Climate 2030: A National Blueprint for a Clean Energy Economy (Executive Summary)

Courage of conviction, unyielding stamina to underscore the dangerous realities of unchanging lifestyle habits and doing business as usual in today’s world, and unfettered tenacity necessary to build an ever-growing network of dedicated individuals and scientists struggling to express the need for public awareness and governmental action, describes this nationwide group. The Union of Concerned Scientists, primarily headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, presents its forecast for 2030 – complete with the recipe needed to be undertaken for individuals and businesses to both survive and thrive

Myosin Va’s adaptor protein melanophilin enforces track selection on the microtubule and actin networks in vitro

Significance Inner organization of eukaryotic cells intimately depends on the active transport of diverse intracellular cargo on the ubiquitous actin and microtubule networks. The underlying mechanisms of such directional transport processes have been of outstanding interest. We studied a motor complex composed of Rab27a, melanophilin, and myosin Va and found, surprisingly, that the adaptor protein melanophilin toggled the binding preference toward actin or microtubules in vitro. Our results offer unexpected mechanistic insights into biasing the directionality of a moving organelle on the cytoskeleton through phospho-targeting the adaptor protein rather than its motor in vivo.</jats:p

Online Remedy Finder for Homeopathy

Due to the large number of questions asked by the homeopathy doctors before administrating treatment to patients, a large amount of time is wasted in collecting this information. Thus, it puts into the minds of the patients that visiting homeopathy doctors are wastage of time. This discourages patients from going to homeopathy doctors. Also, due to a large amount of data being collected, there is a lot of paperwork and manual data collection. The proposed system will assist the doctor in collecting the information as well as making decisions for diagnosing and curing the diseases. This paper discusses on data mining of the patient database, the disease database and its remedies. DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.16041

Impact of Cause-Related Marketing on Consumer Buying Behavior

 In recent era, cause-related marketing has become acommon term since it emerged in the 1980s. Consumersare the major stakeholders for organisations and theirviews and satisfaction or agreements are of utmostimportance while making strategies. Thus this paperattempts to study the impact of cause-related marketingon consumer buying behaviour. The sample consists of187 rural consumers in Thrissur district collected with thehelp of a standardized questionnaire. The data wasanalysed using descriptive statistics as well as analyticalstatistics. The paper does not focus on specific product orcompanies but attempts to get a general idea ofconsumers. From the analysis it is clear that 38.5 percentof respondents have no idea regarding the term causerelated marketing but unknowingly participate in CRMinitiatives. This research paper infers that CRM has a highimpact on consumer buying behaviour

Frequency reconfigurable antennas for cognitive radio applications: a review

Wireless communication systems undergo tremendous growth these days and devices able to operate in a number of frequencybandsarehighlydemanded. Reconfiguration in antenna characteristic striggered the evolution of antennas that can workin multiple frequency, pattern or polarization environment.The frequency reconfigurable antennas thuse mergedarewell suited in Cognitive Radios which take part in the effective utilization of unused bands of frequencies by continuously interacting with the RF environment. Thus, Cognitive Radios enhancetheutilization of frequency spectrum and establish reliable communication. The most recent research works carried out in the arena of Frequency Reconfigurable Antennas for Cognitive Radio applications are reviewed and summed up in this paper to present the attributes and categorization. Four techniques adopted to attain frequency reconfiguration are extensively compared in this paper to find the advantages and constraints of each methodology. The applications of the works reviewed here are not only limited to Cognitive radios, but extended to a number of wireless communication services like, WLAN, WiMAX, et

Underwater: Rising Seas, Chronic Floods, and the Implications for US Coastal Real Estate

As sea levels rise, more and more American homes and businesses will experience frequent, disruptive flooding that makes everyday life impossible. More than 300,000 of today's coastal homes are at risk of this untenable flooding within the term of a 30-year mortgage.Yet property values in most coastal real estate markets do not currently reflect this risk. And with short-sighted investments and policies at all levels of government concealing this growing problem, homeowners, businesses, communities, and investors are not aware of the financial losses they may soon face.In the coming decades, many coastal real estate markets will be strained by flooding, some to the point of collapse, with potential reverberations throughout the national economy. Individual homeowners and businessowners, banks, lenders, investors, developers, insurers, and taxpayers are poised to sustain large collective losses. Shrinking property tax bases could spell decline for many coastal cities and towns.We have scant time remaining to brace our communities, and our local and national economies, for this challenge. While there are no easy solutions, knowing our risk—and using that knowledge to create bold new policies and market incentives—will help protect coastal communities. Whether we react to this threat by implementing science-based, coordinated, and equitable solutions—or walk, eyes open, toward a crisis—is up to us right now

Synthesis of Petroleum-Based Fuel from Waste Plastics and Performance Analysis in a CI Engine

The present work involves the synthesis of a petroleum-based fuel by the catalytic pyrolysis of waste plastics. Catalytic pyrolysis involves the degradation of the polymeric materials by heating them in the absence of oxygen and in the presence of a catalyst. In the present study different oil samples are produced using different catalysts under different reaction conditions from waste plastics. The synthesized oil samples are subjected to a parametric study based on the oil yield, selectivity of the oil, fuel properties, and reaction temperature. Depending on the results from the above study, an optimization of the catalyst and reaction conditions was done. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry of the selected optimized sample was done to find out its chemical composition. Finally, performance analysis of the selected oil sample was carried out on a compression ignition (CI) engine. Polythene bags are selected as the source of waste plastics. The catalysts used for the study include silica, alumina, Y zeolite, barium carbonate, zeolite, and their combinations. The pyrolysis reaction was carried at polymer to catalyst ratio of 10 : 1. The reaction temperature ranges between 400°C and 550°C. The inert atmosphere for the pyrolysis was provided by using nitrogen as a carrier gas.</jats:p

Killer Heat in the United States: Climate Choices and the Future of Dangerously Hot Days

This UCS analysis provides a detailed view of how extreme heat events caused by dangerous combinations of temperature and humidity are likely to become more frequent and widespread in the United States over this century. It also describes the implications for everyday life in different regions of the country.We have analyzed where and how often in the contiguous United States the heat index—also known as the National Weather Service (NWS) "feels like" temperature—is expected to top 90°F, 100°F, or 105°F during future warm seasons (April through October). While there is no one standard definition of "extreme heat," in this report we refer to any individual days with conditions that exceed these thresholds as extreme heat days. We also analyzed the spread and frequency of heat conditions so extreme that the NWS formula cannot accurately calculate a corresponding heat index. The "feels like" temperatures in these cases are literally off the charts.We have conducted this analysis for three global climate scenarios associated with different levels of global heattrapping emissions and future warming. These scenarios reflect different levels of action to reduce global emissions, from effectively no action to rapid action. Even the scenario of rapid action to reduce emissions does not spare our communities a future of substantially increased extreme heat. For the greatest odds of securing a safe climate future for ourselves and the ecosystems we all depend on, we would need to take even more aggressive action, in the US and globally, than outlined in any of the scenarios used here. Our challenge is great, but the threat of not meeting it is far greater

Caesarean Hysterectomy for Placenta Accreta Spectrum in a Single Centre: A Series of 19 Cases

The objective of this study is to assess obstetric complications, blood loss, blood transfusion requirement, and maternal and fetal outcomes associated with the authors’ approach of Caesarean hysterectomy for placenta accreta spectrum disorders. Data were collected from case records of all females who underwent Caesarean hysterectomy between August 2013–August 2023 at Lifeline Multispeciality Hospital, Adoor, Kerala, India. There were 19 cases of Caesarean hysterectomy. The mean age was 33.63±2.90 years. Mean blood loss during surgery was 1.11±0.16 L, and the mean packed red blood cells transfused was 2.00±0.38 units. The mean gestational age of termination was 33 weeks and 5 days, and mean birth weight was 2.28±0.21 kg. There were no maternal or neonatal deaths. Placenta accreta spectrum should be managed in a multidisciplinary setup with the involvement of a senior experienced obstetrician. Early, careful bladder dissection before proceeding with hysterectomy will help in reducing haemorrhage, and in accelerating hysterectomy