Sumam Mary,Idicula; Paulose Jacob,K(Cochin University of Science and Technology, 1999)
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This work is aimed at building an adaptable frame-based system for processing Dravidian languages. There are about 17 languages in this family and they are spoken by the people of South India.Karaka relations are one of the most important features of Indian languages. They are the semabtuco-syntactic relations between verbs and other related constituents in a sentence. The karaka relations and surface case endings are analyzed for meaning extraction. This approach is comparable with the borad class of case based grammars.The efficiency of this approach is put into test in two applications. One is machine translation and the other is a natural language interface (NLI) for information retrieval from databases. The system mainly consists of a morphological analyzer, local word grouper, a parser for the source language and a sentence generator for the target language. This work make contributios like, it gives an elegant account of the relation between vibhakthi and karaka roles in Dravidian languages. This mapping is elegant and compact. The same basic thing also explains simple and complex sentence in these languages. This suggests that the solution is not just ad hoc but has a deeper underlying unity. This methodology could be extended to other free word order languages. Since the frame designed for meaning representation is general, they are adaptable to other languages coming in this group and to other applications.
Jyothi, T M; Rao, B S; Sugunan, S; Sreekumar, K(Indian Journal of Chemistry, December , 1999)
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Alkylation of phenol with methanol has been carried out over
Sn-La and Sn-Sm mixed oxides of varying compositions at 623 K
in a vapour phase flow reactor. It is found that the product
selectivity is greatly influenced by the acid-base properties of the
catalysts. Ortho-cresol formation is favoured over catalysts with
weak acid sites whereas formation of 2,6-xylenol occurs in the
presence of stronger acid sites. The cyclohexanol decomposition
reaction and titrimetric method using Hammett indicators have
been employed to elucidate the acid-base properties of the
catalysts.
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Indian Journal of Chemistry
Vol. 38A, December 1999, pp. 1253-1255
Sanathanan,Velluva; Muraleedharan,P K; Mary,Joseph(Kerala Forest Research Institute& Department of Applied Economics, 1999)
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The present study on the dynamics of land use in recently settled forest areas. In the course of events, tribals lost their land; the demographic structure of Attappady changed; the cropping pattern got diversified; traditional techniques of production were ruined; new crops and new techniques of cultivation came to stay; and the entire cost and return structure of production underwent radical change. Migration to Attappady is essentially a continuation of the Malabar migration process from Travancore, through, some people from Tamil Nadu also had migrated to this region earlier. The demographic structure, along with land structure, has changed in favour of the settlers within a short span of time. Lack of security of ownership has acted as a strong reason for wanton exploitation of land resources. The major influencing factors on crop choices among settlers were labour endowment, date of settlement and education. Attappady is an unique ecosystem in Kerala characterized by many interdependables. The latest hand of environmental degradation is a grave danger especially on sloppy terrains,which are under cultivation of tapioca and dry annual crops like groundnuts, cotton, grams etc. Soil erosion as a result of the unplanned cultivation of these crops has resulted in dramatic decline in soil fertility and hence low crop productivity. This calls for a watershed management approach for the sustainable development of the region. A progressive agrarian transformation is warranted to maintain the homegarden as a sustainable production system in ecological and socio-economic terms.
Heterotrophic bacterial flora of Pmonadon from an apparently healthy hatchery system as well as a pool with heavy mortality were isolated and studied. In the
healthy systems comparatively higher generic diversity with Pseudomonas, Acinetobacter, Bacillus, Micrococcus, members of the family Enterobacteriaceae
and coryneform group in the diminishing order of dominance was recorded. Meanwhile from the moribund larvae and rearing water Aeromonas and Pseudomonas
could be isolated in almost equal proportions. Strikingly, Aeromonas could not be isolated from the apparently healthy larval rearing system and its exclusive
occurrence in the sick culture system in comparatively higher percentage suggested its possible role in the mortality. They were found to be highly halophilic
exhibiting growth at 10% NaCl. On testing their sensitivity to twenty antibiotics, four of them (Streptomycin, Gentamycin, Methamine mandelate and
Cloramphenicol) were found to be effective on all the isolates of Aeromonas and Pseudomonas suggesting their possible application in the hatchery system in
times of emergency. While doing so, Streptomycin would do comparatively better than the others as the minimum inhibitory dose required was comparatively
lower (200ppm) within a period of 24 hours
Girijavallabhan, C P; Radhakrishnan, P; Nibu, A George; Aneeshkumar, B(Journal of Physics D : Applied Physics, April 7, 1999)
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The photobleaching of the lasing dye Rhodamine 6G embedded in the solid
matrix poly(methyl methacrylate) was investigated using a photoacoustic technique.
Chopped laser radiation from an argon ion laser at four different wavelengths was used for
the study. Experimental results indicate that the photobleaching rate is directly proportional
to the incident laser power while it decreases with increase in concentration of the dye
molecules. In the present case we have not observed any dependence of photobleaching on
the chopping frequency. One-photon absorption is found to be responsible for the
photobleaching of the dye within the selected range of laser power