Caste, local governance effectiveness, and multidimensional poverty in rural India: some evidences by Amarachi Onyeyirichi Ogbonna, Charles Aaron Adams Ekuban, C. Muralee Krishnan, P. K. Viswanathan

“…IntroductionThis study explores the relationships between local governance effectiveness, population densities of Scheduled Castes (SC) and Scheduled Tribes (ST), and rural multidimensional poverty in India, using data from the 2011 Indian Census, 2011 Socio-Economic and Caste Census (SECC), 2020 Mission Antyodaya, and 2019/21 National Family and Health Survey (NFHS).MethodsThe research examines how SC/ST population densities and local governance effectiveness are associated with the Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) across Indian states through regression and correlation analysis.ResultsThe study’s findings reveal a national, rural MPI of 0.110, with 26% of the rural population experiencing multidimensional poverty. …”
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Footprint of the COVID-19 Pandemic in India: A Study of Immune Landscape and Other Factors Shielding Mortality by Noura Al-Dayan, Divya Venugopal, Sugapriya Dhanasekaran

“…Here, we explore if certain KIR-HLA motifs grant Indians a survival advantage in terms of the low rate of mortality. …”
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Reporting and representation of participant race and ethnicity in phase III clinical trials for solid tumors by Tianyi Wang, Dinorah J Villanueva, Ambily Banerjee, Dina Gifkins

“…Participants were predominantly White (76.3%), followed by Asian/Pacific Islander (14.1%), Black/African American (4.5%), and American Indian/Alaska Native (0.6%). Hispanic/Latino constituted 6.4% of participants. …”
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BharatSim: An agent-based modelling framework for India. by Philip Cherian, Jayanta Kshirsagar, Bhavesh Neekhra, Gaurav Deshkar, Harshal Hayatnagarkar, Kshitij Kapoor, Chandrakant Kaski, Ganesh Kathar, Swapnil Khandekar, Saurabh Mookherjee, Praveen Ninawe, Riz Fernando Noronha, Pranjal Ranka, Vaibhhav Sinha, Tina Vinod, Chhaya Yadav, Debayan Gupta, Gautam I Menon

“…BharatSim is an open-source agent-based modelling framework for the Indian population. It can simulate populations at multiple scales, from small communities to states. …”
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Legal interventions for perinatal depression in India: a qualitative study with clinical specialists having expertise in perinatal mental health by Ritika Behl, Vivek Nemane, Shashikala Gurpur

“…All invited participants either had a background in perinatal psychiatry or were experienced in working with the perinatal population and had undertaken evidence-based research regarding perinatal mental health (PMH), in the Indian setting.Results Five themes emerged from the collected data including (1) the epidemiology of PND in the Indian context, (2) the management of PND in India and the efficacy of the existing legal frameworks, (3) the need for legal interventions for addressing and managing PND in India, (4) role of legislative instruments, globally, in managing maternal PND and (5) advocacy for PMH by lawyers, and advocates in India.Conclusions The existing policy gap is associated with the violation of women’s rights. …”
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Microplastics: A threat to Fetoplacental unit and Reproductive systems by Abass Toba Anifowoshe, Md Noor Akhtar, Abisola Majeed, Asem Sanjit Singh, Toyyibah Funmilayo Ismail, Upendra Nongthomba

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Model-based fed-batch cultivation of Viola odorata plant cells exhibiting antimalarial and anticancer activity by R. Babu, Manokaran Veeramani, Wallepure Aadinath, Vignesh Muthuvijayan, Shailja Singh, Smita Srivastava

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Evaluation of PM2.5 Surface Concentrations Simulated by NASA’s MERRA Version 2 Aerosol Reanalysis over India and its Relation to the Air Quality Index by Chimurkar D. Navinya, V. Vinoj, Satyendra K. Pandey

“…This study assesses MERRA-2’s PM2.5 results by comparing them with ground-based measurements conducted at 20 stations across the Indian region between 2015 and early 2018. Our analysis shows that MERRA-2 generally underestimates the PM2.5 in terms of both the mass concentration and the number of exceedance days. …”
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Investigation of the impact of complex coastline geometry on the evolution of storm surges along the eastern coast of India: a sensitivity study using a numerical model by P. Tiwari, A. D. Rao, S. Pandey, V. Pant

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Numerical Investigation of Dual Metal Hydride Bed Based Thermochemical Energy Storage System by Sumeet Kumar Dubey, K. Ravi Kumar, Vinay Tiwari, Umish Srivastva

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Prevalence and Risk Factors of HIV Infection among Clients Attending ICTCs in Six Districts of Tamilnadu, South India by Rajeswari Ramachandran, V. Chandrasekaran, M. Muniyandi, K. Jaggarajamma, Anasua Bagchi, Supriya Sahu

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Optimizing chickpea yield prediction under wilt disease through synergistic integration of biophysical and image parameters using machine learning models by RN Singh, P. Krishnan, C. Bharadwaj, Sonam Sah, B. Das

“…Field experiments were carried out over three years at the Indian Agricultural Research Institute research farm in New Delhi. …”
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Examining the Chemical and Optical Properties of Biomass-burning Aerosols and their Impact on Oxidative Potential by Suman Yadav, Taveen Singh Kapoor, Pradnya Vernekar, Harish C. Phuleria

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System Safety Assessment Based on Past Incidents in Oil and Gas Industries: A Focused Approach in Forecasting of Minor, Severe, Critical, and Catastrophic Incidents, 2010–2015 by Praveen Patel, Nagendra Sohani

“…This work demonstrates the critical system safety assessment based on various incidents that took place to the different system and subsystem of two Indian oil refineries in five years of span 2010 to 2015. …”
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Justice et agentivité distribuée chez les Mixe de Oaxaca (Mexique) by Perig Pitrou

“…Through the study of various types of ritual speech uttered by judicial authorities during their service in a Mixe Indian village community, the aim of this article is to understand how the different kinds of agency attributed to non-human agents combine with human agency within a hierarchical judicial institution. …”
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Some Suggestions for Controlling Benghal Dayflower in Field Nurseries by Robert H. Stamps

“… ENH-1085, a 9-page illustrated fact-sheet by Robert Stamps, describes this increasingly problematic weed — also known as jio, tropical spiderwort, hairy wandering jew, and Indian dayflower — in field nurseries, its identification, control, factors effecting pre- and post-emergence herbicides, tables of recommended herbicides, and references. …”
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Miracle et espace social au village nahua de La Esperanza, Mexique by Anath Ariel de Vidas

“…It simultaneously reveals the fragmentation and delimitation of the social and political boundaries of the local Indian group.…”
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La rapide création du Parc Naturel marin de Mayotte by Nicolas Legoff

“…It clearly shows the will of France to manage a broad area in south-west of the Indian Ocean even if its means of action are still to settle. …”
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Some Suggestions for Controlling Benghal Dayflower in Field Nurseries by Robert H. Stamps

“… ENH-1085, a 9-page illustrated fact-sheet by Robert Stamps, describes this increasingly problematic weed — also known as jio, tropical spiderwort, hairy wandering jew, and Indian dayflower — in field nurseries, its identification, control, factors effecting pre- and post-emergence herbicides, tables of recommended herbicides, and references. …”
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Un modèle indien du développement des TIC ? by Clarisse Didelon, Blandine Ripert

“…During the last years, the image of India in the western media is becoming better with a focus on the Indian informatics engineers very well connected in the information society. …”
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