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Farmers' Protests, Death by Suicides, and Mental Health Systems in India: Critical Questions
Ongoing farmers' protests have once again brought back the spotlight on the agrarian crisis in India. Even though upstream factors that perpetuate farmers' suffering, including the role of the state in promoting agrocapitalism, have been discussed extensively by scholars and activists across the spectrum, mental health discourses almost always frame it as a mental health problem to be addressed by increasing access to psychopharmaceuticals. Drawing on developments around farmers' protests and analysis of articles published in flagship journals of largest professional bodies of clinical psychologists and psychiatrists in India, I highlight the intimate relationship between neoliberal state and farmers' distress to which the mental health system shuts its ears and eyes obscuring and downplaying socio-structural determinants of farmers' mental health. Copyright 2021 Springer Publishing Company, LLC. -
A Mental Health Epidemic?: Critical Questions on the National Mental Health Survey
Questions are raised about an approach towards psychiatric epidemiology, which directly imports models in medicine to count disorders of the mind to produce staggering evidence to the effect that 11% of Indians suffer from mental disorders. An alternative psychiatric epidemiology is needed, which relies on the principles of slow research, is value-based, and which defines mental health as an ethical and political problem. 2022 Economic and Political Weekly. All rights reserved. -
Exploring electric vehicle consumer behavior: impact of digital innovation, environmental concern, perceived value, and social influence on purchase intentions
Background: Understanding the drivers and boundary conditions of electric vehicle (EV) adoption is critical to fostering sustainable transportation. Building on perceived value and planned behavior theories, this study proposes a moderated mediation model in which perceived value influences both sustainability perception and purchase intentions, with household income, technology trust, and environmental knowledge serving as moderators. Methods: A cross-sectional survey of 496 licensed drivers familiar with EVs was conducted using validated multi-item scales. Data were analyzed in R using confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling (lavaan), incorporating product-indicator interactions and 5,000-sample bootstrapping to test the direct, moderating, and mediating effects. Results: Consumers perceived value has a positive effect on sustainability perception (0.122, p?<?0.001) and purchase intentions (0.002, p?<?0.001). Household income also strengthens the relationship between perceived value and purchase intention (0.043, p?<?0.001). Digital innovation (0.285, p?<?0.001) and environmental concerns (0.411, p?<?0.001) dynamically influenced the perception of sustainability at a significant level, although social influence was not significant. Compared with other variables, sustainability perception had the greatest effect on consumers intention to buy an electric car (0.624, p?<?0.001) and served as a mediator in three out of four indirect connections between perceived value and purchase intention. The moderating effects of technology trust and environmental knowledge were not supported. Conclusion: These findings highlight the central roles of value and sustainability perceptions in EV adoption and identify income as a key boundary condition. Practical implications include tailoring incentives by income segment, investing in user-centric digital platforms, and emphasizing both economic and environmental benefits. Theoretically, this study extends technology acceptance models by integrating sustainability constructs and underscores the nuanced impact of socioeconomic factors on green consumer behavior. Copyright 2025 Kottala, Chanagala, Balaji, Reddy and Babu. -
Selfipendant and Extremal Pendant Graphs
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Graph Theory and Decomposition
The book Graph Theory and Decomposition covers major areas of the decomposition of graphs. It is a three-part reference book with nine chapters that is aimed at enthusiasts as well as research scholars. It comprehends historical evolution and basic terminologies, and it deliberates on decompositions into cyclic graphs, such as cycle, digraph, and K4-e decompositions. In addition to determining the pendant number of graphs, it has a discourse on decomposing a graph into acyclic graphs like general tree, path, and star decompositions. It summarises another recently developed decomposition technique, which decomposes the given graph into multiple types of subgraphs. Major conjectures on graph decompositions are elaborately discussed. It alludes to a comprehensive bibliography that includes over 500 monographs and journal articles. It includes more than 500 theorems, around 100 definitions, 56 conjectures, 40 open problems, and an algorithm. The index section facilitates easy access to definitions, major conjectures, and named theorems. Thus, the book Graph Theory and Decomposition will be a great asset, we hope, in the field of decompositions of graphs and will serve as a reference book for all who are passionate about graph theory. 2024 Jomon Kottarathil, Sudev Naduvath and Joseph Varghese Kureethara. -
The Pendant Number ofLine Graphs andTotal Graphs
The parameter, pendant number of a graph G, is defined as the least number of end vertices of paths in a path decomposition of the given graph and is denoted as ? p(G). This paper determines the pendant number of regular graphs, complete r-partite graphs, line graphs, total graphs and line graphs of total graphs. We explore the bougainvillea graphs, e-pendant graphs and v-pendant graphs. If the pendant number is 2, then the number of paths in the path decomposition of the given graph is at most ? (G), the maximum degree of the graph. Hence, a large class of graphs give a more reasonable solution to Gallais conjecture on number of paths in the given path decomposition. 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. -
On path-induced signed graphs
The path decomposition of a graph G is the process of decomposing it into edge-disjoint paths. An induced signed graph is a signed graph formed from an ordinary unsigned graph by assigning signs to its edges according to some protocol. In this paper, we introduce the notion of a path-induced signed graph as an induced signed graph whose edges receive a sign according to whether its end vertices are the end vertices of a path in a path decomposition of G. We also discuss some characteristics of this type of signed graph. The Author(s), under exclusive license to Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania 2026. -
Screening, isolation, characterization, and optimization of BSH activity from potential probiotic isolates from various sources
Bile salt hydrolase (BSH)-producing probiotics can assimilate cholesterol from the body through de novo synthesis. The BSH enzyme was found in 23 of 513 isolates accessed from various sources. Five of the 23 BSH-positive strains have been selected for further study, based on their BSH activity, compared to two positive controls, Lactobacillus acidophilus and Enterococcus lactis. The Grams nature of the strains was determined and further examined for hemolytic activity, gelatinase, and catalase assay as per Indian Council for Medical ResearchDepartment of Biotechnology recommendations. Two Enterococcus faecalis (CGz3 and CGz4) strains with ?-hemolytic, negative catalase, and gelatinase activity are selected for probiotic characterization, evaluating the organisms surface hydrophobicity, autoaggregation tests, tolerance to lysozyme, gastric acidity, bile salt and gastric juices (pepsin and pancreatin). The strain which withstands the harsh gastrointestinal conditions was considered for further experiments. To establish a standardized method to quantify the BSH activity of the potential probiotic isolate, substrate utilization was performed by screening sodium glycocholate (GCA) and taurocholic acid (TCA) at different concentrations. The optimal BSH activity was observed at the 16th hour and 0.1% (v/v) GCA. Based on the standardized protocol, factorial optimization of process parameters, such as pH, inoculum percentage, temperature, and revolutions per minute (RPM) was carried out for increased BSH activity. The optimal BSH activity was observed at pH 5.5 and 1% inoculum (v/v). The highest BSH activity was obtained at 40C and 200 RPM. Among the other BSH-positive strains, E. faecalis CGz3 shows the best probiotic potential. The strain would be further studied for its ability to alleviate symptoms associated with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD), using a cell line-based study and associated gene regulation. In conclusion, E. faecalis CGz3 would have the potential to be used as a dietary supplement to treat metabolic disorders, such as hypercholesterolemia and NAFLD/metabolic-associated fatty liver disease. 2025 Koushik Koujalagi and Alok Kumar Malaviya. -
DIGITAL TWINBASED INTELLIGENT MONITORING OF INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS USING EXPLAINABLE AI
Industrial systems increasingly rely on Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) sensors for real-time monitoring and predictive maintenance. However, most existing digital twinbased monitoring solutions depend on static or black-box machine learning models, limiting interpretability, operator trust, and safe deployment in safety-critical environments. In response to these challenges, the author develops the Adaptive Hybrid Digital Twin with Causality-Aware Explainable Artificial Intelligence (HADT-C-XAI) framework to offer transparency and intelligence in industrial monitoring. The framework describes three integrated layers: (i) acquisition of real-time sensors, (ii) continually synchronized hybrid digital twin modeling, which is the integration of physics and data hybrid modeling and (iii) an intelligent analysis layer where LSTM-based anomaly detection is ungraded with explainable feature attribution. A closed-loop learning mechanism updates the model dynamically to adapt to operational drift while generating interpretable fault causes for operator decision support. Experiments were conducted on a multi-sensor industrial testbed containing 120 hours of vibration, temperature, acoustic, and rotational data. The implemented system shows a 94.8% detection accuracy, 95.4% recall, and a 4.1% low false alarm rate, which surpasses standard LSTM (88.5%) and threshold-based monitoring (82.9%). With edge-level inference, detection latency has been reduced to 26-30 ms, which allows for real-time deployment. Results demonstrate that integrating adaptive digital twins with explainable AI improves reliability, transparency, and fault diagnosis while maintaining computational efficiency. The proposed framework provides a scalable and trustworthy solution for predictive maintenance, Industry 4.0 applications, and cyberphysical system monitoring. 2025, Technical institute of Bijeljina. All rights reserved. -
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Global iPhone Local Labour: Exploring ICT Production, Labour and Cultural Production
A theory of value pertinent to the contemporary iPhone era focuses on formal and informal labour circuits. This study extends this framework by examining a labour dispute in an iPhone factory near Bangalore, delving into its dissemination through media and the broader critical political economy surrounding the recent iPhone production in India. Furthermore, it incorporates a geographical perspective into the circuit framework to illustrate the movement of capital and labour in Bangalore, rekindling discussions on coreperiphery dynamics in the context of capital and labour migration. Further, this research builds upon the typography of worker-generated content by illustrating a specific category of such content within the iPhone labour dispute. Utilising a critical political economy of media approach, this article aims to assess the broader implications of the updated framework and to open new avenues for research within the emerging field of information communication technologies, cultural production and labour. 2024 South Asian University. -
The Persistence of Untouchability: Working Conditions of Dalit Journalists in India
This article can be viewed as an extension of the Oxfam report of 2019, which revealed that Indian news media is dominated by upper castes and the near absence of Dalit and Adivasi journalists. Using critical political economy as a framework, and undertaking qualitative interviews of self-identifying Dalit journalists, their conditions of work in mainstream news media are examined. In addition to the problems faced by journalists in general, this research reveals that Dalit journalists experience considerable psychological stress and extra intensity of work. They tolerate a toxic work environment that results in mental trauma and have to navigate rigid caste networks. Supplementing in-depth interviews with secondary data, the article argues that the conditions within which Dalit journalists function contain all dimensions of untouchability: exclusion, humiliation, and exploitation. The article concludes with a call to end this untouchability, revive the Working Journalists Act to ameliorate the conditions of work of Indias fourth estate. Specific legislation is required to ensure favorable conditions of work for Dalit journalists. Further, the article calls for a theoretical revamping of critical political economy to include caste, particularly when analyzing South Asian media. The Author 2024 -
Enterococcus faecalis CGz3 alleviating steatosis via BSH-mediated modulation in HepG2 cell-lines
The study aimed to evaluate the therapeutic potential of bile salt hydrolase (BSH)-producing probiotic Enterococcus faecalis CGz3 in alleviating steatosis in HepG2 hepatocarcinoma cells, with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) induced by cholesterol and oleic acid (OA), focusing on its effects on lipid accumulation, metabolic gene expression and, inflammatory pathways. HepG2 cells were treated with cholesterol and OA to induce lipid accumulation, mimicking non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) conditions. Cells were then incubated with E. faecalis CGz3 for 6 hours at 37C and 5% CO2. Lipid levels were quantified using Oil Red O staining and cholesterol uptake assays, while gene expression of lipogenic, inflammatory and metabolic markers was assessed via quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR). Treatment with E. faecalis CGz3 significantly reduced lipid accumulation from 42.961.35 mg/mL in NAFLD-induced cells to 29.731.26 mg/mL. It down regulated lipogenic genes (SREBP-1c, FAS and ACC) and inflammatory markers (TNF-?, IL-6, CRP, TLR4, TLR9, NF-?B, JNK, ERK) while upregulating PPAR? and AMPK, promoting fatty acid oxidation. No significant cytotoxicity was observed at 6 hours, though prolonged exposure (1224 hours) reduced cell viability. This study introduces E. faecalis CGz3, a novel BSH-producing probiotic isolated from chicken gizzard, as a promising candidate for NAFLD intervention. Its selective modulation of lipid metabolism and inflammation via BSH activity offers a new perspective on probiotic-based therapies for NAFLD, warranting further in vivo and clinical exploration. 2025, World Researchers Associations. All rights reserved. -
Screen Time to Severity: Machine Learning Models for Teen Smartphone Dependency Prediction
This study presents a systematic comparison of fourteen supervised classifiers trained to predict binned smartphone addiction levels (Low/Medium/High) in a cohort of 300 teenagers, using demographic, usage, academic, and health related features. After cleaning and binning the continuous Addiction_Level score into three categories, we encoded all categorical variables and standardized inputs, then stratified into 80 % training and 20 % test splits. Our expanded model suite comprised: Logistic Regression, Gaussian Naive Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbors, Decision Tree, Random Forest, Extra Trees, AdaBoost, Gradient Boosting, XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, Support Vector Machine, and a multilayer perceptron (MLP). Each classifier was evaluated on accuracy, precision, recall, macro-averaged F1-score, and multiclass ROC AUC; confusion-matrix entries were flattened into nine 'Actual_i to Pred_j' columns per model for granular error analysis. Logistic Regression achieved the highest test accuracy (98.83%) , outstanding ROC AUC (0.9982) and perfect precision in discriminating the majority class ('High' addiction), despite modest recall for minority classes. MLP followed (96.33 % accuracy, 0.9878 AUC), indicating that a shallow neural network can capture nonlinear patterns but struggles on underrepresented labels. Gradient Boosting, CatBoost, and LightGBM all exceeded 95% accuracy with strong F1-scores (?0.72-0.73) and AUCs above 0.96, demonstrating the power of tree-based ensembles on mixed data types. Simpler methods (e.g., GaussianNB, KNN, Decision Tree) performed moderately (86-91% accuracy, AUC 0.84-0.98), while AdaBoost lagged (77.5 % accuracy, AUC 0.867), suggesting sensitivity to noisy features. Confusion-matrix summaries revealed that most models rarely misclassify Low-addiction teens, but confusion arises between Medium and High classes important for targeted interventions. 2025 IEEE. -
Going beyond tomato a fruit or vegetable debate: economic and policy challenges in tomato farming in India
Learning outcomes: The case was an application of a market demand and supply mechanism and its impact on the products price and focus on the following objectives:??Analyze the vegetable market in India and the challenges faced by the farmers (tomatoes) using demand and supply concepts.??Examine the impact of price elasticity on the revenue of the farmers.??Assess the challenges faced by the government in controlling prices of vegetables and food inflation.??Evaluate diversification strategies in agriculture to mitigate risk. Case overview/synopsis: The market for tomatoes was highly cyclical because of erratic rainfall, and farmers went through a difficult time, especially when the prices fell below the cost of production. They moved out for crops that had stable prices. They expected government support for price stability. Government and policymakers considered price fluctuations a short-term phenomenon that required limited interventions when prices were high. This case was about Dilip, a farmer who was into farming tomatoes on a large scale in Karnataka, India. He was facing a dilemma as to whether he had to continue or move to other crops because of the low price of tomatoes in May 2023 or to diversify into some small but related business. He was worried at the same time, curious to understand the volatility in the prices of tomatoes, government responses, risks and returns associated with the cultivation of this crop and Agri-supply chain. Based on his understanding, he should make decisions to continue or diversify into some other farming or related business. Complexity academic level: This case was written for microeconomics and managerial economics of undergraduate and postgraduate students. This case demonstrates the application of the demand and supply mechanism for a perishable product such as tomatoes. Price fluctuations are common in these markets because of various uncontrollable factors such as rain, pests and natural calamities. The case could show the relationship between the firms elasticities and revenue. This case also highlights the policy constraints in controlling the prices in the short run. This case could also be used for understanding macroeconomic concepts such as food inflation and its impact on general price inflation. The students or target audience with a background in the functioning of the markets could very well relate to the concepts discussed. Supplementary material: Teaching notes are available for educators only. Subject Code: CSS: Entrepreneurship (3); Management Science (7). 2025, Emerald Publishing Limited. -
Classification of adaptive back propagation neural network along with fuzzy logic in chronic kidney disease
A steady deterioration in kidney function over months or years is known as chronic kidney disease (CKD). Through a range of techniques, such as pharmacological intervention in moderate cases and hemodialysis and renal transport in severe cases, early identification of CKD is crucial and has a substantial influence on reducing the patient's health development. The outcomes show the patient's kidneys' present state. It is suggested to develop a system for detecting chronic renal disease using machine learning. Finding the best feature sets typically involves using metaheuristic algorithms since feature selection is an NP-hard issue with amorphous polynomials. Semi-crystalline tabu search (TS) is frequently used for both local and global searches. In this study, we employ a brand-new hybrid TS with stochastic diffusion search (SDX)-based feature selection. The adaptive backpropagation neural network (ABPNN-ANFIS) is then classified using fuzzy logic. Fuzzy logic may be used to combine the ABPNN findings. Consequently, these techniques can aid experts in determining the stage of chronic renal disease. The Adaptive Neuron Clearing Inference System (ABPNN-ANFIS) was utilised to develop adaptive inverse neural networks using the MATLAB programme. The outcomes demonstrate that the suggested ABPNN-ANFIS is 98 % accurate in terms of efficiency. 2024 -
Phytochemical analysis and antioxidant activity of leaf extracts of some selected plants of the family acanthaceae
The present era of scientific research has witnessed an enumerable amount of evidences to showcase the immense potential of medicinal plants. In the present investigation, the phytochemical analysis of Phlogacanthus pubinervius T. Anderson., Adhatoda vasica (L.) Nees,Phlogacanthus thyrsiflorus Nees, Phlogacanthus curviflorus (Wall.) Nees, and Ruellia tuberosa L. was carried out for the different plants extracted with methanol. Analysis was carried out to estimate the quantity of phenols, carbohydrates, tannins, flavonoids and proteins. The antioxidant property of these plants were analysed using DPPH method. The concentration of the plant samples required to decrease the DPPH concentration by 50% was calculated by interpolation from linear regression analysis and denoted IC50 value (g/ml). The qualitative analysis showed the presence of alkaloids, tannins, saponins, proteins, carbohydrate and phenols in all the sample extracts. The highest amount of tannins and phenols was observed in P. thyrsiflorus. P. pubinervius (77.83%), A. vasica (74.81%), P. curviflorus (94.20%), and R. tuberosa (70.78%) which showed highest antioxidant activity of DPPH-scavenging at 150 g/ml of methanol extract. The high percent of scavenging activities of those plants add value to their medicinal properties. The presence of the high amount of phytochemical compounds suggests that the plants have high amount of medicinal compounds and can be extensively used to extract the natural compounds. Kripasana & Xavier (2020). This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). -
Rethinking human values
Just as there are many cultures within the world, so also are there many practices, beliefs, myths, values, and traditions within each culture. These unique ways of being can often present challenging frames of reference that may prevent a whole perspective from being attained. This essay examines the contextual formation of culture and the fundamentals intricate to the search for universal values. An illumination is also provided upon some of the major and extreme forms of cultural practices that may pose difficulty in achieving such a goal. -
Design of a new curve based cipher
This work aims to develop a model with curve based cryptographic scheme which supports Confidentiality and Authentication at low computing resources and equal security. T TARU PUBLICATIONS. -
Statistical tests for key strength identification in cryptography
The cryptographic study involves three algorithms, one for Encryption of Plain text to Cipher text, one for Decryption for Cipher text back to Plain text and third for the generation of the Key. Key generation algorithm works on the principle of Randomness. In this work, the randomness of Key is studied by using Statistical methods like Runs Up & Runs Down test, Runs (Above and Below the mean), Chi Square test & Auto correlation test for its usability in Cryptographic study. 2020 IJSTR.