Cereal grains play an important role in human nutrition which is useful both for infants and adults. The practice of germination of cereal grains has become popular now-a-days. The present research was carried out to study the functional properties of germinated and non-germinated cereal flours (wheat, maize, sorghum). Bulk density and tapped density were increased in germinated maize but decreased in germinated sorghum and wheat. In germinated wheat and sorghum flour, carr index, foaming capacity, foaming stability and swelling capacity were increased but decreased in germinated maize flour. The water holding capacity of germinated wheat (GW), germinated maize (GM) and germinated sorghum (GS) (0.93g/g, 1.91g/g and 2.06g/g respectively) was found as higher than the non-germinated wheat (NGW), non-germinated maize (NGM), non-germinated sorghum (NGS) (0.5g/g, 1.27g/g and 1.16g/g respectively). Germination process increased oil holding capacity, emulsion activity, emulsion stability and acidity of all three flour samples. The oil holding capacity of maize flour (1.75g/g) was increased which was higher than the other samples. . Germinated sorghum had higher acidity (0.97%) than other germinated cereals. The pH value of germinated wheat, maize and sorghum flour was decreased due to germination. The observed functional properties indicated that germinated flours may have important functional ingredients for preparation of different snacks, baked products and other food product.

SUMMARY :An experiment was conducted to evaluate the flowering and vase life performance of standard chrysanthemum cultivars in naturally ventilated polyhouse condition. Among five standard chrysanthemum cultivars Snow ball recorded maximum plant height (115.79 cm), early flower bud initiation (83.50 days), flower stalk length (96.72 cm), flower diameter (14.08 cm) whereas cv. CHANDRAMA recorded maximum flower stalk girth (11.20 mm) and weight of cut stem (156.99g). The maximum vase life (14.00 days) was observed by cv. GOLDEN YELLOW in vase life solution of sucrose (2 %) + 8HQC (500 ppm). The maximum fresh weight ( 76.53 g) was recorded by cv. CHANDRAMA on second day. Snow Ball recorded maximum (11.76 g) transpiration loss of water on day 1-2 whereas the maximum (9.48 g) water uptake was noted by cv. SNOW BALL on day 0-1 followed by Angel Pink (6.82 g).How to cite this article : Siddiqua, Asma, Lakshmi, K. Swarajya, Nagaraju, R., Reddy, D. Srinivasa and Shaheda, S. (2017). Flower quality parameters and vase life studies of standard chrysanthemum cultivars (Dendrathema grandiflora Tzvelev) in polyhouse conditions. Agric. Update, 12(TECHSEAR-3) : 692-696;

Abstract:A quasi experimental study was carried out among 60 stage III NSCLC patients attending at Radiation Oncology Department of National Institute of Cancer Research & Hospital, Mohakhali, Dhaka from August 2012 to July 2013. Patients were divided into group A and group B purposively to receive Induction Chemotherapy followed by conventional or 3D CRT respectively. The study was designed to observe the radiological response and acute toxicity of stage III NSCLC with induction CT and 3DCRT. Treatment related morbidity was more observed in the intervention group with 43.3% Grade > _ 2 Pneumonitis, 43.4% Grade > _ 2 Oesophagitis, 40% Grade 2 skin toxicity and 6.7% Grade > _ 3 anemia. Regarding metastasis, 33.3% patients in the intervention arm and 30% patients in the control arm had presented with metastasis at different sites within this six months period. No statistically significance was found between these two groups (p = .781). Death during follow up was observed in 6.7% patients in the intervention group and 3.3 % patients in the control arm which was of no statistically significance difference. (p = 1.00). Complete response was found in 23.3 % patients in intervention group while in control group it was only 6.7%. Partial response was 46.7% and 43.3% respectively. No response was seen in 36.6% patients; 13.3% in the intervention group and 23.3% in the control group. More patients in control group (26.7%) were reported with progressive disease. No statistical significance was found regarding the radiological response between these two arms (p=.114). Both complete and overall responses were better in intervention group than control group.

Background: Rabies is a public health problem in Bangladesh, with poorer people and children being mainly affected. Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the behaviours of dog bite victims following a bite and to assess the knowledge and attitude about rabies among dog bite victims. Materials and Methods: A crosssectional type of descriptive study was designed where individual people who came to the vaccination centre from the month of April 2015 to July 2015 for post-exposure prophylaxis were considered. They were interviewed and followed during subsequent visits until they had received their final dose of vaccination. Result: Among the victims, males 60.9% were more common than females 39.1% and most of them were children aged below 20 years 51 %, mostly from rural areas 69.3%, had very little primary 46.1% or no education 24.7%. Victims were bitten mostly at their legs 89.3%. In response to question regarding what happens following dog bite, 49% couldn't say anything, and 46% mentioned hydrophobia. Most of them (87%) know that rabies can be transmitted from dogs to humans; 68.4% had no idea that rabies can be prevented in dogs. Though 82.3% bite victims didn't know that rabies in humans can be prevented before a dog bite, 77.7% knew that rabies can be prevented after a dog bite. Use of soap and water was found lowest 13.1% among those who had education upto primary level and highest 53.9% in graduates. Conclusion: This study showed that most victims didn't take any washing measures before visiting to hospital which is one of the most important measures recommended by WHO and it was found mostly who had low education level. It also observed that knowledge gap about rabies among the dog bite victims decreased with increased education level. KYAMC Journal Vol. 9, No.-4, January 2019, Page 148-152