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Pankaj Kumar Mishra
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Experimental Analysis of Flow Value of Cement Mortar with Various Admixtures
Cement mortar is unavoidable part of any construction. Strength and durability of mortar is necessary for long life of structure. At the time of preparation of mortar, various admixtures are added for enhancem...
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A Study of Resource Management and Security-Based Techniques in Autonomic Cloud Computing
The predominant goal of autonomic computing is to manage the computer networks and software systems using some adaptive technologies to implement the services efficiently. Such a computing model becomes very u...
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Drought Stress Tolerance: An Insight to Resistance Mechanism and Adaptation in Plants
Water is essentially required by all the living systems including plants to maintain normal function of growth and metabolism. Drought stress in plants may affect several activities like cell elongation, morph...
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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Abundance, Interaction with Plants and Potential Biological Applications
Beneficial microbes associated with plant roots play an important role to achieve higher agriculture production for burgeoning population in sustainable way. Among various microbes, arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM)...
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Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria: Mechanisms and Alleviation of Cold Stress in Plants
Microorganisms have a variety of evolutionary adaptations and physiological acclimation mechanisms that allow them to survive and remain active to face environmental stress. Among the mechanisms identified in ...
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Potassium Solubilization and Mobilization: Functional Impact on Plant Growth for Sustainable Agriculture
To attain the sustained agriculture production, soil fertility, and its nutrient status should be optimal. Potassium is a crucial component of plant nutrition package that also limits crop quality and yield. D...
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The Cardiorespiratory Implications of Pectus Excavatum
Pectus excavatum (PE) is the most frequently encountered congenital chest wall abnormality. There is a growing body of evidence about the physiological impact of pectus excavatum with particular reference to c...
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Rice Moisture Detection Based on Oven Drying Technique Using Microstrip Ring Sensor
A new microstrip ring moisture sensor is proposed for determining the moisture of rice grains using the oven drying method at multiple frequencies, i.e., 3.7, 5.8, 6.9, 8.4 GHz, with low insertion loss as well...
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On Adaptive Control for AGV with Vision Sensor as an Unknown Nonlinear System
Adaptive control using neural network provides a real-time systematic approach to achieve or maintain a desired level of control system performance when dynamics are unknown. The paper proposes a novel approac...
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Laparoscopic Nephrectomy
Laparoscopic (transperitoneal) nephrectomy is a well-established and versatile technique in pediatric practice [1, 2]. It allows surgery to be carried out by a minimally invasive approach in the familiar intra...
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Diversity of Cold Tolerant Phosphate Solubilizing Microorganisms from North Western Himalayas
The environmental conditions on planet earth are extremely diverse, with enormous variations in pressure, pH, temperature and salt concentration. All these environments are inhabited by living organisms, parti...
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Cold-Tolerant PGPRs as Bioinoculants for Stress Management
Cold stress is a major environmental constraint to plant productivity. Cold-induced losses in yield probably exceed those from all other causes, since both the severity and duration of the stress are critical....
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Cold-Tolerant Agriculturally Important Microorganisms
Cold-tolerant microorganisms are endowed with the ability to grow at 0°C, though their growth optima lie in the mesophilic range. To overcome the stress induced by low temperatures they have evolved a variety ...
