Physical science has changed in the century since Lord Kelvin’s celebrated essay on Nineteenth Century Clouds over the Dynamical Theory of Heat and Light, but some things are the same. Analogs in what was happening in physics then and what is happening in astronomy today serve to remind us why we can be confident the Virtual Observatory of the twenty-first century will have a rich list of chall...

The determination of neutrino flavor transition mechanism by neutrino telescopes is presented. We first propose a model-independent parametrization for flavor transitions (such as standard three-flavor oscillations, neutrino decays or others) of astrophysical neutrinos propagating from their sources to the Earth. We demonstrate how one can constrain parameters of the above parametrization by pe...

In the present era of energy crisis, effective and energy efficient air conditioning is a need of time. Advanced evaporative cooling is able to replace conventional air conditioning. This paper identifies the major cities of India and investigates scope and potential of evaporative cooling over entire period of year using feasibility index method. Initially paper describes basic and advanced me...

BACKGROUND Food fortification is the addition of one or more essential nutrients to a food whether or not it is normally contained in the food, for the purpose of preventing or correcting a demonstrated deficiency of one or more nutrients in the population or specific population groups. The present cross-sectional study was conducted to obtain comprehensive information towards consumption of Ta...

The present study evaluates the accuracy of Triangulation, Digital Elevation Model (DEM) and orthoimage generated by Cartosat-1 data by using Rational Polynomial Coefficient’s (RPC’s) provided with the Cartosat-1 satellite stereo (PAN) data. The study area is taken as Jaipur city, Rajasthan. The data acquired over Jaipur, on 18 May’ 2005 was analysed. The stereopair comprises of terrain ranging...

1 European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany [email protected] 2 Departament d’Astronomia i Meteorologia, Barcelona, Spain [email protected] 3 European Southern Observatory, Paranal, Chile [email protected] 4 Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur, Nice, France [email protected] 5 European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany [email protected] 6 European Southern Observatory, Garching, Germany [email protected]

The swing-phase motion of the shank of an above-knee prosthesis has been modelled mathematically. An inexpensive endoskeletal prosthesis was designed using the Jaipur foot and conduit pipes with a hinge joint for the knee. Results of field trials and the modelling indicate that a very simple above-knee prosthesis can give near normal gait at "normal" walking speeds on flat surfaces. The swing o...

Forty of us at the Foundation are taking forty days out of our routine over the next few months to participate in the 'Foundation in Education' course that is being facilitated by Rohit Dhankar of Digantar and a team of education thinkers. Recently we completed the first module of ten days at Jaipur and followed it up with the second module in Bangalore. The third module is slated to begin in M...

Methods We conducted a prospective surveillance of device associated infections from January 2010-December 2010 in a 10 beded Medical ICU of Fortis Escorts Hospital, Jaipur. CDC-NNIS system definitions for all device associated infections were used and rates were calculated per 1000 device days. Device utilization ratio was calculated by dividing the total number of specific device days by the ...

The Indian Psychiatric Society has embarked upon the task of developing clinical practice guidelines (2003) which culminated in the development of draft proposals following a workshop (2004) at Jaipur which has already been published as a supplement for extensive interaction and review (2004). As a prelude to final acceptance and publication, it is pertinent to look back at the history , its cu...