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Coronavirus disease 2019 is a new infectious respiratory disease as named by the World Health Organization. This virus is affecting different individuals in diverse manners. Consequently, studies are going on to identify the factors and parameters disturbing predominantly. According to various studies, the immunity of a person determines the effect of the virus on that individual's health. Thus, immunity is determined by multiple factors like climate, population, geographical location, sanitation facilities. In existing studies, the effect of various climatic factors, such as temperature, relative humidity of diverse countries and areas, on COVID-19 spread is taken. To extend these studies, this paper is an effort to consider almost all the topological parameters of significant countries and different states of India for analysing their effects on the recovery rate due to COVID-19. Finally, these parameters are ranked /sorted as per their impact on recovery rates.

Cancer continues to remain a “Black Box,” as there is no consensus on how it initiates, progresses, metastasizes, or recurs. Many imponderables exist about whether somatic mutations initiate cancer, do cancer stem cells (CSCs) exist, and if yes, are they a result of de-differentiation or originate from tissue-resident stem cells; why do cancer cells express embryonic markers, and what leads to metastasis and recurrence. Currently, the detection of multiple solid cancers through liquid biopsy is based on circulating tumor cells (CTCs) or clusters, or circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA). However, quantity of starting material is usually adequate only when the tumor has grown beyond a certain size. We posit that pluripotent, endogenous, tissue-resident, very small embryonic-like stem cells (VSELs) that exist in small numbers in all adult tissues, exit from their quiescent state due to epigenetic changes in response to various insults and transform into CSCs to initiate cancer. VSELs and CSCs share properties like quiescence, pluripotency, self-renewal, immortality, plasticity, enrichment in side-population, mobilization, and resistance to oncotherapy. HrC test, developed by Epigeneres, offers the potential for early detection of cancer using a common set of VSEL/CSC specific bio-markers in peripheral blood. In addition, NGS studies on VSELs/CSCs/tissue-specific progenitors using the All Organ Biopsy (AOB) test provide exomic and transcriptomic information regarding impacted organ(s), cancer type/subtype, germline/somatic mutations, altered gene expressions, and dysregulated pathways. To conclude, HrC and AOB tests can confirm the absence of cancer and categorize the rest of subjects into low/moderate/high risk of cancer, and also monitor response to therapy, remission, and recurrence.

In remote electric vehicle charging frameworks utilizing inductive power transfer (IPT), power electronic converters assume a basic part in decreasing size and cost, as well as boosting the proficiency of the whole framework. As of late, analysts have led huge examination studies to work on the exhibition of power transformation frameworks, including power converter topologies and control plans. Incorporated On-Board Battery Chargers (OBC) have been acquainted as ideal arrangement with increase of electric vehicle (EV) market penetration and limit the general expense of EVs. OBCs are by and large arranged into triphasic and monophasic types with unidirectional or bidirectional power stream. Existing electric vehicle (EV) chargers utilize a hard-core non-linear diode bridge-rectifier (BR) to exploit the DC volt at the contribution of the DC converter and acquaint quality of the power is a counted as a problem with the AC input. These problems insist improvement in Power Quality for existing battery charger for this purpose the bridgeless Cuk Converter is used with the flyback converter. Cuk Converter used single diode and switch and provide additional advantage like reduction in the switch volt-stress and higher efficiency equated to the other conventional bridgeless (BL) converters. Similarly, bridgeless isolated Zeta-Luo converter with PF correction is also used. The Zeta and Luo is functioned for the half cycle of the supply individually and give the benefits of the both topologies. In this paper BL Zeta, BL Cuk, BL Buck-Boost, BL Luo, BL Single Ended Primary Inductance Converter (BL SPIC), and Canonical Switched Cell (CSC) converters are reviewed.

GST was implemented by Government of India as one indirect tax for whole nation as single tax on the supply of goods and services and was considered as biggest indirect tax reform of Independent India. The main purpose of implementation of GST in India was to replace multiple taxes with uniform tax on supplies and to remove the cascading effect. In order to remove the loopholes and to make the system more efficient and user friendly, the Government of India is continuously hustling to improve Goods and Service Tax Network (GSTN) and updates are being made to the system, provisions and various returns on the portal accordingly from time to time. This new scheme named Quarterly Return Monthly Payment (QRMP) is also the part of said exercise of simplification of process by GOI, introduced w.e.f. 1st January, 2021, in order to lessen the tax compliance burden and to ease the process of filing returns to MSME taxpayers under GST. QRMP Scheme can be availed by eligible registered persons to file their GSTR-1 and GSTR-3B quarterly and pay taxes on monthly basis.

Era of COVID-19 resulted in contactless transactions and extensive use of technological applications. Similar was the case of Fin-Tech which has extensively been used by consumers all around the globe for making transactions and other financial and economic needs. Although there is a lack of research to reflect these forms of evidence from the developing as well as Indian sides of the globe. On the other side, some studies indicated the Unified Household Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model as the base to prefer mobile methods of transaction and Fin-Tech use. Hence this paper has been developed systematically to relate the financial literacy of household females from Generation Y with the use of Fin-Tech during the eve of COVID-19. For devising this relationship research has been induced with the UTAUT model and data have been collected from married household females between twenty-four to thirty-five years of age. Results were analyzed through SMART-PLS which highlighted the financial literacy of Indian household females has a significant association with UTAUT model. However, the entire UTAUT model does not have a significant relationship with the use of Fin-Tech.

Economy of India can't accomplish the objective of sustainable economic development and education about small industries to the resource like human resources, until or unless it can put a generous sum in human resources. Education is a fundamental factor of development. It does not just improve the personal satisfaction of an individual yet in addition improves the social advantage of the public. The motivation behind this examination to discover how public expenditures on education can improve the economic and social state of the society in India. Regardless, the issue that whether further developed level of education coming about on the grounds that more education spending can advance economic growth is yet sketchy. A few economic and social analysts and researchers have maintained the two-sided connectivity between these two factors, yet some are recommending that economic growth essentially animates government to spend more on education, not the substitute way. The research question of this paper is "do education and expenditures on education get economic and social ith eduction of small industry advancement"? Considering this research issue, the current paper utilizes Granger Causality methods to conclude the causal connection between government's education spending and socio-economic development in India for the period 1972-2021. Results uncovered that there is no short run causality between government expenditure on education and socio-economic growth, yet economic growth influences public spending on education. This provides guidelines to the new education policy(NEP) makers that they should priorities their attention towards allocation of development and non-development expenditures of government’s budget to enhance the quality of education and welfare of individuals in the society. Special focus should be given on the compulsory primary education which is already a part of sustainable development goals.

Since its inception, India's physical gig economy (PGE) has grown at a rapid pace. Sadly, there was a widening of the PGE service gap. Cleaning and mechanical services have had fewer transactions than ride-hailing services, which have a high volume of transactions. Studying PGE customers' motivations to use their services is the primary goal of this research. The research methodology and hypothesis were developed by synthesising previous studies on users' intentions. Platform quality, trust, social influence, perceived risk, hedonic incentive, and economic benefits are all regarded to have an impact on customer behaviour and intention. When it comes to determining whether or not a user will stick around and use a particular platform, hedonic motivation outranks everything else. PGE's early use is influenced by social influence exclusively, according to this study. Operators of PGE might use this information to craft effective plans for growing their business and luring in new customers.

In this chapter, the various working capital and processing methods used to run profitable automobile industry-related businesses are discussed. Defining the problem statements, making sample selections, and demonstrating general principles for capital management have been demonstrated. The structures, classifications, affecting factors, benefits, and scarce resources for working capital were elaborately illustrated. Working capital policies, classifications, various investment sources, principles for capital management policies, and analysis techniques have also been described in the chapter.

The Indian handmade carpet industry has various economic, social and national dimensions. The rich diversity of Indian carpets is a symbol of different cultures and traditions in this country like India and Iran. To ensure the sustainability of the knowledge digital and innovation system of the handmade carpet industry, in addition to considering the dominant approaches of the innovation systems, attention should be paid to the transformative approach that pursues holistic transformation in the production and consumption systems. The present study aims to identify formal transformation institutions, classify them into main categories and analyse them based on the production step, approval date, institution type and geographical area of approval. Based on the results, there are 316 formal institutions in the handmade carpet industry. By open coding, 372 concepts were extracted from 509 concepts derived from different formal transformation institutions. Based on the axial coding, the formal institutions were divided into six initial categories of ‘carpet authority’, ‘carpet sales and maintenance inside India’, ‘handmade carpet exports and imports’, ‘carpet production infrastructure’, ‘handmade carpet production’ and ‘sanitary-therapeutic category’. At the next step, the matrix of the main categories based on different production steps was drawn. Among the main categories, the highest frequency is related to the category of ‘carpet production infrastructure’ and the subcategory of ‘financial supply of carpet’. Although there are a lot of formal institutions that support production, carpet weavers as the main people involved in production have received minimum support during their working years due to unawareness of supports and loan conditions.

The purpose of this study is to examine factors that encourage and inhibit digital innovation and entrepreneurship in the Handicraft sector as a part of Small enterprises during an economic slowdown. From the viewpoint of Indian young craft entrepreneurs, it is fact that digital technology will be essential for navigating the recovery and eventually will support the growth of the handicraft industry and artisanal transformation as entrepreneurship by surviving in the crisis and even thriving in the long run. 50 online Handicraft business owners having their own craft skills were interviewed in-depth using a qualitative methodology by researcher, who then used inductive(Qualitative) content analysis to identify themes from the transcripts. Results showed that entrepreneurial and digital innovations of moving handicraft businesses to digital platforms are reinforced by the pandemic's negative effects, which were classified into intrinsic and extrinsic. It has been found that the responded mentioned that the unavailability of high-quality digital infrastructures, pandemic restrictions, market concerns with digital platforms, and knowledge and IT skills needed for operating an online business were some of the challenges. The results of the article add to the body of digital knowledge on innovative ideas about entrepreneurship and point to potential topics to do quantitative research in order to develop programs that assist handicraft business owners during downturns in the economy. This would act as a benchmark when government policies and strategies for economic recovery and for the development of the handicraft sector through digital and Innovative entrepreneurship were being developed.

The COVID-19 pandemic had a significant impact on the global economy. For small- and medium-sized businesses, particularly in the handicraft sectors, it was exceptionally difficult to maintain operations during a global crisis. Without crisis management plans in place, business owners run the risk of having their operations abruptly terminated. Therefore, the researchers sought to comprehend and study the factors that led to the shutdown and departure strategies of microenterprises (in the handicraft sector) during the pandemic. To conduct this study, a descriptive research design was used, and registered Indian micro-businesses in the Cavite region were specifically chosen. According to the study's findings, the majority of microenterprises were sole proprietorships with a capitalization of less than INR 600,000.00 (Asian Development Bank in The COVID-19 impact on Philippine businesses: key findings from the enterprise survey.http://dx.doi.org/10.22617/SPR200214-2, 2020) and had been in business for three to six years. As a result, the respondents' most typical issues are Retooling and training of pandemic-sensitive enterprise strategies for micro-entrepreneurs, particularly in the handicraft sector, as well as research into the negative effects of lockdown on MSME, which are all examples of crisis-sensitive interventions among small industries (handicraft sector) entrepreneurs.