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Sustainable Soil Management for Climate Resilience: Long-Term Management Effects on Soil Carbon Sequestration and Nitrogen Dynamics in a Semi-Arid Tropical Inceptisol of India
The injudicious use of synthetic agri-inputs has adversely influenced the soil fertility in tropical and subtropical agriculture with depleted reserves of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) Assessing dynamics of thes...
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Picture Fuzzy Time Series Forecasting with a Novel Variant of Particle Swarm Optimization
Current research has demonstrated that fuzzy sets can be used to address forecasting issues. Researchers have created numerous fuzzy time series approaches without considering the non-determinacy. For a consid...
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Innovative hybrid metaheuristic algorithms: exponential mutation and dual-swarm strategy for hybrid feature selection problem
Feature selection is an important pre-processing step aiming to reduce the number of features and increase feature space quality. This step helps increase the classification performance, which plays a critical...
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A Composite Index to Assess the Climate-Carbon-Yield-Sustainability of Cereal Based Crop** System
Cereal based crop** system, an integral part of agricultural food system of India and its nourishment depends on site-specific Integrated Nutrient Management (INM) Practices followed. The smartness or resili...
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A hybrid swarm optimization with trapezoidal and pentagonal fuzzy numbers using benchmark functions
In this paper, a Hybrid Swarm Optimization algorithm is developed with Pentagonal Fuzzy Numbers (PFN) and Trapezoidal Fuzzy Numbers (TFN). We have used the concepts of particle movement from Particle Swarm Opt...
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The Long-Term (13 years) Effect of Rice Based Organic Farming on Soil Sulphur Dynamics in a Typic Ustochrept Soil of Indo Gangetic Plain of India
Scarce information is available on long-term organic nutrient management practices on soil sulphur (S) fractions, their relationship with various soil physico-chemical properties and crop yield, and sulphur a...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization for a Feature Selection Problem with Stability Analysis
In this paper a hybrid Particle Swarm Optimization (HPSO) method is developed and applied to a Hybrid Feature Selection problem. The objective of applying the HPSO method to the Hybrid Feature Selection proble...
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Plant Growth-Promoting Microbes: Key Players in Organic Agriculture
Conventional agriculture has played significant role in ensuring food supply to the continuously growing population of the world. Soil management strategies in conventional agriculture are largely dependent on...
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Fluorescence signal amplification by optical reflection in metal-coated nanowells
A significant amplification in the fluorescence signal is demonstrated when measured in metal (aluminum)-coated fluidic wells with volumes on the order of a nanoliter or smaller (nanowells). Photolithographic...
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Influence of Different Nutrient Management Practices and Crop** Systems on Organic Carbon Pools in Typic Ustochrept Soil of Indo-Gangetic Plains in India
This is a study of long-term nutrient management and crop** systems on depth-wise distribution of soil organic carbon (SOC) pools, SOC sequestration and accumulation, and their appositeness with soil quality...
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Job Scheduling on Computational Grids Using Multi-objective Fuzzy Particle Swarm Optimization
Grid computing is a computational technique used to meet growing computational demands. Scheduling of independent tasks in computational grids commonly arises in many grid-enabled large-scale applications. Thi...
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Open AccessSelective targeting of the TLR2/MyD88/NF-κB pathway reduces α-synuclein spreading in vitro and in vivo
Pathways to control the spreading of α-synuclein (α-syn) and associated neuropathology in Parkinson’s disease (PD), multiple system atrophy (MSA) and dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) are unclear. Here, we show ...
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Reduction of Lewy Body Pathology by Oral Cinnamon
α-Synucleinopathies in a broader sense comprise of several neurodegenerative disorders that primarily include Parkinson’s disease (PD), dementia with Lewy bodies (DLB) and multiple system atrophy (MSA). These ...
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ACE-2-interacting Domain of SARS-CoV-2 (AIDS) Peptide Suppresses Inflammation to Reduce Fever and Protect Lungs and Heart in Mice: Implications for COVID-19 Therapy
COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory illness caused by the virus strain severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and until now, there is no effective therapy against COVID-19. Since SARS-C...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Scheduling of Jobs on Computational Grids by Fuzzy Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm Using Trapezoidal and Pentagonal Fuzzy Numbers
Grid computing is a computational technique used to meet growing computational demands. Scheduling of independent tasks in Computational Grids commonly arises in many Grid-enabled large scale applications. Thi...
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The Effect of Crops and Farming Systems on Soil Quality: A Case Study
Sustainable production systems are essential for food and livelihood security and imperative to upkeep soil health and subsequently ponder over environmental degradation. Viable option is the ecologically sust...
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Functional Diversity Management through Microbial Integrity for Sustainability
Soil biodiversity is essential for many soil processes/functions and it is facing increasing pressure of soil degradation. Soils are integral part in tackling challenge of present-day agriculture in achieving ...
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The Natural History, Pathobiology, and Clinical Manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 Infections
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is the etiological agent of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). SARS-CoV-2, is a positive-sense single-stranded RNA virus with epithelial cell and ...
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Microchip-Based Electrophoretic Separations with a Pressure-Driven Backflow
It is well known that the resolving power of capillary zone electrophoretic separations may be improved with an increase in the applied electric field strength and separation time. While large electric fields ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Physics Based Analytical Model for the Threshold Voltage of a Normally-off AlGaN/GaN FinFET
Gallium nitride (GaN) based transistors are advantageous for high voltage power switching applications due to its superior material properties. In power switching applications normally-off transistors are pref...
