Online Shopping Trends among Women: A Comprehensive Study

The goal of this paper is to identify the trend of online apparel shopping as one of the motivating factors for women's purchasing. To achieve the study's objectives, structured questionnaires were distributed to online apparel customers who are aware of and purchase apparel products from online stores in and around the Davangere district of Karnataka. Convenience and snowball sampling techniques were used to collect primary data from online apparel women employees who are aware of, use, and buy apparel products from online stores. The data analysis and results were based on the completion of 180 usable questionnaires by online retail apparel women customers who actively participated in the marketing survey. Frequency analysis and graphs were used to determine trends in women's online apparel. Most women are interested in the latest trends and western clothes, and they prefer more ethnic clothes and dark shades. They prefer to buy online clothes during festivals and discounts and sales.

Victim of adultery with bigotry.

A classical case in which the victim was killed in a bizarre manner, by his own (two) wives and their boyfriend. For the past 8 years victim had been living in the city for livelihood while he left the family in the village. In his absence both the wives who are sisters developed an illicit relationship with a man from the same village. The victim unexpectedly visited the village on the occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi and came to know about their illicit relationship. He put-up the issue in the panchayat which enraged both the wives and their paramour hence they planned to kill him. In the name of a get-together they got the husband drunk and once unconscious, they beat him mercilessly and strangled him to death. They packed the body in a gunny bag, wrapped it in a woolen blanket and buried him in a partially dried pond in the outskirts of the village. Due to the sudden disappearance of the victim the relatives suspecting foul play, informed the police. During interrogation by the Police the wives and their paramour confessed their crime.

Effects of ammonia, nitrite and nitrate on hemoglobin content and oxygen consumption of freshwater fish, Cyprinus carpio (Linnaeus).

Lethal effects of nitrogenous compounds ammonia, nitrite and nitrate on freshwater fish Cyprinus carpio were studied and the static LC50 values obtained for these 3 toxicants for 24 hr were 0.80 ppb, 171.36 ppm; 1075.10 ppm and continuous flowthrough LC50 values for 24 hr were 0.72 ppb, 154.31 ppm; 967.63 ppm respectively. The fish were exposed to lethal concentrations to study the changes in hematological parameters and the rate of oxygen consumption. During the period of exposure general decline in the content of hemoglobin was observed. Methemoglobin content increased in case of nitrite exposure consequently the hemoglobin levels decreased drastically. It is also observed that rate of oxygen consumption decreased progressively with the increase of toxicant concentration and duration of the exposure.

Modulation of mRNA levels of liver arginase by insulin and vanadate in experimental diabetes.

This work was carried out to study the modulation of arginase expression in experimental diabetes. Here, we have demonstrated that liver arginase activity and mRNA levels increased significantly in diabetic condition. Insulin treatment reverses the increased activity and mRNA levels nearly to the control values. The reversal effects of vanadate are found to be similar to that of insulin and this observation further reiterates the insulin-like effects of vanadate. ELISA and slot blot assay observations are consistent with biochemical measurements of enzyme activity. These results show an increase in arginase activity and mRNA levels in diabetes and decrease in treated animals may be due to the transcriptional regulation of arginase gene.

Modulation of some gluconeogenic enzyme activities in diabetic rat liver and kidney: effect of antidiabetic compounds.

The effects of insulin, sodium orthovanadate and a hypoglycemic plant material, Trigonella foenum graecum (fenugreek) seed powder were studied on the activities of glucose-6-phosphatase and fructose-1,6-bisphosphatase in diabetic liver and kidney. The significantly increased activities of the two enzymes during diabetes in liver and kidney were found to be lowered to almost control values by the use of the antidiabetic compounds. Diabetic liver exhibited a much greater increase in the activities of the two enzymes than diabetic kidney. The highest percentage of reversal to normal values was seen using the combination of vanadate and Trigonella seed powder. The lowered rate of growth of the animals as well as the increased blood sugar were reversed almost to the control levels by the Trigonella seed powder and vanadate treatment. The inclusion of the Trigonella seed powder overcame the toxicity of vanadium encountered when it was given alone as insulin mimetic agent. Much lower levels of vanadate were needed when it was given in combination with Trigonella seed powder. Their combined effects were better at restoring the above parameters than those induced by insulin administration.

Effect of antidiabetic compounds on glyoxalase I activity in experimental diabetic rat liver.

The activity of glyoxalase I from the soluble fraction of diabetic rat liver was found to decrease as compared to the control. Sodium orthovanadate in drinking water and Trigonella foenum graecum seed powder when administered to these diabetic animals were found to reverse the activity of glyoxalase I to control values. A combination of the above two antidiabetic compounds showed a better reversal. Vanadate and Trigonella seed powder treatment separately to diabetic rats also normalized hyperglycemia together with glyoxalase I activity. A combination of vanadate and Trigonella seed powder also restored the other general parameters of the diabetic animals.