India's expanding population has necessitated the development of alternate transportation methods with electric vehicles (EVs) being the most indigenous and need for the current scenario. The major ...hindrance is the undue influence on the power distribution system caused by incorrect charging station setup. Renewable Energy Sources (RES) have a lower environmental impact than the non-renewable sources of energy and due to which Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) charging stations are installed in the highest-ranking buses to facilitate their effective placements. Based on meta-heuristic optimization, this study offers an effective PHEV charging stations allocation approach for RES applications. The primary objective of the developed system is to create a charging network at a reasonable cost while maintaining the operational features of the distribution network. These troublesare handled by applying meta-heuristic algorithms and optimum planning based on renewable energy systems to satisfy the outcomes of the variables. As a result, by adding charging station parameters, this research proposes to conceptualize the distribution of optimal charging stationsas multiple-objectives of the problem. Furthermore, the PHEV RES and charging station location problem is handled in this study by deploying a novel hybrid algorithm termed as Atom Search Woven Aquila Optimization Algorithm (AT-AQ) that includes the ideas of both Aquila Optimizer (AO) and Atom Search Optimization (ASO) Algorithms. In reality, Aquila Optimizer is a unique population-based optimization approach energized by Aquila's behaviour when seeking prey and it solves the problems of slow convergence and local optimum trapping. According to the findings of the experiments, the proposed model outperformed the other methods in terms of minimized cost function.
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To report experiences in Bihar, India's most densely populated state, with a state government programme to train community health workers (CHWs) to combat the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) ...pandemic in the state's predominantly rural population of 128 million.
In May 2021, during the second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in India, the Bihari government initiated a 1-day COVID-19 training programme for rural, unaccredited CHWs who had recently completed a community health education course from the National Institute of Open Schooling. The use of primary health centre buildings and doctors to deliver COVID-19 training and the existence of certification data on CHWs who participated in the community health education course streamlined implementation and minimized costs. After COVID-19 training, CHWs were paid as first responders and COVID-19 treatment workers by the Bihari government.
Overall, 15 000 CHWs in Bihar completed the COVID-19 training programme in 2021 and a further 30 000 were enrolled. A survey of CHWs carried out after COVID-19 training had started found that 80% (81/102) were satisfied with training and felt they were receiving information from reliable sources.
The training and mobilization of a team of CHWs helped ease pressure on a stressed, rural, health-care system in Bihar and improved its preparedness for future COVID-19 outbreaks. The success of the training programme illustrates how local initiatives can help address gaps in the health workforce and extend the reach of public health care into rural areas, in addition to improving COVID-19 responses.
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Antimony (Sb) is introduced into soils, sediments, and aquatic environments from various sources such as weathering of sulfide ores, leaching of mining wastes, and anthropogenic ...activities. High Sb concentrations are toxic to ecosystems and potentially to public health via the accumulation in food chain. Although Sb is poisonous and carcinogenic to humans, the exact mechanisms causing toxicity still remain unclear. Most studies concerning the remediation of soils and aquatic environments contaminated with Sb have evaluated various amendments that reduce Sb bioavailability and toxicity. However, there is no comprehensive review on the biogeochemistry and transformation of Sb related to its remediation. Therefore, the present review summarizes: (1) the sources of Sb and its geochemical distribution and speciation in soils and aquatic environments, (2) the biogeochemical processes that govern Sb mobilization, bioavailability, toxicity in soils and aquatic environments, and possible threats to human and ecosystem health, and (3) the approaches used to remediate Sb-contaminated soils and water and mitigate potential environmental and health risks. Knowledge gaps and future research needs also are discussed. The review presents up-to-date knowledge about the fate of Sb in soils and aquatic environments and contributes to an important insight into the environmental hazards of Sb. The findings from the review should help to develop innovative and appropriate technologies for controlling Sb bioavailability and toxicity and sustainably managing Sb-polluted soils and water, subsequently minimizing its environmental and human health risks.
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Iodine‐mediated intramolecular coupling of C−H and N−H bonds through radical pathways has been achieved for the synthesis of substituted phenanthridinones from 2‐phenylbenzamides using iodine, ...succininmide and di‐tert‐butylperoxide (DTBP) oxidant in dichloroethane at 130 °C. The developed protocol provides substituted phenanthridinones, particularly N‐alkyl substituted, which are difficult to access either by base‐mediated or transition‐metal‐catalyzed methodologies due to acidic nature of the C−H bond adjacent to nitrogen atom in the amides. Serendipitously, switching the oxidant from DTBP to phenyliodine(III) diacetate (PIDA) afforded spiro‐isoindolinones, involving intramolecular C−N, intermolecular C−O coupling and dearomatization of the phenyl ring in one pot.
Iodine‐mediated intramolecular coupling of C−H and N−H bonds through radical pathways has been achieved for the synthesis of substituted phenanthridinones from 2‐phenylbenzamides. Serendipitously, switching the oxidant from DTBP to PIDA afforded novel spiro‐isoindolinones, involving intramolecular C−N, intermolecular C−O coupling and dearomatization of the phenyl ring.
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New mixing schemes for (3+1) neutrinos Dev, S.; Raj, Desh; Gautam, Radha Raman ...
Nuclear physics. B,
April 2019, 2019-04-00, 2019-04-01, Volume:
941
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We propose new mixing schemes for (3+1) neutrinos which describe mixing among active-active and active-sterile neutrinos. The mixing matrix in these mixing schemes can be factored into a zeroth order ...flavor symmetric part and another part representing small perturbations needed for generating non-zero Ue3, nonmaximal θ23, CP violation and active-sterile mixing. We find interesting correlations amongst various neutrino mixing angles and, also, calculate the parameter space for various parameters.
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In this study, we evaluated genetic diversity in a panel of 87 Indian mustard varieties using 200 genomic-SSR markers. A total of 189 SSRs resulted into positive amplification with 174 (92.06%) SSRs ...generating polymorphic products and 15 (7.94%) SSRs producing monomorphic amplicons. A total of 552 alleles were obtained and allele number varied from 2–6 with an average number of 3.17 alleles per SSR marker. The major allele frequency ranged from 0.29 (ENA23) to 0.92 (BrgMS841) with an average value of 0.58 per SSR locus. The polymorphic information content (PIC) value ranged from 0.10 (BrgMS841) to 0.68 (BrgMS519) with 0.39 as mean PIC value. The gene diversity per locus ranged from 0.13 (BrgMS841) to 0.72 (ENA23 & BrgMS519) with a mean value of 0.48 per SSR primer pair. Both Unweighted Neighbor Joining-based dendrogram and population structure analysis divided all the 87 varieties into two major groups/subpopulations. Analysis of molecular variance (AMOVA) inferred the presence of more genetic variation (98%) among individuals than among groups (2%). A total of 31 SSRs produced 36 unique alleles for 27 varieties which will serve as unique DNA-fingerprints for the identification and legal protection of these varieties. Further, the results obtained provided a deeper insight into the genetic structure of Indian mustard varieties in India and will assist in formulating future breeding strategies aimed at Indian mustard genetic improvement.
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Commelinabadamica var. palkondensis P. Sivaramakrishna, P. Yugandhar and L.J. Singh, var. nov. (Commelinaceae), a remarkable new variety from Palkonda hills of Eastern Ghats of Peninsular Indiais ...described and illustrated. It is apparently similar to C. badamica var. badamica in habitat ecology and general morphology, but differs in features like presence of a 2–3‐nerved ligule, lower cincinnus with single bisexual flower, glabrous ovary, elliptic anthers and ovoid‐oblong or trapezoidal seeds. In addition to the description, habitat ecology, details on population distribution and the conservation status are also provided for the new variety.
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This paper proposes an efficient energy management approach for managing the demand response and energy forecasting in a smart grid using Internet of Things (IoT). The proposed energy management ...approach is the hybrid technique that is the joint execution of adaptive neuro fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) and balancing composite motion optimization (BCMO), thus it is called ANFIS-BCMO technique. An energy management approach is developed using price-based demand response (DR) program for IoT-enabled residential buildings. Then, we devised a approach depends on ANFIS-BCMO technique to systematically manage the energy use of smart devices in IoT-enabled residential buildings by programming to relieve peak-to-average ratio (PAR), diminish electricity cost, and increase user comfort (UC). This maximizes effective energy utilization, which in turn increases the sustainability of IoT-enabled residential buildings on smart cities. The ANFIS-BCMO technique automatically responds to price-based DR programs to combat the main problem of DR programs that is the limitation of the consumer’s knowledge to respond when receiving DR signals. For consumers, the proposed ANFIS-BCMO based strategy programs appliances to exploit benefit based on reduced electricity bill. By then, the proposed method increases the stability of the electrical system by smoothing the demand curve. At last, the proposed model is executed on MATLAB/Simulink platform and the proposed method is compared with existing systems.
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Social Internet of Things (SIoT) is considered as one of the most recently evolved topics that connects people and object, object and object as well as people and people. The SIoT and big ...data provide an exact representation of IoT and social system for human progression characterization. Numerous machine learning techniques are employed to classify the data gathered from SIoT in a more powerful way. In this article, a deep neural network based marine predator (DRNN‐MP) algorithm is proposed in classifying big data. Here, an adaptive Savitzky–Golay filter is employed for selecting the subset and to eliminate undesirable data, as well as different noises. The big data databases are reduced using a Hadoop map reducing framework thereby enhancing the performances of the proposed approach. In addition to this, a modified relief technique is employed to select optimal features thereby performing better classification. The testing and training process based on the proposed approach for optimal classification of features from the big data considers four different databases namely coronary illness, GPS trajectories, localization data, and water treatment plant obtained from UCI machine learning repository. In addition to this, the proposed approach is evaluated for diverse performance measures namely accuracy, precision, specificity, sensitivity, throughput, and energy consumption. Finally, the proposed approach is compared for various metrics to illustrate the effectiveness of the system and the results demonstrated that the accuracy of our work is 98.25%.
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Dendrophthoe longensis L.J. Singh is described as a new species from the Long Island, Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India, and its conservation status is assessed. It is an aerial branch hemi‐parasite ...on Mangifera indica L. (Anacardiaceae), and serves as a host for caterpillars of Delias eucharis Drury (Lepidoptera: Pieridae); this could be threats to population of the new species. This new species differs from other Dendrophthoe species in vegetative morphology, inflorescence architecture, and floral characters. However, it appears apparently close to D. glabrescens (Blakely) Barlow in growth and habit. A detailed description, photographs, distribution, illustrations, and an identification key to Dendrophthoe species of India are provided.
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