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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Pune"”.
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Integrating natural playscapes into early-child care in Pune, Maharashtra
… conducted in Khanapur village in Haveli Taluka, Pune District, India, with children in the age group of 0 to 6 years to validate the above proposition. The study used four kinds of data: interviews, first hand observations, drawings by children, and archival documents. Research showed that …
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Revisiting History - Heritage walk Proposal in Old City Pune, India
Over the centuries, cities have gained limelight and have significantly grown powerful with an increased level of importance. The rapid growth and urbanization posing a fatally critical threat to the future as the population is growing with each day. The development from the rural to urban life and …
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Visualizing and modeling Peri-Urban drinking water supply and planning in Pune, Maharashtra
… at the district (Zilla Parishad) scale using Pune district in Maharashtra as a case study. We adapt Census of India demographic definitions of the rural-urban dichotomy along with distance-based definitions used in Maharashtra, and compare them with Census data on water and sanitation …
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Identifying sustainable organic management systems in urban India : case study of Pune, India
… analysis of the waste system in the city of Pune. Door-to-door, primary, and secondary collection and four technologies for treating organics (landfilling, composting, anaerobic digestion, and pelletization) are analyzed with regard to cost and environmental performance. Because decentralized …
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Factors Facilitating and Hindering Safer Sex Negotiations Among Female Sex Workers in Pune, India: Conversations With Women in Sex Work
Despite the central role that HIV/AIDS prevention education plays in this community, this study brings forth the ecological factors influencing FSW safer sex negotiations in this geographical context. Understanding these issues is necessary to make HIV/AIDS prevention programs successful.
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Young Children's Play in High-rise Housing: A Window into the Changing Lives of Urban Middle-class Families in Pune Metropolitan Area
… housing environments in a fast-growing suburb of Pune metropolitan area supported the documentation and analysis of play opportunities for young children from middle-class families living in high-rise housing developments. Specifically, the case study research included in-depth field studies and …
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Making Men in the City: Articulating Masculinity and Space in Urban India
… caste neighborhood in the western Indian city of Pune. Present day Pune, an aspiring metropolis, presents a complex socio-spatial intersection of neoliberal processes and peculiar historical trajectories of caste exclusion; this dissertation seeks to highlight how socio-spatial dynamics of the …
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Humanizing Urban Waters : Civilian led Water Corps to Strengthen Decentralized Water Systems in Western India
… and the very ground on which urbanism dwells. Pune city in Western India is fertile for this exploration since beneath its dense urban settlement is a ground of flowing waters both surface and subsurface, a culture rich in indigenous techniques, historical waterfronts, stepped wells, aqueducts …
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Building stability through decentralization : the environmental, economic, and ethical argument for informal sector collection and decentralized waste processing in urban India
… those questions, I conducted a case study of Pune, since the city has implemented centralized waste processing, followed by supporting informal sector collection and instituting decentralized collection. The diversity of its methods and the many challenges Pune has faced have allowed me to …
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Governance at the margins : the challenge of implementing slum housing policy in Maharashtra, India
… completed under the BSUP program in Yerwada in Pune city in Maharashtra. The thesis expands the notion of governance from the community (the governed) and the government (the governing) binary to all the co-governance actors involved in the multi-agency implementation system: the private …
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Productively Undoing a Doctoral Study: Ethically Researching Early Childhood Education and Care in the Majority World
… and care classes of an NGO run school in Pune, India. I tell the story of my original research project that intended to develop a rich understanding of children’s play and early learning in an early childhood education and care setting through a children’s rights lens within in a …
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Design and validation of mobile kit and machine learning algorithms for pulmonary disease screening and diagnosis
… Chest Research Foundation, a pulmonary clinic in Pune, India. Using the data collected from these patients, we pursued several of avenues of research. First, we trained algorithms to automatically detect two adventitious breath sounds: wheezes and crackles. We used two approaches to detect these …
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Phenotyping Ethnic Differences in Body Fat Depots
… ethnicities. In addition, I present data from Pune Maternal Nutrition study (PMNS) cohort; comprising 423 young adults of SA descent in India. Analyses of body fat phenotype in Cau pre-diabetic populations showed higher VAT (mean differences= 0.5 litre, p<0.0001) and liver fat content (mean …
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Social conditions leading to Scrum process breakdowns during Global Agile Software Development: a theory of practice perspective
… an agile software project across India (Pune) and South Africa (Durban). The site selection was carefully thought out and the results from the first case informed the second case in order to add more richness in the data being gathered. In both case studies, data was collected through …
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Development of machine learning algorithms for screening of pulmonary disease
… partner, the Chest Research Foundation (CRF), in Pune, India. The data consisted of 325 patients (135 healthy, 76 asthma, 46 COPD, 29 allergic rhinitis, and 39 other). Among the asthma and COPD patients, 67 had allergic rhinitis. All patients were examined using a mobile diagnostic kit designed at …
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Applications of Deep Learning, Machine Learning, and Remote Sensing to Improving Air Quality and Solar Energy Production
… estimate daily soiling loss for a solar farm in Pune, India over three years that on average caused ~5.4% reduction in solar energy production. We further estimated that around 437 MWh solar energy was lost in total over the 3 years, equivalent to ~11799 USD, at this solar farm. Our approach’s …