Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Science and Technology for Tomorrow (SciTech 2024)
27 articles
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Peer-Review Statements
Santhosh Kumar Thatikonda, Beauty Pandey, Daya Shankar, Raul Villamarin Rodriguez
All of the articles in this proceedings volume have been presented at the 2024 International Conference on Sustainable Science and Technology for Tomorrow (SciTech-24) during September 16-20th 2024 in Woxsen University, Telangana, India. These articles have been peer reviewed by the members of the Scientific...
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Facile Growth and Electrocatalytic Response of Au-doped MnWO4 Nanorods
Kusha K. Naik, Rashmita Panda, Tapan Kumar Sarangi
Herein, we report the synthesis of nanostructured Au-doped MnWO4 (Au-MnWO4) material accomplished by a conventional hydrothermal method. A field-emission scanning electron microscope (FESEM), X-ray diffractometer (XRD), and an energy dispersive X-ray analysis (EDAX) were utilized to identify the structural,...
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Synthesis, Characterization and Application of Fungal Synthesized TiO2 Nanoparticles
Urmila S. Dhangar, Shubhangi R. Shinde, Omkar Divekar, Akshay Gaikwad
Recent advances in Nano science and nanotechnology changed the pattern of how we diagnose, treat, and prevent various diseases in all aspects of human life. Also, they were enormously used in removal of synthetic dyes present in textile dye effluent. TiO2 nanoparticles (TiO2NPs) are one of the most life-sustaining...
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Eco-Friendly Biosynthesis of Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) Nanoparticles Using Algal Extracts: A Comprehensive Review
G. Abnave, U. Bansode, K. Chavan, U. Chaudhari, T. Patil, P. Shete, A. Mudawat, S. D. Sherkar
Imagine turning algae from a lake into tiny, powerful particles that can clean water or fight bacteria. This review dives into the green synthesis of titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles using algal extracts, exploring how these natural ingredients interact with titanium precursors to create eco-friendly...
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Synthesis of Metal Organic Frameworks by Phytoextracts: A Review
Nikhat Fatima, Arzoo Siddiqui, Amulya Sinha, Amit Yadav, Girish Singh, Sharda Sundaram Sanjay
Plant extracts contain bioactive compounds that may be used in the synthesis of metal organic frameworks. They are nature-friendly and rapid synthetic approach can be achieved with them, that provides a low-cost, high efficiency method for the synthesis of metal organic frameworks by phytoextracts. The...
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Enhancing PAM-4 Modulation with Zigzag Constellation and Variable Extinction Ratios Using Microring Modulators
Satyabrata Singha, Nitish Sinha, Srikanta Das, Bishanka Brata Bhowmik, P. Vedavalli, G. Surendar Reddy
This article presents the design of a PAM-4 modulator using a microring modulator. The modulator employs a zigzag-patterned constellation to utilize both amplitude and phase information, which improves the signal recovery when amplitude-modulated data cannot be recovered due to noise. The article also...
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Sustainable Synthesis of TiO2 Nanoparticles and Their Utilization in Wastewater Treatment
Sherkar Seema Dattatray, Aditya Anil Pawar, Shubhangi R. Shinde, N. N. Patil
This research presents an in-depth analysis of nanoparticle classification, highlighting the key attributes that inform their categorization: size, shape, and material composition. Among these, titanium dioxide emerges as a notable and technologically important substance within various fields of nanotechnology....
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Mellin Moments in Partonic Distributions: Insights into Hadronic Structure and Sustainability
Akbari Jahan, Diptimonta Neog
Parton Distribution Functions (PDFs) are fundamental tools in high-energy physics, providing insights into the momentum distribution of quarks and gluons within hadrons. They denote the probability density of finding a parton of type i carrying a momentum fraction x of the hadron’s momentum at an energy...
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Endocrine Disruptors in Waste: Unseen Threats to Human Male Reproduction
Sreejita Choudhuri, Beauty Pandey, Daya Shankar, Vishal Anand
Exposure to environmental waste endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) has been a major concern due to their impact on human health, particularly male fertility. These chemicals, especially those released during the treatment of electronic and industrial waste, disrupt processes involved in hormone production,...
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Heavy Metals Accumulation and Health Risk Potential in Lycopercicum Esculentum Plants from Pb Contaminated Soil: A Review
Gautam Kumar, Akrity Singh Bharadwaj, Justin Masih, Arzoo Siddiqui, Girish Singh, Vivek Bhadauria
The phytoremediation procedure is a creative and economical way to deal with stubborn environmental pollutants. It is an efficient heavy metal removal method of soil from metal-contaminated locations. Despite not being a fundamental component or a part of the cell digestive system, lead (Pb) is a potential...
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Bioaugmentation of Soil Artificially Polluted with Acetaminophen and Hydroxychloroquine
Meghmala S. Waghmode, Pragati S. Abhyankar, Dipak K. Sahoo, Neha N. Patil
Bioaugmentation is a promising technique for repairing sites contaminated with refractory chemicals like drugs such as acetaminophen and hydroxychloroquine. Microorganisms have been shown to be effective in breaking down drugs in contaminated areas. Here we report the bioremediation of soil contaminated...
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Extraction and Partial Characterization of Pigments Produced by Actinomycetes Isolated from Soil Samples of Various Regions of Maharashtra
Sunita Sakure, Prajakta Raut, Anuja Gade, Lavanya Tati
Natural pigments are not toxic and biodegradable. Microbial pigments are cost-effective. Actinomycetes produce different colours under different environments. So they need to be explored extensively for pigment production. About 80% of isolates showed pigment production on Actinomycetes Isolation Agar....
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Mitigating Misinformation: A Comparative Analysis of Machine Learning Models for Fake News Detection
Alam Vamsidhara Reddy, Allugunti Harika, Amogh Deshmukh
The 21st century has seen a significant increase in fake news, mainly due to the rise of social media and greater internet access. The rapid online spread of fake news poses a significant challenge, as traditional methods of fake news detection are struggling to catch up. To address this, our study centered...
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Optimizing CNN Models for Facial Expression Recognition: A Comparative Study of Fine-Tuning Impact
Hrishiraj Sawan, Riya Deka, Sagar Saikia, Sunil Prasad
InceptionResNetV2, MobileNetV2, and GoogleNet are three cutting-edge convolutional neural network (CNN) models that are compared in this paper’s study of facial expression recognition prediction. The models were tested on a dataset collected from 25 participants with emotions like fear, sadness, disgust,...
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Artificial Intelligence in Drug Discovery: A Comprehensive Review
Sudarshana Santhosh Kumar Kothapalli, Dipak Kumar Sahoo, T. Santhosh Kumar, Suman Chirra
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the landscape of drug discovery and development. Traditional approaches, though foundational, are often limited by high costs, lengthy timelines, and high attrition rates in clinical trials. Recent advances in machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL), and...
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Synergistic Solvent Extraction of Zinc (II) with Triphenylarsine oxide and Tributylamine
A. V. L. N. S. H. Hariharan, Mumtaz Begum
Solvent extraction of zinc(II) using Triphenylarsine oxide and tributylamine as extractants in xylene under acidic conditions was studied. The work evaluates the impact of various thermodynamic parameters, including pH, temperature, contact time, and equilibrium behaviour, on the extraction efficiency....
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Review on Bioactive Pyranopyrazole Derivatives: Green Synthesis Methods and Their Medicinal Importance
Girish Singh, Amit Yadav, Arzoo Siddiqui, Amulya Sinha, Vaibhav Tripathi, Gautam Kumar, Nikhat Fatima, Shanti Yadav, Justin Masih, Vivek Bhadauria
The essential group of heterocyclic rings referred to as pyranopyrazoles is produced via an array of synthetic procedures. The most economical, secure, and environmentally sustainable approach for minimizing pollutants, toxicities, and reaction expenditures is to employ several greener solvents. The...
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Green Synthetic Strategies and Medicinal Applications of Benzofuran: A Review
Amulya Sinha, Arzoo Siddiqui, Vaibhav Tripathi, Amit Yadav, Girish Singh, Nikhat Fatima, Gautam Kumar, Justin Masih, Vivek Bhadauria
Benzofuran derivatives are one of the main groups of biologically relevant heterocycles found in nature. Several benzofurans possess a broad spectrum of therapeutic properties, which implies that this class of chemicals is unambiguously fascinating. Owing to their potent biological attributes along with...
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Green Synthesis and Pharmacological Applications of Coumarin and Its Derivatives: A Review
Arzoo Siddiqui, Amulya Sinha, Amit Yadav, Vaibhav Tripathi, Girish Singh, Nikhat Fatima, Anmol Kumar, Sanjeev Kumar Gupta, Gautam Kumar, Justin Masih, Vivek Bhadauria
Significant initiatives have been undertaken in the past few years to synthesize coumarins owing to their extremely reactive character and attraction as an antecedent of natural products and pharmaceutical drugs. Numerous novel multicomponent one-pot, serial combinatorial Responses have been developed,...
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Investigating Cosmic Evolution through Starobinsky-Type Metric f ( R ) $${\varvec{f}}({\varvec{R}})$$ Gravity Model
Suraj Kumar Pati, Bibekananda Nayak
In this paper, we investigate the universe’s evolution by analysing various key cosmological parameters, including the Hubble parameter, deceleration parameter and jerk parameter within the context of the Starobinsky inflation model based metric
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Traditional Galactogogues: Spices for Lactating Mother (Prasuti Ka Masala)
Guddi Tiwary
Galactogogues are the substances that help to spur, maintain, and increase the secretion of a lactating mother’s milk during neonatal care. Serving traditional galactagogues to mothers after the delivery of a child is an age-old tradition. The Mother-in-law and the mother of a lactating woman generally...
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A Survey of Various Symmetric Encryption Methods
Dipali Deepak Mali, Sahebrao Nivrutti Shinde
Day by day, the use of mobile devices and multimedia technologies is increasing widely. Hence, Information security is a challenging issue today. The transmission of sensitive data over communication channels requires fast and secure digital communication networks to achieve integrity and secrecy. It...
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Integrating Social Innovation and Technological Advancements for Sustainable Urban Development: A Cross-Disciplinary Analysis of Smart Cities
Shabana Azami
The increasing pace of urbanization presents significant challenges in ensuring sustainability, resilience, and inclusivity in cities. In response, integrating social innovation with technological advancements has emerged as a transformative approach to sustainable urban development. This study provides...
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Agrarian Sustainability, Economic Justice, and Social Equity: A Policy Discourse Analysis of the Farmers’ Protest in India
Mahesh Admankar
This paper examines the 2020–2021 Indian farmers’ protest as a powerful articulation of discursive resistance to neoliberal agricultural reforms. Anchored in Critical Discourse Analysis and informed by the Social Construction of Target Populations framework, the study interrogates how farmers contested...
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Advanced Porous Materials for the Removal of Lead from Water: Synthesis, Mechanisms, Sustainability, and Future Perspectives
Advik Pathak, Soumyadip Patra, Sagar Subhash Babar, Suman Chirra
Lead contamination in water presents a critical global challenge due to its persistence, toxicity, and diverse sources. Advanced porous materials such as MOFs, COFs, zeolites, graphene oxide, and biochar have emerged as transformative solutions for water purification. This review examines their synthesis,...
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Fate of Dark Energy Contaminated Universe in Standard Cosmology
Debasis Sahu, Bibekananda Nayak
Three quarters of the present universe is dominated by dark energy that drives the currently observed accelerated expansion of the universe conformed by red-shift data. We, in this work, choose interacting dark energy model as our framework to probe the dynamics of our universe. For that we have calculated...
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Mycoremediation of Rifaximin and Remdesivir in Conjunction with Computational Analysis
D. Ghule Rutuja, S. Devadhe Nikita, M. Jagadale Purva, M. Borawake Prathamesh, Sahoo Dipak Kumar, S. Waghmode Meghmala
A growing concern in recent years has been the presence of pharmaceutical compounds in the environment. The distribution of parent chemicals and degradative metabolites throughout the food chain has been made possible by their physicochemical characteristics and environmental endurance. The study aimed...