A full-field hard X-ray imaging beamline (BL-4) was designed, developed, installed and commissioned recently at the Indus-2 synchrotron radiation source at RRCAT, Indore, India. The bending-magnet beamline is operated in monochromatic and white beam mode. A variety of imaging techniques are implemented such as high-resolution radiography, propagation- and analyzer-based phase contrast imaging, ...

Raja Ramanna Centre for Advanced Technology (RRCAT) has two synchrotron radiation sources, Indus-1 and Indus-2. Microtron is the common injector to both the machines. A new, FPGA based, control system architecture is planned in which it supervises and monitors different subsystems present for the operation of Microtron with the help of Equipment Control Modules (ECMs). At present some subsystem...

Water density fluctuations are an important statistical mechanical observable that is related to many-body correlations, as well as hydrophobic hydration and interactions. Local water density fluctuations at a solid-water surface have also been proposed as a measure of it's hydrophobicity. These fluctuations can be quantified by calculating the probability, P(v)(N), of observing N waters in a p...

A military post on the Indus 54 miles south of Peshawur, 14 from Attock, and through a hot, dusty, dull, outof-the-way, isolated, little sandy oasis,?a very healthy station occupied by a Cavalry regiment or a battery of Artillery. No civilians, no metalled roads, scanty rainfall, tantalizing clouds: plenty of wild sheep, and in the luxuriant corn abundance of quail. Ice and other necessaries pr...

Inula grantioides (Boiss.) syn. /. cutchica Clarke is found in South West Pakistan, Karachi (Sindh), Kutch, Indus delta and Baluchistan. The plant is recommended for the treatment of asthma. This plant has not been subjected to chemical investiga­ tion so far. In the present paper we wish to report the isolation of two new flavones, grantionin 1 and grantioidinin 2 along with pluchidione 3, a k...

Global water use for food production needs to be reduced remain within planetary boundaries, yet the financial feasibility of crucial measures reduce is poorly quantified. Here, we introduce a novel method compare costs conservation with added value that reallocation savings might generate if used expansion irrigation. Based on detailed accounting through high-resolution hydrology-crop model, m...

The increasing availability of large data offers an exciting opportunity to use such data to build predictive models using machine learning algorithms. However, most approaches to learning assume direct access to data, and can not efficiently cope with frequent updates to the data. In this paper we show that learning using statistical queries provides a powerful paradigm to address these challe...

0.1 This is a preliminary announcement of a new identification of a frequent ‘opening’ sign in the Indus texts. The sign, depicting a ‘crescent moon’, is identified, through rebus, as representing the ‘outer (city)’ and the ‘others’. I have also added, with some new evidence, two other complementary identifications earlier proposed by me, namely, the ‘(planned) city’ and the ‘inner (city)’ or ‘...