A business method can be understood as an effective method of conducting commercial transaction. An external patent incentive is not necessary to encourage and motivate the creation of business methods. The globalization, liberalization and industrialization have paved the way for increasing...

The performance characteristics of emergent greenbelt vegetation has received considerable attention in the recent years, post-Great Indian Ocean Tsunami (26 December 2004). In the present work, a comprehensive laboratory study on the hydraulic resistance characteristics due to a group of...

The method used to estimate wave-power potential from recorded time series of water-surface elevation off Madras is described.

An assessment of the wave power potential along the Indian coastline has been made for different seasons. The locations off Bombay on the west coast and off Visakhapatnam on the east coast have the greatest wave power potentials. The occurrence of wave heights and periods are presented...