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Potential of Agroforestry Systems for Food Security, Climate Change Mitigation, Landscape Restoration and Disaster Risk Reduction in Nepal
Agroforestry is the oldest form of land use believed to have evolved before sedentary agriculture. In recent years, the importance of integrating trees with crops has been increasingly recognised, not only as ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Analysis and Design of Urban Water Distribution Network Using Hardy Cross Method and EPANET
Water distribution networks (WDNs) serve many purposes in addition to the provision of water for human consumption, which often accounts for less than 2% of the total volume supplied. The purpose of water dist...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Optimal Design of Sewerage Networks Using Swamee Algorithm
Sewerage system is the significant infrastructural component of society which collects wastewater from various areas/localities and conveys the same toward the sewage treatment plant. Sewer line is the basic u...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Design of Rising Main for Amravati Water Supply Scheme
Rising main or pum** main is used to convey the water from source or reservoir to water treatment plant and further to the balancing reservoir or elevated service reservoir. If water treatment plant is locat...
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Article
Low Cycle Fatigue Behavior of a Directionally Solidified Nickel-Based Superalloy: Mechanistic and Microstructural Aspect
In the present research, efforts were made to understand the mechanistic and microstructural aspects of the low cycle fatigue failure of a directionally solidified (DS) nickel-based superalloy under relevant o...
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Article
Evaluation of performance of seasonal precipitation prediction at regional scale over India
The seasonal scale precipitation amount is an important ingredient in planning most of the agricultural practices (such as a type of crops, and showing and harvesting schedules). India being an agroeconomic co...
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Article
Micromechanism of High-Temperature Tensile Deformation Behavior of a Directionally Solidified Nickel Base Superalloy
High-temperature tensile deformation behavior of directionally solidified nickel base superalloy CM 247 DS is studied by conducting tensile tests in temperature range RT-955 °C employing a constant strain rate...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Modelling Heat Transfer in Nanofluids Based on Coupled Md-Stochastic Simulation
A model has been proposed here for estimating the thermal conductivity of a nanofluid based on the mechanism that the nanoparticles dispersed within the nanofluid undergo Brownian motion and repeatedly collide...
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Article
Physiological Interventions for Enhancing Sugarcane and Sugar Productivity
Sugarcane is one of the most efficient quantum converters, endowed with vast tillering, ratooning and biomass potential. Vast tillering potential, innumerable root primordia, two types of roots and emergence o...
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Article
Flood Inundation Modeling Using Nakagami-m Distribution Based GIUH for a Partially Gauged Catchment
Flood inundation extent is highly dependent on intensive rainfall and topography of floodplain. This paper presents a study to develop a flood inundation model for partially gauged upper Ganga catchment. For d...
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Chapter
Detoxification of Heavy Metals From Soils Through Sugar Crops
Heavy metals can not be destroyed biologically since there is a lack of degradation or change in the nuclear structure of the element. Such metals can only be transformed from one oxidation state or organic co...
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Article
Efficacy of Nakagami-m Distribution Function for Deriving Unit Hydrograph
This paper applies the Nakagami-m distribution for the derivation of unit hydrograph (UH). The applicability of this distribution was verified using the data from 13 watersheds and results were compared with othe...
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Chapter
Impact of Heavy Metals on Sugarcane
Sugarcane is one of the most important cash crops in the tropics and subtropics, where it is mainly used to manufacture crystal sugar. It is cultivated between the latitudes of 35°N and 35°S. Theoretically, it...
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Article
Inhibition of post harvest modulated product formation for stabilizing sucrose contents in sugarcane during stay in field
The post-harvest stay of sugarcane in the field for 8 days led to formation of abnormal levels of reducing sugars, phenols and dextran due to post harvest modulated enhanced titrable acidities and acid inverta...
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Article
Evaluation of the Adequacy of Statistical Distribution Functions for Deriving Unit Hydrograph
The unit hydrograph (UH) is one of the commonly employed techniques for the determination of flood hydrographs. Since the UH satisfies all the properties of a probability distribution function (PDF), it seems ...
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Article
Influence of progressive staling on germination of sugarcane
Staling impacts bud-sett moisture and nutrients like sucrose and reducing sugar contents of seed cane/setts. With increase in staling time bud and sett moisture, sucrose % juice decreased whereas total soluble...
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Article
Evaluation of pan coefficient for reference crop evapotranspiration for semi-arid region
Pan coefficient (K pan) is the important factor for computation of reference evapotranspiration (ET o ) from pan evaporation (E pa...
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Article
Another Look at Z-transform Technique for Deriving Unit Impulse Response Function
This paper presents a technique to derive the unit impulse response functions (UIRF) used for determination of unit hydrograph by employing the Z-transform technique to the response function derived from the A...
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Article
Role of Indole-3-Acetic Acid in Sprouting of Subterranean buds in Winter Initiated Sugarcane Ratoon
Sprouting of subterranean/stubble buds was studied in relation to indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) metabolism in two sugarcane varieties, CoLk 8102 (mid-late maturing) and CoS 88230 (early maturing) during different...
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The effect of filtering on drift and anisotropy parameters determined by full correlation analysis
Ionospheric drift records obtained by the closely spaced receiver technique at Udaipur are subjected to low and high pass filtering with varying cutoff frequencies and the effects of filtering on various drift...
