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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. -
Green Supply Chain Management: Attaining Sustainable Competitive Advantage
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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 Power: The Role of Plant-Based Biochar in Advanced Energy Storage
This comprehensive review aims to provide an overview of recent progress in utilizing plant-based biochar for supercapacitors. It specifically focuses on biochar derived from plant biomass such as agricultural residues, weeds and aquatic plants, examining their potential in energy storage applications. It explores various synthesis methods like pyrolysis and hydrothermal carbonization and evaluates their impact on biochar's structure and electrochemical properties. Additionally, it examines the electrochemical performance of biochar-based supercapacitors, focusing on parameters such as capacitance, cycling stability, and rate capability. Strategies to enhance biochar's electrochemical performance, such as surface modification and composite fabrication, are also discussed. Furthermore, it addresses existing challenges and prospects in harnessing plant-based biochar for supercapacitor applications, highlighting its potential as a sustainable and efficient electrode material for next-generation energy storage devices. 2024 Wiley-VCH GmbH. -
Green Orientation and Customer-Based Brand Equity in FMCG Industry in India
In the recent years, the idea of green-oriented approach gained traction in both academic research as well as corporate research. Companies are now able to identify the long-term benefits of being responsible towards the environment. This paper attempted to understand the relationship between green-orientation of a brand, antecedents of customer based brand equity namely of Aaker's Model with respect to the FMCG Industry in India. Data was collected from 207 FMCG product consumers from India above the age of 18. Person's correlation coefficient and Multiple Linear Regression were calculated to ascertain the relationship between green orientation and the antecedents of CBBE. It was found that Brand Loyalty was the most significant on CBBE whereas Brand Association was the least. The results of this research would be helpful for the brands to take decisions accordingly as it may act as an incentive to be more innovative towards sustainable ways of operating. The Electrochemical Society -
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 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 Manufacturing and Performances in Apparel Export Industry: Mediating Role of Green Innovation
Implementing green manufacturing in the production process of garment export-oriented enterprises not only contributes to environmental well-being but also enhances competitiveness in the global market and boosts overall company performance. Furthermore, it is critical to take immediate action to improve sustainable production levels via green innovation. This study aims to investigate the impact of green manufacturing on operational performance, environmental performance, and economic performance in the apparel manufacturing export industry. The study also investigates the mediating role of green innovation as a mediator between the green manufacturing and types of performances. A survey method is used to collect data from 123 garment export units, and structural equation modelling (SEM) is used to analyze the results. This study delivers empirical evidence of the impact of the imple-mentation of green manufacturing on green innovation and economic performance. Moreover, green innovation has a significant impact on economic performance and environmental performance. The results signify that green innovation partially mediates green manufacturing and economic performance. Green innovation fully mediates green manufacturing and environmental performance, and also green manufacturing and operational performance. This study is unique in its focus on the use of green manufacturing and green innovation in garment export production units. It provides insights into how these green practices might improve firm performance and the environment. 2024, Kauno Technologijos Universitetas. All rights reserved. -
Green Luminescence and Irradiance Properties of Carbon Dots Cross-linked with Polydimethylsiloxane
In the present report, we have synthesized carbon dots by using anthracite coal as a precursor. The purpose of this work is to address the sensitivity and surface coating ability of carbon dots with polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) polymer. The photoluminescence study shows the shift in emission wavelength of carbon dots in water and polymer individually for different excitation wavelengths (320-480 nm). The shifted peaks have higher intensities for higher excitation wavelengths, which are desirable for real world optical applications. This study gives a simple and novel approach to tune the fluorescence spectrum over the entire UV region just by varying the concentration of carbon dots in the polymer base. Detailed characterization revealed that the increase in the intensity of emission peaks can be obtained by using a polymer base system and changing the concentration of carbon dots. This new approach significantly opens a new window for multiapproach sensing methods. The irradiance studies of carbon dots with PDMS resulted in a decrease in absorption. This explains the photodegradation and photophysical properties of the material. The wettability property of the sample by using contact angle studies reveals its significance in coating industries such as nanoengineering, adhesives, casting, and injection molding. Copyright 2019 American Chemical Society. -
Green Innovation for Sustainable Development
In recent years, organisations have notably taken up Green Innovation for sustainable development to maintain the customer base and keep the natural environment safe. Consumers are aware of the current environmental issues, such as global warming and the consequence of environmental pollution. As a result, organisations are demanding to craft green strategies and embryonic to advance holistic methods towards maximising shareholders' values. This paper attempts to provide valuable insights into the going green concepts and their association with the value creation in the automobile industry regarding the e-vehicle by examining the effects of green innovations in Mahindra Electric Mobility Limited, India towards the launching of Mahindra e2oPlus on the Reva platform. Furthermore, the authors analyse the performance of this innovation on the organisational financial performance with the help of event study methodology. 2022 IET Conference Proceedings. 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 Bonds: A Propitious Financial Instrument of Climate Finance
Green bonds are a comparatively recent investment mechanism for green initiatives and are perceived as the first line of climate change protection. The aim of the article is to decide if the issuing of a green bond is perceived to be good news for market players, and also to ascertain whether developing markets, relative to established markets, are more inclined towards green bonds to tackle climate change. The study used an international sample of recent green bond issues and illustrated the possible effects of the issuing of a green bond for the issuer. A sample of 392 green bonds released from 2017 to 2020 is included. Event study methodology is used to analyse investor response to green bond issuance. Over the years, emerging markets have been found to be keen on greening projects by green bonds, much in line with established markets. The findings suggest that on the day of issuance of the green bonds the stock market responds adversely and reacts positively after the day. Hence statistical technique is applied on different event windows to obtain the cumulative abnormal returns (CAR). Statistical analysis concludes that the market responds adversely to the issuing of a green bond. This influence is particularly evident in the first issuing of green bonds and in developing markets. This research shows that proposals of green debt transmit unfavourable knowledge about the issuing companies. These results are relevant only in the case of green bonds issued by listed firms. 2023 MDI. -
Green Bonds Driving Sustainable Transition in Asian Economies: The Case of India
On September 25, 2015, 193 countries of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, signed the 2030 Agenda to work towards attaining 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and its associated 169 targets and 232 indicators. With one of the largest renewable energy programs, India is well-poised to be a role model for low-carbon transformation to other Asian countries. However, bridging the financing gap is critical to ensure that the country meets its SDG targets. Though the SDGs identified by the UN are broad-based and interdependent, for ease of analysis we have grouped them into five themes people, planet, prosperity, peace, and partnership based on existing UN models. This paper investigates the financing gap for green' projects linked to planet-related SDG targets in India. It builds an argument for utilizing green bonds as an instrument to bridge the gap. After establishing the potential of green bonds in raising the finance to meet India's planet-related SDG targets, we look at the current policy landscape and suggest recommendations for successful execution. The paper concludes that deepening of the corporate fixed income securities market and firming up guidelines in line with India's climate action plans are inevitable before green bonds can be considered a viable financing option. 2021. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. All rights reserved. -
Green and Sustainable Software Model for IT Enterprises
The present study is based on developing a Green and Sustainable software because in the present-day computing devices are used for all kinds of purposes and they consume a lot of energy to perform these services. The ICT sector itself consumes a lot of energy so there is a need to think of alternatives that can reduce the level of energy consumption, thus, green ICT practice can be a good option. There is, however, a scarcity of researches that explains how the maintenance of green knowledge in ICT software development may be implemented. Since we recognize that software development process (SDL) plays an essential role in enabling the ICT community, uncontrolled green knowledge in developing software that would lead to the dilemma of failing to satisfy both the community's business and environmental requirements. Therefore, this research will concentrate on presenting a methodology applying an innovative model for managing the green software development and implementation. Keeping this concern in mind the present paper is going to provide a Green and Sustainable software model which can be used in green ICT practices and will be helpful in reducing the energy consumption used by computers. 2021 IEEE. -
Green accounting and its application: A study on reporting practices of environmental accounting in India
Green Accounting is an important device for understanding the role of business ventures in the economy towards environmental security and welfare. It is a well-known term for environment and natural resources accounting. Many companies all over the world have initiated the practices of making environmental disclosures in their annual reports. However, these practices are still largely voluntary in nature. The objective of this research paper is to study the environment-related disclosures of companies taken from Nifty 50 based on the summary of Global Reporting Standards. Content Analysis, both sector-wise and keyword-wise is used on the annual reports of 29 sample companies using MAXQDA software. A high count of the formulated keywords is observed in some relevant sectors of Energy, Cement and Metals. 2022 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. -
Gray Level Co-occurrence Matrix based Fully Convolutional Neural Network Model for Pneumonia Detection
This study presents a new method to improve the detection ability of a convolutional neural network (CNN) in pneumonia detection using chest X-ray images. Using Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) analysis, additional channels are added to the original image data provided by Guangzhou Children's Hospital in Guangzhou, China. The main goal is to design a lightweight, fully convolution network and increase its available information using GLCM. Performance analysis is performed on the new CNN model and GLCM-enhanced CNN model, and results are compared with Transfer Learning approaches. Various evaluation metrics, including accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, and AUC-ROC, are used to evaluate the improved analysis performance of CNN. The results showed a significant increase in the ability of the model to detect pneumonia, with an accuracy of 99.57%. In addition, the study evaluates the descriptive properties of the CNN model by analyzing its decision process using Grad-CAM. 2024, J.J. Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology. All rights reserved. -
Gravity-modulated RayleighBard convection in a Newtonian liquid bounded by rigidfree boundaries: a comparative study with other boundary conditions
Effect of different boundaries on the gravity-modulated RayleighBard convection has been investigated with an emphasis on rigidfree boundaries. Small-amplitude and large-amplitude modulations are studied using the linear stability analysis. The modified Venezian approach is used to study small-amplitude modulations using different modes of perturbations and the superposition principle. The existence of subharmonic motions for the case of large-amplitude modulations was explored using the Mathieu equation arising from the linear stability analysis. Floquet theory was used together with Hills infinite determinant method to compute the critical Rayleigh number for the case of large-amplitude modulations. Weakly non-linear analysis is performed leading to the cubic StuartLandau equation from the Lorenz system. Heat transport was quantified using the Nusselt number and the mean Nusselt numbers for different amplitudes and frequencies. It was found that gravity modulation has, in general, a stabilizing effect on the convection process in all three boundary types, and the heat transport was found to be an increasing function of amplitude. Another important outcome of the study is that the critical Rayleigh number for the onset of convection for rigidfree boundaries lies between those of the corresponding values of the freefree and rigidrigid boundaries in the case of both harmonic and subharmonic motions which could be exploited in controlling convection. 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature B.V. -
Gravity modulation effect on ferromagnetic convection in a Darcy-Brinkman layer of porous medium /
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Gravity modulation effect on ferromagnetic convection in a Darcy-Brinkman layer of porous medium
The influence of a timedependent body force on the threshold of convective instability in a magnetic fluid filled horizontal porous layer is investigated. The gravity modulation effect is treated by employing a perturbation method. The correction Rayleigh number is computedas a function of the modulation frequency, porous and magnetic parameters. It is expounded that, for small and reasonable values of the modulation frequency, gravity modulation and magnetic mechanism have opposing influence on the stability. The study further explicates that, when the gravity modulation frequency increases beyond all bounds, manifestation of the disappearance of the magnetic and porous medium effects on the stability is highly likely. Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. -
Gratitude as a path to human prosperity during adverse circumstances: a narrative review
Although each person faces their own share of challenges, it is their individual perception and responses to these difficulties that determine how they are affected by them. In this paper we investigate the association between gratitude and human prosperity including the underlying mechanism that helps people thrive during trying circumstances. We survey the literature, examining how gratitude enables people to prosper amidst adversity and employ a narrative style to present these unique characteristics. This review suggests that gratitude enhances coping abilities, such as meaning-focused coping and positive reframing, which foster positive emotions and augment personal resources like resilience, perseverance, and social bonds. These elements, in turn, may possibly explain the association between gratitude and human prosperity during dire circumstances. 2023 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.