Banaras Hindu University

Joint Modeling of Random Initiation Time and Thermal Damage in Rocks Using a Hybrid Variational Bayesian Approach

ABSTRACT Thermal damage significantly influences the reliability and service life of rock materials in many engineering applications, including underground structures, geothermal systems and energy storage. In practice, damage initiates internally at unknown and random times unde...

Enhancing cowpea quality and soil biochemistry through residual nickel and nitrogen in Vertisol

Nickel (Ni) plays a vital role in plant nitrogen (N) metabolism, yet its use is limited and its residual effects on subsequent rotational crops remain underexplored. The present study evaluated the effect of varying N levels and residual Ni, previously applied to soybean, on the...

Proximal point method with Bregman distance for nonconvex quasi-equilibrium problems

We introduce a Bregman proximal point method for solving pseudomonotone quasi-equilibrium problems. The algorithm is formulated using Bregman distances generated by Legendre functions and allows the bifunction to be nonconvex. Unlike existing Euclidean proximal approaches, our me...

Quantifying the social net: a nomogram to predict baseline quality of life at clinical entry for head and neck cancer

Abstract Background Quality of life (QoL) and psychological distress are critical yet under-evaluated dimensions of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC) management. While clinical staging is a primary determinant of survival, the influence of the socio-economic “safety n...

IHFD: an improved heartbeat-based failure detector of $$\Diamond \,P$$ class for partially synchronous hierarchical distributed systems

Fundamentally, failure detectors are important for failure detection in distributed systems, particularly in partially synchronous environments, where message delays and process failures are unavoidable. This paper proposed an Improved Heartbeat-based Failure Detector (IHFD) for...

Unabridged Analysis of Global Knowledge Network on MSME Export Performance: Trends, Clusters and Future Research Avenues

This article reviews scholarly literature on the export performance of MSMEs, using bibliometric analysis to map the evolution, intellectual structures and emerging themes. A total of 333 articles published between 1983 and 2025 were extracted from the Scopus database and subsequ...