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    Demand-Supply Trends and Projections of Food in India

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    The present paper presents the supply and demand trends of rice, wheat, total cereals, pulses, edible oil/oilseeds and sugar/sugarcane. It provides the demand and supply projections for food items during 2011, 2021 and 2026. These projections have been based on change in productivity levels, changes in price, growth of population and income growth. A comparison with projections provided by other scholars has also been made in the paper. Subsequently, the future supply-demand gap has been discussed in the light of policy requirements. It is concluded that an increase in total demand is mainly due to growth in population and per capita income. A diversification in consumption basket significantly away from cereals has been observed. On the supply side, production is constrained by low yield growths. This is more specific in context of total cereals and sugarcane. While in the short and medium term, there might be surplus of cereals in the country, these prospects are likely to diminish in the years to come. This situation is even more alarming for edible oil, sugarcane and pulses. To meet the future food requirements, the country shall have to either increase agricultural production, or depend on imports. In this light, the paper suggests that the policy focus needs to be laid, towards productivity enhancement in agriculture, through public investment in irrigation, development of roads, research and extension.Q11, Q18

    Demand-Supply Trends and Projections of Food in India

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    The present paper presents the supply and demand trends of rice, wheat, total cereals, pulses, edible oil/oilseeds and sugar/sugarcane. It provides the demand and supply projections for food items during 2011, 2021 and 2026. These projections have been based on change in productivity levels, changes in price, growth of population and income growth. A comparison with projections provided by other scholars has also been made in the paper. Subsequently, the future supply-demand gap has been discussed in the light of policy requirements. It is concluded that an increase in total demand is mainly due to growth in population and per capita income. A diversification in consumption basket significantly away from cereals has been observed. On the supply side, production is constrained by low yield growths. This is more specific in context of total cereals and sugarcane. While in the short and medium term, there might be surplus of cereals in the country, these prospects are likely to diminish in the years to come. This situation is even more alarming for edible oil, sugarcane and pulses. To meet the future food requirements, the country shall have to either increase agricultural production, or depend on imports. In this light, the paper suggests that the policy focus needs to be laid, towards productivity enhancement in agriculture, through public investment in irrigation, development of roads, research and extension.Demand Projection, Supply Projection, India, Food grains

    Can Sobolev Inequality Be Written for Sharma-Mittal Entropy?

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    In this paper, we focus on Sobolev inequality in the context of Sharma-Mittal entropy. Using this new inequality, generalized entropic uncertainty relation in accordance with Sharma-Mittal entropy is derived and the pseudoadditivity relation has been obtained. This new entropic uncertainty relation has then been applied to physical examples such as one dimensional harmonic oscillator and Posch-Teller potential. Finally, it has been shown that for certain values of the parameters of Sharma-Mittal measure, the present results reduce to the corresponding results of Shannon, Renyi and Tsallis measures

    Approximation of Signals (Functions) by Trigonometric Polynomials in Lp-Norm

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    Mittal and Rhoades (1999, 2000) and Mittal et al. (2011) have initiated a study of error estimates En(f) through trigonometric-Fourier approximation (tfa) for the situations in which the summability matrix T does not have monotone rows. In this paper, the first author continues the work in the direction for T to be a Np-matrix. We extend two theorems on summability matrix Np of Deger et al. (2012) where they have extended two theorems of Chandra (2002) using Cλ-method obtained by deleting a set of rows from Cesàro matrix C1. Our theorems also generalize two theorems of Leindler (2005) to Np-matrix which in turn generalize the result of Chandra (2002) and Quade (1937)

    Evaluation of 2ME-RDE test for detection of antibodies simultaneously against Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae serotypes 1 to 12 in pig sera

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    Mittal, K. R.; Achacha, M.; Bourdon, S.; Fenwick, B.. (2000). Evaluation of 2ME-RDE test for detection of antibodies simultaneously against Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae serotypes 1 to 12 in pig sera. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/161157

    Electronic absorption spectrum and decay kinetics of the benzyl radical in solution

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    During studies of the transient optical spectra of the intermediates produced in the flash photolysis of various substituted aromatic compounds in aqueous solution (L. J. Mittal, J. P. M., and E. H., unpublished work), in addition to the characteristic spectrum of the benzyl radical with λmax at 318 nm and at â^¼307 nm we observed a strong absorption at wavelengths below 290 nm

    Identification of antimicrobial activity from goat cervical epithelium

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    1. In mammals, antimicrobial peptides are present in epithelial cells of the respiratory, gastrointestinal and urinogenital tracts. In the present study, we report the identification and partial characterization of an antimicrobial peptide in extracts prepared from goat cervical epithelial tissue. 2. The bioactivity, as determined by radial and disc diffusion assays, was identified in a peptide of molecular mass 4.5 kDa purified by cation exchange and gel filtration techniques. The purified peptide exhibited antibacterial activity against Escherichia coli (Gram-negative) as well as Bacillus subtilis (Gram-positive) bacteria. 3. The minimum inhibitory concentration of the peptide estimated by liquid broth assay for E. coli and B. subtilis suspensions was 31 and 50 μg/mL, respectively, a result implying that the peptide is more efficient in inhibiting Gram-negative than Gram-positive bacteria. 4. Because the peptide has no spermicidal activity, we propose that it is responsible for protecting the female genital tract against bacteria. 5. Whether the peptide has potentials for use in the cryopreservation, storage and transport of semen remains to be determined

    Dataset for "Ge-on-Si modulators operating at mid-infrared wavelengths up to 8 um"

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    Data supports the paper Li, T., Nedeljkovic, M., Hattasan, N., Cao, W., Qu, Z., Littlejohns, C., Soler Penades, J., Mastronardi, L., Mittal, V., Benedikovic, D., Thomson, D., Gardes, F., Wu, H., Zhou, Z. &amp; Mashanovich, G., (2019) Ge-on-Si modulators operating at mid-infrared wavelengths up to 8 &mu;m Photonics Research.</span

    Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011

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    This video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
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