Publications by authors named "Ankush Sawarkar"

Persistent accumulation of fly ash, a byproduct of coal combustion, poses significant environmental challenges due to its elevated levels of toxicity, heavy metal contamination, and ecological issues. Present review explores the ecological significance and functional potential of microfauna and mesofauna in mitigating environmental impacts, focusing on their ability to rehabilitate fly ash dump sites into biologically active and sustainable ecosystems. Microfaunal groups, including protozoa, nematodes, and other small invertebrates, play essential roles in promoting soil aggregation, pollutant biotransformation, and nutrient cycling while fostering synergistic interactions with plant communities to accelerate bioremediation processes and biodiversity recovery.

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Plastic and mixed plastic waste (PW) has received increased worldwide attention owing to its huge rate of production, high persistency in the environment, and unsustainable waste management practices. Therefore, sustainable PW management and upcycling approaches are imperative to achieve the objectives of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Numerous recent studies have shown the application and feasibility of various PW conversion techniques to produce materials with better economic value.

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Genome sequences indicate a wide variety of characteristics, which include species and sub-species type, genotype, diseases, growth indicators, yield quality, . To analyze and study the characteristics of the genome sequences across different species, various deep learning models have been proposed by researchers, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), Deep Belief Networks (DBNs), Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs), ., which vary in terms of evaluation performance, area of application and species that are processed.

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Pharmaceutical and personnel care products (PPCPs) from wastewater are a potential hazard to the human health and wildlife, and their occurrence in wastewater has caught the concern of researchers recently. To deal with PPCPs, various treatment technologies have been evolved such as physical, biological, and chemical methods. Nevertheless, modern and efficient techniques such as advance oxidation processes (AOPs) demand expensive chemicals and energy, which ultimately leads to a high treatment cost.

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Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are generated due to incomplete burning of organic substances. Use of fossil fuels is the primary anthropogenic cause of PAHs emission in natural settings. Although several PAH compounds exist in the natural environmental setting, only 16 of these compounds are considered priority pollutants.

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Bamboo, a gramineous plant belonging to the family Poaceae, comprises of 1575 species from 116 genera across the globe. It has the ability to grow and evolve on degraded land and hence, can be utilized in the various applications as an alternative for plastic and wood. DNA barcoding, a long genomic sequence, identifies barcode region which shows species-specific nucleotide differences.

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