EFFECT OF INM PRACTICES ON THE MORPHOLOGICAL, PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL PARAMETER OF ARJUN LEAF PRIMARY HOST PLANT OF Antheraea mylitta D.

The present study was conducted to investigate the effect of Integrated Nutrient Management practices on the different  parameter of Arjun leaf the primary host plant of Antheraea mylitta D. Eleven different combination with three replication were laid out in Randomized Complete Block Design at the field of Research Extension Centre, Kapistha. The obtained results showed that morphological, Physiological and Biochemical parameter of Arjun leaf showed significant difference. The Arjun leaf length was recorded highest in K11 (17cm) was on par with K9 (17cm). Highest leaf breadth was recorded in K10 (6.2cm) was applied with 75%RDF+Poultry manure+ AB+PSB. Leaf weight was recorded highest in K7 (2.84g), lowest in K1(1.21g). Number of leaves was recorded highest in K6 (1816) over the control. The leaf yield was recorded highest in K11 (3735). Leaves dry matter production was highest in K8 (469.56g) over the control. Relative water content was highest in K5 (87.3%). The initial Electrical Conductivity was recorded highest in K9 (0.037dSm-1) and after 10 min EC was found to highest in K9 (0.111dSm-1). The Chlorophyll ’a’ was recorded highest in K9 (3.39), Chl’b’(2.36)and total chlorophyll in K9(5.75) was recorded highest. The result were found significant due to effect of INM practices which provided the nutrients element needed by plants. View Article DOI: 10.47856/ijaast.2022.v09i01.00

Performance of novel VUV-sensitive Silicon Photo-Multipliers for nEXO

Liquid xenon time projection chambers are promising detectors to search for neutrinoless double beta decay (0$\nu \beta \beta$), due to their response uniformity, monolithic sensitive volume, scalability to large target masses, and suitability for extremely low background operations. The nEXO collaboration has designed a tonne-scale time projection chamber that aims to search for 0$\nu \beta \beta$ of \ce{^{136}Xe} with projected half-life sensitivity of $1.35\times 10^{28}$~yr. To reach this sensitivity, the design goal for nEXO is $\leq$1\% energy resolution at the decay $Q$-value ($2458.07\pm 0.31$~keV). Reaching this resolution requires the efficient collection of both the ionization and scintillation produced in the detector. The nEXO design employs Silicon Photo-Multipliers (SiPMs) to detect the vacuum ultra-violet, 175 nm scintillation light of liquid xenon. This paper reports on the characterization of the newest vacuum ultra-violet sensitive Fondazione Bruno Kessler VUVHD3 SiPMs specifically designed for nEXO, as well as new measurements on new test samples of previously characterised Hamamatsu VUV4 Multi Pixel Photon Counters (MPPCs). Various SiPM and MPPC parameters, such as dark noise, gain, direct crosstalk, correlated avalanches and photon detection efficiency were measured as a function of the applied over voltage and wavelength at liquid xenon temperature (163~K). The results from this study are used to provide updated estimates of the achievable energy resolution at the decay $Q$-value for the nEXO design

Search for Neutrinoless Double- β Decay with the Complete EXO-200 Dataset

A search for neutrinoless double-β decay (0νββ) in Xe136 is performed with the full EXO-200 dataset using a deep neural network to discriminate between 0νββ and background events. Relative to previous analyses, the signal detection efficiency has been raised from 80.8% to 96.4±3.0%, and the energy resolution of the detector at the Q value of Xe136 0νββ has been improved from σ/E=1.23% to 1.15±0.02% with the upgraded detector. Accounting for the new data, the median 90% confidence level 0νββ half-life sensitivity for this analysis is 5.0×1025 yr with a total Xe136 exposure of 234.1 kg yr. No statistically significant evidence for 0νββ is observed, leading to a lower limit on the 0νββ half-life of 3.5×1025 yr at the 90% confidence level

Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift during the LIGO-Virgo Run O3b

We search for gravitational-wave signals associated with gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi and Swift satellites during the second half of the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (2019 November 1 15:00 UTC-2020 March 27 17:00 UTC). We conduct two independent searches: A generic gravitational-wave transients search to analyze 86 GRBs and an analysis to target binary mergers with at least one neutron star as short GRB progenitors for 17 events. We find no significant evidence for gravitational-wave signals associated with any of these GRBs. A weighted binomial test of the combined results finds no evidence for subthreshold gravitational-wave signals associated with this GRB ensemble either. We use several source types and signal morphologies during the searches, resulting in lower bounds on the estimated distance to each GRB. Finally, we constrain the population of low-luminosity short GRBs using results from the first to the third observing runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo. The resulting population is in accordance with the local binary neutron star merger rate. © 2022. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society

Search for gravitational-wave transients associated with magnetar bursts in advanced LIGO and advanced Virgo data from the third observing run

Gravitational waves are expected to be produced from neutron star oscillations associated with magnetar giant f lares and short bursts. We present the results of a search for short-duration (milliseconds to seconds) and longduration (∼100 s) transient gravitational waves from 13 magnetar short bursts observed during Advanced LIGO, Advanced Virgo, and KAGRA’s third observation run. These 13 bursts come from two magnetars, SGR1935 +2154 and SwiftJ1818.0−1607. We also include three other electromagnetic burst events detected by FermiGBM which were identified as likely coming from one or more magnetars, but they have no association with a known magnetar. No magnetar giant flares were detected during the analysis period. We find no evidence of gravitational waves associated with any of these 16 bursts. We place upper limits on the rms of the integrated incident gravitational-wave strain that reach 3.6 × 10−²³ Hz at 100 Hz for the short-duration search and 1.1 ×10−²² Hz at 450 Hz for the long-duration search. For a ringdown signal at 1590 Hz targeted by the short-duration search the limit is set to 2.3 × 10−²² Hz. Using the estimated distance to each magnetar, we derive upper limits upper limits on the emitted gravitational-wave energy of 1.5 × 1044 erg (1.0 × 1044 erg) for SGR 1935+2154 and 9.4 × 10^43 erg (1.3 × 1044 erg) for Swift J1818.0−1607, for the short-duration (long-duration) search. Assuming isotropic emission of electromagnetic radiation of the burst fluences, we constrain the ratio of gravitational-wave energy to electromagnetic energy for bursts from SGR 1935+2154 with the available fluence information. The lowest of these ratios is 4.5 × 103

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Not AvailableThe present study illustrates the importance of floodplain wetlands in supporting livelihood through ecosystem goods and services provided by the Ansupa Lake in Odisha. Fishing and Agricultural crops are the two provisioning services provided by the Lake. The Lake provides subsistence fisheries round the year in term of small indigenous fishes, table size fishes and important ornamental fisheries. While among agricultural crops rice form the highest income commodity. Further, the Lake provides eco-tourism as a source of income for the livelihood due to its unique biodiversity of flora and fauna. But in due course of time, the Lake has undergone shrinkage in water area due to siltation and other anthropogenic activities. Hence a good management practice by involving local stakeholders with community participation can help in restoring the wetlands in the long run as well as will improve the livelihood of the poor people.Not Availabl

Study of the incidence of different types of tuberculous lesion in association with diabetes mellitus in Indian patients

Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the most common infectious diseases worldwide.  It is well known that diabetes mellitus (DM) impairs the immunity of patients and therefore is an independent risk factor for infections such as TB. Hence keeping all above things in mind we had undertaken this study with following aims and objectives: to find out the incidence of different types of tuberculosis in patients suffering from diabetes mellitus; to prevent early mortality and morbidity caused by tuberculosis and early diagnosis and treatment of diabetes mellitus in patients of tuberculosis and vice-versa. Materials & Methods: In the present work a total number of 100 (hundred) patient were selected in which patients had history of diabetes mellitus and having complaints of cough with productive sputum for more than four weeks. Sputum examination for A.F.B, sputum culture examination, Skiagram of the chest PA view, tuberculin skin test, ELISA for mycobacterium tuberculosis, biochemical, cytological examination and culture of ascitic, pleural, pericardial and cerebrospinal fluid. Others supportive investigations  were complete blood examination, ESR, USG of abdomen, echocardiography, C.T. Scan of Brain, Spine, Abdomen etc. and tissue biopsy – by fine needle aspiration of affected side was taken and cultured. Results: About 100 cases of diabetes mellitus were taken from indoor and outdoors in Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences, Ranchi of these patients 20 were found with tuberculous lesion. In 20 diabetic tuberculosis patients, 11 were male and 9 were female. In these patients, 16 were belonging to rural area and 4 were from urban area. Extra pulmonary tuberculosis was found in 14 patients and pulmonary tuberculosis in 6 patients. The incidence of tuberculous infection is associated with more in type 2 diabetes mellitus than type 1 diabetes mellitus, 17 & 3 cases respectively. The most common clinical feature was cough with or without expectoration, than fever and weakness. Pleural effusion is the most common extra pulmonary tuberculous lesion. Most of the tuberculous lesions are diagnosed by Chest X-Ray PA-view. In diabetic pulmonary tuberculous lesion, 45% cases are found in advanced stage.  Conclusion: This study shows the incidence of tubercolous infection in diabetes mellitus in gradually increasing. Extra pulmonary types of tuberculosis are more in diabetic patients. Rural populations are more prone to be infected with tuberculosis. The future studies will within corborate or contradict the present finding and thereby strengthen the observation made in the present study. Keywords: Pulmonary and extra pulmonary tuberculosis, diabetes mellitus, association, incidence, diagnostic tests, mortalit

Spatial distribution of metal(Ioid)s in groundwater of a mining dominated area : recognising metal(Ioid) sources and assessing carcinogenic and non-carcinogenic human health risk

The study represents the first systematic risk assessment study in East Singhbhum district, Jharkhand, India for the safety of groundwater for drinking purpose with respect to metal(loid)s. The district is known for its mining and related activities. The results demonstrated that concentrations of the metal(loid)s showed significant spatial variation with Al, Mn, Fe, Ni and Zn exceeding the drinking water standards. Principal component analysis resulted in extraction of four factors explaining 76.3% of the data variability. The extracted principal components pointed towards both geogenic and anthropogenic activities governing the groundwater quality. Risk assessment was quantified by the hazard quotient (HQ) and cancer risk for both adult and child. The risk on human health posed by the metal(loid)s was found to be adverse for Mn with HQ > 1 for child. The chronic risks to the local population were largely contributed by Mn, Co and As. However, the carcinogenic risk for As was within the acceptable cancer risk value of 1 × 10−4. Considering the geometric mean of the metal(loid)s in the study area, the hazard index (HI) for adult was above unity. Considering all the locations, the HI varied from 0.23 to 13.03 and 0.20 to 11.15 for adult and child, respectively, suggesting that the groundwater is unsuitable for drinking without treatment at most of the locations