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Genome analysis for precision agriculture using artificial intelligence: a survey
Precision agriculture is a farm management technique which uses the help with the help of information technology to ensure that the crops and soil receive exactly what is required for optimum health and productivity. Genome analysis in plants helps to identify the plant structure and physiological traits. The identification of the right plant genome and the resulting traits help to optimize the cultivation of the plant for better productivity and adaptability. Genome analysis helps the biologist edit the plant genetic makeup structure to make the plant to adapt to the current conditions and thereby reducing the use of fertilizers. For precision agriculture, artificial intelligence techniques help to understand the relationships between plant genome and soil nutrient conditions that help in precision farming effectively reducing the usage of fertilizers by modifying the plants to adapt with the current soil characteristics. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd 2021. -
Geospatial crime analysis and forecasting with machine learning techniques
People use social media to engage, connect, and exchange ideas, for professional interests, and for sharing images, videos, and other contents. According to the investigation, social media allows researchers to examine individual behavior features and geographic and temporal interactions. According to studies, criminology has become a prominent subject of study globally, using data gathered from online social media sites such as Facebook, News feed articles, Twitter, and other sources. It is possible to obtain useful information for the analysis of criminal activity by using spatiotemporal linkages in user-generated content. The study refers to the application of text-based data science by gathering data from several news sources and visualizing it. This research is motivated by the abovementioned work from various social media crimes and government crime statistics. This chapter looks at 68 various crime keywords to help you figure out what kind of crime you are dealing with concerning geographical and temporal data. For categorizing crime into subgroups of categories with geographical and time aspects using news feeds, the Naive Bayes classification algorithm is used. For retrieving keywords from news feeds, the Mallet package is used. The hotspots in crime hotspots are identified using the K-means method. The KDE approach is utilized to address crime density and this methodology has solved the difficulties that the current KDE algorithm has. The study results demonstrated equivalence between the suggested crimes forecasting model as well as the ARIMA model. 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. -
Global Trade and Food Security
Global trade can increase food availability and improve food security by facilitating food movement between countries and regions. However, it also poses challenges to food security, including the displacement of small-scale farmers and food producers, food safety risks, dependence on imports, and the distortion of global trade through agricultural subsidies. To ensure food security in global trade, a coordinated and multi-sectoral approach is needed that promotes sustain-able and equitable food systems, local food production, and food safety. Addressing these challenges is critical for ensuring the adequacy and accessibility of sufficient, safe, and nutritious food while fostering economic development and environmental sustainability. Economic development and government policies are crucial deter-minants of a countrys ability to engage in global trade and ensure food security. Climate and weather patterns, agricultural practices, infrastructure and transporta-tion, and market demand influence food security significantly. Furthermore, interna-tional conflicts disrupt trade and impact food security. Policymakers must consider all these factors while developing policies promoting trade and ensuring food secu-rity. To solve these complicated concerns and promote sustainable agriculture and trade practices, governments, international organizations, and the corporate sector must work in concert to improve food security. Food security has a significant impact on global trade, as the availability and accessibility of food directly affect a countrys ability to engage in international trade. When a country experiences food shortages may reduce or halt its exports, causing a ripple effect in the global economy and leading to higher food prices and insecurity in other countries that rely on imported food. Nevertheless, economies with high levels of food security and surplus food production are better positioned to engage in global trade. They export food to other countries, generating revenue and supporting economic growth by creating trade barriers, as importing countries may reject or restrict such food products, nega-tively impacting global trade. In addition to the economic impacts, food security also has broader societal and environmental implications. For example, food insecu-rity can lead to malnutrition, affecting individuals physical and cognitive develop-ment, particularly children. Moreover, unsustainable agricultural practices can lead to environmental degradation, affecting biodiversity, soil quality, and water resources, affecting food security. The determinants of food security in global trade and its impact are analyzed in this chapter. Since food security is an essential factor in inter-national trade, impacting trade flows, economic growth, and public health. Promoting sustainable agriculture and trade practices and building robust food security systems can support a more resilient and equitable global food system, benefiting producers and consumers. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024. -
Globalization and luxury brands: How consumer behavior differs in emerging vs. established markets
The luxury industry has changed in established and emerging markets due to the globalization of luxury brands. While rising luxury businesses combine tradition with contemporary and embrace digital channels for reach, established luxury brands draw on their rich history and innovate to stay current. Due to the mix of cultures brought about by globalization, luxury businesses now need to strike a balance between cultural sensitivity and global appeal. Luxury firms are being forced to adopt ethical business methods to meet the growing demands of consumers worldwide for sustainability. Luxury brands need to adapt to this changing environment, stay culturally sensitive, and embrace sustainability if they want to succeed in the international world of luxury consumers. This chapter focuses on the determinants influencing consumer behavior towards the existing and established brands in the backdrop of globalization. 2024, IGI Global. All rights reserved. -
Graphene Nanotechnology for Renewable Energy Systems
The high degree of mechanical, electrical, and thermal conductivity of graphene enables its application in the renewable energy sector. Graphene plays a vital role in diodes, photovoltaic cells, supercapacitors, batteries, and full cells applications and it enhances the existing efficiency in a tremendous way. The addition of graphene can do tremendous effects on all kinds of inorganic and organic materials for solar cells. In the supercapacitor domain, graphene plays a vital role to provide a large surface which can be useful for energy storage applications. The hybrid supercapacitor and battery trends in research and technology have been discussed. The electrical vehicles and green applications need and accomplishments of graphene and its derivatives have also been described. 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. -
Graphene quantum dots: Promising catalysts for electrocatalytic water splitting
In recent times, graphene quantum dots have attracted attention from both academia and industry due to their low cost, non-toxicity, abundance, inertness, stability, photoluminescence, and ease of functionalization. Graphene quantum dots are doped with heteroatoms and modified structurally with metals/metal oxides to form composites that find immense application in catalysis. Electrocatalytic water splitting is an energy efficient route for oxygen evolution, hydrogen evolution, and oxygen reduction reactions. Graphene quantum dots based composites have been extensively employed for electrocatalytic water splitting applications, with remarkable results. This chapter focuses on electrocatalytic applications of modified graphene quantum dots in water splitting. 2024 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved. -
Graphitic carbon nitride (GCN) for solar cell applications
There is an eminent global energy crisis and photovoltaics as one of the primary renewable energy sources is playing an important part in offsetting the dependency on fossil fuels. Current solar cells technology is dominated by silicon, and researchers are trying to replace it with organic and nanocrystalline semiconducting materials. Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4, GCN) has gained interest as a visible light driven photocatalyst with a unique 2D structure, excellent chemical stability and tunable electronic structure along with attractive optoelectronic properties. Pure GCN suffers from low surface area and rapid recombination of photo-generated electron-hole pairs resulting in low photovoltaic and photocatalytic activity and hence modification by doping with other atoms is required. Photocatalytic applications of GCN based nanomaterials for water splitting, hydrogen production, CO2 reduction and pollutant degradation has been extensively investigated and systematically reviewed. However, their applications as energy storage has been explored recently and there is a lack of comprehensive review that systematically summarizes the application of GCN and GCN-based heterostructures for solar cell applications. Heterojunctions with superior light absorption and appropriate conduction band and valence band alignment is a promising approach for the applications in efficient environmental remediation and solar energy storage. This critical review summarizes the synthesis and advances of GCN nanocomposites modified with semiconductors (TiO2, ZnO), bismuth titanate, strontium titanate and rare earth metals for solar cell applications. GCN-based heterostructures with perovskite and polymer based materials are also presented. The characteristics and transfer mechanism within the various heterojunctions is also reviewed and presented. The review ends with a summary and some perspectives on the challenges and new directions in exploring GCN-based advanced nanomaterials particularly towards photovoltaics and energy storage applications. 2022 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. -
Green Data Centers: A Review of Current Trends and Practices
A green data center is a facility that makes use of eco-friendly techniques and technologies to lessen its carbon footprint and environmental impact. A data center can consume as much electricity as a small city and contains thousands of servers. These server farms require an enormous amount of processing power to operate, which presents numerous difficulties, including high energy costs, greenhouse gas emissions, backups, and recovery. This paper clarifies the various green data center best practices, including energy efficiency, cooling systems, renewable energy, sustainable building techniques, and carbon footprint. The need for green data centers in todays internet, commercial, financial, and business applications is also covered in the paper. The reality and myths of green data centers are alsoexamined. The paper delves into the metrics for each characteristic used to gauge how green and effective data centers are. The discussion has concluded with case studies of companies that have implemented green data centers. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024. -
Green marketing: Exploring concepts, strategies, and future trends
Green marketing research is becoming more and more well-liked in academia and business. Both companies and customers today recognize the value of eco-friendly products due to increased awareness of how companies respond to various factors contributing to environmental degradation. One should understand the meaning, opportunities, and threats associated with green marketing to harness the benefits of green marketing. This book chapter aims to explore various aspects of green marketing, including its evolution throughout the years, opportunities, threats, the future of green marketing, etc. To sum up, this chapter aims to gain an in-depth understanding of green marketing and how companies could use it to their advantage. Successful implementation will be possible only if associated threats are carefully analyzed and understood. Therefore, a part of this chapter will be dedicated to understanding the threats associated with green marketing strategies. 2023, IGI Global. All rights reserved. -
Green Minds, Green Future: Impact of Environmental Education on Students Attitudes and Intentions
The objective of this research is to examine the effect of environmental education on green behavior mediated through environmental awareness, environmental attitude, and behavioral intentions, as mediating variables. The sample population comprised of the students of various universities of Delhi, National Capital Region (NCR), as this region of the country has the highest level of environmental pollution and therefore it is the most appropriate population for this study. One thousand questionnaires were shared among students of Delhi, NCR via Google Form out of which 689 responses were received and analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM). The results exhibited the association between environmental education and green behavior which was significantly mediated by awareness, attitude, and behavioral intention. The findings of the study have implications for both research and practice. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024. -
Green space and mental well-being research in India: An urgent need for intervention
In recent years, numerous studies have highlighted the positive impact of green spaces on mental health and overall well-being. However, a closer examination reveals a skewed green space research contribution, with developed countries taking the lead. Despite substantial burden of mental health issues, there is a noticeable dearth of green space research within India's academic landscape. In the current paper, we address this gap through a brief review that positions the scope of green space psychology (GSP) in India. We conducted the literature review using a machine learning tool called Crawling Scholar. Our review comprised 325 studies, focusing on five key parameters: the year of publication, geographical context, research design, psychological variables examined, and study population. Our findings indicate a significant body of global research on GSP, while the contribution from Indian scholarship remains negligible. Based on this discrepancy, we propose that incorporating GSP as an intervention and preventive measure could play a crucial role in addressing India's mental health challenges. By integrating traditional practices with the emerging field of GSP, we can harness the potential of green spaces to promote mental well-being. Our findings further underscore the importance of expanding research on GSP within the Indian context and emphasize the need for further investigations into its efficiency. By shedding light on the current status of GSP research in India, we aim to raise awareness among researchers, policymakers, and mental health professionals, fostering a collaborative effort to leverage the benefits of green spaces for the betterment of mental health infrastructure in India. 2025 Elsevier Inc. All rights are reserved including those for text and data mining AI training and similar technologies. -
Green Supply Chain Management: Attaining Sustainable Competitive Advantage
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Green Synthesis and Application of Copper-Based Nanomaterials
A vital aspect of nanoscience and nanotechnology is the synthesis of nanomaterials and nanostructures. Although nanotechnology is a relatively new field of study, nanomaterials have been used in industry for years. Synthesis of nanomaterials is an essential area due to its significant characteristics and is ideally suited for applications in a multiple discipline. Metal and metal-based nanoparticles play a major role across all disciplines, making up the majority of all nanomaterials. Among these, copper-based nanomaterials have drawn a lot of curiosity considering their varied features and wide range of uses in numerous sectors, particularly in nanotechnology for healthcare and biomedical fields. Synthesis of copper-based nanomaterials can be achieved by several approaches such as physical, chemical, biological methods. Among these approaches, synthesizing nanomaterials through biological processes is the most affordable and environmentally responsible method. This chapter aims to share details on green synthesis of copper-based nanomaterials obtained from different sources and utilized in a broad range of industries including electronics, agriculture, biomedicine, and manufacturing. 2024 American Chemical Society. -
Greenpreneurship pioneering solutions for climate change: An Indian perspective
In an era marked by pressing global climate challenges, the role of green entrepreneurship, or "greenpreneurship, " has gained paramount significance. The present chapter begins by elucidating the inherent connection between greenpreneurship and climate change, followed the contributions of the greenpreneurs appreciating their efforts to make a difference to the society. The chapter mentions certain skills and traits required by greenpreneurs to run their business. It states the challenges that the greenpreneurs face. The chapter then takes a dive into the realm of greenpreneurship from an Indian perspective. India, with its unique blend of environmental challenges and a burgeoning entrepreneurial ecosystem, presents an intriguing case study. The chapter illustrates how Indian greenpreneurs are contributing to a cleaner, greener future. It states the policies which the government has made to support greenpreneurs in the country. Finally, recommendations are given for existing greenpreneurs, budding entrepreneurs, the public, and the government to collectively drive green solutions. 2024, IGI Global. All rights reserved. -
Group Key Management Techniques forSecure Load Balanced Routing Model
Remote sensor organizations (WSNs) assume a vital part in giving ongoing information admittance to IoT applications. Be that as it may, open organization, energy limitation, and absence of brought together organization make WSNs entirely defenseless against different sorts of pernicious assaults. In WSNs, recognizing vindictive sensor gadgets and dispensing with their detected data assume a vital part for strategic applications. Standard cryptography and confirmation plans cannot be straightforwardly utilized in WSNs on account of the asset imperative nature of sensor gadgets. In this manner, energy productive and low idleness procedure is needed for limiting the effect of malignant sensor gadgets. In this research work presents a secured and burden balanced controlling contrive for heterogeneous bunch-based WSNs. SLBR shows a predominant trust-based security metric that beats the issue when sensors proceed to influence from extraordinary to terrible state and the other way around; besides, SLBR alters stack among CH. In this way, underpins fulfilling superior security, allocate transmission, and vitality efficiency execution. Trials are driven to calculate this presentation of developed SLBR demonstrate over existing trust-based controlling show, particularly ECSO. The result accomplished appears SLBR demonstrate fulfills favored execution over ECSO as distant as vitality capability (i.e., arrange lifetime considering to begin with sensor contraption downfall and total sensor contraption passing), correspondence overhead, throughput, allocate planning idleness, and harmful sensor contraption mis-classification rate and recognizable verification. 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. -
Gucchi (Morchella esculenta)
This chapter focuses on Morchella esculenta as a nutraceutical and functional food, its habit, habitat, general characteristics, availability, biologically active compounds present and pharmacological and medicinal value. Mushrooms are spore-bearing fleshy fruiting bodies of fungus often present above the ground. Greeks and Romans included mushrooms in their diet. Romans considered mushrooms as the food of supernatural beings, despite the Chinese contemplating them as the elixir of the human being. Functional foods that are prepared from morel mushrooms are of high medicinal properties. The production of M. esculenta worldwide is 1.5 million tonnes of fresh weight and 150 tonnes of dry weight. India and Pakistan are the major morel-producing countries and each country has about 50 tonnes of dry morels. The pharmacological properties of Morchella species show its use in Chinese traditional medicine since 2, 000 years and in Malaysia and Japan to cure several diseases. 2023 Deepu Pandita and Anu Pandita. -
GUIDELINES TO CARRY OUT TEACHING INTERNSHIP
The volume presented chapters on fundamental aspects of teaching internship to the cases of internship in countries across the Global South to the Global North. In addition, it discussed research insights into teaching internship practices and assessment of teaching internship. The previous chapter dealt with important templates useful for carrying out internships. The present chapter attempts to provide certain guidelines for carrying out internships. These guidelines might help those involved in organising teaching internships at schools. Understanding the steps of organising and deliberations on each stage of the internship process helps the stakeholders reap maximum benefit from the internship. Future researchers may focus on understanding the effectiveness of these guidelines when implemented. 2023 selection and editorial matter G.S. Prakasha and Anthony Kenneth; individual chapters, the contributors. -
Gut microbes: The miniscule laborers in the human body
Our physical and mental being largely depends on our dietary intake and the manipulations done on food by the gut bacterial flora in the digestive tract. Scientists have discovered a lot of previously unknown facts about the gut microbiota. They have been found to play a role in manifold processes, such as digestion, nutrient conversion, absorption, detoxification, and so on. In fact, people who consume plant-based and animal-based diets will have separate array of gut microbes. The composition of these microbiota will drastically change during a switch to a new diet. Deficiencies of adequate beneficial gut bacterial flora have been associated with many ailments. As there are billions of such microbes in our body, the number of bacterial genes could far outnumber the human genes in our body. The role of gut microbes in the proper functioning of the human digestive and nervous systems and its implications will be discussed in this chapter. 2018 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. -
Gut Microbiota and Cancer Correlates
The human microbiota is a concoction of bacteria, archaea, fungi, and other microorganisms. It is necessary to maintain a partnership between the host and the microbiota in order to maintain the different aspects of human physiology, such as nutrient absorption, immune function and metabolism. The microbiota can contribute to both progression and suppression of the disease, including cancer. A disturbance in this interspecies balance called microbiome dysbiosis becomes a reason for the host to be more prone to issues such as immunodeficiency and cancer. Gut microbiota could potentially influence the factors that govern cancer susceptibility and progression through mechanisms such as immunomodulation, by producing metabolites, such as, bacteriocins, antimicrobial peptides involved in tumor suppression, and short-chain fatty acids (SCFA), and through enzymatic degradation. It is now an established fact that the host physiology as well as risk of diseases such as cancer could be greatly modulated by these commensal microbes and the regulation of cancer development, progression as well as response to anticancer therapy is greatly dependent on the host microbiota. Therefore, it is being envisaged that by the involvement of microbiome in augmenting antitumor responses to therapeutic approaches, potentially a new era of research with potentially broad implication on cancer treatment could be established. Better cancer treatment responsiveness can be achieved by understanding the role of the tumor microbiome in shaping the tumor microenvironment. This will help us to develop personalized anticancer solution with the goal to discover a bacterial species or a combination of species that decreases systemic toxicity and helps in anticancer therapy. This chapter is written in same context, which focuses on the association of the gut microbiome with the suppression and progression of cancers, the role of the immune system in this interaction, the utilization of these organisms for the treatment of cancers, and future perspectives. Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021, corrected publication 2021. -
Gut-Skin Axis: Role in Health and Disease
The human microbiome includes microorganisms and their cumulative genetic details that reside in the human body. Skin, the bodys most external organ and exposed to the external environment, is an ecosystem with 1.8 m2 area. It has a varying epidermal thickness, folds, and appendages in different areas including along with varying moisture and temperature level on the skin surface. Microbial colonization on the skin surface starts from the time of birth. The mode of delivery affects the colonization process to a considerable extent. The group of microbes colonizing the skin surface is determined by physical and chemical features of it, which applies to microbes inhabiting the gut and other ecological niches in the body as well. There is several common important characteristics shared commonly by gut and skin, where both are (1) heavily vascularized, (2) richly perfused, (3) densely innervated, (4) integrated to the immune system, (5) highly associated with the endocrine system, (6) extensively colonized with recognizable microbiota, and (7) both helps our body to communicate with its external environment. It has variously been reported that a close and bidirectional association within the gut and skin in maintaining the homeostasis and allostasis of skin and also gastrointestinal (GI) health. Therefore, numerous intestinal pathologies have been linked to skin comorbidities. It has been found that skin is directly impacted by the various circumstances that principally affect the intestine. Similarly, various gastrointestinal disorders could be linked to distinct dermatological entities. In the same context, a growing body of proof proposes an association of intestinal dysbiosis with many regular inflammatory skin pathologies including atopic dermatitis (AD), psoriasis, rosacea, and acne vulgaris. And the realization of this interconnected association between skin and gut has resulted in a new concept of the Gut-Skin Axis. An intimate bidirectional engagement between the gut and the skin has been well established by growing research evidence in this domain. Recent reports have indicated that the administration of specific Lactobacilli strains to mice can significantly alter the overall skin phenotype. Despite increasing research efforts in this domain, a systematic investigation of the Gut-Skin Axis remains ill explored by both gastroenterology as well as dermatology researchers. And in this context, here we are discussing various aspects of the Gut-Skin Axis and its role in the general well-being of individuals. The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2022.