scholarly journals NOCTURNAL SURFACE INVERSIONS IN CENTRAL EASTERN INDIA

MAUSAM ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-254
Author(s):  
I. G. PIGGIN ◽  
S. K. ALLEY
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Difference ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Surface Inversion ◽  
Central Eastern

Monitoring of nocturnal su rface inversions in the vicinit y of Steel Authority of Ind ia lid. Steelplants at Bhila i. Bokaro. Durgapur and Rourk-cia in central eas tern Ind ia. for 40 niahu in January. February andMarch 1990. indi cated that surface inversions developed every night when weathe r conditions were favourable (clea rskies and light winds) , Th e ceiling heiaht of surface inversions eenerally increased as the niah t progressed. withrouahly two-th irds hiefler th an 100 m and a maximum record ed heigh t of 520 m. Th e maximum recorded surfaceinversio n strt"ngth (temperature difference between th e surface and the ceilingjwas 8.6C· at Dura:apur.1 .4C· at Bhilaiand aroun d 5-SC· at both Bokam and Rourkela. A reaso nable estimate of the .srrongest surface inversion would beJOC· to 12C· in the lOwnl 250 m of th e atmosphere.The proportion of surface invers ions greater than 4C· was 80%atDurgapur. .s5llb at 8hilal4.s% at Bokaro an d If.'" at Rourkela.These differences between loca tion!'wee- caused la l'iel yby varying weathe r conditions during the monit oring period.

scholarly journals Pregnant with puppies

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Nadal
Keyword(s):  
Infectious Disease ◽  
Nervous Tissue ◽  
New Delhi ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Cultural Milieu ◽  
Per Se ◽  
Central Eastern

In New Delhi, some migrants from central-eastern India espouse a belief in ‘puppy pregnancy’, or the notion that after being bitten by a dog its puppies are conceived within the abdomen and their growth leads to an awful death. This article suggests that this belief is related to the widespread fear of rabies. This lethal infectious disease causes one-half of deaths in India, leaving behind grief-stricken families and shocked communities. This rabies-related shock results not only from the disease per se but also from the long, painful, and disturbing post-bite vaccination prophylaxis, using a nervous tissue vaccine, in which bite victims receive fourteen distressing injections in the abdomen in the hope of saving them from death. I propose here that dread of this vaccination may have stimulated, within an already fertile cultural milieu, the belief in this unnatural, animal pregnancy.

scholarly journals Mining in a Sacred Landscape: Adivasis, Deities and Alliances in a Former Princely State in Odisha/India

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uwe Skoda
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous People ◽  
Sponge Iron ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
Ecological Consequences ◽  
Sacred Landscape ◽  
Princely State ◽  
Central Eastern

The papers explores ideas of a sacred landscape inhabited by indigenous people as well as other communities, deities as well as other beings manifested in localities and ‘objects’ forming various relationships, alliances and a thick web of relationality in a former kingdom in central-eastern India. It introduces these historically evolved ties through the foundational narratives as well as contemporary rituals, while the area is undergoing major transformations after Indian independence and even more so in a phase of accelerated industrialisation, especially tied to a mining boom and sponge iron factories. The latter not only threatens to uproot an existing, though changing sacrificial polity around local deities, but it also has massive ecological consequences and leads to partially successful protests.

scholarly journals The Thangmi verbal agreement system and the Kiranti connection

1998 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 476-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Turin
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Eastern India ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Central Eastern ◽  
North Eastern India ◽  
Verbal Agreement

Thangmi is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in central-eastern Nepal and north-eastern India. The majority of Thangmi speakers live in Nepal and still inhabit their traditional homeland of Dolakhá district. There are ethnic Thangmi in many of the other districts of the kingdom, especially in the neighbouring districts of Sindhupálcok, Sindhulī and Rámecháp. The Thangmi population in India is largely concentrated in Darjeeling and is the product of an emigration earlier this century.

Validation and inter-rater reliability of inexpensive, mini, no-touch infrared surface thermometry devices as an assessment tool for prediction of wound-related deep and surrounding infection

WCET Journal ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 18-22
Author(s):  
Hiske Smart ◽  
Eman Al Al Jahmi ◽  
Ebrahim Buhiji ◽  
Sally-Anne Smart
Keyword(s):  
Temperature Difference ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Predictive Ability ◽  
Skin Surface ◽  
Infrared Thermometry ◽  
Health Care Clinics ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Wound Assessment ◽  
The Times ◽  
Assessment Modality

Industrial infrared thermometry devices are large and, despite being less expensive than the current gold standard Exergen Dermatemp medical infrared thermometer, are still not affordable enough to ensure unrestricted and consistent use of this assessment modality in regular wound-related day-to-day practice. An increased skin surface temperature differentiation of 3°F associated with a wound has a positive predictive ability to detect deep or surrounding wound infection. This study hypothesised that inexpensive, pen- or pocket-sized, no-touch surface infrared thermometry devices will be equal in ability to detect a 3oF increased skin temperature compared to the Exergen Dermatemp infrared device and be reliable in the hands of any wound assessor. The odds of the control and other thermometers to detect a 3oF temperature difference, irrespective of the raters, were achieved in all five of the mini thermometers tested, with a correct temperature difference prediction that occurred in 90.933% of the times (odds determined 9/10). As a result of this study mini, no-touch infrared thermometry, to detect a 3oF temperature difference in wound assessment to determine tendency, could be implemented into primary health care clinics, rural clinics, day-to-day hospital practice and standard outpatients departments at a small financial cost, regardless of which thermometer is put to use.

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