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Ramesh Chandra Sinha (1934–2020)
Full text linkRamesh Chandra Sinha, a highly respected internationally recognized plant virologist, died peacefully in Ottawa, Canada, on June 14, 2020. He was born on February 10, 1934, in Bareilly, India. His outstanding achievements include the identification of wound tumor virus (WTV) multiplication sites in its leafhopper vector and the development of cost-effective tools for the detection of phytoplasmas and mycotoxins. Additionally, his research findings on the economically important barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) laid the foundation for the control of diseases caused by this virus in cereal crops
Growth and Convergence of Social Sectors’ Expenditure in Indian States: Upshots from Neoclassical Growth and Panel Unit Roots Mode
No full textIn a world of having large part suffering from the inadequacies of basic needs and inter-class and interregional income disparities, investing upon the development of different social sectors from the state
exchequers have been one of the top agendas of the policymakers. It is not a different issue for the
states and provinces of the developing countries like India. Besides having positive roles on economic
betterment, spending on social expenditures sometimes work in favour of the ruling political parties to
gain confidence from the voters. The states thus compete in this area. Under this background, the present study attempts to examine whether the states of India are converging in social sector’s expenditure
for the period 1980–81 to 2017–18. Applying the neoclassical growth and panel unit roots models the
study observes unambiguously that there are absolute and conditional β convergence and σ convergence in per capita social expenditure among the states
Is Pollution a Cost to Health? Theoretical and Empirical Inquiry for the World’s Leading Polluting Economies
No full textMaking development sustainable in the long run is the goal of policy makers of countries all over the world. To attain such a goal, countries have to face the dynamics of pollution-income interactions in both the short and long run, which are observed along the well-known Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC). In the short run stage of the EKC, rising income and rising health expenditure may lead to rising pollution, while in the long run, as pollution continues, health expenditures increase, besides conservation of capital investment. The former is a common phenomenon in developing economies and the latter in the developed economies. Hence, there are both theoretical and empirical questions on whether health expenditures are caused by environmental pollution or not. The present study has attempted to investigate the issue from the theoretical point of view, through the endogenous growth framework, and by considering empirical observations for the world’s top 20 polluting countries for the period 1991–2019. The results show that per capita health expenditure and per capita pollution are cointegrated in the majority of the countries. However, in the short run, pollution is the cause of health expenditures for many developed countries in the list, and health expenditures are the cause of pollution in some of the developing countries. The results justify the claim of the endogenous growth model incorporating pollution and health expenditure
Residue arithmetic in digital computers / Ramesh Chandra Debnath
Full text linkTypescript (photocopy)175, 66 leaves : ill., (part col.), charts ; 30 cm.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Electrical Engineering, 197
Sustainability of Urbanization, Non-Agricultural Output and Air Pollution in the World’s Top 20 Polluting Countries
No full textRapid urbanization is being increasingly recognized as a significant factor of environmental pollution across the world. However, the significance of sustainable urbanization in controlling both pollution and population remains either limited in scope, in the case of developed countries, or less researched, in the case of developing nations. To fill this gap, the present study employed both theoretical and empirical tools to investigate the significant link between sustainable urbanization, pollution and non-agricultural output. In order to empirically examine the supposed link among the key variables mentioned above, the present study considered a panel of the world’s top 20 polluting countries for the 1991–2018 period, which significantly includes both developed and developing nations. Panel vector error correction model and panel co-integration techniques were employed to derive the possible correlation between the variables through sustainable urbanization. Empirical findings show an absence of equilibrium relations among the three variables in the panel of developed countries. However, the study clearly finds that all the three indicators maintain long-run associations for the panel of developing countries. Furthermore, in the short run, the results determine unambiguously that there are significant causal interplays between any two sets of variables and the remaining one variable for both the panel data of developed and developing countries. On the other hand, short-run interplays among the variables we considered exist for both developed and developing economies. From the perspective of policy formulation, the present study shows that policy makers from both the developed and developing nations should be cautious before encouraging urbanization, at least in the short term. However, the combined effects in the short and long term suggest policy makers should be more careful before encouraging urbanization in developing economies
Cation distribution in ferrite nanoparticles and thin films using X-ray absorption spectroscopy methods
No full textSupplementary_Materials – Supplemental material for Childhood maltreatment and its mental health consequences among Indian adolescents with a history of child work
No full textSupplemental material, Supplementary_Materials for Childhood maltreatment and its mental health consequences among Indian adolescents with a history of child work by Rakesh Pandey, Shulka Gupta, Aakanksha Upadhyay, Rajendra Prasad Gupta, Meenakshi Shukla, Ramesh Chandra Mishra, Yogesh Kumar Arya, Tushar Singh, Shanta Niraula, Jennifer Yun Fai Lau and Veena Kumari in Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe 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
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