ANALYSIS
Geo-environmental characterization of Pusan clays at Hwajeon site
Rao KG
Pusan clays are deposited along the Nakdong River delta. In order to develop new land for both industrial and residential use, Korean government has done land reclamation works to meet the land requirement.
Discovery, 2015, 41(186), 1-7
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Occurrence, fate and removal of emerging contaminates in a hybrid constructed wetland treating greywater
Ramprasad C, Ligy Philip
Emerging contaminants (ECs) are chemicals that are discovered or detected recently in the water and wastewater systems and are often considered as endocrine disruptors.
Discovery, 2015, 41(188), 59-66
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The water – energy nexus in drinking water treatment plants in West Bengal and Orissa
Dhiraj Tibrewal, Sudha Goel
The general objective of this study was to compare energy consumption and water quality parameters in various water supply systems (WSSs) in West Bengal and Orissa.
Discovery, 2015, 41(188), 79-85
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Integrated water resources management with special reference to water security in Rajasthan, India
Kuldeep Tiwari, Rohit Goyal, Archana Sarkar, Priyamitra Munoth
Fresh water is valuable natural resource for living organisms, which is being continuously depleted. Water Security means regular access and equity to safe potable water for drinking, sanitation and hygiene.
Discovery, 2015, 41(188), 93-101
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Assessment of groundwater quality with special emphasis to fluoride contamination in and around Mandvi Taluka, Surat, Gujarat, India
Mayuri Prajapati, Namrata Jariwala, Agnihotri PG
Fluoride contamination in drinking water due to natural and anthropogenic behavior has been documented as one of the major problems in worldwide impressive a serious threat to human health.
Discovery, 2015, 41(188), 102-108
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Mathematical modelling for landfill leachate pollution index error estimation
Tamru AT, Chakma S
Leachate Pollution Index (LPI) is an increasing environmental scale index used to quantify and compare the landfill leachate pollution potential. LPI computation required 18 leachate parameters but it shows errors if less than 18 parameters.
Discovery, 2015, 41(189), 123-129
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Analysis of earthquake catalogue for seismic hazard analysis of Warangal city
Nirbhay Narayan Singh, Deviprasad BS, Kalyan Kumar G, Hari Krishna P
Seismic hazard analysis involve the quantitative estimation of groundshaking hazards at particular site.The composite catalogue of the study area spanning from 1800 to 2014 A. D. (214 years) has been used for evaluating the seismicity of the Warangal region.
Discovery, 2015, 41(190), 136-142
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Harnessing solar energy for sustainable energy management in the campus: case study of Juet, Guna
Anupriya Pandey, Shiva Shankar Y, Aman Saxena, Rachit Khandelwal
The proliferation of institutes and universities of higher learning in the country and the imperative need for the reduction in energy consumption is critical for the development of a sustainable campus.
Discovery, 2015, 41(190), 156-162
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Evaluation of sulfate attack from CCPS for sustainable construction of a road embankment in Illinois, United States
Sanjeev Kumar, Sang U Shin
The readily available supply of coal and its use in coal burning electric generating plants has resulted in production and accumulation of large quantities of Coal Combustion Products (CCPs), primarily fly ash and bottom ash.
Discovery, 2015, 42(192), 32-44
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Real-time flood forecasting for hydraulic risk management: the lateral flow representation issue
Barbetta S, Moramarco T
Accurate forecast a stage at river sections is of paramount importance to properly address Flood Forecasting and Warning Systems (FFWSs) operating in real-time.
Discovery, 2015, 42(192), 45-51
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Arctic mountain arch as a place of great glaciers slipping in the Late Pleistocene
Zhirnov AM
Modern tectonic structure of the Arctic deep-water basin based on the analysis of geographic and geological maps of the Northern Hemisphere and the existing literature is shown.
Discovery, 2015, 42(194), 132-143
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Sustainable and smart materials in Geotechnical constructions
Hazarika H, Yasuhara K
Innovation in technology requires judicious consideration of cost saving, disaster mitigation capability and its environmental impact. This paper describes some of the environmentally friendly cost effective technologies born in Japan in the last two decades.
Discovery, 2015, 42(195), 233-244
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Influence of electrical gradients in the migration of ions in red earth
Sivapullaiah PV, Shankara, Maya Naik, Rama Krishna
Efforts are made to bring out the influence of application of electrical gradient on the migrations of sodium cation and chloride anion through compacted kaolinitic red earth soil.
Discovery, 2015, 42(195), 245-254
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Scope, Study and Experimentation of Biopac kit and its implications on a Brain Controlled Robotic Arm
Saurin Sheth, Love Rajai, Prakash Dholariya, Parth Jetani
In today's world, many problems are faced by the people who are paralyzed. The prosthetic surgery costs millions of bucks but still the movement of the limbs is not obtained as desired.
Discovery, 2015, 43(196), 1-7
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High speed neuron implementation using Vedic mathematics
Yamuna SV, Anshika, Nidhi Goel, Indu S
Neural network based systems are said to be much faster than their counterparts. Artificial Neural Network has been considered to speed up processing due to its parallel architecture and the numerous mathematical computations involved for processing any input.
Discovery, 2015, 44(201), 25-32
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Analysis and proposition of fault-tolerance model for real time software systems
Ankur Ghartaan, Tirthankar Gayen
Real time systems are those systems which must guarantee to response correctly within strict time constraint or within deadline. Failures can arise from both functional errors as well as timing bugs.
Discovery, 2015, 44(202), 62-67
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Spot Clearing in Energy Markets Considering Exercise of Interruptible Load Options by Retailers
Harivina Gunnaasankaraan, Aparna Viswanath
The retail customers enjoy pre-agreed fixed price and quantity contracts, whereas the retailers ought to secure their energy at volatile spot market clearing conditions.
Discovery, 2015, 44(203), 87-94
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Automatic Mould width Adjustments System of Slab Caster during Casting
Md Obaidullah Ansari, Joyjeet Ghose, Rajshree Samantray
Continuous casting of steel is a process in which liquid steel is continuously solidified into semi-finished or finished product. Depending on the dimensions of the strand, these semi-finished products are called slabs, blooms or billets.
Discovery, 2015, 45(209), 127-131
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Pattern based Approach for Mining Users Opinion from Kannada Web Documents
Anil Kumar KM, Asmita Poojari, Mohana kumari M
Opinions are very important for any organization's development and success as it affects the sale of its products. These opinions have impact on the customers buying decisions related to various products.
Discovery, 2015, 45(209), 138-143
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Bug triaging using multi-attribute bug tossing graph
Govindasamy V, Akila V, Banu Priya P
Bugs are non-avoidable in Open Source Software (OSS). The investigation has been done on various bug reports of OSS such as Eclipse and Mozilla. To resolve the bug, the bugs are assigned to developers.
Discovery, 2015, 46(213), 101-106
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Virtual Prototyping and Analysis of a Robotic Prosthetic Leg
Kalyana Chakravarthy Y, PavanKishore N, Ashok N, Manoj M, Mithun Chakravarty A, Srinath A
This paper presents the components of knee joint which supports the individuals with above knee amputations. The pre-eminent objective of this paper is to design and analyze a pliant prosthetic knee joint and find possibilities.
Discovery, 2015, 46(213), 112-120
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Effect of facing type on the behaviour of soil-nailed slopes: centrifuge and numerical study
Viswanadham BVS, Rotte VM
This paper evaluates the significance of slope facing on the stability and deformation behaviour of soil-nailed slopes subjected to seepage. A short series of centrifuge tests was performed to study the behaviour of 5V:1H soil-nailed slopes.
