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Showing 1 to 14 of 14 for “"Maharashtra, India"”.
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Effects of Price on Marketable Surplus of Wheat in Maharashtra, India
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Translating MDG 3: Gender, Empowerment and the Adolescent Girl in Maharashtra, India
… a gender empowerment programme located in rural Maharashtra, India, to examine how a broad goal of gender empowerment is translated into a UNICEF-funded local programme for adolescent girls. The absence of adolescent girls in the gender and development and feminist scholarship has meant that …
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Governance at the margins : the challenge of implementing slum housing policy in Maharashtra, India
… initiated in 2005 by the Central Government of India under the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM). It is one of the few housing policies in the long history of slum housing policies in India where housing provision for the poor is linked to governance reform (i.e., …
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Volcanic architecture of the Deccan Traps, western Maharashtra, India: an integrated chemostratigraphic and paleomagnetic study
… sequence in the Western Ghats, Deccan Traps, India, are presented. The main study area, the Mahabaleshwar Plateau, was chosen because the lavas were emplaced around the time of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Boundary and because there is access to exposed lavas on three of its four sides, permitting …
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Anna He Purnabramha: Deorukhe Women’s Agency in the Making of Bodies, Cuisines, and Culture in Maharashtra, India
<p>The world is changing. India is changing. Food is changing. Bodies are changing. What does this mean for the women of Maharashtra, India? Globalization and modernity manifest in new and interesting ways the world over. As people establish networks of global commodity, capital, and human …
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Sustainable (‘grass-roots’) approach to Oral Health Promotion Utilising Established NGO and Rural Community Groups
… Promotion (OHP) in developing populations in India, utilising non-dental rural community development groups, specifically those led by Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO) involved in community development. The focus of this research was based on a longitudinal cohort study experimental design …
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Paleomagnetism of Lonar impact glass
… dozen impact glasses from Lonar Crater, in Maharashtra, India, were analyzed for evidence of impact-generated paleofields, and possible motional remanent magnetization. Lonar Crater formed when a meteorite impacted a bed of Deccan Trap basalts. Upon impact, the basalt was super heated into a …
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Airborne monitoring system for in-season agriculture : operational considerations and image processing for wide-area sensing
… custom camera setup aboard a manned aircraft in Maharashtra, India is used to test and verify the models. Surveying at a spatial resolution near the size of farm plots on the ground requires precise registration of remotely sensed images to ensure accurate crop reflectance measurements. Current …
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Investigating the retention of Kokni lexicon among the youth of Cape Town's Kokni community
Originating in the Konkan coast of Maharashtra, India, a large group of people immigrated to South Africa. The migrations took place in the period of colonialism in the Cape and Natal, and sometimes extended into the later Union and Apartheid periods. These people have settled into living in Cape …
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Equitable Access to Assisted Reproduction: Designing regulation for efficacious realisation of the right to reproductive health
… considered are Ontario (Canada), England (UK), Maharashtra (India), and Singapore. Drawing on a nuanced analyses of regulatory traditions and techniques, I demonstrate that states can, and do, meet their ART provision functions is by licensing (or delegating) them out to private fertility …
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Genomics and ecology of rapid adaptation: the expansion and evolution of the invasive common myna (<i>Acridotheres tristis</i>) and common starling (<i>Sturnus vulgaris</i>) in New Zealand
… were founded by birds from a sub-population from Maharashtra, India. Secondly, I utilised ecological data to characterise the niches of both the common myna and common starling. For both species, I found no evidence of niche divergence between the native range and New Zealand, but evidence of …
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Squatters as developers? : Mumbai's slum dwellers as equity partners in redevelopment
… strategy introduced by the state government of Maharashtra (India) in its capital city, Mumbai (Bombay). The strategy involves demolishing the existing slums and building on the same sites at a higher density, new, medium rise apartment-blocks including entirely cross-subsidized housing for the …
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Crowdsourcing corporate water data : a validity test of a pilot survey instrument to map public water management related risk worldwide
… of the survey respondents from California and India. I set out to determine whether the risk indicators used by the WRI/MIT-SSI partnership accurately portray on-the-ground public water management circumstances at the facility level for companies operating in both low and high-risk areas. I …
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Role of Information Technology in Policy Implementation of Maternal Health Benefits in India
<p>Fifty thousand women died during childbirth in India in 2013, the highest total in the world; that is, one maternal death every 10 minutes. India and Nigeria account for almost one-third of total global maternal deaths. In pursuit of the Millennium Development Goals, the government of India …