RECORDS OF THE ENDEMIC AND THREATENED CATFISH, HEMIBAGRUS PUNCTUATES FROM THE SOUTHERN WESTERN GHATS WITH NOTES ON ITS DISTRIBUTION, ECOLOGY AND CONSERVATION STATUS

The Nilgiri Mystus, Hemibagrus punctatus, a rare bagrid catfish endemic to the Western cookies portable dab rig Ghats, has been currently listed in the IUCN Red List, as Critically Endangered with a possibility that it could be extinct.The last validated record of H.punctatus was known to be in 1998, and several surveys since then have not been abl

The problem of real-time optimal guidance is extremely important for successful autonomous missions.In this paper, the last phases of autonomous lunar superman headband landing trajectories are addressed.The proposed guidance is based on the Particle Swarm Optimization, and the differential flatness approach, which is a subclass of the inverse dyna

Direct laser cladding of cobalt on Ti-6Al-4V with and without a graded interface has been attempted using a continuous wave CO2 laser.Graded interface is developed by depositing a thin copper layer on Ti-6Al-4V substrate ej10 prior to multiple laser cladding of cobalt on it.Presence of copper gruvi golden lager interlayer was found to suppress the

Large-scale populations in the world have been vaccinated with COVID-19 vaccines, however, breakthrough infections of SARS-CoV-2 are still growing rapidly due to the emergence of immune-evasive variants, especially Omicron.It is urgent to develop effective broad-spectrum vaccines to better control the pandemic of these variants.Here, we present a m