Properties On A New Comprehensive Family Of Holomorphic Functions Associated With Ruscheweyh Derivative and Generalized Multiplier Transformations

In the present paper, a new comprehensive family of holomorphic functions, which includes various new subfamilies of holomorphic functions as well as some very well-known ones, is introduced. Sharp results concerning coefficient inequalities and distortion bounds of functions belonging to these families are determined. Furthermore, functions with negative coefficients belonging to these families are also investigated

Cultivation of embryos of Drosophyllum lusitanicum link-an insectivorous plant

There has been growing interest in recent years in the understanding of nutrition and flowering of insectivorous angiosperms in axenic cultures. This note reports our preliminary results on the cultivation of seeds and embroys of Drosophyllum lusitanicum Link. The seed is pyramidal in shape and has a thick, black seed coat. The mature embryo is small and fully organized. The bulk of the seed is occupied by the cellular, starchy endosperm. Modified White's medium containing 2% sucrose and solidified with 0.8% agar but without IAA served as the basal medium (WB). Mature seeds were surface sterilized with chlorine water and planted on WB as well as on WB + 500 mg/1 each of beef extract, casein hydrolysate and yeast extract separately

Studies on the cytokinins in fruits I. Occurrence and levels of cytokinin-like substances in grape berries at different developmental stages

The occurrence and levels of cytokinin-like substances in the berries of Bangalore Blue grapes were studied at different stages of growth. The concentration of cytokinins was maximum cluring anthesis ancl the first rapid growth period. The level of cytokinins cleclined markedly cluring the lag and subsequent rapid growth phase. Two growth promoting zones were cletectecl by soybean callus bioassay in the thin layer chromatographs of berry extracts, at all stages of sampling. Although the identity of cytokinin-like substances has not been establishecl, the present study supports the hypothesis that besides auxins, gibberellins, abscisic acid and ethylene, cytokinins are also involvecl in the growth and development of grape berries.Untersuchungen über die Cytokinine in FrüchtenI. Vorkommen und Gehalt cytokininartiger Substanzen in Traubenbeeren verschiedenen EntwicklungszustandesIn verschiedenen Entwicklungsstadien der Beeren von Bangalore Blue wurden das Auftreten und die Menge cytokininartiger Substanzen untersucht. Die Cytokininkonzentration war während der Anthese und der ersten Phase raschen Wachstums am höchsten. Während der anschließenden Phase verlangsamten Wachstums und der darauf folgenden Phase erneuten starken Wachstums fiel die Cytokininkonzentration deutlich ab. Mit Hilfe des Sojabohnenkallus-Tests wurden auf den Dünnschichtchromatogrammen von Beerenextrakten aller Entwicklungsstadien zwei wachstumsfördernde Zonen nachgewiesen. Obgleich die cytokininartigen Substanzen nicht identifiziert wurden, wird durch die vorliegende Untersuchung doch die Hypothese gestützt, daß neben Auxinen, Gibberellinen, Abscisinsäure und Äthylen auch Cytokinine in das Wachstums- und Entwicklungsgeschehen der Traubenbeeren eingeschaltet sind

Punctuated chromatin states regulate Plasmodium falciparum antigenic variation at the intron and 2 kb upstream regions

2 kb upstream region FAIRE-Seq signal comparison between var genes and different gene families (P-value is calculated based on Wilcoxon-Rank-Sum test, FDR indicates false discovery rate). (XLSX 53 kb

Haematological Studies in High Altitude Natives at Plains and on Return to High Altitude

Haematologic studies were carried out in 20 high altitude natives during two months stay at plains (200 m) and on their return to an altitude of 3,500 m. Haemoglobin, erythrocyte count, haematocrit and reticulocyte count decreased rapidly on arrival to plains and attained minimum level by the end of fourth week. All these parameters increased rapidly on return to high altitude and were found to attain maximum values by 23rd day on return to high altitude. Mean cell volume and mean cell haemoglobin showed significant increase at altitude. Blood volume and red cell mass increased significantly at altitude. It is concluded that the high altitude natives of Ladakh were well adapted to hypoxic environment due to normocythaemic hypervolemia

Pressure-induced amorphization and polyamorphism in one-dimensional single crystal TiO2 nanomaterials

The structural phase transitions of single crystal TiO2-B nanoribbons were investigated in-situ at high-pressure using the synchrotron X-ray diffraction and the Raman scattering. Our results have shown a pressure-induced amorphization (PIA) occurred in TiO2-B nanoribbons upon compression, resulting in a high density amorphous (HDA) form related to the baddeleyite structure. Upon decompression, the HDA form transforms to a low density amorphous (LDA) form while the samples still maintain their pristine nanoribbon shape. HRTEM imaging reveals that the LDA phase has an {\alpha}-PbO2 structure with short range order. We propose a homogeneous nucleation mechanism to explain the pressure-induced amorphous phase transitions in the TiO2-B nanoribbons. Our study demonstrates for the first time that PIA and polyamorphism occurred in the one-dimensional (1D) TiO2 nanomaterials and provides a new method for preparing 1D amorphous nanomaterials from crystalline nanomaterials.Comment: 4 figure

Generalized thermodynamics of q-deformed bosons and fermions

We study the thermostatistics of q-deformed bosons and fermions obeying the symmetric algebra and show that it can be built on the formalism of q-calculus. The entire structure of thermodynamics is preserved if ordinary derivatives are replaced by an appropriate Jackson derivative. In this framework, we derive the most important thermodynamic functions describing the q-boson and q-fermion ideal gases in the thermodynamic limit. We also investigate the semi-classical limit and the low temperature regime and demonstrate that the nature of the q-deformation gives rise to pure quantum statistical effects stronger than undeformed boson and fermion particles.Comment: 8 pages, Physical Review E in pres

Maximum gradient embeddings and monotone clustering

Let (X,d_X) be an n-point metric space. We show that there exists a distribution D over non-contractive embeddings into trees f:X-->T such that for every x in X, the expectation with respect to D of the maximum over y in X of the ratio d_T(f(x),f(y)) / d_X(x,y) is at most C (log n)^2, where C is a universal constant. Conversely we show that the above quadratic dependence on log n cannot be improved in general. Such embeddings, which we call maximum gradient embeddings, yield a framework for the design of approximation algorithms for a wide range of clustering problems with monotone costs, including fault-tolerant versions of k-median and facility location.Comment: 25 pages, 2 figures. Final version, minor revision of the previous one. To appear in "Combinatorica

Farmer’s participatory research thirty-four years of Operational Research Project on dryland agriculture(1984-2018)

Not AvailableOperational Research Project on Dryland Agriculture was initiated at Ananthapuramu under All India Coordinated Research Project for Dryland Agriculture under ICAR and Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) to meet the dryland research needs on farmers’ participatory approach in Scarce Rainfall Zone of Andhra Pradesh and similar land topography rainfall and other natural resources in the country. The research experiences are documented as “Farmers’ Participatory Research-Three Decades of Operational Research Project onDrylandAgriculture (1984-2018)”. This book contains enormous analysis and feedback and research finding of ORP on DrylandAgriculture over three decades in different watersheds. We are sure that the book will be of immense use of extension scientists, students and agriculture and allied department staff working in DrylandAgriculture and watershed management. The authors express their profound gratitude to Dr.V.Damodara Naidu, Honb’le Vice Chancellor, Dr.N.V.Naidu, Director of Research, ANGRAU, Lam,Guntur and Dr.M.Subba Rao, Associate Director of Research, RARS, Nandyal for their encouragement, valuable guidance in bringing out this publication. The team owe sincere gratitude to Dr.G.Ravindra Chary, Project Coordinator and Director(Acting), Dr. K.A. Gopinath, Principal Scientist (Agronomy), AICRP for Dryland Agriculture and team at CRIDA, Hyderabad, Dr.T.Yellamanda Reddy, Former Dean of Agriculture , ANGRAU, and Dr.G.Maruthi Shankar , Principal Scientist (Statistics) Rtd., CRIDA, Hyderabad for their valuable suggestions and financial support enabled to prepare the publication. The team thanks are due to former Chief Scientists, Scientists, Research Associates and Supporting Staff of AICRPDA, both ORP centre and main centre, for their contribution in the preparation of the book .Not Availabl

Fault-Tolerant Hotelling Games

The $n$-player Hotelling game calls for each player to choose a point on the line segment, so as to maximize the size of his Voronoi cell. This paper studies fault-tolerant versions of the Hotelling game. Two fault models are studied: line faults and player faults. The first model assumes that the environment is prone to failure: with some probability, a disconnection occurs at a random point on the line, splitting it into two separate segments and modifying each player's Voronoi cell accordingly. A complete characterization of the Nash equilibria of this variant is provided for every $n$. Additionally, a one to one correspondence is shown between equilibria of this variant and of the Hotelling game with no faults. The second fault model assumes the players are prone to failure: each player is removed from the game with i.i.d. probability, changing the payoffs of the remaining players accordingly. It is shown that for $n \geq 3$ this variant of the game has no Nash equilibria