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Thermal Performance Evaluation of a Single-Mouth Improved Cookstove: Theoretical Approach Compared with Experimental Data
No full textThis work aims to address the knowledge gap in the thermal efficiency performance of a locally made cookstove in Mali. Despite the fact that the thermal efficiency of cookstoves is a crucial aspect of cooking, the performance of commercially produced cookstoves in Mali has not been thoroughly studied. In this context, the thermal efficiency of a single-mouth biomass stove has been investigated using a theoretical and experimental approach. First, the fundamental principles of physics for the three forms of heat transfer were applied. Then, the theoretical thermal efficiency of the stove was calculated based on the percentage share of energy gains and losses for the respective heat transfer modes. This analysis shows that the highest energy gain is achieved by radiation heat transfer from the flame and the fuel bed, followed by convection heat transfer to the bottom and sides of the pot, respectively. In order to validate the findings, the theoretical results have been compared with the experimental data at a case study site in Katibougou, Mali. Accordingly, the experimental thermal efficiency is slightly lower than the theoretical value, with a measured value of 27% compared to the theoretical value of 31.45%. The theoretical thermal efficiency can be closer to the experimental efficiency if the combustion losses caused by incomplete combustion of the fuel are taken into account
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No full textSocial Costs and Economic Benefits of
Micro Irrigation Systems for Dry Land
Crops (D. Tata Rao); A Study on Agrosilvipastoral Farming
Systems for Optimising Forage and Energy
Resources in Rainfed Areas of
Bundelkhand Region of Uttar Pradesh.(M.M. Rajpoot, Archana Shukla, S.B. Saxena,Anshu Gupta and Vivek Kumar Chaurasia); Dynamics of Decadal Diversification and
Transformation of Dry Land Hill
Agriculture – A Case Study of Village
Kot, Hamirpur District, Himachal Pradesh (S.P. Saraswat, Prem Dahiya and Hemant Sharma); Role of Electricity Prices and Water
Rights in Making Groundwater Use in
Agriculture Sustainable: A Review (Nitin Bassi); Technological Diversification of Dryland Agriculture in Bundelkhand Region of Uttar Pradesh (R.R. Kushawaha, R.R. Verma, Heera Lal, Shanti Sachan and Anita Katiyar); Growth, Variability and Potential of Dryland Crops in India (Rakesh Singh, H.P .Singh and Vijaya Laxmi Pandey); Analysing the Instability in Agricultural Performance: A Region-wise Analysis of Gujarat (Jharna Pathak and Itishree Pattnaik); Assessment of Economic and Ecological Returns from Millet-based Bio-diverse Organic Farms vis-à-vis Conventional Farms (B. Suresh Reddy); Role of Institutional Support System in Drought Management: Evidence from Western Odisha (Mrutyunjay Swain); Economic Viability of Sprinkler Irrigation in Vegetable Production in Temperate High Hills of Himachal Pradesh (Virender Kumar, Harbans Lal, K.D Sharma and Suneel Thakur); Technological, Institutional, Infrastructural
and Policy Imperatives for Chickpea Production under Dryland Agriculture (Brahm Prakash and A.K. Sharma); Development of Dryland Agriculture: A Snap Shot of Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (M.S. Jairath and P. Mallikharjuna Charyulu); Impact of Water Harvesting System
(Watershed) in Bundelkhand Region of Uttar Pradesh (Babu Singh, Birendra Kumar, Anjani Kumar Singh and Balwan Singh); Free Electricity for Agriculture and Its Implications for Farmers’ Well-Being, Farm- and Non-Farm Employment and Crop Productivity in Andhra Pradesh (Jin Kathrine Fosli and A. Amarender Reddy); Pearl Millet - Status in Dry Land Agriculture of India (Arjinder Kaur, Sukhjeet K. Saran and Parminder Kaur); Impact of Food Prices on Food Security: A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis for Rural Households of Rajasthan and Gujarat (Sumit Mahajan, Shiv Raj Singh and K.K. Datta); Impact of MGNREGS on Dry Land Agriculture in Karimnagar District of
Andhra Pradesh (D. Kumaraswamy and C.V. Hanumanthaiah); Sustainable Agricultural Development through Watershed Programme in Rainfed Areas: A Case Study in Coimbatore
District of Tamil Nadu (Subhash Chand, Alok K. Sikka, M. Madhu, D.V. Singh, V. Selvi, R. Ragupathy, P. Sundrambal and V.N. Sharda); Is Economics of Rainfed Crops Worsening than Irrigated Crops? An Exploratory Analysis from 1971-72 to 2009-10 (A. Narayanamoorthy,
P. Alli and R. Suresh); Supply Response Analysis of Major Pulse Crops in India (S.M. Vembu, T.K. Immanuelraj and M.B. Dastagiri)
Summaries
No full textSocial Costs and Economic Benefits of
Micro Irrigation Systems for Dry Land
Crops (D. Tata Rao); A Study on Agrosilvipastoral Farming
Systems for Optimising Forage and Energy
Resources in Rainfed Areas of
Bundelkhand Region of Uttar Pradesh.(M.M. Rajpoot, Archana Shukla, S.B. Saxena,Anshu Gupta and Vivek Kumar Chaurasia); Dynamics of Decadal Diversification and
Transformation of Dry Land Hill
Agriculture – A Case Study of Village
Kot, Hamirpur District, Himachal Pradesh (S.P. Saraswat, Prem Dahiya and Hemant Sharma); Role of Electricity Prices and Water
Rights in Making Groundwater Use in
Agriculture Sustainable: A Review (Nitin Bassi); Technological Diversification of Dryland Agriculture in Bundelkhand Region of Uttar Pradesh (R.R. Kushawaha, R.R. Verma, Heera Lal, Shanti Sachan and Anita Katiyar); Growth, Variability and Potential of Dryland Crops in India (Rakesh Singh, H.P .Singh and Vijaya Laxmi Pandey); Analysing the Instability in Agricultural Performance: A Region-wise Analysis of Gujarat (Jharna Pathak and Itishree Pattnaik); Assessment of Economic and Ecological Returns from Millet-based Bio-diverse Organic Farms vis-à-vis Conventional Farms (B. Suresh Reddy); Role of Institutional Support System in Drought Management: Evidence from Western Odisha (Mrutyunjay Swain); Economic Viability of Sprinkler Irrigation in Vegetable Production in Temperate High Hills of Himachal Pradesh (Virender Kumar, Harbans Lal, K.D Sharma and Suneel Thakur); Technological, Institutional, Infrastructural
and Policy Imperatives for Chickpea Production under Dryland Agriculture (Brahm Prakash and A.K. Sharma); Development of Dryland Agriculture: A Snap Shot of Agricultural Marketing Infrastructure (M.S. Jairath and P. Mallikharjuna Charyulu); Impact of Water Harvesting System
(Watershed) in Bundelkhand Region of Uttar Pradesh (Babu Singh, Birendra Kumar, Anjani Kumar Singh and Balwan Singh); Free Electricity for Agriculture and Its Implications for Farmers’ Well-Being, Farm- and Non-Farm Employment and Crop Productivity in Andhra Pradesh (Jin Kathrine Fosli and A. Amarender Reddy); Pearl Millet - Status in Dry Land Agriculture of India (Arjinder Kaur, Sukhjeet K. Saran and Parminder Kaur); Impact of Food Prices on Food Security: A Distribution-Sensitive Analysis for Rural Households of Rajasthan and Gujarat (Sumit Mahajan, Shiv Raj Singh and K.K. Datta); Impact of MGNREGS on Dry Land Agriculture in Karimnagar District of
Andhra Pradesh (D. Kumaraswamy and C.V. Hanumanthaiah); Sustainable Agricultural Development through Watershed Programme in Rainfed Areas: A Case Study in Coimbatore
District of Tamil Nadu (Subhash Chand, Alok K. Sikka, M. Madhu, D.V. Singh, V. Selvi, R. Ragupathy, P. Sundrambal and V.N. Sharda); Is Economics of Rainfed Crops Worsening than Irrigated Crops? An Exploratory Analysis from 1971-72 to 2009-10 (A. Narayanamoorthy,
P. Alli and R. Suresh); Supply Response Analysis of Major Pulse Crops in India (S.M. Vembu, T.K. Immanuelraj and M.B. Dastagiri)
Governing globalization in South Asia through a legal praxis of human rights, development and democracy
No full textABSTRACT
This doctoral thesis in law seeks to understand, and begin to remedy, the immense and avoidable poverty that disenfranchises at least 30 percent of the world's most populous region. Defining South Asia as Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, the study analyses the multidimensional nature, historical origins and modern dynamics of both this material poverty and poverties of human rights, democracy and development. Both critical analysis and creative response are framed within legal history, human rights jurisprudence, constitutional and administrative law, comparative law and public international law, but the author draws extensively on political economy and history, and partially on philosophy, and cultural studies.
Chapter 1 traces the Western evolution of the universal human rights regime, first globalized in 1948 by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It also traces South Asian sociopolitical and religious articulations of human dignity and limitations on legitimate power through the ages. Mostly contrary to culturally relativist claims, South Asia's human rights needs are found to be well served by a genuinely universalist regime including justiciable economic, social and cultural rights as inseparable from civil and political.
Chapters 2 and 3 survey the historical globalizations that have impacted on South Asia. Although globalization is shown to be a neutral phenomenon, the author identifies the insidious contemporary propagation of a particular neo-liberal ideology as being globalization's inevitable and optimal form. The study analyses this propagation by the International Financial Institutions the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, acting through Structural Adjustment Policies and only partially corrective Poverty Reduction Strategy Papers. Neo-liberalism supposedly unshackles benign market forces from distorting governmental rules to create spontaneous growth that trickles down to the poor; in fact it employs its own rules to privilege the already wealthy, especially Western capital and transnational corporations (TNCs).
The thesis urges South Asia to govern globalization pro-actively, seeking the virtuous circle of human rights, plural democracy and equitable development. Positive signs have already included national membership in, and constitutional enshrinement of, universal human rights norms, and certain efforts of civil society and non-governmental organizations, fostered at times by activist judiciaries.
Chapter 4 nevertheless catalogues overriding failures to internalize plural democracy and the rule of law, leaving rights nominal and democratic structures hollow. Governments have been obsequious to neo-liberal hegemony, insouciant to their underclasses and exploitative of religious schisms in appeal to tyrannous majoritarianism. The South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation is shown as an inadequate response to the region's multidimensional poverties.
Adapting instead the best practices of the Council of Europe, the Organization of American States, the African Union, and the British Commonwealth from Chapter 5, Chapter 6 details a South Asian Union for Human Rights Development and Democracy to replace SAARC. This new regional response complements global human rights norms and offers South Asia solidarity in confronting neo-liberalism, and holding TNCs, IFIs and especially their own governments accountable to the rule of law, equitable development, deep democracy, wide human rights, and larger freedom in peace and security
Emergence and re-emergence of glanders in India: a description of outbreaks from 2006 to 2011
No full textGlanders, a bacterial disease of equines caused by Burkholderia mallei, is a fatal infectious disease of equines and has zoonotic significance. The disease has been eradicated from many countries by statutory testing, elimination of infected animals and import restrictions. However, it is still endemic in parts of Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Central and South America. In India, major glanders outbreaks were reported from different parts of the country between 1976 and 1982. Later, sporadic cases of the disease were reported in 1988, 1990 and 1998. The country remained free of glanders for about eight years until the recent outbreaks occurred in eight States from 2006 to 2007. Recurrent episodes have occurred in Himachal Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh, whereas fresh outbreaks occurred in Chhattisgarh from 2009 to 2010. A total of 164 equines were declared positive; a majority of the positive cases (n = 77) were from Uttar Pradesh, followed by Maharashtra (n = 23), Uttarakhand (n = 21) and Andhra Pradesh (n = 16). Under the provision of Prevention and Control of Infectious and Contagious Disease in Animals Act, 2009, all the infected animals were euthanised and bio-security measures were implemented to curb the further spread of the disease
