Indian Words in English

Thumb through an English dictionary and you will be surprised to see the number of words that are derived from Hindi and other Indian languages. Most have been so acclimatized all over the English-speaking world that nobody thinks of their origin

'Market penetration and pay-back period analysis of a solar photovoltaic system under Indian conditions'

The use of pay-back period analysis for economic evaluation of solar photovoltaic (PV) system reinforces the importance of the duration of the system. In a dynamic economic environment, the cost of energy increases at a faster rate than the common inflation rate. A time can be ascertained at which the market entry of the PV system will be profitable, i.e. at which the pay-back time drops below a value considered as the market threshold, provided the parameters describing the dynamic economic system remain unchanged. The market penetration of the PV system has been determined in Indian economic conditions and found to depend mainly on PV array costs and energy income reinvestment rate. The low PV array cost, high-energy income reinvestment rate, high solar cell reference efficiency and high battery efficiency have a substantial effect on the reduction of the energy price and pay-back period with early market penetration by the PV system. Keywords: photovoltaic (PV) system; pay-back period; market penetration; renewable energy economics.renewable energy economics, pay-back period, market penetration, solar photovoltaic (PV) system.

A competitor analysis

This study develops a new marketing strategy to combat the action of the threats associated with the market and making the business diversified within the market. The main aim of the research is enhancing profit by reducing competition of a liquor store. The Porter five forces model suggests looking beyond the competitors of the market and learning about their impact. This can be used as a tool for performing analysis of the external as well as the internal environment of the liquor store, which is small retail outlet. This creates firm impact on the overall performance of the activity of the organisation. In the research both quantitative and qualitative approaches are used. The liquor store can enhance their market share by way of diversification of their operation in less competitive markets in New Zealand. It is also concluded that the analysis of suppliers must be performed by the organisation in order to find the best supplier for their required products, at reliable and affordable prices. The buyers or customers create an important part of the business of a liquor store. This study makes an effort to develop a new and effective marketing strategy to combat the action of several threats associated with the market and diversifying the business within the market. This strategy would also help the brand with new store openings

Food and Nutritional Security in Bangladesh: Going beyond Carbohydrate Counts

The progress towards achieving household nutritional food-security in Bangladesh has remained slow. So far the food security is cereal-based (mainly rice) and food basket has not yet diversified towards high nutritive/ quality food. This article has examined the expenditure inequalities in the dietary pattern and incidence of poverty in Bangladesh by using household income, expenditure and food consumption survey data. Results have shown wide-spread inequalities in income and expenditure distribution. Among food items, the inequalities have been found very low for cereals and high for livestock and horticulture commodities and various types of fish species in both rural and urban areas. The analysis of food poverty, its depth and severity has revealed a typical hidden poverty that could not be brought up by analyzing economic poverty. The food poverty has been found high for pulses, horticulture and livestock commodities among both economically rich and poor households. Fish, livestock, horticulture and pulses sectors should be accorded high priority to diversify the dietary pattern towards high quality food and improve the nutritional food-security of households in Bangladesh.Food Security and Poverty,

Magic Words

Liberation from the here and now is recognized as the true mark of the escapist as well as the ascetic and is, by no means, a common experience. That there might be a different sort of mystery about the collocation of there and now is seldom realized

All Writers Not Men of Letters

The word \u27letter\u27 has a wide range of use in the English language. There are a variety of letters. Any written (also printed) communication from one person to another to convey information, ideas, advice or opinion is a letter. This forms the bulk of the material handled by the Postal Department. The writers of these letters are from all parts of the world

Cut and Come Again

Cut is an onomatopoeic word -- its sharp sound suggests hidden sinister meanings. Cutpurses have disappeared -- a purse being slightly passe -- and their place taken by pickpockets. Cutthroats -- not all of whom are overcharging shopkeepers -- seem to have increased, thanks to the encores of certain political parties

Iterative Method in Storage Routing

The objective of this study is to examine the feasibility of applying analog computer iterative methods to the study of storage routing

Sea Cow, Dugong Dugon of India

The sea-cows or the dugongs are distributed in the Indo-Pacific region between 10ngitudes32°E and 1700W, latitudes 35° and 400N. There are five population namely, East Australian, North Australian, Andaman-Malay Peninsula, Thailand and South China, South Indian and Sri Lanka, East African, Red Sea and Persian Gulf

Tentaculus waltairiensis Rao And Dutt, 1965, a junior synonym of Pholioides Thomasenl Nielsen 1960 (Pisces:Haliophidae)

An examination of my specimens shows that the interorbital cirri for which Rao and Dutt(op. cit.) use the term "tentacle," is not present in all specimens. In the 21 specimens I had collected the interorbital cirri are well developed in 12, absent in three; and in varying degrees of development in si