COVID 19-Induced Lockdown 2.0 and Looming Crisis across Sectors of Economy: Evidence from the Indian States

Due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown, most economic activities have come to a standstill. It assumes that lockdown with social distancing measures may lower the spread of infected cases, as it will be over-optimistic to expect the complete burnout of the virus. The present study attempts to access the loss of the country’s economy in the wake of the coronavirus-induced 50-day lockdown (40-day lockdown + 10-day preoperative period). The data on Net State Value Added (NSVA) at base price 2011-2012 by economic activity was collected from the Reserve Bank of India for five consecutive financial years. This study assumes 10-day for restoring back to the production capacity, although each sector has its own dynamics and different cycles. The autoregressive process was used for forecasting the growth rate of Gross Value Added. The study found that across Indian states, the amount of loss was most extensive in the state of Maharashtra, as against Tamil Nadu and Karnataka. Besides the manufacturing sector, the enormous burden of loss was reflected in the real estate sector, followed by ownership of dwellings and professional services. The highest per capita loss of the NSVA was found in the state of Goa, as against Delhi. The study argued that all the affected sectors likely to register negative growth in the subsequent two quarters

A coupled common fixed point theorem for a family of mappings

In this paper we introduce the concept of coincidentally commuting pair in the context of coupled fixed point problems. It is established that an arbitrary family of mappings has a coupled common fixed point with two other functions under certain contractive inequality condition where two specific members of the family are assumed to be coincidentally commuting with these two functions respectively. The main result has certain corollaries. An example shows that the main theorem properly contains one of its corollaries

Direction of uneven health-care expenditure: Evidence from Northeast India

Background: Although the need for ensuring universal coverage in health has received the attention of policymakers under the Millennium Development Goals program, the skewed pattern of health-care expenditure has been increased globally. Objective: To find out the pattern of public health-care expenditure in northeastern states of India and also to identify the nature of inter-state variation in health-care expenditure among the states. Methods: The study was based on the secondary data collected from the State Finance Figures of Budgetary Statistics of Reserve Bank of India. The period of study was 13 years (2002–2003 to 2014–2015). The study used descriptive statistics and composite supply-side index separately for revenue and capital expenditure by randomizing through the population census figures of 2001 and 2011 for examining the pattern of interstate variation in health-care expenditure. Results: It has been observed that the states having higher mean expenditure registered low compound annual growth rate in health expenditure and thereby causing low per capita value and lower value of the composite index. Conclusion: Thus, the largely populated state needs the due attention of policymaker in reducing the skewed pattern of health-care expenditure

Weak Coupled Coincidence Point Results Having a Partially Ordering in Fuzzy Metric Spaces

Coupled coincidence and fixed point problems have been in the focus of the research interest for last few years. The problem was introduced in fuzzy metric spaces only very recently. In this paper, we work out a weak coupled coincidence point theorem for a compatible pair of mappings in fuzzy metric spaces. As one of the corollaries we have a weak coupled fuzzy contraction mapping theorem. The space is endowed with a partial ordering. We use a combination of analytic and order theoretic concepts in the proof of our main theorem. The result is illustrated with an example

Coupled coincidence point results for probabilistic φ-contractions

In this paper, we establish a new coupled coincidence point results in partially ordered probabilistic metric spaces by utilizing the Gauge function. We use the compatibility condition between two mappings. We use monotone and mixed monotone properties of functions with respect to the ordering. Our main result has several corollaries. The main result is supported with an example which shows that the corollaries are actually contained in our main theorem. The methodology is a combination of analytic and order theoretic approaches

Synthesis, characterization and electrochemical studies of oximato-bridged binuclear osmium(II)-oxovanadium(IV) complexes

586-590The reaction of facial-[OsA3]- (3 [A = anion of arylazo oxime (HA, 1)] with VO(acac)2 furnishes hetero-bimetallic complexes of the type [OsA3VO(acac)] (4). Replacement of acac by neutral N,N donors (B) like 2,2' -bipyridine and 1, 10-phenanthroline gives cationic species of the type [OsA3VO(B)]+ isolated as perchlorate salt 5. Extrusion of 4 and 5 with NaOH reverts to mononuclear 3. All the complexes have been characterized using their spectroscopic, magnetic and physicochemical results. A1: 1 correspondence in the IR spectra of 4 (A = A2) and corresponding well-characterized iron-vanadium analogue, [FeA23 VO(acac)] suggests cognate structure 6. The new binuclear complexes are one-electron paramagnets and VO2 + core is EPR-active. The g-values suggest the occupancy of the unpaired electron in dxy orbital. The complexes show a number of charge-transfer transitions in 200-700 nm region and exhibit nearly reversible osmiurm(III)-osmium(II) couple

Cerium ion-induced fluorescence enhancement of a tripodal fluoroionophore

A new tripodal ligand, N-anthracen-9-ylmethyl-N',N'-bis-[2-(anthracen-9-ylmethyl-thiophen-2-ylmethylamino)ethyl]-N-thiophen-2-ylmethyl-ethane-1,2-diamine 2 was synthesized. Selective fluorescence enhancement was observed in the presence of Ce3+ for this newly synthesized ionophore in dry tetrahydrofuran (THF). A new tripodal ligand shows selective fluorescence enhancement in the presence of Ce3+

Experimental investigation into characterization and machining of Al + SiCp nano-composites using coated carbide tool

The current research paper discusses the characterization and machining (turning) operation of aluminium (Al) and silicon carbide nano particle (SiCp) nano composite. The paper reveals proper distribution of silicon carbide nano particles (25nm) with aluminium metal matrix. Initially, tensile test has been carried on metal matrix nano composite to study its different properties. It was noticed that the properties of Al-SiCp increases by increasing the weight percentage of SiCp. Viker hardness test has also been conducted to find out the hardness of metal matrix nano composites. Different techniques i.e. Optical microscopy EDX-Analysis were utilized to find out various ingredients of the nano-composite material. The experimental study was carried out using Taguchi L16 orthogonal array by taking three different factors at four different levels each. The response parameters i.e. flank wear of coated carbide insert and surface roughness of Al-SiCp has been optimized by using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). Various graphs like main effect plot and normal probability plot have been plotted and studied properly. Different optical images of coated insert carbide tools (Insert CNMG 12040822TN 6010) at different runs were conducted to visualize the effects of process and response parameters. From the ANOVA table, it was found that cutting speed as well as depth of cut are found to the most vital parameters in influencing the responses for VBc and depth of cut and feed are found to the most significant parameters in influencing the responses for Ra

Langmuir films of a cryptand-based amphiphile at the air-water interface

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Synthesis, characterization and redox behavior of isometric [OsA₂L₂] [A=NO<img src='http://www.niscair.res.in/jinfo/two.gif' border=0>, SCN^- or N<img src='/image/spc_char/3_bar.gif' border=0> and L = 2-(arylazo)pyridine complexes

580-584Both blue-violet (2) and red-violet (3) isomers of [OsX2L2] where X=Cl or Br; and L (1) = 2- (arylazo)pyridine react smoothly with A (A=NO, SCN- or N) in boiling aqueous ethanol affording species of the type [OsA2L2] (4 and 5, respectively). From spectral data the stereoretentivity of the reaction is proposed. The new complexes are electro active and display one metal-centred oxidation and successive ligand-based reductions in MeCN solutions. Chemical reactivity of these species is also studied