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View Resource ḈGSHIFTER: A METHOD TO SHIFT CENTRE OF GRAVITY TO REDUCE SCHOOL BAG STRESS ON CHILDREN BODY

Increasing weight of backpacks of school going students and its adverse effect on children’s body is shown through survey of Indore city. Outcome of survey shows that the average of ratio of backpack weight to body weight of school children was 20.62% which is higher than acceptable limit. It gives a method to reduce the impact of schoolbag on spinal cord of children body. In this paper, the...

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https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v3.i2.2015.3039
View Resource DISTANT INFRARED SPECTRAL ANALYSIS OF INDUSTRIAL HOT GAS EJECTION IN ATMOSPHERE

Passive Infrared (IR) Spectral-radiometry of gases in the atmosphere is extremely important today, when pollution of the environment by natural ejections and those produced by human activity is growing very high. Particularly, spectral analysis of hot gas ejections i.e. combustion products from industrial plants is an essential part of ecological monitoring of the atmosphere. In this paper we...

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https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v3.i7.2015.2988
View Resource PARTICIPATORY ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT IN NYANGATOM DISTRICT OF SOUTH OMO ZONE, SOUTH ETHIOPIA

The aim of the study was to identify potential constraints to mutual resource utilization in the bordering areas of Nyangatom and to identify and develop participatory mitigation measures to resource utilization problems based on community and government proposals. The study employed Focus Group Discussion (FGD) and Key Informant Interview (KII) to collect the primary data. 1 FGD and 2-3 FGDs were...

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https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v3.i8.2015.2970
View Resource ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION AND CLIMATE CHANGE

The whole world is on the terrifying cross-roads of global environmental threat. Last several years, particularly the last two years dominated the headlines about the serious threat climate change posed to the world. The more frequent severe weather conditions which result from climate change or global warming in the form of storms, tornadoes, tsunamis, floods, droughts, rising sea level and such...

https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v3.i9SE.2015.3105
View Resource CLIMATE CHANGE: CAUSES AND POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

Global climatic changes because of human activities have become a major threat to life on Earth. Changing climatic conditions are the result of man-made activities and are continuously leading to a serious deterioration in the earth’s atmosphere. Basically it is leading to erratic climate and weather extremes, altered ecosystems and habitats and risks to human health and society. This problem can...

https://doi.org/10.29121/granthaalayah.v3.i9SE.2015.3106
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