Movement of Input and Output Prices of Rice in Kerala and its Impact on Area, Yield and Outp

Rice is the most extensively cultivated crop in the world, particularly concentrated in Asia and the Far East. Asian countries together make up for as much as 91.80 per cent of the world production of rice in 1986. The main objective of the present study is to analyse the rice economy of Kerala over time and space at the State, district and taluk level. The thesis analyses the trends in area, yield and total production of rice during the three seasons in the state, districts and taluks and studies the trends in input and output prices of rice and coconut in the state, districts and taluks. The researcher estimates the impact of input and output prices on area, yield and total output of rice in the state, districts and selected taluks and examines the conversion of paddy field into coconut garden and rubber plantation.

“Law on Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Substances through Sea

This study pertain to legal control of pollution from transboundary movement of hazardous substances through sea. It is an emerging area in international maritime law. There is growing environmental awareness that oceans are no longer an inexhaustible resource. This has resulted in a complex system of integrated ocean policies and international legal frame work in this regard. Considering the peculiar nature of hazardous substances, the development of law in this regard has been haphazard. The legal framework in this area is not comprehensive and lacks coherence. India is geo-strategically located in the central part of Indian Ocean through which many international sea routes lie. India is also fast emerging as a maritime hub. Indian legal framework in this respect also suffers from serious pitfalls. In this backdrop, this study makes a sincere attempt to identify and analyse the legal intricacies in this area, in order to evolve a better regime for control of pollution pursuant to transboundary movement of hazardous substances through sea

Open Access Movement for Managing Intellectual Informatics

The present work focuses on various facets of open access movement for managing intellectual output that eventually becomes available and accessible in public domain. Thus, purpose of this paper is to document and share the real time experience of managing and sharing of intellectual wealth of academia of Cochin University of Science & Technology by using open source platforms. This paper is trying to explore different intellectual information resources in the current era and also aims to suggest cost effective strategy of implementing new open access tools and technology for effective managing ofintellectual informatics

Detection of Flock Movement in Spatio-Temporal Database using Clustering Techniques - an Experience

In this paper, moving flock patterns are mined from spatio- temporal datasets by incorporating a clustering algorithm. A flock is defined as the set of data that move together for a certain continuous amount of time. Finding out moving flock patterns using clustering algorithms is a potential method to find out frequent patterns of movement in large trajectory datasets. In this approach, SPatial clusteRing algoRithm thrOugh sWarm intelligence (SPARROW) is the clustering algorithm used. The advantage of using SPARROW algorithm is that it can effectively discover clusters of widely varying sizes and shapes from large databases. Variations of the proposed method are addressed and also the experimental results show that the problem of scalability and duplicate pattern formation is addressed. This method also reduces the number of patterns produced

The Control of Human Arm Movement Models and Mechanical Constraints

A serial-link manipulator may form a mobile closed kinematic chain when interacting with the environment, if it is redundant with respect to the task degrees of freedom (DOFs) at the endpoint. If the mobile closed chain assumes a number of configurations, then loop consistency equations permit the manipulator and task kinematics to be calibrated simultaneously using only the joint angle readings; endpoint sensing is not required. Example tasks include a fixed endpoint (0 DOF task), the opening of a door (1 DOF task), and point contact (3 DOF task). Identifiability conditions are derived for these various tasks.

Skill shortages en Asturias : desajuste de cualificaciones y propuestas de acción.

1) Analizar las destrezas necesarias y comprobar si éstas forman parte del inventario regional de cualificaciones. 2) Informar de las necesidades cambiantes de destrezas promoviendo un acercamiento entre oferta y demanda. 3) Difundir información acerca de la situación actual de otras regiones europeas y de las técnicas de análisis e intervención que utilizan. 4) Obtener información acerca del grado de conocimiento e imagen que los jóvenes tienen de estos sectores y ocupaciones. 12 expertos en Economía regional. 69 empresas y 24 centros de formación referidos a los sectores y ocupaciones objeto de estudio: sector Construcción, Metal, Turismo y Químico, ocupación soldador, mantenimiento, y agente de desarrollo local. 8 aulas de octavo de EGB de Gijón, Oviedo, cuencas mineras y zona rural. El modelo teórico seguido es la 'Typology of skill shortages' de Van der Vendel en el que aparecen seis tipos de problemas o discrepancias entre demanda y oferta: desequilibrios absolutos y relativos, problemas de ruptura o desfases, distribución, utilización y contenido. Se miden diversos factores de las ocupaciones y los sectores. Entrevista semi-estructurada. 4 cuestionarios 'ad hoc' para estudiar: sectores, ocupaciones, centros de formación y organizaciones de desarrollo regional. Análisis de contenido mediante categorización y análisis de frecuencia. Análisis de sectores y ocupaciones: 1) todos estos sectores han sufrido importantes cambios en las dos últimas décadas debido al impacto de las nuevas tecnologías; 2) todos adolecen de importantes y claros desequilibrios en el mercado de cualificaciones afectándoles negativamente la desaparición del antiguo sistema de aprendices; 3) todos encuentran problemas a la hora de cubrir vacantes de las ocupaciones tradicionales; 4) frente al sector de la Construcción y del Metal que en los últimos años ha sufrido una mayor especialización en su mano de obra, los sectores Turismo y Químico cuentan con un nivel muy alto de polivalencia. Estudio en EGB: 1) un porcentaje elevado manifiesta su intención de continuar estudios de BUP; 2) existe un amplio desconocimiento del mundo industrial; 3) los sectores estudiados les atraen poco; 4) el sexo y los factores socioeconómicos influyen en sus preferencias vocacionales. Se reafirma la hipótesis de que los desequilibrios apuntados tienen un origen social claro. Para solucionar éstos, se apuntan una serie de pautas de acción como: reformar la formación profesional, realizar una selección coherente y estricta del alumnado de FP, llevar a cabo un plan de marketing que recupere la imagen y valoración social de la FP, incrementar el impacto de la figura del orientador, etc.

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