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Emerging Trends in Indian Agriculture: What Can We Learn from these?
No full textAgricultural and Food Policy,
Amelioration technology for soil sustainability/ Ashok K. Rathoure, editor.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references."This book provides the latest and practical guideline to readers working in the field of soil sustainability and crop yield. It also examines characteristics of various soil amendments, hydrophobic soil amelioration, nutrient solubilizing microorganisms, the impact analysis of amendment application, and recent advances on soil liming "--Synergism between microbes and plants for soil contaminants mitigation : microbes and plants for mitigation / Usha Rani, Sanjay Gupta, Swami Rama, Vivek Kumar -- Soil quality and soil sustainability : sustainable agro-ecosystem management / Ashok Rathoure -- Fly ash properties and their applications as a soil ameliorant / Virendra Yadav, Priti Pandit -- Soil sampling, analysis and rock phosphate amendments : good practices for soil sustainability / Ashok Rathoure -- Amelioration technology for agricultural efficiency : biochar and compost amendments for soil sustainability / Kanchan Rathoure -- Amelioration and remediation techniques for the sustenance of soil fertility in the cotton based cropping system / Bipin J. Agrawal -- Biochar and soil amelioration : contaminants mitigation (pesticides, heavy metals etc.) / J. Anuradha, R. Sanjeevi, Sandeep Tripathi -- Impact of hydrocarbons on some soil properties near petrol pumps in Gwalior (India) / Khursheed Ahmad Wani, Kupozulu Swuro -- Nutrient solubilizing microorganisms / Deepti Gulati, Shalini Singh -- Role of microbes in carbon sequestration in forest soil / Poonam Dubey, Rupnarayan Sett.1 online resource
Reducing intraoperative lower segment blood loss in placenta previa with Ashok Anand stitch
No full textBackground: To avoid the need for blood transfusions and reducing complications in cases of placenta previa during cesarean section delivery by a new simple innovative technique developed by Dr ASHOK ANAND known as Ashok Anand’s stitch.Methods: This stitch is based on the reasoning that taking the stitch bilaterally occludes the collaterals supplying the lower segment. As these are end arteries, their occlusion causes hemostasis in the lower segment. Sample size: 20 cases in each study group. Blood loss was estimated by standardized visual method (fixed container and mop).Results: By applying this technique in 20 cases, there was significant reduction in the blood loss compared to the control group, thereby reducing the need for blood transfusion (p value <0.05).Conclusions: Ashok Anand’s stitch is a simple and effective technique in controlling lower segment bleeding in cases of placenta previa during cesarean section thus avoiding the need for blood transfusions for operative blood loss and obstetric hysterectomy. The technique is easy to apply, less invasive and does not require any special instruments. It can be life-saving
Correction: Striatal dopaminergic alterations in individuals with copy number variants at the 22q11.2 genetic locus and their implications for psychosis risk: a [18F]-DOPA PET study (Molecular Psychiatry, (2021), 10.1038/s41380-021-01108-y)
No full textThe original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The spelling of the Abhishekh Ashok name was incorrect. The corrected name (Abhishekh H. Ashok) is given below. Abhishekh H. Ashok The original article has been corrected
Original Thinking
No full textHistory that comes to us as a chronology of events is really a collective existence that is evolving through several stages to develop Individuality in all members of the society. The human community, nation states, linguistic groups, local castes and classes, and families are the intermediate stages in development of the Individual. The social process moves through phases of survival, growth, development and evolution. In the process it organizes the consciousness of its members at successive levels from social external manners, formed behavior, value-based character and personality to culminate in the development of Individuality. Through this process, society evolves from physicality to Mentality. The power of accomplishment in society and its members develops progressively through stages of skill, capacity, talent, and ability. Original thinking is made possible by the prior development of thinking that organizes facts into information. The immediate result of the last world war was a shift in reliance from physical force and action to mental conception and mental activity on a global scale. At such times no problem need defy solution, if only humanity recognizes the occasion for thinking and Original Thinking. The apparently insoluble problems we confront are an opportunity to formulate a comprehensive theory of social evolution. The immediate possibility is to devise complete solutions to all existing problems, if only we use the right method of thought development
R&D Activities and Export Performance of Indian Private Firms
No full textThis paper formulates a model of optimal export decision of private firms and then empirically studies the effect of firm size, R&D activities and competitiveness on export performance of Indian private firms during the period 1975-1986. The paper argues that the Cragg model is more appropriate to model firms’ export behavior than the commonly used Tobit model. The evaluation of the export promotion and partial import liberalization policies of 1980 based on the Tobit model is found to be qualitatively quite different from the evaluation based on the Cragg model. The LR and LM specification tests reject the Tobit model against the Cragg model in all specifications.Exports, R&D, Price-Cost-Margin
Future Targets and Multiple Equilibria
No full textMultiple Pareto-rankable equilibria may obtain in an overlapping generations model where consumers save to reach a fixed target. Existence and uniqueness conditions are discussed. The model displays excess consumption sensitivity to current income and perfect old-age insurance.Multiple equilibria, saving, overlapping generations, excess sensitivity.
A review of records of the Trimeresurus albolabris Gray, 1842 group from the Indian subcontinent: expanded description and range extension of Trimeresurus salazar, redescription of Trimeresurus septentrionalis and rediscovery of historical specimens of Trimeresurus davidi (Reptilia: Viperidae)
No full textVogel, Gernot, Mallik, Ashok Kumar, Chandramouli, S. R., Sharma, Vivek, Ganesh, S. R. (2022): A review of records of the Trimeresurus albolabris Gray, 1842 group from the Indian subcontinent: expanded description and range extension of Trimeresurus salazar, redescription of Trimeresurus septentrionalis and rediscovery of historical specimens of Trimeresurus davidi (Reptilia: Viperidae). Zootaxa 5175 (3): 343-366, DOI: https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5175.3.
Recombination induced non-equilibrium phase transitions in semiconductors
No full textThe thesis analyzes various carrier generation-recombination (g-r) models in semiconductors for possible non-equilibrium phase transitions. A general macroscopic theory is formulated for the steady states of non-equilibrium systems. The work then proceeds in three steps (i) stability analysis of the steady states of a g-r model and establishment of a possible phase transition behaviour, (ii) a study of the phase transition behaviour near the critical point and (iii) a stochastic analysis of the phase transition. Autocatalysis provided by electric field induced impact ionization and/or stimulated creation of bose particles such as excitons and non-linearities of the radiative and Auger recombination processes are essential ingradients of a g-r model exhibiting non-equilibrium phase transitions.Yost of the g-r models considered in this work displayed second-ordertype transitions, however first-order-type transitions are possible in coupled boson-fermion systems when higher order autocatalytic processes are taken into consideration. When diffusion and drift are taken into account fluctuations induce a spatial correlation function which is of the well known exponential form in simple cases and the correlation length diverges near the critical point. The' stochastic master equation leads to a nonPoissonian steady state distribution and the uniqueness of the distribution breaks down under the conditions of the realization of a phase transition behaviour. The effects of explicit inclusion of carrier generation-recombination on the Gunn instability are shown to be unimportant unless the diffusion constant vanishes, in which case the instability criterion is modified by putting a lower bound on the negative differential conductivity.</p
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