Chacko, Jose P; Dr.Jose, Payyappilly T(Cochin University of Science and Technology, November 16, 1999)
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The present thesis critically analyzes the micro level issues that influence the rural household energy behavior in Kerala. The aim of the study is to examine the energy consumption pattern at the household level in rural Kerala and to assess the variations in rural household energy consumption pattern across geo-climatic and socio-economic clusters. The researcher assess the attitudes of the rural households towards energy sources, uses and devices. The study tries to identify the factors influencing the adoption of energy conservation practices and shift to the improved energy
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Depatment of Applied Economics, Cochin University of Science and Technology
Rajini,K M; Dr.Sankaranarayanan, K C(Cochin University of Science and Technology, October , 2009)
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The study is entitled “HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN KERALA”. The concept “Human Resource Development” is of high value in business and industry and has been used and applied since years. In industry and business the 'human' element is considred as a resource and hence its development and protection is very essential and inevitable. Of all the factors of production, human resource is the only factor having rational faculty and therefore, it must be handled with utmost care. Right recruitment, right training and right induction followed by faultless monitoring and welfare measures are but decisive factors in business and industry. Altogether there is a constant attention up on human factor there. But this is not a practice at all in education. So far there has not been any such measure of care and close watch and performance analysis of human resource on education front. This may be the main reason for lack of accountability in the sphere of education. The present study reveals the importance of introducing HRD practices in higher educational institutions in Kerala. In order to promise human capital formation through education, it is basic requirement. The higher educational institutions must follow the method of industry and commerce because education can be treated as an industry in service sector. There also we can follow the methods of right recruitment, right training and promotion, delegation, performance analysis and accountability checking of human resource. HRD is a powerful idea of transformation of human being into highly productive and contributing factor The HRD of students is the sum total of HRD of teachers. Reminding the primordial usage 'Yatha Raja Thadha Praja’ the quality of faculty resembles in students. The quality of administrative staff in colleges also affects the quality of higher education. Hence, it is high time to introduce the managerial method of HRD with all its paraphernalia in higher educational institutions so as to assure proper human capital formation in higher education in India.
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Department of Applied Economics,
Cochin University of Science and Technology
Rajini,K M; Dr.Sankaranarayanan, K C(Cochin University of Science and Technology., October , 2009)
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The study is entitled “HUMAN RESOURCES DEVELOPMENT
IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN KERALA”. The concept “Human
Resource Development” is of high value in business and industry
and has been used and applied since years. In industry and
business the ‘human’ element is considred as a resource and hence
its development and protection is very essential and inevitable. Of all
the factors of production, human resource is the only factor having
rational faculty and therefore, it must be handled with utmost care.
Right recruitment, right training and right induction followed by
faultless monitoring and welfare measures are but decisive factors in
business and industiy. Altogether there is a constant attention up on
human factor there. But this is not a practice at all in education. So
far there has not been any such measure of care and close watch
and performance analysis of human resource on education front.
This may be the main reason for lack of accountability in the sphere
of education. The present study reveals the importance of
introducing HRD practices in higher educational institutions in
Kerala. In order to promise human capital formation through
education, it is basic requirement. The higher educational
institutions must follow the method of industry and commerce
because education can be treated as an industry in service sector.
There also we can follow the methods of right recruitment, right
training and promotion, delegation, performance analysis and
accountability checking of human resource. HRD is a powerful idea
of transformation of human being into highly productive and
contributing factor The HRD of students is the sum total of HRD of
teachers. Reminding the primordial usage ‘Yatha Raja Thadha Praja’
the quality of faculty resembles in students. The quality of
administrative staff in colleges also affects the quality of higher
education. Hence, it is high time to introduce the managerial method
of HRD with all its paraphernalia in higher educational institutions
so as to assure proper human capital formation in higher education
in India.
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Department of Applied Economics,
Cochin University of Science and Technology
Krishna Kumar,N; Sadasivan Nair,G(SCHOOL OF LEGAL STUDIES, 2004)
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Human rights are the basic rights of every individual against the state or any other public authority as a member of the human family irrespective of any other consideration. Thus every individual of the society has the inherent right to be treated with dignity in all situations including arrest and keeping in custody by the police. Rights of an individual in police custody are protected basically by the Indian Constitution and by various other laws like Code of Criminal Procedure, Evidence Act, Indian Penal Code and Protection of Human Rights Act. The term `custody' is defined neither in procedural nor in substantive laws. The word custody means protective care. The expression `police custody' as used in sec. 27 of Evidence Act does not necessarily mean formal arrest. In India with special reference to Kerala and evolution and development of the concept of human rights and various kinds of human rights violations in police custody in different stages of history. Human rights activists and various voluntary organisations reveals that there are so many factors contributing towards the causes of violations of human rights by police. Sociological causes like ambivalent outlook of the society with respect to the use of third degree methods by the police, economic causes like meager salary and inadequate living conditions, rampant corruption in police service, unnecessary political interference in the crime investigation, work load of police personnel without any time limit and periodic holidays, unnecessary pressure from superior police officers and the general public for speedy detection causing great mental strain to the investigating officers, defective system of recruitment and training, imperfect system of investigation and lack of public co-operation are some of the factors identified in the field survey towards the causes of violations of human rights in police custody.
Sonia, Sunny; Dr. David, Peter S; Dr.Poulose Jacob, K(Cochin University of Science And Technology, September , 2013)
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Speech is the primary, most prominent and convenient means of communication in
audible language. Through speech, people can express their thoughts, feelings or perceptions by
the articulation of words. Human speech is a complex signal which is non stationary in
nature. It consists of immensely rich information about the words spoken, accent, attitude of
the speaker, expression, intention, sex, emotion as well as style. The main objective of
Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) is to identify whatever people speak by means of
computer algorithms. This enables people to communicate with a computer in a natural spoken
language.
Automatic recognition of speech by machines has been one of the most exciting,
significant and challenging areas of research in the field of signal processing over the past five
to six decades. Despite the developments and intensive research done in this area, the
performance of ASR is still lower than that of speech recognition by humans and is yet to
achieve a completely reliable performance level. The main objective of this thesis is to develop
an efficient speech recognition system for recognising speaker independent isolated words in
Malayalam.
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Department of Computer Science
Cochin University of Science and Technology
Paulose,M M; Narayanan Nampoothiri,V N; Sreejith,P S(School of Engineering, May , 2006)
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The study aims to the hydrodynamic characteristics of swirling fluidized bed, using large particles (Geldart D-type) selected from locally available agricultural produce (coffee beans and black pepper). The important variables considered in the present study include percentage area of opening, angle of air injection and the percentage useful area of the distributor. A total of seven distributors have been designed and fabricated for a bed column of 300 mm, namely single row vane type distributors (15˚ and 20˚ vane angle), inclined hole type distributors (15˚ and 20˚ vane angle) and perforated plate distributors. The useful area of distributor of single row vane type, three now vane-type and inclined hole-type distributors are respectively 64%,91% and 94%. The hydrodynamic parameters considered in the present study include distributor pressure drop, air velocity, minimum fluidizing velocity, bed pressure drop, bed height and the bed behaviour.
It has been observed that, in general, the distributor pressure drop decreases with an increase in the percentage area of opening, Further, and increase in the area of opening above 17% will not considerably reduce the distributor pressure drop. In the present study, for the distributor with an area of opening 17%, and corresponding to the maximum measured superficial velocity of 4.33 m/s, the distributor pressure drop obtained was 55.25mm of water. The study on the bed behavior revealed that, in a swirling fluidized bed, once swirl motion starts, the bed pressure drop increases with superficial velocity in the outer region and it decreases in the inner region. This means that, with higher superficial velocity, the air might get by-passed through the inner boundary of the bed (around the cone). So, depending on the process for which the bed is used, the maximum superficial velocity is to be limited to have an optimum bed performance.
Resmi, T R; Dr.Jacob, Chacko(Cochin University of Science & Technology, July , 2004)
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The present study is an investigation to address relevant chemical aspects of
the three varied aquatic environments, such as mangroves, river and the estuary.
The sampling locations include a thick mangrove forest with high tidal activity, a
mangrove nursery with minimal disturbances and low tidal inundation, a highly
polluted riverine system and an estuarine site, as reference. Nutrients and
bioorganic compounds in the water column and surface sediment were estimated in
an attempt to understand the regeneration properties of these different aquatic
systems.Assessment of the trace metal pollution was also carried out.
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Department of Chemical
Oceanography, Cochin University of Science
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Sumangala, K N; Dr.Sujatha, C H(Cochin University Of Science And Technology, December , 2011)
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People in several parts of the world as well in India countenance an
immense confront to meet the basic needs of water. The crisis is not due to lack of
fresh water but its availability in adequate superiority. Environmental quality
objectives should be developed in order to define acceptable loads on the terrain.
There has been a number of initiatives in water quality monitoring but the next step
towards improving its quality hasn’t taken the required pace. Today, there is a
growing need to create awareness among citizens on the different technologies
available for improving the water quality. Monitoring facilitate to apprehend how
land and water use distress the quality of water and assist in estimating the extent of
pollution. Once these issues are recognized, people can work towards local
solutions to manage the indispensable resource effectively. Ground waters are
extremely precious resources and in many countries together with India they
represent the most important drinking water supply. They are generally
microbiologically pure and, in most cases, they do not need any treatment. This
communiqué is intended to act as a channel on the various paraphernalia and
techniques accessible for groundwater quality assessment and suggesting the
assured precautionary measures to embark on environment management. This
learning is imperative considering that groundwater as the exclusive source of
drinking water in the region which not makes situation alarming but also calls for
immediate attention.
The scope of this work is somewhat vast. Water quality in Ernakulam
district is getting deteriorated due to the fast growth of urbanization. The closure of
several water bodies due to land development and construction prevents infiltration
of rainwater into the ground and hence recharge the aquifers. Most of the aquifers
are getting polluted from the industrial effluents and chemicals and fertilizers used
in agriculture. Such serious issues require proper monitoring of groundwater and
steps are to be taken for remedial measures. This study helps in the total protection
of the rich resource of groundwater and its sustainability. Socio-economic aspect covered could be used for conducting further individual case studies and to suggest
remedial measures on a scientific basis. The specific study taken up for 15 sites can
be further extended to the sources of pollution, especially industrial and agriculture
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Department of Chemical Oceanography, Cochin University of Science and
Technology