Background: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of an interdisciplinary home-based feeding program, which is a unique service delivery model. Methods: Data were provided on oral intake, tube feeding elimination, and weight for patients who were dependent on tube feedings (n = 78). Weight data were collected for patients who showed failure to thrive (n = 49). Number of foods consumed and percentage of solids were collected for patients who were liquid-dependent (n = 23), and number of foods consumed were collected for patients who were food-selective (n = 61). Results: Data were analyzed using paired sample t-test with 95% confidence interval. For patients dependent on tube feedings, 81% achieved tube feeding elimination. Tube elimination was achieved after 8 months of treatment on average. All failure-to-thrive patients showed weight gain from baseline to discharge. For liquid-dependent patients, there was an increase in foods consumed from 2 foods at admission to 32 foods at discharge. For food selective patients, there was an increase from 4 foods at admission to 35 foods at discharge. For all dependent variables, results showed statistical significance and a large-sized effect. Conclusions: These data show that an intensive interdisciplinary home-based program can be successful in treating complex feeding problems in children.

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An experiment was carried out for two consecutive rabi season of the year 2017-18 and 2018-19 to investigate the "Effect of herbicide combinations on growth, yield and nutrient uptake by weeds in irrigated wheat. Results showed that post emergence application of pre-mix herbicides sulfosulfuron + metsulfuron 30 + 2 g/ha, clodinafop + metsulfuron 60 + 4 g/ha and mesosulfuron + iodosulfuron 12 + 2.4 g/ha recorded significantly lower density and dry biomass of weeds, improve the promising yield attributing viz., number of effective tillers/m 2 , number of total tillers/m 2 , tiller conversion index and grain yield as well as straw yield with minimum nutrient uptake by weeds than other treatments. Sequential application of pendimethalin (PE) 500 g/ha fb sulfosulfuron (PoE) 18 g/ha, twice hand weeding at 20 and 40 DAS and tank mix formulation of sulfosulfuron + 2,4-D (SS) (PoE) 25 + 250 g/ha was stood second best treatment during both the years.