The present study compared the shade adapting traits among the two gynodioecious papaya varieties Arka Surya and Arka Prabhath intercropped in coconut garden. Morphological traits such as internodal length, leaf traits (area, colour attributes, fresh and dry weight), fruit number, fruit weight and yield were analysed. Correlations and step-wise regression equations were used to infer the relationship

Buchanania lanzan gum commonly known as char, achar, piyar and chironji is a naturally occurring water-soluble, edible polysaccharide derived from the bark of Buchanania lanzan Spreng. Silver nanoparticles have been synthesized using Buchanania lanzan gum exudates adopting green synthesis methodology and characterized by UV–Vis, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, zeta potential and particle size

Records, irrespective of their nature (whether electronic or paper-based), are vulnerable to fraud. People's hard-earned money, their personal information, identity, and health are at a higher risk than ever due to the misuse of technology in doing forgery. However, the technology can also be used as an answer to counteracting against fraudulence prevalent in affairs from every walk of life. This short

This paper is being written to provide a source of reference for the research scholars who want to work in the area of prediction of thyroid disease. From the different machine learning techniques, compared widely used three algorithms namely logistic regression, decision trees and k-nearest neighbor (kNN) algorithms to predict and evaluate their performance in terms of accuracy. This study has represented

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2018 was awarded jointly to Arthur Ashkin, Gérard Mourou and Donna Strickland for giving new beam of light in the field of laser physics. Unravelling new mechanical properties of biological molecule has made an interdisciplinary approach with physics creating significant insight into solving devil diseases.

In this communication, we report range extension and persistent movement of the vulnerable leopard (Panthera pardus) towards the Thar Desert, west of its established range from 2010 to 2018. Our study documents 14 cases of the presence of male leopards in five districts and 55.7–413.7 km away from the known distribution limit. The species movement could be due to lower competition, food and water availability

A strong edge-coloring of a graph G is a proper edge-coloring such that every color class induces a matching. In this paper, we discuss the strong chromatic index of a cycle on k vertices and use the result to calculate the strong chromatic index of (m,n)k-gon snake graphs which generalize the families of graphs referred to as the (m,n) triangle snake graphs and (m,n) quadrilateral snake graphs.

The Indian frogfish distributed from East Africa and the Persian Gulf east to India and Sri Lanka is a truly marine species. Frogfish of the family Antennariidae is distinguished by the presence of three well-developed dorsal spines, laterally-directed eyes, largemouth and laterally compressed body. There are no reports of the occurrence of frogfishes in river Narmada. The present study confirms the

Three uncommon fishes, viz. porcupine whipray, Urogymnus asperrimus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801), Shaggy angler, Antennarius hispidus (Bloch & Schneider, 1801), and barless cardinalfish, Taeniamia ataenia (Randall & Satapoomin, 1999), are reported herein as first records from the Andaman Islands. The former two are hitherto not reported from the Islands, while the latter was found to be a new record for

Nobel committee has awarded William G. Kaelin, Jr., Sir Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza Nobel Prize in Medicine this year for their remarkable discoveries in how cell sense low level of oxygen and rapidly adapts to the changing environment. Hypoxia is often considered to be the main regulator of cancer, since it promotes metabolic changes of the cell. Inhibition of signal transduction pathway

A signed graph\(S=(S^u,\sigma )\) consists of an underlying graph \(S^u\) and a function \(\sigma :E(S^u)\longrightarrow \{+,-\}\). For a graph G, its lict graph written as \(L_c(G)\) is the intersection graph \(\varOmega (E(G)\cup C(G))\). For a signed graph S, its line-cutsigned graph (in short called lict signed graph) is denoted by \(L_c(S)\) has underlying graph \(L_c(S^u)\) and two vertices u

We categorized chickpea nodules based on their size (mm) [large (> 7), medium (2–7), small (< 2)] and position on roots (primary or lateral) to derive relations between nodule categories and plant growth attributes. Large-sized nodules (LSN) were mostly developed on primary roots (83%), where medium-sized nodules (MSN) were observed both on primary and lateral roots, and small-sized nodules (SSN) were

In this paper, by using the theory of wavelet convolution associated with Fourier convolution, operational properties are discussed on wavelet transform of \(S_{\omega }({\mathbb {R}}), {\mathcal {D}}_{\omega }({\mathbb {R}})\) and \({\mathcal {M}}_{c}\) spaces. Further, Calderón’s formula is investigated for \({\mathcal {W}}_{M, a}\) space.

In this paper, it is shown that an extension of the formulas used to calculate the parameters of the one-dimensional canonical piecewise-linear model leads to a generalized methodology which can be also applicable to two dimensions. The proposal is based on an approach by which a two-dimensional function is reconstructed by the collection of parallel projections of one-dimensional functions. In order

An intense trade-off arises between testing, hardware and speed of electronic circuits. An efficient design for testability methodology for the detection of stuck-at faults in reversible circuits is presented in this paper by exploiting the properties of Toffoli and Fredkin gates. An (\(n+1\)) dimensional general test set depicted in the paper is found complete for the detection of single and multiple

The study assesses noise hazards in agri-based industrial workplaces in Punjab state of India. Guidelines of Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety were employed to generate the primary data on noise survey. Potential noise hazardous areas within 40 agri-based industrial units (flour units/wheat milling units) were identified through constructing the contour map. A layout mentioning the

Level shifters (LSs) are used to interface with different voltage domains. In this work, a voltage LS is presented for different ranges of input–output voltage conversion. This design presents a high-speed, energy-efficient and robust dual-supply level converter based on multi-threshold carbon nanotube FETs (CNTFETs). The chirality of CNTs is suitably chosen to adjust the threshold voltage of CNTFETs

In this study, the effect of dosage of enzyme (50 to 400 ml/m3), curing period (7 to 28 days) and cyclic triaxial loading test parameters such as confining pressure (50 to 200 kPa), loading frequency (0.25 to 1 Hz) and loading rate (0.3 to 0.9%) on the shear modulus of enzyme stabilized soil is investigated. Taguchi method has been applied to the cyclic triaxial tests, and L16 orthogonal array with

The present investigation was undertaken to assess the hybridity of experimental F1 plants derived from the crossing of salinity and/or submergence tolerant landraces with the high-yielding popular varieties of the west coast region of India. Seven microsatellite markers were utilized for confirming the hybridity of the 16 F1 plants developed from four cross combinations, viz. Karjat-3 X KS-19-2 (Cross

In this letter, a planar integration using the deep trench isolation (DTI) technique is proposed to suppress the inter-well parasites in smart power integrated circuits implemented in 0.35 µm BiCMOS technology. In this technology, all devices share the same epitaxial layer. This can lead to a punch-through between power devices as well as between power and low-voltage CMOS devices. A DTI scheme is

This short communication presents the design, fabrication and the measured results of a stacked array antenna for X-band radar applications. The antenna array is comprised of 2 × 8 radiating elements to produce a fan beam which is narrow in the azimuth and wider in the elevation. The individual radiating elements of the array utilize a stacked patch topology to achieve broad bandwidth and high gain

In eastern India, the majority of areas under rainfed ecosystem are left fallow after kharif rice mainly due to lack of availability of irrigation water. Under this situation, pineapple is a suitable crop due to its adaptation system of crassulacean acid metabolism for photosynthetic carbon fixation. Pineapple is a long-duration crop (16–18 months) with irregular flowering behaviour. Hence, the present

In the present study, highest hydrogen production by Rhodobacter sphaeroides was seen in lactose and mannitol as carbon sources. Glutamic acid and tyrosine induced the highest production of hydrogen. Cyanocobalamine induced the highest production of hydrogen. Enhancement of hydrogen production by 23% was seen after knocking out of the hydrogen reuptake hydrogenase gene. Large-scale production of hydrogen

Freshwater fungus Anguillospora longissima was recovered as root endophytic fungus from the pteridophytic plant Equisetum sp., growing in riparian areas of Nainital, Kumaun Himalaya, and evaluated through well diffusion and dual culture methods. The isolated endophytic fungus was found a potent inhibitor for test pathogenic fungi. Maximum inhibition by the isolated endophytic fungus was showed against

In this paper, a preference ranking organization method for enrichment evaluations (PROMETHEE) based distributed multihead energy and coverage preserving clustering algorithm for mobile sensor nodes (PDMECCA) is proposed. The objective of proposed PDMECCA is to equally distribute the load (communication, computation) among Mobile Sensor Nodes using the multihead concept for balancing the energy consumption

Internal security of nations has become a lot more fluid and prone to unconventional threats, post-cold war. For early threat detection and mitigation, rapid, reliable and simple solutions are needed. Nucleic acid aptamers, as a part of new and emerging branch of biotechnology, offer one of the possible solutions. Nucleic acid aptamers are single-stranded DNA or RNA sequences that assume a specific

In this letter, a spiral shape photonic crystal fiber (S-PCF) with nanocore has been suggested for the generation of the supercontinuum. The designing parameters have reformed to optimize the optical properties of the proposed structure. Finite element method is utilized to perform the numerical analysis of the proposed S-PCF. The proposed S-PCF exhibits a highly negative dispersion which ranges from