Communication plays a major role in promoting and alleviating conflict. The source of conflict can often be traced back to a lack of communication or an inability to express who we are and what we desire....

The study was undertaken to look into the existing health and support services for injecting drug users (IDUs) in Guwahati,Assam. It was carried out at a Drop in Centre on 34 current intravenous drug users.The study was primarily quantitative in nature with some in-depth interviews with the respondents, their families and a few service providers....

Air pollution from ambient (traffic and industrial emissions in cities) and indoor (traditional biomass use as fuel) sources is a major health problem in developing countries like India. The linkage between air pollution and adverse health outcomes is less than conclusive....

It is well known that watershed hydrology is dependent on many factors; land use, climate, and soil conditions. But the relative impacts of different types of topography and land use on the surface water are yet to be ascertained and quantified. Agriculture has been identified as a major contributor of non-point source pollution of water resources....

This work deals with the model updating of two cable stayed bridges, viz, the Quincy Bayview Bridge of Illinois, USA and the Bill Emerson Memorial Bridge, Missouri, USA and studies on active response control of these bridges subjected to select seismic excitations....

The book describes the development and performance of proximal classifiers, a class of kernel-based regularized mean square error type classifier that learns within the penalized modeling paradigm. The name proximal classifier indicates the fact of classification of a test pattern by its proximity either to a hyperplane or to a class centroid....

This was my second project at GMRT. GMRT is known as Giant Metrewave radio Telescope is very unique in its field. It consists of an array of 30 fully steerable parabolic dishes, each of 45 m in diameter, located over a region of 25 kms....

Very low selfed and crossed seeds in Oregon Pride indicated that marked higher GA and Auxin concentration in the ovary leading to anticipated ovary growth and parthenocarpy might have resulted in impaired fertilization by either enhancing ovule abortion or reducing the pollen tube growth....

The detection of corners in images is essential for many tasks in machine vision, including scene analysis, motion and structure from motion analysis, image registration, image matching, object recognition, robot localization and navigation etc....

Giant Clams, as they are popularly known, are among the most specialized and the largest living bivalves. One of the species of Giant Clam, Tridacna gigas is known to grow over a meter in length. They have a narrow range of distribution and occur exclusively within tropical reefs under the Indo-Pacific faunal region....

The book extensively examines the socio-economic benefits of micro financing poor through SHGs. The authors observe that SHG formation has led to significant income and asset growth in SHG-member households. Further, it has improved the level of women empowerment....

Two major insect-pests viz. Diamond Back Moth (DBM) [Plutella xylostella] and two species of aphid such as Indian Mustard Aphid [Lipaphis erysimi] and Green Peach Aphid [Myzus persicae] are found detrimental for the cultivation of cabbage [Brassica oleracea var. capitata]....