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Open AccessEfficient simulation of potential energy operators on quantum hardware: a study on sodium iodide (NaI)
This study introduces a conceptually novel polynomial encoding algorithm for simulating potential energy operators encoded in diagonal unitary forms in a quantum computing machine. The current trend in quantum...
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ICT and the World Around Us
This chapter provides the context within which Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can be placed vis-à-vis teaching and learning in the Digital or Information Age. The chapter describes how technol...
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ICT in the Classroom: Active Listening and Reading
This chapter examines the role of ICT tools in improving the relationship between teaching and learning in the classroom. This chapter specifically focuses on listening and reading skills and how certain ICT ...
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ICT Beyond the Classroom: New Media and Learning
This chapter is a hands-on chapter on the use of Web 2.0 tools so that students’ own practices of new media can be leveraged to take learning beyond the classrooms. These tools include various software applica...
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Conclusion
This concluding chapter ventures into the future to predict ICT-enabled teaching-learning possibilities in South Asian contexts. The chapter features educational and policy reports and evaluates them against t...
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Managing ICT: Administration, Evaluation, and Policymaking
This chapter deals with ICT platforms, software to choose (Do’s and Don’ts), evaluating ICT with special reference to principles of multimedia evaluation, and ICT Policy. For ICT Policy, the areas that are spe...
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ICT, Communication, and the Curriculum
This chapter specifically focuses on the role of ICT in our communicative practices. Our day-to-day use of ICT, for example, mobile phones, are meant for particular communicative purposes. If we take these com...
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ICT in the Classroom: Speaking and Writing
This chapter introduces specific tools and concepts that can be used in the classroom for develo** speaking and writing. The chapter focuses on common ICT tools that can be effectively used for classroom le...
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Open AccessHigh Mountain Asian glacier response to climate revealed by multi-temporal satellite observations since the 1960s
Knowledge about the long-term response of High Mountain Asian glaciers to climatic variations is paramount because of their important role in sustaining Asian river flow. Here, a satellite-based time series of...
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Nano-technology Applications in Pest Management
The application of nano-materials in crop protection remains unexplored. But, nano-pesticides have the potential to play a key role in the management of pests and pathogens. A nano-encapsulated pesticide formu...
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Open AccessGlacial lakes exacerbate Himalayan glacier mass loss
Heterogeneous glacier mass loss has occurred across High Mountain Asia on a multi-decadal timescale. Contrasting climatic settings influence glacier behaviour at the regional scale, but high intra-regional var...
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Glacier mass budget and climate reanalysis data indicate a climatic shift around 2000 in Lahaul-Spiti, western Himalaya
While glacier mass changes in the Himalaya since the year 2000 are relatively well investigated, there is still a lack of knowledge about the long-term changes and their climatic drivers. We use historical and...
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Dialoguing the Web: Digital Technologies and Pedagogy
Web technology, in its current avatar, has been fiercely debated in terms of its efficacy in the field of humanities pedagogy. However, the verdict has not yet been delivered. This chapter is an attempt to exp...
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Institutional Discourses, Technology-Mediated Practices and Pedagogy: A Critical Perspective
The changing paradigms pedagogy within India seem to be closely related to the focus on the interventions of technology that such a paradigmatic shift requires. The thrust of the paper is to probe both the p...
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On the Attosecond charge migration in Cl…..N, Cl…..O, Br…..N and Br…..O Halogen-bonded clusters: Effect of donor, acceptor, vibration, rotation, and electron correlation
The electron-electron relaxation and correlation-driven charge migration process, which features pure electronic aspect of ultrafast charge migration phenomenon, occurs on a very short timescale in ionized mol...
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Potential of SAR intensity tracking technique to estimate displacement rate in a landslide-prone area in Haridwar region, India
Landslides constitute one of the major natural hazards that could cause significant loss of life and various human settlements. Mansa Devi hill near Haridwar city has encountered with such potential hazard for...
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Excited electronic state decomposition mechanisms of clusters of dimethylnitramine and aluminum
In this report, electronically non-adiabatic decomposition pathways of clusters of dimethylnitramine and aluminum (DMNA-Al and DMNA-Al2) are discussed in comparison to isolated dimethylnitramine (DMNA). Electroni...
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Usefulness of adaptive filtering for improved Digital Elevation Model generation
The Digital Elevation Models (DEMs), which represent the variation of elevation in a terrain at spatial level, are an important source of input to a variety of applications for deriving a number of terrain par...
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Surface displacement estimation along Himalayan frontal fault using differential SAR interferometry
The Himalayan region has been studied extensively during the past few decades in terms of present ongoing deformations. Various models have been proposed for the evolution of the Himalaya to explain the cause ...
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Outsourcing-Iterative Improvement Model for Transforming Challenges to Mutual Benefits
The concept of outsourcing though has evolved a lot from an initial one-time cost-rationalization measure, still has a long way to go. It has to transform the current challenges to opportunities for growth for...
