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The NAC Working Group held three national consultations on different aspects of the issue of declining child sex ratio. The Working Group conveners also separately met with Ministry of Women and Child Development, Ministry of Health and Family Welfare and with the National Mission for the...
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medical research, science and technology and high levels of destitution among the elderly rural poor (51 million elderly live …
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An extensive literature reflects millennia of concern over what we humans call ourselves and others. All life sciences are now grappling further with how to categorize and study the nearly infinite polymorphisms within and among “species†as awareness grows that the species concept...
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In most universities, sharp disciplinary and departmental divisions continue to this day and have regrettably translated into the life sciences being taught with scarce attention to their historical and epistemological foundations, or to the socio-cultural, political, and economic factors that...
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that diffusion mechanisms may play an independent role in the spread of new reproductive behaviour (small family norm …). Though diffusion per se, no real explanation for the fast decline of fertility in Southern or Coastal India (what would then … be the cause of diffusion in the first place?), it would definitely be important to understand how these mechanisms are …
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information exchange between adopters and others about a new technology and about each other’s likelihood of adoption. [Research …
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centrality is defined by diffusion centrality (Banerjee, Chandrasekhar, Duflo, and Jackson, 2013), which characterizes a nodeâ …€™s influence in spreading information. It first show that diffusion centrality nests standard centrality measures – degree … diffusion centrality. …
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Development approach. No Concept of development, however, can be complete unless and until it incorporates the gender component at …
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Society for Research and Initiatives for Technologies and Institutions [SRISTI] has pioneered a knowledge intensive model for transforming institutional context of problem solving at community level. In this paper, the building blocks of a sustainable innovation Eco-system have been identified....
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This paper is an attempt to estimate the magnitudes of yield gaps, causative factors and constrains for attending greater farm potential in adsali, suru, preseasonal and ratoon sugarcane production in Maharashtra. Primary data were collected from 250 sugarcane cultivators using random sampling...
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