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This project is brought to you with the current miracle of modern technologies, AI text and image generation. I can claim no real creative input, aside from the initial idea, and the random choice of ‘authors’ (my apologies to those who’s names I’ve used, it was meant out of respect, as I find their writings interesting).ChatGTP was used to generate the texts, the full prompts are on the following pages. The imagery was all created with Recraft. I used the first lines of the cantos as the prompts and tried various generations until I found one that appealed. Occasionally I asked it to regenerate an image, but usually I took whatever it gave me.All ‘authors’ and ‘authors texts’ are entirely fictional inventions, and any similarities to authors, living or dead, is purely algorithmic.64pp, published by The Caseroom Press

Realisation 1: Natural settings are beautiful for people, environment and societyDuring this corona-virus pandemic, we have realised that the natural settings are beautiful for people, environment and society. Many people realised that their family life is precious. As people have spent time with each other that was missing in the recent super busy lifestyle. Because of low carbon footprint, there is visual development of air, water and forests. For a moment, I feel that we are proven snatchers who have taken things from nature to enhance our so called quality of life and comfort. As we remain local for shopping and exercise, we have noticed our neighbourhood closely.Realisation 2: Health is wealthWe have been so busy meeting the demand of our day to day life, we have ignored it to take care of our health. However, health is wealth and everything can be stopped where health is in risk. Taking regular breakfast or avoiding/limiting or even stopping smoking are evidenced. We should take care of our health as it is the most precious wealth.Realisation 3: New urgent and new normalWe used to think that meetings are urgent, attendance is urgent, shopping is urgent and now we know how wrong we were. Similarly, nothing is normal and anything can become normal at any time.Major concerns in the long run: Economic growth and SMEsImportance of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) has increased over the past few decades all over the world. While the contribution of the SMEs is growing towards sustainable economic development, overall contribution of large multinational firms in the global output is decreasing in addition to their higher rate of failure. Although the role of SMEs is becoming more and more important for any economy particularly during and after the pandemic, it has been expressed that a significant number of SMEs will fail to grow or survive over a longer period of time. We will have to develop different stimulus packages for different types of SMEs. If these packages are not developed properly, it will be less effective if not ineffective. Major expected change: Education systemWe should include humanity, mankind and crisis management as non-credit/credit bearing modules/courses in all undergraduate courses. We should also spend hugely, in the education of science and technology

The box-ball system (BBS), which was introduced by Takahashi and Satsuma in 1990, is a soliton cellular automaton. Its dynamics can be linearized by a few methods, among which the best known is the Kerov-Kirillov-Reschetikhin (KKR) bijection using rigged partitions. Recently a new linearization method in terms of "slot configurations" was introduced by Ferrari-Nguyen-Rolla-Wang, but its relations to existing ones have not been clarified. In this paper we investigate this issue and clarify the relation between the two linearizations. For this we introduce a novel way of describing the BBS dynamics using a carrier with seat numbers. We show that the seat number configuration also linearizes the BBS and reveals explicit relations between the KKR bijection and the slot configuration. In addition, by using these explicit relations, we also show that even in case of finite carrier capacity the BBS can be linearized via the slot configuration.

Green techniques to extract natural pigments are gaining prominence among consumers and food industries. This trend is predominantly due to the harmful effects imparted by commonly used synthetic dyes and the unwarranted stress created on our ecosystem. The objectives of this study were to obtain natural pigments (anthocyanins and chlorophyll) from Estonian-gown European green and red gooseberries by ultrasonic-assisted citric acid-mediated extraction method and perform antioxidant profiling (quantification via HPLC analysis). Green gooseberry extracts showed lower content of targeted compounds, with low concentrations of rutin (0.7–1.2 mg/ L) and quercetin 3-glucoside (0.9–1.3 mg/L), while in the red gooseberry extracts, the amount was slightly higher (1.4–6.9 and 1.0–1.3 mg/L, respectively) with 0.6–6.8 mg/L cyanidin 3-glucoside and 0.32–0.35 mg/L peonidin 3 glucoside recorded. Further, the yield of anthocyanins ranged between 1.14–1.79 and 1.86–3.63 mg/100 g in green and red gooseberries, respectively. Total phenols ranged between 162–392 and 263–987 mg GAE/100 g in green and red gooseberry extracts, respectively. The DPPH free radicals scavenging activity showed 73–86% and 87–91% inhibition in both green and red gooseberry, respectively. Results showed significant improvements in pigment extraction with higher values obtained for targeted antioxidant compounds using conventional and UAE extraction (aqueous extract), thus confirming that green extractions are a reliable technique to obtain pigments of interest from natural sources. The results support consumers’ demand and open up the avenue to explore pigments as natural colourants in food and cosmetics applications.