Sadasivan Nair,G; Dr.Leelakrishnan, P(Cochin University of Science and Technology, June , 1983)
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This is a study in criminal law. The problem probed is the relationship between mental abnormality and criminal responsibility. The subject is yet an unsolved area in criminal jurisprudence. It is of great interest to many jurists lawyers philosophers and psychiatrists. The study lays special emphasis on the Indian law .Comparative assessment wherever found necessary,especially of positions in England ,United states and Germany is made. The thesis is in six parts and sixteen chapters.
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School of Legal Studies,Cochin University of Science And Technology
Jasmine, P; Dr.Saramma, Panampunnayil U(Cochin University Of Science And Technology, January 16, 2009)
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The Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal are both highly
dynamic ecosystems, due to the seasonally reversing monsoon winds,
but the processes affecting the mesozooplankton community remain
poorly understood. These are important basins exhibiting enhanced
biological production as a result of upwelling, winter cooling and
other episodic events such as eddies and gyres. Zooplankters are
primarily the prey for almost all fish larvae. Seasonal changes in the
biogeochemical processes can strongly affect zooplankton density
and distribution, which in turn, strongly affect the larval growth, and
consequently, the pelagic fish recruitment. It is clear that plankton
biomass and biogeochemical fluxes are not in steady state. Acoustic
data on mesozooplankton abundance suggests that they also exist in
the mesopelagic zone. Earlier studies were confined only to the upper
200 m and hence the structure of mesozooplankton community in the
deeper layers was not well known. Copepods are the dominant
mesoplankton group, and therefore the majority of the studies were
focused on them. The planktonic ostracods are the second major
crustacean group and at times, their swarms can outnumber all other
planktonic groups. The understanding of the community structure of
the ostracods is essential to establish their role in the marine food
web. Mesozooplankton is responsible for the vertical flux of organic
matter produced by phytoplankton and is assumed to be equivalent to
new production (Eppley & Peterson, 1979). Since the fate of newly
produced organic matter depends upon their consumers, the
zooplankton biomass must be estimated in size fractions or
taxonomic components to understand the vertical flux of organic
carbon. It is thus important to update our knowledge on different
groups of zooplankton on the basis of seasonal and temporal
distribution. The distribution in space and time is essential for
modeling the carbon cycling that structure the marine ecosystems
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Department Of Marine Sciences,Cochin
University of Science and Technology
Rajendran, C G; Dr.Damodaran,R(Cochin University of Science & Technology, 1995)
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The investigation was aimed at establishing the effect of salinity on the culture performance of Peneus Indicus in pokkali fields and also to find out the growth performance of the shrimp at varying salinities. The experiments were laid out at Rice Research Station, Vyttila of Kerala Agriculture University in three fields of area 1000 m2 each. The results of the experiment clearly establish that shrimps when stocked at higher salinity (20-25 ppt) for 45 days has given higher growth, survival and production than those stocked at lower salinity (10-15 ppt) in all the above parameters even when the culture experiment was maintained for longer periods in lower salinity. In the prolonged culture experiments conducted for 120 days in 10-25 ppt salinity, the results were poorer than the short period culture in higher salinity and the production values similar to lower saline culture. This clearly establishes the importance of salinity as an ecological factor which will have profound influence in shrimp farming operations.
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Division of Marine Biology, Microbiology and Biochemistry, School of Marine Sciences, Cochin University of Science and Technology
Baiju,K R; Nambiar,C G(Cochin University of Science and Technology, September , 2006)
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The present research is aimed at studying the charnockites and associated rocks of the Madurai Granulite Block (MGB), especially in terms of their field settings, texture, mineralogy, and mineral chemistry analyzing their petrogenesis with the help of thermobarometrical studies and geochronological constraints. The mechanism of charnockitization by the influx of CO2 rich fluids and its relation to the graphite mineralization is actually a matter of discussion and study. The objectives of the present study are, to delineate petrological and structural relationship of charnockites and associated gneissic rocks, to study the field and petrogenetic aspects of graphite mineralization in the MGB, to establish and re-evaluate the P-T conditions of formation of the rocks with the aid of thermbarometric computations and to compare with the earlier studies, characterization of graphite with XRD, Raman spectroscopy and isotope studies together with a search in to its genesis and its relation to the high-grade metamorphism of the terrain, to evaluate the role of CO2 bearing fluids in the processes of charnockitization as well as in the genesis of graphite within the high-grade terrain and to delineate the metamorphic geochronology of selected rocks using ‘monazite dating’ technique with EPMA.
Krishna, C; Dr.Chandrasekaran,M(Cochin University of Science and Technology, August , 1995)
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A critical survey of the fruits and vegetable
markets of the towns and cities in South India reveals that
banana fruit stalk wastes share a dominant proportion among
the solid wastes generated. In the light of the review of
literature presented in the foregoing section, few reports are
available on the utilisation of banana waste for the
production of alcoholic beverages, biogas, and single cell
protein. However, it is not yet tried for the production of
industrial enzymes. Moreover, preliminary fermentation
studies conducted under uncontrolled conditions revealed that
banana fruit stalk could be aptly utilised as solid substrate?
for the industrial production of microbial amylases and
cellulases at a cheaper cost. Therefore, it was proposed to conduct a detailed study towards the development of a suitable fermentation process for the production of industrial enzymes using banana fruit stalk wastes, which is rich in carbohydrate, as solid substrate, employing bacteria, under SSF.
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Department of Biotechnology, Cochin University of
Science & Technology,
Krishnamurthy,V; Dr.Samuel, C T(Cochin University of Science and Technology, July , 1985)
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The thesis deals with the bacterial flora of the Cochin backwaters. Sediment and the prawns
caught from these backwaters in quantitative and qualitative terms, their growth in relation to temperature, their susceptibility to various antibiotics, their role in terms of food for juvenile prawns and the presence of bacteria of public health significance. According to the researcher such a comprehensive study would be of some relevance to shell-fish processing industries apart from its academic value. The effect of antibiotics on the bacteria and the utility of bacteria as food for the juvenile prawns are studied and presented in different chapters.
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School of Marine Science, Department of Industrial fisheries, Cochin University of Science and Technology
Rathna Kala, R; Dr.Chandrika, V(Cochin University of Science and Technology, 2000)
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The present study on "Microbial production of antibiotics from mangrove ecosystem” was carried out for a period of one year in four selected Stations, Mangalavana, Narakkal, Puthuvyppu and light house area of Puthuvyppu (9°55' — 10°10'N and 76°10‘ - 76°20'E) from January to December 1991. Though much emphasis has been given to occurrence and distribution of actinomycetes, an attempt was also made to understand the distribution patterns of other micro flora in the sediments. Data on physico-chemical parameters were also collected to find out their relationship if any with the microflora. The principle interest of the present investigation is to determineseasonal variations of antagonistic actinomycetes in selected mangrove ecosystem. The microbial interrelationship in mangrove sediments was found out by constructing the ratio between bacteria and actinomycetes, bacteria and fungi, fungi and actinomycetes. In addition temperature, pH, salinity, dissolved oxygen and organic carbon were determined seasonally and their possible relationship was statistically analyzed and the results are presented. Isolated actinomycetes were subjected to cross streak assay to know their nature of antibiotic activity against test fish pathogens and crude antibiotics were extracted from selected isolates and their inhibitory activity is studied and the results are discussed.
Jayachandran, K; Dr.Chandrasekaran,M(Cochin University of Science And Technology, August 28, 1998)
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Many of the existing methods for the treatment of rubber latex centrifugation
eflluent are not only unsatisfactory in their efliciency to effect near perfect treatment in
bringing down the COD to optimum level, but also time consuming and need a large
landspace. As the rate of effluent generation is extremely high (20 litres for kilogram of
rubber) there is a need for development of efficient system,capable of rapid reduction of
COD and BOD.
Though the organic load of the rubber efiluent is very high, it does not contain
much processed chemicals and therefore it can be considered as a ‘biological eflluent’.
Further, the ratio of the Chemical Oxygen Demand to Biological Oxygen Demand
(COD/BOD) of this effluent remain almost as a constant value. According to
Montgomery (1967), estimation of BOD is not ideally suited for studies on process
design, treatability, control of treatment plants, setting standards for treated effluents and
assessing the effect of polluting discharges on the oxygen resources of receiving waters.
Hence in the present study COD was measured to determine the impact of treatment
system on the effluent.
In the present study, attempts were made to evaluate the efficiencies of certain
methods such as packed bed reactor using immobilized microbial cells, rotating biological
contactor (RBC) and activated sludge process, for rapid and efficient treatment of
natural rubber latex centrifugation effluent. In addition, studies were also carn'ed out to develop a suitable bioprocess for the coagulation of skim latex, as an alternative to the
presently used acid coagulation process towards reducing the pollution load, besides
recovering quality rubber
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Department of Biotechnology, Cochin
University of Science and Technology
Lathika Cicily, Thomas; Bijoy Nandan, S(Cochin University of Science And Technology, February , 2015)
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The overall attempt of the study was aimed to understand the
microphytoplankton community composition and its variations along a highly
complex and dynamic marine ecosystem, the northern Arabian Sea. The data
generated provides a first of its kind knowledge on the major primary
producers of the region. There appears significant response among the
microphytoplankton community structure towards the variations in the
hydrographic conditions during the winter monsoon period. Interannually,
variations were observed within the microphytoplankton community associated
with the variability in temperature patterns and the intensity of convective
mixing. Changing bloom pattern and dominating species among the
phytoplankton community open new frontiers and vistas towards more intense
study on the biological responses towards physical processes. The production
of large amount of organic matter as a result of intense blooming of Noctiluca
as well as diatoms aggregations augment the particulate organic substances in
these ecosystem. This definitely influences the carbon dynamics of the
northern Arabian Sea. Detailed investigations based on time series as well as
trophodynamic studies are necessary to elucidate the carbon flux and
associated impacts of winter-spring blooms in NEAS. Arabian sea is
considered as one among the hotspot for carbon dynamics and the pioneering
records on the major primary producers fuels carbon based export production
studies and provides a platform for future research. Moreover upcoming
researches based on satellite based remote sensing on productivity patterns
utilizes these insitu observations and taxonomic data sets of phytoplankton for
validation of bloom specific algorithm development and its implementation.
Furthermore Saurashtra coast is considered as a major fishing zone of Indian
EEZ. The studies on the phytoplankton in these regions provide valuable raw
data for fishery prediction models and identifying fishing zones. With the
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baseline data obtained further trophodynamic studies can be initiated in the
complex productive North Eastern Arabian Seas (NEAS) ecosystem that is still
remaining unexplored.