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Two cardinal fish species, Apogonichthyoides sialis (Jordan & Thompson, 1914) and Ostorhinchus fleurieu Lacepède, 1802 and one oxudercid goby, Trypauchenichthys sumatrensis Hardenberg, 1931 are reported herein for the first time from the coastal waters of Odisha, India. This paper deals with the diagnostic characters and distributional information of all these three species. The confusion in the identity of reported apogonids along the Odisha coast is cleared, while the report of oxudercid goby forms only the second record from India. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The present study reports the cloudy grouper, Epinephelus erythrurus for the first time from off Odisha coast. The species was confirmed by using morphometric analyses and COI gene sequencing. Hence the study updates the fish species diversity along the Odisha coast by adding another Epinephelus species to the family Epinephelidae faunal composition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A menippid crab Myomenippe hardwickii (Gray, 1831) was obtained in the macrobenthic collections from Hukitola, a mangrove-associated Bay located south of Bhitarkanika, Odisha, on the east coast of India. Although the crab was reported from the coastal waters adjoining Andhra Pradesh and West Bengal, documentation of the species from Odisha remained elusive until the current study. Therefore, species diagnosis with suitable illustrations and ecological details are provided. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

As of now, SRAM-based FPGAs are mainly preferred in the non-safety applications of NPPs. If the susceptibility to radiation effects of SRAM-FPGAs improves further, then the reliability of the applications can be improved. This experimental study investigates the radiation absorbed dose effects in SRAM-based FPGAs. The irradiation experiments have been conducted by keeping the device in both the power-on and power-off states inside a gamma radiation chamber of Co-60 source. In some applications, the device is deployed in the radiation environments and remains in the power-off condition for substantial period. At the time of need, the device may not function properly as demanded by the system due to the cumulative dose effect on SRAM-based FPGA. So the study of irradiation experiments on SRAM-FPGAs in the power-off state has its significant importance the same as the power-on state. The power supply current variation and the functionality failure of the device are monitored in both cases. In the power-on test, the device is configured with particular functionality and the parameters are measured continuously, but in the power-off test, the performance variations of the device are captured after configuring the device at particular time intervals during the course of the experiment. Along with the power supply current variation, we used an indirect method of measuring the propagation delay based on ring oscillator implementation. The device has been irradiated up to a dose level of 2.5 Mrad in power-on test and up to 50 Mrad in the power-off test. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Present study was envisaged to examine existence of genetic group x THI in crossbred cows at institute herd of ERS, ICAR-NDRI, Kalyani, West Bengal. 1041 fertility records each on service period (SP) and conception rate (CR) and weather parameters spanned over 22 years (1994-2015) were collected; arranged under three THI groups; thermal comfort (THI<72), two heat stress zones (THI 72-78) and THI>78 and six genetic groups.SP was longest (163.61 ± 6.83 days) when THI>78and lowest (149.27±6.69 days) during THI<72. CR was lowest (65.66±2.73 %) when THI>78 and highest (70.54±2.8 %) at THI<72. Genetic group x THI was non-significant on SP and CR. However, there was re-ranking of genetic groups across three THI zones. Genetic group bearing 50% Jersey + 50% Tharparkar followed by 50% Jersey + 50% Red Sindhi exhibited least increase in SP (5.09 and 6.37 days) when THI>78.Cows bearing 50% Jersey and 50% indigenous cattle inheritance followed by 50% Jersey + 50% Red Sindhi and 50% Jersey + 50% Tharparkar depicted least drop in CR at THI>78 (-2.38, -2.40 and -3.6%) in comparison to THI<72. The genetic group with>75% Jersey depicted maximum increase in SP (15.33 days) and drop in CR (-7.43%) at THI>78. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]