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Volume 35-40, Issue 156-185, September 2015

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El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO),the periodic fluctuation of sea surface temperature(SST)- atmospheric pressure over the tropical Pacific ocean, have great influence on the climate all around the world. Many studies reveal that there is direct relationship between Indian monsoon and ENSO. The current study is performed to understand the impact of ENSO on central India. The study focusses on variation in rainfall and runoff within the period 2004-2008 in twenty eight sub watersheds of Venna river basin, Maharashtra during various ENSO events. El Niño (2004, 2006) and La Niña (2007) years were selected based on the Oceanic Niño Index (ONI) available in the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) official website. The rain- gauge station rainfall data for each subwatershed was interpolated using Thiessen polygon interpolation method. To assess the impact of variation in runoff, the change in the landuse pattern of the watersheds were estimated for the period 2004-2008. The runoff was calculated using Soil Conservation Service Curve Number (SCS CN) method integrated with remote sensing technique for all subwatersheds. Variation occurring in rainfall and runoff for different subwatersheds were analysed for different years. It was found that all El Nino /La Nina years are associated with lower/higher rainfall in the watershed. Runoff, which is a factor related to the vegetation and soil permeability characteristics of the area also showing strong relation with the ENSO phenomenon.


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DISCOVERY OF THE MONTH

Discovery of symbols for atoms of different chemical elements by John Dalton in September 3, 1803

Vasanth

John Dalton, the Father of the Chemical Atomic Theory was born on September 6, 1766, to Quaker parents, in Eaglesfield, a remote village in the north of England.

Discovery, 2015, 35(156), 1

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ANALYSIS

Using Neural Networks to Create an Adaptive Character Recognition System

Syed Fiaz AS, Alsheba I

The objective of this project is to create an easy to use environment in which the user can draw characters and then let the program try to interpret the characters.

Discovery, 2015, 37(168), 53-58

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Tracking objects using Multiple Acoustic Video Systems

Syed Navaz AS, Ravishankar S, Sudarson M

To impart the academic knowledge gain through this two years course to practical application was the main objective to do this paper. The Paper entitled “Tracking objects using Multiple Acoustic Video Systems” Is to track the objects Using joint acoustic and video system measurements.

Discovery, 2015, 37(168), 59-64

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Russian new gold-cobalt-uranium-manganese-iron and graphite giants in the Jewish Autonomous Region (Far East)

Zhirnov AM

Geologic-tectonic features of location, mineralogical and geochemical data of the complex iron ores and metal resources in the giant ore field and graphite deposit of the Bureya craton in the Far East are examined.

Discovery, 2015, 38(171), 1-6

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Dynamics of Information-storing Biomagnetites in Bio-quantum Computing System

Choi JR, Song JN

Some of biomagnetites are capable of functioning in bio-quantum computers as information storage, while most biomagnetites are somewhat cursory. Dynamics of biomagnetites in the presence of an external sinusoidal magnetic field is investigated.

Discovery, 2015, 38(171), 7-13

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Analysis of a Parametric Amplification for Driven Cooper-Pair Box Qubit Signals in Quantum Computing System

Choi JR

Electrically controllable Cooper-pair box qubits are important as particular resources for solid state quantum bit prototypes in quantum computing system.

Discovery, 2015, 38(171), 14-21

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Sanskrit’ Influence in Balinese Language

I Made Surada

Sanskrit is the language of communication of Aryans in India in earlier times. Hindu literature that is growing in most of the Indian subcontinent using this language. In its development, because the rules are so many, people began to leave, especially in their everyday conversations.

Discovery, 2015, 38(172), 22-28

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Time Behavior of Superconducting Resonators in Quantum Circuits for Quantum Information Processing

Choi JR

The flux-driven amplification of a superconducting resonator is investigated using the adiabatic invariant method. An adiabatic invariant is derived from the Hamiltonian dynamics and the energy expression.

Discovery, 2015, 38(172), 29-35

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Energy Audit: an initiative to Energy Conservation

Mallikarjun G Hudedmani, Vishwanath M Soppimath

Energy audit is a systematic and scientific way of study of energy usage in a process or system and finding a solution to reduce the consumption of energy without compromising output.

Discovery, 2015, 38(173), 46-51

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REVIEWS

Solid waste to energy status in India: a short review

Surajit Bag, Rambharosh Dubey, Niladri Mondal

In recent years managing solid wastes has been one of the burning problems in front of state and local authorities. This is due to scarcity of lands for landfill sites. Thus conversion of solid waste to energy is the best approach to reduce space related problems.

Discovery, 2015, 39(177), 75-81

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ANALYSIS

Assessment of Enso Impacts on Rainfall and Runoff of Venna River Basin, Maharashtra Using Spatial Approach

Rishma C, Katpatal YB, Jasima P

El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO),the periodic fluctuation of sea surface temperature(SST)-atmospheric pressure over the tropical Pacific ocean, have great influence on the climate all around the world.

Discovery, 2015, 39(178), 100-106

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Spatial pattern of urban landscape in Delhi NCT and its Peri-urban area using support vector machine technique

Dutta D, Rahman A, Paul SK

The geospatial techniques have played an important role over the last couple of decades for identifying the land use land cover pattern of an area.

Discovery, 2015, 39(180), 166-172

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High resolution simulation of the salinity variability in the Bay of Bengal and Arabian Sea during the years 1998-2014 using an ocean circulation model

Alok Kumar Mishra, Suneet Dwivedi, Atul Shrivastava

A high resolution ocean general circulation model with a horizontal resolution of 10 Km is used to investigate salinity in the Northern Indian Ocean [65E-95E; 5N-20N].

Discovery, 2015, 39(180), 173-179

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Predictability study of forced Lorenz model: an artificial neural network approach

Uday Pratap Singh, Mittal AK, Suneet Dwivedi, Anurag Tiwari

The Lorenz, 1963 model is a simple model that exhibits features such as nonlinear chaotic behavior and the existence of regimes similar to the actual climate system. It can be used for studying the predictability of climate.

Discovery, 2015, 40(181), 27-33

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High resolution numerical modeling of the Indian Ocean surface Hydrography and circulation

Atul Srivastava, Suneet Dwivedi, Alokkumar Mishra

High-resolution numerical ocean modeling has been performed to simulate the circulation features over the Indian Ocean with the help of Ocean General Circulation Model (MITgcm) in the domain [65E-95E; 5N-22N] for the years 1998-2014.

Discovery, 2015, 40(181), 34-40

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Tropical Indian Ocean simulation by nemo Ocean model using the AGRIF nesting tool

Lokesh Kumar Pandey, Suneet Dwivedi, Umesh Kumar Singh

An effort is made to demonstrate performance of the Nucleus for European Modeling of the Ocean (NEMO) model for the Tropical Indian Ocean simulation around [65E-95E; 5S-20N] during 2002-2007.

Discovery, 2015, 40(181), 48-52

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Characterization of Heavy Metals in Water and Sediment of River Ganga through Index Analysis Approach

Ruby Pandey, Divya Raghuvanshi, Anupam Dixhit

The Ganga, is one of the most sacred and worshipped river of India, is regarded as the cradle of Indian civilization. The major objectives of the present study were to investigate heavy metal’s concentration in water and sediments of the River Ganga along the different locations of Allahabad.

Discovery, 2015, 40(183), 158-166

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Optimization and treatment of phenol bearing wastewater under visible light with laboratory synthesized photocatalyst

Dharmendra, Sri Hari P, Himanshu Gupta

The synthesis of a new photo catalyst Fe-Zn/GAC, for treatment of phenol bearing wastewater under visible light and the optimization of different parameters like pH, catalyst dosage, H2O2 dosage and under different light intensities have been carried out.

Discovery, 2015, 40(183), 182-189

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Dye removal on low cost adsorbent media developed from Pine cone

Dharmendra, Rasma K

The author has made an attempt to develop a low-cost adsorbent from pine cones, a widely available bio-waste, and to check its suitability through batch study with synthetic Methylene Blue aqueous solution as adsorbate.

Discovery, 2015, 40(183), 190-200

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Effect of potassium chloride on black cotton soil

Shukla RP, Parihar NS, Akash Sood

Expansive soil is spread over more than twenty percentage area of India. Soils containing montmorillonite clay minerals are susceptible to volumetric changes.

Discovery, 2015, 40(184), 241-245

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A correlative study of different geotechnical parameters of local soil of West Bengal with varying percentage of sand

Siddhartha Mukherjee, Poulami Ghosh, Tamal Das

Coarse fraction of soil plays an important role on the geotechnical properties of soil whereas soils having more fines are the most unpredictable and problematic engineering materials for construction of civil structures over it.

Discovery, 2015, 40(184), 260-266

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Behaviour of sand bentonite mixture by application of fiber and Geo-synthetic clay liner (GCL)

Mukherjee K, Mishra AK

Permeability is one of the most important properties of sand-bentonite mixture which is used as a liner material at the waste disposal site, and needs to be understood for settlement analysis.

Discovery, 2015, 40(184), 267-273

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Strength and stiffness response of fiber reinforced lime stabilized fly ash

Varun Choudary K, Varun Vasa, Sivakumar Babu GL

Flyash is an end product left after the burning of coal in thermal power stations. Experiments are being carried out to find an effective solution for the safe disposal of flyash, and also to use it in other Civil engineering fields.

Discovery, 2015, 40(185), 330-336

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