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Plant biosecurity holds immense significance for every nation as it plays a crucial role in protecting crops, ensuring food security, and safeguarding ecology and the livelihoods of individuals. In this regard, plant biosecurity constitutes a vital component of sustainable agriculture progress. Digitalization is the new go-to strategy to address agriculture's productivity, sustainability, and resilience challenges. Deep Learning and other digital technologies that have emerged in recent years are currently being applied in every agriculture practice. Researchers from multidisciplinary areas strive to use these technologies and propose novel solutions to expedite the in-field workflow. However, struggle to put their solutions into production, deliver tangible results and obtain favorable outcomes with limited in-field datasets. In this view, this paper reviews remarkable research integrating deep learning with plant biosecurity and provides a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats) analysis to identify the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats inherent to deep learning-driven solutions as facilitators or barriers to plant biosecurity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Several dye-reductant combinations have been experimentally studied in PG cells in the presence of various synthetic surfactants. In this research work, for the first time the Photogalvanic effect has been studied in the presence of Natural Surfactant. The photocurrents and photovoltages in various Photogalvanic cells, containing a dye-Alizarin Red-S. reducing agent-Galactose and Natural Surfactant-Acacia Concinna, were observed. The electrical parameters have been studies in alkaline (NaOH) medium with and without Al(OH)3 solution. In presence of natural surfactant Acacia Concinna and Al(OH)3, PG systems have been showed drastically enhancements in storage capacity. The observed optimum cell parameters in terms of Photopotential, Open-Circuits Potential, Maximum Current, Short-Circuit Current and Storage Capacity (t1/2) is 139mV, 314mV, 28µA, 6µA and 22hours 10 minutes, respectively. Absorption studies were also done with these systems. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In our society, we have been going through two main problems i.e. environmental pollution and energy crisis. Fabrication of the materials which can help to generate energy from the sustainable and greener energy sources, and also capable of diminishing the pollutants from the environment is very essential. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is one the perfect examples for such a material in the form of different nano-structures. But problem associated with TiO2 is its bandgap of ca. 3.2 eV, which only can be activated under the UV light illumination. In addition, high charge carrier recombination is also another issue. Therefore, modification of TiO2 nanostructures as well as its bandgap is essential to increase its light absorption toward the visible region of the sunlight. To fulfil the above purposes, pure TiO2 and Ni-modified TiO2 nanorods were synthesized and characterized using FTIR, PXRD, UV-Visible in DRS method and photoluminescence techniques. UV-Visible spectra showed enhanced visible light harvesting upon Ni modification of the TiO2 nanorods as compared to the same for the pure one. On the other hand, lower intensity of the photoluminescence spectrum for the Ni-modified TiO2 convincingly proves minimized recombinations of the photo-generated electron-hole pairs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper focuses on an introduction to seismology and the concept of seismic wave propagation. This article mainly introduces the subjects of seismology, earthquakes, and seismic waves and their types, as well as basic preliminaries related to the subject. The present paper is review in nature and divided into several sections and subsections like the introduction of the subject with a related literature survey, the basic terms of seismology such as earthquakes, seismic waves and their various types, and the last section is the observation of the study along with the list of references used in this paper. This is because these are essential and important phenomena in various fields like geophysics, seismology, mechanics, fluid dynamics, etc., so this paper will be helpful for early researchers to do their research in these fields. Experimental scientists, researchers, and seismologists working in the field of wave propagation in many types of porous medium may find the current theoretical conclusions beneficial. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Single walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) films are prepared by dispersing SWNTs in DMF solution which is filtered over flexible polycarbonate membrane by vacuum filtration method. SWNTs film has been functionalized with different amounts (0.1 mg, 0.2 mg and 1 mg) of SnO2 nanoparticles of size 20-30 nm. Sensor is made by mounting a piece of CNT and different CNT/SnO2 films on PCB headers and contacts are taken by using Au wire. The sensing behavior of CNT/SnO2 towards NO2 and NH3 in the concentration range of 0.5 to 100 ppm has been studied. The sensing response has been compared to that obtained from pristine SWNTs. SWNTs with 0.1 mg of SnO2 has given the maximum improvement of 1.6-8.5% and 0.8-1.75 times in response for NH3 and NO2 respectively, as compared to pristine CNTs.. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

When the bulky ions encounter at elevated relativistic energies, the entire system undergoes variant changeover phases, starting with nuclei picture up to hadronic phase via intermediating plasmonic phase composed of quarks and gluons. In view of the fact that this created matter is believed to possess strong coupling and thus it is not idealistically feasible to take up pQCD theory merely to figure out the bulky medium’s distension. Here we look for some approaches to figure out the plasma creation phenomena theoretically, when it faces changeover through various stages. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The photogalvanic cells have been developed with photosensitizer – reductant pair, Toluidine Blue – Arabinose and Malachite Green - Arabinose. The conversion efficiency and storage capacity of the developed cells were found to be 0.1450% and 90.0 minutes, respectively with Toluidine Blue and 0.1122% and 36.0 minutes, respectively with Malachite Green. The Fill Factor of both the cell were found 0.3158 and 0.426. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this review we are watching towards the probes of quark gluon plasma which provides the unique option to create such nuclear stuff at controlled laboratory conditions. The observables from hadronic and leptonic residues provide the required information. The other tool is the detailed rapidity and momentum spectra of hadrons. Here the information regarding the de-confined phase transition and chiral symmetry restoration is mentioned; also the perturbation and lattice gauge theory is described in short. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we present an application of robust optimization to capacity planning problems under uncertainty. We present the framework to handle uncertainty and discuss the computational complexity of capacity planning problems under this framework. We show that the formulation is not only intuitive but the computational complexity of a large variety of problems is the same as linear (in general convex) programming. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Rare earth activated hybrid phosphors have made significant progress in terms of better light output, color properties and potential for long life. All these features coupled with low cost production and reduced maintenance have offered phosphor converted LEDs for diverse optoelectronic applications including signal lighting in advanced aviation. The present paper explores the effect of various processing parameters on luminescent hybrid phosphors fabricated through combustion synthesis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]