India - Sustainability and the Tourism Rankings.

Sustainable tourism leads to environmental protection, community development, and the improvement of livelihood of the local residents of a place. This has been a prime concern of the Government of India in every five-year plan and national tourism policy undertaken. Sustainability is essential for the country’s prosperity, growth and development. The present research study is a review of current research literature and policy frameworks of the Indian tourism industry in terms of sustainability. The research analyzes the Indian tourism global ranking and the ‘environmental sustainability’ rankings of the Travel and Tourism Competitiveness Index. The study is based on secondary data analysis including analysis of five-year plans of Indian planning processes, national tourism policies and the global tourism rankings of the Indian tourism industry obtained from a Travel and Tourism Competitive Index provided by World Economic Forum. Based on the secondary data analysis, the study highlights a paradoxical situation of ‘sustainability and the tourism rankings’ for the Indian tourism industry

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Not AvailableA large number of Long Term Fertilizer Experiments (LTFE) on various Food, Horticulture and Commercial Crops are being conducted at various Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) Institutes and State Agricultural Universities (SAU). Usually the information generated from these experiments is not available in compatible form at one place to the scientific community working in National Agricultural Research System (NARS). Also planners/ research workers may be interested in this information as this will help them in planning/conducting the future long term experiments. Keeping the importance of this information in view, a Web based information system entitled “National Information System on Long Term Fertilizer Experiments (NISLTFE)” has been designed, developed and uploaded at Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute (IASRI) domain http://www.iasri.res.in:8081/nisltfe/. NISLTFE would generate information for various policy decisions in the context of achieving higher productivity and maintaining sustainability under modern intensive cropping system based on high external inputs of fertilizers, agro-chemicals and high yielding cultivars under irrigated/ rain fed conditions etc. This paper focuses on the variety of information provided by NISLTFE in the form of online reports. Emphasis is on parameters, such as crop sown, statistical design used, agro-ecosystem, weather, characters, mid course modifications, field layout and character data stored for the LTFE.Not Availabl

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Not AvailableCreativity plays an important role in development of science and technology. The main purpose of the study was to develop and validate an e-learning module on creativity for agricultural students. Hence, the researcher developed an e-learning module by using content management software “Course Lab (version 2.4)”. Topics related to creativity of students were included in the e-learning module based on comprehensive review of the available literature in an online as well as offline mode and educationist’s suggestions. Data on seven validation parameters viz., content, visual design, learning & support, motivation to learn, perceived utility and navigation, accessibility, interactivity were collected from agricultural students and analysed. Simple random sampling procedure was used for the selection of respondents. The results of the study showed that applicability of the e-learning module ranked first according to the students while learning and support, content, visual design, motivation to learn, perceived utility and navigation, accessibility, interactivity etc. ranked second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh respectively. The overall mean of 2.75 indicated moderately high liking/validity of the e-learning module by the students. Therefore, this study suggests that the developed e-module can be a useful tool for effective learning and enhances the knowledge and skills of the students.Not Availabl

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Not AvailableCreativity plays an important role in development of science and technology. The main purpose of the study was to develop and validate an e-learning module on creativity for agricultural students. Hence, the researcher developed an e-learning module by using content management software “Course Lab (version 2.4)”. Topics related to creativity of students were included in the e-learning module based on comprehensive review of the available literature in an online as well as offline mode and educationist’s suggestions. Data on seven validation parameters viz., content, visual design, learning & support, motivation to learn, perceived utility and navigation, accessibility, interactivity were collected from agricultural students and analysed. Simple random sampling procedure was used for the selection of respondents. The results of the study showed that applicability of the e-learning module ranked first according to the students while learning and support, content, visual design, motivation to learn, perceived utility and navigation, accessibility, interactivity etc. ranked second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh respectively. The overall mean of 2.75 indicated moderately high liking/validity of the e-learning module by the students. Therefore, this study sugg ests that the developed e-module can be a useful tool for effective learning and enhances the knowledge and skills of the students.Not Availabl

Hydrogen atom sources : hydrogen kinetics, anomalous recombination and possible relevance to deposition

A method is proposed for prodn. of intense H atom beams (fluences of 4x1021 atoms/s) using subatmospheric cascaded arc plasma with plasma currents up to 100 A. [on SciFinder (R)

Hydrogen atom sources; hydrogen kinetics, anomalous recombination and possible relevance to deposition

A method is proposed for prodn. of intense H atom beams (fluences of 4x1021 atoms/s) using subatmospheric cascaded arc plasma with plasma currents up to 100 A. [on SciFinder (R)