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1. Utilisation of Recycled Slaughterhouse Wastes for Vegetable Cultivation in Rural India -- 2. Operation and Maintenance of Wash Infrastructure in Residential Schools in Tribal Belt of Maharashtra: A Case Study -- 3. Metal Resistant Bacteria in Animal Manure Induces Bacterial Resistance to Antibiotics: Their Co-occurrence in Compost, Soil and Water -- 4. Artificial Neural Network Model for Prediction of Methane Fraction in Landfill Gas from Pretreated Waste in Bioreactor Landfills -- 5. Effect of Gasification Zone Length on the Downdraft Gasifier Performance for High Ash Biomass -- 6. Utilisation of Natural Waste in Freeze-Thaw Affected Soil: A Comparative Analysis -- 7. Economic and Ecological Feasibility of Marble Powder in Cement Mortar -- 8. Use of Gas Turbine Operated by Municipal Solid Waste to Obtain Power and Cooling Assisted by Vapour Absorption Refrigeration System -- 9. Experimental Study on Recycled Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) Bottle Fibre Reinforced Concrete -- 10. Estimation of Demolition Waste Using Waste Generation Rate and Logistic Flows in Surat, India -- 11. Identification of Potential Neighbourhood Constraints of Demolition Process: A Case Study -- 12. Sustainability of Natural Aggregates by Utilising CDW in Concrete -- 13. Experimental Study on Incorporation of Plastic Wastes as a Binding Material in Pervious Pavers -- 14. Biogas Development in India: A Sustainable Energy for Future -- 15. Study on the Effect of Load Resting Time on Recycled Brick Aggregate Cement Concrete -- 16. Energy Densification of Juice Waste Using Hydrothermal Carbonisation -- 17. Terracotta Membrane-based Microbial Fuel Cell with Algal Biocathode: A Low-Cost Alternative to Dairy Wastewater Treatment Coupled Electricity and Biomass Production -- 18. Upcycling Textile Waste Towards Green Nanocomposites -- 19. Reduction of Significant Aspects and Enhancement of Non-Significant Aspects for Hazardous Wastes in a Medical Electronics Manufacturing Firm -- 20. The Potential of Biogas Production from Water Hyacinth by Using Floating Drum Biogas Reactor -- 21. Influence of Initial pH on Bioleaching of Selected Metals from e-Waste Using Aspergillus niger -- 22. Column Leaching of Metals from PCB of End-of-Life Mobile Phone Using DTPA Under Oxidising Condition -- 23. Assessment of Sand Size on ECC Containing Waste Materials -- 24. Effect of Operating Parameters on Leachate Quantity and Quality Generated During Hydrolysis of Kitchen Waste -- 25. Comparative Performance Evaluation of Toxicity Assessment Tests on Waste Li-Ion Laptop Batteries -- 26. Recycling Construction and Demolition Waste: Potential Applications and the Indian Scenario -- 27. Biochemical Methane Potential and Kinetics of Parthenium hysterophorous with Different Food to Microorganisms (F/M) Ratios -- 28. Removal of Lead and Copper by Using Bentonite as an Adsorbent -- 29. Impact of Precipitation on Biodegradation of Fresh Municipal Solid Waste in Anaerobic Simulated Reactor -- 30. Scope of Renewable Energy Intervention for Energy Sufficiency in Nagaland -- Index.

The paper has two main objectives. The first is to trace the progress in the process of decentralisation in the provision of public services in India. The second is to test the hypothesis that decentralisation in the system of public service delivery in primary health care and education led to improved outcomes for the rural Indian population. Before 1992, with few exceptions, there was little movement towards decentralisation. Rural local bodies functioned primarily as program executing agents for government line departments, with little control over finances, administration, or the pattern of expenditure. The only decentralisation that existed was in the importance of state governments vis-a-vis the centre. After the 1992 Constitutional Amendments, significant progress has taken place in the form of the passing of conformity legislation by state governments, the setting up of State Finance Commissions to examine the distribution of resources from states to local bodies, and accelerated moves towards transfer of planning and expenditure responsibilities to village bodies. The paper used data from the 1994 NCAER survey to test the hypothesis that increased decentralisation/democratisation positively influences enrolment rates and child mortality once the influence of socioeconomic circumstances, civil society organisations, the problem of capture of local bodies by elite groups, and so on are controlled for. Our main empirical findings are that indicators of democratisation and public participation, such as frequency of elections, presence of non-governmental organisations, parent-teacher associations and indicator variables for decentralised states generally have the expected positive effects, although these are not always statistically indistinguishable from zero.

ABSTRACTFormulation of a model involves organization of certain elements of reality into an abstract structure that exhibits features and characteristics of the reality. The formulation process is complex, and this paper explores that complexity by looking at five previously analyzed problem situations in the managerial domain. This is done in several steps. First, the existing model formulation support (MFS) architectures are analyzed using structures‐mechanisms‐policies (SMP) model to extract the characteristic attributes of the model formulation process. It is then argued that an integration of these attributes into an architecture, called integrated modeling architecture (IMA), would be useful in supporting the complexities of the model formulation process. The validity of such an architecture is also examined using the verbalization transcripts for the five problems mentioned above. Our protocol analysis shows that the IMA attributes can explain the complexities of the model formulation process.

Hybridity is an outcome of consistent movement and interaction of two different aspects of human existence. The forces of nature when confluence each other cause hybrid existence bringing the traces of both into it. It may by and large cohabit the space and time, race and culture, philosophy and religion etc. It encompasses the divergent modes of existence, thinking patterns, behavioral norms, socio-cultural ethos, political and administrative ambience. Diasporic Hybridity is pertinent discourse. It is cause of anxiety in the early stage of migrant experience whereas settling base of later stage of existence of diasporic community. Present paper is an attempt to trace the threads of looming diasporic in-betweenness as reflected in the poetry of Agha Shahid Ali.