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S. C. Patel ¹, A. V. Subrahmanyam ², T. Desapathi ², M. Nageswara Rao ², Y. V. Rathaiah ², V. Anil Kumar ², D. Rajasekhara Reddy ³, Malathi Vemuri ³

Affiliations
1 Department of Earth Sciences, IIT, Powai, Mumbai - 400 076, IN
2 Atomic Mineral Directorate for Exploration and Research, Begumpet, Hyderabad - 560 016, IN
3 Department of Geology, Andhra University, Visakhapatnam - 530 003, IN

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Shyam Singh ¹, V. Anil Kumar ¹

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1 Institute for Social and Economic Change, Bangalore 560072, Karnataka, IN

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Public policies for human development in India are politically contested for many reasons like diverse political interests and commitment to specific social bases by political regimes. These aspects have rendered human development policies and programmes ploys for political bargaining and building support base. There has been an ongoing and implicit bargaining between the political regimes in power and their social bases which is reflected prominently in human development-related policies, schemes and programmes. This paper attempts to illustrate this viewpoint, taking the case of Uttar Pradesh by analyzing the basis and priorities of two political regimes in power, i.e., Samajvadi Party and Bahujan Samaj Party.

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V. Anil Kumar ¹, C. Janaiah ¹, P. Venkateshwarlu ²

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1 Department of Zoology, Kakatiya University, Warangal (A.P.), IN
2 Department of Zoology, Kakatiya Degree College, Hanamkonda, Warangal (A.P.), IN

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On treatment with sublethal concentration of Thiamethoxam the serum biochemical parameters of fish,Channa punctuatus could be altered. The levels of glucose, lactate, amino acid nitrogen (AAN), creatine, urea, bilirubin, phospholipids, triglycerides and non-esterified fatty acids (NEFA) increased with decrease in the level of protein, non-protein nitrogen (NPN), pyruvate and albumin during the toxic exposure periods at different time intervals in the serum of the fish.There was increase in the level of glucose due to glycogenic activity and decrease in protein level due to enhanced proteolytic activity under stress condition. Low levels of pyruvate and high level of lactic acid indicated that fish can shift from aerobic to anaerobic condition. The elevated levels of creatine, bilirubin, urea and decrease in the albumin context under stress condition revealed renal failure and acute hepatic necrosis. The levels of serum phospholipids, triglycerides, non esterified fatty acids (NEFA) were increased due to elevation which might be due to increased esterification reactions under stress condition.

Keywords

Thiamethoxam, Biochemical Parameters, Blood, Channa punctatus.

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R. K. Gupta ¹, V. Anil Kumar ¹, P. Ramkumar ¹, U. V. Gururaja ²

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1 Materials and Mechanical Entity, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Thiruvananthapuram 695 022, IN
2 Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited, Hyderabad 500 058, IN

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Ti6Al4V owing to its high specific strength and Inconel-718 due to its high strength and oxidation resistance at elevated temperatures, have been used in Reusable Launch Vehicle-Technology Demonstrator (RLV-TD). Achieving required properties in large cross-section aerospace quality forgings of these alloys is challenging and has not been reported earlier. Hence, thermo-mechanical processing cycles have been devised to realize forgings of ~1400 mm length in these alloys and successfully used in RLV-TD. Forgings of these alloys having desired microstructures and ultrasonic quality of Class-A1 as per AMS 2630 B standard have been realized. This article discusses the processing challenges and solutions thereof.

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Aerospace Alloys, Forging, Microstructure, Ultrasonic Quality.

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