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Significant variability is available in the F2 population of brinjal. Top crosses of brinjal Biliudda badane × mullu badane produced from F1 generation were in augmented design at ZARS Shimogga in Kharif 2017. They have several characteristics of plant breeding significance with sufficient scope for added improvement to growing conditions. The F2 study showed significant variation for nine quantitative traits. Close estimates between GCV and PCV values indicated lesser influence of environmental factors on the expression of traits under study. In this investigation, the proportion of genetic contribution of high GCV, PCV coupled with high broad sense heritability and genetic advance to the overall phenotypic expression of the studied traits like number of fruits per plant, number primary branches, number of flowers per plant was high, indicating predominant control of additive genes, and these traits could be improved upon by selection without progeny testing. High magnitude of heritability for most of the characters suggested the progress of improvement in yield and its components. Differences in mean values of parents for various characters indicated involvement of diverse parents in the crosses studied. The F2 plants exceeded either of the parents for most of the characters, which seems to be due to transgressive segregation.

The purpose of this research is to see whether there is a link between academic production and institutional ranking in India, as measured by the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF). NIRF parameters will also be analyzed and compared to those of prominent international university rankings in this paper. Web content analysis was used to gather data for the research. The data was gathered from the NIRF official websites. In this study, only nine medical institutions from the Karnataka State ranked chose the top 50 in the NIRF ranking framework released in 2021 for the research. The research discovered that the factors used by NIRF to evaluate Karnataka medical institutes are comparable to all the. One of the critical elements of university rating methods is an institution's scholarly output. In the NIRF, Indian institutions with excellent research production came out on top. Private medical institutes do well in the NIRF, and there is a strong link between academic production and institutional ranking. Several research has looked at the relationship between h-index and educational production. This is the first study to examine the association between intellectual production and university rankings in India using the NIRF system. NIRF, Scholarly production, University ranking, India, Academic ranking, University evaluation.

One hundred linseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) genotypes and four checks were evaluated during rabi, 2017-18 for fifteen traits to examine the nature and magnitude of variability, heritability (h2=broad sense) and genetic advance. Analysis of variance revealed that the differences among genotypes were significant for all the characters studied. Knowledge of selection effect on positive or negative changes of a character under improvement is of paramount importance for the success of any plant breeding programme and helps the selection of desirable breeding methods. Heritability and genetic advance are important selection parameters and selection success is a reflectance of selection response. High PCV and GCV values exhibited for number of branches per plant, number of capsules per plant, yield per plant, palmitic acid and linoleic acid indicating wide range of variability with substantial environmental influence on the expression of these traits and provide better opportunity for improvement of these traits through selection. Small differences between GCV and PCV were recorded for all the characters studied which indicated less influence of environment on these characters. High heritability coupled with high Genetic advance as per cent of Mean (GAM >20%) observed for plant height, technical plant height, number of branches per plant, number of capsules per plant, yield per plant, palmitic acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid and linolenic acid indicated that these characters are highly heritable.

When deciding on research subjects or analyzing technological trends, researchers should gather and evaluate information from thousands of papers, patents, and technical reports. Information extraction methods from books may assist in speeding up the process. Furthermore, appropriate searching algorithms for the retrieved information are required. While studies into information extraction have been widespread, research into searching and browsing techniques for the retrieved information has not been as appealing. The available published data is enormous; therefore, choosing the appropriate articles, knowledge, and relevant literature related to your field of study is an art. This work proposes an intelligent searching system that includes multiple analytical tools, alternative resources, and paper credibility. We anticipate that researchers will uncover and generate novel research outputs using the suggested searching system.

This paper aims to evaluate the research productivity and citations received by the BLDEA’s professional institutions established in Vijayapura, Karnataka State, India under the banner of BLDE Association's based on their publications and citations as reflected in the Scopus Citation Database for the period of ten years from 2011 to 2020. A total of 910 research publications and citations with all metadata have been downloaded and analyzed as per the objectives of the current study. These three professional institutions received four thousand two hundred forty-seven citations. The paper tries to provide all measurements to view the research output and citations of BLDEA’s professional institutes in health sciences, pharmaceutical science and engineering and the technology field

A field experiment was conducted to study the influence of planting methods, geometry and age of seedlings on growth and productivity of pigeonpea at AHRS, Kathalgere, UAHS, Shivamogga, Karnataka, India, during 2017-18 and 2018-19. The experiment was laid out in randomized complete block design with twelve treatment combinations and replicated thrice. Transplanted pigeonpea at 150cm × 45cm geometry with 30 days age seedlings produced significantly higher values of plant growth parameters and pigeon pea grain yield (2515 kg ha-1), gross returns (Rs. 1,30,780), net returns (Rs.90,990) and B:C (3.29) as compared to other planting geometry and age of seedlings.

There is an urge for traditional herbal remedies as an alternative to modern medicine in treating several ailments. Alangium salviifolium is one such plant, used traditionally to treat several diseases. In several reports, there are findings related to the use of this plant extract that demonstrate its therapeutic value. However, very few attempts have been made to identify the extensive metabolite composition of this plant. Here, we performed metabolite profiling and identification from the bark of A. salviifolium by extracting the sample in organic and aqueous solvents. The organic and aqueous extracts were fraction-collected using the Agilent 1260 Analytical Scale Fraction Collection System. Each of the fractions was analyzed on Liquid Chromatogaphy/Quadrupole Time-of-Flight LC/Q-TOF and Gas Chromatography/Quadrupole Time-of-Flight GC/instruments. The Liquid Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS) analyses were performed using Hydrophilic Ineraction Liquid Chromatography (HILIC), as well as reversed-phase chromatography using three separate, orthogonal reverse phase columns. Samples were analyzed using an Agilent Jet Stream (AJS) source in both positive and negative ionization modes. The compounds found were flavonoids, fatty acids, sugars, and terpenes. Eighty-one secondary metabolites were identified as having therapeutic potential. The data produced was against the METLIN database using accurate mass and/or MS/MS library matching. Compounds from Alangium that could not be identified by database or library matching were subsequently searched against the ChemSpider) database of over 30 million structures using MSMS data and Agilent MSC software.In order to identify compounds generated by GC/MS, the data were searched against the AgilentFiehn GCMS Metabolomics Library as well as the Wiley/NIST libraries.

Background:Novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was initially detected in China a short time ago, and ultimately developed a most important global health nervousness due to its nature and extensive spreading everywhere in this world. Despite a rising awareness in COVID-19 among the people, little is understood about the present state of data on COVID-19, which may describe what proportion is understood about this difficulty. This bibliometric analysis assessed the present-day scientific information to measure the growth of literature available on COVID-19, recognise the leading research stakeholders, and explore the same. Methods:Bibliometric records on Coronavirus Disease – 19 reported studies published till April 1, 2020, were recovered from the leading database such as SCOPUS. Further, collected suitable data were analysed with the help of MS-Excel. Results:A total of 541 publications and 11251citations were taken for this study, comprising of journal articles, reviews, letters, and other publications. The average number of authors and citations per document was 2.45 and 70.76 correspondingly. Also, the best ten articles, authors, and journals were recognised built on the occurrence of publications. It is identified that Medicine, Immunology and Microbiology and other pandemic related topics are associated with COVID - 19 are the major areas of study during the study period. The highest publications have appeared in PLOS One journal. The highest publications emerged from the USA.

An external pipe-crawling device presented in this paper aids the inspection of pipes in hazardous environments and areas inaccessible to humans. The principal component of our design, which uses inchworm type motion, is a compliant ring mechanism actuated using shape memory alloy (SMA) wire. It was fabricated and tested and was reported in our earlier work. But this device had a drawback of low crawling speed (about 1 mm/min) owing to the delay in heating and cooling of the SMA strips in the linear actuation. Additionally, that design also had the difficulties of mounting on pipes with closed ends, large radial span, and the need for housing for electrical insulation and guiding of the SMA wire. In this paper we present a compact design that overcomes the difficulties of the earlier design. In particular, we present a compact compliant mechanism with two halves so as to enable mounting and un-mounting on any closed or open pipe. Another feature is the presence of insulation and guiding of the SMA wire without housing. This design results in a reduction of the radial span of the ring from 22 mm to 12 mm, and the stiffness of the mechanism and the SMA wire are matched. An SMA helical spring is to used in the place of an SMA strip to increase the crawling speed of the device. A microcontroller-based circuitry is also fitted to cyclically.activate the SMA wires and springs.

We report the case of a 26-year-old man with diffuse esophageal leiomyomatosis involving the trachea. The tumor was resected by total esophagectomy and partial resection of the trachea and the left main bronchus. The tracheobronchial defect was repaired with a free forearm skin graft with satisfactory outcome. This approach offers good long-term prospects.