The present study investigates the effect of financial development on sustainable competitiveness and its components (natural capital, resource intensity, and social cohesion) in the 8 countries surrounding land in the Arctic region. We employ bank-based, stock-market based, and composite index to measure financial development. To deal with endogeneity bias, system GMM is utilized. The results show a positive and significant effect of financial development on sustainable competitiveness. The estimates also assert that financial development encourages resource efficiency and social cohesion in the region. In contrast, we find the negative effect of financial development on natural capital. This suggests that overexploitation of natural resources may provide short-term benefits to the local and regional communities but it may threaten the long-term sustainability of the Arctic. Thus, the financial sector should be guided to support financing and investing activities in alternative eco-friendly technologies and ventures for reducing excessive natural resources utilization.

Herein we suggest a person today will be confronted with multiple blue light emitting screens daily. Exposure and time attending to these screens is a concern, issue and focus of much research locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. Our purpose was to develop an integrative and reflexive understanding of screen time as it impacts people of all ages both physically and mentally. In doing so we illuminated several problematic areas of concern for children, youth and adults thereby ascertaining whether screen time was positive or a negative phenomenon. Some research suggests many negative outcomes for those with high rates of screen time and other investigators point towards positive impacts of screen time. Perhaps, if Health is a priority, screen time is not an issue, if the person remains healthy.

In today’s modern world, the technological development in wireless communications, miniaturization technology like Micro Electro Mechanical System (MEMS) along with integrated circuits has enabled the devices to be placed in and around the human body for monitoring purposes. This kind of sensing and monitoring of human health conditions evolved into a new area called Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). WBANs have been extensively used in numerous fields like health care, disease identification and control etc. To design an efficient system several factors in both software and hardware are considered. One such important factor is routing protocols. The main function of routing protocols is to effectively maintain the routes among sensor nodes for reliable communication. The routing protocols are influenced by node temperature, energy, network topology, human mobility, different Quality of Service (QoS), transmission range etc. This paper provides a brief review on routing methods based on temperature, energy and QoS perspective.

Thermal management of the battery is essential for its best utilization and life cycle under usage in hot environment conditions. This paper reports the performance analysis of lead acid battery in the hot ambient situations. Few analyses are performed in a stand-alone 12 V lead-acid battery such as Thermography imaging, Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Thermogravimetric analysis (TG) and Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) are done to study different thermal characteristics of aged anode and cathode plates. DSC reveal the change in glass transition temperature of anode and cathode material with respect to thermal loading. TG analysis shows the most important process in the degradation behavior of these material. Likewise, SEM is used to investigate the structural morphology of the anode and cathode plates. Based on above analysis methods, the lifetime of the battery under the harsh environment condition is estimated when it’s connected to load. Along with thermography images are also analyzed to identify heat flux ration during the high temperature operation.

The Internet of Things (IoT) has refashioned and established a paradigm shift towards the advancement of numerous applications in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN). WSN are deployed in large environment, hence the sensor node performance is prone to the effect of internal energy and external temperature. To eliminate this issue, Environmental Aware Optimum Path and Optimum Temperature (EAOPOT) routing protocol was proposed. It consists of three potential fields such as QoS, environment and energy. An optimum path is selected through the node which satisfies the criteria for threshold levels and environmental temperature. The selected path ensures that the critical data packets reaches destination on time with minimum delay. The simulation was carried out for three different cases: case 1: At Normal condition without considering environmental temperature, case 2: Taking environmental temperature influence into consideration and Case 3: considering environmental temperature and energy into account. From the simulation results, it is inferred that when the surrounding temperature of sensor node is not within a specified limit,the life time of network gets minimized.

The current work explores the mechanistic pathway of acetyl chloride and their sulfur analogs while undergoing nucleophilic substitution reaction with N-heterocyclic silylene (NHSi) at the DFT level of theory in gas phase as well as non-aqueous media diethyl ether. Out of two possible pathways i.e. concerted one or via. stable tetrahedral intermediate, the preferential route followed in the course of the reaction is highly sensitive to carbonyl carbon and reaction medium. The computed energy profiles suggest that the acyl transfer reactions of acetyl/thioacetyl chloride with NHSi follow one step concerted mechanisms through SN2 pathway in both gas phase as well as solvent media diethyl ether.

The main foci of this research is to investigate the growth and characterization of defect free GA5NU single crystals was grown using slow evaporation solution growth technique at room temperature. Single crystal XRD analysis reveals the grown crystal belongs to monoclinic crystal system. HOMO – LUMO and molecular electrostatic potential (MEP) has been visualized and analyzed. The presence of various functional groups present in the host material is examined using FTIR spectra. Mechanical stability of the grown crystal is validated using Vickers microhardness study and the grown crystal belongs to soft material category. Various hardness parameters like fracture toughness, brittleness index, elastic stiffness constant, tensile strength and other hardness parameters are calculated. Thermal stability of the grown crystal is determined. SHG efficacy of grown crystal is 2.97 times higher than KDP makes the grown crystal as suitable candidate material for nonlinear optical applications.

This paper contains transport parameters and breakdown voltage curves of the Martian atmosphere and gases included in its composition. The results of Two Term Approximation calculations provide insight into similarities and differences between the transport parameters for the gas mixture and its constituents. It was found that characteristics of the Mars mixture and carbon dioxide as a majority component are similar and not affected by addition of other components. The understanding of electrical discharge processes occurring in the Martian atmosphere and potential hazards due to arcing on landers and rovers is essential for designing space-flight hardware that will operate on the Martian surface. The results of this study indicate that flight electronics should be designed not to exceed an absolute potential difference of more than 566 V when operating in the Martian atmosphere.

"Printing" is the process of the personal or social feelings and thoughts, commercial or artistic information and documents printing on a substrate with a suitable ink, suitable substrates and a suitable printing system using objects such as writing, pictures, photographs, graphics, tables. The person who performs these operations is called "Printer". Ink is one of the most important materials required for the printer to produce a printed product. [1] Ink is a fluid main material that can be in different colors that allows the transfer of an idea, text or shape to certain printing materials for the purpose of reproducing. The most important feature of printing inks that distinguishes them from other paints is that the ink is used to spread a message, an image or an idea to the society by appealing to the eyes, as well as the paint's protective and decorative purpose. [2] Within the inks used in the offset printing system; Pigment or dyestuffs, oils, resins, solvents, plasticizers, waxes and dryers are used in certain proportions. Oils are a very old raw material used in ink production and have an important place in varnish and ink formula. Before using oils, they are treated with other polymers and purified. For a very long time, the plant, animal and mineral resources from which oils are obtained have not changed. The main task of oils is to transfer pigments from the ink unit to the substrate. In this study, Prints were made on uncoated substrates with mineral oil-based, vegetable oil-based and UV inks under equal conditions. After these prints, the properties of mineral oil, vegetable oil and UV ink; The effect on the print results was measured from different ways (L, a, b and Chroma, Print density, unprinted Gloss 60, unprinted Gloss 75, Print Gloss 60). At the same time, the visual differences between the print results were determined by optical imaging (SEM) method and were examined by elemental analysis method.