Insurance Sector in India: Growth and Career Opportunities

Risks, the uncertainty about the future of something, be it be Business, Project, Life, Property, or anything, has always been there and so is there the fear of not meeting the intended goal for which they exist. Transferring the risk to a different party has been there as a good strategy of risk handling. This strategy brought to us the concept of ‘Insurance’ in which, the ‘Insurer’ assures the monetary coverage to the ‘Insurance owner’ in case the ‘Insured Artifact’ is adversely impacted under ‘Given Conditions’. Insurance has now grown into a mature industry worldwide and in India it has many formal bodies regulating and promoting it as a huge market. This paper highlights some areas of the Insurance Market and its emerging future in India in terms of economy and career opportunities

Organic Farming: The Challenges and Opportunities

Organic Farming is a form of agriculture that yields crops in the most environment friendly manner and hereby intended to preserve the environment. United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Organic Regulations restrict the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides and some other conventional tools that are found to be hazardous to environment in longer run. This white paper highlights common challenges and opportunities for Organic farming globally

Preventive and Therapeutic Approaches towards Pandemic Infectious Diseases: An Ayurveda Review Based on Current Scenario

The evolution of human civilization witnessed health related consequences of many incurable diseases. The medical science developed gradually and combated effectively against such types of fatal diseases, but incurable or pandemic outbreak scarred whole word time by time. The whole world currently fighting against pandemic disease and in this situation the human civilization not only facing healthcare but economic burden also. The Ayurveda system described such pandemic conditions as consequences of Sankramak Roga and Ayurveda philosopher believe that pandemic condition arises due to the vitiation of Jala, Vayu & Doshas, etc. Ayurveda Samhita mentioned role of Krimi in the development of infectious disease and when such infection occurs in very short period of time on large scale then it becomes pandemic. Ayurveda suggested Nidaan Parivarjana, Panchakarma, Rasayana therapy and lifestyle modification for the management of such conditions

A Robust Algorithm of Digital Image Watermarking Based on Discrete Wavelet Transform

In this paper, a robust algorithm of digital image watermarking based on discrete wavelet transform is introduced It uses blind watermarking technique. Digital image watermarking is one such technology that has been developed to protect digital images from illegal manipulations. In particular, digital image watermarking algorithms which are based on the discrete wavelet transform have been widely recognized to be more prevalent than others. This is due to the wavelets\u27 excellent spatial localization, frequency spread, and multi-resolution characteristics, which are similar to the theoretical models of the human visual system

Academic Institutional Repositories in India: Global Visibility for an Institution's Scholarly Communication

Institutional Repositories; Open Access Digital Repositories; Academic Institutional Repositories; DSpace; E-Print- ArchiveRecent development in information and communication and web technologies has changed the landscape of information handling activities. These technologies provide a simple, web-based mechanism for researchers to deposit (‘self-archive’) and access their research publications via digital repositories. In this paper we describe the genesis, objective, methodology, contents, advantages, software usages, growth and development of institutional repositories in India

Experimental Performance of Solar Collector cum Regenerator for Coupling with a Liquid Desiccant Cooling System

A solar liquid desiccant air cooling system cools air in two stages: dehumidification followed by sensible cooling. It uses concentrated liquid desiccant to dehumidify the process air and reject the absorbed moisture to the ambient air through solar thermal heating in a solar collector cum regenerator (C/R). For the dehumidifier the liquid desiccant must be cold and strong in desiccant to reduce tendency of evaporation of water in the solution so that it can absorb water vapor from the process air. But, in the solar regenerator the solution must be hot to enhance evaporation of water from the solution to the regeneration air which requires thermal energy. The solar collector cum regenerator performance decides the overall cooling performance because for every kilogram of water dehumidified, at least the same amount must be rejected in the solar regenerator. Direct coupling of the solar regenerator with the dehumidifier may not be possible since the moisture removed in the dehumidifier may not get evaporated in the solar regenerator simultaneously. The solar thermal energy collection and the operating conditions decide the regeneration capacity of the solar collector cum regenerator. This paper presents experimental solar regeneration performance of CaCl2-H2O and LiCl-H2O solutions using two different sized solar C/R of absorber area 1.47 and 4 m2 inclined at 14o from the horizontal. The diurnal mass of water evaporated from LiCl and CaCl2 solutions at different concentrations is reported. The water evaporation per unit absorber area was found to be independent of C/R size for experiments carried out on the two regenerators for both LiCl and CaCl2 solutions for similar levels of irradiance and initial desiccant concentration. In addition, the paper discusses some basic solar C/R design issues and explores the coupling possibility of a solar C/R with a liquid desiccant cooling system. The results presented are useful in deciding the size of a solar C/R for coupling with a liquid desiccant cooling system of desired capacity

Status of automation in special libraries and information centers of Gwalior: a survey

Paper has been published in Proceedings of the National Conference on Information Management in Digital Libraries held on 2-4 August, 2006, organized by central library, IIT Kharagpur.The study presents the status of automation in special libraries and information centers of Gwalior District in Madhya Pradesh. Aims at understanding and analyzing the various problems faced by the authorities and the staff during the process of automation. The methodology adopted for the present study is survey using a structured questionnaire. The lack of staff, hesitancy and lack of attitude towards automation and unsatisfactory library software problems are the major hindrances to speedy automation. However, 50% of special libraries opting for automation show that the libraries have a mind to adapt to the new changes and the other libraries will follow the suit.Central Librar