19 research outputs found
Review on Garbha Sanskar and its Role in Mental Development of Children
Garbha sanskar in Ayurveda described as specific conducts which are to be followed by pregnant women to acquire healthy pregnancy and giving birth of a healthy baby. The term Garbha sanskar related with the education of women who has baby in her womb and this conducts contributed towards the success of pregnancy. Traditionally it is believed that the mental and behavioral development of child starts from the intrauterine stage. Therefore it is essential to put maximum effort during this stage to ensure complete physical and mental built up of child. The personality of baby begins to take shape in the womb; moreover the physical and mental constitution of children is greatly affected by the mother's state of mind during pregnancy. The concept of Garbha sanskar helps to keep mother’s mind healthy thereby imparts positive benefits towards the mental development of baby present inside the mother's uterus. Considering these all facts present article summarizes concepts of Garbha Sanskar and its role in the mental development of unborn child
Effect of Beam Layout and Specification on Side Door Strength of Passenger Cars: An Experimental Approach to Analyze Its Effect and Contribution to Door Strength.
Embodied energy and associated carbon emission of key building materials in Nepal
The number of concrete buildings in Nepal increased by 23.90 percent within the last decade. Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) of the buildings shows that Cement, Brick and Reinforcement steel are the three major building materials which account for about half of the total life cycle energy use and emission from the building materials. However, there is no national database for energy use and emissions from these building materials in Nepal. So, the study aims to evaluate energy use and its associated emissions in the production of these materials using the LCA framework and guidelines from ISO 14040: 2006 and ISO 14044: 2006. The data from embodied energy is based on the energy audits of 26 cement industries, 21 metal industries, and 27 brick industries sampled across the country. The study shows that the production of one tonne of cement accounts for 6051.07 MJ energy and is responsible for 739.49 kgCO2-eq.; the production of 1000 pieces of standard size burnt brick from fixed chimney bull trench kiln accounts for 4124.56 MJ energy and 502.89 kgCO2-eq. emission; and the production of one tonne of reinforcement steel accounts for 26,033.14 MJ energy and 2565.5 kgCO2-eq emission. The major source of energy and emission in building material production is coal. A shift in energy sources from coal to hydroelectricity would reduce the energy-related emissions from the materials production. Also replacing high emission construction materials with locally available natural materials like stone, wood and bamboo could minimize the emissions from the built environment. © The Author(s) 2025.Article; Export Date: 11 May 2025; Cited By: 1; Correspondence Address: A. Ghimire; Environmental Engineering and Management, Asian Institute of Technology, Pathum Thani, 12120, Thailand; email: [email protected]</p
Bulk ultrasonic NDE of metallic components at high temperature using magnetostrictive transducers
Ambipolar transport of silver nanoparticles decorated graphene oxide field effect transistors
Unravelling the distinct strains of Tharu ancestry
The northern region of the Indian subcontinent is a vast landscape interlaced by diverse ecologies, e.g. the Gangetic plain and the Himalayas. A great number of ethnic groups are found there, displayed as a multitude of languages and cultures. The Tharu represent one of the largest and linguistically most diversified such groups, scattered across the Tarai region of Nepal and bordering Indian states. Their origins are uncertain. Hypotheses have been advanced about an Austroasiatic affinity, Tibeto-Burman origins, as well as aboriginal roots in the Tarai. Several Tharu groups speak a variety of Indo-Aryan languages, but have traditionally been described by ethnographers as representing an East Asian phenotype. Their ancestry and intra-population diversity had previously been tested only for haploid (mtDNA and Y-chromosome) markers in a small portion of the population. This study presents the first systematic genetic survey of the Tharu from both Nepal and the Indian states of Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh, using genome-wide SNPs and haploid (mtDNA and Y-chromosome) markers. The results suggest that the 'ethnic' construct of Tharu is likely to have lain in the Tarai region, with a reconstructible radiation to Uttaranchal and Uttar Pradesh. Despite extensive admixture with other local communities, Tharu sub-populations preserve strong genetic signatures that indicate a common ancestry
Solvent-Dependent Photophysical Properties of a Semiconducting One-Dimensional Silver Cluster-Assembled Material
Unraveling the total structure of
the atom-precise silver cluster-assembled
materials (CAMs) is extremely significant to elucidating the structure–property
correlation, but it is a very challenging task. Herein, a new silver
CAM is synthesized by a facile synthetic pathway with a unique distorted
elongated square-bipyramid-based Ag11 core geometry. The
core is protected by two different kinds of the surface protecting
ligands (adamantanethiolate and trifluoroacetate) and connected through
a bidentate organic linker. The crystallographic data show that this
material embraces a one-dimensional periodic structure that orchestrates
by various noncovalent interactions to build a thermally stable supramolecular
assembly. Further characterization confirms its n-type semiconducting
property with an optical band gap of 1.98 eV. The impact of an adamantanethiol-protected
silver core on the optical properties of this type of periodic framework
is analyzed by the UV–vis absorbance and emission phenomena.
Theoretical calculations predicted that the occupied states are majorly
contributed by Ag–S. Solvent-dependent photoluminescence studies
proved that a polar solvent can significantly perturb the metal thiolate
and thiolate-centered frontier molecular orbitals that are involved
in the electronic transitions
