Nagpur mandarin (Citrus reticulata Blanco), considered as one of the major commercial fruit crops, is grown in hot, dry and sub-humid bioclimatic region of Central India. Area under this cash crop is highest in the state Maharashtra, but low productivity as compared to other citrus-growing states of India is of a major concern. Information regarding the productive suitable areas for this crop cultivation

Harvesting of flowers of Crocus sativus L. at optimum time is a very crucial step in the agribusiness of the species. Therefore, the flower phenology with respect to temperature and light intensity needs to be understood properly. In this regard, a strong correlation between atmospheric temperature and floral phenology whereas no linear correlation between floral phenology and light intensity are worked

In this paper, we propose a recurrence relation and integral representation of the \(_pR_q(\alpha ,\beta ;z)\) function.

Internet of Things (IoT) has provided a new horizon to explore numerous application deployment in the pervasive domain. However, due to power, delay and centralized issues of existing IoT-cloud scenario, novel interventions are getting outperformed in many ways. Edge computing has come up with new aspect to mainly minimize the packet transmission delay between the end user device to the remote cloud

This short note reports about the occurrence of Fowlea sanctijohannis Boulenger, 1890 in the State of Uttarakhand, North India. Species has been recorded from the Lansdowne Forest Division, which falls under the tropical dry deciduous forest type. Based on the morphological characters and quite a few available records; ecological data and taxonomic status has been illustrated. The species was earlier

Low oxygen concentration is a common feature occurring in a wide range of aquatic systems and in varied ranges depending upon temporal frequency, seasonality and persistence of a place. There have always been naturally occurring low oxygen condition in freshwaters of tropical countries like India. Moreover, anthropogenic activities, related primarily to organic and nutrient enrichment, have led to

The present study confirmed the occurrences of Walton’s mudskipper Periophthalmus waltoni Koumans 1941 under the family Gobiidae as the first kind of record from the estuarine region of river Narmada of Gujarat, India. A total of 21 specimens were collected with the size ranging from 124 to 145 mm and from 10.7 to 26.2 g, respectively, from Jageshwar fishing sites during the monsoon period (July–September

Small and large disturbances in power system may sometimes lead to sustained oscillation in three-phase power, often termed as ‘power swing’ in the literature. Power swing is a balanced phenomenon and may be indistinguishable from a three-phase fault. Transmission lines being protected by distance relays may be incorrectly de-energized because of a power swing. So, three-phase faults should be discriminated

India is listed in the top five electronic waste generation in the world. There is a severe threat to the environment and public health due to End-of-Life (EoL) Waste Electric and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) disposal without proper safety measurements. Most of the instances, at the EoL, WEEE is thrown into public dustbins; this unsafe disposal is due to lack of appropriate disassembly plan of products

The search for new herbal-based immune-pharmacological agents for the treatment of several infectious diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, and protozoa, such as leishmaniasis, has led to the investigation of natural products and their main components from different plants species. Currently available antileishmanial drugs are limited, and resistance is common in clinical field isolates. So there is

The root microbiome, endophytes in particular, plays a crucial role in functioning of the host plant. These microorganisms, as a consortium, can be used as a part of the propagation protocol for producing healthy plants. Himalayan yew (Taxus wallichiana Zucc.) is an important medicinal plant species, mainly due to its known anticancer property. This species is listed in IUCN red list of threatened

Driver’s drowsiness is one of the main reasons for road accidents which lead to several fatalities every year. Statistics highlights the necessity of a drowsiness detection system that could possibly alert the co-passengers and driver before an accident would occur. Some automobile manufacturers have implemented drowsiness detection systems in their cars that work based on the vehicle movement, angle

The article deals with the study on impact on raise of environmental pollution and occurrence in biological populations by presenting a mathematical model relating to incomplete H-function. The results proven in this paper are common in mathematical sciences and show various cases of interest on relevant conditions of parameters involved therein.

Price forecasting of agricultural commodities plays an important role in efficient planning and formulation of executive decisions. In this study, an attempt has been made to apply autoregressive fractionally integrated moving average (ARFIMA) model to the daily all India maximum, minimum and modal wholesale price data of rice in order to capture the observed long-run persistency. The price series

A partial mycoheterotrophic orchid Cymbidium macrorhizon Lindl. is collected for the first time from Darhal forests in district Rajouri, Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). The species was seen growing on the decomposed litter on ground in the deciduous oak forest between 900 and 1800 m above msl. The species is processed for herbarium deposition as per the standard protocols and preserved in the Herbarium cum

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

Antiaris toxicaria Lesch. is a deciduous tree belongs to the family Moraceae, is native to the Old World tropics. It is an important industrial forest plant for its veneer, plywood and medicinal values. In the present study, genetic diversity of different populations of A. toxicaria collected from sacred groves of the Western Ghats, India has been evaluated. Thirteen RAPD and ten ISSR primers produced

In this article, the algorithms of MLPFFBP-ANN and RBF-ANN are utilized to make the neural system and for the assessment of transmission capacity of antenna. The preparation and testing information of the neural system is acquired by IE3D programming. The outcomes acquired by utilizing MLPFFBP-ANN and RBF-ANN are counted with IE3D and are very sensible. The working frequency scope of the radio wire

In this paper, we define a (0,2)-type symmetric tensor Z and called it a generalized Z tensor. We study weakly cyclic generalized Z-symmetric manifold and prove that it is a generalized quasi-Einstein manifold. We have obtained a condition for vanishing of sum of 1-forms. We further find a condition to be a Ricci semisymmetric manifold. Finally, it is shown that the semisymmetry and Weyl semisymmetry

This paper describes a microstrip patch antenna embedded with SSRR structures in the ground plane for ISM applications. The antenna characteristics are suitably enhanced by incorporating the metamaterials, as these are directly etched in the ground, without disturbing its radiation patch. SSRR directly interacts with electric fields making it persuade out the left-handed behavior of metamaterials,

The aim of the present paper is to study the theory of general relativity in a Lorentzian Kähler space. In this paper, we have considered the Lorentzian complex space form with constant sectional curvature and proved that a Lorentzian complex space form satisfying Einstein’s field equation is a Ricci semi-symmetric space and the energy–momentum tensor is covariant constant. Such space reduces to a

The purpose of this research work is to solve fuzzy differential equations of fractional order under the Caputo-type. The modified fractional Runge–Kutta (R–K) method is proposed based on a generalized Runge–Kutta formula and modified trapezoidal rule. Moreover, the approach is followed to obtain a solution for fuzzy differential equations of fractional order in the sense of Caputo-type fuzzy fractional

Recently, multi-view feature learning technique has attracted lots of research interest. Discriminant analysis-based multi-view feature learning is an important research branch. Although some multi-view discriminant analysis methods have been presented, there still exists room for improvement. How to effectively explore the discriminant and local geometrical structure information simultaneously from

Effect of constant temperatures viz, 18 ± 1, 21 ± 1, 27 ± 1, 30 ± 1 and 33 ± 1 °C on egg and nymphal development of Dysdercus cingulatus revealed that the development rate of egg and nymphs gradually increased with increase in temperature, while total development period decreased but started to increase again at 33 ± 1 °C. The development threshold was determined to be 12.46, 11.56, 12.9, 11.2, 10

Droughts are extreme meteorological and hydrological events having severe impacts on the natural environment and socioeconomic conditions of the affected region. Drought characterization is vital in planning, design, and management of water resources systems. Drought indices such as standardized precipitation index (SPI) and standardized precipitation evapotranspiration index (SPEI) are generally used

Nuclear morphology studies are a reliable parameter for analysis of genotoxic properties of different agents. Such studies have been widely exploited in isolated protoplasts but seldom used in cells isolated from whole root tissue due to cell wall permeability restrictions. We present a rapid and easy protocol that will benefit the researchers in studying the nucleus stained with fluorescent dye. Here

The lichens along with their natural substratum colonize a variety of man-made substratum. After about half a century of lichenological research in India, there has been no record of lichen colonization on the man-made artificial substratum. The authors here for the first time report colonization of five species of lichens on three samples from two unusual habitats—iron railway sleepers—Heterodermia

Rauwolfia serpentina is an important medicinal plant widely used in formulating various drugs and medicines in the pharmacological industries. The efficacy of the medicinal plants mainly depends upon its constituents like nutrients and trace metals that require their detection with sophisticated techniques having cost-effective, fast data acquisition and multi-elemental detection capability. Therefore

Plagiostachys nicobarica M. Sabu, E. Sanoj and M. G. Prasanth is a narrow endemic species and known only from its type locality, near Indira Point at almost sea-level altitude in Great Nicobar Islands. Several population of the species were washed out by tsunami flood, and other individuals are in critical condition because of the waterlogged condition. During Grass exploration of Great Nicobar Islands

The Himalayas host a variety of unique species; however, their diversity and ecology have yet to be explored. We are reporting Ophiocordyceps dipterigena Berk. & Broome for the first time from the Indian Himalayas; stromata of the species emerging from the thorax and stroma with Hirsutella anamorphs emerging from the anus of an adult Robber fly; as well as the ecological notes pertaining to the status

Resource allocation and co-channel interference are the two major technical challenges in the implementation of device-to-device communication technology. We propose an innovative resource allocation strategy along with dynamic power control for D2D communication. The resource allocation problem is formulated as a single utility function for multiple D2D pairs and cellular users in underlaying cellular

Intertidal organisms distributed in different zones experience strong environmental stress due to various biotic and abiotic factors. Environmental stress model (ESM) predicted that overall species richness and diversity should follow a unimodal trend along the vertical elevation gradient. In the present study, species richness and diversity of macroinvertebrates (molluscs and crustaceans) were measured

The packet classification is a core function of firewall, which is widely used in various applications of network infrastructure for security purpose. Nowadays, speed of data transfer is in Gbps. So, processing the packet at the same speed is very challenging task to achieve high throughput. In this paper, a field-programmable gate array (FPGA)-based reconfigurable firewall, namely DRGO firewall, is

Decolorization potential of different dyes, namely Procion Red Yellow, Acid Yellow-9, Direct Orange-102 and Crystal Violet, by two NTG-induced mutants as well as a wild type of Pseudomonas fluorescens was studied. The mutant M1 possessed significantly better potential as compared to the wild type in the case of all the studied dyes. However, in the case of the mutant M2, there was a decrease in the

In this paper, we discuss when a class function on a finite group is a bent function. We have found a necessary condition for a class function on a finite abelian group to be bent. Also, we have found a necessary and sufficient condition for a class function on a finite cyclic group to be bent.

In this paper, we study a mathematical model involving fractional hybrid-type iterative differential equations. The method is based on Dhage fixed point theorem, and we establish the existence and uniqueness properties by giving lower and upper solutions.

Predicting stock price movements is difficult due to the speculative nature of the stock market. Accurate predictions of stock prices allow traders to increase their profits. Stock prices react when receiving new information. During the trading day, it is difficult to understand the up and down movements signaled by stock prices. This paper addresses the problem of fluctuations in stock prices. We

In this paper, the approximations of a function f of generalized Hölder class \(H^{(w)}_{\alpha }[0,1]\) and generalized Lipschitz class \(Lip^{(s)}_{\alpha }[0,1]\) have been obtained by Haar wavelet method. Calculated approximations are best possible in wavelet analysis.

In this paper, we have studied the thermal stability of GNR and Cu interconnects for terahertz frequency range. The top-contact (TC) and side-contact (SC) GNR interconnects are analyzed for stability, RC-delay, and power consumption at different interconnect lengths (\(10\,{\upmu }\hbox {m}\), \(50\,{\upmu }\hbox {m}\) and \(100\,{\upmu }\hbox {m}\)) and different chip operating temperatures (233 K

Relationships between crop evapotranspiration (ET) and soil water content (SWC) have been studied worldwide. However, traditional data processing has drawbacks in modeling the contribution of SWC to ET on a layer-to-layer basis. To address this issue, large-scale weighing lysimeters were used to monitor the real-time ET along with Insentek sensors to monitor daily SWC dynamics of summer maize at Xuchang

Heterostemma urceolatum Dalz. (Apocynaceae) is reported first time from the state of Goa.

Micronutrient deficiency, especially of iron (Fe), in humans is a well-identified problem. The possible reasons behind the Fe deficiency in humans, particularly women and children, include the inadequate intake of Fe, reduced absorption, disparity between physiological demand and loss of Fe in human and Fe deficiency in soil. Among the available interventions, food supplementation is a common approach

In this work, a design is proposed to improve the performance of the conventional series-fed dipole pair (SDP) antenna by adding split-ring resonator (SRR). Firstly, a conventional SDP antenna that functions in the frequency range of 1.7–2.7 GHz is designed by adjusting the distances of the dipoles and the space between the two presentations. Later, a couple of SRR is mounted above the top dipole to

Air pollution has emerged as a major threat to public health. Due to vehicular pollution and industries, the exposure to toxic particulate matter pollution (PM2.5 and PM10) is alarmingly high in major cities. Silver birch trees are good in absorbing the PM in the air. The characteristics of silver birch trees are briefed in this paper. The present study analyses the air quality standards and compares