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Sunanda Sharan ¹, S. Prema Kumari ¹, K. Nagabhushanam ¹

Affiliations
1 Farmers Training Institute, University of Agricultural Sciences, Hebbal, Bangalore, IN

Abstract

Karnataka has a pride place in mulberry silk production and is the leading centre for traditional sericulture in India. Karnataka's pioneering efforts in expanding sericulture industry with the World Bank's assistance has motivated considerable number of farmers to take-up sericulture. Among all the subsidiary occupations, sericulture occupies an enviable position from the point of providing additional income. It is estimated that sericulture fetches about Rs. 5,000/acre as against cash crops like sugarcane and potato where the net income is only Rs. 3,000. Status of food distribution among households of sericulture is poor in relation to their nutritional requirements. The situation is strongly supported by the food beliefs among the women folk of the enterprise. Looking into these facts, the present study was undertaken to understand the food distribution order and food beliefs of sericulture households in Bangalore rural district.

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Y. M. Gopala ¹, B. Krishnamurthy ², K. P. Raghuprasad ³, K. Nagabhushanam ⁴, K. Shivaramu ⁵

Affiliations
1 UAS, GKVK, Bangalore, IN
2 Department of Agril. Extension, UAS, GKVK, Bangalore, IN
3 Directorate of Extension, Hebbal, Bangalore, IN
4 AC&ABC, Hebbal, Bangalore, IN
5 VC Farm, Mandya. UAS, Bangalore, IN

Abstract

The Farmers' Field School (FFS) is a non-formal learner-centered education process. It seeks to empower people to solve their field problems actively by fostering participation, interaction, dialogue, joint decision making etc. The present investigation was carried out in Chickaballapur district of Karnataka State. The three taluks viz. Shidlaghatta, Bagepalli and Chinthamani were purposively selected for the study where FFS has been organised in the year 2004-05. The study revealed that there was a significant difference in the overall knowledge level of participants and non-participants of FFS. More number of participants (41.67 per cent) belonged to high level of knowledge, whereas, more number of non-participants (45.00 per cent) belonged to low level of knowledge. Variables like age, education, extension participation and extension contact, mass media exposure and achievement motivation of the farmers were found to have significant association with knowledge level of participants.

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K. Nagabhushanam

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It is well-known that the field due to a magnetic shell at a point outside it is capable of a two-fold representation, viz., (l) as the negative of the gradient of a scalar potential Ψ and (2) as the curl of a vector potential (P_i).

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K. Nagabhushanam ¹

Affiliations
1 Andhra University, IN

Abstract

In affine manifold of states and time A_2n+1, we have the following facts.

1. The trajectories of a dynamical system with n degrees of freedom are given by the singular curves of the curl of (X_i).

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K. Nagabhushanam ¹

Affiliations
1 Andhra University, Waltair, IN

Abstract

When the Hamiltonian is independent of time, the solution of the dynamical problem can be reduced to depend on that of another system whose number of degrees of freedom is one less than that of the original system.

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K. Nagabhushanam ¹

Affiliations
1 Andhra University, Waltair, IN

Abstract

In a previous paper I have defined the notions of time, the Hamiltonian and the Lagrangian for a given time measure in terms of a Pfaffian X_idxⁱ of class 2n+l in the 2n+1 variables of the manifold of states and time, representing the action of a dynamical system in an infinitesimal displacement. Adopting the the same point of view, I here derive invariant expressions for the kinetic and the potential energies of the system by restricting the admitted transformations to the projective subgroup of the general analytic transformations.

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