Study Of Relationship Between Impulsiveness And Academic Procrastination Of School Students

The study was conducted to explore the relationship between impulsiveness and academic procrastination of school students.The study was conducted on 100 school students. Impulsiveness Scale adapted by the investigator (Ray and Sharma, 1988) and Academic Procrastination Scale adapted by the investigator (Kalia and Yadav, 2013) was used for data collection. Results indicated that significant variance in impulsiveness was not found among school students belonging to different categories. The school students having more academic procrastination were more impulsiveness as compared to school students who have low level of academic procrastination. There was significant relationship between impulsiveness and academic-procrastination of school students.

Optimization of process parameters for cellulase production from Bacillus sp. JS14 in solid substrate fermentation using response surface methodology

The aim of this work was to isolate the potent bacterial strains for the production of cellulose enzyme. A total 30 bacterial isolates showed positive results for the cellulase production but highest enzyme activity was shown by isolate JS 14. From the morphological and biochemical reactions, the isolate was identified as Bacillus sp. Cellulase production was studied by this strain using response surface methodology (RSM). A central composite design (CCD) quadratic response surface was applied to explicate the parameters that significantly affected cellulase production in solid substrate fermentation (SSF). The wheat bran concentration and incubation period were significant factors. The process parameters optimized with response surface methodology was wheat bran concentration 400 g/L; pH, 6.5; temperature, 400C and incubation period 5 days when inoculum 10 % (1x107 cells/ ml) was used for cellulase production in SSF. Supplementation of lactose and CMC to the wheat bran medium favored the enzyme formation.