Life cycle assessment of electric vehicles: a systematic review of literature.

This study addresses the pressing need to evaluate the life cycle assessment (LCA) of electric vehicles (EVs) in comparison to traditional vehicles, amid growing environmental concerns and the quest for sustainable transportation alternatives. Through a systematic four-stage literature review, it strives to provide essential insights into the environmental impact, energy consumption, and resource utilization associated with EVs, thereby informing well-informed decisions in the transition to more sustainable transportation systems. The study's findings underscore a compelling environmental advantage of EVs.

Postharvest Operations of Cannabis and Their Effect on Cannabinoid Content: A Review.

In recent years, cannabis ( L.) has been legalized by many countries for production, processing, and use considering its tremendous medical and industrial applications. Cannabis contains more than a hundred biomolecules (cannabinoids) which have the potentiality to cure different chronic diseases.

Global electric vehicle adoption: implementation and policy implications for India.

Present transport system of conventional vehicle in India has faced challenges due to enormous amount of air pollution, health hazards to human, rising oil price, insufficient indigenous fossil fuel reserve, heavy expenditure on oil import, energy insecurity, etc. Electrical vehicle (EV) is considered to be alternatives of conventional vehicles that can overcome these shortcomings. The aim of the study is to get an overview of the electric vehicle policies of government of India and its state governments to find out their relevance and impact on EV adoption in India.

Deep neural network for automated simultaneous intervertebral disc (IVDs) identification and segmentation of multi-modal MR images.

Background And Objective: Lower back pain in humans has become a major risk. Classical approaches follow a non-invasive imaging technique for the assessment of spinal intervertebral disc (IVDs) abnormalities, where identification and segmentation of discs are done separately, making it a time-consuming phenomenon. This necessitates designing a robust automated and simultaneous IVDs identification and segmentation of multi-modality MRI images.

Correction: Observation of ordered arrays of endotaxially grown nanostructures from size-selected Cu-nanoclusters deposited on patterned substrates of Si.

Correction for 'Observation of ordered arrays of endotaxially grown nanostructures from size-selected Cu-nanoclusters deposited on patterned substrates of Si' by Shyamal Mondal et al., Phys. Chem.

Observation of ordered arrays of endotaxially grown nanostructures from size-selected Cu-nanoclusters deposited on patterned substrates of Si.

We report the first time observation of endotaxial growth during thermal treatment of size-selected nanoclusters on a patterned substrate, when we fabricate highly ordered and partially embedded 3D crystalline Cu nanostructure arrays of controlled size in Si-substrates. For this purpose, we combine low energy cluster deposition on the ripple-patterned substrate with controlled annealing. We have investigated, in detail, the effect of the substrate pattern on the deposited size-selected clusters upon heat treatment.

Quality assessment of different commercial and local milk available in the local markets of selected area of Bangladesh.

Objective: This study aimed to assess the organoleptic, physico-chemical, and microbial quality as well as the presence of any adulterants in different commercial and local milk samples.

Materials And Methods: Three brands of ultra-high temperature (UHT) milk, three brands of pasteurized milk, and three raw milk samples were procured and analyzed for different quality tests. Consumer preference about the milk samples were studied by evaluating the organoleptic properties by a testing panel of 15 panelists.

Tilt boundary induced heteroepitaxy in chemically grown dendritic silver nanostructures on germanium and their optical properties.

Dendritic silver nanostructures were prepared by a simple dip-and-rinse galvanic displacement reaction directly on germanium surfaces. The formation and evolution of these dendrites were investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) and energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX). The present results clearly show a new type of heteroepitaxy, where the large lattice mismatch between silver and germanium is accommodated at the interface by the formation of low-energy asymmetric tilt boundaries.

Different fractionation schedules of radiotherapy in locally advanced head and neck malignancy: A prospective randomized study to compare the results of treatment and toxicities of different protocols.

Context: Altered fractionated radiotherapy may have better result than conventional radiotherapy and concomitant chemoradiotherapy to treat locally advanced head and neck cancers.

Aims: Evaluation of the response and toxicities in different fractionated radiotherapy schedules in locally advanced head and neck cancer.

Materials And Methods: Sixty four histologically proved patients of locally advanced head and neck cancer were included in the study according to protocol and were randomized into three arms.

Local electron beam excitation and substrate effect on the plasmonic response of single gold nanostars.

We performed cathodoluminescence (CL) spectroscopy and imaging in a high-resolution scanning electron microscope to locally and selectively excite and investigate the plasmonic properties of a multi-branched gold nanostar on a silicon substrate. This method allows us to map the local density of optical states from the nanostar with a spatial resolution down to a few nanometers. We resolve, both in the spatial and spectral domain, different plasmon modes associated with the nanostar.