A comparative analysis of growth kinetics, image analysis, and biofuel potential of different algal strains.

Due to the global population growth and economic development, energy demand has increased worldwide. Countries take steps to improve their alternative and renewable energy sources. Algae is one of the alternative energy sources and can be used to produce renewable biofuel.

Impact of key parameters involved with plant-microbe interaction in context to global climate change.

Anthropogenic activities have a critical influence on climate change that directly or indirectly impacts plant and microbial diversity on our planet. Due to climate change, there is an increase in the intensity and frequency of extreme environmental events such as temperature rise, drought, and precipitation. The increase in greenhouse gas emissions such as CO, CH, NOx, water vapor, increase in global temperature, and change in rainfall patterns have impacted soil-plant-microbe interactions, which poses a serious threat to food security.

Estimating under-reporting of COVID-19 cases in Indian states: an approach using a delay-adjusted case fatality ratio.

Objectives: The COVID-19 pandemic has spread to all states in India. Due to limitations in testing coverage, the true extent of the spread may not be fully reflected in the reported cases. In this study, we obtain time-varying estimates of the fraction of COVID-19 infections reported in the different states.

Regulation of volatile fatty acid accumulation from waste: Effect of inoculum pretreatment.

The study investigates the implications of waste feedstock, inoculum origin, and pretreatment on volatile fatty acids accumulation (VFA). The acidogenic fermentation of the feedstocks, rice mill effluent (RME), and brewery effluent (BE) was studied using untreated and pretreated (cyclic heat-acid shock) brewery anaerobic sludge as inoculum. The pretreatment was successful in refining and stabilizing VFA production from the feedstocks.

Lingual Bracket Systems with Self Etching Primers- An Study to Evaluate Shear Bond Strength.

Aim: To evaluate the shear bond strength of orthodontic lingual bracket systems bonded to extracted premolar teeth (Reliance self-etching primer, Clearfil Protect Bond) and self-etching primer (Clearfil SE Bond) Materials and methods: A total of 160 extracted human first premolars were selected and divided into four groups of 10 for each bracket system to be used with four different primers. Each sample was then embedded in an acrylic block, till the coronal portion. Instron testing machine model LR LOYD 50 K was used for testing the shear bond strength.

On characterizing protein spatial clusters with correlation approaches.

Spatial aggregation of proteins might have functional importance, e.g., in signaling, and nano-imaging can be used to study them.

Accounting for limited detection efficiency and localization precision in cluster analysis in single molecule localization microscopy.

Single Molecule Localization Microscopy techniques like PhotoActivated Localization Microscopy, with their sub-diffraction limit spatial resolution, have been popularly used to characterize the spatial organization of membrane proteins, by means of quantitative cluster analysis. However, such quantitative studies remain challenged by the techniques' inherent sources of errors such as a limited detection efficiency of less than 60%, due to incomplete photo-conversion, and a limited localization precision in the range of 10-30 nm, varying across the detected molecules, mainly depending on the number of photons collected from each. We provide analytical methods to estimate the effect of these errors in cluster analysis and to correct for them.