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Assessing and pursuing collaborative relationships with commercial banks
No full textProfessional paper for fulfillment of Masters of Public Policy degree.The purpose of this project report is to provide Nonprofits Assistance Fund (NAF) with research and recommendations to aid in the development of more collaborative relationships with commercial banks. This report presents an overview of the preconditions for stronger
collaborative relationships between NAF and banks and a discussion of the field of existing relationships between NAF and selected banks, including perceived strengths and weaknesses. The paper concludes with recommendations for strengthening current bank relationships and for promoting future collaboration.Arneson, Bjorn; Gupta, Sandhya; Henkel, Jordan; Little, Arleta. (2009). Assessing and pursuing collaborative relationships with commercial banks. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/50215
Emerging trends in agri-nanotechnology: fundamental and applied aspects/ editors: Harikesh B. Singh, Sandhya Mishra, Leonardo Fernandes Fraceto, and Renata de Lima.
No full textIncludes bibliographical references and index.This book provides a thorough analysis of the progressive journey in agriculture from green revolution to nano revolution, with recommendations of certain key points to be addressed in current and future agri-nanotechnology research, on the basis of recognized knowledge gaps. It is hoped that the current volume will serve as a reference book for students, scientists, professors, teachers and researchers who are involved in the study and research on the various aspects of agri-nanotechnology.Rewinding the History of Agriculture and Emergence of Nanotechnology in Agriculture / Sandhya Mishra, Leonardo Fernandes Fraceto, Xiaodong Yang and Harikesh B. Singh -- Use of Nanomaterials in Agriculture: Potential Benefits and Challenges / Daiana Silva Ávila, Solange Cristina Garcia, Marcelo Dutra Arbo, Jessica Nardi and Maurício Tavares Jacques -- Green Nanotechnology for Enhanced Productivity in Agriculture / Kelvii Wei Guo -- Nanonutrient from Fungal Protein: Future Prospects on Crop Production / J.C. Tarafdar and Indira Rathore -- Multifarious Applications of Nanotechnology for Enhanced Productivity in Agriculture / K.S. Subramanian, K. Raja and S. Marimuthu -- Different Methods of Nanoparticle Synthesis and Their Comparative Agricultural Applications / Kunzes Dolma -- Nanotoxicity to Agroecosystem: Impact on Soil and Agriculture / Mahendra Rai, Aniket Gade, Avinash P. Ingle, Indarchand Gupta, Raksha Pandit and Carolina Alves dos Santos -- Factors Affecting the Fate, Transport, Bioavailability and Toxicity of Nanoparticles in the Agroecosystem / Sudheer K. Yadav, Jai Singh Patel, Gagan Kumar, Arpan Mukherjee, Anupam Maharshi, Birinchi K. Sarma, Surendra Singh and Harikesh B. Singh -- Nanotechnology: Comprehensive Understanding of Interaction, Toxicity and the Fate of Biosynthesized Nanoparticles in the Agroecosystem / Rahul Singh Rajput, Jyoti Singh, Prachi Singh, Manoj Kumar Chitara, Ratul Moni Ram, Sandhya Mishra and Harikesh B. Singh -- Global Market of Nanomaterials and Colloidal Formulations for Agriculture: An Overview / Estefânia V.R. Campos, Jhones L. de Oliveira, Leonardo Fernandes Fraceto and Renato Grillo -- The Responsible Development of Nanoproducts: Lessons from the Past / Ankit Srivastava and Arohi Srivastava -- Nanotechnology Application and Emergence in Agriculture Semih Otles and Buket Yalcin Sahyar -- Positive and Negative Effects of Nanotechnology / Amira S. Soliman -- Vanguard Nano(bio)sensor Technologies Fostering the Renaissance of Agriculture / Amina Antonacci, Fabiana Arduini and Viviana Scognamiglio -- Current Trends and Future Priorities of Nanofertilizers / Carolina Castro Bueno -- Biosafety and Regulatory Aspects of Nanotechnology in Agriculture and Food / Akansha Jain, Harikesh B. Singh and Sampa Das -- Implication of Nanotechnology for the Treatment of Water and Air Pollution / R.K. Chaturvedi -- Role of Nanotechnology in Insect Pest Management / Deepika Chauhan, N.N. Singh and Vijay Kumar Mishra.1 online resource (xix, 302 pages
Data for Gupta et al., "Estimating the Meridional Extent of Adiabatic Mixing in the Stratosphere using Age-of-Air", JGR:Atmospheres,
No full textModel data and post-processed data supporting the creation of the manuscript "Estimating the Meridional Extent of Adiabatic Mixing in the Stratosphere using Age-of-Air" submitted to JGR:Atmospheres in August 2022.
1) The netCDF files created through post-processing of full model data in FORTRAN are shared in the /data/ directory. These file contains the zonal mean circulation statistics based on Gupta et al. (2020), age-of-air transport diagnostics based on Linz et al. (2021), and the novel \Gamma-\Theta circulation streamfunction introduced in this study. The /data/ directory also contains MATLAB .mat data files for the transport diagnostics obtained from WACCM. 150 days of actual GFDL-FV3 model data in the northern hemisphere, between 0.1 hPa-500 hPa pressure levels is also provided to support external computations and validation.
2) The Jupyter notebook used for final computation and figures production is provided in .ipynb, .html and .pdf formats in /code/. All the files referred to in the notebook are stored in the /data/ directory.
Corresponding author : Aman Gupta, [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
Corrigendum: Capital Inflows and House Prices: Aggregate and Regional Evidence from China
No full textIn the paper ‘Capital Inflows and House Prices: Aggregate and Regional Evidence from China’ by H. An, et al., printed in the December 2016 issue, there was a missing acknowledgement section for funding resources.
On page 451, the acknowledgement section should appear after the corresponding information as:
“Correspondence: Rakesh Gupta, Department of Accounting, Finance and Economics, Griffith Business School, Griffith University, Nathan Campus QLD 4111. [email protected]
*This work was financially supported by the Humanities and Social Science Foundation of Ministry of Education of China (16YJA790001).”
The author apologises for this error and any confusion it may have caused.No Full Tex
First person – Akash Gupta
No full textFirst Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Biology Open, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Akash Gupta is first author on ‘A novel and cost-effective ex vivo orthotopic model for the study of human breast cancer in mouse mammary gland organ culture’, published in BiO. Akash conducted the research described in this article while a PhD Scholar in Rajendra Mehta's lab at IIT Research Institute, Chicago, USA. He is now an assistant research scientist in the lab of Syreeta L. Tilghman at the University of Arizona, Department of Medicine, Tucson, USA, investigating drug efficacy modeling using human organoids culture for the treatment of cancers
Engineering materials : research, applications and advances / author, K.M. Gupta.
No full text"A CRC title."Includes bibliographical references and index.596 p.
Universal Statistical Properties of Inertial-particle Trajectories in Three-dimensional, Homogeneous, Isotropic, Fluid Turbulence
No full textWe obtain new universal statistical properties of heavy-particle trajectories in three-dimensional, statistically steady, homogeneous, and isotropic turbulent flows by direct numerical simulations. We show that the probability distribution functions (PDFs) P(Φ), of the angle Φ between the Eulerian velocity u and the particle velocity v, at a point and time, scales as P(Φ) ∼Φ−, with a new universal exponent ≃ 4
Mutual-Friction Coefficients in Two-Dimensional Superfluids: From the Gross-Pitaevskii equation to the Hall-Vinen-Bekharevich-Khalatnikov Two-fluid Model
No full textWe start from the two-dimensional Gross-Pitaevskii equation (GPE) and develop algorithms for the ab-initio determination of the temperature (T) dependence of the mutual-friction coefficients, α and α, and the normal-fluid density Pn, which appear as parameters in the Hall-Vinen-Bekharevich-Khalatnikov (HVBK) two-fluid model for a superfluid. In the second part of our study, we elucidate the statistical properties of two-dimensional, homogeneous, isotropic superfluid turbulence in the simplified HVBK model, with values for the mutual-friction coefficients that are comparable to those we obtain from the first part of our study
Biochemical and functional characterization of the enigmatic MPPED1/MPPED2 metallophosphodiesterases
No full textEvolutionarily conserved genes in nature have been known to perform critical functions inside the cell. Earlier bioinformatic analysis performed in our laboratory identified mammalian orthologs of Rv0805, a novel class III metallophosphoesterase from M. tuberculosis. These have been annotated as MPPED1 and MPPED2 (metallophosphoesterase domain containing protein 1 and 2). It was interesting to note the close relation between Rv0805 and the mammalian proteins in the phylogenetic clustering of metallophosphoesterases. The genes encoding MPPED1 and MPPED2 are highly conserved from Drosophila to Homo sapiens. In vitro biochemical analysis of rat MPPED1 and MPPED2 proteins suggested that these proteins were active metallophosphodiesterases. However, the in vivo function(s) of these proteins remains elusive. In humans, the MPPED2 gene is located on chromosome 11 in a locus associated with WAGR syndrome, and multiple studies suggest that MPPED2 may impair tumorigenesis.
The present study aims to identify physiological functions of the MPPED1/MPPED2 family of proteins. In the first part of the study, spatio-temporal characterization of the mouse MPPED1 and MPPED2 was performed during development. Interestingly, it was observed that MPPED1 and MPPED2 expression were not exclusive to adult and fetal brain, respectively, as reported earlier. Additionally, primary glial and neuronal cultures have been established as tools to unravel the brain-specific physiological functions of these proteins.
In the second part of the study, Drosophila melanogaster was chosen as a model system to probe into the physiological roles of CG16717, the only ortholog of MPPED1/MPPED2 present. Biochemical analysis suggested that CG16717 is a metallophosphodiesterase.CG16717 transcripts were found to be expressed throughout the life cycle, with maximal expression in the brain. CG16717KO flies exhibited reduced lifespan in comparison to wild-type flies, and lifespan was restored following neuronal expression of CG16717. Neuronal expression of mammalian MPPED2 restored the reduced lifespan of CG16717KO flies as well, suggesting functional conservation during evolution. Interestingly, over-expression of CG16717 in wild-type flies enhanced lifespan. Upon dietary restriction, both CG16717KO and wild-type flies showed an extension in lifespan, and this coupled with similar expression of IIS and TOR pathway transcripts, indicated that CG16717 regulates lifespan independent of Insulin/TOR pathways. RNA-seq analyses using whole flies suggested aberrant regulation of genes involved in innate immunity. Future studies will be directed to elucidate the molecular mechanisms by which CG16717 regulates Drosophila lifespan.
In summary, this study characterized the spatio-temporal expression profile of the MPPED1/MPPED2 protein family in rodent model and identified the physiological role of the orthologous, evolutionarily conserved and neuronally-enriched Drosophila metallophosphodiesterase, CG16717, in lifespan regulation
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