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Measures to Combat Fake News

After a lot of discussions on Fake news,I am adding some input on how to stop fake news involving all stakeholders. Measures to Combat Fake News Surveillance : Robust surveillance and compliance mechanism to ensure healthy accessible content to people. Source of news should be verified. Reporting : People should have the opportunity to report illicit content through flagging, and definite steps should be taken to see its credibility. Also people involved in this should be scrutinized Awareness : Social media can also be used to increase the awareness in people to ensure equality, end of discrimination on any grounds and ensure harmony Working with Authority/Sharing info : It should be the ethical responsibility to work in close connection with the concerned authority and share data at times of crisis for reasons of National security and public order. Legal tools may face challenges to curb fake news propagation due to following reasons: They are generated from several sou...

Partial Budgeting Analysis of an Intervention of ‘Land Shaping Technology’ at South 24 Parganas, West Bengal, India

Partial Budgeting Analysis of an Intervention of  ‘Land Shaping Technology’ at South 24 Parganas,  West Bengal, India Ajit Kumar Roy*  Ex. Principal Scientist & Head Social Science Section, Kausalyaganga, Bhubaneswar, India Abstract   Reported Impact Assessment of an intervention ‘Land Shaping Technology’ implemented at farmer’s field under NAIP project at different villages of south 24-Pargans district of West Bengal aiming for rainwater harvesting for irrigating crops. Farm data was collected from the randomly selected farmers of both Interevent and control groups. Partial budgeting analysis was done to assess the comparative performances with respect to sources of income and livelihoods, diversification of input cost, labour cost, employment generation, production etc. The impact of Land Shaping technology can be assessed from the fact that the landscape and cropping pattern has been changed from single crop to multi crop round the year resulti...

Demand for the Emerging AI, Machine, Deep Learning and Big Data Analytics Skill for 21st Century Jobs

Demand for the Emerging AI, Machine, Deep Learning and Big Data Analytics Skill for 21st Century Jobs Ajit Kumar Roy* College of Fisheries, India  Received:  November 15, 2018;  Published:  November 28, 2018 *Corresponding author: Ajit Kumar Roy, College of Fisheries, Agartala, India Abstract  This paper presents recent development, application and potentials of technologies like AI, Machine, Deep Learning and Big Data Analytics and ways in which big data can be leveraged to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of government. It describes the demand of skills for handling of massive and diverse sets of information that are gathered, processed, and analyzed for scientific discovery. Job prospect are also highlighted. Citation: Ajit Kumar R. Demand for the Emerging AI, Machine, Deep Learning and Big Data Analytics Skill for 21st Century Jobs. Curr Tre Biosta & Biometr 1(1)-2018. CTBB.MS.ID.000107.

Development of Models for Fishery Resources and Production Statistics of West Bengal, India

Development of Models for Fishery Resources and Production Statistics of West Bengal, India Ambalika Ghosh1*, BK Mohapatra2 and AK Roy3  1Department of Fishery, Govt. of West Bengal, India  2ICAR-CIFE, GN-Bl, Salt Lake, India  3College of Fisheries, CAU, India Submission: June 8, 2017; Published: October 12, 2017 Abstract  West Bengal is rich in Inland Fishery Resources. Ponds and tanks dominate with 90.62 parent resources under culture. Overall 87.56% of total potential resource is utilized for culture leaving another 12.44% for bring under culture. Total area under of River, Canal/ Khal and Beal / Boars of West Bengal is 279569.31 ha. River occupies 58% of total area followed by canal / Khal (27%) and Beal / boar (15%). Fishermen constitute about 3.3 percent of total population of 9.13 crores in West Bengal. Fisheries are next to agriculture in terms of providing employment and food supply. Fish is an important source of quality protein and cheaper i...

Economics of Fisheries: Implication of GAAT Agreement on Fisheries Sector

Uruguay  Round • The eighth GATT round  — known as the Uruguay Round  was launched in  September 1986, in Punta del Este,Urugua • It was the  biggest negotiating mandate  on trade ever agreed: the talks were  going to extend the trading system into several new areas, notably  trade in  services and intellectual property,  and to  reform trade in the sensitive sectors  of agriculture and textiles. The Final Act concluding the Uruguay Round and officially establishing the WTO  regime was signed April 15, 1994, during the ministerial meeting at Marrakesh, Morocco and hence is known as the Marrakesh Agreement . ) i

Evaluation of Performance of Primary Fisheries Cooperative Societies (MSS) of Tripura

Evaluation of Performance of Primary Fisheries Cooperative Societies (MSS) of Tripura A.D. Upadhyay, M. Sinha1, A.K. Roy, J.R. Dhanze and D.K. Pandey College of Fisheries, Central Agricultural University, Lembucherra Tripura – 799 210, India 1Directorate of Fisheries, Govt. of Tripura, Agartala, India Abstract Fishermen cooperatives are recognized as means of socio-economic development of fishers/fish farming community, which generally belong to weaker section of the society. The state of Tripura has made significant progress in fish production by 197 per cent from 2004-05 to 2011-12. An attempt has been made in this paper to analyse the status of Fishermen Cooperatives in Tripura with respect to water holdings and fish and fish seed production. It has been found that the fishermen cooperative in Tripura like other states of the country is not encouraging because majority of them are either defunct or dormant. Total water area of their operation is only 402.30 ha (1.28% o...

Trends in Knowledge Management

Trends in Knowledge Management January 2013 In book: Information and Knowledge Management-tools, techniques and practices. New India Publishing Agency.101 Vikas Surya Plaza, Pitampura, New Delhi.xv+665. (ISBN: 978-93-81450-62-8). Edition: 1 Chapter: chaper-3:Trends in Knowledge Management Publisher: New India Publishing Agency,New delhi Editors: Ajit kr. Roy Project:  Technology of 21st Century Ajit kumar Roy

Bioinformatics Resources on Web

Bioinformatics Resource on the Web(Freely Available) Nucleotide Sequence Databases (the principal ones) ·          NCBI  - National Center for Biotechnology Information ·          EBI  - European Bioinformatics Institute ·          DDBJ  - DNA Data Bank of Japan Protein Sequence Databases ·          SWISS-PROT & TrEMBL  - Protein sequence database and computer annotated supplement ·          UniProt  - UniProt (Universal Protein Resource) is the world's most comprehensive catalog of information on proteins. It is a central repository of protein sequence and function created by joining the information contained in Swiss-Prot, TrEMBL, and PIR. ·          PIR  - Protein Information Resource ·  ...