Nanoparticles (NPs) have revolutionized the society being a part of numerous products of day to day uses. However, its potential to act as an adverse entity was greatly ignored. Recently, the toxic effect of nanoparticles on biological system is checked using various model organisms. Among various models fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster has turned up as a promising model since numerous diseased genes and signalling pathways are similar to that of a hu...

Chronic arsenic endosmosis causes severe threat to human health within the developing countries. This study assessed the levels of geogenicarsenic and other heavy metals as well as the controlling factors of arsenic release in the aquifers within the drinking water sources in the middle Gangetic plains of Bhojpur district in Bihar, India. Six water samples were collected from hand-dug wells within the six severely arsenic contaminated regions namely Bakh...

Presently ECG signal telemonitoring is one of the essential branch in telemedicine system. So it is highly desirable to construct a robust telemonitoring system through wireless body area network (WBAN) with consumption of less energy and less power. A number of traditional ECG reconstruction techniques have been proposed to recover the clean ECG data. However because of some specific behavior and characteristics of raw ECG data like non sparsity and heavy contamination of noise the traditio...

In the field of behavioral biometric, signature verification is most referenced procedure for authentication of a person. A signature is considered to be the “seal of approval” for verifying the approval of a user and remains the most preferred means of authentication. This verification system mainly aims at verifying the discriminating the forged signature (forged by an imposter) from the genuine signatures. In this paper, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) have been utilized to learn feat...

In the present study, phthalate esters (PEs) (diethyl phthalate and dimethyl phthalate) containing wastewater was treated by aerobic bacterial strain isolated from soil contaminated with muncipal wastewater discharge site. The isolate was identified as Bacillus sp. on the basis of morphological, biochemical and molecular characteristics. An internal loop airlift bioreactor was designed and fabricated. Treatment of PEs containing synthetic wastewater by isolates was carried out for various ini...

The present study reports the biotransformation of butachlor and other herbicides by a hyper butachlor-tolerant bacterial strain Serratia ureilytica strain AS1 isolated previously from the pesticide-contaminated agricultural soil. Under optimal conditions, the bacterial strain AS1 has the capacity to degrade up to 500 mg/L of butachlor completely within 240 hours in aqueous medium and within 288 hours at a rate constant of 0.2 day-1 following a first-order rate kinetics in agricultural soil a...

The aim of this work is to explore various verbal descriptors associated with manual woodworking chisels based on the literature published online by reputed woodworking chisel manufacturers. Another aim of this study is to identify sets of meaningful factors to which these descriptors could be reduced qualitatively. Verbal descriptors for chisel designs were collected from websites of 38 manufacturers. 4 design experts identified 3 basic kinds of descriptors based on the specific features des...

Cloud computing is a new form of computing technology and functions on web server, managed remotely and focuses on service. This technology is mainly responsible for providing infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and software asa service (SaaS) to others and ensures all infrastructure and software applications are flexible, dynamic and usable for others. The cloud may deal with different services and applications such as ...

Background: Skin is the largest organ by surface area in almost all of the animal species. Since it positions as an interface between internal body and external environment, it is specialized to undergo various functions like secretion, protection and absorption. In this study we investigated the mechanical properties of goat skin. Methods: Goat skin (n=7) were obtained from local slaughterhouse. Two rectangular samples perpendicular to each other were obtained from each specimen. Uniaxial t...

Background: The pericardium is a double layered transparent membrane that encloses the heart and provides friction free environment. The pericardium also helps in maintaining the hydrostatic pressure and heart volume and protects the heart from injury. The collagen rich outer fibrous pericardium is connected to the diaphragm, mediastinal pleura and sternum. The inner serous pericardium consists of two layers- parietal layer and visceral layer. The visceral layer that lines the outer surface o...

Nowadays, lightweight flexible robot is used in many space robots, because these are more transportable and more maneuverable, unlike the rigid-link robot manipulator.However, due to non-minimum phase behavior and distributed link flexure tip-tracking control of FLM is challenging. Also,inherent model uncertainties and environmental disturbance lead to an error in tip-positioning and link vibration. To deal with these challenges, ...

Autophagy can either be cytoprotective or promote cell death in a context-dependent manner in response to stress. How autophagy leads to autophagic cell death requires further clarification. In this study, we document a nonlinear roller coaster form of autophagy oscillation when cells are subjected to different stress conditions. Serum starvation induces an initial primary autophagic peak at 6 h that is sufficient to reduce autophagy at 24 h by replenishing cells with de novo fluxed nutrients...

Host-directed therapy has now been adopted as a novel anti TB strategy to strangulate the ever threatening global tuberculosis (TB) burden. In past few years, autophagy is one of such strategy that has been manipulated through various inducers to curtail the intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) survival. Amongst various inducers, triggering autophagy through natural compounds is a treasure resource whose potential can be harnessed for better therapeutics against TB. In t...

With the advancement of network and communication technologies, the Internet plays a vital role in our day-to-day life. These technologies provide several online services such as online booking, gaming, online shopping, e-health care, etc. WBAN such type of e-healthcare systems which consists of several sensors implanted in patient’s body. These sensor nodes collect various health-related sensitive data such as heart rate, blood pressure, pulse rate, etc. and send them to the network server f...

Utilization of biomass as renewable and sustainable resource has attracted much attention of scientific community around the world. Herein, for the first time we report a green synthesis approach for carbon dots (CDs) from spider silk (Crossopriza lyoni) done by simple thermal pyrolysis at low temperature of 250⁰C. The synthesized CDs are comprehensively characterized by XRD, Raman, UV-visible and photoluminescence spectroscopy. The obtained higher band gap confirms the formation of CDs. The...

Financial fraud in the credit card transaction environment refers to the unauthorized use of card transactions through multiple platforms by stealing the user credentials to gain advantages fraudulently. In order to curb this problem,an accurately financial fraud detection method is necessary to implement; since this type of fraud causes financial loss with security breach. It is observed in literature that application of machine learning techniques yields satisfactory resu...

Nonlinear fractional differential equations (NLFDEs) are widely used to describe various phenomena in different fields of science and engineering such as physics, chemistry, acoustics, control theory, finance, economics, mechanical, civil, electrical engineering and also in social sciences. Applications of NLFDEs can also be found in turbulence, fluid dynamics, and nonlinear biological systems. NLFDEs are believed to be potent tools to define real-world problems more accurately than the integ...

Internet of Things (IoT) [1] is defined as connecting and interacting with things using Internet. In the context of IoT enabled Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN), WBAN [2] is a wireless networking paradigm of wearable sensors which can be referred as things. The sensors collect patients’ vital sign parameters such as Electrocardiogram (ECG) and body temperature, and then send this vital information to Hub or Coordinator over wireless medium. In turn, the coordinator relays the information ga...

The mechanical and dielectric properties of Natural Sunn Hemp Fiber-reinforced Epoxy Composite with various fiber loadings are investigated at ambient temperature. Inadequate fiber loading decreases the mechanical strength of the composite. Dielectric constant and loss factor are increased with loading. The presence of non-debye type of relaxation was confirmed from the cole-cole impendence plot. Conduction mechanism in the composite system revealed the increase of conductivity values with a...