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Sharma, J. R.
- Record of Wood-rotting Mycoflora from Rajaji National Park, Uttarakhand
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Indian Forester, Vol 138, No 3 (2012), Pagination: 296-303Abstract
The present paper deals with the study of wood-rotting fungi from Rajaji National Park, Uttarakhand. The data is based on collections made from August to November 2009-2010. The paper includes 43 species of wood-rotting fungi under 19 genera belonging to the order Aphyllophorales.Keywords
Wood-rotting Fungi, Rajaji National Park, Aphyllophorales- The Genus Phellinus Quel. in Rajaji National Park, Uttarakhand
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Indian Forester, Vol 138, No 8 (2012), Pagination: 747-752Abstract
In this presentation, a list of 21 species of Phellinus collected and studied from Rajaji National Park, Uttarakhand is given. The data is based on collections made from August 2009 to October 2011.Keywords
Phellinus, Rajaji National Park, White Rot Fungi, Wood Decay- A Futuristic Software Framework to Generate Actual Customer Needs for Quality Function Deployment
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National Journal of System and Information Technology, Vol 2, No 2 (2009), Pagination: 127-137Abstract
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is a product development process that encompasses a sheer amount of data gathered from customers through several market research techniques like personal interview, focus groups, surveys, video conferencing etc. This massive, unsorted and unstructured data is required to be transformed into a limited number of structured information to represent the actual 'Customer Needs'. However the process is tedious and time consuming and cannot be dealt with manually. In order to address these issues, this paper proposes a futuristic software framework based on an Affinity Process. The paper begins with the topic introduction and outlines the QFD process. The paper then describes the Affinity Process, builds the data structure and then makes an attempt to build the proposed framework using tools Visual Basic (VB) and MSAccess. The proposed framework is developed as a part of QFD software and it is anticipated that when completely developed, it would act as a vital component of QFD software.Keywords
QFD, Affinity Process, Visual Basic, MS-Access, Software, Customer NeedsReferences
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- Transforming to Hydrological Modelling Approach for Long-Term Water Resources Assessment under Climate Change Scenario - a Case Study of the Godavari Basin, India
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1 National Remote Sensing Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation, Balanagar, Hyderabad 500 037, IN
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Current Science, Vol 106, No 2 (2014), Pagination: 293-299Abstract
This communication discusses quantifying basin-scale water wealth by transformation from the presently adapted basin terminal gauge site run-off aggregation to distributed hydrological modelling approach. In this study, an attempt was made to propose modifications to simple monthly water balance model using time-series land-use grids derived from the temporal remote sensing satellite data to compute run-off at basin scale. This approach will help in studying runoff and water resources availability with limited meteorological parameters. The study was aimed at computing mean annual water resources in the Godavari Basin, India during the last 18 years (1990-91 to 2007-08) using the proposed approach and to compute availability of water resources during extreme wet and dry rainfall conditions in the basin. The land-use grids were integrated with soil textural, digital elevation and command area grids to compute hydrological response unit grids. Groundwater, reservoir flux, domestic and livestock water consumption and industrial water consumptive use were computed using the spatial data and integrated in the model environment to compute run-off. The model was calibrated and validated using observed discharge data at various prominent gauge stations in the basin. Long-term water resources availability in the basin was computed using the developed methodology.Keywords
Climate Change, Hydrological Modelling, Remote Sensing, Water Resources Availability.- A New Approach to Product Development & Design through Quality Function Deployment and Target Costing
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1 Dept. of Mechanical & Production Engineering, Manoharbhai Patel Institute of Engineering & Technology, Gondia, IN
2 Dept of Mechanical Engineering, Government Engineering College, Raipur (C G), IN
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Manufacturing Technology Today, Vol 5, No 12 (2006), Pagination: 9-16Abstract
Increased competition, spiralling costs and vocal customers have made it imperative that every organization should upgrade its processes constantly to stay ahead of the competition. This is achieved mainly through product development, process designs and cost reductions. It is of paramount importance for the firms to identify the right products and the right methods for manufacturing the products.
Quality Function Deployment (QFD) is becoming a widely used customer-oriented approach and tool in product design. Conventional QFD is technically one-sided which attempts to maximize customer satisfaction without taking into account any financial factors and the associated uncertainties in the product design process. Product design and development is a techno-economic process, hence there is always a trade-off between design goals and cost constraints. On the other hand. Target Costing (TC) is a method that takes financial, manufacturing and customer aspects into consideration during designing phase and helps firms in making product design decisions to increase the profit of the company. TC is a strategic tool for planning that takes a holistic view o f products and their sub-assemblies and identifies the opportunities for cost reduction and product improvement.
This paper attempts to merge these two diverse tools o f customer-orientation and financial consideration thus integrating target costing into QFD framework. This proposed approach not only enables designers to optimize product development resources towards customer satisfaction, but also facilitates decision making towards company’s satisfaction as regard to the cost committed to the product. A case-study has been discussed and issues o f implementation o f this integrated approach from the perspective of a small company by selecting a consumer product are highlighted. With this integrative approach, the best balance between enterprise satisfaction and overall customer satisfaction can be obtained, and the preferred solutions under different business criteria can be achieved.
- Assessment of Spatial Variations in Temperature and Precipitation Extremes in West-Flowing River Basin of Kutch, Saurashtra and Marwar, India
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1 Regional Remote Sensing Centre-West, National Remote Sensing Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Jodhpur 342 003, IN
2 Birla Institute of Technology, Jaipur 302 001, IN
3 National Remote Sensing Centre, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Jodhpur 342 003, IN
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Current Science, Vol 114, No 02 (2018), Pagination: 322-328Abstract
Climate extreme event indicates the manifestation of higher or lower values (with respect to a threshold value) by a climatic variable. The goal of this study is to analyse the spatial variation in 27 indices of temperature and precipitation extremes in the west-flowing river basin of Kutch, Saurashtra and Marwar (WFR-KSM basin). Climate extreme indices were calculated using RClimDex software on 50 years of daily precipitation gridded data and 36 years of daily maximum and minimum temperature data. Theil–Sen slope was calculated as the estimator of trend in 16 extreme indices of temperature and 11 extreme indices of precipitation throughout the basin. The results indicate increase towards wetter climate extremes and a shift towards hotter climate extremes.Keywords
Climate, Precipitation, River Basin, Spatial Variations, Temperature.References
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