Islamia College University

Phytofabrication and biological assessment of selenium nanoparticles using Crataegus songarica extract

In this study, selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs) were successfully synthesized using a green approach with Crataegus songarica K. Koch aqueous extract, which served as a natural reducing and stabilizing agent. The formation of SeNPs was confirmed by UV-Vis spectroscopy, which exhibi...

Storage-Triggered Leader Step-Down in a Raft-Based Key-Value Store

Local storage degradation can delay a Raft leader sufficiently to missheartbeats and lose leadership, a phenomenon that etcd and TiKV documentoperationally. We present a mechanism that couples an LSM-tree storageengine to a Raft state machine through a single atomic storage-healt...

Effect of Nano- and Microparticulate Fermented Fish Protein Hydrolysate Diets on Growth, Digestive Function, Intestinal Development, and Gene Expression in Common Carp (Cyprinus carpio) Larvae

The early larval stage is a major bottleneck in freshwater aquaculture because conventional live feeds are not always available for optimum nutrient availability and digestibility to satisfy the nutritional requirements of developing larvae. This study evaluated the effects of mi...

Designing a School-Based, Complex Public Health Intervention to Improve Iodine Awareness in Adolescents in Six Countries

Background: Iodine is an essential micronutrient required for foetal development, cognitive function, and metabolic regulation; however, suboptimal iodine status remains a public health concern in Europe and other regions. Improving food literacy related to iodine may support hea...

Synergistic Enhancement of Visible-Light Photocatalysis Through Controlled CdS Quantum Dot Deposition on Hierarchical TiO2

Hierarchical titanium dioxide (TiO2) has emerged as a promising photocatalytic material owing to its excellent chemical stability, environmental benignity, low cost, and high density of surface-active sites. Nevertheless, its practical application is constrained by rapid photogen...

Blockchain-enabled intelligent model for energy-constrained IoMT networks with privacy-preserving

The Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), with the integration of physical objects, is widely explored to advance healthcare applications, enabling real-time monitoring and diagnosis of patient conditions. These systems collaborate with biosensors, allowing medical experts to track...

Benchmarking Class Imbalance Mitigation Strategies Across Deep CNN Architectures for Skin Cancer Classification

Background/Objectives: Class imbalance is one of the major challenges in automated skin lesion classification since the number of categories of malignant and clinically significant skin lesions is normally less than the benign ones. However, due to this imbalance, deep convolutio...

Integrating gut physicochemical gradients and mobile genetic element dynamics to decipher horizontal gene transfer in termite microbiomes

Abstract Mobile genetic elements drive horizontal gene transfer (HGT), which may have contributed to the functional diversity of termite gut microbiomes, although the environmental determinants of these processes remain poorly understood. Our proposed model integrates spatially r...