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As the global pandemic of COVID-19 has drawn significant attention with an increasing number of research studies appearing in the literature, it is imperative to analyse the recent trends of research and future thrust areas. In numerous fields of knowledge, including business and management, the COVID-19 problem has produced enormous research undertakings. A bibliometric study of the articles published during the COVID-19 period in the area of business and management is rare with the focus on the South-Asian context. The total number of articles identified for the purpose of research throughout the Scopus database was 3,648 using the COVID-19 keyword and limiting this search to published journal articles in the domain of business and management. Further, VOSviewer software was used to analyse data and finds were presented. VOSviewer software has given the results on the cluster of authors, country of publications, citation analysis, co-citation, keywords and significant journals of publication. Given that the COVID-19 epidemic is still far from being under control, more research is needed to determine the direction of future research and other current topics. This study will provide the prospects in COVID-19-related business research and will end by pointing out the implications of these results. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Plant latex is a sap that is exuded from damaged vein. It is kept in a tissue specialized in exuding latex called laticifer and is kept inside laticifer cells. It works as an efficient defence system against herbivorous insects. Laticifer is a general term applied to a large and heterogenous group of cell types. In Pedilanthus tithymaloides the laticifers are an elongated; anastomosing network of cells which are non-articulated branched and are commonly located in the outer part of the vascular cylinder. Laticifers extend throughout the length of the plants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this study, we propose a method for the classification of T1-weighted Magnetic Resonance Images (MRI) of the Brain in case of Alzheimer's disease based on extraction of different features. The dataset used comprises of right handed females of age group 18-96 years and is helpful to determine the onset and early detection of the disease. The processed MR images are used to obtain different features for training of classifiers. The whole Grey matter is considered as the Region of Interest (ROI) because it contains the Amygdala and Hippocampus, the regions most affected due to Alzheimer's. The features used for this study are some of the crucial second order features derived from Grey Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) such as Entropy, Energy, Homogeneity and Correlation and also the ratio of the Grey Matter Volume and the White Matter Volume to the Volume of the Cerebrospinal Fluid. An accuracy of 84% has been achieved with a sensitivity of 100%. This proves to be a better method than Voxel Based Morphometry extraction method which is cumbersome but has been proved to be more accurate but not as sensitive. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Mythology allows taking a journey into an exciting and mysterious world. In every culture and every country during every period of time, people have told stories that explain and define the great acts of nations and peoples. Some of these stories educates, some mystify the culture. The human society is marked by the interpenetration of man with surrounding world and these results in the birth of magic, myth and religion, with their peculiar rituals and ceremonies. The images of myth have to be unnoticed omnipresent demonic guardians, under whose care signs help the man to interpret his life and struggles. Peter Carey has made a case for myth and myth making is found in his writerly career. It occurs in various semantic manifestations in his novels. This paper provides an overview of the use of myth in his novels. It examines True History of Kelly Gang (2000), and My Life as a Fake (2003) to illustrate how mythmaking operates in the fictional reality of his novels. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The study aimed at specifying the involvement of rural youth in agricultural activities. The rural youth were actively involved in production and marketing activities bit empirical data to support it was lacking on their participation. The study has been conducted on a sample of 120 rural youth who were already engaged in agriculture from randomly selected six village of Ludhiana district. The data was collected through personal interview schedule. The interview schedule composed of two parts: one for personal characteristics and, the second, information about their involvement in agricultural activities in different crops. The schedule consisted of common field activities. Against each activity, it was designed to obtain responses as fully involved, partially involved/supervised and not involved. The scoring pattern was 3, 2, and 1 for fully involved, partially involved/supervised and not involved. The results revealed that the majority of the respondents were either fully involved or partially involved with regard to common agricultural activities of land preparation. Majority the respondents were fully participated in most of the major activities such as variety selection, sowing and marketing in all crops that were grown by them except in transplanting in case of paddy where they were partially involved. Again majority of them were partially involved in harvesting, disease and pest management and fertilization. Education and extension participation involvement in the cultivation of fodder were found to be positively correlated. Family type, Farming experience, Operational land holding and Extension participation were significantly and positively co-related with the involvement in summer moong, potatoes and berseem. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]