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Transgenic Bt Cotton
Not AvailableCotton is one of the major fibre crops of global significance. It is cultivated in tropical and subtropical
regions of more than eighty countries of world occupying nearly 33 m ha with an annual
production of 19 to 20 million tones of bales. China, U.S.A., India, Pakistan, Uzbekistan,
Australia, Brazil, Greece, Argentina and Egypt are major cotton producing countries. These
countries contribute nearly 85% of the global cotton production. In India, cotton is being cultivated
in 9.0 m ha and stands first in acreage. The crop is grown in varied agro-climatic situation across
nine major states viz. Maharashtra, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan,
Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu. The crop is also grown on small area in Orissia,
Assam, U.P and West Bengal. Nearly 60 million people are engaged in cotton production,
marketing and processing. The textile industry which utilizes the cotton provides employment to
about 16% of the total workforce. Cotton in its various forms also serves as raw material for more
than 25 industries
Requirements for Energy Efficient Edge Computing : A Survey
Internet of Things is evolving heavily in these times. One of the major obstacle is energy consumption in the IoT devices (sensor nodes and wireless gateways). The IoT devices are often battery powered wireless devices and thus reducing the energy consumption in these devices is essential to lengthen the lifetime of the device without battery change. It is possible to lengthen battery lifetime by efficient but lightweight sensor data analysis in close proximity of the sensor. Performing part of the sensor data analysis in the end device can reduce the amount of data needed to transmit wirelessly. Transmitting data wirelessly is very energy consuming task. At the same time, the privacy and security should not be compromised. It requires effective but computationally lightweight encryption schemes. This survey goes thru many aspects to consider in edge and fog devices to minimize energy consumption and thus lengthen the device and the network lifetime.peerReviewe
A Review on the optic disc and optic cup segmentation and classification approaches over retinal fundus images for detection of glaucoma
Efect of antiseptic gels in the microbiologic colonization of the suture threads after oral surgery
Te work was supported by the Oral Medicine, Oral surgery and Implantology Unit. School of Medicine and
Dentistry, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.Three diferent bioadhesive gels were evaluated in a double-blind randomized clinical trial in which
microbial growth in the suture thread was assessed following post-surgical application of the
aforementioned gels. Also assessed in this trial were, the intensity of post-surgical pain as well as
the degree of healing of the patients’ surgical wounds. A total of 21 patients (with 42 wisdom teeth)
participated in this trial. Chlorhexidine gel, chlorhexidine-chitosan gel, and hyaluronic acid gel were
evaluated, with a neutral water-based gel serving as the control agent. The aerobic and facultative
anaerobic bacterial recovery on blood agar was lower in the placebo group than in the experimental
groups. The most signifcant diference (p=0.04) was observed in the chlorhexidine-chitosan group. in
which the growth of Blood Agar and Mitis Salivarius Agar was signifcantly higher than in the placebo
group. The intensity of post-surgical pain was very similar among all the groups. Signifcantly better
healing rates were observed in the patients treated with chlorhexidine-chitosan gel when compared
with those who used the placebo gel (p=0.03), and in particular when compared with those patients
who used hyaluronic acid gel (p=0.01). Through our microbiological analyses, we were able to conclude
that none of the bioadhesive gels tested resulted in benefcial reductions in the bacterial/fungal
populations. However, the healing rates of patients who were treated with chlorhexidine-chitosan were
better than those of the patients who used either the placebo gel or the hyaluronic acid gel