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Dolichogenidea cinnarae Gupta et Lokhande et Soman, sp. nov.
No full textDolichogenidea cinnarae Gupta et Lokhande et Soman sp. nov. (Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 6 & 8) In July, Aug. and Sept., 2012, many caterpillars of B. cinnara were field collected in Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu and reared, and a new species of Dolichogenidea was reared from the host Borbo cinnara (Wallace). Borbo cinnara is known as minor pest of the economically important crop Oryza sativa L. (Asian rice) (Kunte, 2000). Diagnosis: Dolichogenidea cinnarae sp. nov. is separated from all other congeners by following combination of characters: small size and hind tibia slightly shorter than ovipositor sheath. Fore wing with pterostigma length/ height = 1.49; 1 CUa length/ 1 CUb length = 0.88; first abscissa of radius (2 r) meeting transverse cubitus (Rs) at an angle and 1 CUb vein with a shallow curve. First metasomal tergal plate longer than wide, smooth and shiny; parallel sided. Second tergum wider than long; shorter than third tergum. Tergite (2 + 3) distal to the basal area smooth and shiny without any coarse sculpture. Ovipositor sheaths distinctly projecting beyond apex of gaster with well defined apical attenuation. Ovipositor sheaths long and hairy throughout; gently decurved; with well defined apical attenuation. Anterior third of mesopleuron punctate and setose, posteriorly and medially smooth and nitid except for punctate edges. Metapleuron generally smooth, anterior pit deep. Hind coxae laterally and dorsally with shallow punctures. Description: Female. Summary of morphometric data of holotype is given in Table 1. Head and eyes densely setose; setae denser on vertex and clypeal region. Face and frons with medium pilosity and dense punctations; vertex with dense pilosity. Antenna with 16 flagellomeres. Head width = 0.26 mm; compound eye height = 0.13 mm; eye width = 0.06 mm; intertentorial pit distance = 0.03 mm; width of face at dorsal clypeal edge = 0.13 mm; scape L/W = 2.52; length of first flagellomere = 0.07 mm; width of first flagellomere = 0.03 mm; length of second flagellomere = 0.07 mm; width of second flagellomere = 0.03 mm; length of third flagellomere = 0.06 mm; width of third flagellomere = 0.03 mm; terminal flagellomere length = 0.09 mm; terminal flagellomere width = 0.04 mm; penultimate flagellomere length = 0.03 mm; penultimate flagellomere width = 0.02 mm; terminal flagellomere length/width = 1.66; malar space height = 0.05 mm; ocello-ocular distance (0.05)/lateral ocelli distance (0.04) = 1.25. Mesosoma: Mesosoma length = 0.36 mm; mesosoma length/width (0.3) = 1.2. Mesonotum with coarse punctate sculpture, punctures separated at distance more than its individual diameter; scuto-scutellar groove distinctly crenulate with 14 costulae; scutellum medial area essentially nitid with shallow punctures and setae near the edges, scutellum laterally with costulate sculpture which become narrower and elongated towards posterior edge; presence of shiny lateral edges beyond the costulate sculpture; posterior band of scutellum polished; metanotum subrectangular; propodeum with clearly defined wide, strong and shiny areola; costulae prominent; shallow scattered punctures on the apical half; spiracles large and oval. Hind tibia length = 0.24 mm; ovipositor sheath = 0.28 mm. Hind tibia 0.87 × ovipositor sheath. Fore wing: pterostigma length (0.11)/height (0.08) = 1.4; 1 RS length = 0.02 mm; 1 CUa length (0.06)/ 1 CUb length (0.07) = 0.86; length RS+Ma = 0.14 mm; length M+CU = 0.33 mm. Hind wing: 1 M length = 0.15 mm; 1 M length/M+CU length (0.12) = 1.25; length r-m (0.06)/length cu-a (0.07) = 0.85; 1 A length = 0.11 mm. Metasoma: First metasomal tergal plate 1.6 × longer than wide; smooth and shiny black; without coarse sculpture; parallel sided; few scattered punctures on apical half; second tergum wider than long; shorter than third. Tergite (2 + 3) distal to the basal area smooth and shiny without any coarse sculpture; considerably longer than the basal area itself. Ovipositor sheaths projecting considerably beyond the apex of gaster. Hind tibia slightly shorter than ovipositor sheath. Ovipositor sheaths long and hairy throughout; gently decurved. Metasoma length = 0.44 mm; ovipositor (exserted part) = 0.28 mm; hind femur = 0.22 mm; hind tibial length = 0.24 mm. First tergum length = 0.16 mm; first tergum basal width = 0.10 mm; first tergum apical width = 0.11 mm; first tergum median width = 0.10 mm; second tergum basal width = 0.11 mm; second tergum median length (0.04)/distal width (0.17) = 0.23; third tergum median length = 0.06 mm; fourth tergum median length = 0.04 mm; fifth tergum median length = 0.04 mm; sixth tergum median length = 0.05 mm; seventh tergum median length = 0.06 mm. Color: Head black; scape blackish brown; pedicel dark brown; flagellomeres brownish black; ocelli brown; pale yellowish brown palps. Mesosoma black; tegula brownish black. Fore leg with coxa brown; rest yellowish brown. Mid leg with coxa brown; basal half of femur dark brown; brown infuscation more intense around lateral edges; rest yellowish brown. Hind coxa black; trochanter brownish yellow; femur brownish black (except 1 / 3 rd apical and extreme basal tip pale); hind tibia yellowish brown (except dark brown 1 / 3 rd apical half); tibial spur pale white; tarsus blackish brown. Tarsal claws blackish brown. Wings hyaline. Fore wing veins translucent except pterostigma yellowish brown; C+SC+R with dark brown color; metacarpus (R 1) dark brown; hind wing veins translucent. Male: Body length = 0.707–0.881 mm. Similar to female in color and sculpture except for the genitalia. Distribution: India (Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu). Holotype: NBAII/Brac/Micro/Dolicho/ 50912, one female on card, 1.077 mm SL. Type locality: Powai, IIT- Bombay, Mumbai, India; 19.12 °N 72.91 °E, elevation 50 m (160 ft); 5.ix. 2012, bred from parasitized larvae of Borbo cinnara (Wallace) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae) (Figs. 10, 11, 12 & 13) on indeterminate Gramineae plant, coll. Swapnil Lokhande & Abhay Soman; holotype is deposited in the National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Insects (NBAII), Bangalore, India. Paratypes: NBAII/Brac/Micro/Dolicho/ 50912 A–C, two females and one male, 3 specimens, 1.324 mm (female), 1.281 mm (female), and 0.881mm (male) SL, collected along with holotype. NBAII/Brac/Micro/Dolicho/ 70812 A, one female, 1.012 mm SL; NBAII/Brac/Micro/Dolicho/ 70812 B, one male, 0.707 mm SL, 7.viii. 2012, bred from parasitized larvae of B. cinnara. NBAII/Brac/Micro/Dolicho/ 16912 A–B, two females, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India; 13.08389 °N 80.27000°E; sept. 2012, bred from parasitized larvae of Borbo cinnara (Wallace) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), collected by NBAII team. All types deposited in the National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Insects (NBAII), Bangalore, India. Etymology: The specific name, ‘ cinnarae ’, is chosen after the host Borbo cinnara from which the type specimens were bred. Comments. The new species, D. cinnarae comes close to Dolichogenidea kunhi Gupta & Kalesh (Figs. 5, 7 & 9) in some characters. The latter was discovered from Western Ghats, Kerala parasitic on caterpillar of Thoressa evershedi (Evans) (Gupta & Kalesh, 2012), a rare skipper endemic to southern Western Ghats, Kerala. It resembles D. kunhi in general body color as well coloration of legs and differs from it in having smaller size as well as marked smooth and shiny first metasomal tergal plate and hind tibia 0.87 × ovipositor sheath. All other differences are summarised in Table 1. This new species also runs close to a Chinese species, A. lissos Nixon, in key to the Indo-Australian species of the ultor- group of Apanteles Foerster (Nixon 1967). It resembles A. lissos in that both species have a smooth first tergite as well as the well defined apical attenuation of the ovipositor but differs in having a strong and prominent areola in the propodeum (Fig. 8) (vs. weak areolation of propodeum in A. lissos).Published as part of Gupta, Ankita, Lokhande, Swapnil A. & Soman, Abhay, 2013, Parasitoids of Hesperiidae from peninsular India with description of a new species of Dolichogenidea (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) parasitic on caterpillar of Borbo cinnara (Wallace) (Lepidoptera: Hesperiidae), pp. 277-290 in Zootaxa 3701 (2) on pages 278-283, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3701.2.8, http://zenodo.org/record/24927
CuO cauliflowers for supercapacitor application: novel potentiodynamic deposition
No full textAbstract not availableDeepak P. Dubal, Girish S. Gund, Chandrakant D. Lokhande, Rudolf Holz
PIC907615 Research data - Supplemental material for Cyclic voltammetry behavior modeling of fabricated nanostructured Ni(OH)<sub>2</sub> electrode using artificial neural network for supercapacitor application
No full textSupplemental material, PIC907615 Research data for Cyclic voltammetry behavior modeling of fabricated nanostructured Ni(OH)2 electrode using artificial neural network for supercapacitor application by PE Lokhande and US Chavan in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science</p
PIC907615 Supplemental Material - Supplemental material for Cyclic voltammetry behavior modeling of fabricated nanostructured Ni(OH)<sub>2</sub> electrode using artificial neural network for supercapacitor application
No full textSupplemental material, PIC907615 Supplemental Material for Cyclic voltammetry behavior modeling of fabricated nanostructured Ni(OH)2 electrode using artificial neural network for supercapacitor application by PE Lokhande and US Chavan in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science</p
Extended genetic analysis of BTNL2 in sarcoidosis
No full textSingle nucleotide polymorphisms in the BTLN2 gene have been recently associated with the risk for sarcoidosis. We now aimed to study additional genetic alterations in BTLN2 as putative genetic risk. The CNV_ID 507, which was highlighted for its possible involvement in sarcoidosis because of its partly deletion of the BTNL2 gene, was tested for association in a cohort of 89 sarcoidosis patients and 89 matched controls, but our results indicated that CNV_ID 507 does not affect the genomic structure of BTLN2 as previously described. Additionally, we identified a heterozygous 1 bp deletion in exon 3, c.450delC. We genotyped 210 patients and 201 controls for c.450delC and observed similar genotype frequencies in both groups without a significant difference (P = 0.4996)
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Study of Metal Contaminated Soil on Various part of Planet Earth
No full textExposure to toxic heavy metals is associated with many chronic diseases and can cause a wide varietyof health problems. Urban soils receive varying inputs of heavy metals from a variety of mobile or stationarysources such as vehicular traffic, industrial plants, power generation facilities, residential oil burning, wasteincineration, construction, and demolition activities and re suspension of surrounding contaminated soils and makesa significant contribution to the pollution in the urban environment. Therefore, the study of urban soil is importantfor determining the origin, distribution, and level of heavy metal contamination in urban environments. Presentpaper deal with the review of the soil analysis and hazardous effects on human health. Shalini Arora | (Dr.) R. S. Lokhande | Dr. C. K. Jain "Study of Metal Contaminated Soil on Various part of Planet Earth" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-2 , February 2018, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd6995.pd
Mitomycin C in highly myopic eyes - Author reply
No full textOphthalmology. 2005 Feb;112(2):208-18; discussion 219.
Mitomycin C modulation of corneal wound healing after photorefractive keratectomy in highly myopic eyes.
Gambato C, Ghirlando A, Moretto E, Busato F, Midena E.
SourceRefractive Surgery Service and Antimetabolite Therapy Research Unit, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Padova, Padova, Italy.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To evaluate the role of topical mitomycin C in corneal wound healing (CWH) after photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) in highly myopic eyes.
DESIGN: Prospective, double-masked, randomized clinical trial.
PARTICIPANTS: Seventy-two eyes of 36 patients affected by high (>7 diopters) myopia.
METHODS: In each patient, one eye was randomly assigned to PRK with intraoperative topical 0.02% mitomycin C application, and the fellow eye was treated with a placebo. Postoperatively, mitomycin C-treated eyes received artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months), whereas the fellow eye was treated with fluorometholone sodium 2% and artificial tears (3 times daily, tapered in 3 months).
MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA), contrast sensitivity, manifest refraction, and biomicroscopy. Contrast sensitivity was determined using the Pelli-Robson chart. Corneal confocal microscopy documented CWH.
RESULTS: Mean follow-up was 18 months (range, 12-36). No side effects or toxic effects were documented. At 12-month follow-up examination, UCVAs (logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution) were 0.4+/-0.48 and 0.5+/-0.53 (P = .03) in mitomycin C-treated eyes and corticosteroid-treated eyes, respectively. At 1 year, corneal haze developed in 20% of corticosteroid-treated eyes, versus 0% of mitomycin C-treated eyes. At 12, 24, and 36 months, corneal confocal microscopy showed activated keratocytes and extracellular matrix significantly more evident in untreated eyes (Ps = 0.004, 0.024, and 0.046, respectively).
CONCLUSION: Topical intraoperative application of 0.02% mitomycin C can reduce haze formation in highly myopic eyes undergoing PRK.
Comment in
Ophthalmology. 2006 Feb;113(2):357; author reply 357-8
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
A Multi-Language Comparison of Influences on Author Verification using Character N-Grams
No full textWe create a new multi-language corpus for author verification based on Wikipedia talkpages, and evaluate the influence that differences in topic and time have on character n-gram author profiles. Topic alignment between two texts is found to increase author verification precision, and an authors writing style is found to change over time, but not more significantly after 3 years than after 1 year.Information ArchitectureWISElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
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