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Evidence-Based Approach and Standardization of Nutraceuticals
Evidence-based approach for the use and selection of nutraceuticals are presented as well as the need and challenges to creating a method for the standardization of these products. A systematic review was completed to analyze the impact of evidence-based and standardization of nutraceuticals. Evidence-based approach for nutraceuticals allow for the evaluation of these products. This process involves utilizing current and best evidence to provide individualized care for patients. Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) are regulations enforced by the FDA to ensure that drug manufacturing processes meet basic standards. Under these practices, design, monitoring, and control of manufacturing processes are regulated. These practices can track and provide tools to prevent contamination of products available to consumers. Using evidence-based approach for nutraceutical can provide healthcare providers and consumers with evidence that is patient specific, for a given intervention and desired outcome. The global market for nutraceuticals is growing and all manufacturers should comply with cGMP to ensure safe, quality products for consumers. The goal is to have all nutraceutical manufacturers worldwide embrace cGMP in order to provide consumers with safe, effective and high quality products
A Review on Beneficiation Prospect of Some of the Graphite Deposits of Palamu District of Bihar
Graphite constitutes one of the important minerals for the manufacture of special types of refractory materials. In nature it occurs both in crystalline as well as amorphous forms. It is reported to occur in almost every State of India. In Bihar economic deposits of graphite are confined to the district of Palamu only with some minor occurences in Monghyr and Ranchi districts. G.S.I has located some important workable deposits whose estimated total reserves amount to about 16 lakhs tonnes upto 20 meters depth. These depsits are poorer in grade but sometimes the fixed carbon content is of the order of 50% F.C. A few customary processing plants have also been put up by some private parties
Runoff measurements from small agricultural watersheds
For planning and execution of soil and water conservation works, the watershed is a recognized unit. The watershed is an independent hydrologic unit and as such measures like runoff collection and recycling soil loss control provision of grass waterways, etc. are planned on a watershed basis..
Higher order antibunching is not a rare phenomenon
Since the introduction of higher order nonclassical effects, higher order
squeezing has been reported in a number of different physical systems but
higher order antibunching is predicted only in three particular cases. In the
present work, we have shown that the higher order antibunching is not a rare
phenomenon rather it can be seen in many simple optical processes. To establish
our claim, we have shown it in six wave mixing process, four wave mixing
process and in second harmonic generation process.Comment: 6 pages, no figure, Latex 2
Complex Pattern Formation in Solutions of Protein and Mixed Salts Using Dehydrating Sessile Droplets
Emission Characteristics of the Projectile Fragments at Relativistic Energy
A projectile (84^Kr_36) having kinetic energy around 1 A GeV was used to
expose NIKFI BR-2 emulsion target. A total of 700 inelastic events are used in
the present studies on projectile fragments. The emission angle of the
projectile fragments are strongly affected by charge of the other projectile
fragments emitted at same time with different emission angle is observed. The
angular distribution studies show symmetrical nature for lighter charge
projectile fragments. The symmetrical nature decreased with the charge of
projectile fragments. At ~4o of emission angle for double charge projectile
fragments, the momentum transfer during interaction is similar for various
target species of emulsion were observed. We also observed a small but
significant amplitude peaks on both side of the big peak for almost all light
charge projectile fragments having different delta angle values. It reflects
that there are few percent of projectile fragments that are coming from the
decay of heavy projectile fragments or any other process.Comment: 32 pages, 17 Figure
Direct Measurements of Field-Induced Adiabatic Temperature Changes Near Compound Phase Transitions in Ni–Mn–In Based Heusler Alloys
The adiabatic temperature changes (ΔTad) in the vicinity of the Curie and martensitic transition temperatures of Ni50Mn35In15 and Ni50Mn35In14Z (Z = Al and Ge) Heusler alloys have been studied using an adiabatic magnetocalorimeter of 250–350 K temperature interval for applied magnetic field changes up to ΔH = 1.8 T. The largest measured changes were ΔTad = −2 and 2 K near the martensitic (first-order) and ferromagnetic (second-order) transitions for ΔH = 1.8 T, respectively. It was observed that |ΔTad| ≈ 1 K for relatively small field changes (ΔH = 1 T) for both types of transitions. The results indicate that these materials should be further explored as potential working materials in magnetic refrigeration applications
Towards Learning and Explaining Indirect Causal Effects in Neural Networks
Recently, there has been a growing interest in learning and explaining causal
effects within Neural Network (NN) models. By virtue of NN architectures,
previous approaches consider only direct and total causal effects assuming
independence among input variables. We view an NN as a structural causal model
(SCM) and extend our focus to include indirect causal effects by introducing
feedforward connections among input neurons. We propose an ante-hoc method that
captures and maintains direct, indirect, and total causal effects during NN
model training. We also propose an algorithm for quantifying learned causal
effects in an NN model and efficient approximation strategies for quantifying
causal effects in high-dimensional data. Extensive experiments conducted on
synthetic and real-world datasets demonstrate that the causal effects learned
by our ante-hoc method better approximate the ground truth effects compared to
existing methods
Climate Change Adaptation in Agriculture in India
Indian agriculture has made a significant progress in recent years, but of late it is facing many challenges due to
the adverse effect of climate change. Moreover, the increasing population pressurizes the agricultural sector for
enhanced food production. To face the challenges of food security and climate change, the country needs to
reorient its land use and agriculture with the state-of-the-art technologies and policy initiatives. DST through its research initiatives, has partnered with three institutions viz., Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, Coimbatore; International Crop Research Institute on Semi-Arid Tropics, Hyderabad and Indian Agricultural Research Institute, New Delhi to develop potential techniques and technologies for adaptation in agriculture to increase resilience against climate change in sustaining crop production. The paper briefly presents outcome of these studies
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