The Girl Named Bhumi

This story is set in Kerala, the southern state of India. The story engages with the problem of indiscriminate river sand mining activities and the emotional trauma that causes on the impacted community

Plastic to Petrol

Perinjanam is a coastal village in Thrissur district in the state of Kerala, India. It is one of the smallest villages in Kerala. Perinjanam Panchayath has been recognized as the first Panchayath in India with ‘ISO 9001 2015’ certification. National Accreditation Board of Certification Body (NABCB) has conducted valuation in two steps and was found that the Panchayath has fulfilled the criteria suggested by Quality Council of India. The Science Centre was established in 2006 under the Charitable Society Act with an aim to undertake scientific experiments. Several Teachers and students are undertaking science related activities in 5 buildings spread over 70 cents of land of Kodungalloor Municipality. Mr. V. S. Sreejith, is the Director of Science Centre, has designed a plant and the perinjanam Panchayath has developed the prototype of a pyrolysis plant in which plastic waste is burnt and distilled to make petrol and other by products. This is a part of its endevour to find a low-cost and pollution free technology for processing non biodegradable waste

Comparative analysis of two discretizations of Ricci curvature for complex networks

We have performed an empirical comparison of two distinct notions of discrete Ricci curvature for graphs or networks, namely, the Forman-Ricci curvature and Ollivier-Ricci curvature. Importantly, these two discretizations of the Ricci curvature were developed based on different properties of the classical smooth notion, and thus, the two notions shed light on different aspects of network structure and behavior. Nevertheless, our extensive computational analysis in a wide range of both model and real-world networks shows that the two discretizations of Ricci curvature are highly correlated in many networks. Moreover, we show that if one considers the augmented Forman-Ricci curvature which also accounts for the two-dimensional simplicial complexes arising in graphs, the observed correlation between the two discretizations is even higher, especially, in real networks. Besides the potential theoretical implications of these observations, the close relationship between the two discretizations has practical implications whereby Forman-Ricci curvature can be employed in place of Ollivier-Ricci curvature for faster computation in larger real-world networks whenever coarse analysis suffices.Comment: Published version. New results added in this version. Supplementary tables can be freely downloaded from the publisher websit

Design and Implementation of Open Journal System (OJS) for Rajagiri Journals: A Review

Open Access (OA) is an alternative business model for the publication of scholarly journals. It makes articles freely available to readers on the Internet and covers the costs associated with publication through means other than subscriptions. Online Journal System (OJS) is an end to end publishing management platform offered by Public Knowledge Project (PKU) which will help Journal publishers and content developers to manage its journal website along with managing pre-publishing editorial activities including manuscript management, peer review process & publishing process. The OJS platform will cover all aspects of online journal publishing, from establishing a journal website to operational tasks such as the author\u27s submission process, peer review, editing, publication, archiving, and indexing of the journal. It also helps to manage the people facets of organizing a journal, including keeping track of the articles, the work done by the editors, reviewers, and authors, notifying readers, and assisting with the communication. In this paper, we try to discuss the practical challenges and way to overcome it which we implemented Rajagiri Journals through OJS platfor