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Nutrient use efficiency is a measure of how efficiently plants use the available mineral nutrients to produce economic produce. Improving nutrient use efficiency is very much essential under current scenario besides an understanding of the nutrient dynamics in soil-plant system.”Enhancing nutrient use efficiency: Concepts, methods, and management interventions” is a comprehensive book which has a compilation of topics related to enhancement of ...
While it is difficult to grasp the particular essence of a city, its identity lies in its spaces, temporalities, and transformations - different from each other yet enmeshed in tangible and surreal ways that define both the dynamism and instability of its inhabitants. Entangled Urbanism looks at various sites in Delhi and the National Capital Region, unravelling the politics of settlement, construction, demolition, and exclusion along these locations through a ...
The volume addresses the relationship between sex, gender and sexuality and probes aspects relating to history, legality, religion, class and politics and power. It takes up themes such as colonial sexologists particularly their writings, pulp literature, family courts, queer imagery in the Hindu nationalistic imagination and laws on prostitution and perversion, and depiction of romance in the Indian mass media. It examines the established patterns of research on ...
This report presents the key findings of the study conducted on the indigenous knowledge in the respective countries. The project was taken up in two parts. Part I: The existing literatures on the subject in the respective countries were reviewed and analyzed to examine the tangible as well as intangible impacts of IK in terms of disaster risk reduction besides analyzing integration of IK for the development of policy framework with regards to Community Based ...
This book is an interdisciplinary study of the various connections between sexuality and post-colonial modernity in India, a period marked by sexual nationalism, consumerism, free market society, and large-scale urbanization. It explores the sexual cultures that derive from these contexts, focusing especially on : Family planning, eugenics, and nationalism in early 20th century; popular culture, masculinity, and the sexual politics of the 1950s; the cultures of ...