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FDI Spillovers, Innovation and the Role of Industrial Clusters: Evidence from Innovative Indian Manufacturing Firms
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Growth Instability and Changing Land Use Pattern in India
This study explores land use trends and instabilities in India, focusing on Annual Average Growth Rates (AAGR) across various categories. It highlights the interplay between socio-economic and environmental factors shaping these changes. Mixed growth patterns in reporting areas suggest expanded statistical coverage in positive rates and reduced reporting in negative ones. Forest cover trends reveal ecological shifts, where growth signifies reforestation, and declines indicate deforestation. Urbanization and industrialization drive consistent growth in land under non-agricultural uses, while improved land rehabilitation reduces barren and unculturable land. Geographical constraints impact land unavailable for cultivation, with positive growth signifying increased unavailability. Changes in pastures and tree crops reflect land competition and diversification efforts. Reductions in culturable wasteland stem from reclamation, while shifts in fallow lands and current fallows align with agricultural cycles and climate influences. Indicators like net area sown and total cropped area reveal intensified agricultural practices, where positive trends denote expanded cultivation and negative rates highlight challenges like land degradation and water scarcity. Agricultural land trends emphasize the need to balance productivity with conservation. This study underscores the complexity of land use changes, stressing the importance of sustainable management strategies to address competing demands. Policymakers must optimize land use, boost productivity, and conserve environmental resources to achieve balanced development. By examining growth instability and land use dynamics, the study provides critical insights into India’s evolving socio-economic and environmental landscape, advocating for informed strategies to ensure sustainable development
Closed Form HJB Solution for Path Planning of a Robot Manipulator with Warehousing Applications
Real-time optimal path planning for robotic manipulations in task space is a very fundamental and important problem. In this paper, the problem of generating robot trajectories in an obstacle-ridden environment is formulated under an optimal control framework using Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) equation. The novel contribution of this paper is that a closed form HJB control solution (a necessary and sufficient condition for global optimality of a control solution with respect to a cost function) has been achieved for generating real-time optimal trajectories for a robot manipulator. In contrast with the decoupled end-effector path planning and subsequent trajectory generation, the proposed scheme can exploit sensory input for real-time trajectory generation where the end-effector path as well as the joint trajectory is recomputed online while satisfying the real-time constraints. The stability and the performance of the proposed control framework is shown theoretically via Lyapunov approach and also verified experimentally using a 6 degrees of freedom (DOF) Universal Robot (UR) 10 robot manipulator. It is shown that a significant saving in cost metrics can be obtained over similar trajectory generation approaches from the state-of-the-art with obstacle-ridden environment and also has better performance in high speed tracking applications. Warehouse applications of the proposed scheme in case of static and dynamic targets with respect to the robot manipulator is also included.Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Learning & Autonomous Contro
Use of Oil Cakes in Bakery Products.
This Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Enzymatic Synthesis of α-Tocopheryl Glycosides
This Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
Enzymatic synthesis of vitamin glycosides
This Dissertation / Report is the outcome of investigation carried out by the creator(s) / author(s) at the department/division of Central Food Technological Research Institute (CFTRI), Mysore mentioned below in this page
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