University of Delhi

Chicken Nation: Permissibility, Power, and the Social Life of Meat in India

This article examines the cultural and political significance of chicken in contemporary India, situating its circulation within histories of caste hierarchy, religious distinction, and majoritarian politics. While scholarship has foregrounded beef as a site of prohibition and pu...

Egg Cannibalism Affects Growth Development, Reproduction, and Fitness of Aphidophagous Coccinellids, Hippodamia variegata, and Menochilus sexmaculatus

ABSTRACT We investigated how egg cannibalism affects growth, development, reproduction and progeny fitness of aphidophagous coccinellids, viz. Menochilus sexmaculatus (Fabricius) and Hippodamia variegata (Goeze). Egg cannibalism provided immediate benefits to first instars by exp...

Space debris and outer space sustainability: legal challenges

By 2025, humankind had reached a turning point in space. The orbital environment, once considered effectively unlimited, is now increasingly understood as a finite and congested operational domain. This article presents an in-depth evaluation of the legal and policy regimes for s...

Synergistic Ag/In Co-doping-Induced Band and InterfaceEngineering in p-Type CuSe on Carbon Fabric for a FlexibleThermoelectric Generator

Abstract In the present work, a dual-doping strategy with silver (Ag) and indium (In) in copper selenide (CuSe) nanoparticles on conductive carbon fabric (CF) has been employed with a facile hydrothermal technique. This co-doping strategy outperforms single-element doping by enab...

Efficient Feature Selection with Multiple Equivalent Subsets Using a Multi-objective Quantum-inspired Evolutionary Approach

Abstract In many real-world applications, it is useful to identify multiple distinct feature subsets that achieve the same classification accuracy with the same number of features. This gives domain experts more flexibility to choose feature combinations based on cost, availabili...

The Indus Script: A Structural Phonetic Framework for Decipherment via the 'Parmanu' (Phonetic Atom) Theory

The decipherment of the Indus Valley Script (c. 3300–1900 BCE) has long been stalled by "meaning-hunting"—the erroneous attempt to map signs directly to whole words of specific language families (e.g., Dravidian or Indo-Aryan). This paper introduces a paradigm shift via the 'Parm...

The Indus Script: A Structural Phonetic Framework for Decipherment via the 'Parmanu' (Phonetic Atom) Theory

The decipherment of the Indus Valley Script (c. 3300–1900 BCE) has long been stalled by "meaning-hunting"—the erroneous attempt to map signs directly to whole words of specific language families (e.g., Dravidian or Indo-Aryan). This paper introduces a paradigm shift via the 'Parm...

Cross-domain volatility connectedness and portfolio optimization among DeFi, ESG, biodiversity, and new economy markets: evidence from multiple global crises

The growth of decentralized finance (DeFi) and sustainability-linked investment markets has been rapid. This, alongside an unprecedented succession of global crises, has created an urgent need to comprehend the propagation of risk across financial markets and its portfolio implic...

A Comparative Analysis of Agri-startups in Himalayan and Non-Himalayan States of India

The article examines how challenges encountered by agri-startups operating in the Himalayas differ from those of non-Himalayan states in India. The study employs a mixed-method approach with purposive sampling to collect primary data from 44 Himalayan startups and 107 non-Himalay...

Ease of Doing Business in India: Assessing the Role of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC), 2016, is a game changer in credit markets. It facilitates time-bound recovery, which restores the confidence of the creditor in the system. The previous regime was fraught with a multiplicity of regulatory mechanisms which failed to bring...