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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Tamil Nadu"”.
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Transitional relief housing for tsunami victims of Tamil Nadu, India
… a transitional shelter for the Indian region of Tamil Nadu. Tamil Nadu is located on the southern coast of India, and was the region most affected by the recent tsunami. The transitional shelter should be a shelter that serves as an infrastructure that can be absorbed into a more permanent …
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Geomorphology of Deposits from the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, Tamil Nadu, Southeastern India
<p>In low latitudes, geologically suitable repositories for tsunami deposits are not well defined. This project characterizes the geomorphic environments on the southeastern coast of India that preserved depositional evidence of the catastrophic tsunami created by the M<sub>w</sub>9.0-9.3 …
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Private remedial services in public schools: Evidence from ISHA’s GSAP Program in Tamil Nadu
… remedial intervention for low-performers in Tamil Nadu’s rural public schools (India), Isha Government School Adoption Program, employing a Conditional Difference-in-Differences strategy with Propensity Score Stratification and controlling for program selection bias, I ask, “Do secondary …
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Affective Roots: Memory, emotions and viscerality within organic agri-food networks in Tamil Nadu, India
… activists I met in Chennai, the capital city of Tamil Nadu in India, organic food and farming was a ‘way of life’. Stemming from my curiosity about this statement and what it meant for different actors in the regional organic agri-food networks, this research explores the interconnected lives and …
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The Role of Family Ties in Mitigating Moral Hazard: Firm-Level Evidence from Tamil Nadu, India
… data from the district of Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu, India, this study explores the role of family ties as a means to counteract potential moral hazard concerns. It is shown that firms will be more likely to employ family relations when faced with a higher hidden context for moral hazard. …
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Mitochondrial DNA Control Region Sequence Polymorphisms from a South Indian Population Sample: A Forensic and Phylogenetic View
… to establish a mtDNA dataset for the state of Tamil Nadu, India for forensic purposes and to investigate the diversity of the Tamil Nadu population sample with respect to global populations. The hypervariable regions I, II, and III within the mtDNA control region of a population sample …
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Law, technology and water conflicts in developing societies: a case study of tank systems in Tamil Nadu
… tank systems in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Tanks are man-made water systems developed for irrigation and many other purposes in semi-arid areas. The thesis adopts a historical approach to study the development of law, particularly property rights, and takes an empirical approach …
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Struggle and solidarity in transforming urban futures: The fisher fight for Ennore wetlands in Tamil Nadu, India
… struggle for the tidal wetlands of Ennore in Tamil Nadu, India. Stretching from the northern edge of Chennai, the Ennore wetlands have been a colonial frontier since the 18th century: first targeted by British empire-building, then by post-independence industrialisation, and later by …
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The state and collective action : successful adjustment by the Tamil Nadu leather clusters to German environmental standards
… predominantly small firm leather clusters of Tamil Nadu (India) to illustrate the role of the State in enabling quick, widespread and longterm compliance by the clusters to German quality standards. I argue that while joint action between firms was crucial in triggering certain kinds of …
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The politics of visibility in urban sanitation : bureaucratic coordination and the Swachh Bharat Mission in Tamil Nadu, India
… the roll-out of SBM in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu.
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The international township of Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India: the routinization of charisma in a context of an inner-worldly mystical orientation
Sponsored by UNESCO and the Government of India, Auroville was established in 1968 as an experiment in human unity. This thesis is an attempt to illuminate the cultural orientation of Auroville and. the consequences for routinization of charisma. Drawing on material collected during an exploratory …
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Rise of regions after reforms : late development strategies for the software industry in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, and Kerala in India
… of the central government. Two of these states (Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh) have been highly successful in attracting software firms since the mid 1990s, while the third state (Kerala) has lagged behind. I argue that the success of these states in establishing a technologically sophisticated …
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Health care experiences of low-income South Indian women: using social relationships to negotiate physical, financial and informational constraints
… care initiatives, especially in the state of Tamil Nadu where health care innovations and maternity assistance benefits for low-income women have become a model for the country. Despite improvement on key maternal health indicators over recent years, these health outcomes still lag behind …
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The politics and anti-politics of shelter policy in Chennai, India
… using the history of a single institution, the Tamil Nadu Slum Clearance Board in Chennai, India, and examining the evolution of the Board's policies towards slums and slum clearance from 1970 to the present. In its early years, state level political party incentives determined the shelter …
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Language Policies in the European Union and India: A Comparative Study
… the EU (Luxembourg, Wales), and India (Manipur, Tamil Nadu), chosen on the basis of maximum and minimum deviation from the EU’s and Indian policies. The study examines policy texts (statutes on language use in these polities), and contexts which concern the historical and socio-political factors …
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