormancy limit its germination. Therefore the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of seed source and growth regulators on its germination. The experiment was laid out in completely randomized design. In this experiment the seeds we...
Atropa acuminata is an important medicinal plant having multiple medicinal values. Low viability and dormancy limit its germination. Therefore the present study was conducted to investigate the effect of seed source and growth regulators on its germination. The experiment was laid out in completely randomized design. In this experiment the seeds we...
Populus deltoids is a commercially important, dioecious tree species grown widely in the Kashmir valley. Female plants produce huge amounts of cottony seed that pose respiratory problems. Morphologically, females are indistinguishable from the male plants until the plants attain sexual maturity in 5-8 years. Molecular technology can help detect the...
Every day, there are new cases of COVID19 infections around the world, and a new strain of this virus known as Omicron is spreading rapidly. To contain and monitor gatherings, as well as provide assistance in areas where this infection is spreading rapidly, it is critical to identify the number of new cases of injuries and deaths. Forecasting new c...
Much of the scientific advance in crop science relies on field experiments. The use of proper design in field experiments plays an important role in the achievement of accurate results. Comparative study of two major designs, i.e. the randomized complete block design (RCBD) and the Latin Square Design (LSD), was conducted to study the mineral compo...
Growth monitoring of trees especially conifers has assumed importance in view of its huge potential to store biomass carbon over a long period to offset the effects of climate change. While, the development is an intrinsic property of a tree, but growth can be summed up as a derivative of both genetic as well as environmental factors. Dendrochronol...
Probability distribution is of significance to predict
tree distribution and estimate productivity in different
ages as well as thinning out in forest stands to ensure
optimized and stable stands. Statistical probability
distributions, viz. lognormal, Weibull, exponential and
gamma were used to fit tree-diameter data generated
from the Manasbal for...
Repeated measurement designs prove broadly applicable in almost all branches of bio-sciences, including agriculture, animal husbandry, botany, zoology. Unbiased estimators for elementary contrasts among direct and residual effects are obtainable in this class of designs, which is considered their important property. In this paper, an attempt was ma...
A new variant of ranked set sampling namely Stratified Balanced Groups Quartile Ranked Set Sampling (SBGQRSS) is proposed for estimating
the population mean with samples of size m=3k (k=1,2,3,...) drawn independently from each stratum. The SBGQRSS scheme yields an unbiased
estimator for symmetric distributions and biased but consistent estimators f...
The study was carried out to determine the
phenological behaviour of important multipurpose
trees in the Shalimar conditions of Kashmir, India.
The study was conducted for the phenodynamics of 20
multipurpose tree species (MPTs) of Kashmir under
Shalimar conditions during 2010-2011. Phenophases
of twenty MPTs namely Populus deltoides, P. alba, P.
n...
Technical Bulletin
on Transferable Technologies
The study was carried out to assess the soil nutrient status in four prominent agroforestry systems viz., home gardens, horti-agriculture, boundary plantation and horti-silvi-pasture in temperate conditions of Kashmir Himalaya. Home garden was the most prominent system being adopted by farmers (98.43% of the total farmers surveyed). All the four ag...
Medical science is a highly important and an advanced field that employs a variety of quantitative and qualitative methods. There is a widespread evidence of extensive application of statistical methods and software in medical research. R software is now being extensively used in health and medical fields for analyzing, interpreting and visualising...
The study was conducted through field experiment for studying the efficiency of blocking. The experimental area was divided into rows and blocks and efficiency of blocking was computed for 4, 5, 6, 7 plots block for various plot sizes. It was found that efficiency of blocking was more when plots were elongated in N-S direction as compared to E-S di...
In this study the data has been subjected to multivariate factor analysis utilising R software using the Factanal function and Psych Package. The end results revealed that the variables under consideration can be grouped into two factors based upon the relative loading of each variable on a given factor. The rotation used is Varimax rotation, has a...
The present investigation was conducted to study the genetic divergence pattern using Multivariate analysis techniques viz. Cluster Analysis (CA) and Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Cluster analysis identified and classified the accessions on the basis of the similarity of the characteristics into seven distinct clusters. The highest inter clus...
In this study new improved robust estimator has been proposed for precise estimation of finite
population variance in simple random sampling by incorporating as auxiliary information of
probability weighted moment. Properties associated with proposed estimators are assessed by
mean square error and bias through numerical demonstration. We have also...
Principal Component Analysis
Fresh cut apple slices of 4mm thickness were dipped in various natural fruit juices viz., orange, kiwi, lime, pine apple, sour cherry, grape and distilled water (Control) in the sample to solution rati of 1:10 (250g apple slices: 2.5 litres of juice) and total of seven treatments were applied to ascertain their effect on physi-co-chemical character...
A relative horticultural experiment is a methodology for gathering logical information methodically to boost the possibility of testing a research hypothesis accurately. In this regard a comparative study of the two complete block designs viz. CRD and RCBD were held on the Yield data of High-Density Apple viz. Gala Redlum maintained at HDP Plate-I...
Fresh cut apple slices of 4mm thickness were dipped in various natural fruit juices viz., orange, kiwi, lime, pine apple, sour cherry, grape and distilled water (Control) in the sample to solution rati of 1:10 (250g apple slices: 2.5 litres of juice) and total of seven treatments were applied to ascertain their effect on physi-co-chemical character...
Hierarchical clustering approach was used to group the Maize genotypes and the distance measure used was Euclidean distance. Cluster analysis using the R software grouped the 55 genotypes into distinct clusters using the Euclidean distances between the various genotypes. All the three types of dendrograms obtained indicate single, complete, and ave...
