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An Appraisal of Evolution Stage and Degradation Risk of Geomorphosites Using TALC and DRA in Ajodhya Hill of the Eastern Chota Nagpur Plateau, India
Tourism development often brings notable challenges to geo-conservation in natural areas. As tourist sites emerge at different evolutionary stages of tourism development, they may face various potential threat...
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Time traveling through the floodscape: assessing the spatial and temporal probability of floods and susceptibility zones in the Lower Damodar Basin
The flood of Damodar river is a well-known fact which is used to the whole riverine society of the basin as well as to the eastern India. The study aims to estimate the spatio-temporal probability of floods an...
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Rural child health in India: the persistent nature of deprivation, undernutrition and the 2030 Agenda
The 2030 Agenda for sustainable development was launched to achieve Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) across the globe. This paper is based on the primary database to assess the nutritional status of 5–10 y...
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Open AccessDrug Dissolution in Oral Drug Absorption: Workshop Report
The in-person workshop “Drug Dissolution in Oral Drug Absorption” was held on May 23–24, 2023, in Baltimore, MD, USA. The workshop was organized into lectures and breakout sessions. Three common topics that we...
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Open AccessPractical Recommendations for the Use of Angiotensin Receptor-Neprilysin Inhibitors (ARNI) in Heart Failure: Insights from Indian Cardiologists
Heart failure is a significant public health concern characterized by notable rates of morbidity and mortality. Despite the presence of guideline-directed medical therapy (GDMT), its utilization remains inadeq...
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Evaluation of flood risk at the river reach scale using Shannon’s Entropy Model: a case study of the Damodar River
The Damodar River, a monsoon-influenced river in India, is notorious for its frequent flood events, leading to its designation as the “Sorrow of Bengal.“ The lower Damodar basin (LDB) experiences floods of var...
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Modeling Approaches to Reimagine Stability (MARS) for Enabling Earlier Access to Critical Drugs for Patients with Unmet Medical Needs
FDA’s experience to date has shown that completion of stability data requirements is one of the most observed challenges for applicants of New Drug Applications (NDAs) with an expedited review designation. Sin...
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Formulation of Geotourism Development Strategies for Potential Geoheritage Sites in Subarnarekha-Kangsabati Interfluve Zone Using Tourist Assessment Value and SWOT-AHP Hybrid Model
Geology and landscape-based natural area tourism is known as geotourism, and geosites have very good prospects of scientific, aesthetic, cultural and economic importance for the development of geotourism. The ...
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A GIS-based approach for identification of optimum runoff harvesting sites and storage estimation: a study from Subarnarekha-Kangsabati Interfluve, India
Water scarcity in the Subarnarekha-Kangsabati Interfluve region is making a barrier in the development of the area. Although this region used to receive on an average 139 cm of rainfall yearly, but as runoff, ...
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Flood characteristics and dynamics of sediment environment during Anthropocene: experience of the lower Damodar river, India
Flood is considered as a very common natural disaster associated with the Indian rivers, and the lower Damodar river has been experiencing it since the long past. Heavy monsoonal rainfall during the short time...
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Spatio-temporal Variation of Channel Migration and Vulnerability Assessment: A Case Study of Bhagirathi River Within Barddhaman District, West Bengal, India
across the floodplain areas is a natural dynamic process, mainly for alluvial rivers, and several geo-hydrological factors are involved in this process of shifting. The river Bhagirathi, the westernmost part ...
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Functional Molecule-Templated DNA Molecular Architectonics
The fascinating molecular recognition and structural properties make DNA an ideal building block to construct predictable molecular and nanoarchitectures. The molecular assembly interactions guided the constru...
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Application of Geoinformatics and AHP Technique to Delineate Flood Susceptibility Zone: A Case Study of Silabati River Basin, West Bengal, India
Among all the natural disasters, floods are the most common phenomena that cause huge obliteration to the human lives and socio-economic and cultural infrastructures. Silabati, a monsoon influenced river of We...
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The prevalence of undernutrition among the Santal children and quality of life of their households: a study from hilly region of West Bengal, India
Malnutrition is a global phenomenon in general and India is no exception. Present study was conducted to determine the prevalence of undernutrition among the Santal children of Ajodhya Gram Panchayat of Puruli...
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Evaluating the rate of change and predicting the future scenario of spatial pattern using Markov chain model: a study from Baghmundi C.D. Block of Purulia district, West Bengal
In the era of twenty-first century, the endless demands of human have promoted land use land cover (LULC) change, and its understanding is more essential for proper management and future planning towards the s...
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The Ajay is an ephemeral, monsoon influenced river, originated from the Chhotanagpur plateau at Batpar of Jamui, Bihar, flowing through heterogeneous lithology and merge with the river Bhagirathi in West Benga...
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A high-performance pseudocapacitive electrode based on CuO–MnO2 composite in redox-mediated electrolyte
In the present work, a simple and cost-effective precipitation approach was carried out to fabricate CuO nano-needle, and its electrochemical performance was evaluated in a redox-mediated electrolyte (2 M KOH ...
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Application of AHP for Groundwater Potential Zones Map** in Plateau Fringe Terrain: Study from Western Province of West Bengal
The water-stressed Joyponda river basin is situated on the hard rock terrain of Chotanagpur Granite Gneiss Complex of Archean age and older alluvium of Quaternary. An assessment is carried out to delineate the gr...
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The production and accumulation of toxic amyloid plaques is one of the hallmarks of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). Amyloid beta (Aβ) peptides undergo self-aggregation to form soluble oligomers, protofibrils and ins...
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Identification of groundwater potential zones needs an understanding of different hydro-geological parameters of the concerned region. This present study done on Gandheswari watershed of West Bengal is mainly ...
